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The Fondest Hour Memory Recall. Tlio question naturally suggests itself, Which Is "tho fondest hour memory re calls?" Has the reader, whoc attention tvo hope to engage, ever had a controversy with his stomach on the subject of dyspepsia. After convincing proofs that tho digestive organ has got the upper hand, has a wise re sort lccn made to Hostctter's Stomach Bit ters? If so, tho "fondest hour" has been re called by memory in the shape of a lasting resumption of the power to digest, assimi late thoroughly and cat heartily without fear of being uncomfortable afterward. When the dinner bell, that "tocsin of .the soul." strikes agreeably upon the ear, the auditor then greet, it as a welcome sound and hastens to obey its summons. Tho Hit ters, so renowned as a stomachic, overcome, too, malaria, bilious and kidney trouble. :uid remedy nervousness, rheumatism and sick headache. Fortune' Wheel. Louis Prang-, the famous chromo lithographer, was a Prussian calico printer at the ajjc of IS, and was trav eling through Kurope for a Bohemian manufactuser, when the revolution of 1S4S broke out. lie was obliged to flee to Switzerland, and then came to New York in 1S50. He did so poorly in one business that he sold out all his rights after a year's hard work for S25, but with that 25 he got together capital which in after years enabled him to start a little lithographing' shop. It was illness that caused him to relin quish his trade of wood engraving1 and started him in the line that brought him fame and fortune. Cincinnati Times-Star. When wo get in tho wrong place our right pl.tco is enipt. That Tired Feeling Is due to an impoverished condition of the blood. It Ehould bo overcome without delay, and tho best way to accomplish this result is to take Sarsa-parilla tires DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. flow SBcceMfol Farmers Operate Tbelr Department of the Homestead Hints as to the Care of Lin Stock and roaltry. H ood's c II ood's Sarsapariila, -which will purify and vitalize tho blood, give strength and appetite and prodncesweet and refreshing sleep. Bcsure to get Hood's Sarsaiarilla, and only Hood's. Hood's Pills euro nausea and biliousness. W.LDOUCLAS CUr IS THE BEST. ) QnvL WO SQUEAKING. FREKCH&EfJAMEUED CALF. 5ftCAlF&lftBABa $3.5?F0LICE.3 Soles. 2.i7J BoysSchgclShgesl LADIES- &&. sSEND FOR CATALOGUE WL'DOUSLAS, BROCKTON, MASS. Yob can mvo money by ircarlne tko IV. L. Douglas $3.00 Shoe. Ttecatir. "tro cro tho larj-cst mnnufactnrrr of this Era do or sboes ia t ho world, and Ruarantce their Taluo by stamping tho namo and prlco on the t.ittom, which protect you ncalnst high prices and tho middleman's proflts. Our shoes equal custom work in style, easy lltting nml twariug qualities. Wohavutljein paid everywhere at lower prices for the value kI en t Jinn any other make Take no sub stitute It your dealer cannot supply you, wo can. J0Z hmmmYzz. - H, fa. "Y-J .Gfv 1 yt""B wi rr jnfltS .'ts -apTJj lELY'S CREAM BALM CURES 158 raiCOCNTS. ALLDRUQSISTshk(g 'Fp3iq smt rr-i "zlsfcSs, e a- ( WIFF CANNOT SEE HOW YOU DO Iff irC IT AND PAY FIEIBHT. ClABaya our 2 drawer walnst or oak ! t rTproTS UUfc Ara81ofrrIcxmmch(D flotlr tcUheJ. tkUl iiI1irJ.aJ41.icJ to lurfct acd hf-ivr wtk: rtxannlecJ forlOirirt: with AnttimaliflUiLUa M!ndfr.rV!f.ThrradIcCjU- Ior Mm:tIrM-If.S-tllj Kredlnand a com j Id ltof Stl AltartiaraULli'el aay whereon 20 Iliv'fc Trial. NonionY fro-aired in ad vine. 75.00 nrnr fn cs f World's i air AWtl a ardrd macLlne and attach mnta, tyny from factory and tart t5rUr'a and ag'st's profit. pQrr Cut This Out and cd to-der for machine or litre frr tltb ct1crutrtininH!.n imect the World's Tair. OXFORD MFC CO.CiitATo.CHICAGO.Ill. MAILED FREE to any Tarmcr or rarmcr's Will Up to Date Dairying" cortsining full Instruction how to secure Higher (iradc Product, make HIOQE BIinER ..ftW EETTEH PBIGE andwith Less Labor cct riore Money Rerleinj;anI explaining in a iract!cal manner ... Tmc NCRMANDY Wncn) SYSTEM, DANISH DAIRY SYSTEM and Elgin Separator System aVh Jm-e Uocglit jwosjierity and cave to tlie dairy farmer. YYiite for t! it Valual.le Information. Mailed I'KrKon rppliialion. Kin.lly enj a.l'rc-.s , f neicliUvrinj; farmers l""'"- Address R. LESPINASSE, 1 . W CtumN-m .V 248 W. LHC 6T. llhnuts Irairy Asvucialionv. CH tCAGA AsVBII 7IiiCropl n Tailiirn II Mm U all o or the West nml not IsjIlfflKIV up to average any M J IV "" here. Wheat is now at lowest price of -JO years. Here are two life time opiiortunitio to specu late. You can liny 1,UX lusliels on J10 maiviii and cot Hi lriie!it of nil aiivaiic same as Jf louKlst outriclit, eml for our free looklct "How to Trade. ' C. F. VAN WINKLE & CO-, Room 45, 234 La Salle St., Chicago. WELL MACHINERY Illustrated catalogue 6howingr WHIX AUUtJiM. ituuuxutll.li, 1IVDUAUUO rii JL.lll.Mi alAUUINEKT, etc oEKTtncE. Iibto been tested and all icarrantrd. 8louz City rnclne Iron Works Successors :o Tech Mfc Ci , Slonx 'Ily. lunn. UK Union Ave, Kansas City, Mo. Tho "War with Tarasltes. The time is here when all species of parasites thrive and multiply with the greatest rapidity, says an exchange. The poultry man need not spend much time huntine them up. They are around the hens without any doubt, and a variety of precautionary meas ures should be taken to keep in check these inveterate enemies to the poul try kingdom. An exchange says: Of course it is needless to talk abqut the profits of fowl breeding when hordes of indefatigable vermin arc energet ically sucking the life bloods of the birds both day and night The grain and feed goes to support the lice, the hens and chicks grow poor, and if not protected, eventually waste away and die. It costs enough to feed poultry without any additional burden oc casioned by furnishing sustenance to hungry legions of parasitical beings. You ask a great many poultry keepers, especially the fresher and more ver dant additions to the fraternity, if there arc any lice among their fowls or in their poultry houses, and most emphatic denials will usually be re ceived. They have never seen any (be cause they did not look where they were), and therefore suppose there are none. A little closer and more thorough inspection would frequentlj' result in a startling revelation. We hear of hens that do not lay, grow poor and siclc and finally die; of chickens that persist in dying when there is no reason at all for such an ungrateful proceeding; of other chickens that, while they do not die outright, yet bring up those cows, all of which are young, and some only nineteen months old when milking, to average $53 per head for butter which was marketed only, not counting my skimmed milk, or milk and butter for family use. I am delighted with dairying both winter and summer and know that it pays. I also can increase my average per cow considerable. I am now get ting 25 cents per pound for my butter. I always milk my cows eleven months each year. My herd now consists of twenty -one cows and thirteen heifers. I raise all my heifer calves I am also delighted with my cream separator, and I do not see how any man can af ford to do without a separator who has ten or fifteen cows. I also fall to see how any man can make a success of farming without keeping a good stock' of good cows, and then feeding them well. If it pays to keep them at all (and it docs), it pays to keep the:n well: I find it so. Farmers' Keview. Origin of One Dairy. The advantages of soiling, or feed ing animals largely or wholly on green forage crops in the barn instead of pasturing them, says a government bulletin, are that less land is required to maintain a given number of animals, the food supply can be better regulated, the animals do not waste their energy in searching for food, and the manure can all be saved and ap plied to the soil. The arguments for partial soiling are that the amount of feed f urnibhed by pastures is very ir regular, being usually abundant and of good quality early in the season, but falling off later from drouths or early frosts. In case of milch cows unless some supplementary food is given at such times the milk flow di minishes and the cows fall off in flesh. Concerning the relative amounts of food furnished by pasturing and by soiling, the Pennsylvania experiment station found in experiments in two years that "in round numbers we can produce from three to live times as much digestible food per acre by first class prices for it The dairy la now being run with the idea of making it a-good illustration of how a practi cal institution of that kind should be run. The butter is put np in pound packages,inclosed in wooden wrappers, and in a form that maybe readily cut into small cubes for the plates of in dividuals. The whole appearance is very neat These packages are being supplied to select customers at 25 cents per pound in the summer and 30 cents per pound in the winter, and the demand exceeds the supply. The would-be customer need only visit the working dairy at the station to decide to become at once a patron, The neatness of the whole institution is such as to convince him that the but ter is not only first-class in qual ity. but possesses that important requisite cleanliness. To watch a mass of butter being man ipulated on the butter worker is enough to increase the butter eating capacity of almost any man. He is at once impressed with the idea that the "grain" of butter counts, and that, if it does not affect the quality and flavor, it at least is, "a thing of beau ty and a joy forever." My advice to Wisconsin farmers is, "Take a trip to the Wisconsin dairy school, and watch 'the boys make butter, it will be an in spiration." Jay. The Chnrn. Jno. Gould in Practical Farmer says: A correspondent asks us "why we al ways talk about a revolving churn when we have any advice to give in that direction?" It is for the simple reason that we think them the best all around churn for the dairy. The best churning that is now possible is se cured by concussion, and not by stir ring, and in the latter case there is apt to be more agitation in the center of the churn than at the sides, and so more churning in one place than an other, and with it imperfect bringing of the butter and its consequent loss. There is a great loss in butter making from this very cause, the cream is ag- FARM AND GARDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. Soma Up to Date Hints Abont Cultiva tion of the Soil and Yields Thereof Ilorticnlture Viticulture and flori-caltare. Culture of Mushrooms. Some time ago a correspondent of the Farmers' Keview requested more information on the growing of mush rooms, which we promised to give when opportunity presented. We will de vote this article to the culture of mushrooms in buildings, because such culture is the only kind that is advis able during the remainder of the year. Si I iSWist Model 1893 Made la M0 and SM5 calibres. The Cly repeater ou Uic m J fcet tor theso cartriuccf. MOmaMumiiSL Solid Ton, tide ejection. Alsdo In "TaV'e Down." rite for cata!oput.- to Tie Eailin Fire Anns Co.. Xcwlla-.oa. Coac, U.S-AJ r253als-R3-g. T i iM 1l'Tl vHfmwnlWtn A PAIR OF CALLUS P.ANKIVA, THE WILD JUNGLE FOWL OF SOUTH OF ASIA. live a miserable, stunted existence and never show vigor or thrift nor de velop into profitable fowls. To what cause are all these untoward condi tions to be ascribed? Lice! lied mites! Parasites of various orders! Keep down theEc and the greatest battle of poultry culture is fought Have a clean, fresh dust bath where every chick and mature fowl on the place can dust itself without mo lestation. This means many baths placed around in various spots on a large poultry farm Hood, strong to bacco powder ia as good as anything to put in the feathers ot tlie birds. The insect powder, so called, unless fresh, does not amount to anything. Carbolic acid is a great insect de stroyer. Make an ointment of lard six parts, sulphur two, carbolic acid one part, and apply & little to the top cf head, beneath the wings and around the vent of the old birds. As soon as hatched, drop a tiny piece of sweet oil upon the head of each chick. To kill the red mites that lurk in cracks and seams near the perches, dsytimes, and feed upon the bens at night, persist in the use of kerosene to which a little carbolic acid has been added. I'artlal Soiling. At an Ontario farm institute. means of the soiling crops (rye and corn or clover and corn) as is produced by pasturage, such as is represented by our small piat" The plat in ques tion was believed to fairly represent the average pasture. From feeding triuls with the above soiling crops and pasture grass the average yield of milk per acre was calcinated as follows: YIELD Of MILK 1'EU ACHE Or LAND. 18SS. 1SS9. Pounds. Pounds, Soiling a.41ti 5 071 Pasturage IfiS 1,504 rVRAMIDAI. MUSHROOM IlKIl LN CELLAR. We hope that some of our readers will take interest in the subject suiliciently to begin cultivating them on a small scale. The outlay is small and the ?ork not hard. ISesides, mushrooms are not particular as to conditions, and may be grown in cellars, barns and other outhouses, especially old green houses. Welelieve that many a family might grow mushrooms with little trouble, and find in them a valuable food product, even if the family of the grower consumed the entire crop. -Mushrooms arc very nutritious. This is contrary to the idea of those that know nothing of them. Most people suppose, because of their rapid growth, that they are unsubstantial in tex ture and can possess little of food value. On the contrary, it is doubtful if there be any other vegetable possessing a like amount of nutri ment The statement is made that mushrooms possess as much nutriment, pound for pound, as beef. This is doubtless a fact, as mushrooms take in oxygen and throw off carbonic acid gas, as do animals, while nearly all vegetables do the opposite; that is, throw off oxygen and take in carbonic acid gas. To those living within easy reach of cities, the culture of mushrooms pre sents a means of revenue. The de mand for mushrooms is large and prices are high. France supplies most of the mushrooms used in American hotels and restaurants, and even then canned goods have to be used. AVith an increase in the supply of fresh mushrooms would come an increase in the demand. It seems strange that American gardeners have so long neg lected growing this delicious vege table. In France caves and cellars are used extensively for the growing of mush rooms. Most of our farmers have cellars, either in houses or barns, that are suited for this vegetable. A few requisites are necessary: the cellar should be warm, dry and dark. Drafts beds will thrive. If the shed is with out a window, so much the better, as darkness is desired. If there is no room on the floor a shelf may be con structed on a side or in a corner. This has the advantage of being out of the reach of rats and mice. The beds should be made and treated the same as those constructed upon the floor or ground, and are said to be as product ive. These beds will not do in winter after water will freeze in the sheds, unless they are carefully covered each night It is best to use them only for summer and fall production. The methods we have mentioned above ma be easily adopted by nearly all readers of the Farmer's Review The growing of mushrooms in green houses applies to comparatively few those that have green houses, or that desire to conduct regular mushroom houses. Hot houses are generally too warm for the mushrooms to do well in them. Green houses are better, as the temperature is more suitable for the growth. Nearly all grcan houses are suitable, and the beds can be placed in parts that are not used for other things, as under benches. As most plants can not grow in the dark, dark places can be the better utilized for this purpose. In cool weather the beds may be covered with straw or old carpets to keep the temperature from getting too low. Above we show an illustration of a house made especially for growing mushrooms. It is a sort of grceu house, but no glass enters into its construction, being un necessary and also a detriment The building is especially designated for growing mushrooms throughout the year without the use of artificial heat It is built with the idea of rendering it independent of outside atmospheric conditions. An excavation is first made like a small cellar, and the dirt taken from this excavation is subsequently used for banking up. The walls arc built hollow, thus giving a dead air space. and the house is banked up to the eves of the roof. The roof may be thatched with reeds, slabs or anything that will keep out air and rain. A hollow space maybe left in the roof to be filled with sawdust The floor may be of burnt clay, or any material that will give a dry, hard surface. Drains may be necessary to keep the place free of water. The illustration below shows three mushroom beds in an open garden in Take no Substitute for Royal Baking Powder.1 It is Absolutely PureJ All others contain alum or ammonia. inquir- BjUWCmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmvBr9ff9BiSBmmWtBi IsJISIsl I Difference 2,-lsS 4,107 It will be understood that the above is partly an estimate, but it points very strongly in favor of soiling. Trials at the station in Wisconsin showed that "by soiling in summer a certain area of land will 3'ield double the amount of milk and butter that it will when pastured." The Connecticut Storrs experiment station maintained four cows from June 1 to Nov. 1 on a little less than - l-l acres of soiling crops, with the ad ditiou of a very light grain and straw feed. At the Ontario agricultural college and experiment farm about three fourths of an acre of soiling crops (green clover, green peas, tares, oats and corn fodder) was suilicient, with the addition of ?:2 pounds of wheat bran, for two cows for sixty-three J days. "We might expect, therefore. Business Houses. OMAHA CLOTHING Catalogue, contnii NEBRASKA CLOTHING CO.. Cor HUi and Douglas i , Omaha. Mr. Sills Shaver said: As a farmer among you 1 have tried dairying on a small , to grow on about one acre suillcjeat green food to feed a cow for 2C0 days for M F.X ami ItOYM. If vrm want to viio irom "-' to fill (HI on a suit unto for our now Fall Catalogue, containing samples of cloth scale and raising gram for market; not being satisfied altogether with my results therewith, on account of low grain prices, I then went into horse raising to quite an extent, and was quite successful until prices in that line began to fall. Then having a farm adapted for raising hay, I sold all my horses, except those necessary for car A iS2i Farnam feu. rvinc on farm work, and all my cows Omahs. Aeb. i " b , , T T. . twin nvc iinovc c"nci,i!iuff8- - riTv u L nunrvo - ' I except one, and four Jersev heifers vmnT-nvsre TfiVP REPAIRS and a pure bred Jersey bull calf. I !it"atj?",U'C nCrAInO then thought I would raise hay for OmahaStcte Repair Works. 1209 Douglas St. Omaha market The second year I could not sell at any price, l lien, seeing l was going to run down my farm, I thought I would raise some Jerseys. 15nt not knowing anything about winter dairy ing, and only milking ray cows about seven months each year, and not , knowing how to feed my stock as I i should. I could not see where there Sharpened Mall yonr razor togeth er wl.biOc toMaitieMACo.. Cut:ors. Uarlr xinrtlk-s Onuha and ttuv will return it hohow ground and "-hJip. Warranted. RAZORS BRUSHES Ot all work. The R. M. OIX t.ltL CO.. Mfrs. . nd Job er;nf nri!s.h, kind J-iccial attention paid to order ju--? 10 luw to. ism M., Omaba. Cameras52 M'THOTORET," .1 iWllG,lUUt?U oft Views. Catnln . f ran iieyn rnoio Mjpply Co. KicluMve Agints. 1215 Farnam St C alalia. Kverrthlng In l'hoto Supplies for lrofesslonal: and Amateurs. Jl H Tl' Repaired. If you have agncd f k I a hat and don't wart to Invest In a 1 E la a kj new one, send it to cs and ha e it 1'Ut in rlrawliss nape. Wo iranufac uro w,sole sa!e and rvta:l all kind- t hats a d caps X. ti All ixvstaie and express charges must li prepaid. 3IILLAKU HOTEL HAT NTOttE Oiuaba. EDUCATIONAL. OMAHA r w f gmMMwtmr You c-n begin cny rim2 Board for 3 hours wort lend for Illustrated CaVa-logue- Address ltouniiorcii t.uos Omaha, y U. Browned Hall OMAHA Seminary tor Younz Ijid'es. For en ilojue. address Uev. 1L lOUEUlY.T.I.o.T:aha BUSNESS COLLEGE Catalogue frte. F. F. Telegraph Short bird Jfc T Hfwrnln. l.O JiE. f re.Oaiah Situations smarsntrd aw rn-e circulars. ModenU cancrkforlxiaiJ. W'n; J. B Shrr wood, Ilir.cii aJ. Itaicee Bit. Omaha College ACADEMY OF TH& SACKED HEART The course or Instrsrtion in this Academy, conducted lijr tlio Religious of the Sacred Heart, embraces tlie v nolo ranje or Fu'ijecls nece-vary to con-tityte a solij and refined education. Propriety of At portment, TTm ronal neatness and th jirincijilcs of morality are ob Jtcts of uncrasiitfr attention. Extensive grounds af ford tli9 pupils etery fcrility for u-cful bodily exer cise: their health Is an object of constant solicitude, and in sickness they are att u-U-d v,ith maternal care. Fall term oens Tueaday, bej.t 4th. For further par ticulars, addles THE SUPERIOR. Academy hacrcd Hert, bU Josepn. was any real profit in keeping cows. If there is such a thing as the blues, I had them. Just here a man came along to buy four of my high grade Jersey , heifers which I was glad to sell. After he bought them he persuaded me that winter dairying was just the thing, and also recommended the silo. I concluded after he was gone that I would plant corn (it being in April then) and also make a silo. I at once had my six Jersey cows ssrved by my Jersev bull, calculating to try winter dairying. I also bought in the fall i four fresh milch cows and entered up- on winter dairying, which has proved I to me very profitable. I then began to test my cows by weighing each I cow's milk, setting the satrc separate ly and weighing butter. It proved a wonderful revelation to me. Some disappointed me one way and some the other. In the fall of 1S92 t pur chased more cows, also a De Laval cream separator and a Iabcock milk tester, and shortly after that time I got a market for my butter at 23c per lb. by the year. I began at once to study the cow, what to feed, and how to care for her. I found that it was through kind treatment, proper feed and bedding, and, most necessary, a warm stable that she was enabled to o her bet I have been able to under ordinary conditions." If soiling is to be practiced it is im portant to have a succession of green fodders throughout the growing sea son, with eaeh in its lest stage of growth for feeding. There should be no breaks in the succession, and each crop thould be used as nearly as pos sible at the time when it contains the largest amount of valuable fcoJ con stituents Dairy Wisdom. Fr.oM Fakmeus' Review: "Get wis dom, and with all your getting, get understanding,"' runs the proverb, which, by the way, is one very applica ble to the dairyman and to the would be dairyman. There are two mediums of exchange in this country, money and knowledge. If any dairyman will put a 5-cent piece into every pound of butter and convince his customer that it is there, he can tell his butter for 5 cents more a pound than can his neighbor, other things being equal. If he will put ." cents worth of knowledge extra into his butter, and convince his customers that it is there, he can sell that butter for 5 cents more on the pound. There are dairymen who are putting 10 and 15 cents' worth of knowledge into each pound of butter and arc getting that much higher price for it. Get wisdom and Knowledge. They pay in the dairy. Every young man that intends to farm for a business should, if possi ble, take one or more terms in the dairy school of his respective state, if it has one, and if not, then in the dairy school of some other state. Even if he does not intend to devote his farm to dairying, it will pay him to learn how good butter can be made and sold. Side issues de pend on knowledge, as well as the cardinal ones. SOMETHING IX THE SEIXIXG. If one wishes to see the value of biains in butter making, he has but to visit the Wisconsin dairy school at Madison. The beys arc making first! itated unevenly, and no small amount passes off in the butter milk. The revolving churn is easier kept clean, the cream is more easily put in and the butter taken out; and if one wants to dispense with the butter worker and in all small dairies they should the end-over churn supplies the place, and quickly puts butter in the best form to pack or print How butter in the future will be churned is hard to foresee, but at present in the farm dairy the revolving churn fur nishes at the least expense the best and most thorough method of churn ing yet chanced upon. True it is this method may by improper methods give bad results The churn should never be filled quite half full of cream, and the latter should always be in an easy flowing fluid condition to churn, so as to get the full beneiit of the con cussion. Then stop when the butter is in the fine grain and with changes of weak brine, wash out the butter milk and salt in the churn, and one has up to date about as perfect a plan of churning as has yet been discov ered. Tiir.KK are more things than one to be said in favor of the silo. The clover will not require much exten sive machinery or cost in handling; the mower can be put in as soon as the dew is off, and the product trans ferred to the silo almost as soon as it is gathered up. All this makes the grower independent of favorable weather for curing. SHELF 1IED IX STABLE. Paris. This represents winter culture in that city, where the temperature is not generally so low that the beds can not be protected. In the cut the beds are covered with old mats, carpets, etc., and held in place with stones, bricks and boards. The beds are cov ered at nights and cold days. Usually the method followed is this- The horse manure is collected for several weeks before it is to be used. All chips, stones and rubbish are taken out, and the manure is then placed in heaps two feet thick and pressed down with a fork. The bed is stamped down, watered and stamped again. It is then left for about ten days, till fer mentation has begun to set in, when the bed is all forked over, care being taken to put the manure that was on the sides in the center. The bed is treated as in the first making. Ten days more elapse, and the manure is then in condition to be used in the bed. Tlie permanent beds arc then made, about two feet high and wide and as long as desired. The beds tire packed solid and soon begin to heat again, but on account of the previous treatment arc not so hot that the spawn will be killed. The spawn is placed in the manure near the base of the beds, and the whole is then cov- musn- ered with several inches of straw or other litter. In about ten davs more Temperature and moisture should j the white filaments are seen spreading Well Earned. A well known business man is spend ing the summer in a country boarding house in Montgomery county, and his interesting family of a wife and three tiny misses are with hira. The other night, when Mrs. W. was saying good night to tho angels, the eldest asked for something to eat. "I'm sorry, darling," said the devo ted parent, "but there is not a thing to eat here, and everything is locked up down stairs." "Ain't there a cracker here?' ed the little one wistfully. "No, precious, not a thing." The little one sighed wearily. Then she brightened up with hope as a bright idea struck her. "Then, mam ma,' she queried plaintively, "won't yon please give me a pill?'' That baby got a generous slice of buttered bread, despite all obstacles, after that remark. Washington Star. Tho Wronc Prescription. When Edward Terry was convulsing a midland town with laughter, a pa tient waited on a physician in that place to obtain'some remedy for exces sive melancholy, which was rapidly consuming his life. The physician en deavored to cheer his spirits and ad vised him to go to the theater and see Terry. The patient replied, "I am Terry. "Life's Calendar. Flno IMcturr Free. Here's rood news for any of onr readers who are pinched by hard times. The Woolson Spice company f Toledo, Ohio, are giving away many line pictures to drinkers of LioncotTte in exchange for large lion heads cut from Lion coffee wrappers, lfesides pictures they also mail valuable book, a knife, game, etc It surely pays to drink Lion coffee, which is by far the finest sold for the price, and has a beautiful picturo and card in every one-pound package. If yon haven't an Illustrated Premium List, ask your grocer for a copy, or send your namo and address to the firm above named. Another Mammoth StAtuc. The sculptor Nikolaus Geiger is put ting the last touches to his statue of Harbarossa, which is to symbolize the ancient kingdom in the Ivyffhauser monument, to be unveiled in lS'JG. The 1'arbaros.sa appears at the end of a ves tibule in the style of an ancient castle, on the steps of the throne upon which he is siting like the sleeping figures of the courtiers, with fabulous animals of the old mythic world, l.arbarossa is represented at the moment of waking from his long sleep. In his right hand is his sword: his left hand strokes his long waving beard. Contrary to all other figures of the old hero, he is here represented as an actual emperor, with tho features of a noble man. The whole monument, hewed from the rock, will be about eighty feet high. The llgttre of the seated monarch is about thirty feet high. London Sun. Ilnll'H Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. Price 75c. HED IX nOTTOM OF OLD CASK. by means of doors and windows are to be avoided, where the draft would come immediately over the room beds. The Fly antl IIU Feet. "Don't you think it is rather coward ly," taiil the bald headed professor to the Uy, "for a six footer like you to jump on me in this manner?" Wash ington Star. If tho llaby is Cuttinp Teeth. Tosnre ami ne that oM am! well triiil remolr, Jlcs. 1Vllo . 's Sootiii; Svri i- for Children Teething- I'oor Kind of Mixed Farming:. At a Dakota institute a farmer said. In North Dakota we have mixed farm ing of two kinds. The most common kind we meet with, is the farmer who mixes things up say, for instance, the man that will start to sow his crop without first knowing how many acres he has ready for crop of any kind, will sow his wheat without first cleaning it thoroughly, and will sow wheat as long as his seed holds out, then sow oats in the same way, and barley to follow, not knowing how many bush els it requires for each certain field, and without regard to how the land had been cropped and prepared, the previous year. Then when harv est comes, he is not done with his hay potatoes not all tended; so he is haying, harvesting and culti vating his potatoes at the same time threshing, plowing and hauling grain to market also. This is one kind of mixed farming a general mixing up of all kinds of work and hardly ever completing any one job at a time. Hut this is not the kind of mixed farming that pays in North Dakota, or any other state, I think. When you find a farmer of this kind, if you will go a little further and examine the regis ter of deeds' books you will be almost i certain to find a mortgage on the farm that has been farmed on this ! mixed plan. be uniform, from day to day, as near ly as possible. Sudden fluctuations of temperature or of moisture are not desirable. These are, however, but the requisites of a good cellar, and therefore any one that has a really good cellar can grow mushrooms. In some parts of the east where the mar ket gardeners are beginning to grow mushrooms on a large scale, cellars are being built for this purpose alone. If it pays to excavate and build cel lars for this crop it certainly will pay to grow them when the cellar is already at hand. As the mushrooms are to be grown in the winter as well as in the fall months, care should be taken to make the cellar impervious to cold, especially if the culture is to be on a large scale. If only a small j in the beds, and at this time a layer of about one inch of rich earth is placed -Sg" musiikoom nnns ix iwuis. over the bed. These beds have some times to be watered, especially if the season is very dry- How to Make Lemonade. The Journal of Hygiene says lemon ade is the most perfect of drinks; that it ought to be substituted for tea, cof fee and alcoholic drinks. This is the direction given for making it: "For a quart, take the juice of three lemons, usiniT the rind of one of them. Care fully peal the rind very thin, getting just the yellow outside. This cut into pieces anil put with the juice and pow- tiercu sugar, oi wnicn use two ounces to the quart, in a jug or jar with a cover. hen the water is at boiling point pour it over the lemon and sugar; cover at once and let get cold." Edible bird's nest is the ne3t of tho sea-swallow of tho Malay archipelago, a bird of the size of a common martin. It builds its nest cf a glutinous sub stance, which it is said to derivo from a sea weed. This weed is swallowed and partly digested, and then disgorged and fashioned into a nest as large as a coffee cup. "When fresh, these nests aro of a waxy-white color, and aro said to bo worth twice their weight in silver in the matket.t of China, where alono thoy are sold, tho general cost being $5 or more a pound, according to the ago of tho nests. The tasto of dishes pre pared from these nests is said to bo in sipid, but the Chineso prizo them, not, perhaps, so much for their taste, as for thoir supposed tonic and aphrodjsiao powers Make Your Own ltltters! Steketoes Dry Hitter. One ivickagc of StcKctcc's Dry Iittcr will make one Gallon of the best bitters known; will cure inrfiirotion. pains in tho stomach, fever and auite. Acts upon the Kitlneysatul Bladder; tlieliest tonic known. Sold by drturgisis or sent by mail, postage prepaid. Trice 30 rtn. for plnli. or tvr package for 10 els. U S. tami takrn in garment. Atldrea GEO. G. STEKKTKE. Ora-ul Uapi.l-. Mich. .-ollcltoiic. The elephant struggled madly. "Fly, dearest!" he exclaimed, "I am caught in a snare." Hut his faithful wife lingered yet a moment. Promise me." she urged, with trem bling voice, "that when you walk in the street parade before performances you will keep a sharp lookout for bi cycles." "Yes. Farewell!" "Farewell!" With a great sob she plunged into the jungle. Detroit Tribune. KarlN Clover Knot Tea. Tlicrnt m! piirinrr.cl.rr-Mim-!nlPl,am' to tho Complexion uml cur Cunstlimtiou. 23e.JiH:.,$I. Now Way of Scnlnir I'lncapnle. Where the pineapple is very fine and ripe, it may be brought to the table whole: it is a pretty dish, and can bo served by digging out the eyes, one or two at a time, with a cheese scoop or pointed spoon. The sections will bo found to run clear to the center, and will split as readily as thoe of an or ange. This method of serving a pine apple is that always used in I'higlaud for the fine hot house fruit, which never costs less than half a guinea. Pineapple thus served is eaten by hold ing in the hand and dipping the pieces in sugar, in the manner familiar to us for strawberries. Tho Modern lteauty Thrives on good food anil 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 gentle and pleasant liquid laxative Syrup of Figs. Thirty Mile in the Karth. Kev. Osmond Fisher, in a very reli able work entitled "Physics of the Earth's Crust," says that "'the rate of increase in temperature as the distance beneath the surface is augmented is. on the whole, and equable one anil may be taken to average about a degree for each 51 feet." Figuring on this state ment as the most reliable, we find that at a depth of thirty miles below the surface all known metals and rocks are in a state of white hot fusion. liegeman's Vt in pliur lot iv i 1 1 i I yrtr i n . Curesfiuiiiiiedll.iiiiNanilKaet-. Tender or Si rr'M-t. ChlltUiiis,tilt-. Ac. CO. Ci.irkO.N'W H-neii.tt. ' IlnnsonV Magic Corn Snlvp. W.irranttil ticiir-nr r.iuiy ri'tuiKii-tl. Ask your druggist for it. !: 1 j t-uts. Pickled A rri.ns. Take ripe, hard, sweet apples. Peel evenly, and if the annles are perfect leave them whole. ..... .. ..-.. i ' bed is to be matle, it will be better to j otherwise cut in quarters. To a peck experiment with the cellar just as Df apples take about two quarts of it is, to save expense. If the culture is in sufficient magnitude to warrant the outlay, make the win dows tight for the winter, by having double sash. This is needed anyway in most cellars to protect the vegeta bles stored there for winter keep. 1 f a door opens into the open air, it should be supplemented by another door, thus insuring freedom from gusts of cold air when the door is open. Jut inmost cases tins is unncc- . essary, as there will be an entrance ' from the house above or from some other room. As to shape of beds, ' there is no prescribed rule. The above cut shows only one form. They can be made flat if desired, or put in a box or on a shelf. Some growers on a small scale uti lize old casks.sawing them in two, and Ammunition In Africa. "All of the native Fganda soldiers I notice, had well filled cartridge belts round their waists. In my innocence, as I thought of all the thunders of the general act of the Prussels conference ami all the ordinances, enactments and regulations which hail been published thereafter by different powere having possessions on the African coast, I won dered how, in the very center of Africa these people were enabled to keep their belts so well replenished with cart ridges of different and of the most modern patterns. "I had not been a month in the country before I learned that, for those who had the wherewithal to trade, guns, powder, lead and all the instru ments of destruction thereunto apper taining could bi? as easily purchased In Iganda as Pall Mall." The Uritish Mission in Uganda, is;:;. A pail of cold water will purify tlio nir of a room. a llomeseekers Kxcursloiin South il.i the Wnhash Kailroad. On Sept. 11th. 25th and Oct. ittli tlio Wiit tnh will hell tickets nt half faro plus $ toa'I iH)ints in Tennessee, i except .Memphis) Misissiiii. Alabama and I.oui.Miim, lev opt New Orleans) Arkansas and Texas. For rates, tickets or a homeseokors iiidu giv ing full description of lauds, climate, etc . or for steamship tickets to or from nil parts of Kurope, call nt Wabash olliio, I5IIJ Farnam street, or write (. N. C'l.WTO.V, N. W. P. Agt, Omaliu, Neb. Lovo is a pamo in which tho jack iot is not to bo overlooked. Billiard Table, second-hand. For sa'o cheap. Appb to or address, H. C Akin, 511 S. lath St.. Omaha, NoU Denmark's dikos are over seven centuries old. PIERCE OK MO.E Guaran tees a mo.cv itfrriKXti. CU&2 vinegar and four pounds of sugar, half an ounce of mace, half an ounce of clovesand tlie same amount of allspice, all uuground, one tcaspoonful of mus tard seed, a few pepper grains aud a little salt. Heat the vinegar and sugar together till it boiis, skim well j put the spices into a thin muslin bag and auu to tlie vinegar, then put in the apples. Place over the lire, and stew slowly until the apples are soft. Then take out the apples, let the vine gar boil down and pcur it over the fruit; cover and put away. Ix churning by steam start the move ment slow at first to allow the cream to get thoroughly homogeneous and tempered. Have it about ." i degrees V. Aftpr n. lit.tlr rniirikpn tho inntinn ill it. l.onnmoc hricb- Tt rM.uimc v I ford writes of Har Harbor Three Home Seeker Kxcnrftion To all parts of tho West and Northwest via the Chicago, Millwaukeo fc St. Paul Kail sy at j radically half rates. Round trip tickets, good for return passage within twenty days from date of sale will bo so!d on SeptemLer 11 and a.1 and October 1), i"'M. For further information apply to tho nearest con on ticket agent or address (i. 11. Heaford. General l'assenger und Ticket .Agent, Chicago, 111. a. jiusimoosr house. usinc both end?. In such a case holes A NoOJajie Family. There is a rich retired merchant living in one of the many beautiful suburbs that sur rounded cultured Boston who has reared and educated quite a large family of boys and girls without even naming them or aUowing any one else to do so. He says a person has a per fect right to choose his or her own name, and he has rigorously insisted upon this idea carried out to the letter. All of his children have borne pet names until old enough to select one for themselves. Quite odd, is it not? A bit confusing, too, but a new idea, class butter there, and they are getting! and everything new is welcome. should be bored in the bottom of each tub, and a layer of soil placed in first. The stable manure is then put in, sometimes mixed with a small propor tion of loam. The greater part should, however, consist of manure. When the tub is half full of this soil and manure, put in the spawn, and fill tip tne tub with manure and earth well pressed down. The manure or compost may be rounded up if so desired. During the fall months, at least, mushrooms may be grown in the sheds or barns. If the beds are to be ex hausted during the summer and fall months even the open sheds might be used, especially when they are in pro tected localities. It will be safer to use closed sheds, as then the beds will survive any sudden fall frosts. In the cow shed, the horse stable, the car riage house and tool sheds may be found warm corners where mushroom thirty minutes to an hour to mike butter come. Occasionally, when the weather is atrainst it and the cream is from cows long in milk, over an hour is required. Pickled Watkhmklon Kind. To each quart of the best vinegar add i three pounds of the bast brown sugar, j four ounces of stick cinnamon and two ounces of cloves. Bruise the spices, tie in a muslin bag and boil with the vinegar for five minutes. Then pour 1 over the rind, letting it stand twenty- i four hours. Ilemove the liquid and. after heating it, pour it over the rind again and let it stand another twenty four hours, after which boil all to gether for a short time. Pickled Ph-jis To seven pounds of plums take four pounds of sugar and two ounces each of cinnamon stick and cloves, one quart of vinegar and a little mace. Put in the jar first a layer of plums, then a layer of spices; scald the vinegar and sugar together and pour over the plums, and when the jar is full f-cald all together. ' Heady for use at once. ' SriCEi) Cuni'AXTS. Three pounds white sugar.five pounds ripe currants, one tatltsDOoufu! each cinnamoD, nutmeg, cloves and alispicc. Boil currants one hour, then add su?ar. spices and one-half pint vinegar, boil one-half hour longer. Scribner's Magazine for September has a notable list of contributors, in cluding F. Marion Crawford, Thomas Nelson Page. Carl Lumholtz, Octave Tlianet. Mrs. .Tames T. Fields and Har riet Prescott SpofFord. Marion Craw- from the point or view of one who has seen most of the summer resorts of the world and has spent considerable time at Bar Harbor, viewing it as an outsider. With his power of description and his abun dant experience he writes with a vivac ity and freshness that is unusual in ar ticles of this kind. He has caught the very spirit of the place picturesquely, and suggests its quaint features social ly with a very amusing account of the evolution of the present Bar Harbor from the old fishing village. C. S. IJeinhart, who has made many sketch ing tours in that region, furnishes the illusration. Tho woman who is tired, and has liciv, dragging-! lo'vii sensations, -min in the K'i k, and headache, should take warning in tunc Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the lx-sfc tonic and nervine at this time. It's a jkisi tive remedy for all irregularities, weak nesses and derange ments of tho femolo. system. Tho " Prescription n, cures Ulceration and. Falling of tho Wornb, " Leueorrhea and Uter ine debility. Miss M.noin Cnow lev. of Jaiiifiitoim. i". I'., enys: "I feci as if I hud a new lease of life sineo takitur the l'rescriiitlon. 1 trust that others will llnd the,-? 6.une benefit from your wonderful medicine as I have." Miss Ciiowlev. T11K "LAN OP SELLING MEDICINES ON TRIAIh IS "ECULlAlt TO rfflffllfck f3!&aiiiKrr?iir- h&! 2k- jismr7i siUmrirZK i Cordia's are warming inatie confections. medicines, as aro- The p!ow would not go deep if the team had anything to say at,out it. 1 ho New Zealand Maoris 0u".eUJ a- res of land. own about 10,- Three short stories of unusual inter est appear in the Atlantic Monthly for September. They are "The Kidnap ped Bride," by Mrs. Cathcrwood, "For Their Brethren's Sake," by Grace How ard I'iorce, and "Tantc Cat'rinctte," by Kate ( hopin. One of the most strik ing contributions is "Old Boston Mary: A Kemembranre," by Josiah FlynL It is a graphic pen picture of a famous Boston vagrant by an author who has written much of tramps and tramp character. The September number is full of interesting articles, prose and poetry. HARVEST EXCURSIO SEPT.IItfc, SEPT. 25th, OCT. 8!f On these dates TJound-Trlp Tickets will be sold from Chicago. 1'eorla. M. J-ouls. ami other sta tions on tho ( 15. & l. jr. 1L. to the prit.-licl cities and farming regions of tlie Northwest, West and Southwest AT LOW RATES Many conneetlng railways will also .ell II.inet Excursion Tickets, on same terms. orr thi-s route. Tlie undersigned or anv agent of tho Burlington Iioute.aml most ticket agents of emi necting railways east of the Misslssl(iju ic-vt-r. will supply applicants with Hanest Lxcurstou folders giving full particulars. P.S. EUSTIS.Gall-aM'riadTidttig'ar, fOMMJO-iea. CHICAGO. ILL. la-paioiAauoHX -..-ioie;s, diOIlp WMftblMtflon, I.. 0 Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Lata Principal Examiner U B. Pension Liurepu. 3 jrs 1 n liut war, 1 5 aJJ udlcatlug cUian, at ty nuitx. HI ICC PAPER 1,000 -rMl"fh.x free. CUNNCL'S MONTHLY, Toledo. Oh. o. CmMBMBtlvea and people I I WHO nave weaclnnssor .6tn- Ba.snoaldtu Piso's Cure for Consumption. It hat eared taaad. It has not injur-1 caona. jiisboi Dai toiaxe. It 1st bo r5i cooga sjrup. Sold everrwaerr-. a..c. W IV II, Omaha 37, lMa tllieu Auawenii AuieniAeiueul Mentiou tnU pcr. J&lUMl A V