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ALMOST LOST HER REASON But Thanks To An Old Friend, Thi Terrible Catastrophe Was Avoided. Tampa, Fla.-Mrs. E. C. Coram of No. 2905 Highland Ave. says: "1 was very weak and worn out from woman. ly troubles. My husband bought me two bottles of Cardul to take as a tonic, and from the first day it seemed to me I felt its good effects. By the time I had used the two bot ties, I felt and looked like a new woman. Some time later I got my feet wet at the wrong time, and I turned to Cardui to remedy the mischief done. Before I had taken one bottle it gave me the needed relief. Again, in later life, when passing over a critical time, I almost lost my reason, but thanks to three or four bottles of Cardul, I did not. That has been 15 years ago. I am now 59 years of age, and feeling fine. I constantly praise Cardui to all my sick friends It is wonderful remedy." This earnest letter should take from your mind any doubt you might have as to the merits of Cardul, the wom an'. tonic. Mrs. Coram is certainly competent to recommend Cardul, since it helped her over three critical stages of life. Don't neglect your troubles longer. Get a bottle of Cardul today. N. B.-Writt to. Chattanooga Medicine Co.. Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chattanooga, Tenn., for Sdciallnstrrctioý on you rcase and 64 page book, Home Treatment for Women," sent in plain wrapper. Adv. HAVE LONG DURATION OF LIFE Salt Water Denizens Attain Immense Age, If Scientific Investigations Are Correct. Water, particularly salt water, seems to conduce to longevity. There are gigantic mussels and oysters whose age is assumed to be compar able only with that of the Cape Verde baobab tree and the big tree of Calli fornia, which live for 5,000 years. In. deed, there appears no particular reason why mussels should ever die, though it is also true that, consider ing the sort of life a mussel leads, there seems no particular reason why it should ever have lived. Sea anemones, again, delicate and sensitive though they look when we see them in the rock pools, may at. tain great age. Sir John Dalyell, a Scottish naturalist, captured in 1828 a sea anemone of the liver-colored sort so common around our shores. Its age was then estimated at seven years. It flourished in Edinburgh un til 1887, and was just attaining a vigor don Mlatl Our Wonderful Energy. Andre de Fouquieres, whom so ecety lionized during the New York season, praised on his departure for Paris the wonderful energy of the American business man. "I once asked an American bust. ness man," he said: "'Do you know what leisure means?' "'Why, to be sure, I do,' the busi ness man replied. 'Leisure is spare time that can be devoted to some fresh job of work.'" Time and Trouble Saved, Mr. Subbubs-My dear, have you any idea what became of those choice seeds I brought home the other eve ning? Mrs. Subbubs-Why, yes, I fed them to Jones' chickens. Mr. Subbubs-What on earth did you do that for? .,rs. Subbube-To save the poor things the trouble of scratching them ot" of our garden.-Successful Farm ing. - Queer t rouble. "We are having a hard time with that smoke." "A hard .time? That's odd. It's from soft coal." CLEARED AWAY Proper Food Put the Troubles Away. Our own troubles always seem more S severe than any others. But when a man is unable to eat even a light breakfast, for years, without severe distree, he has trouble enough. SIt is small wonder-he likes to tell of ood which cleared away the troubles. "I am glad_of the opportunity to tell of the good Grape-Nuts has done for me," writes a N, H. man. "For many years I was unable to eat even a light breakfast without great suffee "After eating I would suddenly be seised with an attack of colic and vomiting. This would be followed by headache and misery that would some times last a week or more, leaving me so weak I could hardly sit up or walk "Since I began to eat Grape-Nuts I have been free from the old troubles. I usually eat Gratpe-Nuats one or more ames a day, taking it ait the beginning of the imeal. Now ·k can eat almost anything I want without trouble. "When I began to use Grape-Nuts I was way under my usual weight, now I weigh 30 pounds more than I evert weighed in my li~uand I am glad t apeak of the fod that has worked the change. . Name given by Posmto . Ca Battle Oreek~ Mih. Read the little ,booklet "The oead to Wertvile, Is - -easpsn n tm r e m a gm.t P 9a Conductor Finds $5,000; Gets 50 Cents Reward IM A VERY MAN - B ALTIMORE, Md.-Fifty cents was the reward given to a conductor of the local street railway company for the recovery of a package contain. ing $550 in cash and $4,000 in certi fled checks. When Andrew Anderson, a conduc tor on the Ellicott City line, found a carefully wrapped package lying on one of the seats of his car when nearing the barn he had no idea that in the parcel there was so much money and negotiable checks. "Here's a package I found on the car," he shouted, as he tossed the package to the dispatcher. "Someone probably will claim it." Someone did claim it. Just thirty minutes later a man rushed into the car barn and excitedly asked if a package had been found on one of the cars. "What sort of a package? De scribe it," said the dispatcher. "Well, it was wrapped in paper and Humans Are Made Crabs by Side-Seated Cars LEVELAND, O.--Thin, anaemic men who are unable to do a day's work, and frail little women attain a record for muscular exertion which could not be surpassed by the strong est athlete every time that they ride in a side-seated street car, according to computations made bP Councilman E. M. Bleder. They are compelled to push against a force of probably half a ton every time they make a trip upon one of these cars, he declares. Councilman Bleder has been mak ing an investigation of the subject, with a view to legislating out of ex istence cars with seats running length wise. He doubts, though, that the council has the authority, to pass the legislation, and he may take the mat ter up with the board of health as a health regulation. "Man is not a crab and cannot move sidewise with any degree of abad? 4 Mr:. Bieder the other day. v tes are nd torutd for that mode of advance. Let anyone who is In doubt on this subject try to run sideways for a hundred yards at a fair rate of speed. The strain upon the muscles will cause a contraction resembling paralysis. "The forward movement of a street car, with its sudden stoppage and Turns in Fire Alarm and Races Cop on Wheel DETROIT, MICH.-Francls Sheahan, four-year-old son of Col. P. J. Sheahan, attorney, merely wanted to see the engines dash up the street when he turned in a false alarm the other afternoon from Second avenue and High street. Pedaling up the street on his veloci pede, Francis came to a halt in front of a red-painted post surmounted by a small box of the same bright hue. The box presented possibilities to his young mind and he set about devis ing ways and means for calling the fire department to the scene. He could not reach the glass. Obtaining a small stick, he smote the pane and shattered ft. This done, he mounted to the saddle Refuse to Be Clothed in. Flowing Garments C HICAGO.--The enthusiasm of a few score husbands for the pro. posed "fete champetre" of the New Future association exploded with a loud bang the other day, when the husbands discovered* what a "fete champetre" was. As a result, the big event, scheduled for June 20 in the First Regiment armory, has been called off. Mrs. Fred L. Rossbach, founder and president of the association, which aims to aid women released from the house of correction, and the other directors spent' weeks on arrange. ments and found their husbands eager tn'their promises of assistance. But at the directors' meeting at the Hotel La Salle one of the women rose and told a sad story. It appears that her husband, who is not built along' the lines of a gaselle, thought finally to ask what was going on. He was told the peculiar feature of the fete would.be the costumes. All mena and women were to wear the fowlng draperies of the ancient Greeks "Me" shouted the started bus. 1end. "'x s r easbte Apollo? No about this long," said the much-per turbed inquirer, as he used his hands to describe the size and width of the package. "Is this the package," asked the dis patcher, as he displayed the one that Anderson had found. "Yes-that's it. I'm so glad it was found," replied the visitor as he reached for it. "Well, you will have to tell me what it contains in order that I can be certain that it belongs to you," replied the dispatcher. "It had $5,000 in it-I mean $550 in cash and the balance in checks," said the visitor. The dispatcher opened the package and found that it contained just what the stranger had stated. The man then said that he was W. B. Dentson and that he lived in West Lafayette avenue. As the package was handed to Den nison, he tossed the dispatcher 50 cents, and said: "Give that to the conductor for his honesty." Dennison then left. An hour later Anderson returned on his car to the barn. The dispatcher summoned him and told him what the package had contained, and that it had been claimed, and gave him the reward. . "By Jove," shouted the conductor. "Thank you for the reward." jerks, is a constant strain, and mus* cles which are not adapted to it are compelled to take up the burden of holding the body more or less rigid against the force which sways ona rearward as the car advances and forward as the car is checked. T4 sway the body backward or forward from the hips entails practically nb fatigue, for almost every .moveme$t of the body is accompanied by thi$ but to sway sideways is tiring in ti( extreme. mites an' hour` ; i :t iir o the checked velocity is equal tb'a pressure of ten pounds upon the arº of the surface of every passenger, or when a car traveling at an ordinary rate of speed comes to a stop it is equal to every passenger being pushed from his balance by a ten-pound w ight." of his velocipede and hooked his fore finger in the iron ring. The rest hap penedt automatically. The wheels of the velocipede started in motion and Francis' whole weight was thrown on the chain attached to the alarm. Frightened at what he had done. Francis again mounted his trusty iron steed and started to run for it, go ing down the street as fast as his little legs could work the pedals. He had not gone half a block, however, before the fire engines, a motorcycle patrolman and the .motor car patrol rushed into the street with a roar, and he was pointed out as the cul prit by a crowd of boys which had collected and witnessed the proceed ings. 0 Francis' puny efforts to put a die tance between himself and the scene of his little escapade were as naught compared to the power of gasoline In a motorcycle. He was quickly cap tured and taken home to his father. History does not relate what hap pened before the interview concluded, but it is said the family slipper was used in the traditional manner. you don't, wo~an. I don't mind the new future, but m, dinged if I'l dress like a shepherd in a Greek pasture Not-on--your-lie. I'm still strong for your cause, but I don't like that effect I'll give thousands for the new future, but not one cent f6r sat such insult to my unfortunate physique as that." And then it developed that there were other fat husbands ard several thin ones who had also a -erted the independence of their sex and refused to have anything to do with the pro gra. In spite of the extensive arrange menta already, made there was notb lsg for the women to do except ts drop the puan. BACK YARD FARMER Interesting Pointers on Garden ing for the City Man or Suburbanite. WHAT TO PLANT AND WHEN Advice by an Expert on Agricultural Matters--Garden and Plant Peats -Dwarf Tomatoes--Flower Bed Notes. By PROF. JOHN WILLARD BOLTE. Practically all of the domestic gar den pests can be killed without dif ficulty by the proper treatment. Yet few people seem .to realize this and everywhere we see plants and house flowers struggling for existence and supporting a host of parasites when just a little intelligent treatment would turn these plants from sickly weaklings into hardy producers. Some of the commonest pests, together with the proper treatment to eliminate them, follow: Aphis, or green lice, Is a parasite about one-half the size of the head of a pin-green in color and shows but little activity. They are found partic ularly on the cucurbits, that is, the vines of the cucumber family, and on all sorts of house plants. If ants are present on your outside plants, look out for these green lice. They are sometimes called ant's-cows, for the ants seem to tend them, stroking them with their feelers, when the Aphis gives out a sweet secretion, of which the anta are fond. The treatment for green lice is tobacco tea, which is readily made by boiling tobacco stems in water. Spray the plants with a spray gun three or four times at two or three day intervals. Red Spider.-The red spider Is a lit tle red bug. It moves rapidly over the plants. Merely a spraying with tobacco tea or plain, clear water will get rid of this pest. Its size is about the same as the green lice. Striped Beetle.-The striped beetle is one-eighth of an inch long and the fact that it can fly makes it a danger to any garden. It is found in the soil at the base of the stems of the cu curbits. It kills the young vines. But, after the vines begin to send off run ners they are safe from this pest. The treatment is powdered white hellibore scattered around the hills and on the plants, or the plants can be sprayed with water and the helle bore dusted on, or a suspension solu tion may be made and the plants sprayed. Another treatment is air slacked lime in suspension solution, or cow manure plastered over the ground near the vines. Cut Worms may attack any plant in g fe a special anking for peas and beans. If young, tender plants die quickly, or you find that the plants from seed are not appearing above ground, look out for cut worms. Mix one pound of bran with enough water to make a dough; add a table spoonful of some sirup and another tablespoonful of white arsenic; mix well and scatter a little about the plants. The cut worms will eat this and die. Potato Bugs.-This familiar pest can be quickly gotten rid of by spray ing the potato plants with a suspen sion solution of Paris green. Spray two or three times to kill the young. Paris green contains arsenic, and in using this or the white arsenic, care should be used, as it is exceedingly poisonous. Tomato Worms.-If you find your tomato plants are losing their leaves, luok out for these worms. They are anywhere from three to six inches in length and as large as three-fourths ot an inch in diameter. It is seldom that more than two or three appear in the garden at one time, and they are quickly killed by hand. For Cabbage Worms, dust the plants with powdered hellebore before the heads form. Later duste the hellebore on the outside leaves as the worms appear, A little attention to getting rid of garden pests will well repay in the increased production of the garden. Dwarf Tomatoes. Tomatoes are one of, if not the most, popular summer vegetables. This world-wide favorite is of com paratively recent use as an edible. It was originally cultivated for its deco rative features only, the fruit being called 'Love Apples," and people con siderlng them to be poisonou. This singular error was probably due to the fact that tomatoes belong to the "Nightshade" family, several of whose members are deadly poison to human beinga The popularity of tomatoes is due argely to the great variety of Ways In which the) can be prepared for the table. No other vegetable can be eat en raw or cooked in such a variety of forms. No other vegetable has wider range of growth, is easier to grow, n produces more from the land. Detals Overlooked. A Scotsman was riding a donkey one day acrross a sheep pasture, but when the animal came to a sheep drain he would not go over. So the man rode back a short distance, turn ad and applied the whip, thinking, of sourse, that the donkey when at top speed would jump the drain. But ',hen the donkey got to the drain be t6lpped sharply and the man went ovetr. his head and cleared the drain. *No sooner had he touched the- ground than he ot uop, nd, lookin the beast Tomatoes were originally dhiided into the tree and bush classes, after tLeir manner of growth. About 50 years ago a French market gardener noticed a sturdy low-growing tomato bush in a field of ordinary vines. We say bush advisedly, because it had a short, strong stalk and stood right up, holding its branches and fruit off the ground. From his original plant "sport" has been developed a great variety of dwarf tomatoes. This peculiar occur rence has never re-occurred, and It this humble gardener had not pre served his remarkable plant, the world would be without a race of commercial tomatoes that bids fair to put the larger sorts out of busi ness, so far as the large grower is concerned. We have long been famil iar with tomatoes which are dwarf as to the size of the fruit and they need not be considered seriously. The new dwarf has full-sized fruit of the very best quality, and while each plant bears fewer tomatoes, the dwarf will produce a great many more tomatoes from a given area than will the larger bushes, because it spreads less and may be planted closer together. Where the large varieties will go about 2.700 to the acre, planted four feet apart, and will yield about 450 bushels of good (ruit, the Giant Dwarf may be planted 21, by 314 feet apart, nearly 5,000 plants to the acre, and has frequently yield ed 600 bushels. Even if this were to be overlooked entirely, the fact that the dwarf to mato plant does not have to be tied or staked up, makes it much better for both the small garden and the market garden. The fruit is naturally kept off the ground and ripens with out rotting in the attempt. landle them just as you have handled the large varieties and plant them closer together and forget about the stakes. The Giant Dwarf is the most com mon dwarf variety in this country and we advise you to try a few plants this year or,next. Thorough cultiva tion is necessary, as with any other tomato, and you must break up the surface after every rain. Another ex cellent forcing plan is to sink a bot tomless tin can in the ground by each plant and pour liquid fertilizer, or even plain water, into it twice weekly. Laying Out Flower Beds. Why do people plant flowers In beds? Everyone does it, and there is hardly one in a hundred that knows why they plant them In beds instead of singly and scattered or some other way. They do it because everybody else does it. Planting flowers is a good deal like growing whiskers in some ways. Right after the Civil war every man grew a full beard, because so many of the returning heroes had beards through necessity that they made whiskers fashionable. That's why we plant flowers in beds. Because the other fellow did, and still basil. But fortunately there are mighty good underlying reasons for so doing, whether we understand them or not. In the first place, the herbaceous or soft stemmed plants usually look bet ter in masses, lines or other groups. A large or continuous mass of color makes a strong impression upon the ob server where a few scattered blooms would be ignored. A single soldier is unnoticed, but the marching of a reg iment thrills the very soul. So it is with flowers, and this cumulative ef feet is the biggest reason for massing them together. Perhaps the only other immediate al ternative would be to scatter thom about over the lawn as they occur in nature-a group of blue here,a single pink there, etc. This is all very well for the yard that is kept in a wild state, but it will never do for the fin ished city or suburban lot. It makes a fair, smooth lawn impossible and the combination of natural flower ar rangements and polished gardening ac cessories spoils the effect of each one. As far as possible, the beds should be kept at the outer edges of the lawn to avoid cutting it up and making it look small. The old-fashioned, formal beds-round, equare, star-shaped, dia mond or crescent-are not in good taste now, and the lines of the beds should be Irregular, although clearly defined. This applies to every walk borders, to a lesser degree, although we personally like a straight lined bed near a straight lined walk. It it is necessary to place small beds out in the lawn, the round or oval bed is probably the best in form and It should contain low flowers, so as not tc hide the landscape back of it. Beds should be dug deep, thorough ly fertilized and pulverized and the edges cut clean and smooth with an edging tool. The earth should be gen tly crowned from the edges to the cen ter, to provide drainage. Do not plant the flowers so close to the grass as to interfere with clipping the grass at the edge of the lawn about the bed. Select One Dairy Breed. It is better to select one dairy breed than it is -to try to combine the good points of all. , Command Big Prlces. Well-matched teams are the ones that commafad the big prices. straight in the face, said: "Verra well pitched, but, then, hoo are ye gola' to get ower yerself?' God's Designs. I cannot believe that the creator made man to leave him in an endless struggle with the intellectual miseries that surround us. I am ignorant of his designs, but I cannot cease to be lieve in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than his fjustlc.-De Tocquevrilla IT'S HARD TO WORK It's torture toworkwith a Lane. *"c Lh back. Get rid of it. Atrack the case Probably it s weak kidneys. Heavy or confining work is hard on the kidneys. anyway, and once the ;id neys become inflamed and congested, the trouble keeps getting worse. The danger of running into gravel, dropsy or Bright's disease is serious. Use Doan's Kidney Pills, a fine remedy for backache or bad kidneys. A Washington ,le,' 7 St" Case H. R. 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"Hunt'sCure" is guar. anteed to stop and permanentlycure that terrible itching. It is compounded for that purpose and your money will be promptly refunded WITHOUT QUESTION if Hunt's Cure fails to cure itch, Eczema, Tetter, Ring Worm or any other Skin Disease. 50c at your druggist's, or by mail direct if he hasn't it. Manufactured only by A. B. RICHARDS MEDICINE CO.. Sherman, Tes ADVICE TO THE AGED Age brings infirmitles, such as slugtsOh bowels, weak kidneys and lir. Tujf'I lills TIIt S ý1 h a specific effect ea these erugs, stlnUlatle the bowels, gives atoural acto, and imprts vigor to the whele sytsem. Best Way. "How would you make these rem edies popular?" "Make them anti-skeptic." AROt'8Es TIlE LIVER AND PLURIFIUL THE BLOOD. The Old Standard general strengthenlng tonle, OROVUS TASTILESS chill TONIC, arupses the liverto action, drives Malaria out of the blood sad builds up the system. A true toni. Four sadults anod ehlidren. 60c. No Facilities. "They say that Cupid strikes the match that sets the world aglow. But where does Cupid strike the match? that's what I'd like to know."-CornelU Widow. NO. SIX-SIXTY-. I This Is a prescription pr - eelatly for Malaria or Chills . Five or six doses will break ,nd i| taken then as. a tonic th ,t r1 turn. 2e. Adv. Neighbor Not long since a nl into a certain village. Af, ; of so-a friend calle4 on hl.: -... - jked how he liked his new home. "Pretty well," he said. "Have you called on your neighbors yet?" "No," he replied; "but I'm going td if any more of my wood is missing." What He Did. In "Little Humorists at School,' Mr, H. J. Barker tells a story of a school mistress who asked one of the little girls in her class, the daughter of a man who was not always so sober as he ought to have been: "What is you, father?" "Please, miss," was the prompt re ply, "when he's working be's a brick layer; but when he's out of work he's a teetotaler!" Considerate. "A cubist has asked me to suggest a name for his latest picture." "Are you going to do it?" "No, I'd hate to hurt his feellings." Its Kind. "What do you think of cutting the wool tariff?" "I call it shear nonsense." What Ails You? - cib mIcl e* -I C:.djaai, ~tp.E