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..V"- l ' 4 Hi lY IV I s !. K r I I N i ,- STARBEAMS. It is often tbe fcol who laughs tnd not the fool who is laughed at. Tnn Harvard llbrarv Is of good size. It coxitis of 303,000 bound volumes. Thk '-Old Bay State" believes in Riv iu'j iliu people a chance to read. There are free public libraries in 243 of the 331 towns and cities in Massachusetts. The easterners are continually sur prising you with their ingenuity. A papt'r mill in Xew Jersey has turned .iut a s-hect of paper six feet wide and ij miles long. Xo ose knows the antiquity of -ambling. It is known that the Greeks and Komans took their chances at games r.nd perhaps the world has always done so. JTben lUhy w ai(, g fcer I VThcn she wm a Child, afce cried f or OmIi rift. When she became Miss, she clung to Cartoria, Wbea gaatodCiadrsa,ebeaat-aa Cistnrta, Tt . ..o.fufc iwiler d The dav wi'l soon hao pa-sed when a boiler yard in lull b at will be the syno nym for noJse. Time was when a lot of healthy riveters could raiso more din thau a: army. Hat that Is now over. 2achinery has entered thb field, and a boiler ran now Le riveted with so little noise as not to bo heard at & distance of three feet. It is a very heavy and cum- rsomo-Iookin machine, but It works like a c ock. The boiler, after being per fected by machinery, l rolled aud then Looted into place, hanging vertically around an iron upright which is the In terior riveter. Tbe heated bolt is then in-cried from the outside. Hydraulic iics-uro is applioJ to an enormous arm that looks iiko a .tanv.lng machine, and hi two secmrU the rivet is complete. rtT Aft m Stopped Tree Ir.fCllnea Oreut tvne Itooiorer. Nor is after flratdTsnk Mir Wtou cures. TreaUke aud SUM trial bottla (ra to Kit . band to Or. Kiln.! araa St. PUlla. Pa Always open the offer made by the proprietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. It's a reward of 500 cash for an in curable case of catarrh, no matter how bad, or of how long standing. They'll carry it out, too. It's one thing to make the offer. It's a very different thing to make it good. It couldn't be done, except with an extraordinary medicine. But that's what they have. By it's mild, eoothing, cleansing and healing properties, Dr. Sage's Remedy cares the worst cases. It doesn't simply palliate for a time, or drive the dis ease to the lungs. It produces a perfect and permanent cure. Try it and see. If you. can't bo cured, you'll bo paid. The only question is are you willing to make the test, if the makers are willing to take the risk? If bo, the rest is easy. Yon pay your druggist fifty cents and the trial begins. If you're wanting the 500 you'll get something better1 a cure I Ws'5ySJ,tf ttcce-Raae.deel as tfee Be. IX La Maim. Plymouth Co.. la.. May, 1683. I suffered from temporary sleeplessness from overwork for two years, for which I need Pastor Eoonlg's Nerve Tonie, stud can recommend same m tbe best aaodicine foe similar troubles F. BORKHORST. HxcnUM, Neb.. October, 1KXX Aboet tear years ago our now 20-year old daughter had an epileptic fit after she bad re tired and about a year later she had "anoUiei such attack; we could hardly believe thai ofce Lad this terrible disease, "Epilepsy ."but tsben about three months later she again had a fit tic ero forced to bblleve tbe fact that the dreaded malady had fastesrd npon her, and as we sup pose a disease without a known remedy. About this time we read about Pastor Kocai'e Nerve Tonio, and we concluded to try a bottle. r.od be thanked, she is cured MK, aad MRS. LESOIXG. msm Yalaable Book an Nervuar i sent free to any addrefeR paneats can aim obtain Idae free of charge. uii n.iiiilli nan nraumd Inrthe Reroenil Paster aoeaiK, of Port Wayne, lad, since 18 acd Is now yrepareanaderhls direction 07 the KOENIC MED. CO.. Chicago, III. Sold by Drwcsta at SI ver Bottle. 6aart$5 ----n size. 991.75. 6 Bottle for 80. Tutt'sHairDye CrayhatrTWthliiiisclMHiKedtaaalesaT 1ac.lt by a stag-la application of this Rye. contains aethtacluJarfcMts to tba l:alr. Sold by all drarcUta, or seat by ea rreaa on Temtot erf price, aWjM. OSoe.30 1 Stark Plaoe, ew York. PENN You can here get more life in6uran.ee, of abetter quality, MUTUAL on easier terms, at less cost than elsewhere. LIFE Address 921-3-5 Chestnut St., Philad'a. Tk OUnt MtUHmt in tk WU itrU w . , a artat laaav m .!. wmrvm-w This artfciC u a car Hrl.it liis anil tia. Iiai ...- TtuMM.Mi to are ubjeet aiore Jpfnatlag than sore -! aone. prrhsaa for whlea mora lemedles nave Mea tried wtthoatsaootss. FeraUesteraaltallaniaiaUusi r tbe em tt to an lafatlBiie letoedy. If the diree tton-. are fo'iowrdRwHl never fatt. Weparttealarty k.. .. ka ...fna n iilrlana to Its mmts. rot ssJp Iit all druggists- JO OrTK U TSOafPSOM. OJ m. CO. Tbot. S. T. i IV. MKNTIO! THS riTB BORE m'OHIO" WELL DRILL WELLS with oor fjuawaw Well Mnrkiarrr. TbaoalT serf ert arit-rtoanlna saw satt-dmuuuia tool. aae. LOOMS t MY MM, TirrM. !. taUaae CREE. WE SHIP THRESHERS GOAL Throughout the Northwest COAL mUH COAL CO, Streator. La Salle Co.. I1L PILES AHAKESISaives lEMer 1 raUt and is sa INFALLI BLE UX for TlLiJi. Price, tl: at dmcxUts r by asaU. BaniK i-e. AadrSr-AAKf:l.' BOX3UC. Saw Toax Cttt MOTHERS '.8aHar1sXIBrr aa-raaarma.it IWCTTIK8.I J faraatetyamiimtsH. Prlca$i.og. Pmxrmxoxrm-mm svn aoftArcnx; Mdiaables. atfee for iacreane. vcytmiy parieace. write for laws. A.W.McCcr-vn k aasav WaaanawTaat. B. a CnrcnmaTi. o. feSSG rt ETE-WATbltV tiuUy prepared pnj sic-urs pre wm In use for nearly a iiiaut .- hlrh mankind ti BliaP LITTLE FLO'S LETTER. bUtttebabybretKer awaa to lira wttb Flo. AM aba wanted It brought to the table xaat it ausBt eat ana grow Masmat wsftforawnUe," aaM ar?m3a tklng tkaThasm tawth Caa eat like ytm and tern." Wkjr basat It got teeta. graadaaar Aaket Flo In great surprise: Omylbutaiatltfunny? No teeth, but aoee and eyes? I gases" (after thinking gravely) "Ibey must have been fordot. Cant we bny him some like gruMpe I'd like to know why not? Tbat afternoon to the corner With paper, pen and Ink. Want F10. saying "Don't ta'k to me, If you do, It'll stop my tbink I Ym writing a letter, grandma, To send away to-night ; And "oause It's very 'portant I waat to get it right. At tost tbe letter wa finished, A wonderful thing to see Aad directed to "God in Heaven, Please xad it over to me," aid little Flo to her grandma, To see If it's right, yon know," Aad here Is tbe letter written To God from little Flo : Dear God The baby you brought us la awful nice and sweet, Bat'eaase you forgot bis toofies, Tbe poor lttle thing can't eat ; That's why I'm writing this letter A purpose to let you know. Please come and finish the baby. That's an. From LutlkFlo." i Globe. CATS SCRATCH. HERE were mo ments now when Shoddyson found her odious she whom, years ago, he had thought the most charm ing woman he had ever met. But with the last dec ade Mrs. Winch's sharp features had become sharper, her smile more metallic, and her hair a more startling red, while her little youthful petulences had developed Into unvarnished bad temper. And to-night, as they sat at dinner in a private room at "Voisins', Lawrence Shoddyson was visibly perturbed by tbe announcement which he must presently make. It was for this, to be sure, that he had run over to Paris, leaving town in the first verdure of spring and his betrothed In the first tremors of her engagement. Not that Lady Sarah could truthfully be said to have in dulged in tremors on any occasion. Lady Sarah Hardman was, as anyone may see in the peerage, exactly 30 years of age, and she was, in addition, a handsome, self-satisfied, and self opinionated young woman. When the years had fled away and left her still single, she had iinally resolved, as a last resource, to captivate this successful stock-broker, whom the fates had thrown across her path in a country-house the previous winter; for ducats were few and daughters were many in the noble house of Hardman. Mr. Lawrence Shoddyson had a bilious eye and sallow skin, and his thick, black mustache covered a coarse mouth. But he was always well dressed, and he was not bad-looking as men-about-town look. But as yet the engagement was un announced, and Shoddyson. as he fur tively surveyed the hard-lined face of Theodora Winch, was at a loss how to break the news. There was some thing uncompromising even in the way the lady's narrow velvet bonnet strings were tightly fastened under her chin with a diamond scorpion (he had given her that scorpion, by the bye, in the past years), in her stiff, high-shouldered gown, and in the immaculate gray gloves which she had not removed when they began to eat their dinner. There was an air of proprietorship, too, in the way Theodora smilingly warned him from certain dishes which the drab-faced waiters produced, while she advocated clarot and forbade him the cham pagne. To be sure, the two were old allies. She had been one of his first clients when he had started on the stock exchange; and, any time the last fifteen years, he had been accus tomed to run over to Paris when she wished to consult him about some in vestment. Shoddyson & Co. did a large business with French clients, so that profit, as well as pleasure, often brought him to the French capital. He had always been flattered and petted in Mrs. Winch's pretty apparlfr merit in the Avenue Kleber; he bad gone with her to the play, to the milliner's, to the circus, to the races. Theodora bad nicknamed the young man "Bogey" in the days gone by, and while she was young and fairly pretty the thing had been well enough; but it was preposterous, Shoddyson told himself with a groan, for a man to be called "Bogey" by a woman who can no longer conceal her wrinkles, and when he is 43 years of age and about to contract an alli ance with the daughter of an English peer. Mrs. Winch was one of a large class who affect the Cbamps-Elyses quarter. American by birth, she had been edu cated in Europe, and, after a brief experience of matrimony in the United States, she had left both hus band and country and taken up her abode in an American colony in Paris; and Winch, like other transatlantic husbands, had been, it would seem, by no means averse to the arrange ment. There had been talk of di vorce at first, and then difficulties had cropped up, and so the thing bad gone on. But one day, about a year ago, the husband had fallen down dead in Wall Street, after which the wife wore elegant black and enter tained serious thoughts of marrying again. And the person she meant to marry was Lawrence Shoddyson. Dinner was over. The waiters had withdrawn, leaving coffee and liquors at their elbow. The May night was warm, and presently Lawrence rose and flung open the window of the tiny room a room fusty with a hun dred departed revelers, with the fumes of fifty by-gone feasts. He leaned his arm upon the iron balcony and gazed down into the street. The rush and swirl of nocturnal Paris lay below him, and he fervently wished himself anywhere but here. In all his smug, prosperous, and self satisfied existence, he had never known such an uncouifortahlr. moment as this. It was awk ward very awkward to tell the wo man who has leen devoted to you for fifteen years that you are about to marry some one else. "Bogey," murmured Theodora, in her soft, babyish voice for, though an astute and long-headed business woman, the lady affected childish manners "don't hang out of the window like that Come and sit here. What's the matter? Why, you've hardly spoken six words to-night. Are you" with an unpleasant little laugh " are you in love?" The man flushed up to the roots of his hair. She had given him his op portuniij', and he took it, brutally, coarsely, like the half-bred creature he was. "I don't know about belnglnlove," he said, with a conscious snigger; "but hang it all well I'm thinking of petting married." '-, i For a while the room was so silent that you could hear the people talking in the Rue St. Hoaore below. Some one was putting aladyintoa carriage, and you could hear the click of the door shutting to and the direction to the coachman : ' (Au Cirque d'Hiver. To whom?" This time Mrs. Winch's voice was no longer soft and lisping. "Well, the fact is, Thco, that I thought it about time to pull up a bit and well; it's a daughter of the Marquis of Bloomsbury Lady Sarah." "Lady Sarah!" said Mrs. Winch; "the girl who comes to Paris to get her shoes made! I wish well, I wish you joy!" There was an awkward pause, during which Mrs. Winch played nervously with her tea-spoon, and Lawrence, with an affectation of ease, struck a match and lit a cigarette. "You see, Theo, it's a tremendous leg-up for me. ISfo end of business to be done with all those swells. And, after all, a fellow must settle down some time or other eh?" She looked at him hard through her narrow eyes, and the look made him feel extremely uncomfortable. "By the bye," she said, presently, rising and reaching for her wrap, "are you sure you must go to-morrow?" 'Quite sure; by the first train. But you're not going? Why, it's quite early we can still do the third act of a plaj." "Thanks it's Impossible. You forget that I, too, am a woman of business; I have lots to do to-night. You must tell me when I may send your wedding present. Good-bye, good-bye." A few moments more and Mrs. Winch, pale with rage and mortifi cation, was being rapidly driven home alone, ifot for worlds would she have let him know that she was suf fering; but for every pang that Theodora Winch endured that night, she swore he should pay a hundred fold. Why, she could .prevent this marriage altogether! There were half-a-dozen ways in which she could ruin him; and Lady Sarah, she knew perfectly, was not the woman to tolerate a penniless lover Late into the night Mrs. Winch was at work in her study, with complicated calculations and stock exchange lists. Before dawn, she had completed her plan. Two days later the smart young clerk who represented the firm of Shoddyson & Co. on the stock ex change (the Co., by the bye, was purely fictitious,) was discussing the odds on the Derby with a confrere, when he was handed a Paris telegram. The firm had mauy wires from the French capital, but this one was somewhat startling: "Sell one hundred thousand El Dorados six per cent, carefully;" while the signature was that of a great financial house in Paris, the brothers Sidonia, with whom Shoddyson occasionally did business. Running as fast as he could, the smart young clerk made his way to the restaurant close by, where Lawrence Shoddyson, with a party of friends, was celebrating his engagement, which had that very morning been announced in the daily papers. The stock-broker instantly rose,- made his excuses to the lunch party, and hastened into the market to execute his large order. There was soon a sensation in the house. Shoddyson & Co. were selling El Dorados like wild-fire, and a huge crowd gathered in the El Dorado market, while Lady Sarah's fiance continued to offer the stock. For two hours El Dorados went on dropping by points; and it was not until the whole transaction was nearly com pleted that he was able to wire to the Brothers Sidonia the execution of their order. Half an hour later the smart young clerk was handed a still more startling telegram: "We don't understand your wire. Have pasted no order for selling 1 Dorados. You must be tbe victim of a fraud. "Sidowia Fbebeb." The news got out at once, for sev eral London stock-brokers had been warned during the last hour by their Paris agents that a fraud had been perpetrated on a London firm, with the result that El Dorados, which had fallen 10 per cent, during the day, recovered their original price at a bound. At the end of the day, Shoddyson was liable for some twenty thousand pounds sterling. A large firm could have withstood the shock or borrowed the money; but to him the thing was ruin. To-morrow was account-day, and, atsuch short notice, he was quite unable to meet the large difference. So Shoddyson & Co. were duly declared defaulters and under went the process of being "ham mered" in the house. The morning after there appeared an authoriatative denial in the morning papers that any marriage had been arranged between Lady Sarah Hardman and Mr. Lawrence Shoddyson, which, to be sure, was only what people expected. That un fortunate financier, who, it would seem, was born to be the sport of the less amiable members of the fe male sex, more than half suspects the hand that dealt him this blow. But ho has never been able to prove it; nor have the Parisian police, though they have made every inquiry, been able to discover the perpetrator of tbe great telegraphic fraud. Mrs. Winch is becoming more pinched, more copper-haired, and more acidulous day by day. You may see her, on any fine afternoon, driving alone toward the Alice des Acacias. She has had her revenge. Is she satisfied? Who knows? St. James' Gazette. The Lemen'a Virtue. A writer who seeks to mitigate the suffering caused by excessively hot weather by describing how to make simple and cooling drinks suitable for the summer season, incidentally pays a tribute to the great virtue of the lemon, and a medical authority has promptly written a letter confirming this commendation of the cooling fruit, and urges its more frequent use in lieu of strong medicines, which often do more harm than good. lie says that although most people know the value of a glass of lemonade be fore breakfast, few know that the benefit is more than doubled by tak ing another at night also. A better way to light a bilious attack than powders of quinine, is to take the juice of one, two or three lemons in as much water as will make it pleas ant to drink without sugar lefore go ing to bed. In the morning on rising, at least half an hour before breakfast, take the juice of one lemon in a tumbler of ordinary or soda wa ter. gnicago Herald. 8eU-Iuu.rrst tbe Teat. The growth of perjury in law-courts has become a scandal. The value of a witness' word, in comparison with his interest, seems to be pamlled by a well-known example of .school-boy honor: "Will you lake your dviug oath to it?" "Yes." "Will you bet sixpence about it?" "0." Tm vilest sinner may return everything except an r.inbr?l!a- AGMCUITURAI TOPICS, A PBW SUOOSSTtOtfS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. The aarae BbeaM lie Ceawl Raetaase Way A Drey la Predicted The Dairy A Tanks He Boase Orchard aad KardoaHoMoheld mats. We. Bastaees Methods ea the raraa. w 1TH all the exhor tations to farmers make greater use of business methods on the farm, we see very few of them ex plaining h.v such methods should be applied, or where in they would be specially valuable, writes Webb Dori nell in the Prac tical Farmer. Generalizing Is not the best way to make truths plain. To come down to the root of tbe matter at once. let me ask tbe reader how he is to know whether his hogs, bis poultry, or bis cows pay him a profit, if be feeds each class of these animals from tbe same grain bin? Tbe cows may be making a profit on their feed, and thus concealing a deficit tbat comes from unproGtable bogs and bens. Or, tbe cows and bens may be concealing tbe fact tbat tbe boss are running in debt to tbo farm. It is tbe same with other kinds of stock, wben when all aro fed from a common quantity of feed stuffs. Occasionally it Is even worse than the case mentioned, tbo cows, hens, and hogs might each and all re turn less than the cost of their keep, and still the truth be undiscovered, provided some other branch of farm operations brought in sufficient revenuo to mako up the deficiency. How can it be told, whether a certain crop of corn, oats, wheat, or potatoes, has been a profitable one to raise, if no account is kopt of tbe cost of preparing tbe ground, dressing, caring for, and harvesting the crop? I would have separate grain bins for each kind of stock; then upon tbe first day of January of each year, or upon the first day of one of tbe spring months, if one chooses, a largo blank book should be procured, and every time a sack of bran or oats is put into the poultry bouse. Its cost should be ch arced to tbo account of tbe poultry. If ground meal, bone, or any other article of food Is purchased for tbe hens, let tbe cost be charged to them, and whenever eggs or market poultry are sold, let the proper credit bo given, together with a credit for the eggs and poultry used on the table. If tbe hens have eaten a certain number of bushels of vegetables, there valun should be charged to the poultry account. At the end of the y-ar it will be pretty plain how the fonN have paid. The dairy will havi charged to it the feed that has been placed in the stable bins, together with the value of the hay, ensilage, aud roots eaten; and credit will be given to tbo same, for the butter sold and eaten, the milk sold or used, and tbe estimated value of the skim-milk led out. Tbe dairy should also bo credited for the value of the calves, when weaned, and for the manure that is made. It is not nocessary to go further into details, to shew that this is the only way by which we can tell whether the work Is profitable or not. This is the only way. If it is not profitable, by which one can tell what branch is handicapping all the rest. It needs no great knowledge of book-keeping, to classify those im portant facts. Any one with good com mon sense can make such debit and credit entries, under the bcadingof each branch of his farm operations, as be can himself readily understand, when bo comes to reckon up the cost and the value of articles sole and on band. The great point is to begin krtjp'ng such ac counts, and tbe sooner one begins, the better. LIVE STOCK. 2fo More Flclitn. JJere Is the cut of a pig trough which I have used for the last year and find of great value where a number of pigs are kept together. It Is partloncd In such a way tbat each pig has his own stU, and therefore there Is no rooting each other out of tbe trough and filling it up with dirt It Is made of two-inch plank, one ten Inches wide and tbe other twelve, and nailed up against tbe pen. fB. L. Wheeler in Farm and Home. Look Oat for a Drop, A great many who have gone Into the business of breeding trotters will soon find themselves on tbe wrong side of the fence, so ir as financial matters are concerned. Too many people embarked In tbe business when it was on tbe boom, just as they did wben Jersey cattle were selling for tens of thousands of dollars and everybody thought tbat all tbat was necessary to make money was to buy a herd of them, and begin breeding. It will be this way in tbe trotting horse business, except that a horse cannot produce any commodity as marketable as butter, and is therefore really a lux ury. Of court there will always be a legitimate market for tbe light harness horse, but men who tbink tbey are going to make money after starting out by paying thousands of dollars for a stal lion, and having broodmares worth Irom trSJr i'rn'n""r:. :: r : ".r" I ";TZ?l"""r:"li mm enrii rm. uinni ii.a.nw iiiitii iiain uinun i money by breeding trotters, but almost without exception they have started In a modest way, and developed the colts by their own horses and their own mares. In other words they bavq, made tbe blood tbey owned fashionable, or at least helped to do so, and'iu tbls way have greatly enhanced the value of tbc'r goods without putting tbcmselveR to a great expense0 jn doing so. The market for trotters' will always bo fairly good, and at reasonable prices for stallions and broodmares, there will be no occasion to conduct trotting-horso farms at a loss, but at the boom prices that have been paid for stallions and mares during the last three or four yars there is certainly no chance to conduct breeding farms in a legitimate manner, and make any considerable amount of money out of them. The New York Sportsman. THE POULTRY-YARD. Bow to Fail with Poaltry. To fall In tbe chicken business, Wm. F. Rice, In Farm and Home says, clean your nennouso once a year. II your; cmcKs nave nee, let tnem aionc. 11 you can find only one kind, borrow from your neighbor and f tart right. If there are 1 any cracks in the boust. don't close them, as you may wun to ascertain wbat roup and sore bead are. In case tbe roup ap pears, just let it run it will stop after a while and so will tbe chickens, and then yon can boast that chickens don't pay. For drink in summer, keep a cesspool on hand; if you have none, by all means make one. If your fowls get cholera, simply give nothing; perhaps tbey will get on all riebt; I won't insure this, but It Is a part of bow to faiL Let yonr 1 aw... ruut ... trees, ana 11 you nave, no t i. .-. 1-. , - . trees put up poles ten or twelve xeet s from the ground, as the hlcher von set I tliA ntiTov rYi 4.-mAnVAMA " ft I W---v I 1 I 8 I I 1 Attain, mi? r-..-i .mr o.r- n-u- atantimmakelt more, tender. - -- - w H - -w.i -v J l.tJ .IKIIIivu to tbe nests; tb. hfcn will look out for themselves. I: .-:,--hi ad hatch abroad, lat her uotct i,..m i i 'so tba Uttla - fellows eaa go out In the dew and catch the tapes; then you can save feed, fot they will not eat for some time, a it will require all their tine to opea and abut their oaths. . A Taattcw Heaaafu Here Is a henhouse that can be bulU cheaply. If one has any Yankee blood la him. I think It makes a neat warm house for bens wben it is desired that hens should lay through the winter, providing tbey have proper food and care besides. It Is boarded up first with common lumber and tar-papered and then sided with clapboards. The frame is 10 by 10 ft, but can bo built longer if more room is wanted. The studding is 5 ft high at tbp back and 18 inches If front, or on the south side, with G ft of glass and 12 inches of board at the top. Tbe glass sasb is 6 by 6 ft., covering tbe entire front with the exception of the Id inches at the bottom and a 12 inch board at tbe top. It slants bm-k 3 ft. 3 inches from toe perpendicular and forms a part . J . I jaw i I :?: .jlC.,J !"l "-TiT ( . 1' rf t mj I I I of tbe top roof. Tbe north sldo has a shed roof, with a rise of 2 ft 7 inches. I cut the boards 9 ft 6 inches long and let them come over from tbe top 1 ft to form a cover for tbe curtain which I had fixed up, and which rolls upon a long pole with a crank at one end to let down over the glass of cold nights. For the nests and roosts I made a platform 2 ft high by 3 ft wido and 8 ft long. Tbo roosts aro 1 ft above it over the center. A is tbo roost, B the nest, C the opening behind the nest for the lions to go In from tbo back, D tbe doors to it to reach into the nest from the front and E tba space under tbe next which Is opnn so tbat the hens have tbo whole of the floor room. I have given it a thick coat of whitewash which has filled up all the cracks in the common lumber on the in side so tbat it looks like a bard finished plastered bouse. For the floor I ue three Inches of old plaster. The plat form under the roof enables one, to clean out tbe droppings once a week, thereby keeping tbe house clean. Tbe house Is nicely ventilated by a pipe five incites in diameter, running from 1 ft to 3 ft 3 inches above tbe roof, which takes off ail the foul air from tbo floor L IS. Love joy, in Farm aud Hotio. ORCHARD AND GARDEN. A Homemade Weederw Popular Gardener describes and Illus trates a homemade wecderas follows: Take a section of an old mowing ma chine knife, drill a holo in center, grind all tbe edges sharp, rivet an iron rod abeut a foot long to it, passing through the center hole, and til a wooden handle to tbo rod. You will then have a use ful implement to cut out weeds from among gar den vegetables. Low Heads for Apple Trees. Nearly ail old apple trees are too high headed. The idea of their planters and early trainers seems to have been that it would not do to let branches hang so low that the largest horse could not plow or cultivate closo to them without injury. Tho consequence Is the stems mostly run up seven or eight feet without a limb, and most of tbo fruit exposed to winds, is blown off and spoiled for marketing. If not, it is extrcmelv difficult and even dangerous to gather it by ladders. The way the business is managed now is to train low keep tho branches so that when loaded they will touch the ground. JIany of the apples thus grown can Le picked from tho ground or by low step ladders set under the trees. These low heads are objected to by somo from tho inconvenience of driving round in tho orchard with a team to gather apples; but when the proper distances in setting tbe trees are observed, especially be tween tbe rows, the objection has less forca. Lewiston (Me.) Journal. THE DAIRY. Feed After Milking la Winter The recent examination of a mass of silo iiteratnre,says the Practical Farmer, with special reference to tbe dairy and results, went conclusively to show two things, that, for tbe dairy, tbe silage corn fodder should be allowed to stand In tbo field and mature as long as possi ble, or up to the glazins point In the ears, and the work of pitting hastened. That in tbe winter, it is best not to feed or disturb tbe siiago until after milking the dairy, and then fork out tbe silage and feed, putting tho grain onto tbo silage at the time of feeding. Silage so handled and fed, showed no after effects in milk, or influences on butter or cheese. A cow fed upon a food tbat ha? a peculiar odor, just before milking, will impart a trace of that order to the milk. Wben fed after milking, the system discharges this odor, through the probable oxygena tion of the blood In the lungs and fluids, tbo twelve hours intervening between milkings, being ample time for this. It is a good plan to always feed tbe winter dairy after milking, and It corrects many defects to do so. THE HOUSEHOLD. rillew for the Baby. A dainty Infant's pillow is made as fol lows: Take two gentlomen's handker chiefs of fine sheer linen with deep hem stitched borders. Over each are Irregu larly scattered buttercups with their leaves worked in tho natural colors with a single thread of filo floss. A row of BABY PILLOW BUTTEKCTJP DESIG2?. stitching in yellow silk runs around all four sides inside tbe hem and tho two handkerchiefs are joined together with another row of stitching inside the first, which leaves the hems as a border. The cover is applied over a pillow cov ered with buttercup yellow silk. The handkerchiefs simplify the work by sup plying a ready hemmed material. Tho color and the flowers can be varied ad jibjtnm providing only that the flowers selected are small. The pillow can be mado more elaborate by admitting ruffles , ,- ir thA hfimmH hl Bints for the tteasewlCa. Salt will cordlo now milk. To BOFTE2 old putty, use a hot Iron. Varnish is "rough 00 bugs""-bed bogs especially. Mrx baking soda with brick-dust for scouring your knives. You can clean mica, that has become mo-d with vinetrar 8H!?? ' . ,n S : Raw beefsteak applied will remove the MmXnr.tUm trnm h,iM r - ;',:: Lavixg tough meat in tbe vlnctrar for a few minutes before cooking is said to v r Sweet oil will remove finger-marks from varnished raj-niture, and kerosene trom oiled t urnitutfc o " 3$sgSf f i Otlr ti'Ojli I Mo ,iip yJw$ I WIOFItSIONAL BEQOARS Matte There are 5o,ooo teMantaXewTorlr, And 45,000 ef them aeg from cbaica rather than necessity. Once a maa loses all self-respect aal pride, once he Is forc?d to ask for alms, he finds it so Tr.uch less oxert'on to beg than to work that he sooa becomes a professional mendicant 1 he professional beggars of Now York are stars in their line, and he is a sp'endid judge cf hainan nature who ca 1 tell whoa he meet a worthy 00 o t of charity. Tbe ess deserving the applicant for alms, tbe more pl.lfui his stury aud tbe more per fstently is it told. A largo n a ority of tha profes sional beigars are men, and maar of th'tnnra srongand h altby young fel lows. wjII able to work. This class are beggar orrob:eis, as opportunity offes The men who achicva success In tho bn:i ess are proud of the r profession aud rather en Joy be'ng cajght now aid then. No part of tho city Is free from tho frauds who are collecting the living tbey claim the world owes them. An 0 d but Still a favorite tr.'ck with the professional bsigars Is to bind up an arm or a leg and pretend to bo crippl d. Some of them are euremcly clever is making up, and a careful examination wou d be ne essary to detect tbe de ception. A new and rather efevor trick which is successfully done by a n ember of beg irars Is to turn their eyeballs up' until tu y appear to bo blln 1. With tbelt eyes in this condition theygrindasm.il, wive? band-organ or sttnd on some pro ulnent come and iuid a tin cup in their bands thus m .t3ly appealing fot barity. A few of them attempt tc sing, but thay soon realize tbat it is too much to ask of mankind to lis'en to their singing and thou give thorn mon y j odo th.s successfully for any 1'ngth of timj is ery straining on tbe eyes a d 11 ay rcsn t la genuine blindness. But tome of thorn ha e practiced It until it is impossibla to discover by looking at tuum tat tbey are not really b.ind. Delight Fonowed by Tona'ea TO) at man or woman will deny that a food dloner Is a present delight. Equally undeniable is it tbat when a well-cooked meal Is encore led by a fit or iadig atlion. rap:ure ia cos verted late torture. Doa't charge yonr dyspepsia to your dinner. No, my dear air, year gaatrto de. art ment was oat of order, to bjfla wita. Hat yoa regulated it with Htottsr's Stomaib Bitters, tba cargo that yoa tjok on board would bare base eoBafortably stowed away without the slightest laeooTsnleaoe. This iaooovperable etomachte entirely reforms faulty digest'on. aad regoUUs. besides, tho Hrer and the bowels, whleh mast act harmoniously with the ufgeetKa eran, or all three fall out of gear. Take the Blturs for kidney aad rheumatic complaints, aad In all cases of malaria. As a tanio. ap. IttUsr and promoter of ooavalMceace it baa no After Cr taatien. Bary the Commenting upon the cremation of Emma Abbott, a writer sas: Now, it i wall known tbat a two or even four hours' Inclnoratlon does not tota ly c nsuiue tho bones and tlicte is always a ma?s of these left, which are thrown avtay as lefuse. A mon these human bones is one which is beliexod to bo impervious to death and decay. It is a small bone part of tbe backbone and is called "Luz." It isfaldthata learned rabbi demonstrated to the Empa:or Adrian that ater would net steep it, fire wo ild not burn It, a mill could not grind it, nor could any hammer break it The resur rection bone is supposed by many to be tl e nucleus of tho immortal body. This iiticstion arises, would not It be more in kcepin? with the importance of mortu ary r plus to have tho b ncs buried in tiie cemetery lot, while the a-hes fi d taclr repo c in tho silver urn, and may lo retained in tho household? Lvcu stiucrstiiion has weight in favor of au idea. .excursions to the South. The C. II. & D. will sell harvest excur sion tickets from nil stations October 14 to points In Florida. Virginia. Louisiana. Ten aessee. Kentucky. Georgln, Alabama and Mississippi at oho faro for the round trip. Tiio tickets will be coed polng October II and returning any time within thirty day-, from date of sale. Ask yonr local agent for tli'keta via the C. II. & D.. or address E. O. McCormlck, G. P. T. Ajt.. Cincinnati, Ohio. How's This? This from a homely woman: Homely women are always iroro ontertainlng than pretty speu.me'is of the fair sex The latter re y on their beauty to carry them through the wor d, and it general ly does until they get married, wben it eomraoaly fails them The homely girl, knowing she has no beauty to rely on', toes to work and Improves her mind; the learns somo a:complisbment, be comes a clever artist or pianist, reads a good d.al and so learns to con ere leadlly and well. Sho is better company than the pretty glri, for tbe beauty does not think It worth her trouble to be en tertaining as she has spent all her ef fort in trying to look pretty The beauty may make a good wi.e, but the clianess are that she will .earn nothing aftar inarria?- and so will soon become dull and uninteresting Tbe ugly girl, with a little brains, stands as fair a chance of get ing a good husband as her pretty sister and a much better pros pecti of bavin? a happy home. HALL'S CATARBH CUBE is a liquid and 1r taken Internally, and acta directly on the blood and mucus surfaces of the system. Write for testimonials, free. Manufoctu'red by F J. CHENEY A Co.. Toledo, O. 'Peelers." Thon'ekname "peeler," as applied to a po'icoman. pcrpetua cs the memory 0 one of Kngla-id's greatest state.-mon, tir Kobart l'el. in 1:412 he was ap pointed Cb of 0 retary for Irela d. and his High Tory p:iiclp cs aud opposition to a" ho ic emancipation mad ; h m ex tremely obnoxious to th-j majority of the peop.e of that country, who gener ally des mated him by tbo offensive tit e, "vra.nso Peel " The bitterness of O'Connoli's attacks on him leJ to a hal lengc. and a d el bvtween Pi el and OVonn'li was provented only by the arro-t of tho la t-r as be was loavlng 1 n;Iaud for tho scene of the propo-ed encounter in France. 1 eei's most Im portant act in connection with his Irish appointment was tbu establishment of tbi lrlb onstabu.ary, whom he uni formed, armod and dri lad. ia Inland thy were ii derision tailed "peelers." while in England tiie po'fco are known as "bobbins." in allusion ta his Irst name. Birr, easiest to use and cheapest. PlsoV Bsmedy for Catarrh. By drugglsta. 60c. A mcsclk that is not exercised be comes weak and useless; the result is the same when a man constantly re fuses to exercise his good sense. HELPLESS. I was months; bottles of JACOBS OZId cored me. No return in 5 years. FRANCIS MAURER. "ALL RIGHT! ST. JAC0RS OIL DID IT." 9 I-ELY'8 CREAM BALWI-Cleawscs tie Ka faTa"BBWaa"BaaPassac,AJisrs ram ana anna iaa-ua. ": -'j-'-j Baawrs2Ti?. Bestorea Taste and ferneU. and Curc-JMrAr.Vril (Passages, Allays ran ai . c aifev. BBaaaaBBBwS A&V into tto A'eatrfls. -rt fr$gy AJucriti. fWZfr-' BimBsoI &ugistseray-a- ELY Bam. U Warren tit., X. Y.Vgjj- eta- a aa P ISO'S REMEDY FO CATfBKH.-aest. Karieat to nse. Cheapest. Relief la lauaedUte. A cure L certain, gur Cold in ine liead It has no equal. It Is an Oirtment, oi v,blzh a ssall particle Is arp. d :c :ti oauila. Price, S0c. KoWSrdrMpsUorantb r--.n i ai ---i - .a - BIO FACT Iff LITTLbT. SPACES. Otct ems persea ia a tkoasaad diet afeldajt. B&oxbc hair It the fast and re hair t'jl coarsest As Inch of rata means 103 teas ef water oa every acre. Oxhalt the people that are bora atie baf ore the age of it. Tirana are 3,500,000 of peopls always on the seas of the world. Tiierc ara at Iea3t 10,000,030 nerve fibers in th-i human body. 1 1' has be n calcu'atad tbat there are 200.000 families living In London oa 11 a weik. Tnn pro ortlon of Acglo Saxon word in tbe Kagllsh bible Is Vt per csufc ef tho wloe. Thk rece'p's of the French tr.'a'arf are larger than thtsj of any other civil ized nat.ca Tje force required to opan an orster arjp-ars to Le 1,319 tho weight of the shelless creature. Tns thlcknes? of the human hair varies f.om the two nun .rod and fiftieth to tiie six hundredth part of aa inch. A oraix of musk will f cost a rcora fot twenty years, and at tho end of that timn will cot shjw it has diminished iu the least It take about three soronds for a mo saic to go from one end of the Atlant c cable to the cter. Tnis is about .00 miles second. The srtia! est known insect, tin rtira tomas Pntnamii. a paraite of the Ichneumon, is buS oneninetle:h of a.i inch In Ieogtb. A u-HisoiTs buoy has been invented the light of whl h is produced b-.- pirns phur t of ca!c:al. and ii visible two ani a half mill s away. Tbe Oaly Oae KTer Prlated-Caa ta Find the Word? There Is a 3-inch dlsplny advertisement In this paper this week, which has no two words aliko except one word. Tho same la true of each new ono appearing each week from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. ThU house places a "Crescent" on everything they make and publish. Look for It. send them the name of tbe word, andthey will return you book. tMAtttm utbjOoaapbb. or ram pus raze A London letter says the Great Western railroad, one of the wealthiest In England, bad decided to abandon the "broad gauge" of rails. Tills railroad was the only one In England that still clung to the system. This is regarded as a bad slap at the broad gauge sys tem. Success is success, and If one would there is never any use of arguing against it. Grace Hawthubne, tbe actress, is a good poker player and seldom- loses a game. How's Your Live If sluggish and painful, invigorate it to healthy action by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla SHILOH'S CONSUMPTION CURE. The success of this Great Cough Cart Ii without a parallel in the history of medicine. All druggists are authorized to sell it on a pos itive guarantee, a test tbat no other care can sac cessfully stand. That it may become knows, the Proprietors, at an enormous expense, are placing a Sample Bottle Free into every home am tbe United States and Canada. If you have a Cough, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use it, (6f It will care yoa. If your child has the Croup, er Whooping Coagh, use it promptly, aad rebel ia rare. If yoa dread that msdious disease Consumptiop, ue it. Ask year Druggist fbr SHILOH'S CURE, Price 10 cts., (o cts. aai ll.oo. Iryour Langs are sore or Back laa sa SstfoVs Porous Plaster,' Pnce s cat. StK?jJcs OIVIS ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and act' gently yet promptly on the Kidneys. Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers nud cures habitual constipation. Syrup cf Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the atomnch, prompt in its action and trnly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to ail and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and f 1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro sure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. LOUISVILLE. KK MEW YORK. H.t B3I Chicago, IB. confined to bed ; could not BWwBBaaaBBW3. waFTrl X. BBBaBaBBaBBBB. DHEk4 Iw Jv atw- BBwBaBaBaaaBBB -f walk from lame back; suffered 5 doctors did not help; 2 SS5S-I 3 rz psg?3 -- si -, IJernran Syrup" Tht majority of wen-re ptrjs idaus now believe that Co-sumption is a gem disease. In other words, instead of being in the con ttitntion itself it is caused by innu merable small creatures living in the lungs having no business there and. eating them away as caterpillars dot the leaves of trees. AGtrm The phlegm thr fa coughed up is t isc DiStaUO. parts of the lungs which have beets gnawed off and destroyed. These little bacilli, as the germs are earl!-, are too small to be seen with the naked eye, but they are very much alive just the same, and enter the body in our food, in the air wet breathe, and through the pores oi the skin. Thence they get into the blood and finally arrive at the lungs where they fasten and increase with frightful rapidity. Then Gerrsan Syrup comes in, loosens them, kills them, expells them, heals the places they leave, and so nourish and soothe that, in a short time consump tives become germ-proof and well. The Soap -? for Hard Water is Lenox. AnUDprecefleniedOfrer For a BRIEF PERIOD Only. Deslratte sad Valuable Csatal sad 5ewarr. Ladies' Foster Lacing Gloves (S-Uocl). On receipt of $1.30 wiU,e The Chicago i Weekly Times Tor ob xstr.cr fr Sttfle th. .&" "LU2 i.. t Bku6scr.bv.ror aplrot tad eVITost rLacla 0fficmewT?mi'jfjfoj!i2 a one i wortli tbe.ic l ' e--r P'l i'-0K lMJ- LAK A TrAK-a- ee S'.bcrlbsr. becnre--li.til4)-a- lir-iuiu'i" tor s tnot n ttuiK. rfiiuaii wr uiii- . . - . ... -...4-w. - In nleriiit ute P ainiy he sizt a-a mo ww m IO rufriiiK one v 'ui. " j. p - , , O b r U Vn IJUI rriiii i suae s.v ,.- - v. ir ilia ttsr p.ice o t NEEli .- fk kK-iU MAI'S. In wmppo I'lcai hietr or our lount-v. alTir.jr a 1 the priurip cwi.t irero taa tin.eof wV I totoihpie.Bttro o.oiieatrte nd oa oilier tta Utt.s. Ka d t 4!.aay SMS BIsua. Adar a THB CHICAGO TIM2S CO , CUlcaco. THE ONLY TRUE IRON TONIC Will parlf- BtOOD, rrnlai KIDNEYS, remove LIVES aisortcr.buiM l rewrtli. renew fciUCIVj .fc." .M... .. laUlceitlon. tbat UreiwecU lncsl;:oliitcly eradicated. Mini iirlghieneu. Dram nowcf Increased. LADIES coiicj. jiirTc. ui-a- eies, rrceivo now roree. anffw-fntf from roiuDlalnts oe- cullartutliclr-sa, usloalt.ond rose bloom on checks, beautifies CJaVP'ea. Sold ere?T''here. All xenntne g tQa beat "CTeuenW" Send as2 cent ctemp for Jijtpsae pamphlet. M. HARTER HEMCINE CO.. St. Louis, ate. A TRIAL T We will S3R4 THS WEEKLY WISCONSIN and NEWSPAPER LIBRARY Three Months To bny address In llie I". S. or Ccaada FOR 25 CTS. Tue yew-raper Library slvts aeh month a complete novel, oy tbe bst au ibor. Ailur si CRAMLR, AIKEN3 t CRAMER. Milwaukee, Wis. Dr. WOOD, 413 Fifttt Street, SIOUX Cifr, IOWA. IWular Urai:t;&:e id Ji'dielos HQ Vtnrr itiipttal urjt vrict pnctU IO in Chtoipt anit 2iw J or Ka .tHbUnhrd in Moux Cltv Mne Vearv Ii rtin treating all Prlrat. '.Veroi. Chronic and r'lal iiintie9. hnermatorrli.t-a. tM-mmul weakness nuU fccva. I b? potency iha cf ruoi oicr) tao ail enu!e rnnra-ea, Zr.-rgVarUitf. i'c fares gaarantred or money refunded Chargea fair. Terms rili. Agean! -iK;rlfn' nr tniportant. o la Inrlous nfiif'n-a ued A"o t irM lott from wotSO? business Pafn-iit-i rt a tflManes teaUO br 'lT Xcluiiirtttnt erirrrtrf trtt trom oi2' ambral tjf-NJafe ti'ir n. en.! fuel fir Vpl.on .no tcrm-:iDiu!;at!nn ttrf.tlr cirfldei tlal. pw.oo ally Tttylctt-r-IJr. WHM ha the IsrrssC Mrtlh-.tl ami "Surcl.-al Institute and rjm ami Kur InftriiiMn In th- (- ooasfor patlnt nt ralrrMJfr.!ttl lo inct ai7 eraer-s-uey A Vcl. lfr.n-. an1 ft tnre and t11.!? Luic3 tur.tg frnjiv -., !. 1 t'.,nUitmmti-nc a. ntn-e for fllii-lrn'-l HOOK ami MEU1CAI-IOCRXAI- tZZ'IZt.'Mun lOli oaaur- Pssitnaij CartS ai!h VefetaMe WsasaMsa. avs car tain Mmtuaad c-. Cm yetianwi rosowaeed bnpt.a bj tte bt parsleiaaa. From ret dos lymiiiimi TMjl-ij dUvvr. aad lc aa aasatiattwo-U:id4 0tlUT)cpt'aaarariaved. Bead for fro b'c ef untalls of talrwnlrn rnr. Tea d-ya tr-itruea: sro:2ied fr-abraiail. If Ton oratr tnr:. xzd :.i ",d'ji in atamp- to pay utt-H.H oaaajaauaaiauasi FOR SALE ?UUm MACHINE FAY That HI nlsnc sixteen lncnas "lae. TBlf machine Is to rood order ana will pe aeirvaras gil U-JsMU fcU- U9 ave. -- -. Tk - 1 1 . .-wo .! ?" For further aarstea --.o g x-carl St, Slonx gty. Iowa as A A ft S3 CJ A FositlTe Com. f I pairTarS Beaaacae rI. .V nscsf ont dixgs. On; pskage will ..icfavreneTca Biuuanjt.anu. tiy uw 9 viJJtVWSW J .rty, la. tfc moat oa:fnata c to. xT.ce a: uj Achats waatd KifcaerACa, Sienx DETECTIVES t:i-! H my fVa,' :. .t, Smns Saraa mtm iau-cWMa In r. 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