Medieval Xtersmut^ *
There is another marvel performed
1>7 those Bacsi, of whom I have been
*P«*king *» knowing so many enchant*
ments. For when the great Kaan is
at his capital and in his great palace, I
seated at his tabic which stands upon a *
platform some eight cubits above the
ground, his cups are set before him on ,
a great buffet in the middle of the hall j
pavement, at a distance of some ten
paces from his table, and filled with
wine, or other good spiced liquor such
as they use. When the lord desires to
drink the enchanters cause the cups to
move themselves from their places to
the emperor without being touched by
anyone. This everyone present may
witness. 'Tis a truth and no lie! and
so will tell you the sages of our own
country, for they can perform it—Oc
tober St Nicholas
So Time Should bo Lose
By those troubled with constipation in seek
In* relief from Hostetler s Stomach Bitters
The disease N easily relieved In Its eurliei
stave and us it Is utterly subversive of the
general health.postponement of the remed)
Is unwise. 1 lie same holds rood of delay Is
cases of fever and ague, kidney complaints
nervousness, debility and rltoumatlsm. ail
ments to which the Hitters is particular!)
adapted.. ._
‘ Revised Version. '
From Fibre and Fabric. - j ^ ''
Yesterday there was a few old vtoita'
en and a cluster of girls in one df the
stores here. Somebody spoke of Sun
day school, and the storekeeper, for
the fun of it, said he would give a bag
of candy to the one who could tell him
how long it took to create the world.
One of the old ladies said she didn't
know. The girls looked at each other.
My second oldest daughter slipped out,
ran home and was back in a jiffy with
this answer: “The Lord made the
world in six days and got arrested on
the seventh.” *
STATE OF OHIO CITY OF TOLEDO.
LUCA' > OUNTV, SB
1' rank J. Cheney makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Che
ney At Co., lining business in the city of To
ledo, county and state aforesaid, and that
said firm will nay the sum of i-NE Hl’N
I)t,EI> UOLLaU-for each and every case
of catarrh that cannot be cured by tne use
of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
FRANK J. CIIENEY.
siW' rn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 6th day of December, A. D.
lssd. .
(heal,) A. W. GLEASON,
„ . Notary Public.
Hall s ( atarrh Cure is taken internally
and a- ts directly on the blood and mucus
surfaces of the system. Send for testimo
nials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O,
Sold by druggists, 73c.
What the Nalls Indicate,
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
It has long been known to doctors
that the shape and appearance of the
finger nails form important factors in
the diagnosis of disease. Thus, long
nails indicate physical weakness, and
a tendency to consumption. Where
the nails are long and blueish they in
dicate bad circulation. The same type
of nail, but shorter, denotes tendency
to throat affections, bronchitis and the
like. Short, small nails often indicate
heart disease; Where they are short,
flat and sunken, you may look for ner
vous disorders.
That Joyful Fooling
With the exhilarating sense of renewed
health and strength and Internal clean
liness, which follows the use of Syrup of
Figs, is unknown to the few who have
not progressed beyond the old-time
medicines and the cheap substitutes
sometimes offered but never accepted
by the well-informed.
Mebtal Workers Must Sleep.
Someone says of sleep: The amount
of sleep one needB depends on the
amount of mental work he does while
awake. Men whose brains are never
busy can get along with five or six
hours sleep a day, even though their
hands are always employed during the
waking hours, but the mental worker
must have more sleep or he will go in
sane. '_
When bilious or costive,eatacascaret
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed. 10c,
-35c. _
Mrs. Mary Svabek, 1335 South 14th
St., Omaha, Neb., writes: “I have been
sick three years with headache, pain in
the stomach, dizziness and no appetite.
I tried three doctors and all kinds of
medicines, all of which failed. I have
since used two 25-cent boxes of Dr.
Kay’s Renovator and I have no more
headache; good appetite and stomach
in good order as well as my whole sys
tem.” Sold by druggists at 25 cents
and SI. See advt
Cascarets stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe.
* ' Unequal Distribution.
“It seems,” remarked Uucle Allen
Sparks, “that Dr. Nansen failed to dis
cover the north pole because he hadn’t
enough dogs. And what countless
thousands of dogs we could have spared
him from this neighborhood!—Chicago
, Tribune.
THE ADVANCE
AGENT OF HEALTH
Uinlatuze Fao-SlwUo.
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How lawnilol Former. Op.rat* Till.
Doportmoot of tho Form—A Few
Kioto ao to tho Coro of Litre Stock
hod Poultry.
WINTER feeding
experiment with
dairy cows is re*
ported in detail in
Bulletin No. 43 of
the Utah experi
ment statloh by F.
B. Linfleld. Tests
Were made to de
termine the value
of Utah fodders in
feeding dairy cows;
also as to how touch grain It would pay
to feed with the fodders used; and,
third, to determine the effect of teed on
the per cent of fat In the milk. The ex
periment was conducted during the
winter of 1894-5. Pull details are giv
en in the bulletin,' and the results, as
far as can yet be determined, are sum
marized as follows:
1. This test adds but another item to
the fairly well established fact that an
increase in the quantity of concen
trated food in the ration of a cow, does
not increase the richness of the milk,
provided the cows are well fed to start
with.
i. Any Increase in the grain fed over
six pounds per day increased the cost
of the dairy products almost without
exception; and the test indicates that,
with the fodders used, eight pounds ol
grain is the highest limit for the great
est profit.
8. Considered from the point of price,
lucerne hay and grain seem to he a
more economic ration than one of mix
ed hay and grain, but considering the
weight of food, there is very little dif
ference, though the results are slightly
tn favor of lucerne.
4. It is evident from these tests that,
with the price of lucerne as reported
{$3.75 per ton), cows may be fed at a
food cost in winter of less than nine
cents a day per 1,000 pounds live
weight, even with cows that will pro
duce one pound of butter or more a day.
6. The test also* shows that, with the
right kind of cows, butter fat may be
produced during the winter at a cost
of not more than nine cents per pound.
6. The cows which were the largest
eaters per 1,000 pounds live weight,
were, without exception, the largest
and most economic producers.
Any one interested in this experi
ment can obtain the bulletin, free of
cost, by applying to Luther Foster, Di
rector Utah Experiment Station, Lo
gan, Utah.
Indoor Dairy Work for Women.
Mrs. E. R. Wood writes to the "Jer
sey Bulletin” that woman’s place in the
dairy is indoors because she has a finer
sense of smell and taste than man.
Most men use tobacco, which of itself
unfits any man for handling butter or
standing over the cream vat. Many
men absolutely do not know by their
own sense of taste when butter is right
and when it is wrong. The use of to
bacco in any form destroys the finer
sensibilities of smell and taste, par
ticularly the latter. Neither are men
naturally so cleanly as women. They
see no sense in "everlastingly scrub
bing” a thing. Almost anything will
“do,” according to a man's idea of
cleanliness. Of course- this is not true
of all men, but taking the country
through, Mrs. Wood asks how many
men can you find whom you would
trust to do the fine work of butter
making in your dairy? It is no place
for a man, more than to turn the churn
handle by force of his superior muscu
lar strength. The proper place for a
woman is in the house, not about the
barn, and milking should not be classed
as woman’s work on any farm, unless
where dairy maids are hired for that
special purpose. To this plan, where
the dairying is extensive enough to
warrant it, I have no objection, but I
do object most decidedly to making a
milkmaid of the house-mother, who
has already more than she ought to do,
and keep within legitimate boundaries.
Let her do the indoor work of the
dairy and let the men folks do the
outdoor work. This will be dividing It
more evenly.
Poultry Science.
From bulletin No. 5. of Wisconsin
Farm Institutes we republish the fol
lowing, as a part of an address by Mrs.
Ida E. Tilson:
Since “like produces like,” neither
the largest nor the smallest eggs are
best for setting, because neither giants
nor dwarfs are desirable. Medium sized
eggs should be cultivated, as they best
fill shipping boxes and cooking rules.
A flat or ill-shaped egg will break
easier than the perfect oval, Nature’s
arch. If a sitter accidentally breaks
an egg, her nest must be repaired, and
smte.red eggs washed in warm water
and wiped, as closed pores will suf
focate the embryo chick. I am as ex
peditious as possible and otherwise
never disturb a nest, not even to test
the fertility of eggs. To sprinkle egg;
may be necessary when a sitter is so
confined that she can never bathe her
feet and trail her wings in dew. One
enterprising hen made a stolen nest of
a disused horse collar, lying on a
bare board shelf, and presented me
eighteen chicks. Another proud
mother marshaled sixteen from the
hay mow. Both locations were cer
tainly high and dry. Even if that skin
lining the shell dries, in incubation,
the shell itself grows brittle, and it
would seem that any chick worth rais
ing might make his own way out, and
we have “the survival of the fittest.’’
The eggs of a mature hen, two years
old, are more satisfactory for hatching
than those of a pullet, and I prefer the
layers not to have been unusually stim
ulated. Though fresh eggs are alwavs
preferable, they will retain fertility for >
■lx weeks If packed in bran and set In {
a cool place. Our grandmothers said j
points down, philosophers say heads j
down, and biddy leaves her egg side |
down. My own experience reveals no !
great difference In results. Some
recount end that the infertile eggs left
after hatching be boiled and given to ,
the chicks. Other poulterers pronounce j
them very unwholesome. They always j
seemed to me a dangerous subject for :
investigation. Until every hen-house !
has an almanac, and biddy Is educated,
■he will sometimes sit unseasonably. A
humane cure is confinement in a com
fortable jail; without vestige of a nest,
but with just enough egg-producing
food to make her scratch and long for
more.
, Once I raised all but one of 200 chicks
hatched, and generally being success
ful,, was inclined to think others care
less when they complained of weasels
and rats. After a long procession, how
ever, of right-minded, rat-hunting cats,
which slept in the hennery if they
chose, my dear kitten proved an aris
tocrat, fond of spring chicken. Later
three hawks selected my downy darl
ings for family supplies. Grown thin
and almost demented, from long watch
ing for them, I called in my neighbors
and acquaintances, and sold 159 line
chicks. "How are the mighty fallen!”
Had I owned a harp, might have hung
it on a willow tree, but instead girded
on my big apron, that was at hand,
and raised 25 more chicks, which sur
vived, protected by the higher grass.
There are no safer foods for little
chicks than milk curd and bread and
milk. Hard boiled egg perhaps once
every othei; day is good, but cheaper
corn meal must gradually replace these.
Soon, one-third of br^'n, ground oats,
rye or beans, and two-thirds corn meal
will be relished. To neither chickens
nor hens do I ever give any sort of
meal without scalding it. Salt, pepper
and other spice3, when used, are mixed
dry through the dry meal before wet
ting. Wheat is a safe food, to be fed as
soon as it can be swallowed, and meat
may be given with care that it does not j
prove laxative. Corn is pre-eminently
the fattening food.
Work in Poultry Railing.
In one of the United States consular
reports, the consul has this to say of
the raising of poultry in France: "It
Is estimated that the French farmer
realizes a profit from his poultry rang
ing from 17 to 50 per cent; in some
cases it has gone as high as 85 per
cent, though the average is not much
above 20 per cent. This is an excellent
showing for a pretty, easy and Interest
ing industry, where a man can nurse
his laziness and at the same time make
money. It has been estimated by
Frenchmen who have investigated the
matter that one hen can lay in three
years 450 eggs, or 150 per annum, and
that hy doing this she pays for herself
twice in the time, leaving a double
profit on the eggs that Bhe has given
her owner and returning him the cap
ital originally invested in her purchase
at the end of the time, when she is
sent to market, as it is supposed that
after passing the period of usefulness
she is fit for the table of the citizen."
We take exception to the above as
to one item, that relating to the sup
posed soft Job held by the French poul
tryman. Imagine a man engaged in
the poultry business nursing his lazi
ness. Only the novice would do that,
and he would soon find himself out of
pocket on account of it. The man that
raises poultry successfully, whether in
America or France, must work and does
work. There are a thousand details
that cannot be neglected. He is en
gaged in a constant warfare with dis
ease and vermin. The health of the
fowls is his constant care. They more
than any other farm animals need to
be rightly fed. Of all poultrymen that
look after the little things the French
probably lead.
Tala* of Bhe«pb
It does not require a large farm to
keep a small flock of sheep, which ev
erything considered is the best, says
the Missouri Farmer. It should be
well fenced so that they can be kept
where wanted. Many a rough, worn
out farm might be brought up and
made valuable by raising sheep. There
is no stock so we!', adapted to rugged
hillsides or rough pastures, or to pre
vent the growth of weeds and bushes.
Where sheep have the range of a field
very few weeds will go to seed, and
bushes will be so thoroughly cropped
that they will either die or be kept
back. When a farmer can thus easily
turn the weeds and bush's of a farm in
to excellent manure, and at the same
time have them converted into mutton
and wool, it Is certainly a good thing.
Sheep will thrive in a pasture and get
fat where cattle would almost starve.
They also scatter their droppings over
the field and never fail to enrich lands,
where kept. Feed them extra, for this
additional food works to the profit of
the raiser in two ways—It not only
insures a good growth of flesh and
wool, but it makes the manure richer
and more valuable.
To make the most profit out of sheep
they should be well fed and cared for,
A sheep must be fed to make the best
mutton, but few conceive that a well
fed sheep produces more wool than one
poorly cared for. Wool is a product
from feeding, the same as fat, and
many farmers lose half the profit from
neglect to feed properly. Sheep should
have, besides good feed, dry, clean
quarters, sheltered from rain and
storms.
Pansies.—Some follow the method of
sowing pansy seed late in the sum
mer, as late as the first part of Sep
tember. These are kept well watered
till frost comes, when the young plants
are covered with several inches of
straw or leaves, which covering is held
down by means of boards not too close
ly laid. The pansies will thus get a
good start in the spring and bloom
long before the spring sown seed.
PARIS NOTES.
fb» Bud of Summer end It* Feehloe
Hint* far Antamn. <
A remarkable change has come over
our city. It Is no longer difficult to
And a seat in a cafe, especially towards
9 o’clock, when the summer crowds of
open-air diners all go Inside tot the
true Parisian Is a chilly customer and
has a wholesome dread of fresh air.
Yellow leaves are beginning to drop
on the dinner tables in the Champs
Elysees and rustle down the paths of
the great avenue. All this looks un
pleasantly like autumn. There Is sure
to be another spell or two of heat be
fore summer comes to Its unwelcome
end, but there is no disguising the fact
that the end Is In sight. In spite of all
this, however, the Parislennes are still
giving their attention to summer gar
ments. White linen hats with broadly
stitched brims are much worn, and
look very well when permitted to com
plete a white linen coat and skirt.
Braiding Is unquestionably to be a
great feature of frocks, either In
straight rows or in rows put on in a
fanciful design. Some of the best
white dresses seen, and by the way, the
name of good white dresses Is legion
this year, displayed braided trimmings;
and pique dresses braided look very
pretty, while the most superior kind of
linen gowns show white braiding. A
very pretty hat lately seen struck a
happy medium between those essen
tially for summer wear and those
which must be labeled ‘“autumn.” It Is
made of a rosette straw of an open
shape, with the brim turned up at the
back, trimmed round the crown with a
thick ruche of cock’s feathers, which
grew gradually thicker as It ap
proached the center of the back. At
one side of the front of this ruche was
a spider-like bow of ample size, made
of a hemmed piece of black velvet,
about half an inch in width. A won
derful bow this was, and will no doubt
be a feature of a millinery of the im
mediate future. The further trimming
of this hat was merely a bow of plain
black velvet fastened through a paste
buckle, which appeared to rest on. the
hair at the back. A novelty which is
hailed .with pleasure Is the new coif
fure, which brings the hair quite high
on the top of the head, leaving It loose
around the nape of the neck and be
hind the ears, and transfixing It with
tortoise shell combe. It suits the shape
of seven heads out of eight. It is pic
turesque and yet need not be untidy,
and looks well whether the hair be
waved or unwaved, although it Is cer
tain that the hair dressers will not per
mit it to be seen under the latter condi
tions.—Philadelphia Times.
AN AIRY ORGANDIE.
A Natty Frock for tho Bummer Girl to
Wear.
Oftentimes a pleasant episode is re
called by the sight of a certain gown, a
half-worn glove or last season’s hat.
It brings the whole thing much more
clearly before our vision than mere
words could have done. Some one has
said: “A woman’s heart history ie often
written in a gown.” However that may
be there are gowns lovely enough this
summer to have histories all their own.
One airy organdie frock in pale sea
foam green is dainty enough for the
greatest beauty to wear. The skirt Is
very wide and laid plainly over an !
underslip of chameleon yellow and
green taffeta, finished at the foot with .
a lot of tiny frills. The bodice far round !
and hae the fullness brought across ;
the bust instead of up and down, where
ii is intersected by wide bands of cream
guipure laee, laid over bands of yellow .
ribbon. A great crushed girdle of the
chameleon silk finishes the waist, and a .
wide stock, with a bow at the back, the
throat. Small knots of the silk cover
the mode of fastening down the back.
The sleeves nave a huge puff to the el
bow, where they are gracefully caught
up by a big pearl buckle, to show the
wrinkled lower sleeve. With this frock
is worn a big white rice straw hat, with
the broad brim left in Its natural state,
drooping all around the face in the
most picturesque fashion. It haB for
ornamentation buttercups, dandelions
and heaps of foliage, all showing the
dusty green of the wayside weed. There
are broad ties of yellow and green tulle
fastened at the back and brought lq
a big bow under the chin.
Thin A ice.
The twentieth century promises to be
full of Interesting novelties. We can
look on the canvas and see a whole
regiment go through Its drill, or the
toreador and bull in deadly conflict.
We can hear Paderewski at the piano
and Calve behind the footlights in
“Carmen.” With the microphone we
can listen to the patter of a fly’s feet
on the window i»ane, and the telephone
reproduces the voice of a speaker who
is a thousand miles away. These, how
ever, are only stepping stones to high
er things, and though they are mar
vels there are still greater things to
come which will make such achieve
ments small and insignificant. Mr. Tes
la tells us, through the Herald, that
it may be possible to see the face as
well as hear the voice of the speaker
who is a thousand miles away. There
are difficulties in the pith, but the sci
entific imagination predicts success,
and Teela declares that he has hope
Penetration of Light Through Wntar.
Photography has lately determined
the depths to which the sun’s rays can
penetrate through water, and the re
sult is that at the flepth of 553 feet the
darkness was about equal* to an ex
pos-re on a clear but moonless night.
Tht exposed plates at this depth gave
no evidence of light action.
The men of a Mennonite colony in In*
diana, hitherto L*;und by its creed to
abstain from voting, have revised theli
creed and decided to participate in the
coming election.
Vat to be Caught Kipplao
On t recent Sunday evening1 in Bel*
fast, Me.,* a young man in church
looked frequently at hit watch during
(he sermon. Just as he was doing so
for the fourth or fifth time, the pastor,
with great earnestness, was urging the
(ruth upon conscience of his hearers.
"Young man," said he, ‘ how is it with
rou?” Whereupon the young man
with the gold repeater brawled out in
(he hearing of the whole congregation,
"A quarter past eight "—New York
Tribune.
Just try a 10c box of Caacarets, the
finest liver and bowel regulator ever
mad*
The Reason Why.
A man whose circumstances of trav
eling caused him to sit in the same seat
with a young lady who was unusually
friendly for a stranger said, as he left
the car:
*'I thank you for a very pleasant
chat, but I am afraid you would not
have been so kind to me had you
known that I am a married man."
“You haven’t any advantage of me,”
promptly responded the young lady.
“1 am an escaped lunatic. San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
Men leave trouble to others when they
can, as readily as a girl leaves dirty dishes
for her mother.
The good advice people give away so
cheerfully, is usually something they can't
use themselves.
A man may wear religion as a cloak and
yet freeze his soul to death.
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Smouldering fires
of old disease
lark in the blood of a
matt; who fancies himself }#
good health. Let a slight'
sickness seize him, and the
Old. enemy breaks but anew.
The fault is the taking of
medicines that suppress, in
stead of caring disease. You
can eradicate disease and
purify your blood, if you use
the standard remedy of the
world,
: Ayer’s
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