pnn
Medicine
.Your blood in Spring it almost certain to
) be full of impurities the accumula
tion ol (lie winter months. Bad ven
tilation of sleeping roomt, impure hit
in dwellings, factories and ahopa, over
eating, heavy, improper foods, failure
of the kidney a ana liver properly to do
eitra work thin thrust upon them, are
Uieonrue causes ol una condition. It
ia of the utmost importance that you
Purify
YOUR BLOOD
Now, as when warmer weather cornea and
the tonic effect of cold bracing air it
gone, your weak, thin, impure blood
will not furnisu neceutary strength.
That tired feeling, low of appetite, will
open the way for M-rioua d iaeaHe.ru ined
health, or breaking out of huuiora and
impurities. To make pure, rich, red
blood Hood'a baraprilla stands un
equaled. Thousands testify to its
merits. Millions lake it as their Spring
Medicine. Get Hood's, bacaune
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
IathaOnaTrua Blixxl Puriflar. All d mxelsU. tl
Prepared only by C. I. Hood dt Co., Lowell, Mas.
Tfnnrl'c Wile ruV.n!r p '
- " " Willi llixxl l hi
barutparliU.
Gladness Comes
With a better understanding1 of the
trauhit-nt nature of the inuny phys
ical ills, which vanish before proper ef
Jlaris gentle efforts pluuMiul efforts
TtfttHy directed. There is comfort in
Ui V'lovv ledjfe, that bo muny forms of
akkJ.' hH are not due to any actiiHt dis
aM, but simply to a constipated condi
tion of the system, which the pluuaant
fa'iily laxative, ISyrupof Figs, prompt
ly removes. That is why it in the only
remedy with milliouaof families, and i
every where esteemed so highly by all
who value (food health. Its bencfWinl
effects are due to the fact, that it is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness without debilitutinjr the
orpins on which it acts. It is therefore
all important, in order to pet its bene
ficial uffects, to note when you pur
chase, that you have the genuine arti
cle, which is manufactured by the Cali
fornia Vift Kyrup Co. only and sold by
all reputable dnufrLsts.
If In the enjoyment of good health,
and the system is rejrular, laxatives or
other remedies are then not needed. If
afflicted with any actual disease, one
may be commended to the most skillful
physicians, but if in need of a laxative,
one should have the best, and with the
well-informed everywhere, Syrup of
Fijrs stands highest and is most largely
used and gives most general satisfaction.
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There is just a little appe
tizing bite to HIRES Rootbeer;
just a smack of life and good
flavor done up in temperance
style. Best by any test.
Muli. only by Th (:hrl E. Hlrt-sCo., Phila
delphia. 2&c pack make 6 Kallona. Hold
rverrwhera.
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i tku lit it will inbtrMi ion. I. K. WOOD m
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MILITARY PIGEONS.
afar Oi.M.aa' 14M a Wat Tkat. Cm
la This Cooatry.
Pigeons have been In use for military
pnrpoaea sine the Franco-Pro aaUii
war. Franc, Oermany, Austria, I tsjy,
Spain and Portugal now have com
pletely orjranUed pigeon poau, some
of the nations owning upward of fJOO,
500 birds. The United Butes pigeon
enrlcs only covers a period of three
years, the principal naval pigeon stav
tion being at the Naval Acudemy at
Annapolis, Md., with branchea on the
erulaer New York and the U. 8. P. 0.
Constellation. The Intention la to em
tend the system until the whole Atlan
tic coast la covered the plan being to
nave twelve main and aeven secondary
atationa, reaching; from Portland, Me.,
to Galveston, Texas. Hpeaklng of how
the blrda are enabled to find their way
in dims are enahled to find their way
Dome, Major Oltldlnira savs:
"The common belief that these blrda
find their way home by Instinct 1 a
mistake. Their flight la guided by
Bight alone. When a pigeon Is liberated
It rise to a irrent height In the air In
constantly enlarging circles intil It
catches sight of some familiar land
mark by which to direct Ita
When lllH-rated from a balloon at too
great a height for object to be seen
upon tlie earth by even Its ;lerc ln
vision, It drops like a plummet until It
nears the Perth, when It beirlns to
wheel around In a descending antral
until it finds Its bearings."
The average speed of thoe messen
ger birds Is given at thirty miles an
hour, and the writer thinks thev will
prove of the grentest service inith In
tlmeo of war and peace. Pigeon fan
ciers will find the article well worth a
careful perusnl -Tr.im Outing.
Tbe Huliiiiurine Kelec tor.
It Is now a little over a year since th
Husslau monitor Husalka foundered
with all hands In a storm In the Gulf ol
Finland. Steps have since been taken
by the ItUHsian government to discov
er the precise locality of the lll-fatec
vessel, with the view of raising her.
aud expedition having been organized
for that purpose. This expedition con
sisted of a flotilla of several vessels
equipped with divers aud all necessary
apparatus, Including one of C'aptuin
MeEvoy's submarine detectors, which
was made In Ixindon for the expedl
tlon. It has recently been ascertained
that the spot where the Rusalka sank
Is a reef In the locality of the Waster
Tokan. The reef is submerged, and It
Is siippjed that the Rusalka grounded
there, and subsequently slipped off In
to the surrounding deep water. Her
precise position has been localised In
thirty fathoms of water by the subina
rlne detector, a description of which,
iiays the Times, may prove Interesting
This apparatus Is based on the principle
of Professor Hughes' Induction bal
ance, and It consists simply of an elec-
j-ical arrangement, contained In a small
mahogany box, which ia carried on
board the searching vessel, and a sink
er which la trailed along the bottom
When the sinker approaches a mass of
steel. Iron, or any other metal, the atj
Justment Is deranged, and sounds be
come audible from tbe metallic object
The aearch was continued for several
weeks, and the exact position of the
foundered vessel was at length placed
beyond all question, as every time the
searching steamer passed over a given
spot the electric Indicator of the detec
tor sounded loudly, thus affording evi
dence that a large mass of metal was
submerged below. After the vessel
was located the divert descended and
examined her.
move Polish.
A good durable water-proof liquid
I stove polish Is made of purified black
lead (granite) reduced to a very fine
powder, one pound; perchlorlde of Iron
luilf an ounce. Moisten with just
enough water to form a stiff paste, and
nix Intimately by trituration In a nior
tar, and gradually add water sufficient
to reduce the paste to a thin cream
Shako before using.
The passion to be a leader la th
foundation of half the new religions
that are started
Any girl old enough to take a valen
tine aarlously is too old to get one.
"Fact Is," said tbe one man, "I mar
rlad because I waa lonely, aa much ai
for amy other reason. To put it terse
ly, I married for sympathy." "Well,"
aid the other man, "you hare mine.'
Indianapolis Journal.
All shades of blue are in favor thii
i spring.
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I
TJMELY FAKM TOWCS.
MANAGEMENT OF THE FARM,
GARDEN AND STABLE.
Harrowing Corn Ground Wheat Kill
Off Inaamerable Weed and Levels
attdarea Via Cotter for Gardcaera
Adding to Wheelbarrow'a Capacity
Machine for Gardener.
The Illustration represent a machine
adapted to cut off parts of any creeping
vine or for trimming or cutting off run
ners, aud it may be carried dime to tbe
plant to cut off desired portions with
out injuring what is left, the cutters
lieing also readily adjustable and easily
accessible for sharpening or cleaning.
At the forward end of the machine
Is a sickle bar Uuger udapted to travel
ou the ground, and the body and tbe
finger bar are made In two sections di
vided longitudinally, there being in The
rer part of rhe finger bar and the for
ward part of the body a longitudinal
opening where the cutters are located.
The ground wheel at the left hand
side of the machiue has an luteninl
gear and Is fast on the axle, the oppos
ing wheel being removable, while
meshing with the internal gitir Is a
pinion on u shaft carrying a stellated
cutter wheel, whose teeth are sharpened
on a bevel to meet the cutting' edge
of a cu'ter adjustably secured In the
left hand wall of the longitudinal open
ing, the upper edge of the cutter being
llutih with the upper surfuce of the fiu
ger bar of the machine.
The stationary cutter may be adjust
ed or removed as desired, and In case
the vines might be damaged by the
passage of the machine in Its ordinary
shape the removable wheel may be
taken off, bringing the cutters near the
trunk and precluding the possiMUty of
Injuring the standing portion of the
vine.
Corn-Ground Wheat.
Corn stubble that has been seeded in
grain, mid Is not sown to timothy or
clover, will lie much benefited by a
thorough harrowing as hoou as the
hind is tit to work. Hook three strong
mules or horses to an adjustable steel
tooth harrow and harrow across the
drill rows. Ten acres can be gone over
In a half a day. What few stools of
grain may be rooted out will not
amount to much. The loosening of the
soil around the grain roots and the
thorough pulverization of the earth be
tween the drill rows will be a very
great advantage to the crop. After the
harrowing and before a rain Is an ex
cellent time to give the field a top
dressing of fine manure or 1(K) pounds
of nitrate of soda and UK) pounds of
phosphate of lime. These two fertillz
era att well toerher, and In a favora
ble season will Increase the yield from
eight to ten bushels per acre. Fields
of grain that are In bad shape, either
from being gotten in late, want of prop
er fertilxutiou or owing to severe winds
and alternate freezing and thawing,
will le much ls-m-fited by a good har
rowing. The editor has frequently harrowed
corn stubble grain, and alwnys with
the best results, and would earnestly
commend it. The harrowing kills in
numerable weeds, which Is another
advantage, besides breaking off the
com stubs and leveling the ridges,
which mokes It easier for the reaper.
Corn stubble wheat should not lie seed
ed to timothy or clover, but It should be
plowed up as soon after harvest as the
work con Is- done, and seeded to grain,
and then to grass. The American.
Feeding Cottonseed Meal.
The use of cotton seed In moderate
quantity, In connection with bran or
clover hay or panture, would not Injure
your butter, but rattier be beneficial,
as the foods mentioned would tend to
make It soft and oily, and the addition
of cotton seed would counteract this
effect, and give It a Ann consistence
and good grain, without Injuring the
flavor perceptibly. At the Mississippi
Agricultural College, we feed our milch
raws a ration consisting of four to six
pounds of cotton seed meal, two to four
pounds of bran (or cornmel), twenty
pounds of corn si Inge, and hay ad libi
tum, through the winter months, or
eight to ten pounds of swd may substi
tute the whole gralu ration. When the
cows are In good pasture, they need but
little meul. As they become dried up,
two pouuds of meal and two pounds of
bran uiuy be fed with good advantage.
nowlnsr by Hand.
There are not many now who can dis
tribute gruln or grass seeds evenly by
the hand aud get tbe right amount per
acre. It Is likely that the art will be
wholly lost. There are broadcast seed
ers which will do the work quicker and
lietter than the best sower by hand
could ever do. The drill nowadays does
most of tbe grain seeding, the only
difficulty with It being that when the
soil Is very mellow tbe seed Is put In
too deep. Kolllng after the seed bed is
prepared remedies this difficulty. It la
also good plan to roll down the land
which Is to be seeded by hand. The
harrow or cultivator will cover It deep
ly enough.
Hand Irrigation for Pratt.
An Ontario farmsr rnporta good re
sult in irrigating strawoerrlas by car
rying water In palla from a shallow
MACHINE TOCVTVINKS.
well and pouring It on tbe bed, and
from this beginning lu irrigation he
has ereied a reaervoir elevated above
the level of the beds to be watered,
which he fills by hand pump and dis
tributes by hose. With this crude sys
tem of irrigation he has been able to
raise as many a 4.420 boxes of straw
berries from a measured acre in a very
dry season, and thus having almost a
monojoly of the market, he was able
to sell his berries at a flue price.
How a Woman Would Farm.
I would work for small fruits. It Is
very nice for the women to run out aud
pick a liowl of rich strawberries, rasp
berries or blackberries, when they only
have perhaps a half hour liefore tea,
not time enough to go a mile away to
some rough pasture or soraggly wood,
let alone coming home with, perchance,
a broken bone or two, and their dresses
nearly torn to pieces, says a writer in
the Maine Farmer. If you chance to
mention these things to a man, "Oh,
no time to fool with such tilings. What
won't a woman think of next?" I notice
If the berries are on the table he finds
time to eat them, while the women are
too tired to even look at them.
One thing more. I would nt be boil
ing swill on the kitchen stove, running
lu every morning, noon aud night with
the swill rail full of meal, emptying
the contents of the teakettle the women
have got Juwt to the boiling pitch, for
washing the dishes or getting the meal;
then, after getting half way to the pig
pen, call back. "Oh, there! I have taken
all the water out of that teakettle." I
would have a building all to myself,
where I could heat water, boll swill,
forge un iron and do a Job of carpenter
Itig.
Nitronen for Karly I "ran.
When planting curly peas a small
iniKiuiit of nitrate of soda will pay bet
ter than with any other crop. The pea
requires nitrogenous manure, as it is
more nitrogenous than any other grain
except the beau. It is true that the pea
root Is able to decompose air in the
soil and extract the nitrogen from that.
but It does this only when In an aa
vaneed stage of growth. A small
amount of nitrate of soda sown with
peas warms the spil around them, for
It aids the growth of pea roots, which
lllierate carbonic acid gas, which al
ways evolves heat. It is thus, by fur
nishing food aaid warmth at the early
critical period, that the pea Is made
earlier than it otherwise would be, and
brings a higher price in the market.
Increaalnir a Wheelbarrow'a Capacity,
When wheeling corn fodder and oth
er light stuff, a wheelbarrow's capacity
Is too limited for convenience. The II
I list rat Ion shows a simple attachment
that can be slipped Into the lmrrow on
such occasions, to the great Increase of
lta capacity. The side pieces should be
hardwood strips. The attachment may
be supported by hooks from the strips
to the top of the wheelbarrow's back If
preferred.
Feed Economically.
The cont of production governs tilt
profit, and not the ibices received. Ex
travagance in feeding, waste of valua
ble food, and the use of tock that doe
not product? alsve the average, are the
alwttjicles which cause mortgages and
entail lue.
Small Forma Pay.
Small farms are made to pay by
closer atJtentlou and a better feeding
of the soil thtui Is pk(ible with lurgt
ouch.
)11 nnd Knda.
If one wears old, loose kid gloveg
while Ironing they will save many cal
lous RiKits on the hands.
Silver spoons that have liecoine dis
colored by eggs may be cleaned readily
by rubbing with a soft cloth and a little
dry salt
If brooms are dipped in a pall of hot
suds for a minute or two each week it
will make them toutfli and p4.ble, nud
they last much longer.
Little bags of orris powder are con
sidered among the daintiest devices for
perfuming bed linen and undercloth
ing, and are more popular than laven
der just now In the most luxurious
houses.
Palms, rubber plants and all foliage
plants used In the house should bave a
weekly washing. Using a soft cloth or
sponge, each leaf should receive a light
washing with lukewarm water, and the
soil should be loosened about tbe roots,
riant g breathe through their leaves,
and cannot grow well unless they are
kept free from dust.
Mildew may be removed In the fol
lowing manner: First, by rubbing off
any loose mildew, then rubbing in com
mon salt, afterward sprinkling liberally
with powdered chalk and moistening
wth clean cold water. After this dry
slowly In tbe open air, rinse, and If the
marks are still there repeat the process.
It may be necessary to do this several
times, but In tbe end the spots will be
removed. ,
It Is sometimes convenient to remem
ber the following items of cooks' meas
urement: One pint of liquid equals one pound.
Two gills of liquid make one cupful.
Four teaspoonfuls make one table
apoonful. Two round tableapoonfuls of flour
will weigh an ounce.
Half a pound of butter will make one
cup.
Four cups of flour make one pound.
Two cups of granulated sugar make
one pound, bnt In powdered augar It
will take two and one-half cups to
make on pound.
RACK roll A WHKKI. BAKltOW.
tats or Ohio, City or Toledo,!
Lccais Cot'STT. f
Fkakk J. Chekiy makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the hrm of r. J
HtMi & Co., doing tinainesg jii tbe City
f Toledo. Countv aud Nate aforeaaid, and
;hat taid firm will pav the sum ot ONE
H UNPKEIi IX)LLAEf for each and every
as of Catarrh Mi&l cannot be cured by
;tie use of Hall a I atakkh ( i ke.
FRANK J. CHEKEY.
Sworn to before me aud subscribed in
ny presence, this 6th day of JL4ceuiber,
V. D. 18HU.
jTetTt A. W.GLEAPON,
if Aotary Public
Jail's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
irid acts directly on the blood and mucooa
lurfaces ol (he system. Bend for teetimo
liaU free.
F. J. CHl-dfiCY & CO., Toledo 0.
CaVBold by UrugHKs, 75c.
Co'onel Fred D. Grant's daughter,
diss Julia I tent Grant, is her father's
olitical adviser, and she knows as
nuch about political conditions in New
fork as any one. Bhe is familiar with
he doings of various district leadere,
nformstion which may be of value
hould her father ever run for office.
I believe my prompt use of Fiso's Cure
irevented quick consumption. Mrs. Lucy
Wallace, Marquette, Kans., j ec. 12, '95.
The white of an egg beaten with the
uice of a lemon and sweetened to the
aste taken in half-hour teaspoon ful
loses forms a simple cure for hoarse
xlds.
Do not wear impermeable and tightfit
.ing hats that constrict the blood-vesseWol
he sculp. I'se Hall's Hair Renewer occa
lioually, and you will not be bald.
A naturally pretty hand has its beau-
;y spoiled if k is not well cared for.
FIT". All Fitt Mnpped fre.- by Dr. Kline's Graal
Nerva Rettorar. No Kit after the firm day's use. Mar
velous cures. Treatise and $3.00 trial bottlv free to
FitCAiei. Send to Ir. Kuoc.gji Anhbt., 1'biU., P.
As much used as is the telephone
there are many women actually afraid
to talk through it.
L j!III M
Lo&8 ot opportunity is lue s greatest loss, luiun 01 auueriug wim
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NEURALGIA ats vlL
When the opportunity lies in a bottle of ST. JACOBS OIL. It cures.
"Say Aye 'No' and Ye ll Ne'er Be Mar
ried." Don't Refuse All Our
Advice to Use
SAPOLIO
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Largest Size I
Lowest Price!
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Alw CABLED POULTRY, QARDEN AND RABBIT FENCE.
Wa tsaaarsoMre a eoBalcts lla ot Smooth Wire Pesetas and aaarmnuui mn utiaia a ka
aa rspraaaawd. Aak jraor dsator to show yas
DB KALB FENCE CO.,
ILKAH lOtS ctll'VULat
With one of our Lambs Wool Mittens.
Nothing like it. Sample mailed for 26 eta.
8tamp taken. I. K. WOOD A CO.
167 bo. Oakley Ave., Chicago, LU.
Confectionery of one .olor with bon
bonieree and draperies to match prove
the artistic strides made in decoration
of all sorts.
Prinr-ess Ma'id of Wales his decided
that after her marriage with Prince
Charles of Denmark she and ber hus
band ill reside at A ppley ball, Norfolk.
A county wedding present ia being plan
ned, tbe subecr.ptions being limited to
$15 from each individual, but the whole
will represent thousands of dollars.
Mrs. Window' Soothing Sraor for child
ren teetlniiK, solicits lac gum, reJuce innaia-'
rjitiR, allay pain, cure wiiidcoUc e bottia.
There are too many people who nevei
pray nntil they have to.
The
Unscrupulous
Merchant
who tries to make you believe
some other skirt binding is as
good as Ti1.
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Bias Velveteen Skirt Binding
should be taught a lesson
buy it elsewhere.
Lookor S. H. & M.,M cn the Label,
and take no other.
If your dealer will not supply you
we will.
I Send for samples showing labels and rrtariiils.
tothe S. H. &M.CO..P. O. '' ""' ' -
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lut.-ieB. i)y mull im;. j-ajv; uu.
7x, New York.
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