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1 rt i, »?J «. $ a *v 1 1 ®A', o:. •m ijK:: 4 3 CRITICAL PERIODS w- In Woman's Life Are Made Dan gerous by Pelvic Catarrh. Mrs. Mattailde Richter. Mrs. Mathilde Richter, Doniphan, Neb, •ays: "I suffered from catarrh for many years, but since I have been taking Pe-ru-na I feel strong and well. I would advise all people to try Pe-ru-na. As I used Pe-ru-na and Man-a-lin while I was passing through the change of life, I am positively convinced "your beneficial remedies have relieved me ifrom all my ills." Pe-ru-na has raised more women from •beds of sickness and set them to work again frthan any other remedy. Pelvic catarrh ia the bane of womankind. Pe-ru-na is the bane of catarrh in all forms and stages. Mrs. ,Col. Hamilton, Columbus, O., says: "I rec ommend Pe-ru-na to women, believing it to •, be especially beneficial to them." Send for a free book written by Dr. Hart ^man, entitled "Health and Beauty." Ad dress Dr. Hartman, Columbus, O. Remember that cholera morbus, cholera ^infantum, summer complaint, bilious colic, diarrhoea and dysentery are each and all satarrh of the bowels. Catarrh is the only correct name for these affections. Pe-ru-na is an absolute specific for these ailments, which are so common in summer. Dr. Hart* man, in a practice of over forty years, never lost a single case of cholera infantum, dysen tery, diarrhoea, or cholera morbus, and his only remedy was Pe-ru-na. Those desiring further particulars should send for a free copy of "Summer Catarrh." 'Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus, O. ORDINARY CIVILITY. The Advantages and Pleasures It as Elucidated by Mr. Golibleby. Ol "I should recommend as an investment," •aid Mr. Gobbleby, "the practice of civility. As a matter of fact, 1 don't suppose that a very great number of men have suddenly be come wealthy through this means that is, I don't suppose that a large number of very rich people have left fortunes to men whe had been at one time or another polite to them, but I don't doubt, either, that there have been just such, cases, and I don't for a moment doubt that substantial advantages have often accrued to men through tneii consistent civility. "But aside from any question of material profit (though there is still always the chance of that involved in it) I should say that the exercise of civility would pay for another reason. There are lots of people who like civil treatment, Who are, in fact, really pleased by it, and though we might not get anything in dollars ana cents out of civility extended in this way in general, yet I should say it would pay, for in this way toward people »v it would pay, ic we-should get from it, at least, the pleasure wc ouuuiu gcv liuiu II I flv ivuoiiy iiiiv jiicoomc that is always to be derived from affording pleasure to others. "So I should say that from whatever point of view we look at it, civility is a good in vestment we are s^re to get something out of it, anyway, and it doesn cost us a cent." —N. Y. Sun. Immaterial. "Hello!" said the voice at the other end ol the telephone, "is thisGrindle?" "Yes. "Did you write up that story of the mar who had inherited a million dollars and was coins to try his luck in grain speculation "Yes." "Proofreaders say they can't make out from your copy whether you meant to say 'he will find brokers ahead' or 'he will find breakers ahead.' "Tell 'em it's all the same. Either one wil) do. Ring off!"—Chicago Tribune. Revised Proverbs. A thing of beauty is a joy forever, if sc other fellow happens to possess it. You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink, but when you sue ceed in getting a man up against the bar he loses his horse sense, It's & long lane that has no turning when the treasure you are in search of is "just around the next bend." Fortune knocks at manv a man's doox when he i« out chasing the growler.—Chi cago Times-Herald. Some people demand that the world not only be patient with their foolishness, but that it applaud.—Atchison Globe. What a Little Faith Did FOR MRS. ROCKWELL. [LETTEX TO UBS. FIKKHAU MO. 69,884] "I was a great sufferer from female weakness and had no strength. It was impossible for me to attend to my household duties. I had tried every thing and many doctors, but found xelief. "My sister advised me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound which I did before using all of one bottle I felt better. I kept on with it and to my great surprise I am cured, All who suffer from female complaints should give it a trial."—-MBS. ROCK WELL, 1208 S. DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Xrom a Grateful Newark Woman. When I wrote to you I was very sickt had not been well for two years, The doctors did not seem to help me, one said I could not live three months. I had womb trouble, falling, ulcers, kidney and bladder trouble. There seemed to be such a drawing and burning pain in my bowels that I eould not rest anywhere. After using, Lydia B. Pinkham's Vegetable' Com pound Sanative Wash and follow ing your advice, I feel well again and stronger than ever. My bowels feel as if t^ey had been made over new. With uijBtpy thanks for your help, I remain, Ik G.( 74 .As# ST., NEWABK, N. J." "La Bete 1 r/ 'la**-1: [By Ethel Ramsey. 2 f,-*— THIS is in no sense an animal story. On the contrary, it has to do with small convent school for girls, situ ated in an eminently respectable but cheerless quarter of Paris. Moreover, the story is "founded on fact," as they say, and is devoid of thut lavish orna mentation which a bona fide animal story permits for a teller, whether he be a church member or not. I had been left in the convent to com plete my education. A slight illness had excused me from the routine of the schoolroom, and as 1 stood in the re fectory one morning, struggling with the demon of homesickness, an,uncon trollable desire to look out of the win dow seized me. Not the window which overlooked the garden, where 1 knew there was nothing of interest to be seen except a few rowdy sparrows, or per haps a sister scurrying across the walled court to the other wing of the building, but toward the opposite house, where one of the girls declared there dwelt a handsome young man, who bad. looked out of the window when we were playing in the yard and had twice tried to attract her attention. Had 1 been less homesick it might have been a temptation to investigate, and, if fortune favored me,, to establish a rival claim, but 1 thirsted for a sight of the street, a forbidden pleasure. Soeur Marie, a lay sister, had taken me to task when I first arrived for de liberately standing at the front win dow, where I could see and be seen. "It looked so bad," said she, "for a demoiselle to appear before the pub lic." Presently a man carrying a box of tools came out of the house. Instead of turning to the right or left, he crossed the street. The door-bell jangled and a moment later Seour Marie led the man into the refectory "What are you doing,mademoiselle?' die asked. 'Looking out of the window.** Soeur Marie rolled her eyes. Imagines vous," 6he said to the car penter, "the demoiselle likes to look out of the window. She says that in her country every young girl can look out into the street all she wants to." He shrugged his shoulders politely. He was much younger than she, and possibly had broader views. I decided to cultivate him as far as possible, so as to rout utterly the girl whose ad mirer lived across the court. There had never been any doubt in my mind but that he was a valet, and it seemed that a present carpenter promised more ex citement than a distant valet. Soeur Marie bustled around nervous ly. From time to time she eyed me curiously as though deliberating. She finally beckoned me to follow her into the hall. "I have to go down to the kitchen for a few moments," said she, "and I don't like to leave him in there alone. All the silver, mugs are out in full view, and who knows when the hour of tempta tion approaches? Blessed is he who is prepared to resist it. Now you are an American, and it will be proper for you to remain in the room while I am downstairs, so just stay and watch the mugs, but don't go to the window." "Very well, ma soeur," I answered quietly. There was evidently a Btruggle in her mind as to the propriety of this, and to betray interest would have settled any doubt at once. The carpenter by this time had opened the door of what I had supposed was a closet. When I returned to the room, he was kneeling by a hole in the floor cut in the bottom of the closet, taking measurements. "What are you doing?" I asked. He stopped in his calculations. "Les bonnes seours," he said, "have given me a job. I wanted to put the dumb-waiter out in the room, but no, it would look untidy, so they have made me use the closet for it, which is con trary to the laws of carpentering!'' "Are there laws of carpentering?" I asked. "Oh, mademoiselle! There are laws to everything, but carpentering is one of the most difficult and complicated of arts'" Having found already that every Frenchman considered his trade an art, I proceeded to converse amiably, plying him with questions, and really having almost as much fun as the day the charbonnier came and brought my liile dog and made him perform tricks until ai sister came up from behind and sent me on an errand. The dumb waiter was a concession to the march of time. Who shall say how many years the patient sisters had toiled up two flights of stairs, carrying every mouthful eaten by the 15 or 20 boarding scholars, and carrying down every utensil used in the service? The meals and the service were of the simplest. The refectory was a large, well-lighted room, with whitewashed walls and a bare floor. The only or nament was a large ebony crucifix at one end of the room. When the girls went tp a meal they walked in "two by two," not dressed in the traditional "yellow, pink and blue," but clad in black mohair aprons, which complete ly covered every vestige of the dress Each girl halted at her place at the long black marble table, and, fixing her eyes on the crucifix, hurried the sing-song grace, to a close. There.was no cloth on the table, only bottles of wine at regular intervals, and a silver mug at each place. The monotony of this arrangement was never varied ex cept by an {occasional medicine bottle. .When the meal was over a girl passed around a sloppy dish rag and a bowl of tepid water, in which each washed her cutlery. After this dainty operation, the girls filed out, leaving the sisters to toil up and down with the soiled dishes. Who had fver put the idea of a dumb VV* waiter in th« superior's head will n main a mystery, bat It had been done, and it was with no small pride that the carpenter had been 'sent for and con sulted. None of the girls had been told about this move, of course, and as the car penter had been at work while they were out of the room, and the door of the closet hid all traces of his work, I really thought I had captured a sen sation which would confound the girl whose valet had waved his hand twice. I worked her to the verge of frenzy during the study hour by mocking the elegant gestures of the valet, and indi cating delicately that my heart also had been touched. At the play hour I walked across to her... -,0 Hello!" I said. i" $ Ello, vous-meme," she replied, "what is the matter with you? Have you seen him?" 'Have I seen him!" I answered scorn fully. "No! I have not, but—*' and so on and so on, with the artful ingenuity of 16. Of course, the news spread very soon in spite of the sworn secrecy, and at meal time the girls' eyes were fixed on the closet door. Those whose'homes boasted of modern improvements ex plained the dumb-waiter system to the less fortunate. While this was considered exciting, the chief interest centered around the charpentier, and as some unfeeling man named Charpentier had edited a text book, there was a certain daring in referring to "Mon Charpentier d'Edtelle," even before the head mis tress. The excitement was at its height on Thursday, when we all filed in to the refectory and saw the superior and the matron standing by the closet, the door opened wide, and the charpentier in his Sunday clothes, buttonhole bouquet and all, gently toying with the rope, nodded to him with an easy familiarity which impressed the girls, apd led the superior, who disliked my manners, to point down the flue, where, of course, he was obliged to look with respectful interest. It seems that he was to teach the matron and the cook how to work the machine, and he stayed during the meal. It was pathetic to see the wonder with which the lay sisters regarded the contrivance. They nodded and whispered together, and rolled their eyes. When called to use it they haij' died the rope as if it had been made of spun glass, they clung to it as to a life preserver when sending down a heavy load of plates, and unanimously dubbed it "La Bete." I have always attributed it to the conscious embarrassment of the car penter in having so many girls staring at him that he omitted to explain the use of the speaking tube and whistle beside the door. At the evening meal the superior in person superintended the use of ia Bete. It went pretty well, but 1 could see that she was nervous. In the morn ing the head mistress and the matron officiated. Also at dejeuner and dinner. In fact, for several days la Uete was used and commended with discretion. The jolly little sister who used to bring up the plat au jour came up the first day empty handed and looking anxious, The next day she sent the potatoes, but appeared with the principal dish, as of yore, and beamed upon our hungry faces. "Surely, ma soeur," said the mutron, politely, "you might have saved your steps." "Oh!" she answered, "it is so unstyl ish. It must take away the appetite to have a dish sent flying up through two stories, and the sauce all spilled in tak ing it from the shelf." The matron did not reply, but when the time came to send the.dish down, behold, la Bete would not work! A few timid tugs at the rope only seemed to make it more stationary. I volunteered to help, but found that the rope was caught in the wheel, so that none but the carpenter could remedy it. He was accordingly sent for. He did not arrive until we had assembled for the eveningmeal. He worked over it for a few minutes, ex plaining with the greatest condescen sion the theory and the art of it. At last he went down to the kitchen to see that the dinner was sent up in safety, A timid little lay sister, who bad just been promoted to the refectory service, stood by the waiter, with her hand on the rope. The matron kept her eye on her while she cut the long loaf into thick slices. The girls, who bad revived for a moment in the presence of the car penter, had settled down to a gloomy silence. We were all hungry and tired, We could hear a slight murmur of voices coming up the flue. The ropes creaked and we all rejoiced in the prospect of having our dinner, when a loud shrill whistle from the speaking-tube fright ened the sister so that she let go of the rope and screamed. It is needless to say that there followed a loud crash of china falling two stories. In a mo ment, the carpenter, followed by the cook, rushed into the refectory. He be gan to expostulate with the sister. The cook explained that the dinner was so mixed with broken china that there was not a mouthful flt to eat. The girls be gan to complain and disorder reigned supreme. The poor little sister flatly refused to go near the waiter to have the tube and whistle explained to her. The matron, with the presence of mind which char acterizes good people, sent us to the playroom and gave us permission to dance for half an hour, sending for the music teacher to play for us, while a new dinner was being prepared. And now comes the only part of this story which makes it akin to an animal story, and yet is strictly true that is, that after this experience, the sisters took every occasion to avoid using the waiter, unless the superior demanded it, and while it was shown to visitors with great pride, as a sign of progress, the sisters themselves never approved of it, spoke of it with awe, and never called it anything but "la Bete."—N. Y. Evening Post. UTILIZING DOG POWER. Dow the Collie Mar Be Made to Bans More Than Bis Salt Arouad :•,, the Dairy. Your correspondent who wishes a power in which to work his eollie dog will find that one made like the illus tration will fill the bill. I used two dif ferent dogs in this power, then sold it, and the new purchaser is still using it and separates his milk, churns the but ter and pumps the water for his stock with a collie dog. The power consists essentially of two iron rods with a pul ley at each end and rubber belts run- DOG POWER IN OPERATION. A, Detached lag b, the Power c, the Churn. ning on the pulleys. Rivet slats (called lags) to these belts for the dog to work on. There must be but one rivet at each end of the lag and this in the mid dle. At each- end of the lag a small piece, say an inch or less square and six inches long, must be fastened to the lags as a bridge to keep them from sagging under the weight of the dog. Two rivets or clinch nails are needed to. hold these bridges firm. Each al ternate lag must have these strips set in an inch so they will lap past each oth er and rest on a lag on each side. Three or four small rollers or wheels are needed under each end of the lag where the dog treads, as seen in the illustra tion. S'' The connection with churn, sep arator or other machine can be made by "tumbling rod" connection, as illus trated, or by a belt on the band wheel. The lags may be a half-inch thick and four or five inches wide. As the pitch may need adjusting to furnish the power needed for different kinds of work, it is well to hang the rear end by straps so the elevation can be changed at will.—Orange Judd Farmer. AN INEXPENSIVE SILO. Description of One That. Although Built for Only 930, Has Given General Satisfaction. Speaking of silos and cheap built ones, we were greatly interested in a stave silo in Tompkins county, holding about CO tons and costing all told $36, and as fine silage as need be is now being fed from it, writes John Gould in Hoard's Dairyman. The novel thing about it is that instead of using iron rod hoops, four bands of 52-inch wire fencing were used instead, and with entire satisfac tion. A band of fencing is cut, of suffi cient length, so that each end is wrapped about a 4 by 4-inch oak scantling, so that when put round the silo the end pieces will come within about 10 inches of each other and are tied together with two 1-inch bolts with double burrs. The "pull" of this band is simply immense, and the coil, of the wire takes up all slack when the silo shrinks when empty, and ex pands when the staves swell, so pull all the time. The bands are placed far enough apart so that three manholes are sawed in between the bands. The foundation is simply, a little trench in which the lower ends of the staves are set, and then filled in—inside and out— with cement, and the inside dirt is drawn up against the walls of the silo, so as to make the center the lowest. The roof is just given a little pitch and covered with boards battened and the silo is complete, and doing as good work as a $1,000 structure. And the cost of this GO-ton silo was only $36. Cows for the Klondike. A man in Tacoma is preparing to leave soon for Dawson, and will take 125 eows with him. He will take a sled for each cow and make them haul enough provisions for the trip. He already has about a third of his herd, and is busy breaking them to work in harness. He expects to get away in a few weeks. He is positive it will be a paying venture, as frefeh milk la a little known article in the Yukon. He has had no trouble so far in breaking his cattle, and talks as though it will be no extraordinary sight to see 125 cows wending their way along the mountain trails, drawing sleds laden with hay and grain. He will take them down the Yukoninboats, and expects to be at the lakes as soon as the ice breaks. He has been over the ground, and feels confident of success. FteklBK Batter for Export. The New York Produce Review says that intelligent packers have come to regard parchment paper lining for but ter tubs as very necessary. It says that, if we are to share in foreign trade, American butter tubs must be lined with the best quality of parchment pa per. All the colonial butter coming into the English market is in paper lined packages. It says the cheap, thin paper that has been thrown upon the market must not be used. Cheap paper is as poor economy as cheap salt or cheap tubs. The tubs roust, also, be steamed and thoroughly soaked. It is, also, important to soak the paper in strong brine, as this will strengthen the paper, exclude air, and help to keep the butter moist. jhtf 4 X, ixjr' HIGH-CLASS CHESEE. BsierlcsM Has Praved That It Oaa Bo Prodaeed with Saeeesa la This Caaatrr. The popularity of the imported fancy cheeses in this country has induced many home manufacturers to imitate these. Thus we have the western Swiss imitation cheese, the American Stilton, and other imitations. But there is a more fertile field for the cheese-maker than imitating these foreign standard articles of the cheese-maker's art and skill. Good American cheese will estab lish itself in the favor of the people who can pay good prices for it, but the trouble is that not sufficient attention is given to the subject by the majority. There are some makers, however, who seem to have grasped the situation and they are making fancy American cheese and putting it upon the market in dainty little packages. The most pop ular package seems tp be the china and earthenware cup, which besides looking attractive keeps the cheese in good con dition for a long time and,is very handy for the buyer. There are other makers who simply wrap the cheese in squares or rolls in prepared paper and then with tin foil. This is just as good as the more expensive china receptacles. The point to be obesrved is that the packages keep the cheese in a moist, sweet condition indefinitely and that they are not expensive. The quality of this cheese is considerably higher than that of the ordinary cream cheese that comes from the average cheese -factory in this country. It is made of rich cream and milk, is cured better, is not tough and elastic, but soft and pliable, and is perfectly adapted to spreading on bread or using with pie. It has more taste and flavor than most of our com mon cheese. The great fault with our ordinary full cream or part cream cheese is that it is flavorless. One might eat it and not know just what he was chewing. The trouble all comes in the curing. Our methods are probably all right, but we hurry the cheese to mar ket in such a short time after it has been made that it has neither taste nor flavor. We cannot expect it to improve in flavor in the ordinary store or ware house. The curing must be done and perfected at home under the most ap proved conditions, and under constant watchfulness. It cannot be made sweet and highly flavored otherwise. We have cheese-makers who can do this, but they are unwilling, as a rule, to take the time. There is consequently an opening for enterprising farmers who will take the time to cure highly flavored cheese and ship it to market in neat, fancy packages. Such cheese would in time get a line of customers who would take it regularly in pref erence to others and the price would be double what our common cheese brings.—James Ridgeway, in Massa chusetts Ploughman. A HUMANE TETHER. It Prevents the Animal from Winding the Rope Aroand the Post, and Affords Shade. Animals that are hitched out to graze at the end of a rope rarely have shade to seek in the middle of the day, as they cannot be hitched near' trees for fear of "winding themselves up." The cut HUMANE TETHER. shows a light framework of inch-by inch stuff, or laths, over which a piece of cotton cloth or burlap can be tacked It can be attached to {he hitching VSSM poBt just high enough to clear the animal's back. The cow or calf will be grateful for its shade, and in the case of a calf it will make a much better growth. The revolving piece of wood about the post about which' the rope is tied is a device for preventing the animal from wind ing its rope around its hitching post.— N. Y. Tribune. Choice and Ordinary Batter. Dairymen should not forget that the discrimination between choice and or dinary grades of butter is becoming more clearly and sharply defined each year. It is only the best that is always in demand and will sell at gpod prices when there is a surplus of the inferior grades, that either are not wanted at all or else must be sold at a sacrifice. We can hardly expect that under these circumstances this order of things will be changed or improved upon it is merit that is going to win, and if the dairyman expects to come out satisfac torily at the end of the year, it is of the greatest importance that' he start right. To try and do a little better than ever before should be the watch word of the day.—Progressive Farmer. A Hint for Dairymen. It is generally agreed that there is an overproduction of most dairy products, though this is less obvious now than it was two or three years ago, when more people were out of work and therefore were forced to econoinize. We all the time hear advice to increase production of dairy products by improving breeds of cows and. feeding them better. But unless the number of cows is reduced this will make the price of dairy prod ucts so low that the farmer will make no more than before. The remedy would seem to be that as better cows were bred, two of the poorer cows which often do not pay their way should be turned off to the butcher. That will lessen expenses and increase the profit.—American Cultivator. Al Is lbs nillHlaM. Peace in the Philippines is bound to prove Sitions, rofitable to all concerned. Warring con whether they be in the Philippines or in the human stomach, are equally dis astrous. If your stomach has rebelled, there one authority that will quickly subdue it. is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, and it cures constipation, indigestion, bilious ness, nervousness and dyspepsia. See that private Revenue Stamp covers the neck the bottle. "Does Col. Blood see double?" "Shouldn't wonder. He drinks enough for two."— Town Topics. Some people are loyal in the way that a gadfly is loyal to a horse. —Atchison Globe. 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