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Svrup of Figs is for Kile by all drug gists in 50c and$l bottles, but it is man iitacturea by me California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered. "August Flower" "One of my neighbors, Mr. John Gilbert, has been sick for a long time. All thought hiui past recovery. He was horribly emaciated from the inaction of Iiis liver and kidne3'S. It is di&tult to describe his appear ance; and the miserable state of his health at that time. Help from nny source seemed impossible. He tried your August Flower and the effect upon him was magical. It restored him to perfect health lo the great astonishment of his family and friends." John Ouibell, Holt, Onte BITCHED TEN MONTHS A troublesome skin disease caused me to scratch for ten months, and was cured by a few days use of M. H. WoLFr. Upptr Marlboro, Md. SWIFT'PEC.FIC I 33 cured socio years ago of White Swelling lnmylcgbruslngliSTSSKSEancl have had no cyniplouin of ro B25 turn ' tno ss eve. Jllany vrnmiuciit idisirians attended mo and failed, but S. S. 8. did the work. PAUL W. KIRKPATR1CK, Johnion City. Tenn. T'ff'" on Bload aid SVm Lucases caU-d frac. Bwitt Brzcino CosirAXT. Atlanta. Ga.a mm yuuh uwN harness I WITH TiiniJcnM'c m SLOTTED CLINCH RIVETS. io tools required. Only a hammer needed to drive and clinch Ham cailv and qnicklr; leaving the clinch absolutely fmootli. Requiring ro hole to be made in the leather nor burr for the Jtiiet. They are STRONG. TOUGH and DURABLE. Jlillions now id u.-. All lengths uniform or assorted, put up in boxes. Aslc your lalrr for (hem. or send 40ft, in stamps for a box of 100; assorted sizes. MaAUFACTU&ED J,r JUDSON L. THOMSON MFG. CO., -lihapt, JUaas. The llarU Hand Cream Separator and Feed Cooker Combined. ., Ccmpletest of outfits for a dairy farmer. 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Patents. Trade-Marks. Examination and Advice a to Patentability of invention. Seed for "Iuvrntors'tJnidf. or Hon-to Get a latent." rn 0TX22SiL. T72SHK3I8S, S. C. SllCKAPOO m INDIAN m m ..... 9AUWA The greatest Liver, 2 Stmn:icli. Klnml on.i 1 Kidney Remedy. ? 1 jinae 01 Hoots, X Baiks ami Herbs, Z nnd is Absolutely 2 All Mineral! or OtherZ 1 Harmful In. arrelint- PDnutEist. 31 5 ymgi Ws?iEv L 2v KSgrjgi a iHflPBaKal irafifw -iiiHr 1 11 . T V-UW ftm& z ' m j jam. a m 9 Laxgkin? Dog, age Mbyn. per bottle. 6 J m "- bottles ior 85. A Z Kiekapoo India SeBleiae Co., Z J Healy 4c Billow, AgeaU, 5ew Barea, CL J ttto THE GHOST UPON THE STAIR. She paaseth midway on the stair; Her step is like a breath. Pleasant was her wandering Adown the slopes of death. And pleasant was her journeying Across the dim divide. O'er bridges which the day threw out, Unto the eventide. She is no spirit dark and dread, No soul of peace denied: Within her calm eyes shine the light Of groat love satisfied. And yet, white-robed and innocent, At eve she loves to stray Unto the path she trod in youth: The dear, familiar way. For all unbroken are the ties That bound her tender licart: Her soul still guards what it held dear, Though silent and apirt. And so she waiteth white and still, Yet fair so passing fair: Content for evermore to be, A wraith upon the stair. American Cultivator. . A FAMILY DINNER. I was dining at a woll-known res taurant the other .ening when Smith, came in. "Hello!" he cried in his breezy manner. "Do you eat in this place?" "Sometimes," I replied. "Why not? It's the best place 1 know." "Is it? Then I'm sorry for you," said Smith, as ho dropped into a chair and gave a hurried order to the waiter. "Why! What is the matter with the place?" I asked in real astonish ment "Oh, nothing particular, any moro than with any other place. They're all alike. If by any miracle they get anything lit to eat, they spoil it in tho cooking. I suppose they wash their pots and pans occa sionally in a half-way decent place like this, but yet, for some reason or other, everything you get in any, given restaurant has somo composite and indescribablo ilavor peculiar to the placo a sort of trade mark, a6 it were. "Tell you what, old man; come up and dine with us to-morrow. No scenteen-course affair, all fuss and feathors and nothing to eat, you know, but just a plain family dinner. You must have forgotten what one tastes like. And I eun promiso you more fun than you'd got at any show in town. I believe in having things lively at tho table. It is a good deal bettor than norvo tonics and pep&in and it doosn't cost a cent. What! Going? Hero comes my dinner, and I shall have to cat it alone in this hor rible place. You wouldn't seo me here except that I've got an engage ment in Brooklyn to-night and didn't havo time to go home. Well, so long, Don't fail me to-morrow at 6:80 sharp." There is no use in trying to decline Smith's invitations or combat his statements, as I knew from long ex perience, wherefore I allowed myself to bo taken captive, and on the fol lowing evening at G:30 sharp deliverod myself, as per order, at his house. Mrs. Smith, a nervous littlo woman whom I had met onco or twice before, welcomed me and said that Mr. Smith had not yet come home, but she sup posed he would como soon; but yet she wasn't sure, ho was often kept so late by business, and then they lived so Jar up town and the cars wero so often delayed, and if there is one point in the city further from the elevated than the house sho believed it was the office, and besides tho elevated wasn't very much better, anyway, and it was a shame tho way the taxpayers were imposed on, hav ing their streets torn up and their houses filled with dust and yet packed into crowded cars and 'couldn't get home till midnight, and if she were a man sho would try to do something, and she often talked to Charles like this, but he only laughed at her. It occurred to me that Charles must have a sunnier dispo sition, even, than I had given him credit for. It is my impression that she touched on a few other points, but I may be mistaken. Perhaps she merely en larged upon these, for Smith only kept us waiting half an hour, and part of that time was taken up by a discussion between 14-year-old Tom and 12-year-old Blancho concerning the right and title to certain books, and a dissertation on cough syrups by Mrs. Smith's unmarried sister, who was much addicted to indulgence in those seductive beverages. Tho time was so fully occupied that I was greatly surprised when Smith entered like a breath of fresh air and said it was 7 o'clock. I thought it was 10. Ho brought a friend with him. "Bob White. Why, Brown, you surely remember old Bob White. Used to bo with Chappit & Snider when we were youngsters ever so many years ago." And with this summary introduc tion we sat down to dinner. "Sorry I'm so late," said Smith, "but one of those everlasting talkers came in just as I was starting and kept me half an hour. I can't see, for my part, how a man can be so in love with the sound of his own voice. "It was just that nothing else in the world. He knew I didn't care a rap about what ho was saying, and that he was boring me half to death. Yet he kept on a full head of steam, and I had to put on tho throttle myself. Told him I always got a lecture for being late at dinner. Put it all on you, my dear, Ha! ha! Now I can talk myself, although hello! this soup's cofd, and I swallowed nearly all of mine beforo I noticed it. It's enough to give a fellow a chilL What's the matter with tho cook, anyway?" "But, Charles," suggested Mrs. Smith, deprecatingly, late, you know, and"- you were so "Oh, all my fault, of course. But I don't see why a man should be com pelled to eat frozen victuals if he is late. That cook doesn't know her business. I'll discharge her next week. Never mind, let's try tho fish. "Well, as I was saying, I can talk myself if it's necessary, though I'm not much of a talker. But. I gener ally have something to say when I do talk, and I have some consideration for other people now what are you youngsters fighting about?" - "Tom has hidden all the books that Uncle John brought us, and won't even let me read one, and I know Uncle John" "That's right, baby," interrupts Tom. with fine scorn, "cry about it. I wouldn't be such a tell-talo for" "Here! here!" roared Smith, "no wrangling at the table. I don't care whose books thej- are, but the first one I hear another word out of I'll" ne didn't say what he would-do, but he brought his fist down on the table so that the fish jumped up and in the Arabian turned over, as those Nights did at the genii's bidding. Then there was an eloquent silence, only broken by whimpers from Blanche, for nearly fifteen seconds. "The best children man ever had," Smith then remarked, aside to White and me. "But they will have their little squabbles now and then. I tion't suppose they would be healthy without them. Speaking of children reminds mebut never mind. Til tell you that some other time.- Little pitchers you know" v He was interrupted by tho appear ance of a big piece of roast beef, which he attacked with a great flour ish of knife and fork and the remark: "Aha! Brown, old boy, I'll show you some beef that isn't quite as 'fair1 as that you had yesterday. I only hope that confdunded cook hasn't spoiled it" At this point I became aware ot the voice of the unmarried sistef, which was raised soveral octaves above its usual pitch of F in alt, saying: "No, Nellie, I don't believe it, and you can't make me believe it if you talk all night, so you may as well stop." "There, there, Mary," said the un fortunate Mrs. Smith, "I only meant wYoii only moant 'to beat nio out of my opinion, that's all. Bub you can't do it if you talk till doomsday, and I don't want to hear any more about it." "You introduced the subject your self," retorted Mrs. Smith, very un wisely, it seemed to me, though I suppose the poor woman couldn't help it "Yob, of course! Everything is a Bubject with you, a subject to argue and wrangle over for hours. I can't say a Word about anything but you snap me Up, and contradict and try to beat me out of my opinion, and get insulting and personal, as you did just now.'" "Why, 1 am sure, Mary," Mrs. Smith began. But she was interrupted, and the attention of all was divertod, by a little remark from Smith. Considering the justico of tho re mark and the number of times it has been made by other persons, it was strange that it produced such a pro found impression. All he said was: "Damn that cook!" "Charles!" exclaimed Mrs. Smith and her sister, simultaneously. "Wouldn't it do to burn her at tho steak?" suggested White. I smiled gratefully upon him. I thought'he was justified by tho circumstances. "If you aro going to bo profane, Charles," said the unmarried sister, icily, "I shall lcavo tho table." Smith clutched his carving knife and glared at her. But he got him self in hand, after an effort, and merely said: "Don't bo an idiot, Mary." "Isn't it enough to make a saint swear?" he continued, turning to us. "There's as fine a pieco of beef as J ever saw, simply ruined by tho btu pidity of the cook." "Do you prefer it burned or raw, Brown?" That's the only choice I can offer you." Well, we got through dinner at last and adjourned to tho parlor, where Tom and Blanche recommenced their discussion and the unmarried sister again fell foul of tho unhappy Mrs. Smith, while Smith talked politics to White and mo. But as we were very careful not to contradict him, he tired of the sport in a little while, and asked Blanche to play "that littlo thing I like so much" on the piano. This was the last straw. I looked at White and ho looked at mo. "I am afraid I must go," said White. "I have a very particular engagement." "By Jove!" I exclaimed, "I am on gaged, too. The time has passed so pleasantly that I had forgotten all about it. I must bo off at once." As we left the house White said: "Well, what's your engagement? Mino is with a cocktail and tho farce comedy at tho Gaiety. I need a bracer. Will you join ine?' "Xo," I said. "A stiff doso of bromide will suit my case better. And then I think I will go to tho Rev. Dr. Knapp's lecture. Repose is what I want." I failed to appear at tho office next day, and suffered a good deal with dyspepsia and palpitation of the heart for a week. At the end of that timo I met Smith. "Hello!" he exclaimed. "You look seedy. I tell you what, old man, the life you lead is killing you. If you tako my advice you'll got married and make a homo for yourself, just as soon as you can. "Meanwhile, look up a rospectable boarding house, or dine and spend the evenings with frionds as often as possible. "I can sympathize with yon, my boy. Used to be in the same boat myself, you know. "You're welcome to my house just as often as you choose to come. Wish 1 could keep you there for a while, but I suppose that's out of the ques tion. You would bo another man in a month." "No," said I, "I don't think I should. Tho fact is, I don't believe in tho transmigration of souls." Then I made a flying leap for a Broadway car and left Smith scratch ing his head. He said to White afterward: "That man Brown sets up for a wit, but I can't see anything in his brilliant remarks. And I think I'm as good a judge of that sort of thing as the next man. " And I dare say ho is. Now York World. The rigerm'a or St. Mark's. Nothing is more amusing than to watch, on a winter's day, the marvel lous intelligence with which tho pigeons of St Mark's, in Venice, can discriminate between residents and visitors in the grand square of that city, the Piazza of St. Mark. The moment a foreigner shows his face in the Piazza tho pigeons set upon him in clouds, hoping to be fed. They do not trouble the natives, who may be sunning themselves by the hundreds in the square. More curious still, they do not trouble the ragged men and boys strolling about the Piazza with bags of grain, which they sell to visitors to feed the pigeons. They,, however, keep their eyes on these persons, andas soon as they see one of them approaching a visitor they hasten to him in clouds, and surrounding the visitor add their supplications to that of the seller, as if saying "Yes, do buy tho grain; buy it for us; do buy it" There Are Sereral Such. Persona. "It will cost you fifteen cents just thesame,"are the reported words of a New York druggist when he was told that the use of his telephone was de sired in a case of Hie or death. Of course the fifteen cents was paid. Too Good for a Hoy. Johnnie Say, Tommie, do you ever get licked by tho-teacher. Tommiewith pride No. I don't. Johnnie, with contempt Aw, you must be a girl. THE THERMOMETER. from 88 Decree Below la Siberia to 130 Above la the Ctfloradd Desert The ldwest mean temperaidre that occurs anywhere, or at any season on the globe, occurs in January at Wor kojansk, in Northeastern Siberia. Here the mean for the first month in the year is 61.2 degrees bolow. For the same period the temporature is forty degrees bolow over tho region situated a littlo. north of the mbg hetld 016. At We::kojarisk the ther mometer has registered over eighty eight degrees below zero. Going to tho other extreme ihe Nautical Mag. azino rinds that the atmosphere of Colorado river desert has shown a maximum of 120 degrees, and this will give a seasonal variation over tho land of Upward 01 200 degrees Fahrenheit, against less than one third of that range over tho water cf the Atlantic. Tho comparative con stancy of the oceanic temperatures moderates the climatological condi tions of approximate land masses very considerably and tho disparity between summer's heat and winter's cold is still less marked when tho seaboard is swept by warm ocean cur rents. The mean annual tempera ture of tho British islands is quite twenty degroos higher than it would be did its temperature de pond Upon tho latitude alono. This is. of dourso, owing to tho influonco of the gulf stream, which is calculated to poUr into the North Atlantic some thirty-eight cubic miles of warm water per hour. Tho heating effect of this current upon the atmosphcro of the North Atlantic is best seen by comparing tho position of isothor mal lines with tho same temperature lines id tho South Atlantic. Thus, ill tho month of January, tho isotherm of thirty-four degrees run-? in almost a straight lino from Boston to Ice land and from Iceland across, to tho Norwegian coast At its most northorly limit it just impinges uppn the arctic circle. Thus tho mean temperature of thirty-five do grees is found in tho coldest month at a distanco of sixty-six and one half degrees north of tho equator. In the South Atlantic during the month of July, tho midwinter month, is otherm of thirty-five degrees is prac tically identical with tho fiftyth par allel of latitude. Contrasting the temperature for tho midsummer months, it will bo seen tnat while in tho South Atlantic tho isotherm of fifty dogrces, has a mean latitude of forty-live degrees, the same isotherm in tho North Atlantic passes over tho middle of Iceland, and from there runs in a straight lino to tho North Capo of Norway in latitude seventy two degrees. .rA BRIDE'S PRESENTS. Some of the Gifts of a 110O Girl on Her Wedding D.ty. Giovanna dci Medici, tho bride, re ceived from hor different relations no fewer than twenty rings and six more from the bridegroom two when he fetched hor, two for the espousals and two on the morning they ex changed rings. From Bernardo fcho received 10) florins and somo othoi coin, with which she made hortelf two handsome dresses, one of white, velvet, richly trimmed with pca'-ls, silk and gold, with ojien sleet cs lined with pure white fur; one of zotani, a stuff of very thick silk, trimmed with pearls. and tho sleeves lined with ermine, says Blackwood's magazine. She has also a gown of whito damask, brocaded with gold flowers, the sleeves trimmed with pearls; an other silk with crimson, gold and brocaded sleeves, besides other dresses and overdresses so-called giornee. Among tho jewels given her was a rich necklet of diamonds, rubies and pearls, which was worth 100,000 gold florins, a pin for her hair, a necklace of pearls with a largo pointed diamond, a hood embroid ered with pearls, and a net for her hair, also worked with pearls. Tho dowry, which to-day would seem modest, was (50,000 francs, in cluding the trousseau, in which was included a pair of chests, with richly worked edges, and several long dresses of different shapes for every day wear, made of fino stuffs em broidered, also a lawn hhift fashioned out of material that camo from Rhcims, a hood of crimson cloth wrought with pearls, two caps with silver, pearls and diamonds, a little illuminated "missal with silver clasps, and n infant Jesus in wax wearing a damask dress trimmed with pearls. Bosidcs this there was cloth in tho piece, satins, velvets and damasks, embroidered cushions, belts, purses, thimbles, needle-cases, ivory combs, etc. Gen. O. O. Howard and the Ileggar. When General O. O. Howard was in Chattanooga a beggar, with a withered arm, from which thefingors and part of the hand woro missing, camo up to him and asked for alms. The general, with a twinkle in his eye, held out his empty sleeve and said: "You aro better off than I am, for you have your arm left; while I havo lost mine." The cripple gazed at the empty sleeve for a moment and then extraetod fifteen cents from the pocket of his tattered jeans trousers. "Here," he said, turning to General Howard; "this is all 1'vo got, but you'ro wolcomc to it." Thoro wa a general laugh at tho expense of tho distinguished commander of the de partment of the East, and ho made the man happy by giving him a sil ver dollar. Argonaut. Truth I.es ricaInsr Than Fiction. An English traveler had a quarrel .vith the mate of a Mississippi btcam boat, and the case came into court. The counsel for the plaintiff, in his opening address to tho jury, thus stated his cause of action: "The firot officer of the Bella Richards addressed my client in most violent and per emptory terms, and threatened him that if ho did not immediately re move his personal effects from the entrance-way of the steamer ho would immediately precipitate him into tho raging flood below." The cvidenco of the by-standers as to the mate's words was as follows: "Look here, stranger, if you don't tote your plun der off that gang-plank right smart, I'll spill you into tho drink!" Argo naut Nothing to Feed On. "Cholly is down with bwain fevah, don'tchcrknow?" "You don't say! Bwain fevah. That's a fevah that aw takes ton days to wun." "Ya'as, but in Cholly's case tho doctah says it will take aw only two hours, and he will be all wight to-mowwow." X.ipoleon and the Silver Statne. When Napoleon overran Italy his attention was called to a number of silver statues of the apostles which had decorated an ecclesiastical insti tution for centuries. "Take them down," said the great conqueror, and coin them into currency, that they may go about doing good, as did their master," FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. 9&AKE0 CORN THE BEST FEED FOR' VoUngT PICS. Shorts and Oil Meal Part or the Ration The Hay Crop Doable Crops Poultry and Bees, House hold Helps. " Feed for l'onng T1r& id the absence df milk, wo feed (Soaked corn to yodng1 pigs between the ages of two tb six weeks, almost without stint, and I find at thisago tho pig will, stand 'more corn in pro portion to his size than when a few wcoks older that is, if his dam is being well fed on milk producing food. When they aro from four to Bix weeks .Old tho dam should bo milk ing her very best, and this is why soaked corn can be fed at this timo without injury to tho'pigs. They aro getting sufficient milk from tho dam to neutralize corn that would othor wiso bo injurious from its lack of bone and muscle-making material. When the dam's milk bogins to fail, or perhaps I ought to say, when tho assimilativo capacity of tho pigs has increased beyond the power of tho dam to supply it, which is Usually at about six weeks of ago, wo do not continue increasing the amoUnt of soaked corn feed in the same ratio, but begin feeding slops made of good shorts and oil meal, in the proportion of one part of oil meal to four parts shorts. Wo find by soaking them together bo tween feeds that tho pigs do much better than if fed en the slop as soon as it is mixed. No one will claim that soaking adds anything to tho feed, but soaking six or eight hours dissolves the shorts and makes them easier of assimilation. With shorts, oil meal and soaked corn, good pigs can Lo raised without milk other than that supplied by the dam. I havo observed that many farmers loso interest at onco as soon as oil meal is mentioned as good for any kind of stock; they regard it as something beyond their reach, when the facts are that in combination with other feeds, and when its bon eficial effect on the system is con sidered, it is usually ono of tho chcapcot foods within our reach. As a preventive of harsh haired, hide-bound pigs, it has no equal. Last summer wo found one bunch of thirty pigs at ten weeks old consuming two pails of shorts, one half pail of oil meal, and a pail of soaked corn at each feed, fed three times a day. The shorts and oil meal being well mixed before water was added, and while the above may seem like heavy feeding, I observed the pigs were doing some heavy growing. About this timo the bunch was divided into two lots of fifteen each, and a quick rise in their de mand for increased feed was noticed, showing that thirty was too large a number to feed together to obtain tho best results. An adjoining bunch of thirty of tho samo age and practic ally tho same as far as breeding was concerned were fed and treated exact ly tho same, except that the shorts and oil meal were fed as soon as mixed. We found thtit while they would cat as much corn as the other lot, they con sumed about one-third less of the oil meal and shorts, and were not showing nearly as good results as tho first lot. At eleven weeks we concluded tho experiment was grow ing too costly to continue farther; but tho first lot held what they had gained, and while individuals of the second lot caught up with thom, their comparative general average re mained about the same until fall. As good or even better results can be obtained by soaking corn as can lc had by grinding. All the advantage of grinding is that it makes the food more easily penetrated by the juices of the stomach, allowing the work of assimilation to begin at once. Soak ing the corn gets at tho same result with more effect if tho corn meal is fed without being soaked. Corn meal soaked may bo better than whole corn soaked, out not enough better to pay for grinding. George Wylie, before Wisconsin Institute. Double t'rojiH. Why not raise two crops to gether? Farmers, witli but little ex tra trouble, can raise two or moro crops upon the same piece of land by selecting varioties that, will not mix or draw tho same substance from the soil, and in this way not retard the growth of the main crop, but greatly lessen the expense of producing it. Squashes, beets, dwarf peas will thrive finely with potatoes, while beans, pumpkins, tomatoes and turn ips do well with corn. Melons, pumpkins and squash sjiould never be planted together no more than sweet corn and common field corn, for one willspartake of tho other and lessen the valuo of each. Thus from a single acre a full crop of corn may be obtained, besides five or six bushels of beans, many loads of pumpkins and turnips, and all the tomatoes a dozon families could use. From the potato field a full supply of boots, squashes and peas aro received, without incurring extra expense or adding Jmt littlo if any labor to the cultivating of tho main crop. It is that where land is heavily cropped an extra amount of manure is needed to keep up the fertility of the samo; hi;?, every farmer knows that the n.Wi-c an acre can be made to produce by manuring, the greater the profit is to the owner. Farmers Voice. The Hay Crop. A good crop of hay may be made even more profitable than a grain crop. First, for the reason that it enables the farmer to reduce the area of cul tivated land and thus give him the opportunity to give better care and culture to grain crops. Second, it will give a chance to im prove the fertility of the soil; as it is known that all grass crops allow tho soil to increase in fertility. Third, if tho right varieties of grasses including tho clovers are used the fertility will be largely in creased. Fourth, if this is the proper course pursued to get a good stand if tho ground is literally covered with a growth of grass the yield will be moro than doubled as comparod with yields now obtained and the increase in fertility will bo still greater. Any good soil properly preparea and sown to grass of the right varieties, is capable of producing four tons to the acre and oven more; and if clover is mado the main grass two crops each season may be taken, each of which may be made to yield about four tons. This means doing tho work right from beginning to end. Only about one-half the labor is required for the grass crop as com pared with that of the grain crop; and if good stock is kept and the hay fed out to them even at the low prices of cattle there will be a greater profit than from a grain crop. Let us have more grass, more fertil ity of soil, moro good beef, moro leisure and more profit Thero is too much hoggishnoss to tho neglect of beef and mutton, which are far less unhealthy. Hogs do not improve tho fertility of tho soil as much as do cattle. . But if tho hay is sold off tho. farm thoro will still bo a greater profit rcalizod than from grain crops; but this means that the grass crop shall bo proporly treated so that large yields will be had while the soil is Increasing in fertility. Hay generally commands a good price and is capable, with improved macninory, of boing handled at littlo cost of labor as compared with othor crops. Hay and grain, more live stock, less labor, moro leisure and greater profit and comfort Journal of Agriculture. Perfect ltuUer at One Operation. If a littlo skill is doveloped in makirig, washing, salting, working and packing butter at ono operation, tho results aro quito satisfactory. John Gould describos his process as follows: "Taking slightly acid cream, put it in a revolving churn, and churn it until it begins to show signs of break ing, when a little weak brino should bo added to the cream to assist in tho separation. When tho butter grains arc the size of small shot, and before taking out any buttermilk, add rtwo-thirds as much cold water as there is butter, eta, in tho churn. Agitato a little, draw off this dilute fluid and repeat until the water comes clear. Then let it di'ain in.a churn for a short time, and then add tho salt by the use of a littlo wooden fork. Let the butter remain undisturbed for a half hour, when tho cover is put on and the churn slowly revolved for five or more minutes. Then tako this fork and break up tho buttor balls that have formed in tho churn, and liberate the buttermilk insido of them. Then re-churn and at the conclusion of this operation, pack tho butter into tho littlo- pails by adding a pound or so at a time, turning off tho moisture each time, until the pail is full. Then cover the top with a cloth wet in somo of the brino that came from tho churn, and sprinklo on dry salt, and put on cover; and if the buttor cannot be sold that day put it in as cool a place as possible, and sell at tho first opportunity, not that it must be, but the great damage to the buttor market is in tho pro ducers holding their butter for some reason, until it has lost its fin flavor." Journal of Agriculture. Hurrying Crop In. Americans arc too much in a hurry to le the lest farmers, unless they constantly guard against our national habit of slighting work to get it done in tho easiest and quickest way. The plowing is not done as it ought to be, thinking that the after culti vating will remedy this defect. But threatening weather causes the far mer to hurry his seed into tho ground. Then he thinks if it is a hoed crop that he will "make up" for neglect by being more thorough in cultivation and hoeing, but he never is. The poor praparation of the seed bed makes it longer before the crop comes up so he can sec the rows. Ground not fitted o as to give the crop the most vigorous start cannot make a crop either cheaply or to the capacity of the land to produce. American Cultivator. Poultry and IIec. Wire netting makes a good tem porary fence for poultry yards. Size and condition arc of moro im portance than shape and color. There is always a good market for clean, fresh og-is at fair prices. When tho turkey hen has a free run she will select her nest out Thero is no excuse for any farmer not raising poultry for home use. Sudden showers often cause con siderable loss early in tho spring. A littlo raw salt pork will often cure a hen of feather pulling, it is said. Ducks for market should be hatched early and then fed well until sold. Nature provides the honey, the bees gather and store it, and man uses it. Ducks need dry, clean quarters at night or they get lame with rheu matism. A German journal says to intro duce a new queen, dip the queen in liquid honey and drop her among the bees. A patch of oats or somo other kind of grain sown where the chickens can help themselves will be of inestim able value. The poultry house should have a window, and the sun allowed to shine in. Keep the floor covered with clean, dry dirt. A bee-keeper thinks that catnip will repay cultivation for honey alone. It continues in blossom a long time, and the bees work on it assidu ously. Household Helps. In packing gowns they will be found to crease very little if paper is placed between the folds. A sponge large enough to expand and fill tho chimney after having been squeezed in, tied to a slender stick is the best thing with which to clean a lamp chimney. Corn meal is one of the best cos motics known. Keep a jar on the washstand and rub a handful well into the skin after washing with warm wator; wipe it off, dust out your eyebrows, and then see how satiny your face feels. A simplo way to remove greaso spots from wall paper, caused by the head resting against the wall, is to hold a piece of clean blotting paper over the spot and press a moderately warm flat iron over it Repeat the operation until all the grease is out In making wash dresses for children it will be well to make the skirts plain and hem them, and then run a tuck by hand on the under side of the hem. This can be let out before tho dress is washed, and will offset the inevitable shrink of somo kinds of goods. A small scrubbing brush is a very valuable article about the sink for scrubbing tho skins of beets and po tatoes and other vegctablo roots. Where a root is not peeled, it is nec essary to scrub it well with a brush in order to get it clean, and where it is peeled, it is much better to scrub it before it is peeled than to wash it by merely soaking it in cold water. Beef dripping, which is useful in place of lard in many instances, should be clarified. This is readily done by pouring boiling water over it and stirring it so that the impuri ties will be washed out and will set tle on the bottom. Let it cool and tho drippings will riso to the top. If not as clear as you would like heat it in a clean saucepan and strain through a piece of cloth. Danger la Oil Stoves. The consumate folly of people who fancy that they can heat a room with gas stoTes, or with new-fangled "car bonite" fuel, without providing a way for the deadly products of combustion to escape into the air, says a New York paper, has received a fresh illustration in a New Jersey town, where two guests were suffocated almost to death in s room in which they were quar tered in company with one of these newly patented devices for heating rooms without any chimney or draught It ought to be known by everybody and everywhere, that the combustion of any sort of fuel natural or artificial, solid, liquid or gaseous, produces dangerous gases, noxious to health, and, in large quantities, perilous to life. It was once the fashion to use a pan of charcoal, ignited, as a means of suicide. These new fuels, employed in stoves without stovepipe orchirnney.are almost as sure to kill as the old method. Exchange. Saved by Sunshine. I think the superb health of my fam ily is to a great extent due to the habit we have of almost living in sunshine. Every bright day all of the shutters are open, and the entire house gets the benefit of sunlight It drives away dampness mould, microbes and blue devils, and puts us all in good humor and health. I cannot imagine good sanitary conditions and darkness. Even my cellar is as light as I can possibly make it, and whatever fruit and delica cies need to be shut away from light I put in alose cupboards of covered box es. I have sheets of canvas that can be thrown over them before they aro put away, and alwaj-a take pains so to ar range my stores that nothing will be injured by an abundance of light. Peo ple who live in badly-lighted apart ments have little color and less health. I for one do not intend to spend my days in an atmosphere of gloom. New York Ledger. The great question is not how long are we going to live, but how. There is no easy placo anywhere on earth for a lazy man. Do You Wish the Finest Bread and Cake? It is conceded that the Royal Baking Powder is the purest and strongest of all the baking powders. The purest baking powder makes the finest, sweet est, most delicious food. The strongest baking pow der makes the lightest food That baking powder V .lich is t 3th jurest and strongest makes the most digestibr , anc' wholesome food. Why should not every housekeeper avail herself of the baking powder which will give her the best food with the least trouble? - Avoid all baking powders sold with a gift or prize, or at a lower price than the Royal, as they invariably contain alum, lime or sul phuric acid, and render the food unwholesome. Certain protection from alum baking powders can be had by declining to accept any substitute for the Royal, which is absolutely pure. Cracked Ice. People who take cracked ice get the stimulus of ice upon the nerves of the mouth and tongue, and not the Hooding by water of the feeble throat andhtom ai h. Did not one ingenious nurse,at the time a matron in the University hospital, some years ago, feed a pa tient who revolted at the mere thought of food, and was starving in his ex haustion, by deftly sprinkling pounded ie over the bits of broiled chicken that she had prepared to tempt his taste? It was the noveltj- and sprinkling ice that carried the day. The man tasted, en joyed and ate it all. The uses of cracked ice in cholera casesarc familiar to some. It is possible that with hot-water bags at the feet, hot mush poultices on the stomach and a constant diet of cracked ice no further treatment may be needed to complete a cure. Philadelphia Led ger. I Core Constipation anil Dygpepvia. pr. Shoop's Kestorativo Nerve Pills sent free with Jiedical Book to prove merit, for 2cstanp. Druggists.ef-c Dk. Snoop, Box "'.,Kacine Wis. Electric Hallways for Delaware. A corporation asks at the hands of the Delaware legislature a charter cm powering the company to net the little state with electric railways and to light the villages along the line. The com pany hopes also to include the Mary land counties of the pcnninsula in p. comprehensive railway scheme. This latter plan would involve a good deal of bringing, as the whole eastern shore region i honey-combed with navigable tidewater streams, and villages live miles apart on air line arc often fifteen miles apart by road. State or Onto, Citt of Toucdo, ) Lucas Cocstt, I Frank J. Cheket makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the linn of F. J. Cheset fc Co., doing bu-lnrss in the city of Toledo, County ami State aforcald, and that said linn will p.iy the gum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of IIaix'3 Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this Oih day of December, A. D. 1SS0. SEALV A. "W. GLEASON. Xnlnrv lhlblie. TTnll'n Catarrh Cnrn is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Send for testimonial?, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. f3TSold by Druggists, 75c. There is as much love in a warning as there is in a promise. Soldiers in tho Italian army are allowed cigars as part of thoir daily rations. Moro people aro killed by fulling down stairs than from tho tops of high cliffs. DOyT BE FOOLED by the dealer wno bring3 out some thing else, that pays him better, and says that it is "just" as good." Doctor Pierce's Golden 3Ietlical Discovery is guar anteed. If it don't benefit or cure, in ovo rase. YOU have your money back. !N o other medi- cine ot its Kinu is so certain u c.... that it can be sold so. Is any other likely to be "just as good"? As a blood-cleanser, flesh-builder, and Etrcneth-reatorer, nothing can equal the "Discovert-." It's not like the sarsapa rillas, or ordinary "spring medicines." At all seasons, and in all cases it puri fies, invigorates, and builds up the whole svstera. For every blood-taint and disorder, from a common blotch or erup tion, to the worst scrofula, it is a perfect, permanent, guaranteed remedy. RUPTURE i V InTMtlsate our method. Written guarantee to absolutely cure all alnda of laTTPTritE of both sexes, without th ue of knife or syringe, no matter of how longstanding. EXAMI.VATIOX FKEE. stead Tor Clrrulaur. Address K BBBBBBBBBS- K THE O. E. 307-3 New York Utm Th Nertfc Pel aad Are aot mora widely distinct than the staaa ara tonic, stimulant and alteratlt. Bests ttr's Stomach Bitters, asd the cheap aat trey local bitters which unscrupulous vendors feist upon the unwary as medicated preparations with remedial properties. The latter are usu ally composed In the main of halt reetlOea al coholic excitants, with soae wretoaea aras oomhiaed to alsfulee taslrreel flavor aad are girfectly rulnou te the coats of the stomaoa. ostetter's Stomach Bitters, oa tto oeatrarr has for iu basis choice spirit of absolute purity, and this is modified and combined irita ssedletnal extracts of rare exceUeaee and be taalo origin, which both invigorate aad regulate the bowels, stomach aad liver. They effect a radical channe In the disordered physical economy, which Is manifested by a speedy lsa provement la the general health. Why Not Hire a Man? He Deah me, the days ought to have been made longer; don't you think? Se I don't know. . . He Why, certainly they ought, yon know. How can a fellah dwess four times in twenty-four hours and havo time left to accomplish anything! Life. "Wno siteks with his liver, constipation, bilious ills, poor blood or dizziness tako Beecham's rills. Of druggists. S3 cents. The farmer in Japan who has ten acres of land is looked upou as a monopolist The World's Fair Favorite Hotel. ( Tho fireproof BANCROFT HOTEL. Calu met Av. and 29th St.. Chicago, 244 largo rooms, is tho place for you to stop. Bates one dollar, meals 50 cents. Near World's Fair grounds. AYrite for circular to reservo rooms. The first trial of woman suffrage, curi ously enough, was on tho Islo of Man. 'Hanson's Manic Corn Salve." Wan mntatt to curr, or money refuuilwt. Alt: ysr drugg tfurlt. rrlca 25 cento. Doing good is a better occupation than digging gold. I-.AH flta atn Md trrm - M SSBTB KSSTeSKS. No (It sXMr flnt day'! us. IUr-. Ttou ctir-.. TrottM ad M trial btJ free to tit SeadtoDr. J$n.l. renst-.m a ) a I Before great victories can be enjoyed, great battles must be fought. If the Baby U Cattta Teeth. Be tar and us that old and wall tried remedy, M -Wkslow's Sooi:c Starr for Children Teething. No man is good who simply because he has to. behaves himself Jo Populist Press and People. I take pleasure In announcing that I have made arrangements on behalf of the National Reform Press Association, whereby plates and ready-prints containing Populist matter officially approved and rec ommended by the National Reform Press Association and Chairman Taubeneck, In any quantity desired, will be furnished by The Western Newspaper Union. Write to the Western Newspaper Union for Samples and prices. No other house furnishes authorized matter. W. S. MORGAN, Sec. Na tional Reform Press Association. Address WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION, OMAHA. NEBRASKA. CAVEATS. TRADE MARKS DESIGN PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS. etcJ For Information and free Handbook write to 31U3N CO.. SCI llROADWAT. NEW YORIv . OlJebt bureau for securing patents in America. Krcry patent taken out by us la brought beforo the public by a notice given free of charge in the cicutiftc Jkmtf ititn Lanrest circulation of any sclentlflc paper In tho world, bplccdidiy lllustratoU. So lotelllKent man should bo without it. Weeklr, 83.00 a J ears i-oubia u"nm u"wo .v.... .vr.. CBLisnERS, 361 Broadway, New York City. If any onedsnbta ti.. wo can euro th must oU tinato ca In 2 to 3 days. let him wr.tefor particulars and inMti vateourrellablit?. Our nnauclal bacillus; J SiOO.000. When .rcurrt. Itvlldo potaaslam, sarsap irilla or Hot Springs fall, o cu iranteo a cure and onr Xaelc Cyphtleno Is th on'y' ttuuKth-itwillcn ro permanently. Pv-slUre proof s-n6 wit!, free COOK Remdt Co.. Chicago. HI. COLLEGE SACREDTHEARTf , Denver, Colo. Conducted by Jenult Father. Pre paratory, Classical and Mcientlnc studies. Lodging;, board, tuition, washing and mending of linen, fcrfj per year. Catalogue uent on application. rZwtD rremtJlotilU moalb. 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Omaha Can laan'fac'ns Co., Cans and uecorated Xlawara Ifaffiletedwith sora eyes, usa jThompsM's Ey Water. W N U Omaha. 24 1893 PERMANENTLY CURED or NO PAY Wo refer you to 2,."-0O patients. Financial Reference: NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE, Omaha. MILLER COMPANY, BaUding. OUAMA, MSB i Scientific American k Agency for W K M Et Iblooi POISON I 1 A SPECIALTY. I $$ rc A. y a- i' i-cttefe- -ny " reJgJr