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The following answers were received
ly an English paper in response to a
request for opinions as to when to stop
advertising:
When the population ceases to mul
tiply and the generations that crowd
on after you and never heard of you
stop coming' on.
When you have convinced everybody
whose life will touch yours that you
have better, goods and lower prices than
they can get anywhere else.
When you perceive it to be the rule
that men who never advertise are out
stripping their neighbors" in the same
line of business.
When men stop making fortunes
right in your sight solely through the
direct use of the mighty agent.
When you can forget the words of
the shrewdest and most successful bus
ness men concerning the main cause of
their prosperity.
Oh, What a Surprise !
'What an agreeable one, too. Is experienced
by the hitherto misguided individual who
has been ceaselessly but vainly dosing for
years past In tho futile hope of curing con
stipation, when drastic pills and potions arc
abandoned for Hostetter's Stomach Hitters,
a faithful auxiliary or nature, which does
Its work without griping or weakening, but
always effectually. "Throw physic to the
dogs!" and use this benign and thorough
laxative, which achieve results which as
tonish as well as gratify those who use it.
Not only a regular habit of body, but com
plete 'digestion and assimilation are re
stored by Its use. It regulates the liver and
kidneys, and counteracts a tendency to
rheumatism. In no case where It Is possible
to procure it should Its use bo delayed. For
tify with it against malaria.
An Unexpected Marriage Room.
Owing to the great demand for pub
lic work in the parks at SI a day the
city employment committee issued an
order some time ago to employ only
married men. This had the effect of
causing a big boom in business at the
marriage license clerk's office. Every
unmarried Italian and Pole in Pitts
burg seems to be hunting a wife. All
the marriageable young women who
are willing to begin the married state
at 81 a day have been taken, and unless
the order be rescinded trouble will
occur in the Italian and Polish colonies.
Chief Clerk Mclvenzie of the employ
ment committee said:
"ManjT men who had been refused
work went away and in a few days re
turned with their marriage certificate,
thinking it would entitle them to get a
job. Wlien refused a chance to earn
SI a day, they thought they had been
trifled with and cursed the committee."
Pittsburg Dispatcli.
Hani on the Doctors.
The smallpox scare is about over and
the harvest for physicians, at SI per
point, about ended for the year. If we
had a law to compel physicians to vac
cinate all the members of the families
in which they practice, free of charge,
the days of smallpox scares would be
forever ended. Iowa State Itegister.
AVatcring stock is tho only aquatic pur
suit in which somo people excel.
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Hot weather always has a weakening, deblll.
fating effect, esjieciaHy when tho Mood Is thin
and impure and tho system poorly nourished.
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FARM DEPARTMENT.
USEFUL INFORMATION FOR
AMERICAN FARMERS.
Methods of MaaasUff tfca
Madara Farm aad Gardea Uts
Steele, roultry. Dairy, Apiary aa
Orchard.
Raspberries and Blackberries.
The Cornell University agricultural
experiment station has been carrying
on some experiments with raspberries
and blackberries and has arrived at
the following' conclusions:
1. TSlack raspberries can be made a
profitable farm crop when grown for
evaporating purposes, and gathered
by the aid of the berry harvester, re
gardless of proximity to markets. An
average yield with good culture is
about 75 to 80 bushels per acre.
2. An average yield of red raspber
ries is about 70 bushels per acre. An
average yield of blackberries is about
100 bushels per acre.
3. A majority of growers find low
summer pinching of blackberries best
for most varieties.
4. Growers are about equally di
vided in opinion as to whether red
raspberries should be pinched back at
all in summer. If pinched, it should
be done low and early. The canes
should be made to branch low.
5. Evaporating red raspberries has
not yet proved profitable.
G. There seems to be no immediate
prospect that blackberries can be
profitably grown for evaporating
purposes.
7. Berry canes which made their en
tire growth after July G stood the
winter as well or better than those
which grew during the whole season.
8. Removing all young canes from a
plantation bearing its last crop of
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f ruit materially increases the yield.
it. Raspberries and blackberries can
le successfully grown under glass, but
require artificial pollination and a
comparatively high temperature.
10. Under ordinary conditions, thin
ning the fruit of raspberries and
blackberries, other than that done by
the spring pruning, does not pay.
11. Cutting off the bearing canes
early in spring does not induce autumn
fruiting of raspberries.
12. Frequent spraying with water
throughout the blossoming period did
not interfere with pollination and sub
bequent fruit production.
13. The only remedy for red-rust is
to dig up ani burn at once every
plant found to be affected. Cut away
and burn all canes affected with
anthracnose pits and spray the planta
tion with Bordeaux mixture. Root
galls weaken the plants, causing them
to appear as if suffering from poor
soil. Removing the plants and burn
ing the roots is the only remedy.
14. The dewberry of the Facific slope
is Rubus vitifolius. This species often
bears imperfect or pistillate flowers.
The Skagit Chief bore pistillato
flowers with us and was therefore in
fertile with itself.
The Fntnr of Wool.
That the crisis in wool and sheep
husbandry is conceded, and a perma
nent progress is now developing in the
change to mutton breeds, and the
adoption of the improved breeds with
improved care and management A
correspondent of the Wool and Cotton
Reporter says: "The crisis actually
existing on wool is not to be denied,
but it is not as real as apparent
and is not to be of a long duration,
that is, prices as low as those of to
day are not to last much longer. In
looking at the alwa3's increasing con
sumption of that material over all the
world, one may easily perceive that it
is near an advance in nriccs. What
arc the causes of tucli uneasiness and
such depression? Pessimists will
argue of large stocks and over produc
tion. Such is not at all the case.
Let us figure the comparative
quantities of stocks and pro
duction inbalanci with the consump
tion over all the world. What are the
100,000 bales more from Australia and
River Plate of these last years? It was
needed to compensate the always
diminishing quantities produced in
Europe. Over all the civilized world,
always increasing are the aspirations
and wants for comfort and luxury; it
has invaded all the classes. 'Many in
dustries are now requiring the use of
wool, glovemakers, hatmakers, shoe
makers, etc., besides clothes for men's
wear, dress goods for ladies, hosiery,
upholstery, etc. Some minds are sadly
impressed by the stocks of the sales to
term in Europe, but it does not amount
to even 100,000 bales, while the con
sumption of the world is monthly of
300,000 bales. In favor of a rise in
prices is the actual cheapness, making
the use of wool attainable for many
lines. Speculators will get on to it
as soon as confidence is restored, and
fabrics have been lowered from 25 to
20 per cent, and in certain lines even
more. The actual effects of this legis
lation on German trade, I am not pre
pared to state, but I know that the
step is hailed with joy by thi British
manufacturer who is Germany's only
serious rival."
liar wheels.
The current range of prices for farm
products renders it imperative that
the farmer should uec economies such
as he has never practiced before, sajs
Hay Trade Journal. In fact, in this
enforced economy lies one of the
sweetest uses of adversity. Men and
nations that heve been compelled to
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use economy before they were too old
to learn are uniformly prosperous,
while those who have developed with
out such lessons usually have a rough
road before them. One of the great
est wastes on the farm is that of hay
after it has been cut and stacked. The
waste is in many directions. The
waste in stacking is reduced to the
minimum where farmers stack as they
do in the older countries, where the
climate is such as to render large
barns or hay sheds impracticable.
Under these circumstances the stack
is built with a skill such as few
Americans possess, raked as no Ameri
can will take the time to rake it, and
then thatched as no American
will ever thatch. Under our con
ditions hay can be put in large
barns of almost any size, al
though it is dangerous to put clover
hay in bams over twenty feet high
(to the square) on account of spontan
eous combustion. As ordinarily
stacked and especially in the prairie
country, the stacks suffer first from
the damage by the deposit of moist
ure on the outside during the heated
period, a damage which Las been esti
mated by scientists of not less than 12
per cent It suffers from insufficient
raking, from leaning to one side or
the other on account of unskillful
building, from blowing off of the tops
during severe wind storms and from
waste that comes from handling these
stacks in the winter, many farmers
having from one to five stack buttons
covered with snow or wet with rain
during the latter part of the winter
season. The remedy for all this is the
hay shed. A hay shed 20x40 will hold
from 35 to 40 tons of hay, depending
on the care with which it is filled. It
can be made a cheap or expensive
structure, as suits the taste of the
builders. Whichever it may be it
will insure the crop going to mar
ket in good condition instead of at a
GATHERING OF TEA. FROM
discount of several dollars per ton,
caused by exposure.
Texas Fever and Anthrax.
Farmers will do well to heed the ad
vice given in a recent bulletin from
the Delaware experiment station. It
says:
If it is customary for drovers to
use the public highways, farmers
should satisfy themselves at the un
loading station on the railroad that
strange herds have not come from ter
ritory prescribed by the secretary of
agriculture. If live stock dies under
suspicious circumstances, notify your
experiment station, detailing symp
toms. In Texas fever, all of the indi
cations of an ordinary fever will be
come visible. The sick animal will
leave the herd; if in milk, the flow
will cease; if water is accessible, it
will be sought as a standing place.
At times steers and cows affected with
this trouble, show a tendency to
charge upon men who enter the field.
The animal becomes constipated, the
urine in many cases is high colored,
almost black, but if it is voided into
water, its true color will be found to
be that of blood. If slight cuts are
made into the skin, little blood will
flow, and it will be noticeably thin,
light colored and watery. Ticks will
be found on the udder, on the
ssctcheon and oftentimes along
the milk veins. The custom
of opening bodies of animals
which die under suspicious circum
stances is one which should not be en
couraged among farmers, unless
proper precautions are observed. If,
however, this post mortem work is at
tempted on Texas fever carcasses, the
color of the blood, the enlarged and
yellowish liver, the enormously en
larged and congested spleen or milt
will attract attention. As antrax has
occurred in two sections of Delaware
during the past two years, it is neces
sary to state that danger of confusing
it with Texas fever exists. If the
blood of a victim is found to be thick
.md black instead of thin and light
red, go no further with the examina
tion, and telegraph at once to an ex
periment station for assistance.
Distance Apart of Corn Koits.
Experiments by Prof. King and by
others have hhown that roots of corn
completely occupy three or more feet
of the soil, and therefore arc pastur.
ing upon it, says Mirror and Farmer.
This being the case, may it not be
that these roots arc as able to secure
the nutrition as they would with rows
placed nearer together? Roots feed
from their extremities, and as these
J extremities push out, the root growth
behind sends off lateral branches that
divide and subdivide until the whole
soil is occupied for several feet If
tbe rows were nearer together these
roots must pass each other and inter
lace. This might be of advantage if
it resulted in the more complete occu
pancy of the soil. We have no evi
dence that it would, and if we had. it
would not furnish proof that their
power to secure nutrition would be
increased, for at this point we are met
with the relation of the sun to the
corn plant.
CORX LIKES SUNSHINE
Corn is a well-known lover of warm
weather and warm soil, its roots cling
ing to the surface of the soiL Experi
ments at the Utah station have shown
that the center of the row is warmer
than the Tines of the rows of corn, or
it is warmer in the space between the
corn rows than in the hills. As the
average of several depths and methods
of planting, it was found at this sta
tion that the temperature of the soil
in the hills was '7.5 degaees. while the
temperature between the rows was
87.9 degrees, or the astonishiujj differ-
ence of 11.8 degrees. When the bulb
was planted to its depth only the tem
perature was found to be 86.7 degrees,
in the hills, and when it was placed in
the rows at the same depth it was 107
degrees, or a difference of 21.3 de
grees, a most astonishing difference.
This fact can scarcely be without its.
influence on the growth of the corn,
plant
XPKRUIKXTS.
Experiments with distance of plant
ing rows has been made by but few
stations with the corn crop, but for
tunately these trials hare been very
complete, notably that of the Kansas,
station, to which alone in regard to
yield reference will be made. Bulle
tin 30 of the Kansas station gives the.
result of planting fire distances in the
row for three kinds, making fifteen
duplicates of the trial. The corn was.
planted in distances beginning at 142
feet and increasing by a half foot at
each increase in distance until four
feet in distance was- reached. The
crop increased up to three feet for one
variety and up to four feet for an
other, and where the corn was listed
the greatest yield was secured at a.
width of row of four feet It should,
be said, however, that the increase re
ferred to was in corn, the fodder de
creasing as the rows widened. LooHing
at the question wholly from the stand
point of the grower of corn for its
fodder it would seem from the figures
of the station, which are too full for
review, that it would be better to plant
close or, at least, not over three feet
in the row.
RELATIVE TO QUALITY.
But there is another side to tht
question that is brought out by the
Connecticut station, that touches the
question of quality. It has been seen
that narrow rows affect injuriously
the relation of the parts of the fodder
to each other, thus manifesting a deep
FARMERS' REVIEW.
influence as the moving cause. Will
this cause stamp its influence on the
nutritive value of the food? Where
one stalk was put every four feet the
protein was 8.7 per cent; where the
talks were put every two feet or two
to every two feet the protein was 7. 9
per cent; where the stalks were every
foot the protein was G.4 per cent;
where the stalks were every six inches
the protein was 5.7 per cent; where
the stalks were every three inches the
protein was 5.6 per cent; where the
stalks were every inch and a half the
protein was 5.9 per cent The ratio of
protein to other materials constantly
decreased as the plants approached
each other. This being the case, the
assumption is not a violent one that
the other materials were affected and
that the organization of the materials
of nutrition were more imperfect with
narrowing distance. The problem is a
complex one, and each must judge, so
far as they are accepted, from the data
of the system that he will pursue. We
believe that close planting will give
the most nutritive matter per acre and
we plant three feet apart"
Itntter and Cheese Kxports.
A writer in New World says: A
large increase in the Canadian exports
of cheese during the past year was so
confidently expected that the increase
of only 100,000 boxes is a great disap
pointment The explanation is that
owing to the prevailing hard times the
consumption of cheese has been much
smaller than in ordinary years, and
certainly the Canadians have no rea
son for disappointment if they con
trast their increase of 100,000 boxes
with our decrease of nearly 450,000
during the same period. This same
450,000 decrease tells its own tale.
Foreigners will not have our skimmed
milk and "filled" cheese, and we are
rapidly losing our export trade. The
fault lies with ourselves, and if we do
not speedily correct it we can not ex
pect to supply foreign markets. We
are making the same mistake with
butter. The export demand is steadily
diminishing, and there is only a sale
for the finest table butter and the
cheapest grades. The latter means
oleomargarine. To make butter ex
portation pay, only a strictly prime
quality in a perfectly fresh condition
should be sent, otherwise disaster is
certain. Canada, Australia and New
Zealand, our competitors, not merely
make good butter, but are shipping it
10,000 miles, part of the way in the
tropics, yet manage to place their
product in London, Liverpool and
Glasgow in as fresh condition as when
it starts.
Eee Laving: Contest.
Four years ago the National Stock
man inaugurated a friendly contest in
egg production in which twelve pens
participated for eight months and
three pens continued for a full year.
The first pen was finally won by a
pen of S. C. Brown Leghorns that laid
during the year an average of 2-'2't,
eggs each, weighing 27 lbs and worth
at Pittsburg retail prices S3.21. A pen
of S. L. Wyandottes stood second with
an average of 200 eggs, weighing
26 4 lbs and worth 52.95.
Size ok Si i.os Fifty cubic feet of en
silage is the average amount for a ton,
and we calculate capacity of silos on
that basis. A 10x10 foot silo is about
the right size for fifteen to twenty
head of cattle. I bad four silos 15 feet
square.and wintered forty to fifty head
of cattle. The studding for silos and
for partitions should be as wide as the
timber of the barn, and if eighteen to
twenty-four feet, they should be close
together, not over one foot from cen
ter to center. There is great lateral
pressure to ensilage. Henry Talcott
in Farm and Fireside,
Land Plaster.
The value of gypsum (land plaster
as a fertilizer is being discussed in one
I of our exchanges, and we notice that
1 men of experience claim that this sub
stance is not apparently of as great
benefit upon land as it used to be in
days gone by. In the early days gyp
sum was brought in "arks" by river
from Oswego and Elmira in New York
state and sold to farmers at every con
venient landing place. It was in the
shape of lumps just as it had been
quarried and had to be broken up with
hammers, then ground by mill-stones.
In spite of the tronble and expense in
volved farmers were anxious to get
gypsum every spring. Now, it is as
serted that in Pennsylvania, New
York and Michigan gypsum is very
little used as it seems to have lost its
virtue. Either the land or gypsum
has changed, at least there are no
longer marked good results from a
top dressing of gypsum where it was so
much used before. The "land plaster,"
as it was called, used to give very
good results upon all newly broken
soil and acted as a fertilizer for all the
staple crops of the farm and garden.
Now it is of little good unless mixed
with hen dung and the latter is doubt-
S less the active fertilizer. There is, we
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iuiqk, no mystery aoout tnis laiiure oi
gypsum to longer benefit land where
it has been used in liberal quantities
forvears. Thenl&stcr is not. in it. sol f
5 a plant food any more than is the car
bonate of lime. It is not, therefore,
needed by the plant which is able to
get its supply of lime without trouble
from any soil whether it was
top dressetl with lime or not
The plaster upon new, raw, rich soil
acts in almont the same way as it does
in a manure pile; it fixes ammonia
and neutralizes acids, rendering the
mass "sweet," as it were, instead of
"sour." Newly broken soil is sour
until it becomes duly weathered and
cropworn; lime at once acts as an ar
bitrator in it taking the part of others
and bringing harmony out of chaos.
While not as powerful as quick lime
in this work, gypsum had doubtless
about the same effect as slacked lime,
and the additional advantage of fixing
ammonia, whereas lime would set it
free. Taken for granted that gypsum
is no longer profitable as a fertilizer
in the states mentioned in the forgo
ing, the Farmers' Review desires to
point out that it should still be used,
and if properly used will give as good
results as it used to give when land
was crude and raw. In those days the
soil was full of rank vegetable fertili
ty or "humus," and capable of abund
ant production if sweetened by 'gyp
sum. To-day the same soil robbed of
"humus" is crying out for ma
nure and receiving half-made stuff,
from which in very many cases the
ammonia has departed. Were gypsum
used liberally in every stable and in
every dung heap it would prove just
as useful to-day as it did years ago
when used upon the land. The land
wants dung, but wants it intact, and
only by the use of gypsum can it be
supplied without loss of its most val
uable constituents. It is a strange
thing that the very men that would
go to so much trouble to procure,
prepare and apply gypsum seem
too lazy to make and use
the necessarily large quantities of
farm yard manure for the proper ferti
lization of the soiL Were they to
make manure and fix its ingredients
by the free use of gypsum they would
see yet as good results from the use of
gypsum m combinat ion as they ever
saw from its use alone. It is only a
fertilizer in association with other sub
stances, and fails tc act where either a
lack of these or a surplus of gypsum
exits. It formerly enabled the farmer
to sap more rapidly the fertility of his
farm and so produced greater crops at
the expense of earlier decay; it is yet
capable of helping Omj farmer by fix
ing the valuable ingredients of the
manure he must return to the soil, if
he would reap as great crops as he
used to do when land was rich and
gypsum expensive. We think the
cheap gypsum of to-day is more worth
using upon every farm than ever be
fore. The Tomato Craze.
The increased price of canned toma
toes, it is believed, will give such an
impetus to this br.Mich. of the packing
industry this year as to result in flood
ing the market, causing very low
prices and perhaps loss to many can
ners, says the Hartford County (Md.)
Intelligencer. New canneries arc pro
posed in all parts of Kent county,
Md., where contracts have al
ready been made with farmers to grow
2,500 acres at $6 per ton. In Talbot
county, likewise, many new canneries
will be built Tomato culture in Tal
bot county promises to assume greater
proportions this year than ever before.
Farmers have contracted with canners
to grow tomatoes for 57 per ton, which
is the largest amount paid by
canners on the .peninsula. Besides
five factories in the county, four
more are being built in dif
ferent districts, and large additions
have been made to the old factories.
Over 1,500 tons have been contracted
for by two of Easton's canners, and
they are still contracting. The farm
ers will probably call a meeting and
indorse the action of Anne Arundel
farmers in requesting the legislature
to pass a law for standard measure of
tomatoes. History is repeating itse.f.
One Or two profitable years for tomato
packers place a premium upon start
ing new factories. This means a mar
ket over-run with brands without es
tablished reputation and which must
be sold at low prices on account oi
excessive competition between un
known labels. At ST per ton for raw
material there is little chance of profit
-with No. 3 standards at SO cents per
dozen, f. o. b. railway station. The
outlook is for an overproduction of
tomatoes as well as canned corn.
Roquefort Cheese.
Roquefort cheese is by many con
sidered the ne plus ultra of dairy pro
ducts. Being made from sheep's milk,
it presents elements that render it
unique. Its manufacture was for
many years confined to the plateau of
jarzac about twenty miles square
situated in the mountainous district of
Southwestern France, and having an
elevation of over 900 feet The in
creased demand for the cheese during
the last half century has given a tre
mendous impulse to the industry,
which now extends many miles over
the surrounding mountainous district.
The native sparse vegetation of the
hillsides being supplemented by cul
tivated nutritious grasses and clovers,
has increased both the quality and
quantity of the cheese produced. The
evening's milk is placed in tin-lined
copper pots and kept warm until
morning, when the cream is removed.
The skimmed milk is added to the
fresh morning's supply, both are
heated and the rennet stirred in.
When the curd forms it is cut in all
directions with a wooden knife, the
whey being drawn off during the cut
ting. The curd is then lightly
squeezed'and worked with the hands
until no whey appears.
9 l 0 other powders jj
m JTrTrry are c'leaPer made s
3 Jg W1. and inferior, and b
3 PbwJ&t leave either acid or cl
JSI JT9 Jtaf SLsaasssssssW . m Ii?j5
3 Purer alkali in the food. el
pH ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO., IPS WALL ST., NEW-YORK. (
A Remarkable Family..
A ride of an hour over ronds not ofthe
best brought a 7'imrn representative to
the little village of Norton, in this coun
ty. Norton contains a remarkable fam
ily. In tho doorway of a small, low
roofed dwelling stood a tall, well-preserved
woman.
"I am looking for a woman 84 vcars
old, who has raised twenty-four children
and is still in vigorous health," was tho
first query.
"I suppose von refer to me," she said;
"I am of that age."
She was apparently enjoying the best
of health. In all her lonj life she saiil
she had lcen sick but one day. Brought
up on a farm, and inured to tho rough
work incident to farm life, this woman
had reared the extraordinarily large fam
ily of twenty-four children, twenty of
whom are still alive. The oldest is Go,
and resides on a cleanly-kept farm a mile
or two distant from tho homestead. The
youngest is 30, and is engaged in grape
culture at Hauiniondsport, N. Y. The
entire twenty children are in splendid
health. Of the four who are dead, three
met their death by accident, while the
fourth died of yellow fever in Memphis
two years ago. The mother still does all
the housework, milks four eows daily
and takes the produce to market. tjIic
is the financier of the family, and de
clares that she needs no lawyers to keep
her affairs in order. Even- Sabbath finds
all quiet about thfami, and every mem
ber of the circle is required to attend the
quaint old Methodist Church morning
and evening.
"Is your husband living?" was asked.
"No, sir; he died five years ago."
" Who is the man, then, of whom it is
reiorted that he is 81 years old and yet
cuts two cords of wood every day?"
"Oh," said she, as a smile lit up her
face; " that must be Brother Jake. He's
out yonder chopping away for dear life."
The visitor went "out yonder," and
sure enough a tall, strongly-built man,
with white locks streaming over his
shoulders, was landing over a wood pile
and wielding an ax in a manner betok
ening no lack of vigor. His four-score
years have all been spent within a radius
of twenty-five mill's. He had ever been
outside of Hunterdon count .
" I care uinhiii' about seeiif til word,
sir. My own little village here and
small gathering of tnie friends is all I dt
sire. I read the papers regularly, and 1
find that there is a heap of bickeriu nud
strife outside which we avoid in our quiet
home. I renumber a good ways back,
and have watched many changes since I
was a boy, but all my affect ions and asso
ciations are 'round here. I do not have
to chop wood; oh, no, sir, but I like the
exercise, and it keeps me niovin'. I've
never lecn married, and have laid aside
a tolerable neat sum in tho Frenchtown
Bank for old age," and at the words "old
age" the sturdy farmer chuekled, as
though 81 years did not bring him into
the period of hoary hairs and declining
days. Philadelphia Time.
Hall's Catarrh Cure
Is a Constitutional cure. Price, 75.
A Child's Rebuke.
In June last, at T., Pa., "Children's
Sunday " was observed, at which time
several children were christened. Little
Johnny was rather pugnacious by tem
perament, but seemed deeply impressed
by the ceremony. At home, during the
previous week, all the feather-beds and
pillows had been renovated by a pere
grinating renovator, which process had
attracted much attention among tho
children. On the afternoon after the
christening Johnny was quite angered
by one of his sisters. Immediately tho
hand was raised, as of old, to strike; but
slowly it wtis lowered, and, with a seri
ous voice and a look worthy the rebuke
of an apostle, he said: "Oh, sister, how
could you? and you just renovated,
v.k! " Jfarprra ihi'iazinc.
Were You Ever South in Summer?
It is no hotter in Tennessee, Alabama or
(Seorgia thnn here, nnd it is jositively de
pghtful on the CStilf Const of Mi-sis--iji
and West Florirln. If you nro looking for
a location in the south go down now nnd
see for yourself. The Louisville fc Nnsli
villo railroad nnd ronne-tions will se!l
tickets to all points south for trains of
Aii2j. 7 nt one faro round trip. Ask your
ticket agent alout it, and if lie ennnot sell
you excursion tickets write to. P. Atmore,
general passenger a;ent. I ouisvil!e. Kr.
Pitting in Small-pox. Somebody
has ascertained the curious facts, in
small-pox, that poor people are pitted
least, rich people arc pitted most, and
no class are pitted under their dress.
Poor people have less light in their
homes, the rich plenty of light, and
under the dress there is, of course, less
light than in either case. The explana
tion, according to this observer, is a
scientific one. The sunlight consists
of three primary colors. The red, the
blue and the yellow rays have distinct
and characteristic properties the yel
low gives light, the red heat, and the
blue actinism. Now, the pns of variolar
pustules absorbs, by its yellow medium,
the actinic rays, which results in corro
sion of the tender flesh at the base,
'.fans leaving "pits."
The Statue Wept.
Last winter at one of the little hill
side shrines near Han Remothc Madon
na was observed to be weeping. This
was not seen by one, but by :iany, as
great crowds collected and watched the
slowly dripping tears. The people were
puzzled, bewildered, frightened. And
so they called together the wisest men
lo find out the cause. After several
days of deliberation and examination,
1 hey announced the cause of the Ma
donna's tears. There was a hole in the
top of her head. The rain had entered
and filled the cavitv, and in time
worked its way through the eyes, the
pupils of which presented the thinnest
portion of marble to'work through.
Rome Letter.
Food ml Digestion.
One of the biggest mistakes about
food which people make is lo forget
tiiat the true value of food to anybody
is Ihe measure of its digestibility.
Half a pound of cheese is vastly more
nourishing, as regards its mere compo
sition, than half a pound of beef, but
while the beef will be easily digested,
and thus be of vast service to us, the
cheese is put out of court altogether
for ordinary folks by reason of its in
digeslihility. We should bear this rule
in mind when we hear people compar
ing one food with another in respect
of their chemical value. New York
Dispatch.
How Myths Orfgiaate.
No doubt many legends of the
ancient world, though not really his
tory, are myths which have arisen by
reasoning on actual events as definite
as that which, some fonr years ago, was
terrifying the peasant mind in North
Germany, and especially in Fosen. The
report had spread far and wide that all
Catholic children, with black hair and
blue eyes were ia be sent out of the
country, some said to Russia, while
others declared It was the King of
Prussia who had been playing cards
with the Sultan of Turkey, and had
staked and lost 40,000 fair-haired, bine
eyed children ; and there were Moors
traveling about in covered carts to
collect tucm; and the schoolmasters
were helping, for they were to have
$5 for every child they handed over.
For a- time the popular ex
citement was quite serious; the pa
rents kept the children away from
school and hid them, and when they
appeared in the streets of the market
town the little ones clung to them with
terrified looks. Dr. Schwartze, the
well-known mythologist, took the
pains to trace the rumor to its
source. One thing was quite plain,
that its prime cause was that grave
and learned lody, the Anthropological
Society of Berlin, who, without a
thought of the commotion they were
stirring np, had, in order to class the
population as to race, induced the au
thorities to have a census made
throughout the local schools to ascer
tain the color of tho children's skin,
hair and eyes. Had it been only the
boys, to the Government inspection of
whom for military conscription the
German peasants are only too well ac
customed, nothing would heve been
thought of it ; but why should the offi
cials want to know about the little girls'
hair and eyes? Fojm lar Science
Monthly.
Winter Bye. MO Bushels Per Acre.
Tli is yield seems enormous, but a good
number of farmers believe they can obtain
it by sowing the new monster rye. It's
hardy, prolific. laughing at all kinds of
weather! It simply yields big crops every
year, regardless of storms, droughts, or tho
like! The World's Fair winter wheat is
just like it for yields! The John A. Salzer
Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., will send you
their catalogue and samples of above rye
and wheat mon receipt of 4 cents post
age. w
Tbe Champion Fish Story.
An Eastern tourist had been spinning
some incredible fish yarns, when one of
the party, turning to an old mountaineer,
said :
" Bill, that get3 away with fishing in
this country, don't it?"
" Wal, I don't know 'bout that."
"Do you mean to say that you have
caught more and larger fish ?"
" No ; but I've caught some purty big
fellers."
" Come, now, tell us the weight of tho
largest trout you ever caught."
" Wal, 1 can't exactly tell as to the
weight, but you folks can figger on it.
Now, yon know it is over 200 miles
around this ycr lake. Put that "down.
As I said before, I don't know tho
weight of the biggest trout I ever
yanked out, but I did haul one up on
the beach, and after I landed him the
lake fell three feet, and yon can see by
that water-mark over yonder it hasn t
riz since." Nevada Journal.
"Ilanmn'-i Magic ('urn Sulv."
Warnntl to run-or mii-y rrfun!-il. Ak your
druggist fur it. l'niv 1 nt-..
Klephant (.rather.
A new industry is being rapidly de
veloped in France, and if you mean to
be in the fashion yon had better take
note of it at once. Some j-ears ago it
was the gentle erocodile which was se
lected as the tittest animal for provid
ing yon with new purses, bags, ciga
rette cases, boots, shoes and all the rest
of leathery knickknacks. Now it is
the eleph.int that has to give his hide
for the Mime purpose.
At Paris even now you can buy a
card or cigar case of crocodile hide
which has been glorified by a six
months sojourn in a bath of oak bark
in the tanner's yard. The price of the
little toy is from 1.1 to L'O guineas, and
if you are ambitious enough to wish to
purchase a small crocodile valise "and
no one there to hinder" you may do so
for the sum of from 15 toiMuo. The
tanned elephant skin is also reported
to make carpets of unrivaled strength
and "of a grand originality." Paris
Letter.
Petroit Free Press: A lover's litn nre
the easiest to forgive.
There are 57.01)0 women engaged in farm
ing in the I'nite:! Stntes.
KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the world's best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy. Syrup of Figs.
In excellence is due to its presenting
in the form mos.t acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a jerfect lax
ative; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
ana permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profes-sion, bccau.c it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
everv objectionable substance.
Svrup of Fizs is for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and $i bottles, but it is man
ufactured bv the California Fig Syrup
Co.onlv, 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.
'BBIiSaB'-' HVi i)
jlsrKBfe'c&k-'v
Wild Animals in Africa.
Although the gradual spread of the
population toward the inferior of Africa
is driving tho wild animals further and
further inland, and though they aro
consequently difficult to reach in the
more inaccessible haunts to which they
have retreated, yet tho larger wild ani
mals have, with one or two exceptions,
scarcely suffered- any diminution from
the advancing tide of civilization. Os
triches have suffered, perhaps, tho most,
but only to exchange a wild for a do
mesticated state. Elephants aro fre
quently seen within a short distance of
southern and southeastern coasts. Hip
popotami are abundant. Even the
larger beasts of prey aro by no means
uncommon, and tiger i are especially
depredators. If the reports of diamond
diggers in the Northwest are to be be
lieved, a new animal has lately made its
appearance as a candidate for the honor
of being chased by an enterprising
sportsman. It is called by the bushmen,
or natives, tho " bear lion," and it de
scribed as being about the size of a
lion, bnt far stronger in make, and with
a tremendous head and neck. Its legs
are much shorter than n lion's, bnt much
stouter, and it is apparently far moro
powerful. Its color is a dark yellow,
with black spots. It runs or creeps
along the ground, bnt does not bound
like a lion. It has sometimes been seen
accompanied by a smaller one probably
a cub so that the race is apparently
not yet quite extinct, whatever tho ani
mal may be.
Karl'H ClnTrr Koot Tea,
Th ci-at niiaxi junll-r,Ki-s f rtiti--i :nl rl-rni
t.UteCumilexUiiaiuli.-ur-Cuiiti:iUii. 25c..ji.,31.
Experiments with Opium Smoking.
One Herr Maelay, in the course- of a
.stay at Hong Kong, made an experiinen
upon his own body which would ap'H'iir
to Ih pretty conclusive as to the effect of
opium-smoking. After fasting eighteen
hours, he smoked twenty-even pipes,
holding in all 107 grains of the opium
used by tho Chinese. It is interesting
to know that after the third pi'w ho
ceased to feel hungry, and the filth pie
left him unable to walk about comfort a
bly; the seventh brought his pulse
down from eighty-six to seventy; the
twelfth caused singing in the ears, and
the thirteenth a heavy tit of laughter.
Twenty-five pipes affected his hearing,
but, within an hour after the trial, which
had only lasted about KM) minutes, ho
was able to go home and go to bed,
where he slept so soundly as to wake up
fairly freslr anil hungry the next morn
ing. During the whole cxjicriincht, ho
had no dreams or hallucinations of auy
sort whatever.
Coe's Cough. IlnNnm
ItbfoM..t ami U-t. It will tiroaU imnCoMrj'ilrk
enluin an.MLInct-lx. It fo always r-ii.ill. Try IU
Men's tears enect bv their qua'ity; wo
men's by their iiantity.
Justice i blindfolded m she can't see the
travesties on herself.
Milliard TalIe, second hand. Kor ?n!o
cheap. Apply to or address, II. f. Akin,
511 S. l'ith St . Uiuahii, :
TnE most agreeablo of all compan
ions is a simple, frank man, without any
high pretensions to an oppressive great
ness; one who loves life, and under
stands the nse of it; obliging alike, at
idl hours; above all, of a golden temper,
and steadfast as au anchor. For such
an one we gla ily exchange the greatest
genius, the most brilliant wit, tho pro
fonndest thinker. Leattiny.
ALL TlIK STRENGTH
and virtue has
sometimes "dried
out" when vnu
get pills in Iesky
wooden or piste
board boxes. Kor
that reason. Dr.
Pierce's I'k-nsaut
Pellets are scaled
up in little glass
vials, just the size
and shape to carry about witn you. men,
when you feel bilious or constiiated, have a
fit of indigestion after dinner, or feel a cold
coming on, they're always ready for you.
They're tho .smallest, the pleasantest to
take, and the most thoroughly inditnd rem
edy. With Sick or Bilious Ikwlachis, iour
Stomach, Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Dizziness, and
all derangements of the Liver, Stomach, and
Bowels, they give you a histiwj cure.
Headacho; olistructfon of nose; discharges
falling into throat; oyes weak; ringing in
ears; offensive breath: smell and tast. im
paired, and general debility -these are sotrw
of the symptoms of Catarrh. Dr. K" J
Catarrh Remedy has cured thousand.-, m
tho worst cases, ' cure ym.
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