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Excelient, t Mr. Penn—The peace commissi 0; have signed the treaty. a Mr. Pitt—That’s a good sign.—Pitts- burg Chronicle-Telegraph. . May Bring Leprosy to This Country. \ Our soldiers in Hawaii may contract lepros; and bring it to this country. While leprosy is to. be dreaded there age a thousand times as many victims to stomach disorders, but there is a cure in Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. Othe Iments that the Bitters are a specific for are malaria, fever and ague. Sold at all drug stores. He Needn’t Worry. “Eyen if the people of Great Britain Were to abolish their throne the Prince of Wales wouldn’t have to look for a what could he do to earn a “Being an experienced waiter, he could probably catch on in the first Kou house he came eto,”—Chicago News. Not worth paying attention to, you say, erhaps you have had it for weeké, ! It’s annoying because you have a constant desire to cough. It annoys you also because you remember that weak lungs is a family failing. At first it is a slight cough; At last it is a hemorrhage. At first it is easy to cure. At last, extremely difficult, Ayer’s Cherry Pectora quickly conquers your little hacking cough. There is no doubt about the cure now. Doubtcomes from neglect. For over half a ceutury Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral has been curing colds and coughs and preventing consumption. It cures Consumption also if taken in time. Keep.one of, Br. Ager’s Cherry Pectoral Plasters over 3 lungs If geu cough. Shall we send you a book on this subject, free? Our Medical Departmont. If you have any complaint what- ever and desire the best medical advice you ean possibly obtain, write the doctor freely. You will receive & prompt reply, without cost. Address, Di. J. C. AYER, Lowell, Mass. “Nothing but wheat; what you might call a sea of wheat,” is what was said by a lecturer speaking of Western Can- ada. For particulars as to routes, railway fares, etc., apply to Su- perintendent of Immigration, Depart- ment Interior, Ottawa, Canada, or to Ben Davies, 154 East Third St. St. Paul, or T. O. Currie, Stevens Point, Wis. CURES Use Big @ f : fates days | dischargee, tuhammationy Goaranwed \J irritations’ or ulcerations C5 ao % strievere. of mucous membranes, vents contagion. Painless, and- not astrin- (THEEVANS CHEMICALCO, gent or poisonous. Sold by Draggists, or sent in plain wrapper, by “express. prepaid, fot ev #0. or 3 bottles, $2.75. os ircular sent on request Whiskers Dyed ao, A Natural Black by * se Buckingham’s Dye. Price $0 cents of all druggists or R.P. Hall &Co,, Nashua, N. H. NSION Westincton, Be: icce! ites Cla ims. Late pal |. Pension Bureau. eens 3yrsin last war, 15adj claims, atty since DROPSY mir eittatereceont relief gases. send for book of testimonials and 10 da: dreatment Free. M. GREKN’B font aitestake, WANTED—Case of pad health that RI-P-A-N-S will not benefit. Send 5 cents to Ripans Chemical | \e- New York, for 10 samples and 1,000 testimonials. PATEN secured Ormoneyalireturned. Search free, Collamer & Co. 234 Fst. Wash. D.C. tramicted with! Thompson’s Eye Water, sore eyes, use ne N. W. N. UL —No. 1.— 1899, When Answering Advertisements Kindly i Mention This Paper. FARM AND’ GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Some Up-to-Date Hints About Cul- tivation of the Soll and Yields Thereof—Horticulture, Viticulture and Floriculture. , Getting Out Manare. Observation shows that a large ma- jority of farmers have not yet learned to take advantage of this job, which is one of the hardest and most disagree- able on the farm, says a contributor to the “Michigan Farmer.” The common practice is to rig up 4 single wagon and team, drive in and load up, then drive to the field and spread the manure from the wagon. When managed in this way the team is standing idle over half the time, stamping the barnyard into holes, when it would be more comfortable on the move. The men spend nearly half the time riding to and from the field. It is next to impossible to do even a passably good job of spreading ma- nure by standing cn the wagon and throwing off bunches here and there without being properly shaken apart. This whole job becomes tedious and irksome and is very likely to be slight- ed from first to last, which Will tell on the next crop. Several hired men who have helped me with this work have told me that by our plan we could move out more manure for the time and money spent than by any other way they had ever seen tried. We want nothing but a good strong, willing man to help with this. One team and two wagons are always ised. Every passageway into the manure lot is thrown open, 80 We can pass in or out in almost any di- rection. While the team is gone to the field to unload one wagon the man is loading up the other. Care is always taken to drive the empty wagon where the load can be put on with the least work. But it is in the field that the really skillful work is required. We never attempt to spread from the wagon, The side-board on one side is taken out and the manure pulled off in piles ‘with a manure hook. We use boards ten feet long, with side-boards about two feet wide, and the manure is piled up on these as long as it will lie on. Each load is divided into six equal parts and dumped in conical piles, in straight rows twenty-five feet apart each way. When the manure is in condition for rapid work, we get about twenty-five loads per day. When it is fine and tramped solid, eiguteen or twenty loads will make a day’s work. When put on at the rate mentioned above it requires about twelve loads to cover an.acre. We practice a four- year rotation, consisting of clover, corn, oats and wheat. I have tried for years to figure down this manure spreading pretty fine. I have found that by working all the oats and wheat straw from half of our cultivated land into manure, by feeding all the corn fodder and about cil the clover hay from the other half, and by carefully saving and applying all the manure, we have just about enough to cover all our corn ground each year, or all the plow land once in four years, When the season is such that the straw and litter is pretty well rotted down, we have to spread a little thinner than here described in order to make it reach. * Soil Adapted to Strawberries, H. E. McKay says: A few growers fully understand this fact, but many, apparently intelligent, seem not to un- derstand how great these differences really are, and are disappointed when they fail to do as well as others. Too little has been said by many writers on the strawberry, about the soils best suited to the health and growth of the plant, and the perfection and beauty of the fruit. The wonderful ease and facility with which the berry adapts itself to different soils and latitudes, coupled with the fact that even in an imperfect condition it is satisfactory in appearance and taste to most persons, may in part be the cause of this over- sight. We do not agree with the gen- erally received opinion, as taught by many writers, that a sandy loam gives either the largest yield or finest fruit. Possibly in the North and West such may be true, but in the south our larg- est yields and finest berries aré ob- tained from a clay loam. While it is true that berries grown on a sandy loam are often as large and apparently as firm and well colored as on a clay loam, it is equally true that they are deficient in that solidity, strength of color and general make-up that the same varieties possess grown on the clay loam. All the -acts, so far as we have been able to gather them, point to the general conclusion that, all other things being equal, the strength, beau- ty and perfection of the berry is dimin- ished in proportion as free sand exists in the soil; not that any of our good land is without sand, but we use the term free sand where it readily sep- arates and can be seen in the branches and little gullies. Destroying Round-Headed Borers, F. H. Chittenden, Assistant Entomol- ogist of the Department of Agricul-° ture, gives the following advice on the destruction of the round-headed apple tree borer: Destroying the adult insects.—The mature beetles are shy,.and so seldom seen on this account, that it is doubt- ful if any method of destroying them 's feasible. They are attracted to lights at night to some extent, and some meet their end in this way. Very early in the morning, immediately after day- break, the beetles may be found upon the trees, if sought for in their season, and may then be beaten off into an in- verted umbrella by striking the branches with a stout stick. Kerosene as a remed™.—A great ve- riety of substances ave been recom: mended to kill the bfrers in the trees, but up to the presenf time only a few have given satisfactig. For the bene- fit of those who hay not had experi- ence with this borer|:t may be neces- sary to state that it igof no avail what- ever to inject keroserp or any other in- secticide into the roid holes made by the beetles in theirjescape from the trees. A correspondent of this divi- sion, Mr. T. B. Ashton, who has had many years’ experience with this bor- er, states that there is no better way of effectually putting a stop to the depre- dations of this and similar borers than in the use of kerosene applied freelv wherever the castings of the larvae are to be seen protruding through the bark. The kerosene is absorbed by the cast- ings and, carried by capillary attrac- tion, permeates the entire burrow where it comes in contact with the larva, which soon succumbs. The amount of kerosene which it is neces- sary to use is so small that it does not endanger the health of the tree. Clean cultural methods. — Finally, clean culture, the best preventive for insect injury of whatever kind, should not be neglected. The nursery should not be started in new localities where crabs, thorns, June-berry, and other wild food plants of this species grow in great profusion nor in the vicinity of neglected orchards, nor should rank growths of weeds, grasses, bushes, and briars be permitted to accumulate about the trunks of the trees. When a tree is seen to be injured beyond re- covery it should be taken out and de- stroyed by burning before the follov- ing spring, that the larvae which it contains may not have an opportunity to develop and reinfest liealthy growth. Sowing Alfalfa. C. H. Sessions, in an address to Cal- ifornia dairymen, said: ‘There is a great variety of opinion as to best time of seeding. We have sowed at all times from November or Decem- ber to April and have had good and poor success, It depends on the sea- son, and nothing can be told of them beforehand. I think it best to sow ear- ly, say after a good rain, as soon as the ground has become dry enough to work easily, and then, if from frosts or scanty early rains the stand is a fail- ure, there is plenty of time to prepare the ground and put in another crop, hoping there will be plenty of late rains to give it a start. There is no danger from frosts after the third leaves have started. Some claim that ten to fifteen pounds of seed to the acre is sufficient, but we prefer twenty-five to thirty pounds. If it all grew the small amount would be all right, but conditions are so liable to prevent all from growing that I prefer to pay a little more money for seed and insure a good stand. If the stand is thin it is not the easiest thing to thicken it up successfully, but if the seed come up too thick it is a “survival of the fittest,” and the weaker stalks ‘are killed out leaving a good. thick and even stand, which makes the best qual- ity of hay. Sowing Alfalfa with Wheat.—For a nurse crop in starting alfalfa nothing is better than a very light crop of wheat, say thirty-five pounds seed per acre. If a greater amount of seed is used, the wheat will come up so thick as to smother the alfalfa, or if it grows it will be so tender that as soon as the wheat is cut it will wither and die. If the wheat should be too thick it must not be left until grown enough for hay, but cut and removed earlier. Some prefer nothing but weeds for pro- tection, but it will cost no more to grow a light crop of wheat, and what 1s taken off will be good feed while the weeds will have to be thrown away. Killing the Aphis. A horticulturist speaking at an Illi- nois meeting said: “I think we have solved the question in Southern Illinois. | We remove the earth round the trees for a distance of three feet from the trees and to a depth of three inches. On the roots thus laid bare we sprinkle powdered tobacco. The earth is then put back, and when the rains come the tobacco is washed down onto the roots and the aphis are killed. I think it a great thing; it takes very little tobac- co. You can always tell when a tree is infested by the woolly apiis by th: roots growing in knots and being cov- ered with mildew. The aphis is very easily killed. It is a good idea for a man when setting a tree to dip the roots in a mild solution of soap suds,” Fresh Eggs in Demand.—A_ great many of the eggs that reach the large cities are what is known as limed eggs, and are purchased by those who buy the cheapest in the market, bakers be- ing the best customers. They do not begin to compete with strictly fresh eggs, which are bought by a different class of customers, and it is doubtful if it really pays to lime the eggs e;- cept in the extreme west, or in those sections where eggs in the summer are very cheap and plentiful. In the east there is always a ready sale for fresb eggs.—Ex. Poison Ivy.—Poison ivy (Rhus toxi- | codendron) is known also as three- leaved ivy and in some localities a3 poison oak. In growth it much re- sembles the harmless Virginia creeper or American ivy (Ampelopsis quinque- folia). To avoid mistaking one for the other, remember that the poiscn ivy has but three leaflets on a stem, while { the Virgina creeper has five. Children distinguish them as “three-leaved ivy” and “five-leaved ivy.” The poison ivy bears clusters of small smooth berries, greenish white when ripe. The merits of good lemonade shoulda be better appreciated. For all those troubled with biliousness and sick headache acid drinks are especially wholesome. Lemonade is improved for many tastes by adding one tablespoon- ! fvl of lime juice to a quart of lemon. ade, WHITE-HAIRED ORACLE. Rules Over a Tribe That Is Centuries Behind the Times. From the Two Republics: As is well known to all who have looked into the matter carefuily—for instance, such men as Lumholtz, Starr and Soville— there ere in remote parts of Mexico today to be found portions of tribes of Indians who are practically as much given to idolatry, superstition and witchcraft as were their forbears in the vanished years when the gleaming ban- ner of Castile and Aragon glanced amid the peaks and valleys of Mexico, an- nouncing the advent of a stronger race and more victorious faith. The other day, while making a little trip over the Interoceanie, that runs through s0 many picturesque Indian towns, I hap- pened to meet in one of these vil- lages a very intelligent Indian, who told me the following. Whether it is true or not I do not know—“I tell the tale as ‘twas told to me.” He said that on the northern slope of Popo- cateptl, near the foot, there is a large cave almost unknown to the outside world. In this cave lives an old white- haired Indian who is the oracle of a small tribe of Indians in that vicinity, whose language is unlike that of any of the neighboring towns. This little tribe has never been conquered either by the Spaniaras or by the church, or by the modern government of the re- public. The Indians have preserved all their old customs and traditions un- til this day, and are practically as they were 400 years ago. One of the very. curious institutions among them is that of the oracle, or seer, who dwells in the above-mentioned cave all alone. He is always the oldest and wisest man of, the tribe. He is looked upon with the same superstitious reverence as were) the oracles of Dodona. and Delphos in the boyhood of the® world. In that cave are preserved rare gems of curiously carved emeralds, such as the great “Malinche” sent home to j Spain; idols of gold and silver and copper and stone, pearl necklaces from the far-off Gulf of California, and strange robes of feather work, of which but very few examples are known to- day outside the pages of Sabagun, Pres- | cott or Clavigero. There are also ranged in fitting order the ancient gods of this strange people, of whom this old man is the high priest. Once a month a commission of the oldest men of the tribe visits the cave and takes with it, in the name of the people, of- ferings of fruit and flowers and eat- ables and incense in honor of the gods and their oracle. Upon all affairs of importance to the tribe this old man is consulted, and his judgments are as those of the Medes and the Persians. I asked whether it would be possible to visit him or not and was told no one, not even members of the same tribe, outside the before-mentioned “commission,” had ever seen the inside of that strange and mysterious cave. My informant told me that at a certain point all persons are stopped by a guard and told that they can proceed no further upon pain of death. And this is not a tale of 400 years ago, but of today. The tribe and the cave are at the north side of Popocateptl and ev- ery Saturday in Atlixco members of this tribe are at the market to buy and sell their simple necessities of life. It is enough to see them to realize at once the great difference between them and the other Mexican Indians who are to be seen there at that time. Not only is their style of clothing very different, but also their language. What the Fool Said. It was where the motor cars pass in a certain city. An old gentleman alighted, and the conductor told him to look out for the other car. The passenger did not understand him, and turning around, asked: “What did you say?” Just then the motor struck him and knocked him without serious dam- age toward the curb on the opposite side from which he wanted to go. As he got up, he was heard to mutter, “I wonder what the fool said.” REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. To woo a woman properly a man must first win her. Love is like a butterfly—it was prob- ably a lot more comfortable when it Was a worm, Before a girl is 20 you can never tell whether she is in love or her stomach is out of order. . The average woman doesn’t want her husband to be just; what she wants is for him to love her. A man without any religion at all may not be manly, but a woman with- out any religion at all isn’t even femi- nine. If there are women who can make a fool of every man, there are other women who can make a man of every fool. At the age of 25 a man must be either engaged or married, or elsé the women begin to wonder why he does- n’t behave himself. To be fascinating to a young man a woman must never admit that she is not in love; to be fascinating to an old man she must never admit that she is. Before a man falls in love he won- ders how a’ woman would suit him for a wife; after he falls in tove he won- ders how he would suit a woman for a husband. , The best imitation of a woman hur- rying through some shopping in a de- partment store is a cat for about five minutes after she has lit with all four feet on a hot stove by mistake.—New York Press, | In China a wife is never seen by her husband before marriage. In country some wives seldom see their husbands 2fter marriage. | million acres. FlealthyHappy Girls often, From ne apparent Cause, become languid and Gespondent in the early days of their womanhood They drag along. always tired, never hungry, breathless and with a palpitating heart after slight exercise so that merely to walk up stairs is exhausting. Sometimes a short. dry cough are“going inte consumption” They are anemic, doc- tors.tell them, which means that they have teo little blood Are you like that? leads to the fear that they oy Have you too little blooat? More .anzmic people have been made strong. hungry, energetic men and women by the use of Dr. Williams® Pink Pills for Pale People than by any other means They are the best tonic in the world. Miss Lulu Stevens, of Gasport, Niagara Co., N. ¥., had been a very healthy girl until about a year ago, when she grew weak and pale. She lost her appetite, was as tired in the morning as on retiring, and lost flesh until she became so emaciated that her friends hardly kmew her. The doc- tors declared the disease anemia, and gave her up to die. A physician who was visiting in Gasport prevailed upon her to try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. She did so, and was benefited at once. She is now well and strong—the very picture of health.—Buffalo (N. ¥.) Courier, The genuine are sold only in packages, the wrapper always bearing the Full name. For sale by all drug- — or sent, postpaid, by the Dr Williams Medicine ompany, Schenectady. N-Y., on receipt of price, fifty cents per box. Book of cures Free on request. Unexpected. “So you want to marry my daughter, eh?” “Tf you please, sir,” “Let me see. Have you read the president’s message?” “Oh, yes, sir; every word of it.” “That's enough. You can’t have her. Ayy young man with as much idle time on his hands as you seem to have can’t marry his way into this family if I can by”? him off.”—Cleveland Plain . Dealer. = MANITOBA’S CAPACITY, Enough Wheat to Supply Britain All She Requires from Abroad. Toronto, Nov. 10.—The “World” comments on the report of the United Empire trade league on the capacity of Canada as a granary for Britain. The report refers to Manitoba \as follows: Manitoba has an area of forty-seven Deducting ten million for lakes, rivers, town sites and waste land, 37,000,000 acres are left for farm cultivation or homes for 116,000 famil- ies on 320 acres each, and as up} to now there are only 27,000 farmers there al- together, that leaves room in on prov- ince for 89,008 more wheat giv wers. Supposing, then, we got them there and each one of them out of hij 320 acres grew on an average 100 acrés at 20 bushels to the acre; if you figure it up you will find it is quite possible for Manitoba alone to supply us with all the wheat we require from abroad, It , ig only a question of money and com- | this . paratively speaking not money either. The cost of one first-class battleship (about £750,000) would put 5,000 fam- ilies onto farms in the Northwest, al- lowing £150 to each to find them in implements, seeds, horses, etc, and would keep them until their first crop was harvested. Five thousand farm- ers, averaging 100 acres of wheat each at 20 bushels to the acre, means an extra 10,000,000 bushels, for if that scheme is not liked Britain would put a duty on foreign wheat. In addition to the wheat lands of Manitoba there are the millions of acres in Assiniboia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. That Much-Kissed Hero. “Say, that Oscar Delgnan, late of the Merrimac, would make a poor crib bage player.” “Why so?” “He pegged his first fifteen and then stopped playing.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Conference in the Study. Dr. Thirdly—I am in dire straits. Dr. Fourthly—What is the trouble? Dr. Thirdly—It was decided, some three months ago, to cut down my sal ary. Dr. Fourthly—Ah, that was unfor- tunate. But why not cut down your sermons? Dr. Thirdly—That is exactly what I did, and they seemed to like the ar- rangement so well that they immedi- ately cut down my salary again, Now, what am I to do?’ Dr. Fourthly—Try making your ser- mons longer, and see if they won’t pro- pose a compromise.—Chicago News. Read the Advertisements. You will enjoy this publication much better if you will get into the habit of reading the advertisements; they will afford a most ‘amusing study, and will put you in the way of getting some ellent bargains. Our adverti: are they send what they adver The Saving Clause. “Don’t you get tired of so much Shakespeare at your club?” “Well, we always have teas,” A woman should never try to bang her hair by igniting the powder on her Tage. a | How's Thist ‘We offer On Hundred Dollars reward forany ease of Catarri\ that cannot be cured by Hall's r fi ‘clans ours, CENENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. ‘We, the undersigued, have known ¥. J. 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The ill effects upon the system of food leavened by this injurious drug are attested by the highest medical authorities. Alum baking powders would be less dangerous were they fatal at once, for then they surely would be avoided, but their baneful action because imperceptible at first and slow in its advances is no less certain, Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder ts certified by all authorities as free from alum or any other adulterant. Its purity has never been questioned, and while it does finer and better work, it costs no more than many of the adulterated powders. It received the highest award at ‘the World’s Columbian Exposition, (Chicago, 1893) and at ttvé California Midwinter International Exposition, ( i F; 1894) a medal. i +