Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, February 4, 1899, Page 7

ee of the * . JETFf ect ED ID | ___. Grip is a treacherous disease You think it Ss cured and the slightest cold brings on a relapse. its victims are always left ina weakened Condition— blood impure and impoverished; nerves shattered. Pneumonia, heart disease and nervous prostration are often the result. Or. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People will drive every trace of the poisonous the system, build up and enrich th and strengthen the nerves. arrms from blood A trial will prove this. Read the evidence: When the Tip last visited this section Herman H. Eveler, ofsll W. Main Bt, Jetterson,Mo., a well-known contractor and builder,was one of the victims, and he has since been troubled with the after-effects of the disease. A year ago his health be- me to fail, and he was obliged to discontinue work. That he ves to-day is almosta miracle. He says: “I was troubled with shortness of breath, palpitation of the heart and a general debility. My back also pained me severely. “I tried one doctor after another and numerous remedies suggested uy my friends, but began to give up ho Then I saw Dr. without sprerent benefit, and illiams’ Pink Pills for Pale People extolled in a St. Louis paper, and after inves- tigation decided to give them atrial. “After using the first box 1 felt wonderfully relieved and was satisfied that the pills were putting me on the road to re- covery. I bought two more boxes and continued taking them. “After taking four boxesof Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People Lam restored to good health. I feel like a new man, and having the will and energy of my former days returned, lam capable of transacting my business with increased ambition. “Dr, Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are a wonderful medicine and any one suffering from the after-effects of the grip will find that these pills are the specific.” H.H. EVELER. Mr. Eveler will gladly answer any inquiry regarding this if stamp is enclosed.—FromCole Co. Democrat, Jefferson City, Mo. * Look for the full name on the package. At druggists or direct from the Dr.Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.Y. 50c. per box. 6 boxes $2.50. Public Demoralization. "I tell you, absolutely honest. He didn’t get a cent for voting for that ordinance—not one cent!” “Then we don’t want him to repre- sent our ward in the next city council. He’s too big a fool.”"—Chicago Tribune. How's This! ‘We offer One Hundre’ Dollars reward forany oe Se of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Ostarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. ‘We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 16 years and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions nd tnanoially able to carry out any obliga- tions made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale oe gg Toledo, ©.; Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, olesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act- ing directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price Tec per bottle. Sold by all druggists Hall's Family Pills are the best. Sarcasm. “She has a nice little voice.” *“There is only one fault about it.” “What is that?’ “It isn’t little enough.’’--Cleveland Plain Dealer. Chicago Great Western Increase. The earnings of the Chicago Great ‘Western Railway for the first week in January, 1899, show an increase of $12,653.14, and for the second week, $17,3) 9 over corresponding weeks ip January, 1898. Total increase since beginning of fiscal year (July 1st) to date $182,869.26. ‘According to the Bible, there will be go marrying or giving in marriage in heaven—probably because there won't be enough men to go around.—Chicago News. The hired girl who neglects her work to read a novel has hard work to keep her place. Forest Preservation, Under this head the State Auditor (and Forest Commissioner) in his an- nual report, says: “The law for pre- venting and extinguishing forest and prairie fires has been in operation practically for four years, and has met reasonable expectations. During this period Minnesota has been free from such serious forest fires as have oc- curred in neighboring states. Of course it needs no law to make people turn out to save their own or neigh- bors’ property from fire, but the bene- fit of the fire warden law is especially apparent in cases where a forest fire may have been set in a remote or a sparsely-settled locality, in a dry sea- son, and which but for the prompt at- tention of fire wardens might prove | disastrous. The leading object of the | law also is to prevent dangerous forest er prairie fires from heing set. Pre- | vention, indeed, is its leading principle. | Not only does the fire warden law tend to prevent such a catastrophe as oc- } curred at Hinckley in 1894, but by helping to save the young growth cf timber, it tends to prolong our import- | ant lumber industry.” of a house one should count the folding Piso’s Cure for Consuin pion is our onl; medicine for coughs and colds.—Mrs. Beltz, 439 8th Ave., Denver, Col., Nov.8,'95. Don’t call the Americans land-grab- ‘Turkey. Powder Awarded Highest Honors— Medal and Diploma, World’s Columbian Exposition, alsc special Gold Medal and Diploma, California _ Midwinter Fair. HOW CREAM TARTAR IS MADE. Cream of Tartar—which enters so largeiy into the manufacture of Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder—is obtained from the tart Wines of France, Germany, Austria, etc. The Crude Tartar, called Argolis, is deposited on the sides of the wine casks during the fermentation of the wine. After the wine is drawn off, this crystal deposit is removed, dried and exported to America where the elaborate process of refining crystals of Cream of Tartar. In singling out Dr. Price’s takes place, producing the snow-white Cream Baking Powder from alli its competitors and bestowing upon it a special Gold Medal, the California Midwinter Fair concurred in the verdict given by the World's Fair jury, which awarded both medal and diploma to Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder, declaring it superior to every other brand. The victories won by it at all the great fairs, and its wonderful growth in popular favor, due to its purity, uniformity, wholesomeness, keeping qualities and excellence, have confirmed and emphasized it as “The Foremost Baking Powder in all the World.” ote, —The Cream of Tartar Refinery, controlled by the Price Baking Powder Comrpay, is the most completé and extensive in the World. No doubt, among the inside shutters | bers because at present all eyes are on | | | nure? FARM AND’ GARDEN, MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Some Up-to-Date Hints About Cul- tivation of the Soll and Yields Thereof—Horticulture, Vitientture and Floriculture. Sawdust as an Absorbent. I have about 500 bushels of clear hardwood ashes that we make here at the factory in a year, and any amount of hardwood sawdust of three differ- | ent grades, writes E, L. Tracy in Prac- tical Farmer. One grade is coarse, the largcezt pieces being about the size of a small pea, and from that down to the size of a turnip seed. This has a great deal of glue in it, probably about 3 per cent in weight. The next grade is about like fine corn meal, and the other grade is as fine as the finest flour. Have been using all of these for two years past as bedding under horses and | cattle, using it liberally, which means a barrelfull to bed four horses two | nights, and about the same quantity under five cows for two nights. I have used this manure both to top dress and on crops, land being a deep loam with very little clay mixed in. Have never used more than ten loads to the acre, and put on land that I supposed to be poor, with about twenty-five bushels of ashes sowed on. My grain grows so stout as to half lodge down. On one piece that I considered very poor, I put ten loads of this manure to the acre, and twenty-five bushels of ashes, as is my custom. I took off a nice crop of oats in 1896, two heavy crops of clover last year, and will take off two good crops this year. I mean by heavy crops two tons to the acre, and the first crop this year was two tons and second one and one-half tons. Did the ashes make the crops or the ma- I consider the manure worth twice as much as it would be if the sawdust had not been used, It is the best absorbent (the kind I have) of liquid manure that can be used in my opinion, and I further believe the saw- dust rots in one year and makes humus to benefit the soil. I put one load of very fine dust direct from the mul on about four square rods of corn land and harrowéd in. Result, corn about half a crop. Put a load of same kind on same size piece, and harrowed and seeded to grass in the spring of 1897. Got only a half crop of hay last August. This year on same piece with nothing more put on, the clover was lodged, and where the poor corn was last year the barley was heavy. It had rotted and made the land fertile. Some- thing has brought my land up very quickly, as my new stocked this year was very heavy and mostly all lodged, and land top-dressed was also heavy hay. I attribute it partly to the ashes and to the strong manure made so by the use of the sawdust holding the liquid. It might not be so good on sandy land but I shall continue its use on my. farm. I have never put more than ten loads of manure to the acre. I sow nothing now but clover, and I’m ; sure clover likes sawdust as well as J do. Marl as Manure. A builetin of the Virginia Experi- ment Station says: Marl is the name which is applied to a variety of earthy deposits of varying composition con- taining a considerable per cent of car- bonate of lime. It forms a very valu- able addition to our list of natural fer- tilizers. While its fertilizing value is increased very largely by the percent- age of phosphate of lime and of pot- ash, its chief constituent is carbonate of lime, which gives to it its main value, When applied to the soil lime affects it in different ways and there are several points to be considered in its use. It may be regarded somewhat as a direct plant food, as well as a chemical agent acting upon the organic matter of the soil and various mineral constituents of which the soil is com- posed. Another important property is the mechanical action which it ex- erts upon the soil. If applied to a light sandy soil it makes it less porous and less inclined to part with its moisture, while on the other hand, when applied to a wet, clayey soil it tends to make it more porous and more easily work- ed. Notwithstanding the fact that | large quantities of lime are consumed by plants it is not usually regarded as a fertilizer to be added to the soil, for the reason that the soil is usually abun- dantly supplied with it. It, however, has the power of making available the compounds of potash and soda from their insoluble combinations. The former of these substances is certainly of great importance in the growth of plants. Lime also decomposes organic matter in the soil and renders it avail- able for plant food. Organic acids, such as humic, etc., tend to be formed | in lands which are very rich in vege- table matter and these acids in con- centrated form are poisonous to the growth of plants. The application of lime to such a soi] not only corrects this acidity but liberates a large amount of plant food. By lime is usu- ally meant the burnt limestone. Lime- stone and marl contain calcium car- bonate, which is easily changed by purning to quick lime or calcium oxide by the loss of carbon dioxide gas. It is, however, not always best to do this for agricultural purposes as much la- bor and expense are involved in the process. American Fruit in Germany. In a report published in the Decem- ber issue of Consular Reports, Con- sul General Frank H. Mason, stationed at Frankfort, says: “Tt is probable with all concessions that afe likely to be made under the present system German trade in fresh fruits from a source so remote as the United States will continue to be some- what risky and uncertain. Fruit deai- ers here, while freely conceding the superior tenderness, flavor and cheap- ness of American apples, say that the Profits of handling them are mearre and uncertain, always liable to be swallowed up by losses incident to rot- ting and deterioration of the fruit during the long voyage. This un- certainty must continue until Amer- ican shippers will take the trouble to pack and prepare apples specially for export, as is done in the Tyrol and France, in ventilated barrels lined with paper and wood wool, in which the apples, first carefully selected and wip- ed dry, are laid by hand to avoid dan- ger of contusion. Hitherto the apples imported from our country have been those which have been barreled for the home trade, and while some ship- ments have been received in good con- dition, others have required opening and picking over, with a loss of twenty to forty per cent before the remaining sound ones could be offered for sale. “In view of all the essential con- ditions, it would seem probable that the future development of the fruit trade between the United States and Germany will be more in the direction of dried and otherwise prepared than of fresh fruits. Just as the restriction of imports of live cattle and swine from neighboring countries has result- ed in an increased demand in Germany for cured meats, in the production of which our country is pre-eminent, so the difficulties, natural and artificial, which obstruct and complicate the im- portation of fresh fruits have increased the popularity and use of American evaporated and otherwise preserved apples, apricots, pears, peaches and prunes, which have now acquired a hold upon popular appreciation here which nothing can dislodge. Of the 141,372 metric tons of fresh fruits which were imported to Germany in 1897 the United States supplied only 10,336 tons, a little more than 7 per cent; while of the 49,122 tons of dried and preserved fruits, imported during the same period, our country supplied 17,850 tons, or more than 36 per cent of the whole. This does not take into account the imports of canned fruits, which, although burdened with an ex: cessive import duty, and therefore costly and comparatively little known, have a definite and growing impov- tance.” United States Fruit in Manitoba. Mr. W. H. H. Graham, United States Consul at Winnipeg, states that the fruit growers of the United States (chiefly those of the Pacific slope) sup- ply at least four-fifths of the green fruit consumed in Manitoba and the Northwest territory of Canada; but there is danger that this practical mo- nopoly of the market may not be main- tained in future. Owing to the excel- lence of their product and the great care they have exercised in its selec- tion and packing for shipment, our fruit farmers have been able heretofore to defy the competition of Canadian producers, notwithstanding the fact that the latter have much the advan- tage in shorter lines of transportation. Now Canadians seem to be waking up to the situation and are bringing ur- gent pressure to bear upon the Domin- ion and provincial boards of agricul- ture to induce them to assist in pro- viding better facilities for preserving, packing and transporting Canadian fruits. These bodies have heretofore bent all their energies toward securing the English and other European mar- kets, but are now making a vigorous effort to capture the home trade. En- couragement is being given to the erec- tion of cold storage plants and pack- ing houses, and transportation lines are being worked. The United States system of packing fruits has been adopted, and, altogether, a much stronger bid will be made for these markets than heretofore. Still greater care in selecting, packing and shipping will be necessary on the part of Amer- ican fruit growers if they would con- tinue to hold their supremacy in this market. Fig Fertilization. The Department of Agriculture has made a preliminary attempt to intro- duce from southern Europe into Cal- ifornia an insect which is responsible for the fertilization of the Smyrna figs of commerce. The entomologist visited California in the spring of 1898 and found that conditions were ripe for such an attempted introduction, and an agent in Europe will, during the coming year, endeavor to take the necessary steps to bring about this introduction, which, it is hoped, will result in the production by California of a fig equal to the Smyrna fig. Farm Regions of Japan.—The soil, largely eroded from the hills and mountains of volcanic origin, is re- markably rich. The rainfall is always plentiful and irrigation is only resorted to in the mountainous districts where rice is grown in the small, level areas, Horses are used, if used at all, for packing purposes, and are not plenti- ful, They are a hardy little breed, quite docile, but as a rule not well treated. No stock is grazed except in the northern portion of the empire. Sheep have been tried but proved a failure. Silk and cotton goods are mostly used. No fences are used ex- cept slight bamboo affairs about the house, more for ornament than use.— Indiana Farmer. Some idea of the rise in the values of horses may be gauged by a report sent out from East Buffalo which is to the effect that the light legged kinds, 15.2 to 15.3 hands, 1,025 Ib., to 1,100 Ib., fairly good lookers and with some style and a good road gait, which now sell for around $300 a pair, could have been pought three years ago for from $100 to $150 a pair. Indeed, the horses that could be bought in the dullest of the dull times for from $100 to $150 a pair were on the average slightly superior to those for which $300 per pair zy readily paid, THANKFUL TO MRS. PINKHAM. Barnest Words From Women Who Have Been Relieved of Backache —Mrs. Pinkham Warns Against Neglect. Dear Mrs. Pryzuam:—I have been thankful a thousand times, since I wrote you, for what your Vegetable Compound has done for me. I followed your ad- vice carefully, and now I feel like a different person. My troubles were back- ache, headache, nervous tired feeling, painful menstruation and leucorrhea. I took four bottles of Vegetable Compound, one box of Liver Pills, and used one package of Sanative Wash, and am now well. I thank you again for the good you have done for me.—E ia E. BrenyeER, East Rochester, Ohio. Great numbers of such letters as the above areconstantly being re- ceived by Mrs. Pinkham from wo- men whoowe theirhealthand hap- piness to her advice and medicine. Mrs. Pinkham’s address is Lynn, Mass. Her advice is of- fered free to all suffering women whoare puzzled about themselves. If you have backache don’t neg- lect itor try heroically to ‘‘work it down,” you must reach the root of the trouble, and nothing will do this so safely and surely as Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- 3 pound. Backache is accompanied . > by a lot of other aches and wearying sensations, but they nearly always come from the same source. Remove the cause of these distressing things, and you become well and strong. Mrs. 8. J. Swanson, of Gibson City, I1l., tells her ex- perience in the following letter: “Dear Mrs. PrInkuam :—Before using your medicine I was troubled with head- ache and my back ached sothatI could not rest. Your medicine is the best I have ever used; it has relieved me of my troubles, and I fcel like myself again. Thanks to Lydia E. Pinkham. “IT would advise any one troubled with female weaixness to take your medi- cine. 1 shall also recommend it wherever I can as a great reliever of pain.” A Million Women Have Been Benefited by Mrs, Pinkham’sAdvice and Medicine als A Nightmare, She—Don’t you think she is a perfect dream? He—Perhaps. But I’d hate to have such a dream.—Philadelphia North American, Savage Bachelor. id the Dear Girl, “have as sity as women.” the vage Bachelor, always active.” “Men. much idl PATENTS. The National Capital. — The eyes of the world are now cen- List of Patents Issued Last Week to | tered on Washington. The best line Northwestern Inventors. S. Buffiington, Minneapolis, pparatus for generating acety- George A. Brackett, Minne- Minn., mess chest; Rienzi I. Cleveland, Devils Lake, N. D., tension device; Maguns P. Elgen, St. Paul, Minn., rotary engine; Andrew R. Fos. sum, Cottonwood, Minn., cigar cutter and match safe; Franklin A. Gordon, Flora, Minn., lifting apparatus; Ar- thur L. Hawkesworth, Elkhorn, Mont., ‘ metallic packing for piston rod Al- “Tonner's coa fred J. Krank, St. Paul, Minn., shears; | last night.” Michael Schlachter, Laurel, 8. D., corn “Damaged much harvester; Elias A. Smith, Anaconda, “fT don’t know. 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