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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-10-04

WANTED.-Boys to work in cigar box
lumber mill, veneer layers, graders and
helpers, indoor steady job, good wages.
Address Philadelphia Veneer Il Lum-
her Co., Knoxville, Tenn. 5S2
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-10-04
Free Millinery Secrets

AFILADY who wants her fall and
w winter hats to be stylish should
write for our new Catalogue, illus
trating latest fashions in head wear.
Our prices are IOweSt and fashions
latest. We sell to the largest whole
sale houses in the United States.
Every hat is made in our own factory
and sold at factory prices. We are the
largest exclusive Millinery Mail Order
House in the country. Catalogue free.
CINCINNATI MILLINERY co.
"a halA Street. CiAelAAatl. 0.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-10-04
ANNOUNCEMENT.
For Sale

1870 nice building lots johnson City
Real Estate Co.
43 nice building lots West End Land
Company.
II nice building lots Gin different parts
of the city,,
~ feet frontage on East Main street
(business property.
475 feet frontage on East Main street
(busidence or residence).
so feet frontage on Main street extra
good business property.
brick store building on Nam street
Central location).
Quite number of dwellings in vari-
GUS sections of the city.
If you want anything in the real es.
tate line call and see me at my Office.
W. B. HARRISON,
Phone 1913. New Burrow Bldg.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-10-04

There has never been such variety
of wall paper heretofore shown in thia
city as the Patton Drug Co. is carrying
this year. Prices lower than previous
years.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-10-04
BRADING G. MARSHALL,
Lumber and Building Material.

The Daughters of the Confederacy
will meet at the residence of Mrs. j, j.
A dams next Tuesday afternoon at 3
O'Clock.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1906-10-04

W. /. Hart is now dividing his en-.
thusiasm between Little ALI" TAYLOR
and little girl baby that has just ar
rived at his home.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15

to spend money for bodybuilding in
our island possessions then Congress
ought not to deny the request of the
Grange for national aid in road-build-
ing in our own home country. Let
every Grange resolve itself into safe
roads club The automobile fiend must
be tanned and kept within bounds and
the Grange is doing much along this
line in several of the states.
When the farmers of this country
cooperate and ask for anything they
are pretty sure to get ii sooner or
later and quite often sooner"
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15

whether it inherits great vigor or not,
and that is just what you are doing
when you select from the bin or pit.
The large tuber with poor parentage
will be selected and the small tuber
with good hereditary tendencies will
be rejected, and then you condemn
potato selection. To judge the heredl-
tary tendencies, we must know the
characters of the hill and the vigor OF
the plant. The whole plant, then,
must be taken as unit for selection
not the single tuber. The time to
select potatoes for seed is at digging
time instead of from the bin or pit
in the spring.
We believe that the best method OF
educating the potato grower to the
importance of these facts is to have
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15
Selecting Potatoes for Seed.

"a. G. Craig, Pullman.)
The potato is increasing in value as
a crop in Washington, and l am sure
that in few years it will rank among
the first crops in Importance in the
state. AS soon as alcohol distilleries
are established, the farmer will al
ways find a market for his potato crop
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15

an organization. It's plans are better
defined and it's lines of action are more
fully developed.
1t offers farmers the only organiza-
ton that covers the whole country
The hundreds of new Oranges organ
lied and old ones re-organized during
the past year prove that farmers see
it to be their best organization. Official
figures show that in the last quarter
year 1873 new Oranges were organized
and 26 others recognized in "a differ
ent states, showing that substantial
progress is being made and that this
growth is national and not confined to
one section.
During the past year New York led
in the organization of new oranges
having 20 to it's credit; Pennsylvania
next with 10 and Washington third
with Is. The other states follow with
from ten down to one new oranges.
The Grange stands for good roads
and government aid in the building OF
them. Surely, if Uncle Sam can afford
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15
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Pacific Telegraph Institute PS9ssEaeoM

farmers in the potato sections OF the
state carry out certain definite expert
ments in breeding through a period of
several years. We want the farmer
to demonstrate to himself that it not
only pays to select seed potatoes in
the field, but it pays the farmer to ex-
pertinent on his farm.
Any farmer in the state wishing to
cooperate in this work or any who
wish information on methods of Sc
lecting seed potatoes can get it by
writing to the horticultural depart
ment of the State College of Washing
ton. This subject will be treated OF
more fully in another issue Of this
publication.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15

Rhode Island Red-Winner as Cockerel
at Lewis and Clark Fair and hrst as
cock at Tacoma last fall; owned by
HI. A. Durr.
at a profit Therefore we should
study the best methods of culture in
our state. Through the efforts of such
men as Professor p G. Holden, OF
Iowa, DR.. G. D. Hopkins, of Illinois,
Professor J. A. Jeffrey, of Michigan,
men of our own station, and others OF
the u. S. department of agriculture,
farmers have come to realize the i'm
portance of carefully selecting seed
for field crops, such as corn, wheat,
oats. etc. Experience and observation
both lead us to the conclusion that
just as much Importance should be at
tached to the matter of proper select
ion of tubers for the potato crop. With
very little time and trouble farmer
can improve that quality of his potatoes
by selection and increase the yield.
The best way for farmer to increase
his income is to increase the yield
per acre instead of the number OF
acres grown. The first thing neces-
sary is to plant the very best seed OBJ
tainable, then with good soil and Gull
tivation make one acre produce what
two acres have been producing. You
can do it, The successful farmer OF
the future must do it. The farmer
must select the best variety for his
farm and then improve the strain by
rigid method of selection.
There are few plants grown on the
farm more susceptible to variation
than the potato. AS we dig potatoes
in the field or look at them in the bin,
we cannot but note the remarkable
lack of similarity or the tendency to
vary that is exhibited. When digging
potatoes it is a noticeable fact that
often with hills growing near each
other, one hill will have large num-
Der of tubers, uniform in size, while
the other may have few ill-shaped
tubers. or one large tuber and a few
small ones. A tuber from the vigor-
Gus productive plant, though it may be
the only small tuber in the hill be-
cause it was started late and did not
have time to develop full size, would
possess and transmit the character
| istics of it's worthy parent. So, also,
| the only large tuber from the weak
hill in which it alone attained mer-
charitable size would inherit the tend
encies of it's parent. Hills producing
| the largest tubers are not usually the
most productive. We see, then, that
inspection of the individual tuber
| alone will not enable us to judge
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15
THE INSTITUTE

This department is for the dissemina-
ton of information relating to organized
bodies of farmers. The editor assumes
no responsibility for statements made
by contributors.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15
The Field and Work of the Grange

Erred w. Lewis, Deputy MASTERY
The object of the Grange, in the
words of Mortimer Whitehead, is not
to antagonize any other class, not to
wage a warfare against any other in
terest; for it recognizes the right and
the Importance of every enterprise and
vocation which tends toward the bet
terment of mankind, and is quite will
ling to concede to them every right to
which they have a legitimate claim.
Farmers in the Grange will cheer
fully aid in the advancement of every
useful interest, and should strive to
give them every needed protection,
Justice and equal rights with others.
In the ever-present Industrial and
political crises, the voice of agricul-
ture, the great conservative reserve
power of the nation, should not be 81
lent, her influence unfelt her power
unsupported, her rights disregarded,
her necessities unrelieved. Farmers
believe this, hence the Grange with
it's renewed life and vigOr steadily
grows and prospers. Farmers are look
ing to it with renewed confidence and
hope Neighborhoods that really need
a Grange will yet have one even
though one has been organized and
failed The Grange is getting to be
better understood and farmers are
coming to see the best value OF 1t as
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15
The Grange Backs Roosevelt.

G. B. Kegley, State Master, in reply
to a question by the New York World
as to the attitude of the farmers of
Washington in regard to the beef
trust inquiry, sent the following tele-
gram:
"The presidents efforts to- secure
better sanitary conditions in the
packing houses now caused a tempo
rary depression in the prices of live
stock, but l think l voice the senti-
ments of the farmers of the state when
l say that they will uIcomplainingly
stand such loss.
Farmers do not desire to profit al
the expense of the general health of
society nor at the expense of the
health, convenience, manhood and
womanhood of the wage earners in
preparing the products of the farm for
the market. The farmers of this state
indorse what has been done by the
president and will indorse what may
be done toward a thorough gOverl4-
mental investigation, without fear or
favor, to the end that the packing
industry may be placed beyond ques-
ton as to sanitary conditions.
Personally, I believe that all public
industries where food is prepared for
general consumption should be under
rigid governmental supervision and
control"
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15

Watch for the next edition.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06

and Investigating mind, an earnest seeker after knowledge, and above all, possessed of a wonderfully sympa- thetic nature.
 In 1843 she married Isaac PinlSham, a builder and real estate operator, and their early married life was marked by prosperity and happiness. They had four children, three sons and a daughter.
 In those good old fashioned days it was common for mothers to make their own home medicines from roots and herbs, natures own remedies calling in a physician only in specially urgent cases. By tradition and ex- perience many of them gained won- derful knowledge of the curative prop critics of the various roots and herbs.
 Mrs Pinkham took great interest in the study of roots and herbs, their characteristics and power over disease. She maintained that just as nature so bountifully provides in the harvest fields and orchards vegetab ble foods of all kinds; so, if we but take the pains to find them, in the roots and herbs of the field there are remedies eX- pressly designed to cure the various ills and weaknesses of the body, and it was her pleasure to search these out, and prepare simple and effective medi- cines for her own family and friends.
 Chief of these was a rare combina- ton of the choicest medicinal roots and herbs found best adapted for the cure of the ills and weaknesses pecu- liar to the female sex. and Lydia E. Pink hams friends and neighbors learned that her compound relieved and cured and it became quite popular among them.
 All this so far was done freely, with out money and without price, as a labor of love.
 But in 1873 the financial crisis struck Lynn. Its length and severity were toe much for the large real estate interests of the Pinkham family, as this class of business suffered most from fearful depression, sowhen the Centen. nial year dawned it found their prop. erty swept away. Some other source of income had to be found.
 At this point Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was made known ro the world.
 The three sons and the daughter with their mother, combined forces to
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06
Japan's Empress Popular.

It is doubtful if any royal consort is more loved by her people than is the empress of Japan. Educated accord ing to feudal ideas and skilled in all the accomplishments befitting one of her social eminence, her majesty strongly favors the broadness of the new education for women and from her private purse gives large sums toward the maintenance of women's S schools and universities. During the war with Russia the empress visited the hospitals many times and every day passed hours making bandages, The effect of these bandages upon the wounded soldiers has been Of deep in terest to medical and scientific men, for the soldiers honored by them seemed to rally under peculiar men tai influence All other bandages were destroyed after their first use; those made by the empress were sterilized and used again for the simple reason of their effect on the recovery of the soldiers.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06
HIS TROUBLE WAS INTERNAL.
Indian Chief Had Peculiar Ideas About
 Hydrophobia.

Mayor Stoy of Atlantic City was describing the cosmopolitan throngs that visit his famous and gay resort.
 Every nationality comes here" he said. Greeks, Turks, Hindoos, Chi nese, Moors-they all come.
 q was talking the other day to one of the physicians of the Pasteur In stitute-the hospital, you know, for the prevention and cure of hydropho- bia. The Pasteur Institute reminded me of Atlantic City, it's visitors seemed to be of such diversified character.
 "The physician told me about an h. dian chief who had come to him for treatment last year.
 My name, said the chief, is War Eagle. Please take me in hand fear I am getting hydrophobia.'
 Have you been bitten,' the physic- ian asked, by a mad dog?'
 Not exactly bitten,' War Eagle answered, but I have the gravest sus. picions about a black poodle that was served to me in ragout last Friday afternoon"
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06
LOW WAGES IN RUSSIA.
Farm Laborers Get Little Above a
 Bare Subsistence.

The extreme poverty and the low standard of living of peasants from whom the Russian agricultural labor CTS are recruited assure low level of wages for agricultural labor The av- craze wages will appear almost in- credibly low from an American point of view, notwithstanding the general complaints of the estate holders con- corning the unreasonable demands of the laborers.
 According to an official investigation embracing the decade of 1SS2-1S91, the average annual wages for a male agri- cultural worker in Russia were less than $32 and for female worker less than SIS. To this must be added the cost of subsistence, which is equally low, being on an average SPA for a male and $22 for female worker for a whole year; so that the average cost of employing laborer for the entire year is equal to only $55 for the male and $40 for the female.
 The wages for the summer season of five months are almost equal to the annual wages, being $22 for the male and $13 for the female laborer.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06
Uses of Ma asks.

Among the North American Indians the origin of the use of masks lay" says a writer, "in the desire to con- ceal the emotions. Thus should two warriors meet in combat, the mask conceals any expression whether of sympathy, fear or other emotion. For instance, the knowledge that. fear was depicted on ones face and that his an- tagonist knew it would very possibly insure the defeat of the one whose feelings were betrayed to the other'
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06

restore the family fortune. They argued that the medicine which was so good for their woman friends and neighbors was equally good for tho women of the whole world.
 The Pinkhams had no money, and little credit. Their first laboratory. was the kitchen, where roots and herbs were steeped on the stove, gradually filling a gross of sottles. Then came the question of selling it, for always before they had given it away freely. They hired joh printer to run off some pamphlets setting forth the merits of the medi- cine, now called Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and these were distributed by the Pinkham sons in Boston, New York, and Brooklyn.
 The wonderful curative properties ot the medicine were, to a great extent, self-advertising, for whoever used it recommended it to others, and the de. mand gradually increased.
 In 1877, by combined efforts the fam. fly had saved enough money to com mence newspaper advertising and from that time the growth and success of the enterprise were assured, until to- day Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vege- table Compound have become house. hold words everywhere, and many tons of roots and herbs are used annu. ally in its manufacture.
 Lydia E. Pinkham herself did not live to see the great success of this work. She passed to her reward years ago, but not till she had provided means for continuing her work as effectively as she could have done it herself.
 During her long and eventful expe- rienee she was ever methodical in her work and she was always careful topre- serve a record of every case that came to her attention. The case of every sick woman who applied to her for advice and there were housands-receiyed careful study and the details, includ- ing symptoms, treatment and results were recorded for future reference, and to-day these records, together with hundreds of thousands made since, al>s available to sick women the world over, and represent vast eollabora. tion of information regarding the treatment of woman's ills, which for authenticity and accuracy can hardly be equaled in any library in the world.
 With Lydia l.. Plnkham worked her daughter in law, the present Mrs. Pinkham. She was carefully instructed in all her hard-won knowledge, and for years she assisted her in her vast correspondence.
 To her hands naturally fell tha direction of the work when it's origina- tor passed away. For nearly twenty five years she has continued it, and nothing in the work shows when the | first Lydia E. Pinkham dropped her pen, and the present Mrs. Pinkham, now the mother of a large family, took. it up. With women assistants, some as capable as herself, the present Mrs. Pinkham continues this great and probably from the office of no other person have so many women been ad- vised how to regain health. Sick wo- men, this advice is ''Yours for Health" freely given if you only write to ask for it..
 Such is the history of Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound made | from simple roots and herbs the one great medicine for women's ailments, and the fitting monument to the noble woman whose name it bears.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06
4ABY'S AWFUL HUMOR.
Thin Skin Formed Over Body and Un- der 1t Was Watery Blood-Cured in
 One Week by Cuticura Remedies.

When my little girl baby was one week old she had a skin disease. A thin skin formed over her body and under it was watery blood, and when she was washed it would burst and break. She was in that condition for weeks, and I tried everything I could think of, but nothing did her any good When she was three months old I took her to San Antonio to see a doctor, but the doctor we wanted to see was not at home, so my sister gave me cake of Cuticura Soap and half a box of Cuticura Ointment, and told me to use them, which I did in time. I used them three times, and the humor began to fade, and in one week she was sound and well, and it has never returned since. I think every mother should keep. the Cuti- cura Remedies in the house. Mrs. H. Aaron, Benton, Texas, July 8, 1905."
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06

fore me, and I had dizzy spells. For ten years l could not do housework, and for two years did not get out of the house. The kidney secretions were irregular, and doctors were not helping me. Doan's Kidney Pills brought me quick relief, and finally cured me. They saved my life"
 Sold by all dealers. 50 cents box. Foster-Milburn Co.,, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06
Depew Writes "Reminiscences.

While Senator Chauncey M. Depew was enjoying his long rest at Ardsley- on-theH Hudson he did a good deal of work on his "reminiscences. He is not sure that they will ever be published, his idea being that they might be of interest to his son. In his fifty years of public life MT. Depew has known a great many prominent personages and his "reminiscences can hardly fail to be exceedingly readable.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, they cannot reach the dis eesed portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness and that by constitutional remedies Deafness is caused by in1amed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustaehian Tube. When this tube Is inhamed you have rumblfng sound or im- perfect hearing and when 1t Is entirely closed Deaf ness Is the result and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored it's normal cond tion, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh which is nothing but an fndamed condition of the mucous surfaces
 We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness lcaused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for.circu ars free -
 F. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, o. Sold by Druggists. 75c -
 Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06
Never Disappoints.

Many extensively advertised reme- dies are failures when put to the test. Hunts Lightning Oil is an exception. Confidence in it is never misplaced disappointment never follows it's use. It is surely the grandest emergency remedy now obtainable. For cuts, burns, sprains, aches and pains know no equal"
 Geo. E. Paddock,
 Doniphan, Mo.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06
WHO SHE WAS
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LYDIA E. PiNKHAM
And True Story of How the Vegetable Compound
 Had Its Birth and How the "Panic of '73' Caused
 it to be Offered for Public Sale in Drug Stores.

This remarkable woman, whose maiden name was Estes, was born in Lynn, Mass, February 9th, 1919, com ing from a good old Quaker family. For some years she taught school, and became known as woman of an alert
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06
kino Edwards Confidant.

Lord Knollys, King Edwards pri- vate secretary for the past 36 years, is the only man from whom his majes- ty has no secrets. Lord Knollys con trols the kings enormous correspond ence, aided by a corps of assistants.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06
Miqht Have Been.

When Shakespeare said: Aye, there's the rub," we do not know for certain he was thinking of the itch. But one thing we do know-and know it twenty years worth-Hunts Cure will absolutely, lnfallibly and imme diately cure any itching trouble that ever happened to the human cuticle. It's guaranteed.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06
Stop That Cough.

If you have cough, cold, sore throat, or chest, don't delay a moment cure it. Simmons Cough Syrup is a sure remedy. It makes you well.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06
You Don [ Have to Wait.

Every dose makes you feel better. Lax Eos keeps your whole inside right. Not one grjpe in a full bottle. Sold on the money back plan everywhere. Price 50 cents.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06

teen years 1 was a great sufferer from kidney troubles. My back pained me ter ribly. Every turn or move caused sharp S h 0 0 tt n g pains. My ;eyesight was poor, d a r k SpOtS aDDeared be-
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06
The Six Lsroest Lakes.

Six lakes of more than 10000 square miles in area exist in the world. The Caspian is the largest of these, and Lake Huron the smallest.
The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06

PUTNAM FADELESS DYES colol more goods, brighter colors, with less work than others.