) Urru In th Shop. Black net span pled in jet or gold, (or veiling fr, Short military oati braided in gold ind self color. Jacket suits of serge or flannel for girls of eifrht to twelve years. Fine tan seal belt( baring a tiny :hate)aine bag attached. Mantles having a short fittjJ back ind long stole fronts. Picture hats of white Leghorn with manv half-long plumes. 100 Doses in a Is peculiar to and true Dsx4a rTnlv of Hood's Sarsai.a- CiUXlIC riHasand is proof of it giifwrior Htrcutitl, and ecoiMuny. Tliere is more curative power in aNbuttle of Hood's Kuniip.irilhi than in aiiyNtJher. Thi fac;, ilh iu unequalled record of cures, proves th; best medicine for alb-blrtod diseases is Hood's Co raa. pari I la Hie One True Itlnud Purifier. All itnittjiKU. tl. Hood's Pills cura I.lver Ills; easy take, easy to n-inu. 2' n warn 4s Every ingredient in Hires Rootbecr is health giving. The llool is) improved, the nerves soothed, the stomach. benefited by this delicious 1 beverage, HIRES Rootbeer Quenches the "thirst, tickles the palate ; full of snap, sparkle and effervescence. A temper ance drink for everybody. Mi4t only if Th Cbirl E. Illrr To.. Pmiidiflplila. Through Yellowstone Park on a Bicycle Ainonsr the seyseis, watep full. lke si.il t'-riacei o YWiowtiliiiif t'ark it viheo every tm whilnnui should uteii.l M. W Imliilns' Mo-l ile'iiilitdil nut I mi lnni;'liilj!e. U-fH ex.r'nnlvi' llian a r' st it (ul.ioiintile sumim r re ort. (iixiil r"ml-It'lllt li.v llif Kovariiirivnt. KI"fsni bott'l . Kme sliiug. oplcii did ft r. Wrimlor booklet eonlaln In? a man of the 1'arli a w.;ll & (nil it:(nrmalioii shout the nut. f the trip, w.atlo tiik'", haitlii! ruad' are Hlt .eK. J. FRANCIS, General Passenger Omaha, Neb. Agent, $75 s SO Cc6tcrn Wheel "Works tr. MAX ER 5 jO CrlCACO iicivOiS CATAL9CVE Fl EE CURE YOURSELF! l out lUt: i f'fi r tintittttirnl j difcf lar-ft, liiliiintjittttiouB, lrritatnij or ultnitinns of tit u c u ii a tuf'Mbtnnot, J'ainitpf. und nut kfltnti. or ikiiI tii plain wrnnmr. 'f fxpr-. (rir.fiMi. for (,t-Ui scut w:i rcqueit. ROOFING i The Pes! Krd Hov K'xilinK l" lc. i-r tfi. It., mid in Up- itn-I u1-1 HntrsiltiiK- tor I'la- tpr. Sanit.le frw. THE FAV M.t N ' l.l.t HOIII IM. , Hm 'l -il, N . ftNTI-JAG ,A marvnionii enr" lor UHUNklikKtSs. I an bo rtvf:ii iKrri ly a' luuiue. it. ) n:nn tra. All nn3xrirlat or wrllo FULL OrrolMATIOf GLADLT MAILED FKJCE. FIT8 rcrmanenllyCilrwt. JCo rtlntirnerrmmniwiafler torrr. Rpnd rr I Kf.K tl.lMi trUU bitllf ana lrtle. 1H K n kUKI, Ltd., mi An h Stri ct, I'blltulrlpliia, I'a. lURU nfllK All. Il I"iL. If M t :osh flyrup. Ti Oood. CM If I n tlina. Sold bT (1 niKltii. H Jj. f. No. 4T'n York, . cb. WHEN WRITING TO AD t KTISKi. pleAMMjrjoa mw tha dvrtUmn la tbla paoar and yxi-Hivl (lOlf w timir. Rattlesnakes, Butterflies, f " Washington Irving said, he supposed a certain hill was called "Rattlesnake Hill" because it abounded nbutteriics. The rule of contrary" governs other names. Some bottles are, sup posedly, labeled "Sarsaparilla" because they are full of . . . well, we don't know what they are full of, but wc know it's not sarsapa rilla; except, perhaps, enough for a flavor. There's only .one make of sarsaparilla that can be relied on to be all it claims. Il l Ayer's It has no secret to keep. Its formula Is open to all physicians. This formula was examined by the Medical Com mittee at the World's Fair with the result that while every other make of sarsaparilla was excluded from the Fair, Ayer's Samoa rilla was admitted and honored by awards. It was admitted be cause it was the best sarsaparilla. It received the medal as the best No other sarsaparilla has been so tested or so honored. Good motto for the family as well as the Fair: Admit the best, exclude the rest. Aav 4Mbt about It r Stsd far th " Curtbook." It kills doubti in4 eurti duubitn. Addniti J.CAytrCo., Loiwll, Ma. Moa.if rjr aail lixla-try. The einensHJi o( your house will be lare or small, as you are a bad or good housekeeper. Among tne most homely, but most es sential accomplishments of a young woman is :hatcf houtewi ery. Lizny.sis very apt to come with ea th, and there are undoubtedly a great many mor lazy girls no than 5U yearn ago, bnttheie are no more nat urally lazy girls in the world than UsU.ll. ' SLOWLY STRANGLING AN ELM, A loniiKrurai if iHinru tun tt n... as i fittying the Kule of Python. A ih t, nf ik hill in Cliiirch a u Luii ny ui uuo ii.i. iu i ii 1. 1 i lython is slowly strangling a large ei in, sa s th ; .New York San. It ifl a wisteria vine, said to be the largest In the State, perhaDf in the country, In the open sunny garden of tho ( eorge I. Coit plare, next to the Storm Sec nd Congregational Cburcta. At its base it Is about a foot in di ameter. A foot above the ground Its trunk divides, and it sends one tork, an important one, though a hundred feet in lenutb. northward along the front of thf handsome Coit house.. Its other and interesting ! fork, consisting ot three huge strands, , each four inches thi k, trails along a broad garden leuce for twenty feet, and then enters a stately elm that is at the inner edge of" the flagged city walk. Noting the great snakey vine from the street, one has a keen ana' lively Impression that it is a ver. table serpent that has just leaped upon the tree, enfolding it in a deathly con striction. iicTore entering the elru the three strands are lirrnlv bound in a monstrous cable with manif Id small, round, withe like bands em anating irotu thestraiids themselves. Sitigulari.y uncanny and menacing they seem, interlaced, twiste.d and contorted, as if writhing in eacli other's hostbe embrace, and the fa it that their bark is smooth and of a dusky brown hue, like the hide ot some enomous vipers, deepens the Impression that they are pythons. Immediately after entering the elm the cable divides into its several strands, and each travels up the tree in its own eccntrlc, serpentine way. One strand, three riches th.ck, throws a coil so tighllv about the elm trunk, just bolow its lowest bran lies, that It has cut a deep cir cular furrow, into the bark. Tnis coil is choking 'the life out of the tree. Ascending, the threefold fcriient flings fol. arter una anout trunk and branches, and Unally lilt ing its plume i green cr..rst high above the elm's crown gathers it into its embrace The tree Is naturally thriity and luxuriant, but it'already shows plentiful tokens that its power ful enemy is th oil ling it. The tips of its lower boughs are dry and dead, and alolt its foliage is sere or yellow, licforo another year it doubtless will he dead, and then the vegetable ser pent may east at will on its leafless carcass. In the end it may pull th tree's skeleton down arid cherealtur. If it had its own licensed way, would 'ravel on to another etui In the street rod thr ttle and destroy that. When In full b oom, with a hundred pur pie I5swer ciusier.s, : the wisteria is gorgeous and beautiful, but one j;ii;y .fancies then that the splendid i.os.sorns ire mottled patches on the python's hide, and llio vine does not seem so lowJv. Hut They Heemed to Be. The gentleman living in the su burbs had a goat for the children's pleasure, and It was that kiad of a goat which might well be ca'led raru bunctious. f( r t took possession of ;"ie place early, and showed 1 ttle Jisposition to vacate One morning he goat walked into the children's o!ayhouse, and as the gentleman was tartmif dow."i town he told the man i -.limit, the nlace to drive it out and shut i up in tin. stable. The man promised aad the master proceeded ,o his oilii.c At nooi tue man c-ime to the o;',Ice on an errauo i:v the way, John," sak) the mas ter, ' did you put that goat n the stable, as I told ytiuV" Jobu began to hedge. 1 was busy. sir. and-. " "Husy, nothing," Interrupted tin . taaiter, "i told you to put it In the, stable, and that's what 1 wanted you i,o do." . . , I "Ves. sir,", parleyed John, "but There a no blits about It: 1 " Oh, "bat there Is, sir," interrupted Toba this time; "if you don't be ilve me. sir. vou just tackle the goal Jarsalf' sir and you'll we how It if Kree rress ... ? afrrtrr i r - . ,n P''''5"" rn HO , Ml jaWS-ui-r" IW '.' -.- p ieven Are Useful. A proper assortment of sieves! when at hand, come Into use almost every dny in the year, and the owner won ders how he ever got along without them. They will noit and "size" vari ous articles, be:um, peas, grain, ele., and will clean the dirt out of many farm products. They will take out the coarsely-cracked com for tire older fowls, ar.l sepnrute tb4 finer purts for the chicks, and so one might go on enu merating their cwveuiewes. SleveH tire easily made. fJet wire cloth with iix'sh running from coarse to fine, niul k.iiw sections from gi-oeery iKixes for friiines, on which to tack the A NKST OF SIKVKS. wire cloth. Nail n small strip of wood over the edges mid the sieve Is com plete. The cut shows a deep sieve with In arrangement for "sizing" tin article into three or more grades. The sieve m the position imlicated by the dotted dues is permanently fastened In place, ind is very coarse, in mesh. Ilelow are hvo slidiiig frames with mesliis liner Ind still liner. .Thus with one slinking lliree or evi-r four, assortnients can be fiiiiile. , Cro Hre vlinL' Uti'sn'l I'd v. The combJua.lloii of well-established fm-ds eiidi grown for a diM.iuet pur jase, is always a failure, m the prepo I'iK'.V of aeh breed neutralizes tlie otli ir, and thus produces a mongrel thai is (iiite :ta llkidy ius not to reproduce the l-iist fa vc ruble rallur Uiaai niOiSt 'ivorab'.e clianicti'rixtics desired, breeding pure-brefl anlnuiLs to grades s always a gsl plrin, for tlwre Is no trepoNnicy hi the gr.'Kle, that having lei n destroyed in the ttrst cross. 1 tut fcn in this hm-dlr?; It is w-er-'-rry for I if bee,t rivsults to have the pure-bred luUe f the same breed that w;m used ti make the grade on which !.' ! to le frossed. If the grade Is a half-bred tersey or a half-bred Ilolsiein, for e. unple, the Mecond cross on it with a ure-bred male of the samebreed will nake a high grade or three-quarters of I full blood, and often nearly as valu lole for milk or butter production as Lf i were a full-bred animal. Liftint: JaeUs (or Vehicle. vT1ih very simplest form of a wagon tick Is shown in Figure 1. It is sim ply a board six Inches wide, and of Jie proper length, with two notches in wed out near the top, as shown tbove. For light wagons, one man can ise this jack very easily, but for heavy vagons, assistance is required. The me in Figure 2 is cheap, strong ntwl tonvenient. The part a Is made from t two-inch plank of twiine tough wood, no. 1. no. WA0ON ind is two and one-half fti't long. The r-ver, m, Is three and one-half feet long ind should be nuide from n tongh slick 1x4 Intdies sipiare, dresstsl to the form hown. The retaining rod, g, may lie two nieces of No. H nniiealed wire. The , ll"r end fastnis in the serrated edge 'a-iiriie found a niont serviceable jack iml will easily supjiort half a weight. American Agriculturist. ton LeveJ foUife for fotntoe. Almost nil practical growers now igree that the level culture of potatoes irlngs the birgest crop. This Is es (oclally true If the season is dry, hx of ate yirs It almost always Is. If tlw rrouiMl Is cultivated often enough veeds etui appear Ikiv- the surface. That will make It easy to keep the crop of weeds without -ver net-ding to siltlvatx' more than an Inch below the urfnee. This Is the ltcst way to solid ne he perennial weeds, quack grass aixl Jftnada Uilstles, as well us the annual reikis. Clover GrowlitT In the V'et. ' Time was when Western fn.nners did nit care to do anything to Improve the ertilUty of theilr Hotl, which they bought wii.s liu'xhauntlble. But de reaslii crops have tumtvl their a.tten Ion to Iteder modiw of mumurtrvg and 0 loerensod growth of clover. Tbla la specially true where kUk:1c growing nd bUrytnj hnve smiersediMl the ez ltwlve growing of the earlhT iwttl iett. CUner U tift-iaHy ada.pt h1 tj tie Western fomter, becawie corn, dtlcb be aJwajrs has grown, la ooU an 9 5 I.L.. 2. JACKS. tmperfwt nithm. It In too uu-gHjr ei IjonacwiuM naid iusmIm iikitp iiAtruffunouf nutritUin. NtJiiug better iiflleji tli! than clover, nor do any c.hiiih bettfr Biiiipleiuenit eiu-h oilier In farm rotation than do clo-r and corn. Amerlan Cultivator. Training the Calf. The young calves should not lie turn ed out liefore the middle of June. When ready to turn them out, have a strong head halter for each one, and lead them out to and from the pasture. They will soon learn to follow and be come very docile with such training. In selling Jerseys, we always say that the cow (-.in be led, and it adds several dollars to her value. Near the city, where fiunily cows are in demand, at goisl prices, a cow that can be led out and tethered on the lawn Is worth a great deal more than one that can not be thus managed. With bulls, especial ly .Jersey bulls, put a ring into his nose, when four months old, and lend him with a stout hickory staff. The bull can be early taught to lead, and he should he gradually made to cut the feed and pump the water for the stock. A bull so managed is safer and makes a better breeder. The American. A Nfw I nurcticltle. A new lice exterminator, recommend ed by the Arkansas Experiment Sta tion, is made as follows, being a kero sene extract of pyrethruni: 1V4 gallor-s kerosene soaked through 2 pounds pyrcthrmn, resulting In a yellowish, oily extract, which will not mix with waier, but which will form an emul sion with soap, similar to kerosene emulsion. One pond of soap dissolved in one gallon of boiling water added to one gallon of the extract, well mix ed or churned with a force pump, made a perfect emulsion, which, when dilut ed one pnrt of emulsion to -lot) parts water readily killed cotton worms. It seems to combine the projicrtlcs of kerosene and pyrethruni, and to be more effective' than either, easier to handle and cheaper. Farm and Homo. A Three-'"or-." Kvoner. In reply to numerous requests for a three-horse evener, Orange Judd Farm er gives the accompanying illustration as perhaps the simplest and best of any that have been used hitherto, since in this arrangement each horse must do his full part of the work or show at once that he is shirking. The poiut of attachment to the plow or load must lie made exactly one-third of the dis tance from the point of attachment of the double and single whillle-treec, to give each lioree an equal share of the work. To make a four-horse evener, attach a double whiflle-tree to Xe tllHEK-IIOliSK EVEXF.K. point where the single oine (seen in the sketch) Is attached, and make the at tachment for the load exactly iu the middle of the rear evener. Kctt null Prfc-H. No matter how fresh the epjfs may be that you send to market, the re liable merchant, if you are unknown to him, will 'candle" them! that is, he will test them by looking through the eirjjs in a dark place at a strong lii,rht, and should he find only one ejrg that is stale, your whole lot will be graded ac cordingly. Nothing is so affected by suspicion as an egg. and the only way to secure the highest prices is to dis arm all suspicion by shipping no eggs to market except such as are known by you to be strictly fresh. Once let a merchant discover that he can depend on you, and you will hnve no difficulty in securing even more than the regular priii', for strictly fresh eggs are salable at all times, and at special prices for choice lots. Poultry Keeier. Or-whr Oi'ion Set 'or watr". In every neighlmrhood a good busi ness might be made if some one would fit a bed and grow onion sots for sale to his nelghlHirs. Comparatively few farmers have the small onion bed that is no convenient for the housewife to go to when she needs something more to supply the table properly with-vegetables. Most farmers after a few trials llnd that the small onion bed costs more lalior to weed it than will buy the onions It could grow. It Is uot where onion set.s are planted. They cost more thau the seed to begin with, but the labor of cultivation Is much lessened that they are much the cheap est way to grow onions on a wnall scale. Cnttinir CI' ver a id OriiH Clone'y It Is not alone luK-ause of Lnjury to scythes, mowers and other Implements that the haymaker wants as smooth a surface as he can. get. It Is necessary to have stones and other Ineiiwillties removed if he would bo able to cut lis closely as he should. The new giowih, especially of ( lover, starts quicker and grows more vigorously lf cut clean. Be sides, much of the weight of both clo ver and gras Is lost lf either U cut high. So there is loss by high cutting In the first cut as well as In the after, math. ReprtllrfB Wlr Worm. 1 It Is much easlvr to drive wLre worm from corn than to destroy them In the soil. If a little salt is sprinklcld on the hill It will be washed down by raJna nnd make the locality unpleasant for the worm. Snaking the seed com In copperas haa also the same effect, though we doubt whether the copiKrai Is st rong enough poison. Keep I n tlratlns. , Keep the sulky cultivator at work In the corn and pfltato fields. Widen out the frame and tun but once In a row. After the held k gone over the long wy, then crorw It This cultivation will mellow tne ground; start the corn to growing, nod kill oft the weeds Just as they am sprouting. Alrlil-uu l lit lll Usually when a man controls hi tongue, he is so proud o: )iimelf (hit he feels constrained to tell afterwards what it is that makes lnui go proud. An Atctii-on man h m the colic so bid ly that there is eoine fear felt by his woman folks that h& will die of it, aim it is such an old fashioned dis.ase! When you remember how a woinai. exaggerates the love sl e has for a nut' it ia not surprising that ehe ex igger.ii her woes after she nmrr-pa him AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE AR-E ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE U-E OF THE WORD " CASTORIA," AND "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADE MARK. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was tloe originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does now p y'S'O s on everi hear the facsimile signature of CLafiffcMM wrapper. This is th original "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is tJte hind you, have always bought ji ZS- 0n and has the signature of utT-cuctC wrap per. .Ao one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is March 8, 1897. qSU- &yjLrH J . Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer 'you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the ingredients of which even he does not know. "The Kind You Have Always Bought" BEARS THE FAC-SIM1LE SIGNATURE OF Insist on Having V The Kind That Never Failed You. HI CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURHAV STREET, NEW TORK CITV. Elastic. The cavalry soldier of the Con federate army furnished his own norse. Jf it was killed or disabled it because neccessary for him to leave the front and no alter another mount. When a man wanted a furlough, he had only to swap his horse for ( tie that was broken down, and then apply for leave of absence. Gradually there grew up a kind of brokerage system of 1 'horse furloughs, " as they were called, r-o writes an oldcalvalry ollicer, who tells this! amusing story of a man who wished! to buy such a furlough, and to that end put himself la communication ' with a fr end in the brigade camp. "The price is S u, I know," he! writes, "but I am willing to pay a1 little more, if neccsarv. 1 want it as low as possible and, anyhow, vou must not pay more than si 00. That is my lim t" At that point he seems to have been taken bv a new access of home sirkness, for he added: "If it cannot possibly be bought for $10(1 I shall be compelled to (five a much as 12", though you must distinctly bear in mind that my limit is $100." ball's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. Price 75 cents. Cat.1' s in the air are sometimes built in a bole. An air of dicnity eometimes misleads a whole comnvinitv. WoniiM) admiration win who use Glenn'B Sulphut Soap to Improve Hip skin. Kill's Hair and lilskcr Dye, black or brown, 60c. Le 'he person who has nothing to Bay lit-t tn. Every man is satisfied with bis own argument, THE "GliOWN-UP" DAUGHTER'S DUTY TO HER . MOTHER, yttn can only have one mother ; therefore, when ber step is growing' slow Him her mind gloomy with forebodings, and you can see that her whole .-us fr. i regularly, then write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., giving all the symp toms aud you will receive a prompt reply telling mother what to do for her-1 self. In the meantime the Vegetable Compound will make life much easier for her. It tones up the nervous system, invigorates the body, and the 'blues" vanish before it as dark ness flees from the sunlight. You can get it at any reliable druggist's. Mrs. LouiBSTnoNG,HarrisHill,ErieCo.,N.Y.,says: "I have been troubled with falling of the womb for years, was advised to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I took thirteen bottles and received great benefit When the time for change of life came I suf j - , .1 .. l . t u n:n4n . i . i ! . . : a jureu i;j;ai ut-i mini laiuini-sa uiiu jjuijilu(iIUIi ui the heart. I cot one bottle of the Vegetable Com- . -lound and one of Blood Purifier and was relieved again. I was thereby "vi t " through that serious period very comfortably." "Thoughtless Folks Have the Hardest Work, but Quick Witted People Use APOLIO Melt, rlloni of Itarh-lor. A woman never forgives a man lorou- dert-tanding her. Ananias and Sapphira had probably ot u-ed to it with the tax assessor. Love is b ick of half the fool breaks a man makes and indigestion is back of the other half, A widower is always afraid that if he O'-fn't act broken-hearted all the wom i will talk about him, and if he does if ! i-i'l 1-v torn. Love is like a b'rd-of-Paradiae. It is beautiful and probibly exists some- i I- I '.viieie, uui uiosi pnopie o:ny .uow iv trom seeing it in pic' ures. Shake lino lour Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for thff' feet. It cures painful, swollen, smart ing feet, and iustnjitly takes the sting out of oms and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, aching feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25 cents, in stamps. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Ix Uoy, N. Y. One of the chitf charms about a wom an is that she can act as mean as dirt to a man and then cry when he doesn't kiss her. Even' man having a beard should keep it an even and natural color, and if it is not so already, use Buckingham's Dye and appear tidy. Fashion causes more wrinkles than disease. All the word loves a lover, but espe cially the girl. Women are vain naturally ; men are vain because the women are. We will forfeit 1,000 if any of our pub lished testimonials are proven to be not gejiuine. The Piso Co., Warren, Pa.. Keep your eyes open and do not per mit anybody to throw dust in them, Mrs. Winslow'a soothing Hyrdp for child ren teething. t,oftens the inns, reJuce iniUm m st ion. allays jmui. cures wind ooiio. i"c bottle The only thing a gentleman can af ford to strike is an attitude. An honest man in politics ig bound to come out with his tire punctured. nervous system is upset, it is your filial duty and privilege to attend to her in time ! Mother is approaching the most critical period of her life. The change of life, that is what mother is dreading, and no wonder, for it is full of peril to all but the strongest women. There are some special and very wearing symptoms from which mother suffers, but she will not speak of them to any one. Help her out; she doesn't know what to do for herself ! Shall I advise you ? First, send to the nearest drug store and get a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, and see that mother takes it 2?