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LIFE IN THE COUNTRY.
The Numbering of Farm Houses and
Free Rural Mail Delivery Would
Add to Its Comforts.

Residents of the country desire to
see the rural districts placed in every
practicable way on an equality with the
city, and city jewellers are gradually
learning that the whole land would be
materially benefited in many ways if
this end were attained. The improve
ment of highways by state aid is long
step in the right direction, and makes
possible the introduction of other fea-
lures calculated to ameliorate condi-
tions and bring the back country dis
tricts into closer touch with the world.
Easy means of communication, more
rapid transit, the electric car every
where crossing the land, free rural pos
tai delivery, and some plan for naming
roads and numbering houses so that
the farm house may be as readily To-
Gated as the city house, are among the
improvements that the near future
ought to bring.
A plan for the last-named purpose is
being pressed by the California Cultiva-
tor. All roads, beginning at the county
seat or end nearest, are divided into sec
lions of one mile each, and each mile
into ten blocks, with an odd number for
one side and an even one for the other.
The houses on each block are desig-
mated by the block number, with a dis
tinguishing letter following it. This
locates every house and tells how far it
is from the beginning of the road. To
find block 436, divide by two (as blocks,
and 2 are opposite each other),
getting 21s, and then divide by ten (as
there are ten blocks to the mile), and it
will be plain that block 436 is 21 8 miles
from the beginning Of the road. The
adoption of this plan, the Cultivator
thinks, would pave the way for speedy
enforcement of rural free delivery of
mails.-L. A. w. Bulletin.
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THE ILLS OF WOMEN
And How Mrs. Pinkham HELPS
Overcome Them.

Mrs. MARY BoLL1NGER, 11O1 Mariana
St., Chicago, ILL.,, to Mrs. Pinkham:
II have been troubled for the past
two years with falling of the womb,
leucorrhea, pains over my body, sick
headaches, backache, nervousness and
weakness. tried doctors and various
remedies without relief. After taking
two bottles of your Vegetable Com
pound, the relief I obtained was truly
wonderful. have now taken several
more bottles of your famous medicine,
and can say that am entirely cured. y
Mrs. HENRY DoRR, No. SOC Findley St. .
Cincinnati, Ohio, to Mrs. Pinkham:
For long time I suffered with
chronic Inflammation of the womb.
pain in abdomen and bearing-down
feeling. Was very nervous at times, and
so weak I was hardly able to do any,
thing. Was subject to headaches, also
troubled with leucorrhna. After doc
toring for many months with different
physicians, and getting no relief, had
given up all hope of being we'll
again when I read of the great good
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound was doing. decided immedi-
ately to give it trial. The result was
simply past belief. After taking four
bottles of Vegetable Compound and
using three packages of Sanative Wash
I can say I feel like a new woman. 1
deem it my duty to announce the fact
to my fellow sufferers that Lydia
E. Pinkhams Vegetable remedies have
entirely cured me of all my pains and
suffering. I have her alone to thank
for my recovery, for which am crate
full. May heaven bless her for the
good work she is doing for our sex"
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Hoods SarsapariIIa
Hoods pile cure Indigestion, biliousness.
SOME NEW WAR TERMS.
John Talked Poker in His sleep
and Had to Make an Ex.
PLANTATION.

"John, what makes you stay downtown 30
late; nights?" inquired an angry wife Of her
husband
They're talkin' war downtown and urge
that tell my experiences in the last war
as sort of pointers"
-, But in your sleep you say I'm in What
"Why, you know, if they'd ask me if I'd
go to, war again of course I'd say that,
wouldn't I, darling?"
aye, Yes, dear, and then sometimes you say:
chats when I'm going down the line
asking questions of my company"
It's open?'"
"Do say it loud?"
eyes, little bit EXPLANATORY"
"Well, that's when the engagement opens
up"
"And if you keep talking about the reds
and whites what's that?''
"Oh, bless you, that's the colors of the
flag"
"Well, don't go to war, will you, John?"
UNLESS my country demands it, then"
The explanation appeared to be satisfac-
tory.-Denver Times.
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There is another thing whereof I
must warn you. Whatever may be our
mutual good will for increasing the
prosperity of our country and our mu-
tual love of justice, we may be quite GER
tain that we shall not at once, nor in
as short time as we might wish, Grad
icate all abuses nor do as much good as
we are aspiring for. Even in Europe
and in the most prosperous countries
never met with people who were per-
fectly and unanimously satisfied with
the government and the state of things
in their own country. Therefore, let
us all make a rule not to complain pre-
maturely, because, Notwithstanding
our good will and our endeavors, every
thing is not going on according to our
| desire. In other words, let us be sat-
| isfied with what is possible and only
dream of what is perfect. Finally, let us
not exclusively admire what is foreign
and despise what is Siamese, nor exclu-
sivety admire what is Samese and de-
| spise what is foreign. There is in every
country, as in every human being, a
mixture of good and evil, and we must
try to initiate what is good elsewhere,
and at the same time not only to keep
but to develop what is good and worthy
of respect in our own national charac-
ter and nstitutions.-London Daily
| News
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RUNNING A CREAMERY.
Why n Good Many Enterprises of
This Kind Have Proved Finan-
cial Failures.

There are at least two good reasons
why many of the creameries in different
localities have proven failure. One of
the principal ones is lack of milk.
The creameries were built all right and,
with proper management, would have
turned out good quality of product,
but the amount of milk was insufficient
ural consequence was failure. While
creameres pay, they can only be made
to pay with plenty of milk, and in work
ing up a cooperative creamery one of
the first items to look after is the supply
of milk. The farmers must not only
keep COWS but they must keep good
dairy COWS and be willing to sell the
milk at fair price, and there must be a
sufficient number of cows to keep the
creamery running every day. Make
sure of the cows before undertaking the
building. Another cause is the invest
ment OF too much money. Too high a
price is paid to the promoters of the
scheme. The dairy business is of slow
growth and if, after a careful canvas,
the milk of only 300 cows can be re-
ceivcd it is rather poor economy to in
vest in building and machinery to
work up the milk of 500 cows. Then be
sure that, considering quality, you are
paying fair price.
One of the schemes worked that has
caused more failures than any other is
to induce the farmers and business men
to take stock in company to pay for a
creamery that the promoters will put
up all complete ready to make butter,
and at two to three times what the
building and machinery could have
been put in had more care been exer-
cised in the buying.-Dakota Field and
Farm.
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"Not in the least" replied Mrs. OAR

"Not in the least" replied Mrs. Oar
lngton.
At last she rose to 60, forgetting hel
parcels for the first time.
AS she got up, the sugar slipped from
under her arm and fell, the bag bursting
as it struck the floor.
Mrs. Darlington looked from he,
hostess to the sugar, and back again in
confusion. "Oh, am SO sorry" she be.
gan.
"Pray don't apologize" interrupted
the other brightly. 1T is really not
worth thinking about, though know
such accidents are very embarrassing
"You see," began Mrs. Darlington
again, trying to think of good reason
for making call with package OF
sugar under her arm, II did not intend
to come here when started out. ]
meant to take the sugar to one of my
poor families, but the day was so love.
ly, and-er-I had put off coming here
SO long that"
Il shall take the sugar up carefully
and give it to the woman who comes
to do my sweeping for me. It's an i'll
wind that blows nobody good, you
know, SO please think NO more about it, .
and Mrs. Madison resolutely talked OF
something else, until the door closed
upon her caller.
well, my DEAR" said Mr. Darling.
ton that evening at dinner, "did you call
our young neighbors to account to-
day? John told me when inquired for
you that he had left you at Mrs. Madi.
sons"
"Yes, went there" said his wife.
"What happened when you made you,
complaint? Did she promise to make
him hang up de fiddle o"
II did not make any complaint
After brief struggle with her pride
Mrs. Darlington told him the whole
story, and at her pathetic rendering OF
the sugar incident, he laughed till the
tears rolled down his cheeks.
When Mrs. Madison returned Mrs.
Darlington's call, it CHANGED that Mrs.
Mason was also there. Mrs. Mad;son's
costume left nothing to be desired, and
her manner was easy and gracious,
though she naturally followed the con-
versation instead of directing the choice
of topics as she had in her own home.
She accepted the ministrations of
Mrs. Darlington's servants with the
same grace she had shown when open
ing the door for and serving tea to that
lady.
When she had taken leave, after stay
ing just the proper length of time, Mrs.
Mason turned to her friend.
my DEAR" she said, "is that the wom-
an you told me had horsehair furniture
and wax flowers in her parlor?"
II was mistaken" said Mrs. Darling
ton, family Housewife.
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A CONFEDERATE CRUISER.
The Great Amount Of Property Cap.
tured by One Privateer i'm the
Short Space of Eight Months.

Just what one little privatcer can do
has been revealed by the short career
of the confederate cruiser Shenandoah.
She was actually cruising for the de.
struction of union property but eight
months, and during that time she cap
tured and destroyed vessels to the value
of $1,200,000, and the United States had
never been able to direct blow against
her. She had visited every ocean except
the Antarctic, covering a distance of
$4,000 statute miles. She destroyed
many whalers in the Arctic ocean. 1t
was there that the last gun for the
southern cause was fired. 1t was fired
from the deck Of the privateer cruiser
Shenandoah, by Commander James Ire
dell Waddell, on June %, 1865, just "a
days after the surrender of Lee at Ap-
pomattoX.
Commander Waddell could not per-
suade himself to enter an American
port, and for some time aimlessly
secured the seas. In August, however,
he spoke the English ship Barracuda,
bound from San Francisco to Liverpool,
and from her received conclusive evil
dence of the end of the war between
the states. He resolved to seek an Eng
lish port, and SO on November the
Shenandoah entered St. Georges chan
mel, having sailed $4,000 miles withou:
seeing land. On November she
steamed up the Mersey, and, the con-
federate flag having been hauled down
by Commander Waddell, he sent COM
munication to Earl Russell, English
minister of foreign affairs, placing his
ship at the disposal of the British gov
ernment. Through Earl Russell the YES
sci was transferred to the jurisdiction
of the American Minister Charles Fran
els Adams, who caused her to be con-
veyed to this country to be d;smantled.
Atlanta Constitution.
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"a Clog to Prosperity as Well as Comfort
The village which has placed its streets
in perfect condition and has neglected
the highways leading thereto, has ar.
ranged, like the lord of the manor, to
live in seclusion.
Has the village all it requires? Does
it depend upon anything or anybody for
its existence, growth and prosperity
Is it not, in fact, most dependent? Does
not every village depend upon the ex-
tent of the accessible area of which it
is the center and metropolis, and the
prosperity of that area?
The village cannot shift the burden
upon the farmer, nor the farmer upon
his brother farmer. Each is interested
and the contiguity of the highway is
but an incident. Suppose the Erie rail,
road were abandoned; whose loss would
be the greater, that of the farmer living
within one-half mile, or the one mile
distant?
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Regularity in Milking.

Regularity in time of milking is nee
essary. The dairy COW is good time
keeper, and knows very we'll when milk
ing time comes. If she is neglected and
allowed to go far beyond the regular
time she begins to worry and loss fol-
lows. There are some cows that GER
tain mixers can never get clean. They
milk out all that flows readily, strip
around once or twice, and call her fin
ished. With some cows this will do,
but with Others the mixer must reach
well up on the udder, and work it with
sort of kneading process. A little
manipulation of this sort will cause the
whole quantity to flow into the teats,
whereas without it there will be from
a gill to pint of the richest milk left
in the udder every time, which means
prematurely dry COW.
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DO NOT 0VERFEED.
How Dairymen Can Make a Complete
Success of Feeding the Calves
by Hand.

We are particularly anxious that our
readers should make a complete success
in growing calves by hand this year. AS
we have said before, the handraised
calf has become an economic necessity
both for the farmer and the feeder, and
in fact for the state. The impression
has become general that this calf cam
not be grown on separator milk. We
have held steadily to the contrary for
two or three years, and have given
enough letters from farmers who have
been solving the problem to satisfy
every reader that, given the separator
milk sweet and properly balanced with
cornmeal at the beginning, and shelled
corn afterward, this calf can be grown
to perfection. We wish, however, to
warn our readers against overlooking.
1t will not do to suppose that if calf
does well on four quarts of milk that it
will do twice us well on eight, nor will
it do to suppose that if the milk is not
properly balanced more of it will make
up for the lack of balance. We are sat
isfied that large number of the calves
that are spoiled in starting them in life
on separator milk, are spoiled by over
feeding. The separator milk from one
good cow will grow two good calves if
it is properly balanced. The calves do
not need much over half of the milk, and
if the other half is fed to the pi gs, bal
anced i'll the same way, there will be
plenty of profit to the man who goes at
it intelligently. Be careful about over
feeding with separator milk, and be
careful that what you do feed is prop
erly balanced with corn meal or flax
seed meal to start on, and with shelled
corn after the calf is two months DID,
Wallace's Farmer.
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y BALLADE OF BLUE JACKETS

The Don had his will with the maine"
He set Off his mine with a roar,
He Quaffed to our dead his champagne,
And laughed till his sides they were sore
a And now he must settle his score,
And pay for his sport, as is right.
Our navy Is brave, as OF yore, /.
And Yankee e-jackets can fight. -
sGs
Perhaps we are not in the vein
We pigs, as he's called us before
To laugh at our sailor-boys slain,
And SO his brave joke we deplore.
And flashing bolt from the shore
And sinking ship in the night
Was murder our blue-jackets swoFe-
And Yankee blue-jackets can fight.
Our guns at Manila spoke plain,
And sharp was the message they bore,
As swift through the squadron of Spain
Our death-dealing hurricane tore;
AS riddled and rent to the core,
Each cruiser plunged down out Of sight,
"One more for our sailors! one morar'
And Yankee blue jackets can fight.
At ENVOY.
Alfonso, just add to your store
OF learning this sentiment trite.
Remember the war isn't Ger,
And Yankee blue-jackets can fight.
Joe Lincoln. in L. A. w. Bulletin.
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HALF FARE,
Washington, ID. c., and Ret

WnshinEtOn, ID. C., and Return.
On July Sd to 9th, tickets will be sold from
all points to Washington, D. c., and return
via the Chesapeake and Ohio Ry at one fare,
National Educational Assn. Tickets viii
be good until July Is returning and may be
extended to August 3lst. This is the best
opportunity you will have to visit the ia
nous Mountain and Sea shore resorts of the
East, also Old Point Comfort and Hampton
Roads, the rendezvous of the North Allan
For particulars and sleeping car reserva-
tons apply to U. L. Truitt, Nor. West.
Pass'r Agent, 234 Clark St., Chicago, III.
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misunderstanding.

House-cleaning is duty in every well-reg.
ulated household. People don't wait until
the filth becomes painfully apparent, but it
or less dust or dirt accumulate. 1t is so
with the human blood. From the enormous
variety of eatables taken into the stomach,
quantity of useless material is bound to
accumulate in the blood and clog the free
and wholesome flow in the vessels. Every
person should from time to time have a
s'bloodcleaning" and the best cleanser and
blood purifier Is Cascarets Candy Cathartic
We recommend them to all our readers.
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Naval Neurasthenin.

"Naval neurasthenia" is caused by
the strain on the nervous system due to
inaction and confinement on board ship.
The symptoms manifest themselves in
various ways, principally in a nervous
irritability and an intense desire for
movement, no matter of what kind.
The affliction is not so pronounced in
the case of the sailors of the feet as it
is in that Of the marines. It is seldom
that the prostration is complete or lasts
for any length of time.-Chicago Times
Hera Id
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OVerdid II.

IT like the building we'll enough" said the
househunter to the agent, who had spent
half an hour showing him over the premises,
".but l am not certain about the surround
"Quiet?" said the agent. "You can't find
a quieter place in the whole city,
"Still. Isuppose the newsboys come around
here bright and early Sunday morning, just
when a man wants to sleep the soundest,
with their yells Of 'Mornin' pa-a.a-per!'
"No, sir, newsboys never come on this
street at ALL"
sThen I think I'll look little further.
I want quiet -neighborhood, but I don't
want one that's chicago Tribune.
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Six Best Winter Apples.

The best six kinds of apples for fam
lily use in winter and for market as we'll
are the King, Spy, Spitzenburg, Bald
win and Greening, for sour apples: and
for sweet apples, Pound Sweet for early
use and the Belle Bonnie for late use.
This last apple is great keeper, of
most delicious quality and a great bear
er. 1t is an old Connecticut fruit and
has been crowded out of sight by in
ferior sorts. To this list might be added
Hubbardston, Nonesuch and Seek-No-
Farther as apples almost sure to return
clean crops. 1t is remarkable how we'll
these apples resist the attacks of in.
sects and fungi.
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HOW TO CONTROL CATTLE.

bulls nose, or in the case of any other
animal strap just back of the muzzle.
Bind the sticks securely together where
they cross. Place ropes in the three
ends, get behind the animal, and he can
be easily managed, as great leverage
is secured. If he tries to run straight
ahead pulling on the upright will throw
the head up in the air.-Orange Judd
Farmer
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DR.. johnson Unappreciative.

Englishmen are so unappreciative.
When that uncultured cynic johnson
was dining with bright Scotswoman
land the adjective is always a super
fluity), he was politely asked how he
liked the haggis. ''Good enough food
for hogs" was his ungracious re-
Spouse. "Do let me help you to some
more, Mr.. Johnson" sweetly insinu-
ated the hostess. DR.. johnson never
could understand Scottish humor.-
Arena.
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Try Aliens FoOt.Ease,

A powder to be shaken into the Shoes At
this season your feet feel swollen, nervous
and hot, and get tired easily. If you have
smarting feet or tight shoes, try Aliens
Foot-Ease. It cools the feet and makes walk
ing easy. Cures swollen and sweating feet,
blisters and callous spots. Relieves cornsand
bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort
Try 1t to-day Sold by all druggists and shoe
stores for 25c. Trial package FREE. Ad-
dress, Allen S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
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NAV he a De.tinx Fellow.

=" 81 have just wead, said Chollie, chat the
y yeah on dwess It tp teWw ese snan
"What terriies you, you IDIOT" asked
his disguised father.
"To find that we aw so similar. Who
knows but I am one Of those destiny fel-
Journal
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Her Choice,

Dorothy's father had lately brought
home three cows, one of which was
black and white, and peculiarly marked,
while the other two were red. To her
mothers inquiry as to which her little
girl liked best, Dorothy replied: 81
I guess the one with the hit-or-miss
skin, mamma Judge.
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"FLOWERS! FLOWEE I"
Heard in u City Strcet-A Fea-
ture of Urban Life,

At one time and at one season and
another all sorts Of things are vended
through the city's streets, but one sees
no turnout more picturesque than that
Of the flower peddler seen in the spring.
There are likely to be two peddlers with
the wagon. SO as to cover both sides of
the street at once and to make the
shouting easier.
1t is lovely, lazy, hazy day, and the
horse moves along slowly and comfort
ably. The wagon he draws is filled from
end to end with Towering plants in bril-
liant bloom, moving mass of beauty.
The vendors, each with flower pot I'M
der his arm, with generous-sized,
green-stalked, red-topped plant pro-
jecting therefrom, walk one on either
sidewalk leisurely along, the horse and
wagon following as leisurely down the
center of the street; it all makes curl
GUS and attractive little city show and
no mistake; and as they go:
FLOWERS! Flowers!" shouts one
easy-moving vender, the red-topped
flower nodding under his arm, and
ElOWec! L lOWee. SHOUTS IN turn
the vender on the other side, his red
flower nodding, too.
And SO they go. If the horse takes
things too easily and doesn't come up
quite promptly enough. or sort of strays
off to one side, one of the men goes out
into the street and starts him up and
sets him straight again, and then he
goes back to the walk and starts on him
self and cries with long-drawn shout:
"Flowers! Flowers!"
And the other man says:
"Flowee!" Flowee!" and thus they
make their way down the street.
They'll sell many another thing be-
fore this time comes next year, cauli-
flowers, maybe, and peaches and water
melons, and lots of things besides; but
they'll sell nothing that will so catch
the eye of the beholder, nor anything
perhaps that will so please their own
fancy, as the bright flowers they are
selling to-day, when one says: GLOW
ers!" and the other "Flowee!"-N. Y.
Sun.
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HOW TO CONTROL THEM.
Makes the Management of Unruly
DOvines Very Easy.

Fasten a stout stick about six feet
long to the horns, allowing it to project
equally on either side of the head. Per-
pendicular to this place stick four feet
long and fasten it to the lower part of
the head by means of the ring in the