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Show ENEMY OF THE TRUSTS HORTICULTURE mines and minting Maks Quick Work of Transplanting by Its Uat. The transplanting peg la a little known Implement. It would be profitable to many to form its acquaintance. By it much profit and pleasure can be derived from the garden. To transplant by making the In holes ground with your finger la a crude as to cultivate with your hand Instead of a hoe or plow. The rapidity of an expert In setting plants with a peg Is a surprise to Ihe pot let. I have had men peg In 20 plants to the minute or 1,200 in an hour. Steel pegs are for sale, but a wooden one costs nothing and is far belter. As plants are or different kinds and slues, I find different sizes and shapes of pegs necessary, so I whittle the pegs to suit the kind of plants I am setting. The right use, and the rapid use, of the peg will gradually be learned by practice. If the ground is too wet, dirt will stick to the peg; If too dry, will fall buck Into the hole when the peg la removed. In either rase, this can be avoided by giving the peg a twirl as It Is removed from the hole. Sometimes the hole Is too small to admit the plant. This cnr. bo overcome by wabbling the peg while ma king the hole. When the plant Is Inserted, continues the writer In Farm and Home, the dirt should be pressed firmly about It with the peg. This is done by a movement of the wrist, in which the peg Is thrown from an upright position to a sharp slant, so that while the point of the peg has pressed the dirt on the far side of the plant, the side r of the peg, by a movement of the hand, has pressed the dirt on the right and on the side next to you. This movement is not easily learned. To gain rapid movement practice by counting four. When fjet say one. pick up the plant with the left hand; two, make the hole with the right; three, Insert plant with the left; four, press the dirt about the plant with the right. Itegln very slowly and Increase the movement until you are planting as fast as you can count. .You will be surprised how quickly you attain this speed. seml-elrru'p- FARM NOTES. Every farm should have some live stock. An animal's comfort means the owners profit. It Is never wise or profitable to keep an animal In poor flesh. The trained veterinarian should be encouraged and patronized. ' No one who has to labor for a living should s!ir:ht small lndu.-V.'l.Good crops, stock, fertility and Industry are the essential features In good farming. There Is a certain satisfaction In taking a yeaily Inventory of the farm. It Is the best way to find the "leaks, too. Keep the land as rich as possible. Angleworms work more In rich land than In poor land, and they constantly Improve the soil. Copyright Iqr Walihm Vawcatt. Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin la one of the bitterest ene-nle- e of oppressive corporatlone in the upper houer of congrete. Only a few days ago he made a vigorous speech before that body In which he declared that less than 100 men controlled the commercial destinies Of this country; he aleo gave the namee of the men. Before going to the aenate he wae governor of hie state for three terms. He was the author of the direct primary law and the law providing for the regulation of railway rates by a state WAR MICROBE IS BUSY. INVENTORS WITH DEADLY VICES PESTER CONGRESS. DE- Greasing Sides of Bat tleahlpa to Deflect Missiles High Explosive Shells and Military Balloons Offered. One Suggests Washington. Thick as the locusts which plagued Egypt or the grasshoppers which pestered Kansas are the cranks and Inventors, In whose brains buzz and whirr the bacilli of destruction, who are a warming about the cap-tto- l and Insisting that congress take up their inventions. They are the geniuses who have evolved plana for wiping out a large share of the human race In case of war. They are prepared to obliterate whole armies and sink battleships like mere pleasure craft. If their Inventions are accepted by the government and turned loose on the enemies of Uncle Sam. Probably there never has been a time when congress was so beset with such inventors as it Is now, and the naval affairs committees and the military committees are beleaguered by them. Some scientist- - has advanced the theory that a red corpuscle of a special variety Is at work on the human race, exciting It to war and stirring up sanguinary trouble on a great Inexist Evidences ternational scale. that this theory Is not far out of the way. At any rate, an extraordinary number of folk haunt the capital nowadays who are anxious to be allowed to demonstrate how large segments of the population can be obliterated by the UBe of the right kind of weapons. Inventors of new types of torpedoes are numerous. Indeed, muclof the Inventive genius of those who would enhance the terrors of war Is centered Plow Up Thin Meadows. on naval warfare. If some of the InIf meadows are thin they had better ventors are Justified In their asserbe plowed up than left to lie In hope tions, torpedoes of an efficiency which that they will recover their old vigor. will make navies almost useless, have It Is difficult to apply manure effec- been developed. tively from the top. It the land Is High explosive shells are also the plowed up and given a free application subject of much Inventive attention. of manure and then put Into some Shells of a type which will crush the crop that will require cultivation, more armor of a Dreadnought at the disprogress will be made than can be tance Of six or seven miles as If the made In any other way. Many a thin armor were an eggshell, have been demeadow Is kept year after year, hard- vised, according to their Inventors and ly paying for the work put upon it In promoter. mowing and curing the light crop of It la well known that. In recent hay, which Is often very wiry. When years, wherever some new defensive a meadow becomes thin it Is a good Indication that it should be put Into some other crop for a few years. Bordeaux Mixture. (a) Five pounds copper sulphate, five pounds lime, SO gallons water, (b) Two pounds coppor sulphate, four pounds lime, SO gallons water. Dissolve the blue vitriol, one pound to one gallon of water. Slack the lime. Dilute both the lime and copper sulphate to half the total number of gallons of bordeaux to be made, and pour the two through a strainer Into a third vessel. The produce of this third vessel Is bordeaux mixture. If the nature turns blue litmus paper red add more lime. Lime Sulphur Wash. Twenty pounds stone lime, IS pounds flowers of sulphur, SO gallons of water. Slack the lime In the cookWith a little water ing receptacle. make a thick paste of the sulphur. Witch about ten gallons of water, add the sulphur and the slacked or partially slacked lime and boll, preferably by steam, an hour. Add enough water to make SO gallons. Strain when putting Into spraying tank. Use while warm If possible. This Is the n remedy tor scale Insects. best-know- idea has been developed In naval construction, a new offensive Idea to overcome It has been Immediately forthcoming. Just now, little Is heard of the Inventors of defensive elements In naval or land warfare. The trend Is all toward the offensive, toward more deadly types of guns, shells, and . other projectiles. Of course, Inventors of military bal loons and airships are much In evl dence. Each one la confldent that he has evolved plans whereby it will be possible for the armies of this coun try to soar up In the empyrean and wipe out all their enemies before breakfast, simply by dropping explosives among them. One Inventor has evolved the Idea of a torpedo which carries a gun inside of It On striking the side of a ship the torpedo explode and this explosion in turn fires the gun, which Is supposed to wipe out the battleship. Then, there Is a torpedo with a double explosive capacity, the Idea being to make useless the chain of netting protection which Is sometimes employed to keep warships from being torpedoed. A man from California has written to some of the members of the house committee on naval affairs suggesting that It the sides of a battleship were greased It would lessen the ability of projectiles to inflict damage. This idea has been referred to Secretary Metcalf for what it is worth. The advocate of It found that when his hammer was greased he could not drive a nail, and he thought application of the principle to a battleship may be useful. ' The application of oil to the sides of a torpedo is another suggestion made. This may prove practicable, as most of the resistance to the passage of a torpedo or a boat through the wjter is due to the friction between the surface of the moving body and the water Immediately in contact with that surface. Oil would tend to les sen this friction, and hence Increase the speed of the torpedo. The favorite argument offered for the consideration of congress by the Inventor of some alleged deadly engine of destruction Is that It will help this does to make war Impossible.,-Inot serve the purpose, then there Is the argument that high patriotic duty ought to lead to the adoption of the Invention In question as a sure way to the discomfiture of all the enemies of the Republic. Dowies Now Raising Chickens. Widow and Bon Go Into Poultry ness at Ben Mae Dhul. Busi- Chicago. Ien Mac Dhul, "Apostle" Dowles costly farm at Muskegon. Mich., has gone, not to the dogs or to meeds, but to the chickens. The long, sloping lawns are covered these days with chickens, geese and turkeys, and the halls of the summer home are devoted to a chicken hatchery. The Bible has been displaced by the Incubator. Mrs. Jane Dowle and Gladstone Dowle, the widow and only son of the former ruler of Zion City, are managing the enterprise, and their entire Income la derived from the poultry business. Mr. Dowle Is a graduate of the Harvard law school, the University of Chicago, and several Australian reschools, and la bringing all th sources of his trained mind to the fattening of fowls for the Chicago mar- their heads tucked contemplatively under their wings, and noted the deep religious calm that hovered over them, said: "If you half close your eyes, It looks like a meeting of whlterobcd Zionist! at prayer. Ben Mac Dhul was one of the pet projects of Elijah Dowle at the height of his power. It consist of 160 acres, and Dowle expended an Immense amount of money on IL It was hla favorite home, and he was accustomed to spend hla summers there. Of all the valuable property that belonged to the elder Dowle before his death, Ben Mac Dhul Is almost the only pleoe that Gladstone Dowle now possesses. Stray Dog Tits Up a Town. Freeland, Pa. Every Industry In town dependent on electric power was compelled to suspend operations because a roving mastiff was caught in tha belting of the electric light plant ket An Irreverent outsider, who visited and dragged Into the machinery. Opthe farm the other day, when h saw erations were resumed after the long lines of white fowls at roost, with mangled body of the dog waa removed. painting at the leaat material cost depend largely upon the compound a la simple Paint chosen. test and the Ingredients can be easily should or pigment solid The paii ed The liquid part be White- Lead. inshould be Linseed Oil. Those best these buy alwaya on painting formed their Ingredients separately and have each Job. for fresh them mix painter Before tW mixing the test la made. bit of White Lead Place a or piece of charcoal on n piece of wood. Blow the flame against it and see what it will do.- If it la pure White Lead, little drops of bright, pure, metallic lead will appear, and with pacomtience the White Lead can be metal-11c of one to globule pletely reduced lead. This Is because pure White Lead la made from metallic lead. You may test dozens of other White Leads and not be able to reduce one of them to lead. If they will not change wholly to lead but leave a residue, it Is clear that some Good result At Neal, Idaho, the old propertlea THE DIBBLE. CONCERNING THE OLD THE PAINTING SEASON. are enjoy, snd some of the new ones of development. era an ing Fork Activity In the American started haa Utah of district mining for and preparations are under way of number a at large season a lively propertlea. The very late season has somewhat discouraged placer miners at been vllle, Idaho. The snow has but without producing sufficient water for mining purposes. Coal and coke plant of Indiana have shut Pennsylvania, county, throwdown for an Indefinite period, of out employment men 1.000 ing storCoke to the value of f 80,000 Is market. a ed awaiting There has been no exaggeration of at the richness of the properties the in new camp the basin, Boyd Pine Forest range, that have been previously published In this paper, nays the Humboldt (Nevada) Star. Rumors have been rife at Wallace, hunIdaho, recently to the effect that dreds of miners from Missouri were on their way to the Coeur dAlones, or soon will be. The rumors are unconfirmed and, In fact, are denied by tho mine owners. The sensation of the past week in Coldfield was the official announcement of an important strike in tha Great Bend, the next door neighbor of the Daisy at Diumondfleld, which has long been considered one of the Lest prospective mines In the district. With the realization that straight ahead into the mountain within their lines are resources of splendid merit, nil that Is needed being work to get at them, the officials of the Indian Queen Consolidated company are figuring on Installing more powerful equipment, says the Salt Lake Tri- n Con-olldat- n Mr In Ma, pea-size- adulterant la present If you should have your painting done with such materials, no matter how cheap they might seem, It would be costly In the end. National Lead Company, Wood-bridg- e Building, New York City, are sending on request a blowpipe free to any one about to have painting done, so that the White Lead may be tested. With It will be sent a handsomely printed booklet having as Its frontispiece the Dutch Boy Painter, reproduced from the original painting. This little painter has become noted as the guaranty of pure White Lead. HE COULD A man whose boy cornea horns ft school and wants help on big t realizes that a little learning i . J01 geroui thing.- - - Tha Poets Error. "Of course, said the poet "he has his faults, but hes a trust He gives his life to the service of th " ' muses in the "Yes," put critic, "but see, to make the mistake of supposing n Bacchus is one of the muses. THE COME ANDSEESi BE TRUSTED. Youngster Made Good Before Temptation Was Put In Hla Way. train from the north pulled Into the station at Charlottesville, Va. An bune. A protracted session of the leadelderly man thrust his head out of a window of a day coach and summoned of the Iron country Interests ing pig little colored boy. The following cola 16th on the was held In New York at the office of the United States loquy ensued: Steel corporation. After a full It was the unanlmou opinion of all present that the present prices of foundry Iron should not be changed. The Silver King Coalition company has filed Its answer In the suit brought by Colonel Nicholas Treweek early In tho year, In which he alleges that the King company had mined worth 400,000 10,000 tons of ore, from the Conkllng and Arthur mining claims and demanding an accounting and judgment The annual report of the Utah shows that the output of refined copper for the year was only 13,987,661 pounds, a decrease of 4,546,-42- 3 pounds; of silver, 390,296 ounces, a decrease of 67,516 ounces; and of a decrease of gold, 34,654 ounces, 8,047 ounces. The net profits for the year was 11.179,412. The Mohawk, Red Top and other claims at Goldfield are being developed preparatory to their operation on a broad scale, which will be entered upon about six months hence, when mill will go Into comthe new 600-tomission, and when the company Is confidently expected to show net earnings of $2 per share. Deer Lodge, the Nevada mining district which Is causing considerable favorable comment these days, is just seventeen miles from Modena, Utah, tho railroad point, from which a daily stage is now carrying people. The toads between the two points are fine, and around Deer Lodge is an abundance of wood and water. March was the best month In the history of the Valcalda mine in the returns, says way of remunerative the Tonopah Sun. Recently a new body of ore was struck, which returns assays from 832 to 8200. This ledge has been penetrated to the present time a distance of forty feet, and the tunnel is still In ore. A strong body of ore has been encountered In the. south drift of the Prior & Chadbourne lease on the Mazuma Hills ground, at Seven Troughs, Nevada, a series of assays Indicating an average value ppr ton between 81.000 and 81.700. It Is said that from one to three feet of the vein will maintain this high average. received Following a warning through an anonymous letter that unless the Chal lion coal mine of the Royal Coal & Coke company at Durango, Colo., was made safe by repairs, the mine would be blown up, an explosion occurred in the mine which completely wrecked the workings and perhaps fatally Injured three persons. Developments In the Black Hornet district of Idaho continue most satisfactory, In the lPcket Pie mine, on the north side of the gulch, a very large ore body has been opened. The mill at the Celtic Is running smoothly on ore that carries 8130 a ton In gold. The Deer Lodge district of Nevada Is picking up fast. Many claims had been allowed to lapse during tho past few years, for the owners grew desperate In the face of the neglect to which the camp was subjected. But all these old claims are being " A This sign is permanently attached to the front of the main building oj the Lydia R Pinkham Medicu Company, Lynn, Mass. What Does This Sign Mean? It means that public inspection ol the Laboratory and methods of doing business is honestly desired. Itmeana Little boy, have you a mother?" that there is nothing about the W Yassub. incss which is not open and abov"Are you faithful to your studies?" eboard. Yassuh. It means that a permanent invite, Do you go to Sunday school? tion is extended to anyone to come "Yassuh. and verify any and all statementi Do you say your prayers every made in the advertisements of Lydia R Iinkhams Vegetable Bight? Yassuh." Can I for me? Compound. Is it a purely vegetable compound trust you to do an errand made from roots and herbs without Yassuh. drugs ? Come and See. Well, here's five cents to get me Do the women of America continu-alla couple of apples. Success Magause as much of it as we are told! zine. Come and See. Was there ever such a person u Verger Knew His Business. After being conducted through an Lydia R Pinkham, and is there anr old church by the verger, a visitor was Mrs. Pinkham now to whom sick so pleased with the officers courtesy woman are asked to write ? and Information that he Insisted on Come and See. Is the vast private correspondent giving him half a crown. The man shook his head sadly. "Thank yon, with sick women conducted by sir, he said, but It's quite against women only, and are the letters kept the rules. strictly confidential? I am sorry for that, said the visi- Come and See. Have they really got letters from tor, about to return the half crown to over one million, one hundred his pocket. "But added the verger, If I were thousand women correspondents? able to find a coin on the floor It would Como and See. Have they proof that Lydia E. not be against the rules for me to pick Pinkhams Vegetable Compound has U up. cured thousands of these women? Sermons In Ships. Come and See. I think Its a shame that wine This advertisement Is only for should be used at launchings. We doubters. The great army of women temperance women are going to try to who know from their own personal stop it" experience that no medicine in the y Tit-Bit- "After all. Instead of kicking about not use the custom to point a moral?" How do you mean?" "Why, simply by drawing attention to the fact that after her first taste of wine the ship Immediately takes to water and sticks to It ever after. Boston Transcript It, why COFFEE EYES. It Acts Slowly But Frequently duces Blindness. Pro- world equals Lydia R Iinkhami Vegetable Comixmnd for female ills will still 0 on using and being benefited by it ; but the poor doubting, suffering woman must, for her own sakc.be taught confldence.forshcal.o might just as well regain her health. SICK HEADACHE Positively BARTERS . I ITTir curedlff from Dyspnea.1 t 1 dlsMtlon.ndToodMtf The curious effect of slow dally poi1 f I I A perfect na V R Eating. soning and the gradual building In of I for DUiImu. Ha A sty disease as a result, Is shown In numI ., DtowhImaa, Bit PILLS. I bers of cases where the eyes are afTmtlntheMouth,CoS T I i ed Toneue. Pain Is A fected by coffee. P TORPID livu A case In point will illustrate: Ttany raguinte tho Bowels. Partly Voa A lady in Oswego, Mont., experi- SMALL PILL. SMALL DOSE. SMALL PB1CL enced a slow but sure disease settling upon her eyes in the form of IncreasGenuine Must Bear ing weakness and shooting pains Signature with wavy, dancing lines of light, so vivid that nothing else could be seen for minutes at a time. She says: REFUSE SUBSTITUTES. "This gradual failure of sight alarmed me and I naturally began a very earnest quest for the cause. About this time I was told that cof-f-e poisoning sometimes took that form, and while I didnt believe that coffee was the cause of my trouble I concluded to quit it and see. "I took up Postum Food Coffee In Keeps the breath, teeth, mour Plte of the Jokes of Husband whose antiteptieslly clean and fret experience with one cup at a neighdiitfret "hhy term-lif- e and bor a waa unsatisfactory. which water, soap and tooth p Well I lone made Postum strictly cannot do. A according to directions, boiling It a little longer, be- flermicidst, ditin. fectin and cause of our high alUtude. The result izing toilet deodor was charming. I have now requisite n used oi exceptional ax In place of coffee for about 3 ccllence and coon months and my eyes are r. Invaluable well, never paining me or showing any weakness. tor inflamed eyes, t0 The Veteran mlno of the Cumbercertainty that the cause throat and natal and land Ely should be In shape for pro- of the trouble was coffee and the cure uterine cstsrrh. At toilet duction during the coming month, waa In quitting it and building up the drufl and 50 oenti, or wlun Its now operating Bhaft will be nervou. system on Postum, for that bytores, mail poitpaid. afforded coneettons with the active todiS? UaU?3r.thJ nly change 1 mde tor&J Trial Sample no medicine. working, and bins will be provided UIVM My to better facilitate the hoisting of the HtAlTM AND BXAUVV" SO nursing baby has been kept In .u., Fac-Siml- le (&&t TOILET ANTIS! Poa-tur- d. output In the newly discovered district at Lime Point, Nevada, a woman has made one of the rtcheet discoveries so far reported. In digging a well a rich quart ledge having been encountered. She has another prospect which shows horn silver running over 1 000 ounces. THE PAXTON TOILET CO., 1? '' k" Jont headache. HU fr, AGENTS ES! u- -. Th, change mo. "Theres a Reason." Name etvm Postum Co.. Battle Creek. Mich. I Vrm. . wjirtoJ ,n "? t on "lr'4. t,d-wrn,P ""l ,h" 'hry were not vi P. E. MELROSE, write Col |