* , - Bfwijiiuiil! --m ¥:/•• -h ----Wi A Beautiful Young Society Woman's Letter. ST. PAI'I^ MNTFF. 101 Wabasha St. Dr.lfSFfman, Columbus, O., Dear Sir Canada's Attraction*. The Dominion Exhibition Is one tliat attracts hundreds of thousands each yea#. This year it will be held In Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada), and With the material assistance given it the Dominion Government, it will be one of the most successful ever held. Besides the number of special Attractions that will be offered,( ,there will be brought together an exhibit oi the Agricultural and Industrial rc sources of Canada such as is rarely Attempted by any country. Visitors, will be there in large numbers from the United States, owing to the low rates offered by railways, connecting with the Canadian roads. It is ex pected that Hon. Clifford Sefton, Min ister of the Interior, Twill be there on the opening day to declare the ex hibition open. A splendid opportunity will be afforded by this exhibition to meet friends. Hotel accommodations will be quite ample. Ill Health Forces Retirement. President Harvey W. Scott of the Lewis and Clark exposition to be heid at Portland, Ore., next year, has been compelled by ill health to give up the duties of that position. Mr. Scott had held the office since the death of Henry W. Corbett two years ago and had worn himself out by his de votion to the exposition, which 'is to commemorate the two earliest ex plorers of Washington, Oregon. Mon tana and Idaho.. Reforming the Alphabet. ,'74V*> scientists have tested the speed with which the mind can recog nize certain letters, with interesting results. The general conclusion arriv ed at is that the forms of the printed letters of the alphabet are badly con ceived from a physiological point of •lew. If they were composed of char acters of; simple construction, such H are the letters T and L, the speed of recognition of letters wpuld be greatly increased and the mental fatigue would be greatly diminished.. It is also suggested, as the result of Written Life of Queen of 8heba. A discovery that is expected to prove of great interest has been made by the French litterateur, Hugueus Le Roux, who is on a mission to Abyssinia. He has found the original manuscript containing, in the ancient language of the country, a contempor ary account of the visit of the queen of Sheba to King Solomon, from the union of whom the Abyssinia UOB< acchs claim to be descended. s "Well Paid English Lawyer. Sir Edward Clarke, K. C., is *ihi to be the best paid professional man in England. He distinguished him self in the baccarat case, the Bart- lett case and the Jameson case, is a member of parliament and was for six years solicitor general. His earnings at law are about $217 an bcur.. If he works ten hours a day S00 days in a year his income is $651,- 000 a year. , How's This? tor ur j flair* the experiments, that the letters - 5 •hould appear white on black in- tbw canaot be cured stead of black on white, in the usual j ^ ^ 3T£»?, way of printing; for the speed or rec- i fortbela*t 15 years, and belleye him perfectly toon- otnitloi. 1. about ten tinea less In the j bMS?" former style thai in the latter Fur- ther experiments might be undertaken Hair* catarrh cure u taken internally, *c«nt th»BA #>ntprnrisinc scientists with directly 'ujmn the blood and mucou* *urfece« of tbt DJ vnese enterprising iuenusia wiiu feH1 Testinionlalu sent free. Price .5 ceatt pel ft view to show whether white letters bottle. 6oid by an DrugKut». on . black ground or vice versa are the least harmful to the eyes.--Lei- •ure Hours. %o the housewife who has not , yet become acquainted with the new things of everyday use in the market and who is reasonably satisfied with the old. we would suggest that a trial of Defiance Cold Water Starch be made Bt once. Not alone because it is guar anteed by the manufacturers to be su perior to any other bran3, but because each 10c package contains 16 ozs., while all the other kinds contain but ozs. It is safe to say that the lady who once uses Defiance Starch will use no other. Quality and quantity must win. A Recording Angel. GtfRe--"Do you suppose you could form any adequate idea of what a recording angel looks like?" Spinks--"Of course, my boy, of Course. We've got one keeping books In our office right now." / Comes Here for Railroad Pointer#. R. Peacock, an Egyptian railroad man from Assiout, is visiting this country. He is locomotive superin tendent of the Egyptian state railways and has come here at the request of his government to inspect the Ameri can railways with a view to introduc ing some of the modern American methods of transportation into his country. Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes, Allen's Foot* Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Swollen, Hot, Sweating- Feet, Corns and Bunions. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad dress Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. u A thought--good or evil--an act, In 'rgpne or habit so runs life's laws.--R. W. Trine. ' " ' " Domestic Bliss. Husband--"You are always looking fid# bargains. Was there ever a time when you wasn't a bargain hunter?" Wife--"Yes, dear; when I married you," ; _ - ... .~ ffSTHi \ Women who work, whether in the house store, office or factory, very^rarely have the ability to stand the strain. The case of Miss Frarikie Orser, of Boston, Mass., is interesting to all women, and adds further proof that woman's great friend in need is Lydia EL Pinfcham's Vegetable Compound* •• DEAB MBS. PAKHIM : -- I suffered misery for several years. MY back •mched and 1 had bearing down pains, and frequent headaches. I would often .f^ako from a restful sleep in such pain and misery that it would be hours before rA* could close my eyes again. I dreaded the long nights and weary days. I eould do no work, I consulted different physicians hoping1 to get relief, but, • < finding that their medicines did not cure me, I tried Lydla JE. Pllikliam's If Voire table Compound, as it was highly recomended to me. I am glad that 5*- *' * did so for I soon found that it was the medicine for mv ease. Very soon I " ••. j;Laa j-id'of every ache and pain and restored to perfect health. I feel splendid, : ' ^"fcave a fine appetite, and have gained in weight a lot." --Miss FBABKIE OBSXB, 14 Warrenton St., Boston, Mas* Surely you cannot wish to remain weak, sick and discouraged, and exhausted with each day's work. Some derangement of the .feminine organs is reponsible for this exhaustion, following any »£<' ftlnd of work or effort. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound t^u beip y011 juat as it has thousands of other women* Ths case of Hrs. Lennox, which follows, proves this. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAH : -- Last winter I broke down suddenly and had to seek the advice of a doctor. I felt sore all over, with a pounding in my head, and a dizziness which I had never experienced before. I had a miserable appetite, nothing tasted good, and gradually my health broke down completely. The doctor said I had female weakness, but, although I took his medicine faithfully, I found no relief. " After two months I decided to try what aebanc-e would do for me, and as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was •tronclv recommended to me I decided to try it. Within three days 1 felt better, my , appetite returned, and I could sleep, to \ another week I was able to sit up part of the day, and in ten days more I was well, lly strength had returned, I gained fourteen \ ^ / n o n n H . a n d f e l t b e t t e r a n d s t r o n g e r t f c a n 1 had for veam I gratefully acknowledge its merita. Very sincerely yours, MBS. BERT • LKWT»OX, 1*0 East 4th St., Dixon, IlLn rOHFEIT If forthwith produce the original letter* aed «lgaataMS si rt*. wll turn. The Codling Moth.^ ^ The codling moth is withdtft "ftoubt the most important insect enemy with which apple growers in the United States have to contend. The pest does not at the present time appear to have reached all the apple growing regions of the United States, notably some parts of the northwest regions of the country, including Oregon and Washington., Yet how soon it will be come a destructive pest there no one can tell. The insect is easy to dls-- tribute, as everyone that has pur chased apples can well understand, for the worm travels incognito in the fruit itself. The part of the apple with the worm in it is thrown out on the ground and in due tijne the moth emerges. This is doubtless the way in which the pest has been spread. Of course no man In making a ship ment of apples has taken a second thought of this matter. When fruit is shipped long distances la boxes and barrels the worms have frequent ly emerged from the fruit and spun cocoons in the corners of the boxes and the moths have come out before the apples were disposed of. When the boxes were opened the moths, of course, went out and sought the near est , upple trees. Where there are largi commission houses the larvae crawl out of the apples and often get into cracks and under boards and spin their cocoons, and thence the moths emerge to become the means of in festing the orchards in that vicinity. When the spreading of this pest id so easily accomplished, it is a wonder that any part of the country remains where the codling moth is not. Had our people at first well under stood the importance of this pest and the method it uses In spreading from locality to locality It would have been comparatively easy to have prevent ed its spread altogether, for then only perfectly sound apples Could have been shipped to new localities. But with this, as with most of the other pest3 that have made trouble, we our selves imported it and carried it about with us, never thinking about the pos sible results. Now it must be fought and at great expense year by year in a million orchards. Our improvidence is costing us dearly. The spraying of the trees with arsenical poisons at the time the codling moths are laying their eggs is the only remedy that la very effective. Guard Against Forest Fires. Many readers of The Farmer*' Re view have small wooded areas that are of value. It has been shown that the greatest injuries come to these jreas from fires, which not only kill the standing trees, but, when they are well fed by underbrush and loppings of trees cut down, so destroy the soil that little will grow on It for many years. Too often these losses are oc casioned largely by the negligence of the farmers themselves, who take no precautions to keep the dried branches away. The time of the year is here when fires are annually re ported in large numbers. The first jthing to do at this time is to collect all the loppings of the trees and either draw them to the house to be used for k.ndling and fire wood generally or pile and burn them in places wnere a conflagration will not result. This is easy enough to do, but if they are left uncared for the whole wood lot is liable to suffer to the extent of hundreds if not thousands of dollars. We hear annually of a great many fires, but we must remember that only the largest fires get into print: The little fires that destroy only a few hundred dollars' worth of trees are never reported outside of the local press, as a little item of news. Thus it seems likely that there are In t^e country thousands of wood lots ruined by fires every summer. Now Is the time to take precautionary measures. --Farmers' Review. .4- ,. . Ir" <• - tii- isr'&v-". ' Less by Smut. ,3. Recently in walking through some Illinois wheat fields the writer was struck by the number of smutty heads that were found. In another field nearby the smutty heads were appar ently few, and the writer remarked on the fact. A farmer said that he was deceived by the lack of manifes tation of the smut, but that it was there all the same. Then he pointed out a large number of stalks that had attained only half height, as the smut had killed the head and the grain had stopped growing. It was so cov ered by the leaf that the smut did not show till it was looked for. Then, too, a good many heads had had the smut whipped off by the wind and did not show black to the casual glance; but when examined they were seen to be destitute of wheat grains; A care ful observer estimated that the loss from smut in that field would be at least 5 per cent. The injury could have been prevented by the expendi ture of a very small sum of money in treating the seed at time of sowing. Lousy Swine. Because the hog is a thick-skinned animal the impression prevails among farmers that he is little likely to be troubled with lice. In fact, we have ':r.own farmers that never in their lives did anything to assist the hogs in ridding themselves of vermin. Yet it often happens that lice get onto swine in such number as to greatly check the growing of the pigs, and the well-being of the old hogs is also af fected by the same cause. The pres ence of lice is sometimes not noticed till some of the hogs get weak enough to die and some do die. Lice of any kind on any kind of animals can be killed by applying grease; for by the grease the breathing* pores of the vermin are stopped up. Yet this work must be supplemented by a thorough cleaning of the quarters inhabited by the swine. , Seedlings grown in the shady and sheltered woods have their organs for transpiration, assimilation, etc., de veloped for that condition, and when brought out to a light, exposed place, are unable to cope with the new ape- • tfittoas aa4 41*-. r---- v ' ' " • FREE TO TWCNTV-FIVsi LADII9, The Deflanco Starca Co. wilt give 25 ladies a round trip ticket to the St. Louis Exposition; to five latf'es Id each of the following states: Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Mis- isouri who will send in the largest number of trade marks, cut from a ten-cent, 16-ounce package of Defi ance cold water laundry starch. This means from your own home, any where In the aboVe named states. These trade marks must be mailed to and received by the Defiance Starch Co., Omaha, Nebr., before Sep tember 1st, 1904. October and Novem ber will be the best months to visit the Exposition. Remember that Defi ance is the only starch put up 16 ox. (a full pound) to the package. You get one-third more starch for the 6ame money than of any other kind, atid Defiance never sticks to the iron. The tickets to the Exposition will be sent by registered mall September 6th. Starch for sale by all dealers. This CountryIs Safe,v;v ^ A lawyer of local prominettfce has large holdings in the west, and In. particular a gold mine in Colorado. He luiilt huts for his workmen and established a school exclusively the children of his employes. Some fifteen miles across the moun tain lived a ranchman with five child ren. There was no school near the ranch. • ' "But if there Is one overpowering trait which marks the American of the west it is the desire to give his children an education," said the law yer. "And to accomplish this that ranch fnan went to work in my mines for daily wages, so his children could attend the school." "I believe," he reflected, "America Is in no danger from the Colorado Americans."--Boston Record. The Rock Island System has done and is doing notably good work In en couraging immigration -to the South west. The agricultural and Industrial opportunities of that section of coun try have been persistently and sys tematically set forth, as a result of which the ntimbcr' of people who have settled in Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Arkansas this spring has been greater than in years. On three days In February and March, over six thou sand homeseekers took advantage of the low rates to the Southwest and removed themselves" and their belong ings to the "Land of Opportunity." Intelligent Customs Collector. Robert B. Armstrong, assistant sec retary of the treasury, relates that a newly appointed collector in one of the Interior ports had occasion re cently to pass upon the appraisement of a statue of the Venus de Milo Im ported for a local magnate. The col lector ordered the case opened, found the statue was without arms and en tered upon his returns "of no commer cial value; damaged in importation." Important to Mothers. Snmfne carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a Mfa MXI aura teaady for Infanta aad childraa, and Me that It Bear* the Signatare of is B|S Vor Over SO Year*. Tha Kind You Have Always Bought. j? Immense Oklahoma Farm. The Miller Brothers of Bliss, Okla., operate one of the largest farms In the United States, containing 61,000 acres, 9.000 of which they had planted in wheat this year. The land is own ed by t|ve Ponca Indians and is leased fjrom that tribe by the Millers. .il ^ This Wiii interest Mothers. Mother Gray's Swoet Powders for Chil dren, utuxl by Mother Gray, a nurse in I'hildrtWM Ilom.v, New York, Cure Fever- UhnotiH, Htul Stomach, Toothing Disorders, niovo and ivgulato the bowels and destroy Worm*, Hold by all Druggists, 25c. Sample 1* UKll, Addruaa A. S. Olmsted, LeIlo3 ,N.Y. Vagaries of the Profession. "| MW my doctor yesterday and he told me Ui take exercise." "I thought he told you to take a rest." "That was a week ago, and he mis took me for my brother." _ When Your Grocer Says he does not have Defiance Starch, you may te sur* he Is afraid to keep It un til hi* stor k of 13 OK. packages are aold. Defianoe Starch is not only bet ter than any other Cold Water Starch, but contains jl6 oz. to the packare and sells for same money as 12 oz. brands. Author of Popular Hymns. The tramp organist and hymn writer, Victor Benke, who was burned in New York a few days ago. was the author of "Abide in Me," "Just lor Today" and "Peace, Be Still." Courtesy lives by a multitude of little sacrifices, not by sacrifices of sufficient importance to impose any burdensome sense of Obligation.-- Hamerton. In the July "Craftsman" Irene Sar gent takes up the subject of "Art In the City," giving an article, "Munici pal Art from the Foreign Point of View.". Lucky anglers should fish in advance. Shall Farmers Raise Broilers? The farmer frequently asks himself if it will pay him to raise broilers. The prices quoted for such are "some times very high and the farm reader tan but help thinking what a revenue he would have if he had annually a few thousand pounds of broilers to sell. But, as a general thing, the farmer that has gone into broiler pro-, duetion has not made a success of it. That is one branch of poultry raising that seems to belong to the specialist. The raising of birds for the broiler market requires a very different set of efforts than uoes the production of farm fowls generally. In the first place the broiler raiser must do his hatching iu the Fall, and, of course, for this work must have incubators and brooders. Then comes the ques tion of an egg supply, which can sel dom be answered satisfactorily with out the fanner .building up a flock of hens that will produce him an abun dance of eggs in the late Fail and ear ly Winter. Our specialists have found it ad visable to build brooder houses that can be heated by steam. We know of on6 such recently build which cost $70U. Whether it will pay an; interest on the .investment we do not know, and neither does the builder. There are tew farmers that care to go so deeply as this into the poultry busi ness. Then the market for broilers is confined to the cities and to a lew lannlies and hotels in each. The broil ers have to be handled a certain way and be marketed through certain cuan- nets if the profits are to be preserved tor the raiser. The farmer seldom knows the ins aad. outs of the city murkets well enough to sell broilers to advantage. In the raising of broilers great skill is necessary, aud the man that is put ting most of his tiine on other tarm •worK is little liueiy to take time to, become skihtul wuh his poultry. This is the cause ot numerous failures with raising broilers on farms. This has led to/the centralizing of the Uroiler uusuiese in tne uauus of comparative ly few persons iivuig near the larger «ines, and these nave become spe cialists. If a farmer wishes to under take the business ot broiler raising, it would by all meai.s be best lor him to make a special investigation in person. Let him first go to the markets in the great cities and learn all there is to learn about prices, time of market and requirements and exactions of the ul timate customers. Then It would pay hhu to visit some of the farms on which broilers are being raised, and if be can fiud some l&rms that are rais ing broilers and producing other crops at the same time he should visit thenn determines to get t^oth sides of Ute story. There Is only one way for a novice to begin the broiler business and that is on a small Scale. If he depends on the experience of others and goefi in on a large sca>e the chances are that he will lose all he puts into the enterprise. There Is money in the broiler business, but it takes exper ience and skill to get it out. Call Ducks. There are two varieties of Call ducks the gray and the white. Both variet ies are bantams and are bred more for ornament than for profit. The gray Call ^luck is sometimes called The pleasantest things in the wbrld are pleasant thoughts, and the greatest art in life is to have as many of them as possible.--Emerson. It Is no trouble for the Undertaker to furnish goods made by the tional Casket Co., and you should Mk for them. Do the duty which lies nearest thee, Thy second duty will already have become clearer.---Carlyle. Smokers find Lewis' "Single Binder" straight 5c cigar better quality than most 10c brands. Lewis' Factory, Peoria, I1L All earthly joys grow less to the one joy' of doing kindnesses.---George Herbert. . - : Plso'a Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for oougbs and colds.--N. W. SUKDU, Ooeaa Grove, N. J., Feb. 17,1900. Money gets tight occasionally, but you seldom see it lying in the gutter. Try me Just once and I am sure to come again. Defiance Starch. "I took Peritna la* rummer whm J toat all run down, and had a headache and backotShe, and no ambition for anything. I now feci as well as I ever did iii all my life, and all thankt la due to your excellent Panwia." --Bess F. Healy. The symptoms of Summer ca tarrh are quite unlike iir different cases, but the most common ones are general lassitude, played- out, tired-out, used-up, rua-down feelings, combined with more or less heavy, stupid, listless, men tal condition. Relish- for food and the ability to digest food seems to be lost. Skin eruptions, sallow com plexion, biiliousness, coated tongue, fitful, irrepuiar sleep, help to complete the pictrare which is so common at this reason. Peruna ,sd exactly meets all these conditions that the dom&nd is so great for this remedy at this season of tlie year that it Is near ly impossible to supply it. Pa-f-u-na Contains No Narcotics. One reason why Perana has found permanent use in so many homes is that it contains no nar cotics of any kind. Perana la perfectly harmless. It can be used any length of time without acquiring the drug habit. Tbammnds of women nutter from pelvic catarrh , aervomness and don't know it, if you fee! fagged out» begio mi ooce taking Dr. Hart man'* Peruom, It wilt relieve your catarrhal affliction and all your organs will be restored to health, Bqy m bottle to-day, as It wilt immediately alleviate your case* Ask Tour HANDY BLUEING BOOK For Laundry Use Send lOc for package to « ... THE HANDY BLUEIM8 BOOK CO., 87 E. llkt St.vCfcicsg» Or Druggist The Sign of the CROWN •Trade-Mark. ••yst - At WHITE CALL. DUCKS. the Bantam Rouen, and the White Call duck the Bantam Pelvin. The two va rieties differ only In plumage. They are good for pets, and are also used as decoy ducks by duck shooters. They are not . Infrequently crossed with the Mallard uuck to make them more available as decoys. The re suit of such crossing are ducks that ! are both tame and domestic. One of the greatest drawbacks t > turkey raising Is the loss of youP - turkeys, due to wet weather. - 7 The convenience of buildings ht much to do with the success of unde takings In poultry raising. Too luuc^ work reduces the profit. The hous* wife usually has the work of carlr,K fgr the fowls on her hands; and whfiD; Is the woman thiit does not have all •he ran do In her d'wii house, to eav nothln* "Ut doors work,--Since she must do this work. It should be made a* easv as possible for herv La bor saving inventions here as on oth- j «r parts of the farm should not be neg lected. . v The Milker In the South. Many people wbnder why dairying has not advanced more rapidly in the South than It has. Northern people say that the south has an abundance of good grass, a mild climate and that all conditions are favorable for the de velopment of dairy industries. It would naturally be supposed that the negro tiller of the soil would find the cow to his liking, in a visit to the South tke writer was told that one great reason why dairying has not taken bold of the South more than it has is because the negroes will not milk for any length of time, One man said that if a negro bought a cow he would milk her all right as long as the novelty last^/i>ut that then he be- caaei^feHs^Tegular in his attention to the duties of milking. Perhaps he would go off for a day or two and during that time the cow would go uo- milked. Of course this is not the kind of treatment the cow should hare. She must be milked regularly, and this work is conhning. The white man seems the only one in this coun try that can settle down to the drud gery of the business with any pleas ure. i ' ilk " 5 •' •- * ' ' ' on $hoes Is a guarantee of GREAT MERIT Aak your Dealer fer the "STORM QUEEN" • Vlcl Kid water-proof, cush ion cork in*ol*.$|%$irSiw* for Women. "VICTORY" ; l3.SO,ndi4.WShMldfHM. ••EUREKA" . • S3.OO Shoe for Men. -WINCHESTER" S2.50 Shoe forMea. Write for Booklet. lt» free. EDWARDS - ST AN WOOD SHOE CO. * CHICAGO TTEFCOIFSJRLJ*# •'SOHNF In the giddkrt of gowns. ~ n* $un shines sultry onhtf In the lurficst of frowns. O'er the green she chases In a fierce perspiring mvdi Bui her clothes don't show a wMk 'Cause she used Dcfanca Stwdi AT ALL GROCERS 16 OUNCES FOR 10 COfflt, The Defiiflce Steel (il OMAHA, NE& ; Ypu Should Try IDdpifkike Delicious il_: Appetizing Nourishing •*That maple flavor.** % D O M I N I O N E X H I B I T I O N Jidy 26th to August 6th " The best Exposition of Agricultural and Indus trial Resources of Canada eyer made- An Aggregation of At tractions never before equalled at an Exhibition of this kind. Ample AcconmodatioB for Yisftan Low Railroad Rates from all United States Pointa. Particulars fires bj Canadian Government Areata at" MeareaS Ticket Agent. A Uaed bj G«o4 Hotuekeepwa KSTOVE POLISH IUQUII»r DOUITLUT Sold br Good Dealer*. Wlfl0l*-Stlck LAUNDRY Wf.tTE ' Won't »pin. Drank, freeie »or »pot cloth**, CoaU 10c. &»<1 equal* Sue. wortb ot any other blelBf KB A I, JUST.tTilt. 2 CAH acree in East Feliciana, Louisiana. ,3WU 11 mllei eut ot Korwood; fertile. nr»jered by Urine itreami; SOU acres Improved, cultivated !u corn end eottou; a.OuO ecrei Umber, wtllucut fea million feet. Spleudld iu>ck ranch. »15,0o0; um. Tfiomae J.Keruan, Baton Rouse, la. AVSTIN TOO The M. K- A T. R'j now reaofecs with Its own rails, all the more important eiiiee of Katy trains entered Auatia Ml Texas. June -'tftb, over the new exteaatoa Granger, on the main Um\ wh^reeieas nectioos are made * itb all importaat north aud south bound. ••Kuty'" Unfxcflliu service to uid viini cities of San Antvuio, Houston, DaBas, Fa Worth. Galveston. Waco and Auette. YW something now in uius&mtea Uteratoare about Texas aad the Seutv *«•!, vrHi a* m ST. LMK. m W. N. L , CHICAGO, No. >1, HOC When Answering Advertlseinsipl Kindly Mention Thla Papsrw ' r. v' \ * .IWr.' V" - " V V'"* s'Xi *•