Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 13, 1904, Page 4

AN OLD MAN'S TRIBUTE. An Ohio Fruit Rai 78 Years Old, Cured of a Terrible Case After Ten Years of Suffering. Sidney J ‘ustus, Mentor, Nhio, writes: “I was cured by Doan’s Kidney Pills of a severe case of kidney trouble, of eight or ten years’ standing. I suffered the most severe backache and pains in the region of the kid- These were especially severe stooping to lift anything and often I could hardly straighten my back. The aching was bad in the day time, but just as bad at night, and I was always lame in the morn- ing. I was bothered with rheumatic pzins and dropsical swelling of the ieet. The urinary passages were painful and the secretions were dis- tolored and so free that often I had to rise at night. I felt tired all day. Half a box served to relieve me, and three boxes effected a permanent cure.” A TRIAL FREE—Address Foster- Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Price 50c. other neys. when He Curried His Employer. John was a groom of whom his em- ployer was very fond, but when the Jatter started on a trip recently and took John along as a valet he did not find the experiment a success. “Yes,” he said to his friends later, “I had to let John go. I managed to teach him to take care of my things, and all that, but whenever he brushed me off he couldn’t get over clucking, just as he used to do when currying the horses, and that was more than I could stand.”—New York Sun. Had Him Off on Time. An aged Billville citizen engaged the town poet to write an obituary on a late friend of his, and the following was submitted: “He left this world of sorrow In another world to shine, And reached the heavenly portals Just as the clock struck nine.” “The only trouble about that,” said the old man, is that he didn’t leave bere till 12.”’—Atlanta Constitution. PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Charles Carlson, Oxford, Minn., snap hook; William Collins, Frazee, Minn., school furniture; Edwin Frank, Has- tings, Minn., sawing apparatus; Peter Geyerman, Brewster, Minn., otoscope; Frederick Kreatz, St. Cloud, Minn., plumb level; Erik Lundholm, St. Paul, Minn., file cabinet; Ezra Miller, New Rockford, N. D., draft equalizer. Lothrop & Johnson. patent lawyers, 911 and 912 Pioneer Press Blidg., St. Paul. A Question of Results. “What do you think of a man who would spend thousands upon thou- wands of dollars in politics?” “I can’t tell what I think of him,, answered Senator Sorghum, “until I see whether he gets the office or not.” —Washington Star. (PARMAR CRE REA Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? _ Shake into your shoes, Allen’s Foot- Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Swollen, Hot, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunion At all Druggists and Shoe Store: Sample sent FREE. Ad- dress All Olmsted. LeRoy, N. Y. Why Not Also in Church? If a woman sits down in the theates now without taking off her hat the man behind her leans forward and whispers in indignant protest, but whooever heard of a man asking the woman in front of him in church to take off her hat?—Somerville Journal. Care of the Hair. It is now generally agreed that many of the shampoos in use are injurious to the hair. The best treatment is frequent brushing and absolute cleanliness. Wash the hair in a lather of Ivory Soap suds and rinse thoroughly. Let the last water be coo! as it closes the pores of the skin and prevents colds. 2LEANOR R. PARKER. Jiggs—Oh, everybody has his ups and downs. Briggs—That’s so. Just at present I’m down pretty low because I’m hard up.—Cassell’s Saturday Journal. Do you know Yeast Foam? Yeast Foam is the yeast f that makes the best bread, @ of the best flavor, you ever tasted. Yeast Foam is the yeast that never grows lifeless, stale or sour, but always Keeps Fresh sweet and ready for use. Yeast Foam is a dry, compressed yeast, compounded of the finest malt, hops and corn, in the sweet- est and cleanest factory in the world. The secret is in the yeast. All grocers sell it at 5centsa J package—enough to make 40 loaves. ‘*How to Make Bread”'—free. NORTHWESTERN YEAST CO., Chicago. fruit dealer of | How Weeds Come In. ‘Weeds come into new regions large- ly through the carelessness of the land owner. One of the commonest ways of bringing them in is to import them in screenings from flour mills or from other mills that clean grains and sell the screenings. Probably none of our states have a law like that in ‘the Northwest Territories of Canada, which prohibits the sale of screenings except to feeders of sheep, and then under certain restrictions. Screenings contain almost all kinds of weed seeds, and from these they get into the manure pile and are car- ried onto the jand and are placed in the soil in the very best shape for growing. Frequently the farmer pro- duces the weeds on one part of his farm, has them screened out when the wheat is thrashed and shovels the refuse into the manure pile or into some place from which it reaches the manure pile, and is thence sent to all parts of the farm. There is yet another way by which a little clump of weeds in the hay field may get to all parts of the farm. The said weeds are cut with the hay and fed at a time the weed seeds are enough ma- ture to resist the digestive efforts of the bovine stomach. They pass through and out into the manure and the next year start new centers of in- fluence in all parts of the farm. A good deal of care needs to be exer- cised in this case. The greatest trou- ble is that the farmer does not know the new weeds till they have been thus successively sown and re- ‘sown. Good and Poor Seed Corn. Recently in passing a new field of corn, a resident farmer remarked to the writer on the variability of seed corn, as to germinability. In the field a large part of the corn was coming jup beautifully. In the other part of the field almost none was to be seen, the demarcation between the two sec- tions being as distinct as if a straight line had been drawn through the field and one-half left unplanted. Yet the whole field was planted on the same day with corn bought from two neigh- bors. The corn, too, was of the same variety; yet the seed corn saved by one man came up well and of the oth- er hardly at all. The farmer was asked what made the difference and replied that it must have been in the way of taking care of the seed or of the maturity of the corn at the time it was harvested. It is easy to sup- pose that the farmer that furnished the worthless seed planted his own farm with it and had his work all to do over again. This is a lesson as to the value of good seed corn, and the unwisdom of planting seed without knowing whether it is good or not. Improvidence in this matter is the cause of the failure of many a far- mer. Digging Potatoes. When a good many acres of pota- toes are to be harvested a potato dig- ger should be used. This implement will prove of great value and will fre- ‘quently save in one season enough money to pay its cost. pay to use the cheap make-shifts that are sometimes sold for potato diggers. Such implements usually carry soil, potatoes and all along with them and the tubers have to be dug out of the heap, which is more trouble than digging them with a fork or hoe in the first place. When only a few acres of potatoes are to be har- vested, hand digging will prove to be the acceptable method. As soon as dug the tubers should be picked up and barreled or sacked as the case may be. The practice of making great piles that lie in the sun for hours should not be tolerated, as this injures them to some extent. The sorting will generally be easiest done in the field at time of picking up. The merchantable ones can be picked out by one man and another can take all that remain. Fertilizers For Fruits. No hard and fast rules can be given for fertilizing fruits, so as to secure fine specimens. The kind and quality of fertilizer to be applied depends upon the kind and condition of soil. The following facts are important, however, in determining how to fertil- ize a given fruit plantation: 1. The effects of fertilizers upon orchard trees are usually more appar- ent in the second year than they are during the year in which the fertil- | izer is applied. 2. Nitrogen promotes wood growth, leaf growth and general vigor of the tree itself. Potash and phosphoric acid, especially the former, promote fruit production. 3. If a tree is making weak growth, if its leaves are pale and sickly and if the annual wood growth of the main limbs is less than one foot in length, it probably needs nitrogen. On the other hand, if wood growth is strong and vigorous and the leaves are of a dark, rich green color, and especially if fruit is not forming sufficiently, pot- ash and phosphoric acid are probably needed. Too much nitrogen tends to cause the tree to run to wood and leaf -growth at the expense of fruit. Soils with very hard subsoils are most benefited by subsoiling. Every farm should have its weli- ordered poultry establishment, which is a greater money-malrer on the farm than in any other place. It does not / Grass in the Apple Orchard. Grass in the orchard has been the theme talked on by many a speaker at farmers’ institutes. There have been a few men that have said it was a good thing, but more that have pro- enemies of apple growing. Grass in the orchard is a sentimental idea, far removed from that of practical use. It is very pretty to talk of lying under the apple trees ‘looking up into the blossom-laden branches. Whenever the. artist draws a picture of an or- chard, be it full of blossoms or of bright red apples, the ground under it is covered with a rich carpet of grass, on which the ripe fruit may fall when it is ready for the hand of the gath- erer. The city man that buys a farm in the country with an orchard on it; takes not kindly to the idea of plow: ing up the sod of his orchard. He would far rather keep it cut short by the use of the lawn mower, that it might be a play ground for his chil dren. Well, wherever a man can af: ford to put sentiment at the front the sod in the orchard is all right. The man that wants a summer home where the red apple falls onto a green car- pet of verdure can perhaps afford to put up with a less crop of apples and probably he gets his money out of it. , But the farmer that has to make money out of his orchard has a dif- ferent proposition. He has to set sen timent aside. The poetry of life would cost him too dearly if made the basis of his orcharding. He must put in the cultivator and the harrow and prevent the ground from bearing any: thing else than apples, provided the orchard be not on a hillside that would wash in rainy weather if left bare oj grass. He cannot afford to have the roots of the grass using up the plant food that should be given to the roots of the apple trees. He cannot afford to have the moisture that falls from the clouds arrested by the grass roots before it gets deeper down to the roots of the apple trees. This loss 0! moisture is a very serious affair ir times of drouth when the amount ot water falling would be hardly suffi cient for the trees themselves. There is no question that on level land the soil of the apple orchard should be cultivated so thoroughly that ne weeds will grow unless it be late ir the season, and then they should be turned under by the cultivator in the spring. Tub Grown Lemon Trees. The growing of lemon trees in tubs is becoming something of a fad ir some of our northern localities. Doubt less a good many of our readers have tried at various times to grow lemons and have succeeded in getting good sized trees, which, however, neve) bore anything of value. The trouble was that the tree had not been grafted The lemon tree that is to bear goo¢ fruit must be grafted from a tree tha! is bearing good fruit, and in mosi cases the tree from which to do the grafting is not at hand. Probably i: anyone wants to raise lemons in tubs, the best way is to secure ¢ tree from a reputable nursery tha’ handles such trees and that has guar anteed that the tree has been graftec from some good variety. It is re ported that in some parts of the nortt people that have these trees in tub: get frcm them a great many lemons yearly, the quality of the lemons be ing better than of those imported. A any rate the lemon tree is an inter esting object. Grown in a tub it maj be kept out of doors in summer an¢ in the house in the winter. The lemor was unknown to the Greeks and Ro mans and is supposed to be a rathe1 modern fruit. It was introduced intc Spain by the Arabs in the fourteentt century and in the very end of thai century lemons found their way tc England, having been grown in the Azore islands Forestry in Texas. The United States Department oi Agriculture is making estimates of the forest areas of Texas. We generally think of Texas as a state of immense prairies stretching in every direction It is found that Texas has the largest wooded area of any state in the Union, that area being now not less than 64,000 square miles. Of this at least 27,000 square miles consist o! merchantable timber. This does not include the chaparral growth. About 60 varieties of trees commercially im- portant are reported. The most valu able forests are those of the eastern part of the state. This is because the rainfall here is abundant and the trees grow to a larger size than in the central or western part of the state. The state forest lands have been sold off till 95 per cent are in the hands of private owners. The Woodlot. Not till during the last few years has the woodlot assumed the impor tance to the farming population that it deserves to have, The government has taken up the matter and has re cently issued a bulletin that may be had by any farmer on application te the department of agriculture, Wash ington, D. C. This bulletin contains drawings showing the best ways of managing the woodlot so as to pre serve its productive ability and get the best annual returns from it. Such of our readers as have woodlots on their farms will do well to send for this bulletin and master its contents. | Sweet potatoes grew best in sandy ! soils. nounced it to be one of the greatest | ! H Pennsylvania Dutch Have a System All Their Own. A young woman in a Bucks county tavern cut off a lock of yellow hair , 8nd threw it into the fire. It burned with a feeble and dull | flame and soon went out. } “Oh, dear!” she cried, “that is a} sign that I won't live long.” Then she explained gravely that and other superstitions of the Pennsylva- nia Dutch. “If a lock of your hair burns bright and long,” she said, “you will have a happy life of seventy years or more, | but if it burns weakly and soon goes out, your life will be both sad and short. “To test your sweetheart’s humor, make him stir the fire. If he stirs it to a hearty blaze, he is good humored. If he makes it smoke and fade, he is hard to live with. “If you walk backward, the errand you are bound on at the time will fail. “To cure warts, rub a black snail over them, but the snail must be after wards be impaled on a rose thorn. “To prevent cramp, wear an eelskin garter about the left leg above the knee, “The first person to enter . your house on New Year’s day will, if he be light-haired, bring bad luck to you; if dark-haired, good luck. “If the fire goes out on New Year’s eve, trouble is foreboded.—Washing- ton Post. Sratx or Onto, City OF TOLEDO, |! 95 Lucas County. ‘i Frank J. CHENEY makes oath that he is senior {pt of the firm of F. J. Cuenzy & Co., doing usiness in the City of Toledo, County and State eforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of CaTARRH that cannot be cured by the use of Hart's Cataggn Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pres- ence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. ~ A.W. GLEASON, } sxax { ~~ Notary Pusuic. Hall’s Catarrh Cure {s taken internally and acts @irectly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimontals, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Wanted to Be Convinced. Mr. Andrew Carnegie receives each week from twenty-five to fifty requests | for his autographs. The requests, as a ule, are written in a dull and com- monplace way, but now and then one comes that causes Mr. Carnegie to smile. He was much amused at such @ one a little while ago. It was from a schoolgirl of thirteen, and, after ask- ing for an autograph in the usual way, | she ended with these wily words: “If you think that this request is un- warranted on my part, please send your refusal in your own handwriting and with your own signature, so that I may know it is authentic.”—Cassell’s Saturday Journal. Lavender Ties in London. Word comes from London that the lavender necktie is now wrapped about the neck of every man who pre- tends to know what he ought to wear. The prevalence of this fashion is due to the fact that the king went to As- cot for the Derby wearing a scarf of this hue. Of course, the well-dressed men of London were similarly adorned by noon the next day. The lavender scarf has enjoyed a long period of pop- ularity here without the prestige of royal approval, and is just now as modish as it has been for the last | year.—New York Daily News. Trolley Facilities. Stranger (to conductor)—Which end of the car do I get off? Conductor (politely)—Either you prefer; both ends stop.—New York Daily News. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gurus, reduces In fammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. ' 25c.a bottle. Turtle Doves of Magnitude. “What is love?” asked the sweet girl | who was looking for a chance to leap. “Love,” replied the old bachelor, “is | a kind of insanity that makes a man call a 200-pound female his little tur- tle dove.”—New York Daily News. Piso’s Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.—W. O. ENDSLEY, Varburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. All that anybody needs to break into society is a gold drill with a diamond point. | When a man is well dressed he feels he is entitled to attention. Is the opening date of the Minnesota State Fair, and we want every cream shipper who expects to come to St. Paul during fair week to call at our establishment so that we can meet you personally and get better acquainted with you. We believe a visit to our establishment will prove cf interest to you, and if you will give us this opportunity we think we can demonstrate to your satisfaction why it pays to ship your cream to us. MItTON DAIRY co}, > ey . Mrs. Hughson, “of Chicago, whose letter follows, is another woman in high position who owes her health to the use of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. “Dzar Mrs. Prnxnam:—I suffered for several years with general weakness and bearing-down pains, caused by womb trouble. My appe- tite was fitful, and I would lie awake for hours, and could not sleep, until I seemed more weary in the morning than when I retired. After reading one of your advertisements I decided to try the merits of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and I am so glad I did. Noone can describe the good it did me. I took three bottles faithfully, and besides building up my general health, it drove all disease and poison out of my body, and made me feel as spry and active as a young girl. Mrs. Pinkham’s medicines are certainly all they are claime' to be.” — Mrs. M. E. Huauson, 347 East Ohio St., Chicago, Ill. < Mrs. Pinkham Tells How Ordinary Tasks Produce Displacements. Apparently trifling incidents in woman’s daily life frequently produce displacements of the womb. A slip on the stairs, lifting during menstruation, standing at a counter, running a sewing machine, or attending to the most ordinary tasks may result in displacement, and a train of serious evils is started. The first indication of such trouble should be the signal for quick action. Don’t let the condition become bapa nPSn EH peelee or a mistaken idea that you can overcome it by exercise or leaving it alone. i More than a million ae have regained health by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. of If the slightest trouble appears which you do not understand write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., for her advice, and afew timely words from her will ao you the right thing to do. This advice costs you nothing, but itmay mean life or happiness or both, : Mrs. Lelah Stowell, 177 Wellington St., Kingston, Ont., writes: é “Dear Mrs. Prxxnam:— You are indeed & nd to women, and if they all knew what you could do for them, there would be no need of their dragging out miserable lives in agony. | “T suffered for years with bearing-down pains, womb trouble, nervousness, and excruciating head- ache, but a few bottles of Lydia E, Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound made life look new and promising tome. Iam lightand happy, and I do not know what sickness is, and I now enjoy the best of health. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound can always be relied upon to restore health to women who thus suffer. It is a sovereign cure for the worst forms of female complaints, —that bearing-down feeling, weak back, failing and displacement of the womb, inflammation of the ovaries, and all troubles of the uterus or womb, It dissolves and expels tumors from the uterus in the early stage of development, and checks any tendency to cancer- ous humors. It subdues excitability, nervous prostration, and tones up the entire female system. Its record of cures is the greatest in the world, and should be re upon with confidence. FORFEIT if we Sone i tledde proteseee —— pees and signatures of tl jute genuineness. ere va Pais E. Pinkham Medicine Co,, Lynn, Mase. Rabbit and Cheese. The Supper Cook=Bring me some cheese for the rabbit. New Kitchen Boy—Sure, I never yheard that rabbit ate cheese!”— Wig ‘Won't spt Costs 10c, and equi Gles Gibolisalve » Instantly stops the pain of Burns and Scalds. Always heals without scars. % and We by druggists, or mailed on receipt of price by J.W. 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