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'-?- V " .JV ;l - t f - - la-- What It Prwved. A patient in an insane asylum imag ined himself dead. Nothing could drive this delusion out of the man's brain. One .day his physician had a happy thought, and said to him: "Did yon ''ever see a doad man bleed?" "No," he replied. "Did you over hear of a dead man.bleeding?" "No." "Do yon be lieve that a dead man can bleed?" ."No." "Well, if you will permit me, I .-'will try an experiment with you and see if you bleed or not." The "patient I'gave his consent, the doctor whipped ' out His scalpel and drew a little blood. "There," he said, "you see that you blee'd; that proves that you are not dead." "Not at all," the patient in stantly replied; -that only- proves that dead men can bleed." I Car DKHl aad CimBhMw. Dr. boups BotormUre Henre Plus tent treawlia Medical Book to prove merit, for Jc main. ate. i.B)er,KBn,wii"i Arnold's Coriou Watch. - In rG4, on the birthday of King -George III. a watchmaker of London named Arnold presented himself before the king 'to exhibit a curious repeating watch of his manufacture. This watch was in diameter somewhat less than a silver twopence, containing 120 distinct parts' and weighed altogether less than six pennyweights. "German Syrup 99 William McKeekan, Druggist at Blooraingdale, Mich. ' ' I have had out of the army and though I have been in the drug business lor ratteen years, and have tried nearly everyy thing on the market, nothing has given me the slightest relief until a few months ago, when I used Bo schee's German Syrup. I am now glad to acknowledge the great good it has done me. I am greatly reliev ed during the day and at night go to sleep without the least trouble. ' ' OMAHA BDSINKSS HOUSES. rinnn i o nnpuniTAx maple sto- rinnri I iV. 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' F trtinl Actio, trtthout i wjy tatagrcl or ether ) karsiftd ailmlxturr. Kickanoo Judun . Sacwa is tlic .Tand- f- 'est LirtT, t'lonacli. I Blood aud Jwerve Jfemedjr Known. Cteaases. ruriacs. I aad SeaoTales ertry part- ot the human . aii urug- a bottle ' Betas for S5. sTVsW I' It jWii I Ir TC9!i-'V5fc. BjsbV ana OMAHA AyfM Ton cm basin any tlaie S 1 i Jteff&JML SUCKER Y occupation a few years ago was that of a newspaper repor ter. I worked a large part of my time in a peniten tiary, where more than 1,600 prison ers were confined. My newspaper re quired of me three "feature" articles a week, the subjects to be taken from the lives and crimes of the men and women so imprisoned. Ope morning', on entering the peni tentiary and proceeding' to the book which contained the routine items for the press, I found there this slip: "No. 18,600, Edward Washburn, life prisoner, sentence commuted to twenty-eight years and six months." Here was something' to be investi gated. On making inquiry I found that Edward Washburn had been re ceived on a life sentence in 1870 and that now, after a lapse of over twenty years, the board of pardons tho eternal source of hope for all prison ers in that state had acted upon his case, with the above result. Even in prison good behavior pays. Each con vict has a certain number of days de ducted from every month of his term, according to the length of his sen tence, if he demeans himself properly. Thus it lies in the power of a "long time" man to gain years of freedom. Allowinc Washburn the deduction each month for good conduct during his entire twenty-eight years' sen tence, it caused his time to expire on the following Sunday. The next thing to do jwas to see Ed ward Washburn himself. The sensa tions of a man who has been a convict for twenty 3 ears, who has been as completely isolated from the outside world as If he were dead and buried, and who is then resurrected, called back to life and liberty, cannot be de void of interest to the most indiffer ent. I found my man wheeling ashes and refuse from the cook house. In this occupation he had been engaged for seven teen years. The long years of prison life had had their effect- The prisoner was an old man, broken in body and mind, although he told me his age was 42. I explained that I had permission to talk with him, and would like to hear about his history. He smiled the weak smile of enfeebled intelligence, sat down on his wheelbarrow and began with pitiful obedience, which plainly bespoke the prison discipline. "How did I feel when I heard I was pardoned? Well, it was so suddent like I jus' had to sit down. I had give up all hopes of ever gettin' out long ago, but Mandy was true grit, sue was, she never give up." I 1XW HIM LYING JUST OUTSIDE IN T1IE SNOW. II is next words were unusuaL "I don't blame nobody but mysel for bein" hers," he went on. Who ever heard of a convict before who at tributed to himself the blame for being in the penitentiary? Most convicts are the innocent victims of villainous conspiracies. They never did any wrong in their lives and especially they never even dreamed of committing the crime for which they are serving sentence. Such a virtuous, upright and deeply wronged set of men can hi found nowhere else as in prison. "It was all along of my bullhcaded ness, but I guess I'd better go back to the beginnin' of my story if you want to hear it all. When I was about 10 year old Jason Scott and me took the job of clearin eighty acres of land close to where Pauldin is now. In them da3'S the town was only a clearin' with a few log shanties. Jase was a couple of years younger than me. His father and mine had come West from Columbianner county and settled in 1'auldin'. We was the only boys in them parts then the only young folks exceptin' Mandy Pilcher. We figgered on clearin1 our land winters, as our fathers agreed to give us the time after corn huskin' was done, providin' we helped them good summers. Jase and me built a cabin and there we in tended livin' while we was doin' our choppin' and clearin'. There was lots of snow that winter and it come early. Oh, how I hate the winter. The snow lyin' out there in the prison yard brings the hull thing back to me, and how happy Jase and me was, workin' and talkin' about what we was goiu' to do. I can most see the cabin now, with the door open and the snow all around as it looked that winter mornin'. Jase and me was goin' out huntin' that mornin'. I took my gun and started out, leavin' Jase to follow. I walked out a little ways and then looked around to see if Jase was comin'. He warn't and I waited and hollered until I got all out of sorts with him. A crazy idee struck me.and I jus' thought I'd shoot toward the cabin for fun and mebbe that would fetch him. God knows I didn't mean to do any harm. I was jus' a great big foolish boy and I got tired of waitin' and thought I'd shoot for fun, and mebbe that would fetch him." I looked at the man, and he was as one in agony. His face was drawn, and a pallor was there which added to the prison tan and made it ghastly. Ilts voice, puerile from the disuse of twenty years, had sunk into a hoarse whisper. He was staring at the great stone wall in front of him with dull, vacant eyes. He seemed oblivious to everything and kept repeating. "I didn't mean anv harm. I only thought I'd shoot for fun, and mebbe that would fetch him." I have looked into murderers' faces on the verge of eternity while the death warrant was being read, in order that I might tell the public next morning whether the lip quivered or the eye grew dim, but as I gazed at this picture of weakness and misery on the wheelbarro.v in front of me, it made me sick. The victim of an act done in the name of "fun" and this was fun! The man presently came to himself "and went on: "As I shot, Jase come into the door, and when the smoke cleared away I saw him lyin' just outside in the snow, face downward. I 'member 'pickm' him up ana carryin' him inside, and then startin out to Pauldin' for help. After that I don't remember nothin' until I found I was lyin' down on the ground and a crowd of men stand in' round me. . I heerd one of 'em say: 'He must have tripped up on that dry gracevine and hit his head on the root of the tree It 'pears as if Washburn and Scott must havj had a racket over that gal, most likely and Wash burn killed Scott.' I found oat af terward that a huntin.' party had stopped at the cabin and found Jase lyin on the floor dead, with my .bullet UmBmM.'wBWff!!5f through his heart. They looked for me and finally saw my tracks in the snow and followed then. They found me a coaple of sails away in the woods, lyin' at the foot of a tree where I f elL Some believed my story and some -didn't. Them as didn't b'lieve it said 'twarn't likely if what I said was true thatl would 'a' tried to ran away. All I know is I meant to set out for Pauld in, but it 'pears as if I'd- gone wrong; some way. "The jedge, as he said, wanted to 'low me a fightin' chance and give me the privilege of enterin a plea of man slaughter. I said it was ail along of my bullheadedness that I am here now, and so it was. My lawyer wanted me to plead guilty to the charge the jedge offered me. I asked him what it meant. He said it meant that I killed Jase in a racket, and then give me a long lingo about malice aforethought, or something like that, but I didn't understand it I only knew they wanted me to say I murdered Jase in a racket I warn't going to say I done a thing when I didn't. I flared up and I wouldn't listen to nobody. I couldn't see things right Well, the trial didn't take long. Everythin'went crossways for me. I told my story and pleaded guilty to nothin' except I- didn't mean anything. I just shot to scare him. I didn't care much what they done with me for that The other side showed how Jase had been found dead in the cabin, how I was found lyin' in the snow miles from Pauldin' as if I hadn't been goin' for help. Then they got witnesses who swore as how Jase and me were jealous 'bout Mandy, how I'd asked her to go to a gatherin With me and she'd gone with Jase. It warn't so, I knowed it but it wouldn't do no good for me to say it warn't Mandy and me understood one another, though there warn't much betwixt us then. I s'pose she might have told what she knowed about it on the stand, but I wasn't going to have her mixed up in the thing. I 'lowed they couldn't con vict me because what I said was true. "The jury fetched in a verdict of murder in the second degree, and ac cordin' to law that meant for life. "They carried Mandy out of the courtroom. Seems as though she thought it was her fault some way or 'nother. Mandy's been trying to get me out ever since. She said if it hadn't been for her they couldn't 'a' shown no motive and couldn't 'a sent me for life. I don't see what good that would 'a' done when they was all a'gin me." I made a note of Mandy. She was good material from a reportorial standpoint When I went out I asked the warden who Mandy was. "So you've been talkin' with Washburn, have you?" said he. "Well, Mandy is his girL They say she has been com ing down here from Paulding once every year with petitions and signa tures to place before the board of pardons. Yesterday Washburn's sen tence was commuted, which, by the way. you will find by looking on the press book." A picture of a faded lit tle woman who had asked me the year before in the capitol if e 1 would please tell her what time the pardon board met rose in my mind. I said to myself: 'That was Mandy." As a rule the world does not throw open its arms to released convicts. It sees that all the windows in the house are well secured at night and that all the doors have extra strong fastenings on the day the papers an nounce a new list of releases. The people have not time to go down to the prison and watch the men pass out through the big gate. They pay a small sum each year to have that office performed for them by big, burly policemen. The policemen accompany the convicts down to the Union depot and see Ihem off on their trains. It would be such a pity to have them go alone. The morning of the day Washburn went out there was one other person present besides the policemen and re porters. It was the worn little woman who had asked me a year ago in the capitol if I would please tell her what time the pardon board met Kate Field's Washington. BETTER THAN PARIS GREEN. Aa Insect Which Slaughters Potato Bags to the Point of Extermination. At lust a bug has arrived which is a f riond of tho farmer. This stranger of the insect world is not only a friond. but it has begun a war of ox termination upon tho farmer's most relontless foe, the potato bug. Tho dobut of this little beast has sent a thrill of joy from one end of Berks county, Pennsylvania, to the other. No more paris groen to sprinkle upon potato crops, no more poisoned meal to feed the pests, and no more crops devoured in midsummer by the hungry hordes of potato bugs. John Rothormcl, of Hydo Park, first en countered this noblo little ally of the agriculturist and tells a Philadelphia Record man that when he first saw the insect it was slaughtering potato bugs at tho rato of ten a minute. The genial hotel proprietor and farmer had a paris green kettle in his hand at the time. He stopped sprinkling and gazed. Before him was a bug of a species never seen by the Berks people before. It was twice as large as a potato bug, of longer and slighter build, and had red wings. This bug would pounce upon a clumsy potato eater, sting it in tho neck, and produce a corpse almost instantly. Then Rothermel looked about and saw other creatures of tho same kind, and all were killing po tato bugs. So fierce and untiring were they in their onslaught that not a living potato bug was left in their path. They piled the ground with little winrows of their slain victims. They went down rows of potato vines and from 'one row to another with a force that was irre sistable to the potato bug. The lat ter were swept to death before their strange foe as Napoleon's columns cleared the field of Austerlitz. A Sweet Smelling; Town. Xezanlik is beyond all dispute the sweetest smelling place on earth. It lies on the upper Tundja. near tho foot of the Shipka pass, in a valley full of rose fields. Kezanlik is the chief seat of the industry in attar of roses. It takes 20,003 of the roses that grow in that valley to yield, by distillation, as much genuine attar or otto of roses as equals in weight a fifty cent piece. Longing- for Royalty. First Freeman, laying down a news paper It has been said that every American is a king by birthright; but after all there's nothing like being born to a genuine throne Second Freeman What have you discovered? First Freeman Tho paper says that Emperor William has ordered the court chaplains to cut down their sermons to fifteen minutes each. Never Oat of It. Paper says she did it out of curi osity." "Must be a mistake." "How's that?" "Know'd her fur forty years an' never heard o' her bein' out o' curi osity a minute durin' the hull time." Trae Modesty. A very modest man thinks, it 'is a blessing that we cannot see ourselves as others see us, "Because." he says, if we could I should be in danger of becoming conceited." Youth's Companion. DARING OP DINOCRATES. Tho Story of the Gaatws Whe Was Architect of Alexaadrla. Dinocrates was a Macedonian, the Lesseps of his time, a genius of dar ing design, and, it is to be hoped, quito out of accord with tho popular fooling of his dayjn his craving for self advertisement He had perhaps contracted the corrupt practice from Herostratus (or Eratostratus), tho scoundrel who had destroyod tho Temple of Diana at Ephesus upon the first birthday of Alexander, in order, as ho himself confessed, that futuro agos might not be ignorant of his namo, such being his passionate lust for notoriety that ho cared not whother his fame were good or evil, says the Nineteenth Century. Dinocrates had bcon called upon to rcstoro this temple, which, in order hat tho earthquakes might not ruin, had been placed in a marsh upon foundations of charcoal and goat skins. Our architect, after completing his work at Ephesus, and moved by tho vivid art of tho por trait painter, determined to person ally interview tho great monarch, and theroforo. settiner out for his camp as he returned from his Eastern triumphs, ho cast about for a device by which ho could gain his audience and likewise flatter his soverign. Now there was one weakness, or it may havo been a noble yearning, in the groat conqueror's heart; just as his own reputed father Had claimed the god-like hero Hercules as sire, so Alexander desired it might bo proved that no earthly parent had begotten him (Alexander). Somo men did, indeed, say ho was not Philip's son, but of Nectanobo, an Eygptian image and lover of Olympias, and, perhaps, it was to solve all doubt that Alexan der thought ho would removo his parentage beyond human reasoning. However, ho had not as yet finally fixed upon Jupiter Ammon, and the crafty sycophant Dinocrates deemed that ho would best flatter tho groat king by a roferonco to tho grand father. Anointing, therefore his body with oil, and wreathing his temples with Herculean poplar, with tho skin of a Nemcan lion over his shoulder, and flourishing a club, ho approached tho court of the king and stood prominently forth in this singular garb. "Who are you?" must havo said his majesty, to which tho unabashed self-advertiser replied. "lam Dino crates. tho Macedonian architect, and bring to your majesty thoughts and designs worthy of your grcatnoss." Wl.en Alexander heard that it was ho who had restored tho Tomplo of I'iana of tho Kphcsians, he akud him what next ho proposod to da "I havo laid out Mount Athos," re sponded ho, "to be sculptured as one block, and to be hewn into the fash ion of the limbs and features of your majesty. " In your left hand I have designod a city of 10,000 inhabitants, and into your right I havo conducted all tho rivers of the mount, and formed them into a sea, from whence thoy flow to the cccan. Thus, sire, shall a memorial be loft worthy of your greatnes--." Alexander was amused at the audacity of the man, and dis missed him; nevertheless he remem bered him when ho wanted to buijd Alexandria, and the tradition of its planning is quito in keeping with tho theatrical character of the clevor follow. Ho cast his Macedonian cloak down as tho design, giving it a "cir cular border full of plaits, and pro jecting into corners on rightand left" as Pliny says, and made the new port tho sweep of the neck and the Pharos and Lochias promontories the jowoi ed clasp BABY AND HIS CAT. The Unwonted Sight Which Attracted All Eyes on a Crowded Street. The sidewalk was filled with hur rying people, says the New York Times. Three peddlers stood on the curb, one with shoo laces, another with candy, another with gold paint Neither looked as if he expected to sell anything. Nobody paid the slightest attention to them. A man without legs came stumping over the sidewalk. People merely hurried out of his way. A man passed dressed in outlandish garments, ad vertising a patent medicine. Nobody lookod twice at him. An old woman whoso tangled gray hairs were blown in tho wind shuffled feebly along and nobody saw hor. A pair of Chinese, an Italian woman dressed for a fote, a negro nearly seven feet in height a Turk swaddled in turban and bag gy trousors, a wrunken woman, a man with locomotor ataxia all passed within a few minutes and no body stopped for a momont to look at anybody olso, oxcept the beggars, and they were utterly disregarded. Then appeared from somewhere, as if out of a holo in tho ground, a child about two years old, ragged and smeared as to its hands with mud and as to its face with traces of bread and molasses, besides plain dirt Its hair was tousled find its largo bluo eyes were Gxcd straight ahead with all that sweet unconsciousness of childhood written of by poets. In its hand it carried a gray striped cat One little fistgtabbed the loose skin at tho nape, the other graspod it firmly over the hind quarters. Each particular leg of the cat stuck out straight and rigid; each claw showed its shining curva The cat did nof appear to bo uncomfortable, and the child was gloriously unconscious of everything but its own baby thoughts. The child was so young that it went unsteadily tottering down the middle of the sidewalk, with the cat held up in front of it like a drum-major's staff. There was not one hurrying way farer man or woman who did not pause and laugh. A number stopped short and followed the child as it staggered along. By the time the baby had traveled half a block it had an escort of twenty grown persons besides the swarm of boys. The baby tottered along, its magnificent grav ity undisturbed, and when a breath less, bareheaded woman came run ning and snatched up the young ex plorer (still holding bravely to the cat) each person in the crowd looked sheepish and hurried away. Katlag Prosn the Saaae Dish. In former days it was usual for a couple seated together to eat from one trencher, more particularly if the relations between them were of an intimate nature, or again if it were the master and mistress of the establishment Walpole relates that so late as the middle of the last cen tury tho old duke and duchess of Hamilton occupied the dais at the bead of the room and preserved the traditional manner by sharing the same plate. It was a token of at tachment and tender recollections ol unreturnable youth. An Excellent Way. Jones Good morning. Benson. How do you'find business? Benson By judicious advertising. Life. FABM AIjD HOUSEHOLD. RESULTS OP OLD AGE NOTHING TO DO. WITH ZMTtafftha Farsa Aboat niltlac Fo tstaea Frmlt Trees oa Their Ows Boots Raspberries nortlcaltBral Ulats aad Heaaehold Help Retired Farmers. There comes a timo in the farmer's life when he is strongly tempted to leave tho farm. Growing infirmities remind him that ho is not tho man physically that ho used to bo. Ho feels that he has worked hard enough, long enough, and has abundant means to make his old days comfort able, and determines to move to town. Ho pictures boforo him a green old age with all the comforts of life, and rest from uncoasing toil and grinding care. Thcso expecta tions are seldom realized In full, and, as a mattor of fact, we believe that most farmers who do this shorten their days, and after tho first year or two, or perhaps after tho first six months, are more discontented than they would have been under any circumstances on the farm. Tho reason is not hard to find. To a man who has been active oithcr in mind or body for thirty or forty years, idleness is misery. No man of this kind feels satisfied with himself un less he has somo responsibility to occupy- both head and hands. When he has nothing to do, life ceases to havo much interest Ho misses the stimulus which work in tho open air gives. He mieses the healthful occupation of mind or in terest in ovents of tho farm. Ho ceases to read agricultural litera ture becauso ho rognrds himself as no longer engaged in agriculture, and the result is with him, as a rulo, a loss of happiness, and a visible shortening of Ufa Thcro comes a time in the farmer's lifo wbon it is exceedingly difficult to know how to manage the farm. That time is when ho can no longer manage it without more exertion of body than ho is capable of performing, and when ho docs not feel that it will pay him to procure efficient help even if it could be had. Happy is he who has a son or son-in-law on whoso broad shoul ders ho can roll the burden, still re taining enough of his land and stock to occupy his mind and givo him tho exercise ho needs. Under theso circumstances no may spend a green old age and give to his children and grandchildren tho fruits of his ripened experience. Wo always feci that our friends are making a serious mistake when they lcavo tho farm for town. There are unpleasant things in connection with farm life in old ago, and especially tho difficulty of at tending church, but these are loss than the evils connected with break ing up all the old associations, and attempting to form new ones. No man knows how intimately his lifo is connected with his friendship un til ho breaks up those of a quarter of a century standing, and under takes to form new ones with pooplo whose exporionco is in lines different from hje own. About niltlng Potatoes. Most farmers hill their potatoes. They do this, as wo have done our selves, when convinced that hilling is always injurious, and in a very dry season is almost always fatal to tho crop. It is impossible for a mod erate summer rain, or even a violent rain, to penetrate tho potato hill so far as to furnish moistures to tho roots. A rain which foil slowly for 24 hours might do this, but summer rains are not often of that character. lne rain falls heavily, compacts the surface and runs off in tho fur rows between the rows made by hill ing. Theso furrows aro just where the feeding roots of potatoes should be if the loose soil wero not earthed up around tho hills. Why do farmers thus run counter to the plain laws of potato growth? It is usually to keep the potato from growing out of the ground and sun burning until the larger part are worthless for marketing. Somo po tatoes naturally form tubers nearor the surface than do other varieties, even those sorts that were most objectionable in this respect wc would not hill up as is usually done. It is comparatively a light task to go over a field that has had levol culture and draw with a hoe a little earth abovo potatoes that appear above ground rather than to use a shovel plow, tearing to pieces tho feeding roots of potatoes betweeu the rows on which tho futuro growth of tho tubers de pends. If, as usually happens, the shovel plowing is dolayed until tubers arc formed, tho growth of these tubers is at once arrested, and tho result at best is two crops of very small pota toes in each hill. Too shallow planting of potatoes is tho common mistake. Tho shallow planted potatoes undoubtedly como up quicker, and if very early pota toes are planted deep on wet ground they may rot in tho soil and not come up at all, especially if fresh cut But by partially drying tho cut potato seed it may be planted four or five inches deop in April and como up every time. This deop planting has its advantage in allowing early cultivation before tho potatoes are up. We commonly talk of dragging tho potato ground. A cultivator is set to scarify the surface fully an inch above tho set. Then tho har row may be put on to loave tho sur face as smooth as possible and keep the ground moist The chief cause of light crops of potatoos is drouth, and this is always most injurious to potatoes that aro shovel plowed and hilled. More than once have we seen acres of potatoes withering and dying in a few days af ter the hilling had been finished, even though heavy rains had fallen, which on a loveL surface would havo main tained growth for several weeks. It is probably true that hilling makes easier digging, and it is partly owing to the fact that in tho hill the potatoes are fewer in number, and are necessarily bunched in a heap When they have more room-to spread the' crop is increased, anji propor tionately the lfibor of digging. All kinds of potatoes, even those whose tubers are bunched, will spread their roots through -the whole surface be tween the rows if the 'soil is not scraped out so as to leave furrows. In that case, of course, tho roots are cramped and the crop is accordingly lessened. American Cultivator. SapaJy of itaspberries. A writer gives it as his opinion that if the ease with which the rasp- berry can be grown were fully ap- predated, there would not be a farmer in the country who would not cheer- f ully set out enough plants to supply his family with as many as they could eat at three meals a day during ' their season, and there is not a farmer's wife who would not rather , pick the fruit than spend so much time in a hot kitchen, making cakes and pies. The children would come in for their share of tho delight is connection with the care of the plantation. Most farmers do not realize how easily raspberries may bo grown, and how little land it is neces sary to dovote to their culture to have a supply. Wo havo grown an abundance of them by simply straight ening a rail fencoat an end of a small fruit garden and putting tho old bed place to tho fruit Evory farmer has some spot whero raspborries may bo grown and ho should utilizo it Farmor's Voice. Pea Vlaea aa Man a re. When a fall crop is taken after picking green peas for market it is a usual practice to gather tho pea vines and cart them out of tho field. They are often worth more as a fer tilizer to bo plowed under just as they ara- If a few seed peas aro left ripe enough to grow, it will be none tho worse for the future crop. Tho pea vino is strongly nitrogenous, and makes a fertilizer richer than much strawy and fire-fangod stable manura It has the further advantago of bo ing somewhat wot, as the moisturo has not had time to dry out Wo havo seen the best crops of lato turnips grown thus, and thoy wero seemingly not at all injured by 'tho iew pea vines mat camo up among them. The pea root gathers nitro gen from air in tho soil, as the clover root does, and growing it as green manure adds more to tho fertility of soil than does any othor crop except ing clovor. American Cultivator. Ilortlenltaral Hints. All kinds of climbers ncod trolliscs. Poultry and sheop in tho orchard will consume wormy fruit and insects. Tho peach will readily appropriate tho virtues of limo and wood ashes. Cultivating the garden frequently keeps tho soil moist and cool, as well as cloan. Do not lot tho strawberry vines bear fruit tho first year. Pick off the blossoms. Do not pruno your grape vines after tho sap is started, whoovcr may tell you to'do sa Dissolvo one ounco of hellobore in two gallons ofwator for application for currant worms. ,"' A tnblcspoonful or two opti'mmonia to two quarts of water makes a good stimulant for plants. j Pack fruit so thtftit will not move about in tho box. basket or barrol while on the way to market hemovo undcoirabln limbs from the trees of the orchard as soon as they make their appearanca The good gardener makes successive plantings so as to havo a supply of vegetables all through tho season. It is money intho pocket of tho fruit grower to know how to pack and send to market in tho best condi tion. ? Tho men on the largo broiler furms who kill and dress the birJs for market, got as their pay five cents a bird. Out of this amount they pay two cents a bird to women who re move all the pinfeathcrs. A writer says that when boiled, tho white of a duck ogg is nover curdy, like the white of a fresh hen's egg. Duck eggs aro excellent for omelets, puddings and pastry, and for such purposes , find a ready sale in the early spring. An experienced orchardist has como to tho conclusion that ryo is better for an orchard than grass; and if tho poultry yard is near it will ofton furnish good winter pasturago for tho fowls. But it should be plowed under in tho spring. Grass holds growth in check by its millions of roots which demand nourishment Honsehold Helps. Tho whito of an egg, with a little water and sugar, is good for children with irritable stomachs. A qnart of milk in which the juico of thrco mandarin oranges has been squeezed is said to bo a refreshing lotion for the complexion. If a mirror bo placed where sun light or a very strong light falls directly upon it. tho quicksilver will be liablo to dissolve, leaving dark spots on the glass. After the juice is squeezed from lemons tho peels arc used for rub bing brass. Dip them in common salt, rub the brass thoroughly, then brush with dry bathbrick. Don't havo too much of one kind of decoration in the houso; two rooms upon the samo general pattern aro quite enough an individual schemo for each apartment is better. To clean black cashmere, wash in hot suds, in which a little borax has been placed. Kinso in bluing wator very blue, and iron while damp. If carefully done tho material will look as well us now. To prevent the cracking of fruit jars when filled, rinse the jars with clean cold water, then dip a towel in cold water, double it ..three orfour times, lay it smootbly'in a dripping pan, and set your cold jars oif this to fill them. To stiffen ginghams, muslins and calicoes, drop a piece of alum tho size of a hickorynut into tho starch. The alum is dissolved, then stirred into the starch. The fabrics so treated will retain their beauty of coloring for a long time. e By adding whisky to any quantity of common glue you will havo an article tha; is always ready for use, says an English trade paper. Put both in a bottle, cork it tight and put it by for three or four days, when it will bo fit for use without the ap plication of heat Glue thus pre pared will keep for years and it is at all times fit for use. except in very cold weather, when it should first be set in warm water. Let the Girls Kan. Running is the great beautificr of figure and movement It gives mus cular development, strong heart action and free lung play. Tho mus cle comes where it ought to be, tho shoulders go back, the loins hold the trunk well balanced, and the feet take their correct positions. It was running which mado tho Greek fig ure. The more active tribes of American Indians have been runners from time immemorial, and from tho chest to the heels they aro much more beautifully built than the aver age of white men. Running people have usually the firm but elastic texture which is the beauty of flesh. When Men Wore Petticoats. It will probably be a matter of surprise to the general reader to learn that the petticoat was Grt worn exclusively by men. In tho reign of King Henry VIL tho dress of the English was so fantastical and absurd that it. was difficult to dis- tinguish cne sex from the other. In the inventory of Henry V. appears a "petticoat of red damask, with open sleeves." There i-t no mention of a woman's petticoat before the Tudor period. Placer Water Very few persona have any idea of the amount of placer gold .bow being taken oat of the creeks, gulches and bars in the vicinity of Deadwood. The past week has been' a remarkably sac sessful one with the placer miners, as is proven by the amount of dust pur chased at the Palace Jewelry store. The clean-ups ranged from one and three-fourths to- twenty-two ounces. One miner cleaned up a fraction over 1 ounces in one day, and his claim is in the immediate vicinity of that city. Considerable gold is being taken out at and around Mystic, one of the B. fc M. stations below Rechford. In and around Central a number of men are now engaged working over abandoned claims which were considered worked out The. men, however, as a rule are making more than wages. Placer mining is by no means a dead industry in that section. Sew Kept Aeeoaata. "Do yon keep accounts, Jean?" asked one young woman as she and her com panions finished the freightful mathe matical computation involved in paying equally for a luncheon. "Yes, I do," said Jean, virtuously. "It would worry me to 'death to have sne cent uncounted. Don't you Dolly?" "Oh, yes," said Dolly, indolently. "I promised pa to, and so I do it I put down on one page "received $50 and on the other spent 859. That's enough. How do you do Mabel?" Mabel groaned as she answered: !'Oh, I put down on one page 're ceived $50,' and the other 'spent $75.' That's how I keep accounts. Never Happy. Wife I'm so tired and wretched in this house! Husband Now look here. I con sented to move up here to Harlem en tirely on account of those sixteen clos ets. Wife That's just it I thought I wanted more closet room; but now that I've got it, it takes all my time to hunt I lor OBrgiars. rucic. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't ReportX ffj-sav . - m O-Ma ABSOUTEIY PU8B Give All tho Boys a Chance. Lieut A. B. Wyckoff, U. S. N. has written a paper on "The United States Naval Apprentice System," in which he proposes the extension of the system in the manner to gain recruits from the rural districts of tho states, where good American stock is going to waste. He would have navy recruited from the ?ood boys of the country rather than from the bad' boys of the city. "Why should tho navy be confined to tbe sea ports, and not have representatives of all part of the country?" asks Lieut. Wyckoff. "Recruiting officers could be moved from place to place, advertising thoroughly in advance, and remain only a few weeks in each town. The per sonel needed could Derestricted to three or four persons; and the expenses of each party would be small. When a I dozen boys had been enlisted they could be sent to tho nearest rendezvous. In this way the navy could be Ameri-' zanized and popularized, for the poor , boys of every state would have an equal chance," Scribners Monthly. TJterly Cuseless. "Why don't you go to work?" asked the benevolent woman. "Well," replied Dismal Dawson, in a I voice mingled with tears and pic. "I tried keepin' a hotel oncet, and I tried runnin' a newspaper oncet, and both of em fizzled, bo I list give it up. I knowed that a man who couldn t o4-1 t rich in any one of them businesses wasn't meant to get along in the world." HALL'S CATARRH CURE Is a liquid and l taken Internally aad acts directly on tbe blood aad Braeous surfaces of the 6y stem. Write far tastteonlals, free. Manufactured by F. J. CHENEY A Co.. Toledo, a Curious, "Of course," said Mr. Brown, a real estate agent "curious things happen in my business, just as in every other. Now I fully expected to rent that top suit of rdoms in the Perpendicular building to a society that wanted to hire some club rooms. But they voted not to take them." "What was tho trouble?" asked a listener. "There's no elevator in the building, and the members would not climb the stairs." "What did you say the name of the society was?" some one asked. The real estate agent looked pensive ly at a letter which he held in his hand, and read, "The Eastern Branch of the American Pedestrian and Mountain-Climbing association." A Book Brought Down From HeaTea. According to the Mohammedan be lief the first copy of Koran, or Alkoran, their sacred book, was brought down from the highest to the lowest by Ga briel on the mysterious night of Al Khade in the month of Ramadan. The wonderful book written in heaven and bound in satin, jewels and gold, was communicated to Mohammed at differ ent times during a period of twenty three years. This was done, accord ing to the Mohammedan belief, either by Gabriel in human shape or by God himself. When Gabriel acted as trans lator and communicator he "did so with a great sound of music and bells;" God appeared either "veiled or unveiled during Mohammed's waking hours, or during dreams at night" . m Htgtaiaa'iCssiplMr lea with G I year In, Cures Chapped Bands and Face, Tender or Sore Feet. CUlblauu.I'lIes.ftc CO. Clark Co..Xew HareD.Ct. Tbe witchcraft laws of England wero not repealed until 1736. The bastinado is still a favorite punish ment in lurKey ana igypt. Hanon's Slavic, Corn .Salve." Warranted to rare, or money refunded. Ask your dnwclst for It. Price 5 cents. Egypt has every year some variety of crime. 33,000 arrests for Nearly one-half the murderers of this country are unmarried. ,! av B. nnn Mo St after dm dar's as. TSkS . Tr ISM ii u sad Si 00 trial bottle .free to Fit to DrKUse.Kl Arch StMikwielphla. ra. Pride kills' pox. more people than the small- The Persians did not punish murderers for their first offense. IT the Baajr l Cat tine Teeth, Be sore sod use that old sad we! tried remedy, Mas. WratoWs Soorsntc Btscf for Children Test&ias;. Hope's best pictures tented people. are made for con- Tha Galf Coast of Texas Has the best and cheapest land in the Uni ted States aad aaore evea climate than Cal ifornia. Rain enough to raise four crops a year. Plenty timber and prairie. Lumber 16 to 7 per thousand. For further Informa tion, write tofjulf Coast Land aad Improve ment Co., 1334 Famam, 3t., Omaha, Neb. There can be no such thing as the right use of a wrong thin?. Threw sfarvrst Exearstoas Saath vaa thai Wabash Kallread. On Aug. 22nd, Sept. 12th and Oct. 10th the Wabash will sell round trip tirLets to all points in Arkansas, 'lexn., Tennessee (except Memphis), Mississippi and Louisiana (except New Orleans), at one fare, plus2.00, good ratarafaa; 20 days from date of sate. For tickets or folders giving a description; of lards, climate. ftr.caJl at Wabash office; 1502 Famam 8treet, or write O. N. Clattox, Northwestern Paa. Agent, Omaha, Nab. A Besaedy of General VUMty. It 1st nmnnir the fnlllo of which the) 1 f acturera of many proprietary renedlea ar (ulltj. to term their medicines "aanaceasV or to claim for them tbequallty of paaaceasv There la bo such thins; as a "panacea."whlcai aaeaaa a remedy adapted to all dlaeaaag.Tale absurdity has nover been perpetrated by the proprietors of Hostcttcrs Stomach Bitten. Bat they do claim, and with Justice. tht Is a remedy of Renoral utility, aad thlasw cause It restores that reiruiar aad vlaoratjst condition of the stomach, liver and bowel which conduce to the recovery of general health. Thus It fortifies the system acalaa. aalarlaby infusing stamina, -and causing: harmoalous action of tho organs which, aw 1obk a they go right, are the beet gaaraaty agalawt an epidemic malady llke'chllla and' fever. It accomplishes a double purpose by stimulating activity of tho kidneys, since It not only prevents their disease aad decay, but exacts from the blood through then im purities that causo rheumatism, goutaau, dropsy Use it with confidence. Flaateaaea.lt. - A new smokeless powder named pi -tomenit, has been . tested with great, success at Bucharest It proved thei best of smokeless powder for the small ' caliber Mannlichter rifle, and especially satisfactory with the smooth bore sport ing guns. The smoke is hardly per ceptible, the noise of explosion slight and there is absolutely no recoil. Bbxcuam's Pills are sot tiev remedy.. They have been sold laEaropafor CO years,, and are well tested and excellent Eaters o'fHorsewesh. The consumptionof honejlefh has increased wonderfully during the last year in most of the large cities, of Con tinental Europe, especially in Beilin, Paris and Vienna. A lateueconoWc re port says that from 80 to lV) honors are daily slaughtered for market in Paris, the average daily number killed in 3)ex lin being even greater. THE MODERN BEAUTY Thrives on good food and sunshine, with plenty of exercise in the open air. Her form glows with health and her face blooms with its beauty. If her system needs the cleansing action of a laxative remedy, she uses the gentlo and pleasant liquid laxative Syrup 'of Figs. Malico and hatred are very fretting-, aad I make oar minds sore and uneasy. Jo Populist Press ad feople. I take pleasure In announcing; that I have made arrangement or behalf of the National Reform Press Association, whereby plates and ready-prints containing- Populist matter off Iclally approved and reo--ommended by the National Reform Press Association .and Chairman Taubeneok, In any quantity desired, will be furnished by Tfci Wistim Niwspafir Unit. 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. GOOD CHANCE! Odell 9M Typewriter for $10. if cash with or der Is received before Nor 1st, 1893. Tho famous Odell Typewriter is usod by Lawyers. Ministers. Doctors. Merchants, Bailors and Rnwrannnl Officer, becanso of Its clean V. I print; simplicity anil manifold copies. -No I teacher required. It wilt do your work In ones. 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