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. tion, fibroid tumors, irre; ‘periodic pains, backache, FOUR GIRLS Restored to Health by Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Read What They Say. Miss Lillian Ross, 530 East 84th Street, New ‘ork, writes: “ Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta- ble Compound over- came irregularities, pe- riodic suffering, and nervous headaches, after Grated else had failed to help me, and I feel it a duty to let others know of it.” KatharineCraig,2355 Lafayette St., Denver, 3: “Thanks am well, aftersuffering i for months from ner- ‘Yous prostration, © 44 ry Miss Marie Stoltz man, of Laurel, Ia., writes: “Iwasinarun- 4 downconditionandsuf- fered from suppression, indigestion, and poor circulation. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound made me well and strong.” Miss Ellen M. Olson, of 417 N. East St., Ke- ache, and established my periods, after the best local doctors had failed to help me.” FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, been the standard remedy for female ills and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera- {LLEN M. OLSON S- tion,dizziness,orneryous prostration. Why don’t you try it? Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to ing-down feeling, flatulency, indige: health. A’ dress, Lynn, Mass. HIRED HEADGEAR FOR WEDDING. How a Veteran Silk Hatmaker Would Retain Some of His Trade. In a little shop near Clement’s Inn there lives a veteran hatmaker of 82 summers who hopes that the day of the top hat will come again this year. Piled against the panes of the win- dow fronting Hougton street are rows of silk hats of varying shapes and degrees of glossiness. In front two handbills, bearing the imprint of an old-itme printer of Bouverie strect, announce that Christopher Clarke has for sale a variety of silk hats, ranging in price from 4s, 6d. to 10s. 6d. each. On a circular board hung over the door, it is stated, that silk hats may be “hired for weddings and funerals.” “Trade is nothing like what it was,” he confided yesterday to a member of our staff, “and orders for silk hats are not nearly so plentiful as they were when I started in the business in 1834. A good hat doesn’t wear out every day, and it can be remade quite equal to new.” The lending of hats, he added, is not a very important or lucrative branch of the business, and it was only adopted three or four years ago to assist in retaining some of the trade that was slipping away. One shilling per day is charged for the lian of a smart up-to-date hat for use at a wedding or other social function. DROPPED COFFEE Doctor Gains 20 Pounds on Postum. A physician of Wash., D. C., says of his coffee experience: “For years I suffered with periodical headaches which grew more frequent until they became almost constant. So severe were they that sometimes I was almost frantic. I was sallow, consti- pated, irritable, sleepless; my mem- ory was poor, I trembled and my thoughts were often confused. “My wife, in her wisdom, believed coffee was responsible for these ills and urged me to drop it. I tried many times to do so, but was its slave. “Finally Wife bought a package of Postum, and persuaded me to try it, but she made it same as ordinary coffee , and I was disgusted with the taste. (I make this emphatic because I fear many others have had the same expe- rience.) She was distressed at her failure and we carefully read the di- rections, made it right, boiled it full 15 minutes after boiling commenced, and ‘with good cream and _ sugar, I liked it—it invigorated and seemed to nourish me. “This was about a year ago. Now I have no headaches, am not sallow, sleeplessness and irritability are gone, my brain clear and my head steady. I have gained 20 lbs. and feel I am a new man. “I do not hesitate to give Postum due credit. Of course dropping coffee was the main thing, but I had dropped it before, using chocolate, cocoa and ' Nother things to no purpose. “Postum not only seemed to act as an invigorant, but as an article of nourishment, giving me the needed phosphates and albumens. This is no imaginary tale. It can be substanti- ated by my wife and her sister, who both changed to Postum ‘and are hearty women of about 70. “I write this for the information and encouragement of others, and with a feeling of gratitude to the inventor of Postum.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read “The Road to Well- ville,” in pkgs. “There’s a Reason.” Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest. ral A home-made stacker that will do good service in handling hay is shown in the illustration. There are no cast- ings to break and the timber required in its construction can be readily pro- cured. The dimensions of the various parts are: The lower timbers which are marked 1 are about 12 feet long and are made of four by five inch scantling. The side uprights, marked 2, are about 14 feet long, and made of the same ma- terial as No. 1. The slanting pieces, marked 3, are about 16 feet long, and made of four by four inch scantling. The arms of the stacker marked 4, are 16 feet long, and made of four by five inch stuff. The cross piece, No. 5, is 13 feet long, and made of three by five inch stuff. No. 6 is of two by five stuff, and is beveled on the front edge to allow the hay to slide over it easily when being shoved on by the sweep. Timbers numbered 7, 8, 9 and 10 are made of two by six inch stuff, and are ten feet long, except No. 7 and No. 8, which should be only as long as the stacker frame is wide. Each end of Nos. 9 and 10 should project a foot on each end over No, 2. Nos. 11 and 12 are made of two by four inch stuff, about ten feet long; those bolted to No. 13 about 15 inches from the higher end of No. 13. No.. 13 is made of two by four inch stuff, about eight, feet long; the high- er end should be about eight feet above the ground, so that when the stacker is on the ground the weight box, No. 14, should be about two inch- es from the two pulleys on the upper end of No. 13; also when the stacker is upright, as it is when the hay is thrown on the stack, the weight box should be about two inches below the two pulleys on the upper end of No. MAKE YOUR OWN HAY STACKER ROAD KEPT IN. PERFECT. ORDER. First Notable Example of Regard for the Appearance of Things. Directions for Its Construction. 13; and when the stacker is half-way down the weight box, No. 14, should be just clear of the ground No. 14 is the weight box, and should be made of two-inch stuff, about eight to ten inches deep and about two feet square; it must be well spiked to- gether. The idea of the weight is to start the stacker back to the ground as soon as the load is delivered from it on the stack, and when the stacker is half way to the ground, the weight acts as a brake for the other half of the way down. The box is filled with stones. The rope which attaches the weight box to the stacker should be three- quarter inch, passing from the weight up between the two pulleys on the upper end of No. 13, and down to the center of the stacker head No. 5. The pulleys on the frame of the stacker should be attached by means of wooden blocks with a notch cut out so that the pulley can fit between the block and frame. Pulleys for this purpose are six inches in diameter and made of turned hard wood. These are fastened in place by means of a hard wood pin for an axle. The pulleys should be kept well oiled to keep them from calking. The rope for raising the stacker should be either inch or inch and a quarter. The teeth on the stacker can be made of two by four inch pine scantling, ten feet long and beveled on the upper side to allow the hay to slide on easily. The short upright teeth on the stacker head should be about five feet long. They are bolted to the long teeth about two inches from the stacker head, No. 5, and rest against the stacker head, No. 6. The stacker arms, No. 4, should be bolted to No. 2 with @ large bolt, about 12 inches from the ground. GOOD PLAN FOR MACHINE SHED Even the Small Farm Needs Such a Building. The accompanying illustration shows a machine shed to contain two mow- ers, one binder, one seeder, one disc harrow, one corn planter, a drag, a roller, a steel harrow, a fanning mill, two corn cultivators with wheels, four one-horse cultivators, two wagons and a@ manure spreader. These may be nicely stored in a shed 40 feet wide and about 40 feet long, or longer if the builder can afford it. This will mean shouid be simple, the location dry or filled a foot or so with clay (no other floor is needed), as few posts as may” be and a roof wide and low enough to shut out sun. Storage under the roof for small tools may be had and even a workroom up there is easy to con- struct. By spacing the posts 16 feet apart two rows of machinery may be put in each space. The Breeders’ Ga- zette suggests that it would be well Plan of Machine Shed. mere packing away, not that the tools may be driven in and unhitched from each evening. If that is desired a nar- row building, say 24 feet wide and 60 or 70 feet long, will be needed. In some ways,the long building is best. It may have sliding doors along its whole length on the back side and on the south side may be left open; the ends may be closed. The construction GROUND THAT NEEDS TILING An Illinois farmer writes that “on high ground the oats are good, but on low ground the seed rotted.” The only difference is in the drainage of the ground. The oats are doing well on the high ground because that ground: is better drained than the other. If the low ground be given the same condition as to drainage there will be-no rotting of the seed sown on it. This problem of drainage enters into the raising of nearly every farm crop. Many a farmer thinks he cannot afford to drain his land, says the Farmers’ Review, while every year he is paying out his money | | | | | } to make two spaces of 18 feet so that wagons could with ease be driven in side by side. This would make neces- sary strong plates and good braces. Galvanized steel should be used for the roof. Feed Pigs Right—Too much corn in the pig feed means weak bone and, frequently, broken bones. in lost crops, and this money would in a few years do much to pay for the drainage materials, to say nothing about the general increase of crops grown on the land. Moreover, the losses occur often in good growing years like the present, when the crop on that same land would be naturally very good. Exercise Costs Nothing.—Exercise for the sows and pigs costs nothing, and should be freely given. On the other hand, it is a producer of good results. The neglect of giving proper exercise often results in the birth of weak pigs, which are unable either to contend successfully against the vicissitudes of life or to make the best use of their food if they do pull through the weaning period. In this country the first notable ex- ample of regard for the appearance of things along the line was furnished by a great railroad company in the mid- dle states, says the Century. Here the English idea was followed. In keeping with the exceptionally thorough or- ganization of the company’s service the manifest aim in these improve- M™ments was to have everything along the line present what along the sea- board is known as a “shipshape” ap- pearance—-that is, to bear a neat, trim and well-groomed look, as on a ship, where the decks are kept immac- ulately holystoned, the woodwork freshly scraped and painted, the brasses polished, the ropes coiled, ete. Such conditions on shipboard are marks of discipline, good repair and general ef- ficiency. So on a railroad, where in similar ways attention is given to good appearance, public confidence in safe and competent management is pro- moted. Therefore, just as the good mechanic takes care to make his joint swell fitting and his lines good, so on the model railroad the nicest atten- tien is given to a thoroughly well- ordered appearance of all the work about and near the tracks. For in- stance, the crossties are squarely cut at an exactly uniform distance from the rails, on the roadbed the ballast is bordered by clean and regular lines, the yards are kept scrupulously clean and clear of all rubbish and about the stations and other buildings the turf is nicely maintained. In this case, however, until recently little attention has ever been given to really artistic character; the way-stations, as a rule, are not architectural; in the way of adornment some sparse flower beds represent good intention rather than achievement. Two diverse methods are exempli- fied in our forms of railroad embellish- ment. One is governed by the prin- ciple that ornament should be de- veloped from the character of the thing ornamented; that while general principles may be laid down for guid- ance, their application must be modi- fied according to the circumstances attending each particular problem. What would be admirable in one place might prove wholly out of keeping and correspondingly bad in another. The second method has found a wider ac- ceptance. This proceeds with the as- tumption that ornament consists in something decorative; that applying this prettiness to things makes them beautiful. The former method was adopted for the first railroad line in the United States where a comprehensive attempt at artistic treatment was made. The results have been so beautiful, so wholly admirable, and withgl so truly economical in maintenance, that it seems remarkable that the example has not been more widely followed. RUNNING THE DEATH SPECIAL. Order That Means Sharp Work for All Railroad Departments. The passenger department feels the first pulse of the call for the death spe- cial. It is a business proposition in the first 30 minutes. Who wants the train. Can he pay for it? Is the order O. K.? Two hours for assembling a death special with steam up is sharp work. Ordinarily more time is needed for the passenger to get in readiness than is required by the railroad company. The head of the operating department receives the first call for the death special and with the call comes the reasons for the run. At once the gen- eral superintendent faces the question of time. He makes a hurried calcula- tion of distances between given ter- minal points and blocks out in the rough the time necessary for the run. The division superintendents are no- tified and the chief dispatcher set to work arranging a new schedule that is to take into consideration every sta- tion and every side track on the whole system over which the flyer is to speed. The first duty, however, is to call up the master mechanic or the roundhouse foreman at the terminal from which the special is to be made up, asking for the train to be in readi- ness at a certain minute. All condi- tions are alike to the crew of such a train. Momentum is all that counts. Towns, cities, bridges, sage brush and cultivated fields are one in the land- scape. The engineer knows every grade, every station, every culvert, bridge and switch on ‘his division, and for an average of 225 miles he and his conductor will have the duty of safe- ly sending the special through space. —Popular Mechanics. Vox P.’s Lampoon. Gen. F. D. Grant, at a recent dinner, said of a slow railway in the south: “The line was so slow that the peo- ple took to lampooning it’in the press. Thus, one Decoration day, a planter wrote to the Rapier, the leading paper of his district: “The Editor of the Rapier.—Sir: Is there no way to put a stop to begging along the line of the railroad? For in- stance, yesterday an aged veteran with a woolen leg kept pace with the after- noon express all the way from Paint Rock to Nola Chucky and annoyed the passengers exceedingly, going from one open window to another with his importunate solicitations. “VOX POPULI.’” Under Block Signal Operation. There are now not far. from 60,000 miles of railroad under block signal operation, nearly 10,000 more miles of which have been added within a year and a half. All of this mileage is distributed among 84 different sys tems. BED-BOUND FOR MONTHS. Consultation. Mrs, Enos Shearer, Yew and Wash- weak and run down, could not sleep, my limbs swelled and the secretions were troublesome; pains were intense. I was fast in bed for four months. Three doc- no cure for me, and I was given up to die. Kidney Pills. Soon I was better, and in a few weeks was about the house, well and strong again.” Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. ’Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Won’t Stand for It. 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