Popular Irltm CllpplBf..
Leneliock and Humboldt both isj
that a tingle pound of the finest spider
wet would reach around the world.
The bone of the skull are arched be
mum in that form the greatest strength
la combined with the least weight and
quantity of material.
When water freezes it expands with
l force estimated at 30,000 pounds per
qtiaie im h. No material has Wen
fuuD'l a hii h ran withstand this pres
sure. Home-tried lard is Iwtter and firmer
than tliflt which ran Ixj bought and doee
not require a treat deal of time. To
prevent lard from becoming rancid add
some tahle salt to the lard when it is
hot, in proportion of one teaspoonful of
salt to each quart of liquid lard, and
cook a few moments after the salt is
dJed.
Word conies Irom all quarters that the
neatest and most satisfactory dye for col
oring the heard a brown or black is Buck
ingham's Dye lor the Whiskers.
The average maid needs to be taught
that the washing of china and glass it
more of an art than she realizes. The
dishes should be cleaned with a piece
of bread crust instead of the usual knif
which will scratch tine dhhes. Neatly
pile them together before preparing
. the water, and then the work does not
CI i i i....
appt-ar vj w a uuiucii.
Your nerves upon rtrh, red blood and you will
not be nervous. Blood Is made rich ami pure by
nlodr
Sarsaparilla
The One True Blood Purifier. All druKglnU Si,
Mood's Pllla are alwart reliable, tin cent.
Feed
The Treat est Medical Discover;
of the Ag;e.
KENNEDY'S
MEDICAL DISCOVERY,
DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXBURY, MASS..
Mas discovered In one of our common
pasture weeds a remedy that cures every
kind of Humor, from the worst bcrofula
down to a common Pimple.
He has tried It In over eleven hutidred
rases, and river failed except In two cases
(both thunder humor). He has now In his
possession over two hundred certificates
of its value, ail within twenty miles of
Boston. Send postal card for book.
A benefit It always experienced from
fhe first bottle, and a perfect cure Is war
S anted when the right quantity is taken.
.' When the Kings are affected It causes
K'ooting pain, like needles passing,
rough them; the same with the Liver or
Bowels. This Is caused by the ducts being
stopped, and always disappears in a week
after taking it Head the label
If the stomach Is foul or bilious It will
tause squeamish feelings at first
No change of diet ever necessary. Eat
the best you tan get, and enough of it
Dose, one tablespoon fuljn water at bed
time. Sold by all Druepsts.
CURES
Wounds, Bruises,
Sunburn, Sprains,
Lameness, Insect Bites,
f and ALL PAIN.
After hard WOBK or
EXERCISING rub with it
to AVOID LAMENESS.
REFUSE SUBSTITUTES
-Weak, Watery, Worthless.
POND'S EXTRACT OINTMENT
i cures PILES. JeT"
' POND'S EXTRACT CO., 76 fifth Am., Htw York
The 8t. Joseph and Grand Island B. R.
v IITHI
SHORTEST and QUICKEST LINE
to ILL rollers
NORTH
WEST EAST
SOUTH
'mod"."" Union PamBc 8ystem
IS TUB SAVnsiTS SIl'TS
to Csllfornls, Oregon sni U Wastem holms
1 For Information fegsrdlnf rstm, etc., rail on
.' vt sodrsM any agent or 8. M. AMir.
M. P. ansiason, Ja., ln. I'aw. Aft.
(isu'l HaDsgsr. St. Jowph, Mo.
Through Yellowstone
Park on a bicycle.
S. TRIP WORTH TAKING.
rtta to J. Francis. Ow)l IWr Arnt, ltur
latino Rout, Omaha, Nb., for booklet giving
Sill Informailon alxmt t, roads. Mo.
I ST I. rtmuafclid.
K. ktiua. wiar. moo.
H. K. V. Mo. SOS-SS.
lorb,
KM WKITINO TO ADTKSVriHKM-
say fmm saw las MnMWB.ii
i TOPICS FOR FARMERS
A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR
OUR RURAL FRIENDS.
Illota bjm Practical Farmer on flack
ing Hay-Small Fruits Properly Cul
tivated Are Profitable How to Kill
Caterpillar-General Farm Note.
How to Stack Mar.
If bay must be exited to the weath
er, thou clearly It should be so stacked
that the damage will le the leant pos
sible. To iinke a stark entirely of
clover id but .o Invite heavy damage.
If a load or two of timothy la put ou
the top, the damage will probably le
rctluivd, oue-half. Clover dues not shed
ralu well; timotliy does. To put the
stack directly ou the ground, no mat
ter of what grans or clover It is made,
U needlessly to Incur damage. A
foundation of old rails or k1cs can
easily be made. He careful that the
foundation Is solid. The greatest se
cret In making a good hay stack, or
any other stack. Is to keep the center
full and high and well trampled down.
Theu when the stack settles, the out
side will settle most and will soon
droop, and rain will always be con
ducted to the outslik' of the stack. If
the center Is not kept high and well
trampled down, It will be lower than
toe outside when the stack has settled,
for as the most weight Is on the center.
It will settle most; and the water Ail
be conduced toward the center of the
stack and the hay will be spoiled. An
other Important point lit building a
gisxl hay stack Is to have the hay to
ward the outside of the stack He paral
lel with lines drawn from the center
to the outside of the stack, and not at
an angle to those lines. The bunches
of hay put on the outside course of
the stack should be nicely straight
ened, so they will He as recommended.
Yet another point is never drive a
stake In the top of the stack to hold It
down. The stake will pull the hay
down that It Is contact with, forming
a basin at the top to receive the water
and conduct It Into the suck. The
proper way to hold the top on Is with
light poles tied In pairs with pieces
of hinder twine or rope about two feet
long and hung over the top of the stack,
("are should be taken to have the poles
composing each pair of very nearly
the same weight, else the top will be
pulled to oiip Hide. John M. Stahl, In
Country Gentleman.
ftmall Frnit for Farmer.
The reason that the average farmer
would give for not growing berries
Is that he thinks It would not be profit
able. It cannot be doubted that he Is
right upon th s point If h H'mtild un
dertake to handle the business accord
ing to methods employed In the raising
of his ordinary field crops. To raise
berries of any kind successfully re
quires that intensive cultivation be
adopted. Hut because the farmer has
long been In the habit of employing
the rather loose methods that apply
to general farm crops does not sig
nify that he cannot make a good use
of the more Intensive methods suitable
to these specialties. The farmer who
has had no experience in Intelligent
garden making and In the growing of
small fruits can have no adepiat" no
tion concerning the value of well-prepared
seed-beds for such thing to be
gin with, and of frequent and clean
cultivation later. These are the se
crets at the bottom of success with
any and all kinds of berry-growing.
Of course, there must be an lutein
pent selection of locality. The hills
are particularly adapted to the grow
ing of small fruits as offering protec
tion from untimely frosts, outside
this consideration It lies mostly with
the Intelligent and experienced inlud
of man to control the condition favor
able to the growth of these fruiu. and
It has always seemed to lis that the
cultivation of a plot of ground set to
berries would form an agreeable diver
sion from the general fluid work on tho
farm. Nebraska Farmer.
To Kill Caterpillar.
A better way to kill caterpillars than
by rubbing by liand or by burning with
kerosene Is to use the following meth
od: When the caterpillars first com
mence their web, ns soon as It Is visible
take a pall with soft soap and make a
strong suds. Have a pole of proper
length to reach the nests, with a swab
or sponge fastened to the small end.
Go through the orchard. Insert the,
swab In the pall and wlic off the nest.
The suds la like Are to tho worms and
good for the trees. This Is a very ea.sy
way to kill the caterpillars.
Fowla In One Flock.
Fifty or sixty fowls In a flock are
about as many as can lie safely kept to
gether In one dock. Shall we conclude,
then, tluit fifty or sixty fowls are all
that ono man can keep with profit?
Not by any means. If he has room
enough he can keep ns many flocks ns
he can watch over, take good care of,
protect against vermin and disease,
supply with suitable food ami afford
sufficient space for good air and henlth
ful exotvlse, and especially for roost
ing without crowding.
Hints About Horse.
la cleaning them, If they will not
atand the currycomb well, get u five or
ten cent brush made of broom coru,
used for scrubbing lu the house; they
are very stiff. If horses are troubled
with the scratches, mix two pa its lurd
and one part gunpowder thoroughly,
and apply on the place affetieil; It U
cheap and effective. Ho manage yn ir
stables aa to save nil the urine, us it Is
very valuable; have cement fliwr If
possible. Do not feed too much hay,
and avoid watering Inwnedl.iiely after
feeding a horse much of a dinner. If
jrou have whole rye, you can feed a
little, and save eipense and trouble
f grinding It, to young horses only.
Use good snaps on lines and hide S'raps
at least, and by so doing save time.
which Is money on a farm. Farmer
need to be cautioned about watering
horses when heated. Cranio JuJd
Farmer.
The Stole.
A writer says: "It in not prolable
that the mole eats vegetable matter lu
any form. I have kept numbers of
mold confined where they could not
get any food except what 1 gave them.
Vegetable food in aJJ the various forms
la which they are accused of eating
it was kept before them, and was al9o
offered to HJid put In direct contact
with them. I'otatoes, bullw, tender
roots of various classes of plants, eweet
corn that had been sprouted, sweet corn
ready to sprout and seeds of various
kinds, and although ravenously hungry
and dying of starvation they would not
eat audi food. I have starved them to
death lu these experiments."
KemnvinaT Unfruitful Trees.
There are In many orchard trees that
are from some cause unthrifty and
therefore unprofitable. If after due
trial of iM'tter treatment the free doe
not respond, no time should be lost In
removing It. not by cutting It di wn,
but by digging It out. This is not so
difficult as would be thought. The
trunk and branches of the tree act as a
lever, anil with some cutting of the
rsits with an old ax the tree may be
pulled over by bitching a team to a
chain connected with a branch as far
up as the chain will reach. A little
work with the ax at the roois will help
the team very much. It Is much easier
to dig out n tree than a stump, and
It is much better than cutting the tree
down and leaving the stump in the
way until it rots out.
Feeding Charconl.
Four turkeys were confined In a pen
and" fed on meal, boiled potatoes and
oats. Four others of the same brood
were at the same time confined lu an
other pen and fed daily ou the same ar
ticles, but with one pint of very fine
pulverised charcoal mixed with their
food mixed meal and Isilled potatoes.
They had also a plentiful .supply of
broken charcoal In the pen. The eight
were killed the same day, and there
was a difference of IVi pounds each In
favor of the fowls which hud been sup
plied with charcoal, they being much
the fattest, and the meat being su
perior in point of tenderness and flavor.
Cheupt ow Not I'rofitahlc.
There Is no disadvantage In having a
cow that Is on "easy keeper," that Is,
one tluit consumes comparatively a
small amount of food. A cow that l i
to produce a large quantity of milk
must eat enough to enable her to make
the milk. She iiinnot produce some
thing from nothing. A good cow must
necessarily be a good feeder, and that
Is one of the merits claimed for the
best breeds. Not only should n cow
haven good appetite, but her food should
be of the bet, so as to derive ns much
from her ns possible.
Farm Note.
The Holsteln Frieslan Association of
America offers a spoxial prize of f 1U.',
open to registered Holsteln-Freislan
only, nt the New York State Fair, the
milk ami butter test to be conducted
on the fair grounds.
The good farmer Is proved by Un
steady appreciation of his crop.s. Any
one may reap an ample harvest from a
fertile virgin soil; the good farmer
alone grows gissl cnis at first and Ix-t-ter
and better ever afterward.
I'.hick-cap raspberries are projKignted
by buying the tips, which take root and
Is'come the young plauts for the next
planting. After they are rooted they
are then separated from the parent vine
by cutting. Hed raspberries are propa
gated by the old plants sending up new
ones from .he roots.
Wool will keep lu the best condition
when stored In a somewhat damp place,
says the American Sheep Breeder. The
best place ' a dry sulx'ollar half above
the ground, and that may be well alrtsl.
When too dry, wool Is hard to the feel
and brittle and loses Its natural soft
ness and curl.
The rail fence, with Its numerous cor
ners and large space occupied, may be
apparently cheaper than one of wire,
but when the saving of land and de
struction of weed I considered
the wire fence Is much cheaper. The
weeds that frequently overrun a farm
are propagated on the spaces taken up
by the rail fence.
Dairying haa never been overdone.
There Is a large amount of poor butter
and cheese marketed, but the dairyman
who sends only choice articles to mar
ket and fnereases his product by the
use of cows that are capable of giving
good result will always have a profit
no matter bow many others are In the
business.
Hogs will make a very fair growth
with good clover pasture, but will gain
much more rapidly If they can have
In addition, all the slois they can eat
Middlings and milk make one of tho
cheais'st and Ist feeds for growing
pigs, and they can be given all they can
ent twice a day with profit.
If rata Infest the bam All a tight bar
rel half full of rye and other grain, and
give them a treat for a fortnight, plac
ing a board against the barrel for easy
acci-ss. Some night suhatltute water
for the grain, halving enough of the lat
ter on top to deceive, and the results
may aatonlah you. Moreover, the ruts
will leave that barn for months.
When the eager, hungry flies torment
the cow and make her restless at milk
ing time, do not vent epltheta against
the animal, nor punch her with a stool,
but take with you to tnc yard or stable
a thin sheet to cover her back, and a
sponge dipped Into an effusion of tansy
or wormwood In water, or raobrtoned
with kerosene oil, and rub It over the
cow's leg. She will evince hei- grati
tude In an unmistakable way, and tbs
pall will be the gainer.
VASTNESS OF ST. PETER'S
It Produces Almoat the Effect of Tcr
ror on the Mind.
The building Is so far beyond any .
familiar proportions that at first sight i
all details are lost uKn its broad front. I
The mind and Judgment are dazed and
staggered. The earth should not be i
able to lear such weight ujkiu Its crust
without cracking and bending like anj
overloaded table. On each side the
colonnades run curving out like giant
arms, always open to receive the na
tions that go up there to worship. The
dome broods over all, like a giant's
head motionless In meditation.
The vastiu-HH of the structure takes'
hold of a man aa he Issues from the'
street by which he has come from Sant'
l
Angelo. In the open space in the
aquurv and In the ellipse between the I
colonnadi-s and on the steps, two huiv
dred thousand men could be drawn up
in rank and file, horse and foot and
guns. Kxcepting It be on some special
occasion, there are rarely more than
two or tlin-e hundred persons In sight.
The paved emptiness, makes one draw
a breath of surprise, and human cyet
seem too small to take In all the flat
ness below, all the breadth before, and
all the height alsve.
Taken together, the picture Is too big
for convenient sight. The impreKsinii
itself moves iinwieldily In the cramped
brain. A building almost five hun
dred fii-t high produces a monstrous
effect upon the mind. Set down In
words, a description of it- conveys no
clear conception; seen for the first time,
the Impression produced by It cannot
be put into language. It is something
like a shock to the Intelligence, per
haps, and not altogether a pleasant
one. Carried beyond the limits of a
mere mistake, exaggeration becomes
caricature; but when It Is magnified
beyond humanity's common measures.
It may acquire nn element Approaching
to terror. The awe-striking giants of
mythology were but magnified men.
The first sight of St. l'eler's affects one
as though, lu the every-day streets,
walking among one's fellows, one
should meet with a man forty feet high.
Century.
Gems of Expression.
Julian Kalph says that when he was
taking a trip on a ' Louisiana bayou,
he and a friend reclined on some sacks
of freight, the better to enjoy comfort
and the scenery. There they attracted
the attention of the roustabouts, or col
ored jsirters, who talked freely to one
another about the strangers as they
passed, bowed under back-bending
loads.
"M'ml" said one. "Guess ileni gem
men been steamboatin' befo. Never
seen white folks lay round on de freight
that way. Seen niggers do it, though."
Sometimes toelr comments on the
existing state of things were very
laughable. On this steamer the pool
fellows had a night of almost Inces
sant work on the heels of a day of fre
quent landings. They were tired, and
tnis was their brief discussion of the
situation:
"I don't work on dls yer boat no
mo'," said one.
"Work on dls boat!" exclaimed an
other. "I wouldn't work agin on dls
boat ef she was loaded with grltldle
cakes an' de molasses was dtippln'
ober de sides."
"I," wild the first speaker, "I wouldn't
work agin ou dls yer boat e. she was
loaded wld rabbits on' dey was all
Jumpln' off."
With this word-picture of a boat's
cargo which was able to unload Itself,
the roustabouts threw a sat-k of grain
upon his shoulders and slouched up
the gangplank, apparently unconscious
that he had said anything at all humor
ous or uncommon.
One Tiling at a Time.
The last King of Hanover, before
that state was Incorporated Into the
I'russian kingdom, was for many years
blind. There was living at the court
an English lady, Mrs. Duncan Stewart,
who, with her wit and learning, enter
tained his majesty.
The blind king delighted In her con
versation, and for many years she
would save up every Interesting story
she heard so as to tell it to him. It Is
remembered that one day she was tell
ing him a story as they were out driv
ing together. Suddenly the horses
started, and the carriage seemed about
to upset.
"Why do you not go on with your
story?" said the king.
"Because, sir, the carrlu&e Is Just
going to upset."
"That Is the coachman's affair," said
the king; "do you go on with your
story."
Most Have Cake.
The cheap restaurant started by the
Clark Thread Co., of Newark, N. J.,
for the benefit of Its employes has
been abandoned because the employes
failed to patronize It. The restaurant
was started last fall and was run at
a loss for seven or eight months. Dur
ing the winter the patronage was en
couraging, but when warm weather
came the trade diminished. The ob
ject of the restaurant was to encourage
the operatives, and the girls especially,
to eat sustaining and wholesome food
prepared In a scientific manner, but
the young women resented the absence
of crullers, doughnuts and pic, and
sneered at the nourishing stews, soups,
etc. The prices were very low and
tho quality of the food was of the best,
while there was considerable variety.
The absence of pie anil cake doomed
the enterprise, however.
Prndence.
"The audience Is calling for you,"
said the young tragedian's manager.
"Are you sure I'm tho person they
want?"
"Of course."
"Well, go out and' study the expres
sions on their faces and tell me what
you think they want with me," Wash
ington Star.
taU far Farmer.
The meannesses of human nature are
a bar to co-operative effort. There is
too much pig nature in the cjuiI ioa-
tions.
Nothing pays better on the farm than
to keep accurate accounts to know
what is raised at a lo-s and what yields
profit.
Be sure to get the bulletins irom the
agricultural experiment stations. They
are doing impo.-tatit work. Keep touch
with it.
A H-initlful Illustrated Honk trie
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever," wi
all know, and have learned to admire a
well, but when an object of aiimiratioi
carries with it a large measure of uselu
information in addition to its arristii
merit, its intrineic value becomes ver.
nioeh enhanced. In ourlant week's issm
there appeared an advertisement an
nouncing that The John M. Hmyth Coir
pany, 150 to IliS West Madison street
Chicago, would send fr e to all applicant
their elegant new and massive 400-ptigi
illustrated catalogue. The John II.
Smyth Company is the largest turnitun
and house-furnishing establishment in tin
world. Their new catalogue is a marvel
of the printer's finest art, as well as an
encyclopedia of information pertaining
to all kinds of home, otliee and hotel fur
nishing. Illustrations run in profusion
through the book, and prices ate given
for everything. This great hook a perfect
stuniiard work on house and oflice furnish
ingshould be in every home of our land.
It will be shipped free by express, charges
prepaid, to all who write for it to
THE JOHN M. SMYTH CO.,
100 to 168 West Madison Street, Chicago.
Tailors and dressmakers are at the
Reason having the hardest time of the
year. Customers have flown to sea
shore and mountains with the finery
that in many cases is yet to be paid for,
while no orders at mid-summer are
corning in to supply ready cash.
The woman whose heart is so tender
that fhe would not kill a fly must be
(impervious to the early morning annov-
Hme that drives the most devout Chris
tian to the verge of profati'v
It Was Before the Day of
SAPOLIO
They Used to Say "Woman's
Work Is Never Done."
"A Bicycle Built for Two.
MA (i A
I yam sr
Five cents' worth of
"BATTLE AX" will serve two
chewers just about as long as 5 cents'
worth of other brands will serve one
man. This is because a 5 cent piece
of "BATTLE AX" is almost as
large as the 10 cent piece of other
high grade brands.
ll "11
fl I I V l if
washed. Suppose you're the maid. There's the saving of
labor; the absence of tubbing; the hardest part of the house
work made easier and pleasanter.
But suppose you are mistress and maid, both in one, doing
your own work. Then there is certainly twice as much reason
why you should do every bit of your washing and cleaning
with Pearline. m
Joaioir Not lurreaaing.
In an article in The Yale Medical
Journal'Dr. Fdwin A Down combats
the popular impression that insanity is
increasing, he fays that the last 20
years, thown by the official records, is
compaiatively trifling and is more than
accounted for by the change in condi
tions which ha resulted in sending to
insane a?ylum many persons who were
oieviously k' pt in almshouses or in
private families and not reckoned in
nakinsr up the record of the insane.
lO CUANsI Tl.li oVSTKM
Kilectually yet gently, when costive or bil
us, or when ttie blood is impure or slng
ish, to permanently overcome habitual
onstipati'.n. to awaken the kidneys and
hver to a healthy activity, without irritat
ng or weakening them, to dispel head
lines, colds, or fevers, ose Syrup of Figs.
This is a wipe ! it of advice to the
timnier girl: Do nothing that will
ive the hotel gosBips a topic for diecus
ion. Hall's Catarrh Cure
Is a constitutional cure. Price 75 cents.
A new engagement ring consists of
three bands set with jewel. One line
leprcsente the financee's birth stone, a
second line boaBts the birth stone of
l.er betrothed, while the center circle is
of diamonds the emblems of innocence.
We w ill forfeit $1,000 if any of onr pub
lished testimonials are proven to be not
genuine. The Piso Co., Warren, lJa.
The trimmed chemiee docs away with
the separate corset cover and skirt that
mude a double thickness at the waist
line.
Mrs. Wlimlow' Boothino Sykup tor child
ren tecthine, fcofieiu the gums, reduces laliam
mstlun.allsvrpaiii, cures wtud colic. 25c bmile.
Some people act as though cucumbers
were deadly poison, when in reality
they are quite healthful if prepared
properly,
Mistress and Maid
both have their part in the great"
savings that come from Pearlinc
Suppose you're the mistress.
I here s the economy of it the
savine of time. etc.. and th
T actual money that's saved by
1 lining awav with that ttnr)w
wear and tear on evervthintr
raw