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ahead of her. If the practice-is re
peated every year on March 17, no
more bugs Will be seen.
Victoria, W. Va. Ask your ilorist
for the Memorial roses. There are
several varieties, but all creep on the
ground, like ivy, are perfectly hardy,
leaves glossy, and flower in July and
August; flowers are single and dou
ble; colors are white, blush pink, yel
low and rosy-pink. The Wichuriana
is the real "Memorial rose." Some
catalogues advertise them in sets of
four to six for 25c to 50c a set
Katherine P., Chicago, 111. For
"home-made salt pork," get the fresh
est meat you can, from your butcher,
if you do not raise your own, or buy
from, some responsible party; the cur
ing is either done by dry-salting or
pickling, and sometimes it is begun
with dry-salting and finished with
pickling. For dry-saltihg, lay your
pieces on a slanting platform, so it
may drip; then, with every four
pounds of salt mix half pound of
brown sugar; thoroughly rub the
meat with this mixture every day for
a week, laying the skin side down. Af
ter this the meat should be rubbed ev
ery two days, for two weeks' longer.
The salt is then brushed off and the
pieces hung up and smoked in a closed
room. There should be an absence of
heat and plenty of smoke, and smoke
should be made once every day, for
several days. Damp corn cobs are
good fuel, but green hickory, hickory
or maple bark is better.
Hygienic Living:.
"While agriculture is universally al
lowed to be the most healthful occu
pation known, the average "lives of
farmers is lower in the scale of
longevity than that of several other
classes. Although blest with good air,
early rising, out-door exercise and reg
ular habits, these advantages are in a
great measure counter-balanced by bad
water and bad food to say nothing of
bad sanitary conditions in their sur
roundings. Many of them are very
Ignorant, while others are very indif
ferent, in regard to the use of the
means of health so abundantly sup
plied them. Hard water is usually
their drink, and this is not always
drawn from a supply that would be
considered pure. Too often the water
Is drawn from spring or wells so sit
uated as to catch the output of pois-
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL
Few People Know How Useful It Is In Preserv
ing: Health and Beauty
Nearly everybody knows Unit charcoal is the
safest and most eQiciont disinfoctunt and purl
flor in nature, bat few realize its value when
takon into tho human system for the samo
cleansing purpoto.
Charcoal is a remedy that tho rooro yon take
of it tho better ; .it is not a drug nt all, but simply
absorbs tho gases and impurities always pros,
ent in the stomach and intestines and carries
them out of the system.
Charcoal sweetens tho breath aftor smoking,
drinking or after eating onions and other odor
ous vegetables.
Charcoal effectually clears and improves the
comploxion, it whitens the toeth and further
acts as a natural and eminently safe cathartic.
It absorbs tho injurious gases which collect'
in the stomach and bowels; it disinfects tho
month and throat from the poison of catarrh.
All druggiats sell charcoal in one-form or an
other, but probably the best charcoal and tho
most for the money is in Stuart's Absorbent
Lozenges; they aro composed of. tho finest pow
dered Willow charcoal and other harmloss an
tiseptics, in tablet form or rather in tho form of
large, pleasant tasting lozenges, the charcoal
being mixed with honey. '
Tho daily use of these lozenges will soon tell
In a much improved condition of tho general
health, better complexion, sweeter breath and
purer blood, and the beauty of it is, that no
possible harm can result from their continued
use, but on the contrary, great benofit.
A Buffalo physician in speaking of the bene
fits of charcoal, says: "I ndviwe Stunrt'B Ab
sorbent Lozongos to all patients suffering from
gas in stomach and bowols, and to clear the
complexion and purify tho breath, mouth and
throat; I also believe the liver is greatly bene
fitted by tho daily use qt them; they cost but
twenty-five cents a box at 'drug stores, and al
though in some senso a patent preparation, yet
I believe I got more and batter charcoal in
Btnart's Absorbent Lozenges than in any of the
ordinary charcoal tablets.
onous drains, or that havo been al
lowed to paftially nil up with rotting
debris of one sort or another; stale
meaJLs heavily salted, superfine flour,
greasy compounds, poorly made but
ter and cheese, usually constitute their
only fare for months at a time; fruitB,
and, indeed, many vegetables, too of
ten are regarded in tho fight of lux
uries, which they either don't raise,
or, when raised, g.end to tho market,
or, if employed at all, are usually
made into pies or puddings instead of
being eaten in their natural, healthful
state. It is not easy to convince the
farmer that he can labor without old
pork, bacon, or salted beef; ho will
not believe that the lavish use of these
is the cause of his rigid muscles, stiff
gait, and many infirmities of stomach
and liver.
But there are other causes than im
proper food and bad water that mili
tates against tho good health of tho
farmer. Exposure to all weathers,
sometimes avoidable, but often not,
has much to do with his frequent ail
ments. This should bo combatted as
much as possible by proper clothing,
forethought and wise planning.
The inhabitants of the cities are
generally compelled to study the laws
of health, by their greater exposure
to dangers; and thus they exercise
caution in the selection and the qual
ity of their foods; then, too, the wo
men in the cities, having a greater
supply to select from, and both vege
tables and fruits, fresh or canned or
dried, always within reach, are better
and more hygienic cooks than their
less-favored sisters in the country
who are usually restricted r to salt
meats and scant, if any, supply of
fruits and vegetables at most seasons
of the year. Farmers, in general, are
strangely negligent about providing
for a supply of fruits for the family
table. A small fruit garden, of even
small area, well tended, would save
many an . ailment and ache, and in
those days of "canning," the supply
could be made to last the year
through. A well-tended vegetable
garden is a family "medicine chest;"
the abundant use of vegetables, in
their season, with fresh, well made
butter, milk, eggs and poultry, and
the continuous ripening of tho various
kinds of fruit in their seasons, will
give to the farmer and his family a
plentiful living entirely beyond the
means of his city cousin, both in qual
ity and in quantity.
Short Talks.
Children and youth require much,
varied and regular exercise during the
period of bodily development; if the
natural instinct for abundance of out
door exercise is repressed, the whole
system becomes morbidly sensitive and
irritable, and this condition, under the
usual stimulating and enervating hab
its to which they are so generally
subjected, becomes aggravated and in
tensified to the lasting hurt of both
body and mind, as well as morals.
Every child, no matter what its
financial prospects may be, should be
brought up to some useful business
pursuit, in which the surplus animal
energies may be profitably and reg
ularly expended. This seems absolute
ly imperative, not only to Insure tho
safety of tho child, itself, but for the
protection of society as well. The
neglect of this duty has caused many
sons of well-to-do parents to turn out
anything but a credit to their family.
The teaching of the manual arts, in
connection with school studies, will,
in many instances, help to decide the
future work of "the student, as thus
will the "bent" of his genius be de
veloped, and his life work be indi
cated. The hand and head should be
trained together. '
Those who would maintain perma
nent and uniform health and attain to
longevity should cultivate the "bet
ter passions" with tho same sedulous
caro that they would bestow upon tho
befit fruits of tho mind. The anger
which "dwells in tho heart of fools"
should bo a rare or unknown visitant,
and tho evils of life should bo met
with courage, fortitude and a resolu
tion to conquer. No wailing, no com
plaining, no fretting should be in
dulged in. Tho unhappy disposition
which treats all trouble, perplexities,
crosses, trials or disappointments,
which are incident to all life, and
which, more or less, beset the earthly
pilgrimage of every individual, with
fretting, scolding, fault-finding, not
only aggravates all the necessary
hardships, but greatly and needlessly
increases them. Worse, still, they thus
foolishly dissipate those talents and
energies which, if devoted to over
coming obstacles and combatting ovil,
would lift them above tho greatest
trials, and place them in a position
to "bring good out of evil, even as tho
gods do."
The Unwisdom of Parents.
"Not only is moral disease showing
itself by way of impure talk and
notes among tho children everywhere,
but by actual deeds and increasing
prevalence of destructive vices. Tho
walls, sidewalks, and fences about our
school buildings bespeak tho low
moral tone of tho children. While
parents deliberately close their eyes
to these conditions, teachers and pur
ity workers are driven almost frantic
by the many devices satan is putting
forth for tho destruction of our boys
and girls, and the thought arises,
Where are our morally, mentally and
physically strong men and women of
the future to come from if this thing
goes on? Tho occasional teacher who
goes to the rescue of her pupils is met
by the indignant parents who resent
her 'destroying the innocence of their
children,' when, ten chances to one,
those innocent children know more of
prevalent sin and wickedness than
their parents, who deliberately close
their eyes and ears to theconditIons
about them. This silence and false
modesty on the part of the parents
is simply aiding the evil one in de
stroying these young children.
"The result of this supersensltive
ness on the part of the natural guard
ians of the young is to impress the
children with the idea that these
things are, in themselves, vulgar,
when they really mean that the sacred
and beautiful relations of life are too
sacred for careless converse. The
homes allow within their sacred pre
cincts the daily papers, teeming with
vile details of murder, adultery, as
sault, and, if possible, worse crimes,
and to these the children have free
access, unquestioned, while the fam
ily medical work, or the choicest pur
ity literature, are kept hidden, that
'the children cannot get at them.'
"Fathers, mothers, teachers and
pastors should unite in the effort to
save these dear ones, and the surest
and speediest way to lift the burden
of sin and clear the moral atmosphere
is through purity literature and care
fully disseminated knowledge of the
laws of being. A child should have
the assurance that all goodness places
its resources at his command, and
that these mysteries will bear un
veiling as he is led along life's track
not to his everlasting hurt, but to
the greatest health and happiness, not
only to himself, but of those who are'
to come after him." -Word and
Works.
The difference between a family of
healthy children and a family of sick
children, between an irritable house
hold and n. nhflflrfnl nno nfron "Hoa In
the hands of the cook; the entire life! The Combination Oil Cure for Cancer.
is sometimes wrecked by tho ill
health brought on by poorly cooked
and poorly selected food, or by ignor
ance of the fundamental law of food
supply. It is a very ignorant woman
who will scorn cookery work as be-
Dr. Shoop's
Rheumatic Cure
Costs Nothing If It Fails.
After 2,000 experiments, I hare
learned how to euro Rheumatism. Not
to turn bony joints Into flesh again;
that is impossible. But I can cure tho
disease always, at any stage, and for
ever. I ask for no money. Simply writ
mo a postal and I will send you an or
der on your nearest aruggist Tor six
bottles Dr. Shoop's Kheumatic Curo,
for every druggist keeps It. Use it
for a month and, if it succeeds, tho
cost is only $5.50. If it falls, I will
pay tho druggist myself.
I have no sam. es, because any med
iclno that can affec Rheumatism
quickly must bo drugged to tho vergo
of danger. I use no such drugs, and
it is folly to tako them. You must
get tho disease out of tho blood.
My remedy docs that, even In tho
most difficult obstinate cases. No
matter how Impossiblo this seems to
you, I know it and tako the risk. I
hare cured tens of thousands of cases
in this way, and my records show that
39 out of 40 who get six bottles pay
gladly. I havo learned that peoplo In
general are honest with a physician
who cures them. That Is all I ask.
If I fail I don't expsct a penny from
you.
Simply writo mo a postal card or a
letter. I will send you my book about
Rheumatism, and an order for tho
medicine. Take it for a month, as it
won't harm you anyway. If it fails,
it is free, and I leave t.3 derision
with you. Address Dr. Shoop, Box G15,
Racine, Wis.
Mild cases, not chronic, aro often
cured by one or two bottles. At all
druggists.
ing "not intellectual." It Is a work
which calls for the highest intelligence
and what work of higher importance
than that of properly building up tho
bodily health of the children "entrusted
to our care. A well-balanced mind is
always a mind which is nourished by
a healthy body, and unless the body
Is kept strong and healthy, the mind
becomes prone to vagaries of various
sorts. Men and women, with bodies"
weakened by insufficient or unwhole
some food, often become addicted to
the drink habit through sheer heed of
a stimulant, and many cases of in
tempen.ce aro due, without doubt,
to the miserably cooked food served
up in the home by .the wife and
mother who has had no training for
her work, and has learned to regard
housework especially cooking, as dis
reputable drudgery.
As to nutritious qualities, oysters
do not rank with meat, but they con
tain substances which are essential to
life and health, the most important of
which is phosphorus, an element of
brain and nerves, coveted by mental
activity and nervous excitement Be
ing easy of digestion, oysters are not
only very proper food for persons of
sedentary occupations, but are well
suited to invalids and those of deli
cate stomachs. Like all other luxur
ies, they are frequently spoiled by in
different cooking; for, as simple as
the art may seem, very few cooks,
outside of large cities, know how to
prepare them for the table. Their
finest flavor is best preserved by serv
ing them from the shellsi raw.
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