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The Western news., 1904-04-20
Robbed The Grave.

A startling incident, is narrated by
John Oliver of Philadelphia, as fol-
lows: II was in an awful condition.
My skin was almost yellow, eyes
sunken, tongue coated, pain contin-
ually in back and sides, no appetite,
growing weaker day by day. Three
physicians had given me up. Then l
was advised to use Electric Bitters; to
my great joy, the first bottle made a
decided improvement. l continued
their use for three weeks, and am now
a well man. l know they robbed the
grave of another victim" No one
should fail to try them. Only so
cents, guaranteed, at Hamilton Drug
Co.
The Western news., 1904-04-20
National Association Retail Orocers Of
the u. S., San Francisco,
CAL, rIay 3, 1904.

For above occasion the Northern
Pacific will sell first class round trim
tickets to San Francisco for $50, and
round trip to Los Angeles for $50.
Date of sale April Gath to May 2, 1904
inclusive. Going transit limit June
Is, 1904, final return limit June 30,
1904. Going passage to commence on
date of sale and return passage on
date of execution. Stop overs allowed.
Valuation fee of so cents will be COL
lected at destination when ticket is
presented for valuation.
2O-tf. S. r. WILSON,
The Western news., 1904-04-20
A ROAD PROBLEM.

We attended a farmers institute this
winter in a section where bad roads
were not the result of rain and mud,
but where their worst roads were in
the driest times, the soil being Of a
light, sandy texture, which would not
compact by travel. How to make these
roads passable in dry time was one
Of the most important topics discussed,
and it is a problem, much as the man
who lives on the gumbo soils may feel
like laughing at it.
The Western news., 1904-04-20
Sciatic Rheumatism Cured.

II have been subject to sciat,c rheu-
matis,n for years. says T.. II. VALID
ron, of Wilton Junction, Iowa. M,
joints were stiff and gave me muC h
pain and discomfort. My joints would
crack when Strengthened up. fused
Chanberlain's Pain Balm and have
been thoroughly cured. Have not had
pain or ache from the old trouble for
many months. 1t is certainly most
wonderful lininient.'' For sale by
Corner Drug Store.
The Western news., 1904-04-20
COPE:

Like the running brook, the
rcd blood that flows through
=, veins has to come from
olncWhere.
The springs of red blood are
lound in the soft core of the
Lones called the marrow and
some say red blood also comes
from the spleen. Healthy bone
marrow and healthy spleen
a"e full of fat.
SCOTS Emulsion makes new
blood by feeding the bone
marrow and the spleen with
the richest of all fats, the pure
cod liver oil.
For pale school girls and
invalids and for all whose
blood is thin and pale, SCOTS
Emulsion is a pleasant and rich
blood food. 1t not only feeds
the blood-making organs but
gives them strength to do
their proper work.
Send for free sample
1oo.,,s pss SCOTT ( E & BOVINE, Chemists,
SOC. and Fl LOO; all druggists.
The Western news., 1904-04-20
Serious Stomach Trouble Cured.

l was troubled with a distress in nv
stomach, sour stomach and vomiting
spells, and can truthfully say that
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets cured me.-MRS Il, V, WILL.
1AMs, Laingsburp, 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., 1904-04-20
DOGS.

A reader wishes us to say something
about dogs-the utterly useless ours
which are such an all round nuisance
everywhere. There is not much to be
said, and what there is will do no
good. Just so long as men and women
are what they are they will keep dogs,
whether they need them or not. The
keeping of dogs seems to us to be an
outgrowth largely of Il hereditary in
stinct in the human race, dating from
the old barbarian days when the dog
was Indispensable in the economy of
human living. Dogs have their place
even today in the field, on guard as
stock herders, possibly as pets for lit
tie folk, but when we see fine lady,
who ought to have a nice baby boy or
girl to care for, Juggling around one of
these hideous and measly pug nosed
little brutes and lavishing a mothers
etfusive affection upon it. it makes us
weary and tempted to say ungallant
things. When the whole indictment is
specified against dogs in general, their
meannesses, their predatory habits,
their cruelty, the wonder is why so
many utterly useless brutes are per
mitted to live.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

Tastes differ much in the matter of
howers. For us we like the Gamma, a
geranium bed, a group of branching
asters, by all means bed of salvias.
pansies and nasturtiums. There are
many others, but these will always re-
ward one.
The Western news., 1904-04-20
A Thoughtful Man.

NJ. M. Austin of Winchester, Ind,
knew what to do in the hour of need
His wife had such an unusual case of
stomach and liver trouble, ply sicians
could not help her. He thought of and
tried DR.. Kings New Life Pills and
she got relief at once and was finally
cured. Only 25c, at Hamilton Drug
Co. 4
The Western news., 1904-04-20

A New York reader wishes to know
how to put up grated horseradish at
home and have it retain its color as
well as that which is put up by the
professional Gamers. We cannot an
swer his query further than to say that
the discoloration referred to is doubt
less due to the imperfect exclusion of
the air
The Western news., 1904-04-20
A Newspaper Bargain.

The Western News. The Woman S
Home Companion and The Farm and
Fireside all one year tor only S2.S5.
Call on or address The Western News.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

st. Pauls Episcopal Church-South Third
street. Services on Sunday vt II Il. m. and
500 p: m except on the first Sunday in each
month. when there will be no service On
be Il celebration Of the holy communion ar
n. m, Sunday school every sun " 1T ~ a.
m. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. followed by choir
practice. j. W. FoGARrY. Rector.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

The highest valuation quoted on any
railway stock in this country is on the
White Pass railway In Alaska, which
Is quoted at $675 per hundred dollar
share. It is 12O miles long and pays a
80 per cent dividend annually. 1t very
nicely illustrates the money value of
being absolutely free from competi-
ton.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

Alfalfa and trolley railways are re-
generating the state Of Ohio-the al
falfa is restoring the lost fertility of
the soil and the trolley is making life
In the country accessible to the people.
with all it's advantages. Indiana, ILL
nois and Iowa are beginning the good
work too
The Western news., 1904-04-20

Through much of the west farmers
need more to learn how to raise crop
of potatoes than how to improve their
corn or their dairies. Not one farmer
In twenty where the writer lives raised
last year enough potatoes for his own
use and has to buy what he gets at
over 81 a bushel.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

The minimum rates of transportation
are about reached by the great railway
corporations of the country. They can
hardly further improve the physical
condition of their systems by eliminat-
ing grades, using bigger engines or lar
ger freight cars so as to much further
lower freight rates.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

1t is rather curious trait in the dog
that when he falls into the habit of
killing and worrying flocks Of sheep he
will never do his work near home. He
will almost invariably travel several
miles for his victims.
The Western news., 1904-04-20
TO THE FARM BOY.

We know that Il great many nice
bright boys on the farms read these
items week by week. boys who for lit
tie fellows have to work hard milking
the cows, feeding the stock, doing the
chores, and it is likely that some such
boy often wishes that he could see
more of the big old world than is re-
vealed to him OH the farm among the
fields, meadows and orchard Maybe
he has longing to know more and be
something more than d mere farm
drudge. Well, you can Go it, my boy,
If you want to. Read all you can.
Books and papers of the best sort are
plenty and cheap. Work your thinker
as you ride back and forth on the corn
or sulky plow. Let trash alone-trash
company, trash literature. trash recre-
alton. Study Natures book. Nature
is Il good teacher and is patient with
those who would learn Of her. Study
the clouds. the winds. the weather.
the seasons. Learn the names Of the
plants. grasses. flowers. weeds. trees
and shrubs. Find out something about
SAiN 'poIA soi ploN anu SultlN ttC anu
why some fields on tin, farm are better
for corn and some for grass than 9TH
ers. Watch the birds. their mgrations
and nest building; get Il specimen egg
OF all the birds you find on the farm
and learn the names of all the birds,
ind out what they eat and why they
are mans best friends. Find out how
the limestone came to crop out along
the creek bed down in the pasture and
how that big hardhcad came to be
dumped down all by itself in the
meadow. Make up your mind to know
something and start with those things
which are all around you every day.
Hunt for knowledge just as Il wood
pecker does for worms and grubs on
the dead tree-up and down. round and
round, prying into every crack. knock.
Ing off the dead bark and moss-at it
all the time. Using boyhood's days in
this manner, the world grows ever so
large even out on the farm. and knowl-
edge so acquired is education Of the
broadcast and best sort.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

Comparisons sometimes help one to
feel more contented with his lot in life
It would be hard to find any ablebodied
man in this country who earned so
small a sum as $50 year and fed him
self and family with it, but China and
India have such people by the hundred
million
The Western news., 1904-04-20

Much interest and discussion is be-
ing taken in the plan of teaching the
elementary principles Of agriculture in
the country schools. The plan has
much to commend it. Plant and ami
NAL life studies always interest the lit
tie folks.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

A long drawn out winter season is
not so much of an objection where one
lives in a timbered country or owns a
timbered farm, but where one has a
prairie farm it is a serious objection.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

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., 1904-04-20

Man is millionaire many times over in
the possession of blood cells. Woman is
not quite so rich, for scientists have proven
that the normal number of red blood cells
in adult men is five million; in women four
and a half million, to the square millimeter.
The normal cell is not absolutely round
in health, but, in disease, becomes ex-
trenely irregular in shape. Every one can
be in perfect health and possess the mil
lions of rich red blood corpuscles if they
only know how to go about it. DR.. r. v.
Pierce, consulting physician to the Inva-
lids Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buff
falo, N. Y, advises every man and woman
to prepare for long life by observing ma
ture's laws. In the first place, if your
digestion is faulty, and the food you
eat is not taken up by the blood and assim-
ilated properly, you need a tonic and diges-
tive corrector, something that will increase
the red blood corpuscles; he believes in
Years ago, in his active practice, he found
that an Alternative extract of certain herbs
and roots, put up without the use of alco-
hol, would put the liver, lungs and heart
into fuller and more complete action. This
medicine he called DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. By assimilating the
food eaten, it nourishes the blood, and, in
stead of the ill-shaped corpuscles, the per
sons blood takes on a rich red color and
the corpuscles are more nearly round.
Nervousness is only the cry of the starved
nerves for food, and when the nerves are
fed on rich red blood the person loses
those irritable feelings, sleeps we'll at night
and feels refreshed in the morning.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
If you want to know about your body,
read DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser, which can be had for the cost of
mailing, 81 cents in one-cent stamps for the
cloth-bound book, or 2I stamps for the
paper-covered volume. 1908 pages. Ad-
dress DR.. R. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse the
bowels and stimulate the sluggish liver.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

The hide Of the average horse is
worth about So. 1t pays to save it.
More leather goods are made of horse.
hide than people have any idea Of.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

A friend who set out a windbreak of
Scotch pines twelve years ago writes
us that it was one of the best invest
ments he ever made; that the trees
are now perfect windbreak twenty
feet high. He planted selected nursery
trees from three to four feet high, set
two rows, breaking joints, trees six
teen feet apart each way.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

The onions which were slow sale last
TALL ut 40 cents bushel are in sharp
demand this spring at 81 per bushel
and over. But, then, we did not know
that the market would take this sort of
a turn. The onion is the most uncer-
tain of all crops.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

We have friend who always sows
clover seed with all his small grain
regular course of rotation is, but we do
know that he has a wonderfully pro
ductive farm, and it has been under
cultivation for sixty years.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

There is nothing now here or ever
likely to be here in the line of trans
portat ton which can compete with
trolley car which will stop at any
farmhouse and take on the farmers
wife and ber basket Of eggs.
The Western news., 1904-04-20
CHURCHES.

Catholic Church South Fifth Street Ser
vices first aud third Sundays of each month
First Mas AT 5 O'Clock II m. High Mass, fol-
lowed by benediction. AT l0:3oa. m. Sunday
school AT e:Jd p. IN.
CHARLES MAOKIN, Pastor.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

When one can sell cord wood for Sc
per cord and buy hard coal for $3.50
per ton. there is good money in selling
the wood and burning the coal.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

The war in the far east Will cut off
the supply Of butter from Russia and
the countries which she has been sup
plying will have to import 10000 tons
from the United States and Canada to
take it's place.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

Preaching every sunday morning and even
Ing by the pastor. The g. f service, com
mence at 200 y. IN. aud the evening service
At 500. Each service lasts one hour. Al
are cordially invited to attend.
X. NJ. DUNCAN. Pastor,
The Western news., 1904-04-20

You may secure The Farm and Fire
side and the Western News one year
for only $2.25. Call on or address
The Western News. Stf.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

The Russian has but 100 days in the
whole year during which he can work.
The others are all either Sundays or
church holidays. whith makes it case
of piety begetting poverty with a
vengeance.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

A hen can lay, all told about GOO
eggs, and it will take her eight or nine
years to do it. Most of these will be
laid during the second and third years
of her life.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

NJ. T.. Church-North Sixth street. Preach
ing 1T 1na. m and p. IN Sunday school ~
a. NJ Epwurtl Leagne ZOO y. IN PRAYER
meeting every Thursday evening Stranger,
always made welcome. j. A. SMITH. Pastor
The Western news., 1904-04-20

Baptist Chu tch-South Fourth Street
Preaching first sunday in each month AT
II a. m and 500 p m. and at 3 p m third
Sunday. Sunday school l0a. IN. Preaching
a. Corvallis at II Il. m. and sp. m. on second
Sunday Of each month.
w. r. HICKMAN. Pastor
The Western news., 1904-04-20

The rigid inspection by the state of
all milk sold in the cities always in
'creases the average of butter fat in the
product
The Western news., 1904-04-20

We can readily see how cats can be
made to regulate the supply of rats
and mice, but what really interests us
more is to find out some way to regu-
late the supply Of cats.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

Presbyterian Church South Fifth Stree,
Preaching every Sunday at II IA. IN. and 500
2 m. Sunday school at 10 II. II Chri>tiar Il
EndeavOr Sundays at 200 y. m.
}. e. RURkHART Pastor.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

Corvallis NJ +. Church - Services every
first and third sundays in each month at
ll:a0 II. M, and 7:3O p. m. Strangers are al
ways welcome. IL. g. Williams. Pastor
The Western news., 1904-04-20

Peaches and plums from Cape Town
were to be had on the Cleveland co.
market fresh and nice, brought from
Africa in cold storage, this during Feb
ruary, whic't IS the South African fall
OF the year
The Western news., 1904-04-20

If you don't get the paper prom pity
please notify The Western News
office.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

Cotton in Texas and potatoes in Col
orado were two OF the most profitable
crops grown last year.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

When the white fronted and snow
geese are seen migrating northward
there is always warm weather not far
behind them. They are the most relia-
Ole of all wild fowl in this particular.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

The average earnings of the agricul-
tural laboring class in Russia is said to
be $12S per year, and out of this the
government takes the sum of $4S as
taxes.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

The robin, which nests in March,
probably raises second brood later
on in the season.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

Any land where a good crop of cot
ton may be grown in this country
should be considered cheap at 500
per acre in view of the probable flu
ture prices of the staple
The Western news., 1904-04-20

A good many of our readers will be
wanting to fix up a bit of new lawn
this spring. and a suggestion on this
line may prove helpful. The soil should
first be well spaded or plowed, be re-
duced to the finest filth possible and
should be we'll fertilized. II the soil
Is very sandy, few loads Of muck or
clay should be Incorporated with the
sand. For seeding we know Of nothing
better than blue grass and white clo-
yer. The clover will make a pretty
good lawn right away during the first
season, while the blue grass will not
show up much till the next season,
when it will gradually crowd the clover
mostly out. After the seed is sown the
lawn should be well rolled to get It as
level and compact as possible, and a
supply Of water for it is Indispensable
to have it do well the first year.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

In these days Of sharp business COM
petition and improved commercial
methods eggs are still sold by count
and not by weight, an unjust and un-
fair method, the like of which is not
found in the buying and selling of any
other commodity that we know of. The
French people long ago discarded the
count method, and we wonder why it
10 not done in this country.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

Our observations lead us to believe
that not less than 60 per cent of the
young birds which are hatched of al
most any species, save the sparrow,
are destroyed from one cause or an
other before they are able to leave
the nest and care for themselves. The
domestic cat is one of their worst enc
mics, the crow and blue jay raid the
nests of the tree building birds. while
the skunk raids the nests of those
which build on the ground. We have
known cat to wipe out a family Of
eight young wrens in one afternoon,
taking them one by one as they left
the nest. Birds, like men, find it hard
to adapt themselves to civilized condi-
lions. When we consider the trage-
dies which beset all bird lie the won
der is we have any birds left.
The Western news., 1904-04-20

All plants, such as the cabbage, eel
cry, tomato. pepper and eggplant, most
lowers grown from the seed and all
trees raised from the seed or nuts are
greatly benefited by transplanting
when young one or more times before
dnal setting out. They thus obtain
bushy, stocky habit and a large root
system and invariably make fine and
thrifty plants and trees.
The Western news., 1904-04-20


The standard varieties of apples
the sorts which the money is made
froln-are invariably prolific fruiters,
fact which some men overlook in Sc
lecting their orchard stock. Many of
the choicest apples in quality are such
shy and uncertain bearers that they
are utterly Improbable to raise. It is
this quality Of productiveness and re-
liability which places such apples as
Wealthy, Ben Davis, Patterns Green
Ing and Longiield in high favor. When
this type Of fruit is planted one knows
he will have apples to sell.
A serious risk is always run when
seed corn is imported from a latitude
OF one or two hundred miles to the
south of where it is to be used. The
use of Illinois grown seed in Wiscon-
sin, the north half of Iowa, South Da-
kota and Minnesota is almost sure to
make trouble. as such seed simply can
not and will not mature a crop in the
short season of the territory alluded
to. 1t is better to have field Of corn
four feet high, with forty bushels of
good sound corn to the acre, than a
deld of corn twelve feet high and six
ty bushels Of soft corn to the acre,
and a risk is run right here whenever
seed is bought Of the big seed houses,
who too often entirely ignore the fact
seferred to.
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-21
JAPAN's RAPID PROGRESS.
Has Converted Herse1f Into a Power. ful Nation in the Last Quarter
 of Century.

When I visited Yeddo and the ports of Japan in the winter of 186O-61 the country was ruled upon the most exclusive Japanese methods, wrote Lord Wolseley in the Cosmopolitan in 1895. The people were held in subjection by a hereditary nobility who ruled them with a rod of iron. They were then far behind China in all matters connected with sea pow. CT, for in order to prevent any communication with foreign places all Japanese junks were, in accordance with the law, con. structed with low, open sterns, so that they dared not venture be. yond few miles from shore.
 No one can be blind to the enor. nous strides in progress Japan has made, the immense reforms she has effected and the powerful nation she has converted herself into during the last quarter of a century. The result is the crea. tion of power in the eastern seas that must in future be always taken into consideration by west. ern statesmen.
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-21
Turkish Beds.

A recent writer on Turkey says: "Bedsteads are not used by the Turks. Each room contains a large cupboard, built into the wall, in which the bedding is piled during the day, and at night the slaves come in when summoned to make up the beds on the floor. Other bedroom requisites, fin the shape of washstands, dressing tables and wardrobes, are dis. pensed with as superfiuous. For everyday ablution there is a small washing room with a hole in the floor for the water to escape through, and if the hanun would wash her hands and face only, a slave brings the ewer and basin and pours the water over her hands. For special ablutions she will go either to her own private hammam or to the public baths. She does her hair,' or has it done for her, seated cross-legged in her corner of the divan; and the old walnut-wood chests and coffers in her treasure-room suffice to store her gauges and brocades, her silks and embroideries."
Newport daily independent., 1904-10-21
ENTERTAINMENT COURSE
 PROMISES TREATS.

The Cause Chapter U. D. C., has been successful in bringing to Newport course of high class attractions, the first number of which will be the Royal Hun garian Court Orchestra, whose repertoire consists of compo- sitions of such masters as Ross ini, Wagner, Apt, and others no less renowned.
 That the people of our commit nifty have presented to them the opportunity of hearing such mu- sic, much credit is due the work of the local chapter and their in- terest in introducing such talent to Newport music-lovers, should prove not only a financial suc- cess to the chapter, but benefit to the patrons as well.
 The Hungarian Urcnestra ,-s.. ws.. be heard at the Newport opera house October 27th, and will, no doubt, be greeted with crowded house.
 The noted actor, MT. Frederick Warde, will also appear later, delivering one of his well known lectures.