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AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.
A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR
RURAL READERS.
A Plea for Lew Stables far Stock Melee m
Crab Kilters Bis; Mea Who "lie Thetr
Own Kew"-Horai oa Domestic Cattl.
Serve Ke Useta! Parpose Moaseh.M.
Kltchea.Ktc
Stack Baras.
t is hor
the era
bat
of big
has
For
f. 1 barns
ll'njr:- . passed
1 iJlg,Ma2x. twenty years we
have been build
in g immense
structures o f
wood, stuffing
them with hay
and grain with
the stock below
it all. An over
turned lantern,
a smoker's
match has
changed many
such a pile into
a mass of seething flame so quicKiy
that it seemed to be the result of ex
plosion. The time is coming may
it hasten when stock will be kept
in barns where there is no hay, where
there is nothing to burn like a tinder
box. If the stock barn in which
there is no inflammable material
catches on fire, the result can not be
so disastrous as before, for there is
onlv the shell to burn. If this shell
be of iron, as it may be at a moderate
cost there is ateolutcsafety from Arc.
For the protection and feeding of
Etock, unpretentious, low buildings,
merely stables (two rows of stalls
with a feeding space between), are
just as good as larger structures. The
only inconvenience is the bringing of
the fodder from the stack outside, or
from the hay barn. In winter these
stalls are comfortable, for every
farmer knows that -every cow
is as good as a stove and
helps to heat the space. If
' the horses and all the stock (pigs in
the cellar below) arc under this low
roof, between tight walls, all arc as
comfortable as they would be if tons
of hay were piled alKivc them, and
they arc safe from Arc. And there
can be no objection to the stacking
of hay in the open air. II ay stacks
on any farm, line as it may be, give
it always a picturesque and thrifty
appearance. Probably less hay is
lost in the stack than in the barn,
for in the latter it often heats if not
salted, and sometimes when it is
salted.
If on a cold day hay be brought
from a stack and placed in the
mangers, the cows will turn at once
from the barn hay to it. The hay is
fresher, brighter from the stack, and
is clean and dustless. Low stables
for stock alone, practically fireproof,
cost comparatively little, and the
farmer has the assurance that his
stock Is safe, or comparatively
6afe. These buildings may be
'snug in winter and cool in sum
mer. The best stable of this
kind was built with double walls with
six inches of sand between. George
Appleton in Farm and Fireside.
Hale as Grub Sillers.
A Kansas correspondent tells in the
Farmers' Review, that every investi
gation goes to show the mole lives on
insects and starves on cereals and veg
etables, lie calls attention to the
fact that when lawns are apparently
rendered unsightly by moles, il one
will cut a section of the sod, he will
And the cause in quantities of white
grubs, the presence of the mole being
to feed on this larva?.
It was Mr. Landis who first came
to the assistance of the mole. On his
ground at Tincland, 15". J., he paid 25
cents for all the moles sent to him.
He was ridiculed, but all knew that
his enterprise was a great success. To
attack a popular idea is unpopular,
and it takes a long time to make re
form; the mole-trap will be sold.
Cultivate the moles, and as soon as
the larva! are eradicated the moles
will leave the lawn for other pastures.
Depend uion it, that whenever evi
dences of the mole arc found, there
you will find the white grub, con
cludes the Kansas correspondent.
Farm Life aad Brains.
Nearly three-fourths of the men
who have been chosen by the people
for the great offices of the nation who
are men who were early familiar with
wooded hills and cultivated fields
for example, Lincoln, Grant, Gar
field, Hamlin, Greeley, Tilden, Cleve
land, Harrison, Hayes, Blaine, and
many others almost equally con
spicuous in current events or living
memory. Among journalaists, Henry
Wattcrson spent his early life in rural
Kentucky, and Murat Halstead was
born and lived on a farm in Ohio.
W. Vanderbilt was born in a 6tnall
Uew Jersey town and early engaged
in the business of ship chandlery;
Bussel Sage was born in a New York
village; Jay Gould spent his early
years on his father's farm in 3few
York State. Ingersoll first saw light
in a country town in 2fcw York; Tal
mage in a New Jersey village; and
David Swing, though born in Cincin
nati, passed his boyhood on an Ohio
farm. Whittier and Howells spent
their youth in villages, the former di
viding his time between farm em
ployment and his studies. Follow the
list out yourself and seo how long it
will become.
LIVE STOCK.
Haras Mast Go.
Horns on domestic cattle no longer
serve any useful purpose, and to one
who views beauty only in usefulness
they arc not even beautiful. West
ern farmers arc now using what is
known as the Fugate machine for de
horning mature animals. It is done
so quickly and neatly that there is no
longer any objection from cruelty in
the process of getting rid of the horns.
The loss from maintaining useless
horns Is not confined to the injury
they do to stock, though that is often
serious. Tnere is always great dan
ger to and often loss of life of attend
ants from vicious animals, and
especially from bulls. Stoke Pogis
HL was probably the most valuablo
progenitor of Jersey blood, but be
coming vicious he was fattened and
Gold for beef, before his value was
fully known. Had he been dehorned
this valuable strain of Jersey blood
would not be nearly so scarce and dear
as it is, and the improvement to
American Jersey stock from a few
more years of service from Stoke Pogis
in. can scarcely be estimated. The
dehorning process has now been prac
ticed long enough to show that loss of
horns does not injuriously affect ani
mals either for fattening or dairy
purposes, nor does it lesson the valu
able characteristics transmitted to
their progeny by dehorned bulls. It
is likely indeed that as horns are bred
Off cattle may be bred free from the
Vicious propensities that the constant
Vfeofborns must stamp upon chart
1 I
actcr, and thus transmit to' future
descendants. American Cultivator.
Balslas; Celts.
Keep good mares to do the farm
work with. Breed to a draft
horse, and have them foal about the.
1st of May, as this is a slack time in
the work and grass has a good start.
Work the marc carefully up to foal
ing time, and let her rest ten days af
ter before going to work again. Feed
mare and colt a little once a day, and,
the colt will soon learn to eat. When
working the marc have the colt in
the stable. It will soon learn to stay,
is less bother, and it is better for the
colt than to follow the marc. Give
it access to water twice a day. Give
each colt and marc a roomy box stall
and feed the colt by itself. Wean at
five months old, give them good pas
ture and oats. Winter in a loose
stall and let them have plenty of ex
ercise in the day. Keep up the oats
until they arc a year old, then turn
to pasture. National Stockman.
Helpful Points for Horfterann.
It is better to take S200 for a colt
when he is 2 years old than to
keep him three years for $100 or $150
more.
While the breeding of horses is
greatly on the increase, and of
trotters especially, there is a great
lack of A So. 1 horses of all kinds.
Horses that can trot in 2:40 or 2:30
are very plenty, but a great number
of them arc not good road horses.
They may be undersized, undesirable
in color, pullers or slow travelers or
vicious and waiting for an opportu
nity to run away and smash things
generally.
Pkobaijly the fastest marc that
ever raised a colt is Mary Marshall,
2:12, and the colt is in training at
Independence, la. She is in foal
again to Allerton, 2:09, and if there
is anything in the theory that a colt
from developed parcntsshould go fast,
this colt ought to go faster than any
horse ever has.
ORCHARD AND OARDEN.
Shipping; Grapes.
When shipped from distant points
the best packages for grapes are cases
containing eighteen three-pound
boxes and covered baskets holding
ten or twelve pounds. All packages
should be filled so full that the cover
will draw down tightly on the con
tents, holding them firmly in place,
but not so as to bruise the fruit.
Near-by shippers also largely use the
covered baskets, and they are gener
ally considered to be the most desir
able package. Many shippers to not
far distant points use flat, wooden
boxes, with hinged cover, measuring
about twenty-one inches long, twelve
inches wide and five inches deep, and
holding twenty-five to thirty pounds.
These boxes have to be returned to
the seller, and many buyers object to1
them for that reason. Orchard and
Garden.
Kllllac Potato Bag.
Like many others, I am dissatisfied
with Paris green, regarding it not en
tirely safe. I now prefer to pick the
bugs; at the same time
it is quite necessary to
destroy the eggs, which
are always deposited
on the under side of
the leaves. To do this
thoroughly it was nec
essary to stoop over at
every hill and turn all
the leaves up, in search
of eggs. This is a
back-aching task. To
obviate a great por
tion of it, an imple
ment was made which works charm
ingly. The handle and crosspiccc are
of wood and the half circle is heavy
wire. The leaves arc raised with
this and eggs easily detected. Stoop
ing has not to be done unless eggs arc
found. Galen Wilson, in Practical
Farmer..
THE POULTRY-YARD.
Notes.
CtEAKLiRESs means
poultry business nine
success in the
times out of
ten.
"Feed a little at a time, and feed
often," is a safe and successful rule
with chicks.
Fresh water, renewed daily, is.os
sential to the health of chicks. Foul
water, sick fowl.
How about the young chicks' bow-,
els? Constipation, as well as diarrhea,
causes many an early death.
Although Canada is extremely
cold in winter the poultry production
of the provinces is quite large.
Stale bread moistened with sweet
milk is highly recommended as good
feed for young chicks the first few
days.
If ew York and Brooklyn consume
about 60.000 chickens daily, and as a
result chicken ranches are among the
most profitable of Long Island indus
tries.
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Home Remedies.
It is said that a strong solution of
epsom salts in water will cure burns
if applied immediately.
Beef suet boiled in fresh milk is.
very good for a cough. Take small
quantities at a time, but often.
To remove warts, wet them thori
ougelywith oil of cinnamon tared
times a day until they disappear.
Alcohol is a good remedy for
burns if applied immediately. Keep,
the burn moist with it for two hours.
To cure cold sores keep them dry
from saliva and touch them once very,
carefully with carbolic acid, then ap
ply alum occasionally.
Turpestixe will take the soreness
out of corns and bunions, and will
sometimes cure soft corns. Be care
ful, however, about using too much
of it, for it will weaken the joints. '
The Housekeeper.
THE KITCHEN.
Caltaary.
It should be remembered that
quick boiling hardens meat and too
much water renders it tasteless. To
boil a leg of mutton an approved plan
is to put it into water that is boiling
fast and let it boil about five minutes,
the object being to harden the out
side and prevent the escape of juices;
then add enough cold water to reduce
the temperature and when on the
point of boiling again skim it care
fully, then draw it to one side of the
stove and let it simmer until done.
A nice dessert dish of chocolate is,
made by creaming together two
ounces of butter with two ounces of
sugar, the yolks of three eggs and
three ounces of grated chocolate, ad
ding last the well-beaten whites of the
eggs. Bake in a buttered mold.
Tea Iced. Hake the tea as usual,
add equal parts of cream and new
milk (half a pint each to a quart of
tea), sweeten to taste and freeze.
Coffee. Iced. Add one pint of
cream and half a pint of new milk to
a quart of very strong coffee, and
sweeten to taste. Freeze till fairly
thick.
C7
THE PRIMEVAL HORSE.
Frehlsterle Maa aad the Bene ia Harth
America.
The genealogy of the horse has
been most admirably worked out in
"Various publications, and the fact
has long been established that the
genus originated on. the North Amer
ican continent. The question, how
ever, as to whether prehistoric man
in North America had the horse as a
contemporary has been a disputed
point. This question may now be
considered set at rest by the discov
ery of a skull of an extinct species of
horse in strata with human imple
ments. The discovery was announced
by Prof. E. D. Cope at the meeting of
the American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, held in Wash
ington in the month of August. A
skull of a horse was exhibited to the
members by Prof. Cope, who pointed
out the characters of the teeth and
who stated it would be impossible for
anyone to separate the fossil teeth
from those of the quagga and zebra if
the three were all thrown together.
In minor characters, such as those of
the size of the bones, the differences
arc perceptible. So there is no doubt
the skull represents an animal differ
ent from any now living. That it
was a horse, however, any one could
sec. The most curious thing about
the skull was its condition. The
frontal bone had been crushed in ex
actly as we see in the case of animals
slaughtered for food. The friable
bones protecting the eye sockets were
intact, as were also the long nasal
bones. Found in the same bed with
the skull was a stone hammer that
b rc evident marks of having been
fashioned by the hand of man. What
inference was to be drawn from this?
In the first place it has been sus
pected and considered probable that
early man on this continent had been
contemporaneous with a horse,
though not the present living species,
but no direct proof had hitherto been
found. When Europeans landed
on the new continent, the horse was
an unknown animal to the natives.
So it had evidently long been extinct.
All the horses now found in either
North or South America came from
stock originally brought over by
Europeans. But here we had evi
dence in the association of a human
implement and a horse's skull that
man and horse had lived together
and the peculiar fracture of the skull
of the latter leads to the belief that
the animal had met its death at the
hands of man. This fact opens sev
eral questions. What became of the
race of horses that once lived on the
continent? Were they exterminated
by savage man as civilized
man has exterminated the bison?
Did they once serve as beasts of bur
den or were they used only as food?
Were they wild or domesticated? It
seems probable that they were not
used for any other purpose than as
food, and that they existed only in a
wild state, for it is scarcely reason
able to suppose that having once been
used by man and so domesticated,
their use would ever have been for
gotten or the breed allowed to die
out. Neither is it probable that they
were exterminated soieiy Dy tne
agency of contemporaneous man, for
we know that in spite of the use of
the bison by the Indians of North
America, their numbers did not de
crease to any great extent. It was
only when civilized (?) man began his
destructive work that the bison began
to disappear. What, then, was the
cause of the disappearance of the
horse? The age of the beds in which
the remains are found is prior to the
Ice Age that once prevailed in North
America, and in this period of cold it
is possible we have a factor to account
for the extinction of the horse. The
intense cold coming on forced the an
imals to migrate from their homes in
the northwest of the United States,
and retreating southward, they prob
ably found many competitors for ex
istence. The scanty vegetation of
New Mexico, Arizona, and" Northern
Mexico probably did not suffice for
the support of the great herds of an
imals coming from the north. New
conditions of existence may have
weakened the vitality of the species;
starvation may have decimated their
numl)crs; competion with other races
must have cut off a large supply of
food, and the hand of man may have
hastened the struggle to its inevitable
end. All we know, however, is that
the race became extinct. That man
lived previous to and of course during
the Ice Age is now well established.
That he lived at the same time with
a species of horse is made known by
the discovery of Prof. Cope. His in
fluence in the extermination of many
of the large mammals at one time in
habiting North America is as yet un
determined. Prof. Joseph F. James
in Scientific American.
ladiaa English.
"Baboo English," as it is con
temptously called, affords occasional
food for mirth among us; but English
papers appear to be not altogether
barren of like entertainment for the
Baboo mind. An Indian journal
point's out that the rejoicing of at
English clerical organ over what it
calls "the welcome news from India
that three Bengal regiments have
been converted," together with its
observation that "Providence has in
deed blessed our work," comprises a
double mistake. First, the regi
ments referred to are not at Bengal,
but Madras regiments; and, secondly,
"conversion" is in this case simply a
technical term, implying that the
regiments referred to have been
abolished. Another "home journal"
has, it appears, described the late
Senapati as a person "whose civiliza
tion is still so rudimentary that he
feeds on insects." This mysterious
charge having been investigated by
our Indian contemporary, it turns
out that its sole foundation was the
fact that the Senapati was accustomed
to chew betels that is, betel nuts.
It was an accidental misspelling in
the telegraphic message that gave
rise to what the English journal very
correctly described as "An extraor
dinary story fromManipur." London
Daily News.
Careale
Young men who ape English man
ners and customs are reviled daily by
newspaper wits. One of them is even
represented as carrying and umbrella
on a fair day, "because it's raining in
London, doncherknow!" An equally
logical reason is ascribed to the artist,
Fuseli.
One of his peculiarities was that of
carrying a large gingham umbrella of
a conspicuous color, generally red,
whether the weather were fine or not.
One day a friend met him bearing
his usual burden, and called to him:
"Halloa, Fuseli! What do you
want that old umbrella for, this fine
day?" .
"What do I wantit for?" answered
he; "Oh, I'm goine to see Con
'stable." "What has that got to do with it?"
"Why, whenever I go to see him,
he's always painting rain!"
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tee. aoeeat ft? Bat O. how test
arc the roeklags la roach weather I
tatesttnal warfare begottea la yoar vitals by
the sea's eosnmottoa begem dseeripMoa.
WheTs the proper caper wader these eJreara
taaetar lake Hostettert Btosaach Bitten.
Nottaag esasparaUe to It for reaosdylag aee
aJetaeM or tl kindred awaaearrcmwhlearaany
el teste sand trawlers suffer. Dyspepsia,
eraares, constipation aad MUoasaess also are
tmrJaUyaad promptly remedied by the Bit
ters. Exposure in roach weather Is often pre
deewve of hurtful consequences, waleh may,
however, be averted by the timely aas of the'
Bitters, which diffuse an agreeable warmth
through the system, and promotes aa active
circulation of the blood in the extremities
When benumbed aad chilled. Malaria, kidney
trouble, rheumatism and debility an remedied
by the Bitters.
A Fishy Vara.
I feel a shalow overpowering me,
somehow," said Blinks, as he walked
down the stro.it.
What Is it, o'd man?" asked Jinks.
Are you superstitious?"
"Not exactly; but the shadow seems to
be nearing me. "
"All right I'll walk along with you,
and see that nothing befalls you."
"Thanks. You are very kind. By
the way, can yon loan mo a half a dollar
till we gel to the store?"
"Ccrtain'T. There it Is."
"It's good of you, I'm sure I wanted
it to pay that man who Is approaching.
I owe it to him for somo shad I bought
yesterday. That was the shad-owe.
Sro?"
A max who baa iractlcod medicine for forty
years ought to know salt from sugar ; read what
he says :
Toledo, O., Jan. 10, 1887.
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my practice and experience have never soen a
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confidence of success as I can Hall's Catarrh
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Tho "Well of Froxea Air.
Near Dayton, Ga., there Is a well lo
cally known as the "well of frozen air. "
In drilling tho well a stratum of frozen
clay and gravel was encountered at a
depth of fifty-five feet After passing
through five feet of this numerous cava
ties were encountered from which the
told air camo in gusts. The escape of
the air from the well can be heard roar
In? for nearly 200 yards. A bucket of
water sot over the opening will freeze
through within a few hours.
When Baby was sice, we gave her Csstorla,
When she was a Chad, she cried for Castoria,
Wbea she became Miss, she dung to Castorla,
lelMChBdrsa she gave theaiCsstorie,
Way Get Washed Ont gome Day.
To reach deep water at Astoria, Ore,
piers have been built out several hun
dred feet, and as businoss has been
crowded close to the warehouses and
pier, several streets ha" bnon laid on
stilts or piles, and bloc if stores and
houses have been built o.cr the water.
If a slit were cut between tho car tracks
passengers might troll for fish. Boys
often tish through the cracks in tho
planking in the streets.
TOURISTS,
Whether on pleasure bent or business,
should take on every trip a bottle of Syrup
of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and ef
fectually on tho kidneys, liver and bowels,
preventing fevers, headaches and other
forms of sickness. For sale in 50c and S1.00
bottles by all leading druggists.
Connecticut's First Patent.
The earliest Connecticut patent found
on record was granted In October, 1777,
to Edward Hinman, of Stratford, for the
exclusive richt and liberty of making
mo'asses from the stalks of Indian corn
In Fab field County for ten years, which
grant ended with tho words: "Alwayf
provided tho said Hinman makes as good
molasses and makes it as cheap as comes
from tho West Indies."
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Taking butter from milk
was known in the earliest
times. It was left for our
time to make a milk of cod
liver oil.
Milk, the emulsion of but
ter, is an easier food than
butter. Scott's Emulsion of
cod-liver oil is an easier food
than cod-liver oil. It is rest
for digestion. It stimulates,
helps, restores, digestion;
and, at the same time, sup
plies the body a kind of
nourishment it can get in no
other way.
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LINES OUT FOR SHARKS.
Hew nshenaea Asaase
Ewslaess Is Dan.
If cod, halibut, or haddock are scarce,
tho fishermen say, "let us try for
6harks," writes a resident of a Massa
chusetts coast town. But, of course,
fish'ng for sharks ten and twelve feet
lo g in a small boat would be danger
ous so It is only from the fishing smacks
of thirty to fifty tons that the lines are
put o .t There is great excitement on
board a fishing boat when the shark
lines go out, for every man is afraid of
tho beast that he wants to capture
Very often large sharks romatn for days
at a time near a fishing boat, eating
their rod's heads sounds, bones and en
trails thrown overboard, and it is known
that they are thorc, because they are
constantly thrusting thoir blacks fins
above water.
If tho tishennen know that tho sharks
aro near the surface, lb !' p .t a piece
of cork on the lino close up to the hook,
which is baited with about a quarter of
a pound of fat pork; tho hook is thrown
as far ns possiblo in the direction of tho
wird or tide, and then allowed to drift
Tho shark sees the pork, comes
stealthily up to It, then turns
on his back and bolts bait, hook
and a roupo of feet of tho line.
When ho feels tho hook in his stomach
or throat ho dives and swims off at great
speed, the fishermen paying out lino to
him gradually. When at last it Is so
tired that it can resist no more, it Is
drawn to the side of the boat and pulled
to tho sur'acc. when the fishermen stick
gaffs into Its bo.ly. and put two or three
halt hitches of ropo round Its head. The
fish is often so largo that it has to be
hoisted aboard by a block and tackle,
but as soon as it finds that it is being
lifted out of the water It struggles and
thrashes vlo'ontly with its ta I. When
put upon the deck it flounders and flop-;
with such violence that the fishermen
are o ten afraid to go noar It
Tiik chip a man carries on his shoul
der becomes as largo as a wood pilo
when tho quarrel is with his wife.
Tub poor havo pleasures. One of
them is envying tho rich.
Geortre
x window,
scar nur
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The Serial Stories for the coming year will be of rare interest and variety, as well as unusual in number
Lois MaHet Dangerous Gift. A New England Quaker Girls first Contact with -World's People"; Jby Mrs. Mary Catherine Lee.
A Tale Of the Tow-Path. The Hardships encountered by a Boy who .found Life at home too Hard lor him; by Hosier Greeae.
How Dickon Came by his Nasse. A charmingly written Story of the Age of Chivalry; by . Harold Frederic
Two Techs" Abroad. They set off on a Tour of the World in quest of Profitable Enterprises; by . C. A. Stephens.
A Young Knight Of Honor. The Story of a Boy who stood at his Post while Death was all aroand him. Mbs Faaay M. Johnson,
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Smoky Days. A Story
Hints on Self 'Education.
Articles of great value to Young Men who desire to educate themselves.
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Professor James Bryce, M.P., author of the "American Commonwealth.'
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How I Met the Queen ; by
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My Queer Passenger. Very Smgaaar rJargtars.
Molly Barry's Manitou. The Tin Peddler's Baby.
Shut Up In a Microbe Oven. Bktwa Across Lake Superior.
The Cruise of a Wat-Came. A Yeaag Doctor's Queer Patients.
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"A Yard
of Roses'
n.
Specimen Copim tentfrm
oa arttication. .ADDRESS.
Not a Local
Disease
Becaae Catarrh asfectsyoar besd.lt la aot
fere a local disease. If It did not exist la yoar
blood. It ceald not manifest ItteU la roar aoee.
The blood aowta rearbrila la, before yoa aabh
rssdlac this article, tack la rear heart strata,
sad tooa distributed to your liver, stoauch, kid
neys, sad so ea. Whatever impurities the blood
does aot esrry away, erase wkat we call disrates.
Tbetsfote. whea yea have
Catarrh
saanaorotherlaBaratcaiat moit We oaly tem
porary re iff. The only way to eflVct a rare Is to
attack the dlsesie In the b ood. by takinc a coa
ttilntlonal remedy like i cod's Sarsaparilla. which
eliminates all impuritits and tho permanently
cures Catarrh. The tacce of
Hood's 8arsaparilla
'As a remedy lor Catanb is oaclied for br assay
people It hat cored. N.B. Be sore to set Hood's.
Common
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Chaps Hands.
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DOES NOT.
Lawrence, Kans., Aug. 9, 1888.
Patterson fell from a second-story
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' He used it freely all over his bruises. I saw
him next morning at work. All the blue spots
rapidly disappeared, leaving neither pain,
i 1 A r v AICITWAMM Xf Tl
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Short Stories
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The Youth's Companion, Boston, Mass.
N.L-BRED CHILDREN.
AWeseaal Kieerleeee AaaeacTaeaaat a
Seaside Kesors.
A childless wonan, staying for a short
time at a fashionab'e seaside resort,
tolls oi her experience with the little
folks there. "The morninst after mv
arrlvajsho sayswas walking out'
on the" beach, .awragly attracted, as I
always am, by the groups of playing
children Tbo first I set were two
little sisters, wonderfully pretty and at
tractive In appearance, dressed in gay
sailor snits of some soft woolen aaatcilal.
with Jaunty cap rownlng their curia.
They were Imildiag In the sand, aad 1
stopped to watch then, commenting,
after a moment, on thoir play. One- did
not lock up. The other "dUl, however,
and scowlcdjaVmo. s s
M 'Hero's somebody talking to me,' she
called, shrilly, to her none, 'make her
go away.'
"Surprised and disappointed at such
on!ovely manners la'such .lovely chil
dren, I strolled on' at once! Sly noxt
venta.ro wafye.'cn worse. I trlod a little
boy-.a bejHltifuI browsj-oyed darling with
long carls and thatlace oLiarchcrub. I
askeJ him what he was building In the
sand, when ho made an ugly grimace
that qulto disfigured his fair counten
ance and answered not a word. After
that I left the chi dren undisturbed, and
I wondered if these wero; not somo of
the ill-bred American children who cast
discredit on tho whole race of them to
stranger eyes. "
Undoubted y theso were, and It Is Just
such examples which create a false imJ
prcssion in regard to the children of this
country. For ten such instances 100
qulto the revcrso could be cited, but tho'
other sort of children are not as a rale
encountered at much frequented resorts,
nor are they left wholly in the charge of
servants.
"A Vara of Keses."
One of the popular paintings at tho New
York Academy of Design was a yard-low?
panel of roses. A crowd was always ln-foro
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of nature xhould belong to all the people;
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away."
The Youth's Companion, of Boston, seized
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" Practical Advice.
The Habit of Thrift; by Andrew Carnegie.
How to Start a Small Store ; by F. B. Thurber.
Girls and the Violin. A Valuable Paper; by Camilla Urso.
A Chat with Edison. How to Succeed as an Electrician; G. P. Lathrop.
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