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GOOD PROFIT IN GOLDENSEAL
Nothing Bettor Can Be Planted on Unused
Piece of Ground, la Opinion
of Expert.
Speaking of plants that may be
cultivated with little trouble and
with profit to the irrower, a writer
in Green's Fruit Grower advises
those who have a bit of unused woodland
or underbrush to plant goldenseal.
He considers it one of the
most remunerative of plants to raise,
and says that it requires very little i
care.
The roots of this plant sold fifteen
years ago at 3ft cents a pound. The
price has steadily advanced j the
root is now worth $5/5 ft a pound, |
and the dry leaves aud stems now
sell for 25 cents a pound. ^ It is
? one of the most widely used drugs
known to the modern pharmacopoeia.
At the end of three year3 you can
sort out the mature roots from the
young ones and wash and dry them
for Slllp whilp VOtl r?1lt ttin vminrt
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roots back in the ground. At the
end of the three years the grower has
a yearly crop of roots', and, beginning
with the lirst year, he has a
yearly crop of leaves and stems.
This is one of the crops on which
there is an absolute certainty of u
market that will run after you as
soon as any goldenseal buyer knows
von have the goods to sell. (5o and
ask your druggist or your doctor
about the valm? of goldenseal.
CORES
Browne?Made your debut in
comic opera last night? Any encores?
Tennerman?No, mostly apple.
A WAR ORDER.
Customer?Here, waiter. Where
are the olives? Hold mil Bring me
half a melon and some cracked ice. |
The Waiter (loudly)?Dumdums, j
half a bombshell and a t>owl of
shrapnel!?Cleveland Plain Dealer.
HUMAN DIFFERENTIAL.
"It is so aggravating that .Tack and
I haw so many disagreements."
"Yes; he doesn't seem to understand
that you will have your own
way.''
SIMILAR YET DIFFERENT.
"Little candles," (pioted the moralizer,
"are easily plown out."
"Yes," rejoined (he demoralizer,
"and little salaries are easily blown |
in."
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DIFFICULT FEAT.
'Cheer up! The world is your oyster."
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'"Anybody who has ever tried 1
knows it is no easy task to open an
oyster." j
CALLING PERCY VIVIAN.
Fond Mother?Little hoy. have ]
you seen IVrev Vivian?
"Yessuni. Iley, Briekfop, yer ]
mother wants you!"?Life.
PHILOSOPHER.
Mike?What's tli' best thin# to
drown one's sorrows in, l'at?
Pat?-Perspiration! Hard work
* ill kill them.
HAD IT 8AFE.
Fond Motlier?Oh! (Jrorge, dear,
you've lost a tooth!
tJrorgc?So, 1 haveirt mother;
il'a in my juxket.?Jndgl\
USUAL EXPERIENCE.
"So Jerry is in town. I* lie taking
I in the lifhtu?"
W "1 Attar think they are taking
* him in.'*
- A POE TO ACTION.
"Does Boneson care mueh for athletic*
y
"1 think ttat. Hm fmroritt sport
it taking a nap in an mm; ctair."
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LACKED AN IMPORTANT POINT
Claimant Had the Honors in Weight
but Fell Short on Another Matter
j of Moment.
It isn't often that two men of almost
exactly the same physical proportions
meet at a convention, particularly
when the proportions carry
with them a weight of 325 pounds to j
the man. Yet just this did happen |
at a Tecent Indianapolis assemblage.
One uf the two arrived the first day
of the convention and immediately
set up the claim of being the heaviest
man at the gathering. Flis statement
went unchallenged until tho
third day of the meeting, when a
contender appeared. The lato arrival
immediately sought the first j
claimant for heavyweight championship
honors. Stepping up to him he
said: "I understand yoil are saying
you are the heaviest man at this eonvent
ion ?"
"Yet, sir, I so claim," said the
first arrival. "1 am five feet ten
inches high and weigh 325 pounds."
"Then yo<vjose the championship,"
said the challenger. "I am fivn
foot ten inches tall and weigh 3*?(?
pounds/'
"Well," said the first, "if you
weigh 3?(i that heats me. But, great
heavens, man. you haven't any !
shape."?Indianapolis News.
BOTH KIND AND THOUGHTFUL
Dohba?There is something awfully
generous about those coal companies.
W?KKa_-T?? ?-?
t* VI/I/O jk'Ui t:Aaiii|il^ I
Dobbs?Here is one that announces
that by paying for your coal
in advance you can have it delivered
later on.
RELIEVED.
"I bear you were held up by a
footpad last night," said Brown.
"Were you scared?"
"Well," replied Jones, "I was considerably
relieved when he went
awav."
DEFERENCE DUE.
"Do you never thank a man for
giving you a seat in a crowded car?"
asked one woman.
"Certainly not," replied the other.
"He ought to have walked in the
first place and left more room in tho
car.".
THE CARDS ARE OUT.
"Algernon has stopped talking
about his platonie friendship for
Vanessa." *
"Well, he had to get busy. Another
fellow came along and got interested
in the girl."?Kansas City
Journal.
COULDN'T KEEP ONE. ANYWAY.
"IH> you know that Lacey'g is advertising
a mammoth sale this
I week?"
"No. Why, I thought mammoths
were extinct."?Boston Transcript.
A FINISHING JOB.
"Are you raising chickens on vour
place?"
"We were, until somebody else
took to 'lifting* them."
MATERNAL 80LICITUDE.
"ller novel shows a juvenile trend
of mind. Why doesn't she revise
it?"
"Her mother thinks she is too
young to read what she has written.
UNPLEASANT REMINDER.
| ? ,
' That nmn slammed the door in j
my face when i asked him to look
at my patent cooler."
"No wondcT; he's just out of
jail."
N IT8 SUBSTITUTE.
I
t nmi
-mere? n?*ver any skating on the
Panama canal, is there?"
"Nov bat there warns to ha plenty
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CONFUSING TO THE READER
Varieties of Geographical Names in
Europe Apt to Prove Something
of a Puzzle.
foreign geographical names often
prove confusing to American readers
because each European country
has a name of its. own for each of
its cities, rivers and other. geographical
features. Evert' otffer nation
has a different name for the same
thing. American jrooi$TaDhipK follow
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the English in thqjr nomenclature,
but often employ a different pronunciation.
For example, we call the rhief Belgian
stronghold and the temporary
capital Antwerp, while the Belgians
and French call it An vers. We term
another Belgian city Mechlin, while
at home it is termed Malines. The
River Mouse is pronounced in Belgium
and France very nearly as we
would pronounce it, while the Germans
pronounce it as it if were
spelled Mnysay, ami the people of
the Netherlands call it Maas.
Brussels is spelled Bruxelles at
home and the final s is not pronounccd.
I tendermonde, on the
Uiver I tender, is pronounced Dan
uiTiiHiiMi i?v us inhabitants. hut it is
known as Torinonda in most of the
geographies. An 1st is also spelled
A lost. Ijouvnin is Lenven ait home,
Vienna is W'ien ami (lliont is Hand.
So one might go down the line.
11 is to ho hoped that some day the
geographical societies will get together
and agree upon a nomenelatnre
thai will he universally adopted.
?Detroit Tribune.
MEAN MAN
Mrs. Know sett?My husband is so
tender-hearted that he won't even
whip the children.
Mrs. Tellit?My husband is even
too tender-heart oil to beat the carpet.
LOCATING THE TROUBLE.
"The .linkses are much talked
about."
"Yes, they've lived in the neigh
borhood for nearly a week and noIkvIv
knows anything about them."
SOLVING A MYSTERY.
(?eorgc Weller?I wonder how the
Venus de Milo came to lose her
arms? .
Izander Brown?Broke them otT
trying to button Iter shirtwaist up
the hack.
LIKE FATHER. LIKE SON.
"Skinflint's son hikes after him."
"In what way?"
"He swallowed a silver dollar, and
when the doctor applied a .stomach
pump all he could get out was a
qua demand three nickels."
NO JOY RIDERS THERE.
"Mv son. f rv to walk in the
straight and narrow war."
"Yes, father."
"Its a safe way for more reasons
than one. It's e?miparativelv free
from automobiles.'
ANOTHER HERO.
Fili?Have von heard of our engagement
?
Mimi?No -cr who's the plucky
man??London Opinion.
ITS KINO.
"The (Jeriuans and itussians aj>|K'jir
to Ik? having trouble in
the eastern battles, don't they?"
"Yea: Lodz of it."
IT8 EFFECT.
"An aviator must lw an idealist."
"Why so?"
"Doesn't In* adept .1 life of high
thinking and plane living?*'
OBLIGING.
"Wretched singing, at that eoncert
! lift I went there merely to
kill tune."
"Ami tiiej iiiurtiercU U /ur jfau."
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