Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, May 21, 1904, Page 8

| PLEASE TELL( YOUR READERS aE Our Big 50-Cent Setalcaye Is Now Fre For years the pine of our big Gen- eral Merchandise Catalogue has been 50 cents, but we have reduced our selling prices on all kinds of goods so far below all other houses as to in- sure almost every catalogue bringing orders and making new customers, and by the introduction of new paper- making machinery, new automatic rotary printing, folding, binding and covering machinery we have so re- duced the cost of making this big book that we will now send it by mail, post paid, free to any address on ap- plication. The big book, which heretofore was sold at 50 cents each, and which is now free for the asking, is 8%x11}% inches in size, contains thousands of illustrations, descriptions and prices, is thoroughly complete in nearly every kind of merchandise, including dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, fur- nishing goods, notions, millinery, car- pets, upholstering, hardware, tools, electrical goods, guns, sporting goods, sewing machines, musical instru- ments, organs, pianos, furniture, baby carriages, crockery, cutlery, stoves, drugs, photographie goods, optical goods, talking machines, moving pic- ture apparatus, buggies, harness, sad- ales, saddlery, watches, jewelry, sil- verware, clocks, safes, refrigerators, tinware, everything used in the home, in the shop, in the factory and on the farm, and all priced at prices much lower than were ever offered by any other house. If you have one of our big cata- logues or have ever seen one you know what it is, the most complete, most up to date and lowest-priced cat- alogue ever published. If you haven’t our big catalogue don’t fail to send for one at once. If you have the big book please tell your friends and neighbors that the book is now free and they can get one for the asking. Simply on a postal card or in a letter say, “Send me your Big Catalogue,” and the big new book, our regular 50- cent catalogue, will go to you by re- turn mail, postpaid, free with our com- pliments. Please don’t forget to tell your neighbor who hasn't the big book that the big 50-cent book is now free to anyone for the asking. Address SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., Chicago. Had “Varmint” Treed. Little Wesley, who was standing by tbe door, suddenly called out: “Come, quick, mamma, and listen to Keyser barking.” “What is it?” asked mamma. “Oh, I guess he’s got a grasshopper up on a weed,” Wesley answered.—Lit- tle Chronicle. DISTEMPER. E. F. Geers, one of the greatest horsemen, Say: “T have used Spohn's Distemper Cure for rightyears. It is the best to cure and prevent cistempers I ever saw.”’ Bottle, 50c; dozen, &. of yaad aS or write manufacturers. Agents wanted. Easily sold. hn Medical Co., Live Stock Doctors, Goshen, Ind. WHEN THE WHISTLE RANG. May Be an Old One, but Is No Worse Than the Average. Joe Schlumpf has either coined or heard a new story. He has been amus- ing friends with his new find until it is going the rounds all over town. Schlumpf was in the eastern part of the state not long ago selling his ci- gars to a German dealer. While they were talking a whistle sounded. “There iss a fire,” remarked the German cigar merchant. “Where is the fire?” asked Schlumpf. looking about to see if he had dropped a spark on his clothes. “I don’t know where it iss, but it iss,” answered the dealer. “How in the world do you know there is a fire, then?” queried the Se- attle man. The cigar dealer was becoming an-}| gry. “Vat iss the matter mit you? you hear Can't dot whistle ringing? Are you} Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Quick at Figures. “T hired ten chorus girls in five min-} remarked Julian s this morning,” Mitchell, busy he had been. “Geewillikins!” exelaimed Jack Fla- herty, manager of the Majestic thea- ter, York Times BAD DREAMS. Indicate Improper Diet, Usually Due to Coffee.. One of the common symptoms of} coffee poisoning is the bad dreams that spoil what should be restful sleep. A man who found the reason sa “Formerly I was a slave to coffee. I was like a morphine fiend, could not sleep at night, would roll and toss in my bed and when I did get to sleep was disturbed by dreams and hobgob- blins, wouldewake up with headaches and feel bad all day, so nervous Ij could not attend to business. My writing looked like bird tracks, I had sour belchings from the stomach, in- digestion, heartburn and palpitation of the heart, constipation, irregularity of the kidneys, etc. “Indeed, I began to feel I had all| the troubles that human flesh could suffer, but when a friend advised me to leave off coffee I felt as if he had insulted me. idea, it had such a hold on me and I refused to believe it the cause. But it turned out that no advice was ever given at a more needed time for I finally consented to try Postum, and with the going of coffee and the com- ing of Postum all my troubles have gone and health has returned. I eat and sleep well now, nerves steadied down and I write a fair hand (as you can see), can attend to business again and rejoice that I am free from the monster €offee.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Ten’ days trial of Postum in place of coffee will bring sound, restful, re-| freshing sleep. There’s a reason. Look in each pkg. for the famous. little book, “The Road to Wellville.” who wanted to show how! u are quick at figures.”—New | I could not bear the! Preparing Orchard Land. The land should be cultivated for two or three years and freed of all wild sod and weeds before it is set to orchard, says O. M. Morris, of the Oklahoma station. The land should b> plowed deep so as to give as deep soil as possible. Most of the prairie soil in Oklahoma is very poor in hu-" mus or decaying vegetable matter. Sucn lands should be well manured before the orchard is set. The ma- nure should be scattered evenly over the field and turned under with the turning plow. The practice of apply- ing large quantities of manure in places where the tree is to stand can not be recommended. This practice of uneven manuring is usually car- ried out in one of two ways. The manure is applied very thickly in the immediate vicinity of the tree and worked into the soil or it is thrown in dead. furrows that are made in the row where the trees are to be set, and then covered. The manure will decay faster if evenly distributed ;over the land. The trees will gather food from all directions and form a bett r root system. Where the fer- tilizer is unevenly distributed, the roots seek the most fertile soil and are developed there in greatest num- bers. As a result the water is taken out of such places very fast and in dry weather these spots dry out and the greater part of the root system is left without water. Trees set on such land will always suffer more for water than on soil evenly fertilized. Sub- soiling is beneficial on soil that has a hard clay subsoil. Throwing out a deep dead furrow where the row of trees is to stand and then filling again after the trees are set is often of value both to loosen the subsoil and to help drain the land. These fur- rows should run up and down the hill and be as deep as is possible \to make them with the tools at hand. The water that stands on the ground seldom does any harm to the trees, but the soil becomes packed and in a little dry spell bakes and dries out very rapidly. A short time before the trees are set the land should be stirred deep and the soil well pulver- ized and left in a smooth, level condi- tion free from dead furrows and ridges. ‘ In Growing Native Plums. Frederic Cranefield, in a paper on the growing of native plums, read be- fore the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, said: In the propagation of the natives, many difficulties have been encounter- ed. Root-grafting is but rarely suc- cessful; crown-grafting on one year seedlings is better, but expensive. Top- working on two year seedlings is all | Tight for the amateur, but impractic- able where a large number of trees is wanted. The relief probably lies in fall budding on stocks of the current season’s growth. ‘The next difficulty encountered, after the trees have been planted’a year, is the matter of prun- ing. Nearly all of the natives are of | straggling habit and strong growers, } and if allowed to go unchecked, pro- duce bad forks that commonly break down as the head becomes developed. On the other hand, if we practice re- peated cutting back, a compact, dense head is formed, which necéssitates | staking the tree in early life and hin- | ders the development of fruit spurs | as the tree develops. | While I am not prepared to give definite directions for pruning, I am inclined to believe that a compromise of the two methods would prove best. I would prune a two-year tree to a whip when setting in the orchard and | head back severely. A little judicious summer pruning the first year will | aid in forming the head. The fallow- | ing spring the longest shoots may be | shortened somewhat; this to be fol- lowed by a careful summer pruning. | After this it is probable that as little pruning as possible should be done. There is a very wide difference in the habits of the different varieties, re- quiring a close study of their peculiar- ities. Trees of the Surprise and Ham- | mer will often make straight and shapely specimens without pruning after the first year, while Rockford and Quaker remain straggling and forked in spite of the best efforts. | Blushing Maid Crab. * The tree of this variety 1s a very vigorous grower, but limbs and trunk |are comparatively slender. Size of trunk at base 20% inches in circum- | ference, at head 1844 inches; upright grower with fairly well rounded head. Thus far this variety has not shown much susceptibility to disease, either ot foliage or fruit, says a bulletin of the Virginia station. First bloom noted in 1892, three years from plant- | ing, and a few fruits were produced the same season. In 1895 and again in 1897, 1899 and 1901 this variety bore full crops of fruit. The crops in o years wére much lighter. In 1899 we picked ten and one-half bushels | fruit from the two trees, and in 1901 | the trees were loaded with showy | fruit. It is generally very productive. | Fruit of medium size, striped and | washed with deep red and very showy on tree. Flesh white and crisp, not very rich, mild flavor, with slight as- tringency. The quality of fruit of this variety is hardly equal to varie- , ties like Transcendant, but the pro- ductiveress of tree and beauty of the fruit commend it for more mnerat * planting. t Attention to Breeding. When man first domesticated the fowls of the jungle he had no thought ; of the wonderful things that were to develop from, them through the sci- ence of breeding. It is altogether likely that the first distinct breeds came into existence gradually and as a result of the differing conditions of the countries in which they were raised. It is believed the first fowls do- mesticated were those of India. From that point they were taken east, north and west. In the beginning they had all one general set of characteristics. But in the course of time the fowls of China developed in one way, the fowls of India in another and the fowls of the various countries of Eu- rope in other ways. At first no at- tempt was made by man to direct this development, that Leing a result of place and conditions. So at the be- ginning of poultry history we find a few distinct breeds that have since been named after the locality from which each came. Thus, from the north of Asia we have obtained the Langshan, from the south of Asia the Brahma, and from Europe the Leg- horn and the Dorking. These were pretty good breeds, when we remem- ber they were the result of breeding without an object. During the last 70 years a great many new breeds have been created by fanciers, who appreciated the possibilities locked up in the fowls and which might be brought out by selection and breed- ing. Doubtless the coming hundred years will see an enormous increase in the number of distinct breeds of poultry and a general improvement in the special points for which each is bred. Every farmer should be a breeder to a considerable extent: He may not originate new varieties, in fact should not waste his time in trying to de- velop these, but he can do the same thing, in fact, that is, develop a strain of birds of more than the common value. Many of the breeds we now have are no better than the ones out of which they have been developed, their distinctive markings in color and form being about the only quali- ties their parents did not possess. But the farmer may well develop strains that will prove earlier matur- ing, better laying, healthier birds than were their immediate ancestors. The laws of breeding are to be studied to advantage and when understood will open the way to both pleasure and profit. The neglect of the laws of improved breeding is responsible for much of the poor stuff now to be found on our farms. We have to say, however, that there has been a great improvement in the last ten years, at least in the matter of meat producing birds. The farmer that has a flock of 10 hens can well afford to adopt some regular system for his breeding oper- ations. If he has eggs in view he can adopt a system of culling out all of the poorest egg producers from year to year. By so ‘doing he would in a course of years have at hand a flock that would be a paying investment. Yet there are farms on which the hens have not improved for half a century, principally because there has been no care taken at all in the breeding. The eggs for sitting have never been selected, and the result has been a reproduction of the average quality of the flock. Attention to the matter of breeding will pay every person that expects to raise fowls. Grading Up the Flock. There are several ways by which a farm flock can be kept up to a very good standard of excellence for prac- "tical purposes, by just a little effort of the keeper, said J. H. Robinson in an address before the Massachusetts State Board of Agrftulture. Thus, where it is the practice to take the eggs used for hatchiag from the gen- eral flock if, besides reserving his best pullets, the keeper weeds out all the decidedly inferior ones, and uses only well developed males, any one of which would be considered a desira- ble breeder, the stock cannot go back very rapidly, even though, as we have seen there might not be enough of the product in any year from the best birds to strongly impress their quality on the flock. It is such selection as this, accom- panied by selection of the largest eggs for hatching, that is practical on most farms where some special atten- tion is given the matter of making poultry profitable. It is doubtful whether any marked progress was ever made by such methods, but they are a long way in advance of leaving it all to nature. At best, these meth- ods are crude; their use under the condition described is illogical. The logic of such a situation re- quires that a poultry keeper who real- izes the importance of reserving his best fowls to breed from, should make sure that it is only the eggs of his best! hens, fertilized by his best males, that are used for incubation. The logic of the situation requires that a poul- try keeper who thinks it worth while to select the best eggs for incubation should, sooner or later, come to con- sider it necessary to know that these eggs were from hens possessing the other qualities prized, and fertilized by males most suitable for mating with these ular hens. Selection is not complete’if it stops short of the separation of the fowl selected— unless the whole flock is select— a thing which does not often happen. “What are you going to do with all’ that patent medicine?” asked a man of a neighbor who was carrying half a dozen bottles. “Wife's going to take it,” he replied. “Why,” said the otaer, in surprise, I didn’t know she was ill.” “Oh, she isn’t,” answered the party of the second part, “but she wants to get her picture in the papers. See?”— Chicago News. A Classic Cinch. Atropos was spinning the thread of’ life. “This is an easy task,” she remark- ed. “Suppose I had to spin the yarn a man tells when he comes home late!” With a thankful sigh the Fate turned again to her task—New York Sun. The Adventures of a Young Patriarch. Methuselah’s mother sobbed bitterly. “I told that horid street car conduc- tor that Thusey dear was under fifty,” she wailed, “but he made me pay full fare.” Even in those days it is evident that the corporations were soulless.—New York Sun. PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. George Atall, Iona, S. D., | locking draft hook;, Emil Christianson, Rey- nolds, N. D., box lid holder; Eli For- rester, Deadwood, S. D., artificial hand; Smith Hanson, Lamberton,Minn., build- ing section; Catherine Plumer, Milaca. Minn., apparatus for’ cooking fruit; Carl Rondell, Minneapolis, Minn., ve- hicle wheel. Lothrop & Johnson, patent lawyers. 911 and 912 Pioneer Press Bldg., St. Paul. And Some Convictions. 172 Sebor St, Caicaco. TLL. Mrs. K. Kane, 172 Sebor Street, Chicago, Ill., writes: «‘Peruna has been used so long in our family that Ido not know how ¢1 could get along without it. I have given it to all of my children at different times when they suffered with croup, colds and the many ail- i that children are subject to, and am pleased to say that it has kept them ia splendid health. I have also used it for a catarrhal difficulty of long standing and it cured me in a short time, so I have every reason to praise Peruna. Mrs. K. Kane. Pe-ru-na Protects the Entire House- hold Against Catarrhal Diseases. One of the greatest foes with which every family has to contend is our changeable climate. To protect the family from colds and coughs is always “ Life is full of trials,” said the mel- ancholy citizen. “Yes,” answered Mr. Grafton *Grabb, “and the ‘worst of it is that a whole lot of the trials are resulting in con- victions.”—Washington Star. 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Sooner or later it is the inevitable fate of every one to catch cold. Care in avoiding exposure and the use of proper clothing will protect from the fre- quency and perhaps theseverity of colds, but with the greatest of precautions they will come. This is a settled fact of human experience. Everybody must expect to be caught somewhere or somehow. Perhaps it will be wet feet. or a draught. or damp clothes, or it may be one of a thousand other little mishaps, but no one is shrewd enough to always avoid the inevitable catching cold. There is no fact of medical science better known than that Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Thousands of families in all parts of the United States are protected from colds and catarrh by Peruna. Once in the family Peruna alw: et ae fot dat fa Babes kh GR alia at tla a stays. No home can |) Have Every | Reason to Praise Pe-ru-na,” WRITES MRS. KANE, OF CHICAGO. Mrs. A. Hobson, 225 Washington St., Lansing, Mich., writes: «“‘Peruna has been sucha blessing to my only child, as well as myselt, that I feel induced to give my testi- monial. He has always suffered from catarrh of the head and throat, and | had to use extra precautions so as not to have him exposed to damp or cold weather. Last year. he was taken with Ia grippe, and as it was a severe case, caused me much anxiety. No medicine helped him till he took Peruna. I noticed an improvement at once and in three weeks he was a different child; the grippe had been com- pletely cured and I noticed that the catarrh was made better. He kept taking it two weeks longer, when he was entirely weil. I now use it off and on for colds, cramps, indi- gestion or general indisposition, and find it superior to any doctors or’ medicine I ever tried. It keeps me, as well as miy child, in perfect health, and I gladly recommend it to mothers.’’---Mrs. A. Hobson. spare Peruna after the first trial of it. We have on file many thousand testi- monials like the ones given above. We ean only give our readers a slight glimpse of the vast array of unsolicited endorsements we are receiving every month. No other physician in the world has received such a volume of enthusi- astic and grateful letters of thanks as Dr. Hartman for Peruna. Human love is nota ih ae a and sim- ple impulse, but an emotional force of inumerable complications. Iam sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. THOS. ROBBLIB, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Rev. ins 1900, When a woman loses Ava bes Sess she shows her age. Being out of debt is the best thing AVegetable Preparation for As- similating the Food andRegula- ting the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANIS “CHILDREN [fF Promotes Digestion: Cheerful- | ness and Rest.Contains neither || Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. | Nor NaRcOTICc. 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This treatment at once stops falling hair, removes crusts, scales, and dandruff, destroys hair parasites, soothes irritated, itching sur- faces, stimulates the hair fol- licles, loosens the scalp skin, supplies the roots with energy and nourishment and makes the hair grow upon a sweet, wholesome, healthy scalp, when all else fails. N. B. Complete External and Internal Treatment for every Humor from Pimples to Scrofula, from Infancy to Age, consisting of CUTICURA Soap, Ointment, and Pills, may now be had of all Druggists for One Dollar. Sola hout the world. Cuticura Soap, 25c., Oint- ment, 50c., Kesolvent, 50c. (in form of Chocolate Coated Pills, : London, 27 Charter= house ‘Boston, 137 Columbus Sa. Ave. Potter Drag & Chem. Corp., Sole Proprietors. og, Send for «How to Preserve, Purity and tee dkis, Scalp, Heir and Mande." CONSUMPTION 8 Mare cyesrae} Thompson’s Eye Water a NN ae Se