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The Western news., 1904-04-27
THE MARRIAGE QUESTION.

The professor who announced that Ulove
and romance die out with the sound of the
wedding bells" was the first to start the
ball rolling. 1t would seem brave woman
who rnarries with this echo in her ears, yet
we have not heard that there were fewer
marriages during the year. There are un-
happy married lives, but large PERCENTAGE
of these unhappy homes are due to the i'll
ness of the wife, mother or daughter.
During long period of practice, Doctor
Pierce found that prescription made up
entirely of roots and herbs, without the use
of alcohol, cured ninety-eight per cent. of
such cases. After using this remedy for
many years in his private practice he put
it up in form that can be had at any store
where medicines are handled.
Backed up by over third of century of
remarkable and uniform cures, a record
such as no other remedy for the diseases
and weaknesses peculiar to women ever
attained, the proprietors and makers of DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription now feel
fully warranted in offering to pay $500 in
legal money of the United States, for any
case of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness, Pro-
lapsus, or Falling of Womb which they can
not cure. All they ask is a fair and reason
able trial of their means of cure.
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures
headache, backache, nervousness, Sleep
lessness and other consequences of wom-
anly disease. "Favorite Prescription "
makes weak women strong and sick wom-
en- we'll. Accept no substitute for the
medicine which works wonders for weak
women.
The Western news., 1904-04-27
National Association Retail 0rOcers of
the u. S., San Francisco,
CAL, rlay 3, 1904.

For above occasion the Northern
Pacific will sell first class round trip
tickets to San Francisco for $50, and
round trip to Los Angeles for 500.
Date of sale April oath to May ?, 1904
inclusive. Going transit limit June
25, 1904, final return limit June 80,
1904. Going passage to commence on
date of sale and return passage on
date of execution. Stop overs allowed. i.
Valuation fee of 50 cents will be col
lected at destination when ticket is
presented for valuation.
2O-tf. S. r. WILSON,.
The Western news., 1904-04-27
Serious Stomach Trouble Cured,

| was troubled with distress in my
stomach, sour stomach and vomiting
spells, and can truthfully say that
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets cured me.--MRs. Il. v. WILL.
IAMS, Laing sburp, Mich. These tab.
lets are guaranteed to cure every case
of stomach trouble of this character.
For sale by Corner Drug Store.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

There are eighty counties in the
state of Nebraska now successfully
growing alfalfa. 1t is growing on the
river bottoms, on the dry sand hills. on
stiff clay soils, growing everywhere.
and it is the biggest strike which the
state has ever made.
The Western news., 1904-04-27
A Thoughtful Man.

NJ. NJ. Austin of Winchester, Ind,
knew what to do III the hour of need.
His wife had such an unusual case of
stomach II and liver trouble, physicians
could not hei p her. He thought of and
tried nr. Kings New Life Pills and
she GOT iet a, once and was finally
cured, Only 25c, at Hamilton Drug
Co.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

It is utterly useless to expect good
quality of beef from the old COW, no
matter how we'll she may be fattened
There is a certain maternal and an
cient toughness, sort of sole leather
librous texture, inherent in all such
beef which needs a famine appetite
and an unblemished set of molars to
handle.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

Save your legs and get one of those
new harrow carts and ride when drag
ging the corn. There is no merit left
in doing any kind of work in the old
hard way when there is better and an
easier way,
The Western news., 1904-04-27

We are just now using last Septem-
ber cheese cured in cold storage. and
its superlative texture and quality are
most convincing evidence of this new
method of curing cheese. Nothing
could have improved it save keeping
it six months longer under the same
conditions.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

An interesting agricultural item is
that a colored boy who had nerve and
grit enough to come north and work
his way through one Of the best agri-
cultural colleges of the west, taking the
full four years. course in agriculture,
has Immediately upon his graduation
been offered a nice position in the
south as professor of agriculture and
animal industry.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

Agricultural poverty Is almost un-
known in America-that sort where
men do not get enough to eat and
where taxation has become contisca-
ton. For years this condition pre-
vailed in Ireland. 1t is always pres
ent in Russia and India Three
ly heaven for one-third of the world s
inhabitants.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

Bronze grass, speltz, macaroni wheat
and alfalfa are four things which are
adding millions of acres of tillable land
to the arabic acreage of the semiarid
west
The Western news., 1904-04-27

Tie worlds cotton crop for 1903 is
placed at 1919. 7G5 bales. worth $7O2,-
OS22, 22,451, of which the United States
produced 1O,63O,94 bales, worth S5Ol.-
S01 ,135.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

List your property with us and get
on the Spring list. Money to loan,
fire insurance written and legal papers
made cheap. Call and See us if you
want to buy or sell. Ravalli Abstract
Co., Second Street, Hamilton. IS If
The Western news., 1904-04-27

This thing should not be overlooked
the farmer rarely has any bad debts to
charge up to profit and loss. as has the
business man. He may have poor
crops and meet with losses, but some
otl4er fellow is not running off with
his cash.
The Western news., 1904-04-27
a Newspaper Bargain.

The Western News. Tho Woman's
Home Companion and The Farm and
Fireside all one year tor only S2.S5.
Call Oh or. address The Western News.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

1t takes ginseng seed eighteen
months to germinate. while purslanc
and foxtail require only about that
many hours.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

AS we look over agricultural papers
from different sections of the country
we note that there is a wonderful
diversity in conditions. Some places
want more water. some want fertil-
zers, some more sunshine. some less
rain - hardly any place just right:
enough of everything, but not proper
ly distributed.
The Western news., 1904-04-27
Men OF Oak

Timbers of oak keep the old
homestead standing through
the years. 1t pays to use the
right stuff.
Men of oak" are men in
rugged health, men whose
bodies are made of the sound
est materials.
Childhood is the time to Law
the foundation for a sturdy con-
stitution that will last for years.
SCOTS Emulsion is the right
stuff.
SCOTS Emulsion stimulates
the growing powers of children,
helps them build a firm
foundation for a sturdy consti-
tuition.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

The law will not let you turn the wa
ter from your farm on to your neighbor
to his injury save as it flows down a
natural water course over his land.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

In certain parts of Africa, where the
OF the country, the only things in the
way of vegetation left are the leaves
of the coffee trees. These they would
not eat, while they even ate the bari.
of other trees.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

We never see clipped horse in early
spring but we are reminded Of the
cruelty Of such fad. No artificial
method Of protection can take the place
of the winter coat nature provides.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

Of the $25O,00O offered as premiums
for live stock at the coming worlds
fair the sum of $93500 is devoted to
the horse and the mule
The Western news., 1904-04-27

Christian Church South Second street.
Preaching every sunday morning and even
Ing by the pastor. The Q. e services com
mence at 1:OO y m. and the evening service.
ut $500. Each service lasts one hour. AL
are cordially invited 10 attend.
Il. Nj. DUNCAN. Pastor
The Western news., 1904-04-27

You may secure The Farm aud Fire
side and the Western News one year
for only ST. Call on or address
The Western News Stf.
The Western news., 1904-04-27
CHURCHES.

Catholic Church South Fifth Street. Ser
vices first aud third Sundays of each month
First Mas at & O'Clock a. N. Higl, Mass. fol
lowed by behcdtction. ut 1879 II. m. SUNDAY
schoot ut 2:3r =. m
CHARLES MAOaIS. Pastor
The Western news., 1904-04-27

Baptist Chu ch-South Fourth Street
Preaching first sunday in each month, ~
! a. m. and S:0'p M. and at3 p. IN third
Sunday. sunday school l0a. u. Preaching
a. Corvallis IS at II II. m. and Sp. m. ON scconG
Sunday Of each month.
w. r. RICKMAN. Pastor.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

Corvallis NJ T.. Church - Services every
first and third Sundays in ea.h month at
II 30 Il. m.. and T:N y. m. Strangers are al
ways welcome. IL. g. Williams. Pastor
The Western news., 1904-04-27

NJ. +. Church North Sixth street Preach
ing ut 10 II. M and p. IN Sunday schoo! Il
meeting every Thursday evening strangers
aIway> made welcome. J. A. SMITH, Pastor
The Western news., 1904-04-27

Two South Dakota boys have invent
ed method of exterminating prairie
dogs which they have patented and
which is such pronounced success
that it is said that the boys will make
fortune out of it.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

Presbyterian t'hurcll-SOuth Fifth Stree,
Preachng every sunday at II II. m. and s:0y
I. m sunday school III 10 a. n. Christian
Endeavor Sundays at 7:eo y. IN.
j. Il. BURKiIART, Pastor.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

In one Of the irrigation districts OF
India the value of the first crop raised
exceeded the entire cost Of the work.
The same thing will prove true to !,
lesser degree with several Of the irriga
ton schemes which the American gov
arid west.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

American beef has almost completely
captured the English market. A few
years ago when our beef first sought
the British market it could only be sold
disguised as English beef; now the
English beef has to be sold under the
American brand.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

The highways in many parts Of Ger
many are lined with handsome rows
of fruit trees. Their product is pro-
tected by law and when fit to pick is
sold at auction and the proceeds de-
voted to the improvement of the high
way. The European does some things
better than the American.
The Western news., 1904-04-27
DRAINAGE AND DRoUGHTs

An Omaha reader takes exception to
our statement that the drainage of
marshes and lakes in no perceptible
degree dimnishes tie rainfall of the
territory where located and that the
cultivation of Il seniaril region III no
way increases the rainfall. and lie pre-
sents some plausible arguments to
show that our contention is wrang.
Here are Il few facts for Cur friend to
consider: Lower California is an arid
desert Still it has the Pacific ocean
Oh one side and the guf on the other.
Why should it be dry when such an
enormous evaporation under Il tropical
sun is always in operation! The rec
ords show conclusivcly that in all the
territory west of the one huniredth
degree of west longitude the settle
ment Of the country ana the cUltiva-
ton of the soil have III no manner in
creased the average rainfall. Take the
Mississippi valley, the territory which
this statement is intended to cover,
and where does the water come from
Which makes up the average of thirty
to thirty-five inches per annum which
the states of Minnesota, Iowa. lii
nois and Missouri receive? Take the
state of Iowa. to Illustrate. TO give
this state one inch of rain would re-
Quire the evaporation OF the water of
a lake 20 by 271a miles in area and 8
feet in depth or a river Il mile wide, s
feet deep and $40 miles in length. The
yearly rainfall of 81 inches in that
state would make a lake 40 miles
long. 80 miles wide and 2G feet deep,
and if all the water in all the rivers.
creeks, lakes. ponds and sloughs in the
state was yaporiZed and returned to
the earth in the form Of rain it would
give less than an inch of rainfall. just
good sprinkle or dew. and that's all.
Now. whence comes the rainfall we
get? From the gulf of Mexico. The
Mississippi valley, if one could see it
pictured out in relief, would he seen to
be a vast trough reaching from north
ern Minnesota to the gulf of Mexico,
up which the moisture laden clouds are
driven by the south winds assuring
permanent and reliable rainfall and
making the valley the garden spot of
America. Had there been range of
mountains like the Rockies flung
across the lower part of this valley
all that part of it which lay at the
north would have been an arid desert.
For the past two years all the north
ern part of this valley. better drained
than it has ever been before-millions
of acres of swamp lands reclaimed by
drainage and put under cultivation
and lake beds converted into corn
fields-has been deluged with such All
excess of rainfall that all the drainage
done was utterly insufficient to dis
pose of the surplus water. 1t is now
well settled that timber grows in any
given territory because it rains there
and that it does not rain because the
! timber grows. The facts justify a
repetition Of the phrase. while drain
age will dry up the earth it will not
dry up the heavens" for the reasons
above stated.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

If you don't get the paper prom pity
please notify The Western News
Office.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

The hired man will always do best
when his boss sets him a good exam
pie.
The Western news., 1904-04-27
FIVE YEARS OF PROGRESS.

Five years have worked a marvellous
revolution in agricultural conditions in
this country through the general intro
duction of the system of rural mail de-
livery and the extension of farm tele-
phones. One does not at first realize
how great has been the change until
he goes to these rural communities re-
moved from their local trading point
or town from six to ten miles. For all
these so far removed from the centers
Of business to be brought into close
touch with the busy world each day
means much. There is more content
ment with farm life and rural condi
tions; it has widened the horizon of liv-
ing for all the young people; it has
brought the subtle and magic touch of
modern progress and civilization to ALL
On the trail of these agencies is fast
coming a revolution in agricultural
methods; new and better ways are be-
ing followed, and from being SO gen
orally regarded as a despised avocation
agriculture is being elevated and dig
nified into most honorable profess
sion. And the end Is not yet.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

When one can control space and the
temperature within that space he can
do many profitable things. He can
make a winter garden Of it as in a
greenhouse and sell flowers and early
vegetables, or he can make refriger-
ator of it during the summer and pre-
serve indefinitely all kinds of perish
able commodities. There is good mon
ey in it either way.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

for ';35 per acre for the growing of
cantlloupe melons.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

If you want to realize what the de-
velopment Of the cold storage industry
has done for the country recall the
time few years ago when your April
and May eggs sold for 6 cents dozen
and the best butter you could make for
10 cents pound. Cold storage has
doubled the price to the producer Of
both commodities.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

The people will always look with
suspicion upon any line Of business
which is able by law to make prices
both ways-buying and selling. This
fact is what is causing the govern
ment investigation into the methods of
the SO called beef trust. 1t arbitrari-
ly fixes both the price of the fat steer
on the hoof and every commodity
which is made from him. 1t is enough
to let fellow fix the price one way.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

All through the corn belt it is now
we'll settled that the silo offers the
cheapest and most economical method
of getting all the value out of the corn
crop and securing a supply Of sue
culent winter forage for the stock on
the farm. This truth makes headway
slowly, but the time is coming when
the silo will be an accompaniment Of
the big red barn on every we'll man
aged western farm.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

We have great respect for what we
call an emergency man, the man who
when the unexpected turns up is equal
to the occasion, the man who if he
finds a thing cannot be done in one
way knows how to try another, the
man who, given general directions, has
sense and wit enough to work out the
details of how to do it in the right
way. Such men are pretty scarce, but
would be more plentiful If our boys
were better trained.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

Again the lightning rod. Is it of
any use: That depends. If light
ming would always go where it ought
to we would put up rod, but it
doesn't. The best protection is a life
insurance policy for yourself and
lightning clause in your fire insurance
policy. The value Of the rod depends
almost wholly on its having perfect
earth connection, and not one rod in
twenty has this, and is thus made a
menace rather than a protection. Any
how do not patronize a lightning rod
peddler unless you want to get some
points on the business.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

Ninety young people recently grad
uated from the three year course Of
the Minnesota Agricultural college. OF
these. thirty-three were young ladies,
and the question comes up, Where
could thirty-three young ladies be found
better fitted to successfully meet all
the responsibilities of modern woman
hood? The fifty-seven young men will
be heard from as stock raisers, fruit
growers, teachers in other colleges.
possessed as they are of what is really
among the most valuable knowledge
attainable by man-the knowledge how
best to use the earth to make it minis
ter to the wants of the race.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

Birds have almost as hard a time
making a final selection of a place in
which to build a nest as some folks do
in hunting a house to live in. We
watched robin the other day engaged
in hunting place for nest. He Gt
was the male bird was engaged in
sizing up the crotch of small elm
tree. He got into the crotch to see
. it was large enough to hold the
nest, turned round and round, flew
off several times and came back. final
ly went off and returned with his mate,
and together they evidently discussed
the matter just as humans would.
They went off and returned three days
later and commenced building the nest,
after looking up other locations prob
ably.
The Western news., 1904-04-27

A Chicago florist who was candi-
date for alderman of that city did an
altogether unique thing on Easter Sun
day to propitiate the voters Of his
ward He lavishly decorated the
twenty-nine churches in his ward with
the choicest floral wealth of his green
houses and saw to it that every man,
woman and child received carnation.
This is ever so much nicer than tap
ping lot of pony kegs.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-11-19

The value Of wood and coal ashes
that accumulate about the house Is
often not realized. Wood ashes contain
about two per cent. Of phoSphorfc acid.
and from two to eight per cent. Of pot
ash, or an average Of about five per
cent, potash. This wound make the
ashes worth thirty cents a hundred
pounds for these elements alone as a
fertilizer. Wood ashes also contain
about 40 per cent. lime, which is worth
something as an indirect fertilizer.
A moderate application of wood
ashes is a valuable aid in getting a
stand Of clover on soils that will not
bring a paying crop Of clover without
the ashes.
Coal ashes are not so valuable for
the direct plant-food, but are valuable
as an indirect fertilizer. | never saw
it fail to help the grass crop to give the
sod a light dressing Of coal ashes dur
ing the winter or early spring-Farm
and Fircside.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-11-19
An Honest Opinion.

Mineral, Idaho, Nov. l4th Especially
That a sure cure has been discovered for
those sciatic pains that make 30 many
lives miserable, is the firm opinion of MIR.
u. s. Colson, a well. known resident of
this place, and he does not hesitate to
say that cure is Dodd's Kidney Pills.
The reason Mr.. Colson is so firm in bis
opinion is that he had those terrible
pains and is cured. Speaking of the mat
ter he says:
~ am only too happy to say Dodd's
Kidney Pills have done me lots Of good.
] had awful pains in my hip 80 I could
hardly walk. Dodd's Kidney Pills stopped
it entirely. | think they are a grand
medicine"
All Sciatic and Rheumatic pains are
caused by Uric Acid in the blood. Dodds
kldney Pills make healthy kidneys and
hcalthy kidneys strain all the Uric Acid
out of the blood. With the cause re-
moved there can be no Rheumatism or
sclatlca,
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-11-19
|IHE JAPS AND THE MULE.
nice Growers OF Nippon Are Not Anx-
ious to Employ the Hybrid
In Their Work.

80 the Japanese rice growers are
not willing to tackle that interesting
utiVe institution, the American mule.
! Eithout the aid Of home folk" said
40 observant man, &C o-ding to the
New Orleans Times Democrat, "and
can see where they are right about
DE matter. The American mule ia
longeared, Quick-h eeled, supple
j fnted mystery. and nc man, no mat
r how wise he may 10, can do any
Ming with him unless he have special
mining. AS a matter OF fact, the
4 White mar In America Ia sadly de
4 sient when 1t comes to a working
knowledge of the mule. Up to the
resent writing the American negro
the only living person who can
him anything like mastery when II
nmes to the mule. Somehow there
h something In the nature Of the
Nack a and the mule which makes
u easier for them to get along. Just
What 1t Is l do not know. But even
he black man will have his ups and
Downs nov and then with the mule,
md | have seen some very interest.
Lg instances of this kind, one of the
most amusing being that of an ex.
tsmely hard skulled ne gro who never
wanted a better weapon than his head
ID any sort OF conflict with man or
beast.
One day he fell out with his mule. |
Ordinarily, they get along we'll enough
hgsther. But In some way the mule
10 the day In question made the
lsgro mad and the fight began. In
lhe first place, the negro broke his
water Jug over the mules head. This
Nd not feaZe the animal. Grabbing
he mule by the ears and taking a
god, firm grip, the black man landed
With yigor between the mules ears,
ring his head Is a weapon. The blow
vas a knockout blow All right, but
DE trouble was that 1t knocked the
negro out also, Both mule and negro
to the ground like dead. In q
short while both were fairly good
again. The Japs are right.
They will need special training on
mule proposition and no mistake,
md the negro is about the best man
lAsy can get to do the training"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-11-19
Caulihower au Gratin,

Place one large caulifower stem end
downward in a kettle of sailed boiling
water and cook until tender. When
done take up and drain. Mix one level
tablespoonful of butter and one table
spoonful Of flour together, add one gill
Of cold water, stir this oVer the fire until
thick and smooth, then add one table
spoonful of cream and a pinch of salt;
stir into this one tablespoonful of
grated Parmesan cheese and pour this
over the caulifower, sprinkle a table
spoonful of the grated cheese over the
top and place in the over to brown.
Serve very hot in the dish in which
cooked Star.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-11-19
WHAT He GOT THEM WITH
No Ailments in the Crowd, But ths
fakir Had Something That
Sold Quickly,

Gentlemen" began the fakir a. IA, mr..
ranged numerous bottles on 4 little tsbIs
at a downtown street corner and prepared
tor business, has anyone in this crowd
got q toothachef"
No one answered, relates thu Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Acheg"
Not a man had anything to say.
Very well, then; but are you troubled
with insomnia! Are you low spirited.
eids,"
The appeal was like the other-in vain
The crowd elhowed each other, but 40
one advanced.
Very we'll, gentlemen: very well. Now
10 there anyone here who INDUCES in in.
t~o1icants and wishes to conceal tho fact
from tho women folks? If SO, guarsn.
tee that one drop of this maryelou.
preparation placed on the tongue will in.
stsmtly remove the odor Of any"
There was a mad rush from all dlrrs-
tions, and for the next f.. minutes he
gave change and passed out the bottI.s
with both hands.