Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 10, 1904, Page 7

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Our home is a different place now, as we have something to live for, and all the credit is due to Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound. Yours very sincerely, Mrs. L. C. GLOVER, 614 Grove St., Milwaukee, Wis.” Vice President, Milwaukee Business Woman’s Association. — $5000 forfeit if original of above letter proving genuine~ ncas cannot 6 produced. Gles Gibolisalve Instantly stops the pain of Burns and Scalds. mand she by arowg a raze heals without sears, an ruggists, or mailed receipt price by J.W. Goled Os.. Black fiver alle Wis mua KEEP & BOX HANDY YEAS? You never tire of bread made with Yeast Foam. It tastes fresh and good at every meal. It’s wholesomeand nourishing—the true Staff of Life health and good digestion. Yeast Foam is made of the finest malt, hops, corn and other healthful ingredients. It mever grows stale, and may be kept on hand all the time. The secretis in the yeast. Yeast Foam ts sold by all gro- * cers at 5c a package—enougb for 40 loaves. “How to Make Bread’’—free. NORTHWESTERN YEAST CO., CHICAGO. Th ed Edition of | ee ae | INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY | 25,000 NEW WORDS, Etc. New Gazetteer of the World New Biographical Dictionary 2380 Quarto Pages. ‘5000 Illustrations. Should be in Every Home, School, and Office Plates. Rev. Lyman / The Outlook has always been #h tein our household, and I have o transier my allegiance to any 8. D., Editor of ‘est in Pronunciation, ig. Also illustrated pamph G.6C. MERRIAM CO.,, Publishers, Springfield, Mass. instructive lets. Mustang Liniment cures Sprains and Strains. TO THE ACRE Is the record on the Free Home- stead Lands of WesternCanada for 1904. The 150,000 farmers from the United States, who @uring the past seven years have gone to Canada participate in this prosperity. ‘The United States will soon become an !mporter of | wheat. Geta free homestead or purchase a farm in Western @anada, and become one of those who will belp produce it. ‘Apply for information to Superintendent of Imm!- gration. Ottawa, Canada, or to authorized Canadian Eovernment Agent—E.'T. Holmes, $15 Jackson Ser ., St. Paul, Minnesots. Please say where you saw this advertisement. | Sturdy John -Melin Won’t Sell | io | the magnate sought to buy | not to exceed 5,000 kroner | may be imposed for violations of any Tidbits of News efor Jcandinayians SKI CORPS POPULAR. Italy Is the Latest Country to Organ- ize Snow Walkers. Every country in which there falls snow will in time have a ski regiment. After Norway and Sweden had proved that the skis could be very valuable adjuncts to the military service under certain conditions, Russia and Ger- many followed the lead and organized ski corps. Later on Italy introduced skis in its Alpine organization, and now the British demand a ski corps, and the matter has been taken under advisement. a The Norwegian ski infantryman wears a uniform of water-tight ma- terial, grayish-green in color, and just heavy enough to keep him warm. His sole equipment besides his rifle is a bag, which when fully loaded weighs thirty-six pounds. It contains some provisions, a change of underclothing, a sleeping bag, an iceland sweater, and one or two other items. Over the boots he wears a cloth protector made out of old military capes, so that his feet can- not wet wet and subsequently frozen. On coming to a halt he begins to pitch his tent. He cuts down some young spruce or pines, trimming off the branches. Five poles go to form a tent, being tied together at the top with wire. The three-cornered can- vas that each man carries is then fastened together with a hook and eye, a hole being left in the top for the smoke to escape, while the bottom is held down by the snow being banked up round the sides. The inside wall is formed of branches of trees which give a Ciayming aromatic odor to the habitation besides a warm floor and bedstead. A fire is built in a wire net- ting suspended two feet from the floor, and a temperaature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit is easily kept up even on the coldest nights. It takes two hours to pitch a tept of this kind for six- teen men with the snow four feet deep. At the opening a tunnel is shoveled out, the skis being placed to form a portal. NORWAY CLOSES DOOR. Foreign Patent Medicines “Knocked” by the Doctors. Consul General Henry Bordewich at | Christiania, in a report to the depart- ment of labor and commerce, says that the attention of the Norwegian med- ical faculty has for some time past been directed to the increasing impor- tation of patent medicines and other medicinal preparations into Norway. Such preparations have always been looked upon with distrust by the phy- sicians, and the increasing demand has brought them into disfavor with the druggists. At the instigation of the medical di- rector of the country the matter was laid before the storthing last April, and a law was passed May 16, 1904, providing that the king or his deputies be authorized to forbid the sale of cer- tain arcana and of medicinal prepara- tions for which the prices asked stand in disproportion to the ‘true value of the ingredients. Under this law it was decreed (1), that certain arcana and patent medi- cines named be excluded; (2), the pub- lication of advertisements in Norwe- gian newspapers to further the sale of any and all foreign patent medicines is forbidden; (3), the importation of all arcana and medicines is forbidden except by druggists and private per- sons under special permit; (4), fines ($1,340) of the above enactments. Under the provisions of this new law other decrees will soon follow, and there is reason to believe that the im- ports into and sale in Norway of near- ly all patent medicines as well as of areana will ultimately be stopped. SWEDE DEFIES ROCKEFELLER. His Property to Magnate. John J. Melin, who runs the little tavern in Briggsville, N. Y., and who with defiant obstinacy refuses to sell his property to the mighty John D. Rockefeller, is a Swede, and his stub- bornness is doubtless an inherited vir- tue. The tavern is on the road to the | Rockefeller manor house near Tarry- and has for years been obnox- to the family. For three years Melin’s He also property without success. failed in his effort to have the license | | revoked, and now he is engaged in | buying up the village of Briggsville, so TWENTY BUSHELS OF WHEAT| that the patrons of the tavern will move elsewhere and deprive it of cus- tom. Unless Melin has a bank roll he will be forced to deal with Mr. Rocke- feller in time. The Socialist organ, Vorwarts of Berlin, calls attention to the fact that the Thgeblatt suppressed important passages of the article by Bjornson relating to the attitude of Germany. Bjornson in these passages criticised the selling of German steamships to Russia and the plan by which Russia is enabled to withdraw her troops Bjornson also said it was the duty of German peace advocates to solve the Alsatian problem and to work against the suppression of the Danish and Polish languages in German proy- inces. Legal Weights of Seeds. Chaos exists in the matter of the weights of the various grains. There should evidently be a national law that would establish uniformity. Wheat is uniform at 60 pounds to the bushel. Shelled corn ig 56 pounds in most states, but is 54 in Arigona and 52 in California. Corn in the ear is 70 pounds to the bushel, except in Ohio. where it is 68 pounds, and Mississippi. where it is 72 pounds. Corn in the ear and unshucked is 75 pounds in Alabama, 74 pounds in Arkansas and Tennesee, and 72 pounds in Texas. Oats are 32 pounds to the bushel with the following exceptions: Idaho 36, Maryland 26, New Jersey 30, Vir- ginia 30. Barley runs 48 pounds to the bushe! in most states. The legal weight is 47 pounds in Alabama, Georgia, Ken- tucky and Pennsylvania. Arizona re- baa only 45 pounds and Californie. Rye weighs 54 pounds in California, but in other states it is 56 pounds. Buckwheat varies greatly. In Cali- fornia the legal weight is only 40 pounds, but ‘the San Francisco Board of Trade requires 50 pounds. In the following states 42 pounds is the lega! weight: Idaho, North Dakota, Okla homa, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas and Washington. The law requires 48 pounds in the / “owing states: Connecticut, Ma‘ Massachusetts Michigan, Misr oi, New York. Pennsylvania, * é Island, Vermont. Fifty pounds # bushel is required in Indiana,‘ _.. sas, Minnesota, New ; Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Ten- nessee and Wisconsin. The legai weight is 52 pounds in Arkansas, Co!- orado, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Mis- souri, Montana, Nebraska, Virginia and West Virginia. The legal weight for beans is mostly 60 pounds, but in Arizona beans, other than small white ones, have a legal weight of 55 pounds to the bushel. The required weight is 62 in the following states: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont. Peas weigh legaly 60 pounds in all the states that have established legai weights for them. Clover is 60 pounds to the bushel, except in New Jersey, where it is 64 pounds. Timothy weighs 60 pounds to the bushel in Arkansas, 42 in North Da- kota, 45 in the other states. For the following grasses few states have established legal weights, but generally the weights are: Herd’s grass 45, Hungarian 48 and 50, millet 50 (48 in Minnesota), Japanese barn yard millet 35, bluegress 14, redtop Feeding Area of Roots. The roots of most plants do their principal amount of feeding near the surface of the ground, though the same plants may send down roots to a depth of four or more feet. The deep going roots are not, however, very large,feeders. It used to be thought that their entire work was to draw up water, but this idea is evidently not founded on any good’ reasons. The plant needs water principally for the ; conveying of food and it is not prob- able that it seeks water for itself ex- bulk of the roots should be near the | top of the ground is natural, as | the air gets to the roots more readily | there, and consequently the amount | of available plant food is there greater | than further down. But there is | some food and some air further down and these supply the cause for the | penetration of the roots to greater ; depths. In the case of crimson | clover most of the roots are found in the first eight inches of soil. In the next four inches only about eight per cent of the total weight of the roots is found, though some of the roots penetrate many feet into the soil. There is therefore little in the argument that the roots of plants j constantly bringing up the fertility from great depths. The Drainage Engineer. The drainage engineer is a product of modern times and as such should be encouraged. He has come not sumed a proportion in its relation | to farm work that it has never be- fore had. There are many that do not yet consider him a necessity, for they have not yet found out that a poor piece of leveling inadrain may reduce its efficiency one-half or more. A sag may cause the stoppage of the water by allowing sand and other drifting material to accumulate till cldgs up the passage altogether. skillful drainage engineer this The Ng prevents by having the bed of the ditch on a perfect level and on soil that will not sink in places. If he finds quicksands he knows how to deal with them. When a man has an expensive job of tile laying to do there is a temptation to save the fee of the drainage engineer, but this | will almost never pay. In any case the ' man who attempts it is taking great chances with his work, and the results | may not become apparent for years. H ATER EN AE | Very few American farmers have j any idea of intensive ig as it is ; practiced in some of the older coun- tries of the world. ~ Oklahoma, South Dakota andj; | 14 (12 in Virginia), orchard grass 14. | cept in times of drouth. That the} are | without reason, for drainage has as- it covers the whole bottom and finally | RESPECT FOR OLD AGE. Nowadays One Must Be Patient With Its Oddities. One often observes the impatience with which young people of the kind usually called “high-spirited” regard the little oddities of those older with whom they come in contact. Indeed, it is with great effort that this impa- tience is rendered unapparent, and often scarcely that. There is a respect which youth owes age which must not be lost sight of, and of course there is also a respect which age owes to youth. However, youth is the time of growth and self- restraint, and it is. quite easy to in- dulge the little foibles of those thirty and forty years older than ourselves by remembering that they are older and that charity or love must be ex- ercised toward everyone whom we meet, young and old alike. Bad-tempered people used to be re- garded as something out of the ordi- nary long ago, but nowadays we know that self-control is the only thing which makes for progression, and that we must live up to our ideals and our belief in what is the highest and best, whatever the cost. \ Regard for the oddities of those old- er than ourselves is part of that doc- trine, and must be lived up to.—Phila- delphia Inquirer. AN INVITING PROSPECT. Will Canada in the next quarter of a century take the place of the United States as the great wheat exporting section of the western hemisphere? Everything points that way. In the opinion of experts the United States has reached high water mark as a wheat exporting country. The in- creasing population over there has reached the point when home con- sumption is becoming annually great- er in proportion than the increase in wheat production. As a matter of fact wheat production is decreasing over there as the land becomes more val- uable, and by reason of the demand for other forms of produce for home consumption. It is said that the wheat crop this year is not more than 70 per cent of the crop of 1901, and much below the crops of 1902 and 1903. If is estimated that this year the United States surplus for export will not be- over 100,000,000, which is less than any year since 1878 with two exceptions. Not only is this the case, but a considerable quantity of the best Canadian wheat is being im- ported into Minnesota and also Chi- cago. All this tends to keep the price of wheat near the dollar mark, and “dol- lar wheat” is the loadstone that will attract farmers to the Canadian Northwest, where land is cheap and can be farmed on a wholesale basis, particulars of which may be had from any Canadian Government Agent. The reduction of American exports will have the double influence of in- creasing Canadian production and keeping up the price. It constitutes a roseate prospect for this country, and needs no exercise of optimistic | enthusiasm to foresee the near expan- sion of the Dominion into the actual position of the “granary of the em- pire t23% USED COFFIN AS PANTRY. Aged Man Utilized His Last Recepta- cle for Fifteen Years. Nicholas Sutton, aged 51 years, died in Rome last night. He lived all alone, his wife having died eighteen years ago. In a corner of one of the rooms stood a coffin which Mr. Sutton made fifteen years ago. In this coffin he had three shelves, on which he kept his food, using it as a pantry. To-day the shelves were taken out of the cof- fin and an undertaker prepared it for the remains of the deceased.—New York Herald Correspondence. ‘The Pills That Cure Sick Nerves Mrs. Dora B. Frazier, No.140 Althea St., Providence, R. L., has been cured of Nervous Prostration by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills For Pale People. — She, says: ‘‘I suffered for three ‘s and was several times at the point of death. My weight went down to seventy-five pounds. Iwas afflicted with nervousness, dizziness, suffocating spells, swelling of limbs, sleeplessness and irregularities. I had a good doctor but he could.not help me. . 4 first box of Dr. Wil- liams’ Pink PNls did me good and I continued their use until I was cured. I am now perfectly well.” These pills are a specific for all disorders of the nerves from neuralgia to partial paralysis. Sold by all Druggists. a ANegetable Preparation for As- Similating theFood andReg ula- ting the Stomachs and Bowels of » CHILDREN | Promotes Digestion. 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