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Oldest Living Thine.

The distinction of being the oldes;
living thing undoubtedly belongs to
one of the giant trees, and many al
tempts 10 locate il and determine It's
age have been made, says London Tit
BITS. \ century ago De Candolle
found two yews-one al Portugal, in
Perthshire. and one at Hedsor. in
Eucks-Ihai were estimated TO be re-
spectiyely 800 and 3.2i0 years old.
Both are still hOur,shirE. and the
older tree has trunk - feet in cir
cumferenoe. a gigantic boabab in
Central America, with a trunk % feet
through. was thought by humboldt to
be not less than $50 Years old. Mex.
lean botan.sts believe that they have
row discovered life span even
greater than this, and from he annual
rings cypress of Chepultepec. whose
trunk is lis feet in circumference, is
assigned an age Of about 600 years
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DECISION ON NAMES.
Report of Beard in Regard to Colorado
Points.

The United States Board on Geo
graphic Names at a meeting held OF
April 4, 1906. rendered the following
decisions as regards Colorado points;
Bison, mountain, Tarryail noun
tain, Park county.
Black: mountain, Park county. (Not
Basaltie.)
Bunalo; peak, Tarryall mountains
Park county. tNot FreemansD
Cathedral; peaks, West Elk noun
tains, Gunnison county. (Not Mendi
cant ridse.D
Crestone; peaks. Sangre de Cristo
range, Saguache county. (Not Three
Tetons)
Del Norte: peak. San Juan noun
tains, Rio Grande county. (Not Pin
data
Nectric peak, Sangre de Crst-
range, Custer county.
Granite; butte. group of hills, Teller
county. (Not Catamount hills.)
Green; mountain on plains at base
Of front range, jefferson county. (Not
Hendricks peak nor Mount Hendricks }
Greenhorn; mountain, Wet noun
tains. Huerfano county. (Not Cuerno
Verde)
Hunts; peak, Sangre de Crista
mountains, on the boundary between
SaSuache and Fremont counties.
Kit Carson; peak. Sangre de Cristo
range, Custer and Saguache counties
(Not Frustum.)
Mesa; mountain, Saguache county.
(Not Del Norte)
Mount Princeton: Sawatch range
Chaffee county. (Not Chalk.)
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he WENT on CRUTCHES
All Medicines Failed Until Or. Viii
Iiams' Fink Pills Cured His
Rheunatism

Some years ago says Mr.. W. II.
Clark, printer, living at Gi2 Buchanan
street, Topeka, kuns.. Al had bad at
tack of rheumatism and could not seem
to get over it. All sorts @. medicines
failed to do ne any good and my trouble
kept getting worse. My feet were SO
swollen that could not wear shoes and
had to 80 Oh crutchcs. The pain was
terrible.
One day was setting the type of an
article for the paper telling what DR..
Williams Pink Pills had done for Il man
afflicted as was and WITS so impressed
with it that determined to give the
medicine Il trial For year my rheu-
natism had been growing worse, but
after taking DIR. Williams Pink Pills I
began to improve. The pain and SWELL
ing all disappeared and l can truthfully
say that haven't felt better i'll the past
twenty years than l do right now. l
could name, off hand. half fdozen peo-
pie who have used DIR. Williams Pink
Pills at my suggestion and who have re-
ceiycd good results from them"
DIR. Williams Pink Pills are guaran-
teed to be safe and harmless to the most
delicate constitution. They contain no
morphine, opiate, narcotic. nor any
lullIS W tduSeu VIZ " il'pia. lhtN uo uOG
| act ON the bowels but they actually make
new blood and strengthen the nerves.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills cure rheuma-
tisni because they make rich, red blood
aud no man or woman can have healthy
blood and rheumatism at HE same time
They have also cured many cases of
an:cn,ia, neuralgia, sciatica, partial pa
ralySis. locomotor ataXia and other dis
eases tina, have not yielded to ordinary
treatment.
All druggists sell DIR. Williams Pink
Pills or they will he sent by mail, post
paid, on receipt of price, 80 cents per
box. six boxes for $3.50. by the DR.. Viii.
L:,uls Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
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monster she was weeping passionate
ly and uncontrol!ablyD
IF only Madrina could. she would
stay always with her Boysie. She
loves him; she loves him."
(The ill-proportioned hands were
tangling her hair and tearing her
fringe-net.)
MY darling-my darling
An hour later Lady farioyce, after
asking a few questions OF the buxom
woman who had addressed her as
Mrs. Welch,' and slipping some gold
coins into her land, LETT the myrtle
covered cottage where the monster
lived.
Now you know she said. turning
to me when We were once more tread
ing the shot-silk fields.
"But-I-I-don't understand. Is 1t
a brother-or-
"There is no need for YOU to uader-
stand-it is enough for me that you
know. and that sometimes when we
are quite alone you can just whisper:
'How's Boysie?''
with the las. "Cru Eer VOICE leli
reverently with the reverence of love.
The next time saw her, a week
later, she was leading a cotillion at a
dukes house.
"How's Boysie?" I murmUred under
cover of the white Hungarian.
Quite, quite we'll. dear she an
swered, and for half = moment she
left off looking "adiant-but her face
was beautiful.
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had GIVEN up ALL HOPE,
CONFINED TO HER BED
With DYSPEPSIA.
IOweMyLife to Pe-ru-na,'
Says Mrs. Hufaker.

Mrs. Mittie Huffaker, r. L. No. 5,
Columbia, Tenn, writes:
was afflicted with dyspepsia for
severaIyears and at last was confined
to my bed, unable to sit up.
I'VE tried several different doctors
without relief.
81 had given up aH hope of any re.
lief and was almost dead when my
husband bought me a bottle of Pc
runa.
AT first 7 could not notice any ben
eft, but aftec taking several bottles
was cured sound and well.
at is 10 Peruna owe my life TO-
day.
u cheerfully recommend it to all
sufferers
Revised Formula.
For a number of years requests
have come to me from multitude OF
grateful friends, urging that Peruna
be given a slight laxative quality. I
have ben experimenting with a laxa-
tive addition for quite a length of
time. and now feel gratifed to an
nounce to the friends Of Peruna that
! have incorporated such quality in
the medicine which, in my opinion.
can only enhance it's well-known bene-
fetal character.
IS. B. HARTMAN. NJ. D."
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While distant wild-rose hedge, sen.
all their sweetness by the breeze thu
step-dancing Boulosne hsh-wife sug-
sested Corresio Madonna in a
white linen costur'e by Reilly.
Here We are. she said. as we
passed through wooden gate whose
action was impeded by convolvuli. |
followed, and from that moment | be-
came only spectator. l was less
than an entity.
A fresh-faced bIxom woman opened
the painted cottage door.
"Good-day. Mrs. Welch. mm." shs
said, smiling gen;ally at the radiant
Lady Farjoyce, Who. AFTER hurried
greeting. quickly entered room on
the right.
l followed.
"Boysie-come." she cried.
"Madrine-oo-,o - Madrine." came
the answer
His age might have been five. his
age might have been ten-the stunt
ed growth, and poor distorted limbs
gave no evidence of years: his head
and tlattened shape, yot-yet-there
was a hint of beauty in those bril-
liantly shining eyes, those full red
lips, and that deiicately curved nose.
The eyes were the eyes of Bou-
l)gne fish-wfe!
"Boysie. Madrinc could not come
sooner
(Oh! that terrible head was pillowed
on Delia's breast, while she smoothed
il with tenderness unhnown to the
golden curls of Lord Farjoyces heir.
Her face was g!oritied-not radiant) }
"Madrine-Oo-Oo-n go way, Mad
line"
Dear love, ! must go, but I'll come
again soon-Oh! Boysie!"
Cat the idea Of parting from this
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THE SIMPLE LIFE.
) How It Became Artificial Among
Americans.

The great trouble with America is
that she falls upon any cure as hys-
'erfcally and neurotically as she does
upon the drug inducing her disease.
We go mad over the simple life. We
sit on green divan and babble OF
green fields. With Watteau fan in
one hand and glass in the other, we
tell each other what a splendid thing
1t is to go a-shepherding, to dwell
close to the earth, to live sweet,
natural life. We even hire men and
women to come and talk to us about
these things, to chant to us, to lecture
us about them. Sometimes we even
try to practice, hurriedly and hyster-
icaily, some of these things which we
have in pure self-hypnosis persuaded
ourselves that we ought to like. We
do no great good by that. We effect
nothing when we carry our drug habit
into the sanatorium of the woods and
fields; we are still insane. We get no
good of the wilderness when we insist
that it be a wilderness furnished with
hot and cold baths, the railroad and
the telegraph. Our trouble is that we
will not let 60 We do not turn
loose" as they say on the plains
Reader.
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G, A. R. the Conservator of Pc.

u. "A. II. the COnSclVatOr OF Teace.
The Grand Army OF the Republic has
been one of the greatest conservators OF
peace because its members realize more
fully than any one else could the cost
of war both in blood and treasure. The
wounds and disease contracted by them
in the civil war are ever present re-
mnders of its cost. They would have
been ready to have sacrificed much be-
fore engaging in such another struggle
They have been the leaders of all
movements tending to higher patri.
otism and loyal service to their
country. They have fostered and
encouraged every effort looking to
more loyal citizenship. They have
taught the world lesson in fra.
ternity extending not only to their
own members. but to the men of the
south who fought against them, and
believe they have done and are doing
more to reunite the two sections of our
country as patriotic American citizens
than any other agency or society
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and she is often the brcad-winncr of
tie family. Whether she is sick or
well, whether it rains or shines, she
must get to her place of employment.
perform the duties cXacted OF her
smile and be agreeable.
Among this Class the symptoms of
female diseases ere early manifest by
weak and aching backs, pain in the
lower limbs and lower part of the
stomach. In consequence of frequent
we:ting of the feet. periods become
painful and irregular, and frequently
there are faint and dizzy spells, with
loss of appetite, until lifsis 4 burden.
All these symptoms point to de-
rangemcnt of the female organism
which can be easily and promptly
cured by Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vegeta-
be Compound.
Miss Abby +. Earrows. Nclsonville.
Athens Co. Chic, tells what this great
medicine did for her. She writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
Il feel it my duty to tell you the good
lydia Z, Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
aid Blood Purifier have done for me. Before
l took them l was very nervous, had dull
headaches, pnins in back, and perio,'J were
irregular, had been to several doctors, and
they did me no good.
'A our medicine has made me well ana
strong. l can do most any kid Of work
without complaint, and my periods are all
right.
II am in better health than ever was,
and know it is al due to your remedies l
recommend your advice and medicine to all
who suffer-"
1t is to such girls that Mrs. Pink
ham holds out a helping hand and ex-
tends cordial invitation to correspond
with her. She is daughter.in-law of
Lydia T.. Pinliham and for twenty five
years has been advising sick women
free of charge. Her long record of
success in treating woman's ills makes
her letters of advice of untold value to
every ailing working girl. Address,
Mrs. Pinllham, Lynn, Mass.
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"Love of Country Alone"

Love of country alone could have in
splred 100000 men to die for the union.
Nothing less sacred than this love of
country could have sustained 175 900
brave men who suffered and starved
and died in rebel prisons. Nor could
anything else have given comfort to the
100000 MANNED and diseased who
escaped immediate death in siege and
battle to end in torment the remainder
of their patriot lives. Nc
kinley, July 4, 1894.
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The Little Robert Louis.

If you had lived in Edinburgh 81
years ago you might have met, coming &
out of the first house in laverleith ter
race, a tive-y2ar-old 10y in Il blue coat.
trimmed with fur, and Il big beaver
bonnet. You would have Eotis ed moth
ing very remarkable ahout this child
except that he had Il PALE. delicate lit
tie face, and enormous shining eyes,
and that he seemed very fond OF his
pleasantlooking nurse. Tais little
boy was Robert Louis Stevenson. the
only child of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Stevenson.-Aradne Gilbert, in s..
Nicholas.
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TRIBUTES TO THE PRIVATE
"Let Us Care for Him ,

With malice toward none, with
charity for all. with firmness in the
right as God gives us to see the right.
let us strive on to finish the work we
are in. to bind up the nations wounds,
to care for him who shall have borne
the battle, and for his widow and his
orphan-to do all which may achieve
and cherish a just and lasting peace
among ourselves, and with all nations" I"
-Lincoln's Second Inaugural.
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One IycnDtIon.

She-Of course. BERTHE. when we are
married you will not expect me TO
give UP all my grlish habits.
Bertie-Certain!y not dear: for in
stance, | should like You to still con-
tinue receiving your fathers allow
sEce.-Ssraps.
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"Hero!c Years of America y

I'VE begin to realize that the years
we have SO recently passed through,
though we did not appreciate at the
time, were the heroic years of Amer
lean history. Charles Francis Adams,
on The Double Anniversary" July 4,
1869.
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E'DitaDh il Shorthand

tombstone has been erected in
the West Hampstead cemetery over the
grave Of Mrs. Louisa Day. the inscrip-
ton on which, including a verst c,
poetry, L. in shorthand.
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"Union Dearcr for Their Blood"
God bless the union 1t is dearer to
us for the blood Of the brave men
which has been shed in its defense."-
Edward Everett at Gettysburg, 1868.
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"First Rank of Militant Nations"
THE record of both sides places the
people of the United States in the first
rank of militant nations. Col.
Thomas L. Livermore,
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Tiamp-!.ady, | am dying from ex.
posure. Woman-Are you tramp, pol
itician or fnancier?
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Garfield Tea. the herb laxative, is better
than drugs and strong cathartics; it CUES.
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CORDIAL INVITATION
sEDRsssEDToWoRK,Ea GIRLS
E:ss Earrovs Tells How Hrs. Pink
hams Advice Helps Working Girls.
Girls who work

Girls who work
are particularly
susceptible to fe-
III a ! e disorders,
especially those
who are obliged
to stand on their
feet from morn
ing until night in
stores or tacto-
RIGS.
Day in and day
ont the riI.l tolls
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chards are ruined. In our next issue
the question of pear blight will be ex-
tensively discussed. In this issue only
few facts will be given touching this
disease.
Pear blight is not different from the
blight that appears on the apple and
the ounce. 1t is much more destruc-
tive on pear trees, hence, it is COM
monty called pear blight. Many per.
sons say that they are afraid 1t will
"break out" in those sections of the
state where it is not now to be found
There is no danger of this. 1t does
not "break OUT as the result of the
conditions of the sap or the atmos-
phere. 1t is bacterial disease, which
will be explained at another time, and
is spread by being carried in some way
from one place to another. Usually
it is carried in infected trees and then
after being once introduced it is
spread in the orchard from one tree
to another or into other nearby or
chards by insects. Hence, the first pre-
caution is not to let it be carried into
new sections or nursery stock. 1t is
true that ignorant men may condemn
trees as being infected with blight
when they are not Every dead limb
is not proof of pear blight. But our
inspectors better err in that direction
than be too lenient. 1t can be easily
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from the standpoint of the practical
grower, and not from some office in
a city.
This blunder of Mr.. Irwin was re-
ferred to Prof Steadman, entomolo-
eist of the Missouri experiment sta
tion. and his reply to this reckless
statement is: PLENTY of codling moth
70 be found in orchards during the
winter, especially if the orchard be
in grass or sod or weeds. But I'M
fortunately Prof. Steadman makes the
following statement: "To be sure,
most cooling moth larvae that are to
mass the winter are in apples when
they are picked and put into storage"
That is very far from being true with
lis. Here the larvae stop pupatfng
before the middle of September; We
pick our winter apples from the first
of October up to the middle of No
vember-not many after the first OF
November. What becomes of all the
worms that leave the apples during
this period of one or two months? They
winter somewhere in the orchard I'M
less they are caught by birds or meet
with some other mishap. We have
opened and examined hundreds of So
called wormy apples at picking time,
and not one in ten and sometimes not
one in fifty has worm in it. Now 1t
may be different in Missouri, but II |
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are paying too high a price or secur-
ing a bargain, for it is his business to
deal in real estate and he should be
acquainted with values: Much property
is sold yearly where the buyer, in his
Ignorance does not secure clear title
to his purchase and with an honest real
estate agent through whom to do bust
ness a clear title must be forthcoming
or he will inform you and save you from
a bad buy. This applies the other WAY
also, for the presence of real estate
agent is of paramount Importance to
the inexperienced man with land to sell.
L. d. Sprengle, with offices in the Ar
cade building, Seattle, makes a special
ty of farm lands. We recommend parties
with Mr. Sprengle and secure the serv
ices of a square agent. If you have Il
farm to sell-large or small-send a
full description to him or better. send
for his letter of instruction" to in
tending farm sellers
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Make Ready for Berry Season.

Those of us who like ripe fruits, I'M
cooked in season and out of season
must have good method of preserv-
ing them in their purity-without del
eterious presentations of any kinds.
We have been feasting this winter on
ripe currants fresh as the day that
they were put up fresh from the
bushes last summer
Carefully stem and look over real
ripe currants, measure them with an
equal amount of granulated sugar into
a granite pan, then with wooden
pestle mash every berry, put into seal
ing cans that with their caps have
been sterlized, wrap with dark, thick
paper and set away in a cool place.
1t is said that strawberries can be
preserved in like manner.
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In taking the sprouts which come
up from the plants select those having
side roots and some small fibrous
roots. Two or three side roots will
usually make a good plant to trans
plant. 1t is hardly possible to grow
Seeding blackberries and reproduce
the variety. 1t is quite likely every
seeding will vary from the parent
plant. The above method of propagat-
ing is about the only way to keep the
plant unchanged.
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lived there before | could accept this
statement of Prof. Steadman l would
have to be showed"
If the parasite referred to above
should prove very beneficial in Cali
fornia, and it is to be hoped that it
will, it does not follow that it will be
worth anything to. us in Washington.
Our climate is so different from that
in California that this ichneumon fly
may fail to live through our winters
in our orchards. AS soon as we can
we should try the calliephialtes messer
and if it proves to be able to survive
our winters and help us in our fight
against the codling moth we may
then rejoice in it's accession to our
means of fighting this most destruc-
tive of all our pests. But till then we
must stand by our we'll established
methods of fighting this pest.
1t was my good fortune in company
with one of my sons to visit the or
chards Of j. o. ShadbOlt located some
three miles northwest of our 12O-acre
orchard in the Yakima valley. This
orchard formerly belonged to F. e.
Thompson and was sold by him to j.
d. Nichols, who recently sold it to
Mr.. Shadbolt | am free to say that
found here the finest pear orchard
ever saw 1t was in full bloom on the
18th day of April, when we saw it.
If the old saying that "a thing of
beauty is joy forever" is true (and
who can doubt it?) then Mr.. Shadbolt
must be a happy man and this he
seemed to be. Mr.. Shadbolt bought
the farm a few months ago for $1S,500
and has since been offered $4,000 for
1t, but refused to sell. The place con-
tains 40 acres Mr.. Shadbolt is very
much concerned about what is COM
monty called pear blight" Well he
may be, for this is terrible disease.
In California it has entailed a loss of
at least $10,000,000. In some sections
or the state the pear orchards are ut
terly ruined. 1t appears in some parts
OF Washington, and along Snake river
and about Walla Walla the pear or
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Propagating the Blackberry.
(E. e. Little.)


Probably the most satisfactory way
of propagating the blackberry is by
root cuttings. In early spring as soon
as the ground can be worked person
should take away the soil from the
roots, being careful not to injure the
crown or main root. The plant would
probably not be injured if a half dozen
pieces one foot long were cut from the
different lateral roots. These could
be cut into four-inch cuttings. These
cuttings could be planted in moist,
we'll prepared soil and covered two or
three inches. Another method of pro-
pagating the blackberry is by cutting
the canes in pieces about eight inches
long and planting them in moist soil
in shallow trenches. AS the canes are
very thorny this method is little prac-
ticed.
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known in the orchard. No microscope
is needed there. If it should appear
in an orchard, cut it out and burn the
infected twigs. How this should be
done will be explained in our next
issue. Eternal vigilance is the only
price we can pay for it's exemption.
We must watch and cut and burn"
No child's play will avail in this case.
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The Real Estate Agent.

In these days of high values in real
estate, when farms are changing hands
rapidly, the value, to the man buying,
of an honest real estate agent through
whom to close the deal is apparent
If he is honest he can tell you if you