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I5CATAKKHI HEAD THROAT1^ LUNGS KIDHEVS BLADDER FEMAlf ORGANS QEN. JOB WHEELER Sayb of Peruna: "1 Join Senator* Sullivan, Roach and McEnery In their good opinion of Peruna as an ef fective catarrh remedy. HAUL ACTUAL size. WESTERN CANADA'S DECEM BER WEATHER EQUAL TO THAT OF MAY IN MIN NESOTA. To the Editor: Thomas Kegan and C. Collins, of Eden Valley, Minnesota, went out to Western Canada last December as dele gates, to look over the grazing and grain lands that are being offered at such low prices and reasonable terms. This is what they say: "We arrived in Calgary about the 20th December and although we had left winter in Minnesota and Manitoba, we were surprised to find beautiful warm weather at this point, quite equal to what we have in May in Minnesota There was no snow nor trace of winter to be seen, and the climate was really splendid. Horses, cattle and sheep were running out, in prime condition, with plenty of feed on the prairie, and really better than that of .ours stabled in the south. We are impressed with this country as one of the finest mixed farming countries we have ever seen. The immense tracts of fertile lands, well sheltered and abundantly wa tered, leave nothing to be desired. Leaving Alberta we returned east and visited the Yorkton district in Assiniboia. We drove out about ten miles at this point and were highly pleased with the splendid' samples of grain we were able to see, wheat yield' ing 25 bushels, oats 60 bushels. Boots were also good specimens. From what we have seen, we have decided to throw in our lot with the Yorktoners —satisfied that this part of the coun try will furnish good opportunities for anyone anxious to make the best of a really good country. Any agent of the Canadian Government, whose advertisement appears elsewhere in the columns of your paper will give you full particulars of the new dis tricts being opened out this year in Assiniboia and Saskatchewan. Yours truly, OLD READER. ECHOES FROM AFAR. England owns 176,602 of the 400,000 Suez canal shares. Russia kills 3,000,000 ermines, 15,• 000,000 marmots, and 25,000,000 squir rels in a year. The average size of Canadian farms is 93 acres. Thirty-five million acres are under cultivation. In 1S60 English people received 20 letters a liead. In 1S0S this number had grows. 55. The capital o£ British banks in creases at an average rate of £16, 000,000 a year. The cement made from English river mud, and sold abroad, brings in over £11,000,000 a year. AN "M. D.'S" OPEN LETTER. Benton, 111., May 20th—E. H. Dunn way, M. D. of this place, in an open letter, makes the following startling statement: "I had Diabetes with all its worst symptoms. I applied every remedy known to the profession, as well as every prescription suggested in our books. In spite of all, I was dying, and I knew it. "As a last resort, and with scarcely any faith whatever, I commenced tak ing Dodd's Kidney Pill-- In one week I saw a great improvement. After I had taken five boxes, I was sound and well. This is ten months ago, and 1 have not taken any medicine of any kind since, and am convinced that my cure is a permanent one. "As a practicing physician with years of experience, I most positively assert that Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best medicine in the world today, for Diabetes or any other Kidney Disease. Since using them myself, I have used them in many cases in my practice, and they have never failed. "I am making this statement as a professional man, after having made a most thorough test of Dodd's Kid ney Pills, and because I feel it my duty to the public and to my profes sional brethren. The truth can never hurt anvone, and what I have said is the absolute truth." K. H. DUNA WAY, M. D. It is no wonder that the public art enthusiastic over this new medicine, when our leading physicians them selves, are being won over to its use •*-«HWsEr BIRDS HELP FARMERS. Ther Prey on Miee, Insect* and Other Varieties of Vermin Which Destroy Cropa. The bulletins on birds and mam mals published by the biological sur vey of Washington correct widely prevalent errors as to the economic status of species that affect agricul tural interests and demonstrate the inefficiency and wastefulness of boun ty laws, under which millions of dol lars have been expended by the va rious states and territories without accomplishing the object for which they were intended. Birds are the farmers' most val uable aids in his lifelong battle with the insects that prey on his crops. How important, therefore, that he should not destroy them that do him the greatest service. In the case of hawks and owls the division has shown, by the examination of the stomach contents of about 3,000 of these universally hated and perse cuted birds, that only six out of the 73 kinds inhabiting the United States are injurious, and three of these are so rare they need hardly be consid ered, leaving only three to be taken into account as enemies of agricul ture. The others prey upon mice, insects and other vermin and rank among the farmer's best friends. Since the establishment in 1S85, the division has examined the stomach contents of nearly 15,000 birds be longing to 200 species and subspe cies. and has published information on the food habits of 140 kinds, main ly hawks, owls, crows, jays, black birds, sparrows, thrushes, fly catch ers, swallows, wrens, shrikes, wood peckers, horned larks and cedar birds.—Ainslee's Magazine. METHOD IN KILLINGS Hotr to Shoot a Horae or Dos and Dispose of Cat in the Leaat Paiufnl War. The Illinois Humane society is dis tributing circulars containing instruc tions for the quickest and least pain ful method in killing animals. The instructions state that for shooting a horse the revolver should le held within a few inches of the head, the aim being toward the center of the head midway between the eyes HUMANE WAT OP KILLING. and ears in other words, exactly in the middle of the forehead. When a hammer or ax is employed the horse should be blindfolded. Two vigorous, well-directed blows just be low the foretop will make death cer tain. In shooting a dog the pistol should be held near the head, the aim being a little to one side of the center of the top of the skull. The shot should be fired downward, so that the bullet shall go 1 hrough the brain into or to ward the neck. After much consultation with veter inary sui^eons and experts, the so ciety decides that there is no more merciful way of killing cats than to put, with a long-handled spoon, about half a teaspoonful of pure cyanide of potassiu&i on the cat's tongue. To Keep Ekkb All Summer. Kill or remove every male bird on the place. Two weeks after begin to gather the eggs fresh every day, take them directly to the cellar, where you have covered the bottom of a box about one inch deep with salt. Cover the surface with eggs, big end down, nearly touching each other. Then cover with salt and so on until full. In November the eggs will be in very good condition. The first year I tried it I sold $25 worth of June packed eggs at November prices. Carefully wash off all the salt and let them dry. There is one extra precaution be sure that all the eggs are fresh and with no cracked shells. Of course if fertile eggs are wanted for hatching, males must be. kept for awhile in spring.—W. II. Hose, in Farm and Home. Good Grasses for Pasture. The Ohio experiment station gives good advice when it recommends blue grass, redtop, red clover and timothy for permanent pasture. The red clo ver enriches the ground and soon runs out. The timothy furnishes feed while the slower blue-grass is get ting started. The redtop furnishes good pasturage between the two growths of blue-grass, which is at its best only in spring, earlj- summer and fall. The timothy will give way when the blue-grass becomes well rooted, and the redtop will do so more or less on land that is not naturally moist but these three grasses should be used in the formation of a permanent pasture wherever they thrive. Preparing Soil for Salaify. The soils for salsify should be rich, but with well-rotted manure worked deep and thoroughly. Upon the per fect condition of the soil depend the straightness and smoothness of the roots, there being a tendency to branch where fresh manure is applied. The plants should be cultivated as parsnips are. They are very hardy, are not affected by frost, and may be left in the ground all winter without harm. But to have the roots ready for use they should be dug in the fall and stored away in soil or sand where the temperature is low. If exposed to the air the roots become shriveled and tasteless, and are -without value. Bees deposit pollen in drawn-out combs, cither in the hive or the aup«rf it in one place. DOOR FOR HOG HOUSE. One That IVill Open from Either Side by the Hog: Pushing It Bard with His Snout. A hog house door should be on every hog house in winter to keep animals warm. One can be easily made that hogs can open and shut at will. Make the doorway at least six inches higher than the pig. The door should be of matched flooring placed crosswise and nailed together with battens, b, run ning up and down, placed even with edges, thus making the door edges two inches thick. Make the door four inches shorter than the doorway. Get two pieces of band iron two inches wide, one-eighth inch thick, three inches longer than the door, round HOG HOUSE DOOR. off one end and drill a hole for a 40 spike and nail on the edges of the doof as at in small figure. Make a half round block, a, from a piece of 4x4 wood long enough to ftt loosely be tween the projecting ends of the irons. Drive the spike through the holes into the ends of the block, as at d. Spike this block in the top of the doorway and you have a hanging door that will open from either side by the hog push' ing it with his snout. l?e sure the block is put in square so the door will swing free and be a close fit. If the house is a new one to the hog, hang the door iip for a time, then prop it partly open and chase the hog through it and in a few days he will soon learn how to open and shut his bedroom door. Such a door also jirotects the pen from wet and ice.—It. 1$. Taylor, in Farm and Home. WASTE OF CORN FODDER. Rank Extravagance of IVestera Fur mora Surprises Thoughtful Obaervera from the Eaat. Prof. Shaw renews his plea for greater economy upon the western farm. Of that most palpable and use less extravagance witnessed in 99 out of every 100 corn fields, he says: "The waste of corn fodder in the Mississippi valley is a grievotis waste. In the ag gregate the uncut corn must amount to millions and millions of acres. And one acre in those states where the season is long grows so much food! In a recent ride from Omaha to Kan sas City, for more than half a day the train steamed along through corn fields, nearly all of which were uncut There was enough of uncut corn in this one part of the Missouri valley to feed hundreds of thousands of cat tle through all the winter. All this valuable food will waste, and it is only a fragmentary portion of the waste that will take place all up and down the Mississippi and many of its trib utaries. The day will come when all this will change. The day will come when it must change. At one time the greatest profit may thus have been obtained by large holders of land. It may be so still. But surely in these days of high-priced meat and of shred' ders, more money could be made by using more of this valuable food. The people in those areas where this prac tice prevails will be hard indeed to persuade to change their ways, the force of habit is so powerful, bfttlt is a change that ought to be brought about."—Prairie Farmer. BITS FROM BUZZDOM. Swarming hives should be kept in a cool place. A swarm may be in duced to enter a hot hive, but if it be too hot they are liable to de sert it. Use young larvae for the rearii^ of queen bees. Bees always select the younger larvae, and apiarists may well follow the bees in this mat ter, says Mrs. Ella Henson. Sometimes, when bees have started combs, and some eggs are laid, an extremely hot day will cause them to desert the hive. This can be avoided by having the hive in a shaded place, or by erecting a four pole simple shade over it. Bees seldom desert a hive after they have made a large beginning on combs and eggs, or when a frame of brood is supplied to them. Close students of bees insist that bees never gather honey and pollen on the same trip. Honey-gatherers carry twice as heavy loads as are gathered by the pollen-gatherers. The reason for this is that the honey is heavier than the pollen, bulk for bulk, and that the honey is taken into the bee's sack, while the pollen is carried on the ends of the legs.—Rural World. The size of the hives must be set tled by the locality of the apiary. No one size of hive will answer per. fectly in all places. Timely Word of Caution. In feeding skimmilk great care must be exercisel. The most common mistake made in feeding separator skimmilk is to feed too much of it. A young calf from a week to two weeks old should not have over one to one and a half gallons a day, and larger calves two gallons a day. The skim milk should be warm and sweet. We add to the skimmilk a mixture of bran and ground oats in equal parts by weight. Put it into the milk for young calves and as soon as they will take it dry, give meal to calves in separate box in dry form. We also give them some nice clover hay and keep the calves as dry and comfortable as pos sible.—Prof. H. H. Dean, Ontario Agri cultural College. Fighting the Potato Beetle. In fighting the Colorado potato bee tle no adequate substitute for ar senical poisons has yet been found, and there is little hope that any wiil be found. The efforts are now lim ited to finding cheaper or more ef« fective compounds of arsenic than pans green. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. Jack—"What is your idea of tme happiness?" Dick—"Money, alid a place to spend it."^—Syracuse Herald. If it's true that children get their growth while asleep, it's no wonder some babies are of such slow growth. —Chicago Daily News. Carrie (in her new bonnet)—"How do you like my hat, Bertha?" Bertha —"Why, I think it is splendid. No one would know it wasn't brand new."—Boston Transcript. "Willie, have you been fighting with that little colored boy again?" said a Park avenue mother. "Naw we just begun to-day where we was when you stopped ub yesterday."— Indianapolis News. "I am almost discouraged," said the reformer. "About what?" "The future of this world. Every time I devise some new idea for suppress ing iniquity the sinners sharpen their wits and invent a new swindle." —Washington Star. The artist painted with feverish assiduity. "I shall at least keep the wolf from the door!" quoth he. At the threshold the wolf paused. "If I go in here," mused the dread beast, "folks may think I am buying pictures of him!" And with that he fled away.—Detroit Journal. A Detroit street railway magnate has neglected to provide his street cars with a certain safety appliance, and for this neglect is liable to im prisonment for 8,03^ years. This seems like quite a period, but, of course, he could cut it down some by good behavior.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Entrc nous," said Miss Ayres, who delights in talking dictionary French, "are you very fond of Air. Good heart?" "Well," replied May Bright ley, "he's a very good friend, of mine." "Ah! your bon ami?" "Bet ter than that. He's my bonbon ami. He brings me a box every time he calls."—Catholic Standard and Times. BACTERIA IN OUR FOOD. According to Tiha Authority There Are Milliona in Single Pat of Dntter. Why is butter salted? Mrs. C. C. Frankland gives a scientific answer in Longman's Magazine: "We must first realize that the bacterial popu lation of a moderate-sized pat of but ter may be reckoned by millions that a tiny lump only large enough to go into a thimble has been known to be tenanted by nearly 4,800,000 that, in fact, in consuming a slice of brend and butter you may uncon sciously be assimilating individual lives exceeding in number those of the whole of Europe! Thus the urgency for keeping these hordes in chcck, and hence the efforts which are made first to set up ef fectual barriers to their ingress by taking proper precautions in the pro duction of milk, and, secondly, in the manufacture and distribution of the finished article. Included in these processes is the addition of salt in such quantities as to justify the but ter being known as salt butter, this addition being made with the object of extending the keeping powers of the butter, or, in other words, to suppress to a large extent the ac tivities of the butter bacteria. That salt does act in this manner is shown by the fact that in butter thus treat ed a very large reduction in the num ber of micro-organisms present is effected. There can be little doubt, therefore, that the common butter microbes do not by any means regard salt as their elixi^ of life!" The writer also refers to the in vestigation of a Russian savant, M. Zakherbekoff, who carried out an elaborate inquiry into the bacterial quality of the milk supplied to St. Petersburg. The figures he obtained are appalling. Milk described and supplied as the purest procurable was found to contain -a minimum of over 10,000,000 and a maximum of no less than 83,000,000 of bacteria in from 20 to 25 drops, while in other sam ples a minimum of 2,400,000 and a maximum of 114,500,000 were found. How unnecessary such bacterial pol lution of milk is may be gathered from the fact that milk under normal healthy conditions contains no bac teria whatever as it issues from the cow that if due precautions of clean liness, etc., are observed milk may be obtained absolutely sterile, or, in other words, entirely devoid of bac terial life. Such milk has frequently been procured from cows in cases where it has been required in its nat ural state, free from bacteria, for ex perimental purposes. BemoTing a Mountain. In building the railway running from San Jose to the Pacific coast in Costa liiea, the engineers were com pelled to run the track along a ledge on the side of a mountain just above the River Reventa. The soil of the mountain is a sort of bluish clay which turns into mud during the rainy season and washes out the track, so that gangs of men are kept constantly at work clearing the road. To add to the troubles, a lake at the back of the mountain is fed by springs, and the mountain is always wet and the track constantly threat ened. In this emergency there is only one thing to do, and that is to remove that part of the mountain over which the railway runs. With the aid of what is known as a hy draulic giant—a machine which throws a powerful stream of water with tremendous force—the engi neers are now busy washing the mountain into the river. When their task is completed, they will have the satisfaction of knowing that it is possible to remove a mountain.— Youth's Companion. Cycling Not Allowed. Stromness, the western capital of the Orkney islands, steadfastly re fuses to march with the times. One of its by-laws forbids cycling in the streets, and an adventurous burgher has just been convicted for an infrac tion of this enactment. It will have nothing to do, indeed with modern ideas.—N. Y. Sun. Impreaaina the Jtty. Tenderfoot—Er—what does the judge intend to do with the shot gun? Alkali Ike—Aw, hell use that when he gives a charge t* tJi* jury.—Ohio State Journal. till nritiah Joke Machine Made. An American physician has a baby aged one year old. This bouncing infant nas such wonderfully developed muscles that when his father holds a cane in his two hands it will grasp it and draw itself up to its chin three times. Devoted Darwinians could hardly wish for a better illustration of the prehensile powers of babies. Tiiov must be very near their monkey ancestors in America.—London Globe. Bnaiaeas Repartee. Strange Lady—What's the price of this iron bedstead Dealer—Twelve dollars, madam, v, "How much off if I pay cash?" "Madam, if you don't pay cash the bed la not for sale. —Detroit Free Press. Somewhat Different. The Grocer—I understand you said I sold you a jug of cider that had water in it The Butcher You have been misin formed. What I said was that you sold me a jug of water that had a little cider in it.—Chicago Daily News. Taate for Sculpture. Sculptor—Madam, your daughter ha* Mrs. Phoxy—"Why did you tell the doc tor you had corned beef and cabbage for dinner yesterday? You know you never eat such common food as that." Mr. Phoxy —"I know, but if I had told them what I had really eaten he would boost his bill up accordingly."—Philadelphia Press. Tears stood in my wife's great, gray eyes. "I am dying to go to the Paris exposition!" she exclaimed. "You are very foolish!" said I, striving to be calm. "If you die, you will go to Heaven!" Recuba bit her lip. It was impossible, of coursc, to gainsay my logic.— Detroit Journal. Tackleton—"I'm glad your yacht beat Bragman's. lie was blowing so much be fore the race. It's your turn now. 'He laughs best who laughs last.' Mainsel— "Yes, but say, rather: 'lie laughs best who luffs first.' "—Philadelphia Press. Considering the way a woman will de ceive herself, a man has very little right to complain if she deceives him too.—N Herald. A twentieth century scientist claims that headache is a sort of colic caused by too many green thoughts.—Chicago Daily News. "Why do they say when a closed factory for instance, starts running, tlfat it's get ting on its feet? It doesn't seem right." "I see nothing wrong about it." "No? Why speak of feet when it's the hands that are employed?"—Philadelphia Times. Yon Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease FREE. Write to-day to Allen S. Olmsted, Lcroy, X. Y., for a FREE sample of Allen's Foot Ease, a powder to shake into your shoes. It cures chilblains, sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. It makes New or tight shoes easy. A certain cure for Corns and Bun ions. All druggists and shoe stores sell it. 25c. Easily Recognized. "Where's Mr. Schnorer?" "He's in the next room." ".\re you sure?" "Yes I just overheard him taking a nap."—Philadelphia Times. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever ised for all affections of the throat and lungs.—Win. O. Endsley, Vanburcn, lnd., Feb. 10, 1900. Don't talk to a busy man, for the chances are that he won't know a thing' you said when you arc through.—Atchison Globe. No Fuss No Muss 25c. ALL DRUGGISTS. CURE I Thereat «hlbita. from all over the world, at the «xp°ai'jpn:winch will prove very interescTjki^P^'10 n'ay tend, but no more »o thSPpie news thatjthe famous rep"' ters, pation, sufferers from the above complaints a trial is recommended, with the assurance that when honestly ?will be affected. It also tones up /lreitystem. •.•J*®"' "Hard luck," sai,i •b^fcubrette, earnest ly. "Why, we hadjffo pawn the magnifi cent diamond whicijlvaa to be presented to the star bv her, adn^-era at every town."— IndianapoiisrPrJ""' STERILIZE^ illBER SHOP. A Famous Shot* ibe Carroilton nor*. Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland. The Ijarber shop ta tfie Carroilton hotel, BaltimoreJ^if'.^^V^rytliing it uses in Tte" hdone the shop. The to\v soap, the ilized be{ Where there barber use' Nc, the dandruff gci for tne scalp.*.-" All leading,vA thes. they use fc, move the effect." byhcat- and a beautiful foot. Mrs. Richquiek—Yes. everybody says so. How much would you charge to make a bust of it?—Judge. stl'°l)s the 'es are all ster- a customer, .izotion, have the Jcrj)icide. It kills jt. i? an antiseptic face after shaving, where appreciate llerpicide, and icuuse, you re- A boy, to.be considered exceptionally, good, must show traits «f bis mother.— Atchison Globe. -,r If vou wan,-f.iMjir« 1, '-Kestion to wait upon your app,11j oil Id always chcw a bar of Aifon.l.Iggjfriti Fn.ttf. 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