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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1909-10-08

stand can be ''secGired With les less seed.
Where the summers are hot and early
varieties must be grown, however, the
tendency to stool to any great extent
should be discouraged. since stoollng
always delays ripening. Often nun
will be seen partly inclosing smaller
cat, These small cats are known as
Din oats. They lessen the yield, and
d strain which contains many OF them
should be Disseminated against
There are three general types OF oats
side oats, hulless oats and spreading
oats. The hulless varieties do not yield
enough to be Of any great value. Inc
side oats, In which the berries are all
on one side Of the head. are grown IN
this country to a limited extent only.
Most Of the oats grown are OF the
spreadine varieties. There are varie-
ties Of oats of almost every color,
white. yellow, black and green being
the most common There Is little diff
ference In yield that can be ascribed
to color. If they are grown in q com
| munity In large enough quantities so
that they can be shipped In carload
lots the selling price will not vary
much.
Selecting Wheat and Barley Heads.
In selecting wheat heads those that
do not shell too readily should be given
| the preference. since much wheat Is
| lost by Smelling during harvest. The
grains should be plump, smooth and
bright. The seed coat should be tough
and not cracked. Where the bran Is
brittle and cracks easily 1t is difficult
to separate it from the -four. The
kernels should be hard. Hard wheat
makes better -four owing to the great
er percentage Of gluten, and millers
will pay more for it. Beardless wheat
is more easily handled, but it does not
yield as we'll as the bearded varieties.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1909-10-08

~MALL grain breeding is second
a only to corn breeding in impor-
!. lance. Indeed, there Is even
marc chance for Improvement
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-09
RECIPE THAT CURES
WEAK men
Send Name and Address Today-Yo
Can Have X Free and Be Strong
and Vigorous.

I have in my possession prescription
for nervous debility, lack of vigor.
weakened manhood, failing memory and
lame back brought on by excuses, un-
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that has cured so many worn and ner-
vous men right in their own homes
without any additional help or medicine
that 1 think every man who wishes
to regain his manly power and virtility
quickly and quietly. should have a
copy. So L have determined to send a
copy of the prescription free of charge,
in a plain, ordinary sealed envelope, to
any man who will write me for it.
This prescription comes from ply
stefan who has made a special study of
men, and 1 am convinced it is the sur
est-actng combination for the cure of
deficient manhood and vigor failure ever
put together.
l think 1 owe it to my fellow man to
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any man. anywhere, who is weak and
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stop drugging himself with harmful
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ever devised, and so, cure himself at
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3S6 Luck Bldg, Detroit. Mich, and
will send you a copy of this splendid
receipt, in plain ordinary sealed en-
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-09
BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CA
TARRH THAT CONTAIN MERCURY,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles
should never be used except on prescrip-
tons from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do is ten fold to the
good you can possibly derive from them
Halls Catarrh Cure. manufactured by F.
j. Cheney &, Co., Toledo, O., contains
no mercury. and is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. In buying Halls
Catarrh Cure be sure you get the gen.
uine. 1t is taken internally and made
in Toledo, Ohio, by F. ]. Cheney e Co.
Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price, rs cents
per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for Consti-
patton,
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Wonderful Cures

Perfected in old cases which have been
neglected or unskillfully treated. No
dertake incurable cases, but cure thou
sands given up to die.
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-09

Cures permanently the cases he un
dertakes and sends the incurable home
without taking a fee from them. This
is why he continues his visits year aft
er year, while other doctors have made
few visits and stopped DR.. Jones is
an eminently successful specialist in
all chronic diseases, proven by the
many cures effected in chronic cases
which have baffled the skill of other
physicians. His hospital experience and
extensive practice have made him so
proficient that he can name and locate
a disease in few minutes.
Treats all durable cases of Lung Dis
eases, Consumption in early stage.
Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels,
Gravel. Paralysis, Neuralgia, Nervous
ness. Sick Headache, Heart Blood and
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Rupture and Bright's Disease, Diseases
of Bladder, and Tobacco habit.
ABSORPTION treatment given for Cat
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Special attention given to all Surgical
cases, and all Diseases of the Eye, Ear,
Nose, Throat, Ringing in Ears and
Deafness.
Ihave a seldom failing remedy for Golfer
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Remarkable cures are perfected in
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-09
H0STETTER'S
STOMACH BlTTERS

1t will quickly correct these ills and
thus prevent a spell of Indigestion,
Dyspepsia, Biliousness and Constipa-
ton. We urge you to try a bottle
this very day,
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-09
Chronic Diseases of Men and
Women a Specially

Space forbids the mention of but few CT the
Chronic Diseases which treat of both men and
women. If you are nervous excitabe and irritable,
despondent weak and easily tired out. If you have
lack of energy want of confidence deposit urine,
or If YOU are a woman and have headache backache
or pain in side my treatment remarkably success
full. Married ladies should be accompanied by thei
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-09
BACK GIVES OUT
Plenty of Mankato Readers Have This
Experience

Plenty of Mankato Readers Have This
Experience.
You tax the kidneys
them
They can't keep up the continual
strain.
The back gives QUIT aches and
pains;
Urinary troubles set in.
Don't wait longer-take Doan's Kid
ney Pills.
Mankato people tell you how they
act.
George Serene, ia North Broad
street, Mankato, Mimi, says: Riding
in the cab of locomotive is conceived
to be harder on the kidneys than any
other occupation. As result of the
continued Earring | suffered from oc.
casional backaches. Many of my fell
low workmen recommended Doan's
Kidney Pills and at last / began using
them, procuring box from j. C.
Thro's drug store. They have proven
of great benefit to me and / believe
they act as a preventive against Sc
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my occupation"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
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York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan's-and
take no other.
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National Bank of
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do YOU need
HOSTETTER,s:

That just depends. If the appetite
is poor, blood impoverished, nerves
weak, or if you are troubled with Sick
Headaches. Heartburn, Belching,
Cramps or Diarrhoea, you need IL
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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-09

neys the name of the man who did it.
This man is not now in this vicinity,
but at that time he was employed by a
neighboring farmer. He was well known
to Smith, their acquaintance having ex.
tended back some years. In fact, it is
limited that they turned trick" to-
gether once in Iowa.
Smith may have told why Mrs. Led
better assisted in concealng the MUIR
DER but if he did, it has not yet leaked
out. This is mystery that seems
plIzZlin0
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-09
How Body Was Moved.

1t would appear from Smiths latest
confession that he and mis- companion
alone moved the body to its place under
the potato patch. Mrs. Ledbeter had
other plans for the ground where the
potato patch was, but, as she said
Sunday night, he was so bullheaded
about it that he carried out his own
plans.
Smith, if he has a reputation for any
one thing, is famous as the most ac-
complished liar that ever drifted into
this section. He must be termed a
monumental falsifer. He is an adept
at it, a postmaster, if Il fraction of what
people say is true. He seems to be
moral degenerate, man without
any conception of right and wrong, nor
regard for truth and probity. That
he should have told os the murder as he
did last Sunday, laying it upon a
woman who he now claims had nothing
to do with it, seems past the bounds
of credibility. If he has told another
story. as reported and now lays the
abominable crime upon another party
the question arises, how much cred
ence can be placed in this confession,
and is he still not trying to place
upon innocent shoulders the crime which
he himself may have committed?
Two Arrests Possible.
1t was stated today that possibly
two arrests may be made. One party
will be charged with direct connec-
ton with the case. and the other with
having had guilty knowledge of it,
both before and after the murder.
1t would seem that Ledbeter was sur
rounded by a honeycomb of plot dur
ing his last days, in which his life
was sought. He was a doomed man
for days before his death, and which
ever way he turned he could not have
escaped those who sought his life's
! blood What was the motive of this
cannot be said unless it was the hope
of gaining the wife and property of the
missing man.
Deputy Sheriff G. G. Phillips re-
turned last night from a trip to some
unknown place. lt was supposed tnaC
he visited st. Paul, but he denies that
he was there. He refuses to make any
statement. Detective Baxter did not
90 to Minneapolis, as given out yes
terday, but was joined by one of his
men,
The Free Press has not the evidence,
of course, to prove that the above pur-
ported second confession of Smith is as
stated. as under the conditions of things
it would be impossible to verify it.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-09
Piles, Fissure, Fistula

Guaranteed Cured Without Surgical
Operation or Detention from business.
Piles injure the general health produce indigestion
bloating and nervousness OFTEN cause untold SUI.
even though you have been told surgical operation
was necessary. Hundreds of such cases cured.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-09

Real Estate Transfers.
Herman j. Ibach to Elias Abraham,
north ", lot 2, block Is, Tinckom's
addition, for 1925.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18

Bauchart. has lent to the little show a seduc-
tive collection OF boxes OF every conceivable
form and size. from the tinest Of patch boxes
to fair sized Jewel casket. richly decorated in
the style OF the Romantic period. All have
painted tops, some under glass. some vanished
but all are interesting and many amusing. How
sentimental an age was that Of Louis Philippe
one realizes when looking through these many
boxes. Some show ruin in q delicately tinted
landscape; others are amorous couples, lovers
coquettes, shepherds and shepherdesses nymphs
and their swains. A few are historic-a snuff
box OF Napoleon, another with a head of Jose
phine, one OF the Due de Berry, another con-
taining portraits Of six royal heads, one behind
the other, each profile projected slightly be-
yond the last. Here are samples OF the time
when seed pearls were introduced freely INTO
trffes for women's use. and the caskets have
Louis XVI designs carried out in pearls und
hooped In gold. They seem to be unendlng. and
thus grouped are oddly interesting and personal
few would have had no meaning; the large
collection seems to call up the days OF the
early nineteenth century, when melancholy was
the fashion, better than many more serious and
ambitious forms of art The wallpaper exhibit
ton will remain open until the end of October
c. I. B.
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
Parisfennes' VeIvef and More Hats
AS a Concession to Summer. They Are raced Witt
White Straw and Trimmed with Enormous Flowers.

tbe riea+ed skirt diagonelly was q broad pano OF
cream tinted Venetian lace On the SIDES IL ols-
appeared under straight sash ends OF lear green
silk finished in big bows tied at the ends of tne
same lace was the corsage. laid over green ana hI
covered with black mousseline de sole "lholhs
her arms was a long. narrow SCARF OF soo eil"loU
cred green silk Roses made OF green silk trimmed
her large black velvet hat
On a gown OF blue dotted white fouiard SILK an
odd skirt drapery was noted. long straight
b-.adth drawn across the front was sewed to the
belt a little back Of the hips; at the back Il
dropped into a long loop. nearly TO the hem' the
end mounting again to be tucked under the pet|
This was OF white English embroidery framed IN
tvo-nch bands of blue silk. and blue silk ooroereo
the opeh fold at the back At the edge Of the loop
was posed an immense blue bow. Below the trans
parent muslin guimpe the corsage. V-shaped In the
back Tapping surplice fashion in front, was edged
with silk embroidery. and bands Of II held little
sleeve puffs above long tight silk sleeves
A rose colored foulard silk. dotted with black
was draped with black mousseline de sole; two
wide hounces hemmed three inches wide with It,
were headed by a tiny bias band Of the silk. less
than a quarter of inch wide. This band, set in
two rows. edged the tunic also
Sky blue foulard silk, with curly black designs,
shaped a slender tunic over short skirt of fine
white linen Faced with white. 1t turned up,
washerwoman fashion. fastened back OF the hips
with large buttons
A white batiste gown with long curass of
lnlcA ennpToIueIy "dS lcNelS Win "iNO 00S'A "a
soft pink Liberty satin threading the lower edge
OF the cuirass- A little side of the back 1t
tied into long. 1ooped bow. The accompanying
hat covered smoothly with white linen. was faced
with black straw and trimmed with pink muslin
roses. As the wearer OF this pretty gown stepped
from the to walk little in the grass. one
glmpsed her pink stockings and black vanished
leather shoes with their white kid vamps.
The Idea of the threading sash also on
pleated skirt of fine white linen; knee high,
through slits the pleats. passed the wide
ribbon, tying with fringed ends at side OF the
front. The corsage, ali Of Nalenciennes lace was
draped with a Marie Antoinette hchu OF softest
white batiste. Lightly frlled with the same It
fell low the shoulders. quite hiding the short
puffed sleeves. Long gloves OF white undressed
kid met them, tied the top with narrow black
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
WALL PAPER EXHIBIT
Small but Interesting Collection IN
MusSe GalIcrG. at Paris.
Paris, July g.


small exhibition opened this week in the
MusAe CaIfiera shows IN a compact ana COM
plete form the multifarious uses to which paper
ba. coma to be applied in the homo 1t Ia
vary humble and somewhat insincere role evi-
IDENTITY since ali the ingenuity Of inventors mas
snnarently been devoted to making paper look
like something else. For instance. take its ap-
plication to wall hangings. the most Deautioi
kind of wan drapery is undoubtedly tapestry
the earliest Of all, but as comparatively le"
persons could acquire It good substitute was
found In rich silks, plain woollen cloths or COT
ton and linen hangings. Any OF these materials
gave a softness to the appearance OF q room
that must have been soothing to the nerves OF
the occupants and specimens or limitations or
these materials have survived to show how
much was lost from the esthetic point Of view
by the introduction OF the more hygienic and
sanitary paper now to be seen in every private
dwelling.
In the Galliera Museum there are hung side
by side specimens of fiat wall paper and OF
some French Ldncrusta paper. The artist VINO
designed the former OF these had evidently in
view the imitation of the tapestry effect, and IN
a soft, pleasing scale OF reds. the paper, Which
has q soft dull surface. represents woodland
scene. winding stream and wooded banks on
planes corresponding to those OF the room-that
Is showing no elevations The erect ls e&-
tremely good-the same. indeed. as that pro-
duced by tapestry. The mind is carried beyond
the walls to a possible scene OF limitless land
scape. The design OF the paper covers only the
lower part of the walls-dado fashion-the upper
part being left plain. A similar idea, but diff
ferenty executed, is conveyed by paper in
soft gray and green. Here the whole Of the
walls covered apparently with straight
bamboo palms. standing close together, the lines
from floor nearly to ceiling being unbroken. At
the top, however, the stems are hidden by the
growth of foliage The coloring OF this example
is so delicate and cool that the effect is to throw
the walls back and give impression OF space
and air. It may be remarked en- passant that
this is by no means the effect obtained by the
decorator of the ordinary Paris fiat. who in
varably selects hard insistent. complex de-
sign that makes all four walls of any given
room the most conspicuous and menacing OBJ
: ject IN the apartment These carefully thought
out and artistically blended designs and color
ings probably. even in paper. OF a certain
value.
e, The "inoruste" papers are quite different in
character. They are Japanese in style- tho de-
New-York tribune., 1909-07-18
Chinese woman grinding corn

have accumulated a list OF suggestions caIculs ted
10 keep The nose OF any man OF average means
continually at the grindstone.
Their demands. too. not only the hus-
bands pocketbook but on his time. He must ac-
company his wife TO every social affair that she
drag him to- and rarely does she care to render any
courtesy 60 of his business friends unless they
are desirable scquaintances from worldly point Of
view. of kind that will prove stepping stones in
her social march. Any others she declares bores
and impossible creatures. and is impervous TO any
pleading as 20 the influence they may have on the
mans financial reer.
1.-The ways employed by these lazy and selfish
young matrons to get what they want are many
and devious. and a favorite topic OF con-
versaton among them. Conversations overheard
at Demonico's Sherry's very likely to be
gin with: We'll, Jack doesn't want Inc to do SO
and SO. but I know how get my way Then
will follow account of the favorte strategy,
and the listeners will laugh their approval and
take turns in relating their methods. and the
means employed to gain an end In everyday mat
ters are trifing compared with the means taken
TO keep life running along the luxurious paths
which the spoiled woman has mapped out for her
self OF these latter, making the husband jealous
one of the dangerous and usual and with
out home cares the wife has ample Time to plan
and carry out such campaign. Ordinarily II
has the effect OF spurring her legal lord to
greater extravaganza and the renewal of many
forgotten attentions in the flower Jewel and candy
line, wl.h automobile or the yacht her soul has
longed for.
When the mans eyes are finally opened to her
selfshness and he turns from her in disgust, does
she come to her senses? Not in the least. On the
contrary. she seeks divorce and alleges cruelty
and incompatibiity of temperament, carefully ask
ing amony much over and above the cost of her
present mode Of life, that she will have no
thought or care for the rest of her years With a
really spoiled-child type of woman which IS the
class most in evidence in this day and generation.
the wage earning man. and even the man making
a great deal of money, has small hopes either OF
happiness success. Indirectly as well as direct
ly, such women are the cause or grave business
scandals because they constant drain on the
nurse and can never be that support and good
influence necessary TO a man who has TO
struggle with the world