I
Don't Offer a Reward
Tor your lost appetite. AH know that It Is a
valuable piece of personal property, but why go
to thecxpsasetrhea Hostettcr's Stomach Bit
ters will restore It to you. A courss of that un
paralleled tonic and corrective not only induces
a return or the relish for food, but conrers
upon the- stomach tho power to gratify
appetite without unpleasant sensations
afterward. For the purpose of quicken
Ins digestion, arousing a dormant liver or
kidneys, and establishing a regularity of
the bowels, no medicine can exceed this
gcninl family cordial, in which tho pure
alcoholic principle is modified by blending with
it botanic elements of the highest efficacy.
Avoid the llery unalloyed stimulants of com
merce as a means of overcoming inactivity of
uny of the onrans above mentioned, and use,
instead, the Hitters. This professionally sanc
tioned medicine remedies malarial and rheu
matic ailments.
The finest floors are said to be seen in
Russia. For those of the highest grade
tropical woods are exclusively employed.
Fir and pine are never used, as in conse
quence of trieir sticky character they at
tract and retain dust and dirt, and there
by soon become blackened. Pitch pine,
too, is liable to shrink, even after being
well seasoned. The mosaic -wood floor
in Russia are of extraordinary beauty.
The sweetest apples make3 the sourest
cider.
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
Hew Successful Farmers Operate Tale
Department of the Homestead Hlate
a to the Care of Lire Stock and
Poultry.
Hood's Is the Best
Fall Medicine, because it purifies, vitalizes
and enriches the blood, and therefore
gives ftrensth to resist bad effects from
Colds, Catarrh, Kheumatiiii, Pneumonia,
Malaria, the (rip, etc. Take it now and
avoid the dancer of eorious illness. It may
fare 3-011 many dollars In doctors' bills.
Be sure to get Hood's and only Hood's.
Hood
Sarsa
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was In a very bad condition. Now I am
free from neuralgia and better In every
way." Mas. II. CouLnian, Hume, N. X.
Kood'S Pills cure all liver ills, biliousness,
jaundice, indigestion, sick headache. Sue.
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Souree of the Itnttcr riavor.
Storr's experiment station bulletin
has the following.
The butter arcma appears in the but
ter as the result of the ripening pro
cess. Sweet-cream butter does have
this delicious flavor, and while there
is a demand in our market?, perhaps a
growing demand, for sweet-cream but
ter, it never develops the delicate
flavor known as the butter aroma.
During ripening, certain changes take
place in the cream, some of which we
understand, and others which are at
present beyond the reach of chemical
knowledge. The composition of
cream is essentially the same as that of
milk, except in the higher proportion
of fat It is made up chiefly of butter
fat in the form of globules, of casc'.n
in a partial suspension in the liquid.of
milk-sugar in solution, and of a small
amount of albumen, the form of an
extremely delicate network of fibers
which we call fibrin. Cream always
contains a large number of bacteria,
yeasts and molds, which are the active
agents in ripening. The sources of
these mizro-organisms are varied.
They are not present in the milk
when secreted by a cow, but find
their way into it in a variety of ways.
Some come froji the air, some from
the hairs of the cow, some from the
dust of the barn, some from
the hands of the milker, some
the milk vessels, and others
other sources of contamina
The chances of contamination
arc sufficient to stock the milk with
an abundance of these organisms
under all circumstances. By the time
the cream has reached the creamery
from
from
tion.
"If an infectious disease breaks out
in the family or among the stock of a
member, the member must immedi
ately cease to deliver milk at the dairy
nntil the disease has disappeared and
his farm has been properly -disinfected.
In the event of sickness among the
staff of the dairy, the dairyman shall
have the sick person removed immedi
ately, and the dairy must be disin
fected. Any infringement of this
clause shall be punished by a fine up
toS25.
"It shall be the duty and right of
the directorate and of the dairyman,
whenever they think fit, to visit the
members' farm3, and to inspect the
sheds, fedder lofts, and troughs,
fields, milking sheds, eta, and the
members must give them all necessary
help and information. If it is after
ward found out that a member has
concealed anything or given false in
formation, he shall be fined from 3s
31 to lis per cow, and make good any
loss or damage he may have occa
sioned. "
j:iifrlish Duck i"aniiln
The equipment of an English
duck farm is very simple, says
Dr. Frean. One or two wooden
sheds, each with a run in front,
are sufficient. Tie c'assiflcatlon
of the ducklings is determined by
age. They are, accordingly, divided
into "llojks"' of one wek old, two
weeks old, and other ages At a week
old a flok of Aylesbury ducklings is
an extremely pretty sight. Each bird
is a little bill of yellow, fluffy down,
furnished with a bill of delicate helio
trope color. The youngsters are very
nimble, and keep together as they
ruu up or down,or across their limited
range, uttering continually the plain
tive call which fails upon the ear al
most like a plea for protection. As
age advances, the feathers turn white
and the bills grow paler. Very com
monly the run is littere.1 with straw,
upon which the little creatures will
peacefully nestle on a drowsy, sunny
afternoon. As an example of econ
omy in small things, it may be noted
that the straw is periodically gathered
A Lover of Poultry.
Keeping poultry teaches love in its
broadest sense. It compels man to lore
his home, to watch the little matters,
to be regular, to be frugal, to be in
dustrious, says Homestead. All these
go to make up a happy life, and to be
in love with that which is dear to him.
It is as old saying that he who has no
pets has no love for home. The woman
who delights in the company of neither
bird nor animal, finds the society of
gossips and street runners the most
attractive. The poultry woman makes
the model wife. City life has no charms
for her. Her home and her fowls are
everything, and in them she finds com
fort, health and strength. The pa
tient, kind hearted woman alone makes
a success in egg and poultry culture,
while the fickle-minded, grumbling
female would not think of stooping so
low as to "mingle with such pests."
A once poultry woman was, by force
of circumstance, taken from her
country home to a tenement in the
city. Although she lives in a more
elaborate dwelling, and owns finer
furniture, she is cooped up in a nar
iow court amid the noise and din of
slop carts and drayages. "If I could
only get out of this way of liying,"
she said, "back again to a rural home,
where I could keep poultry as I used
to. Then I always had money and
clothing many a month I made more
clear money with my fowls than my
husband did with his crops but, help
ing a friend on a note did it, and here
we are; the mint has passed out of oar
hands. Were it not for the disgrace
I would far rather live all my life in
a real jail, behind genuine iron bars,
than to subsist from hand to mouth in
this prison they call city life." If
there were more such sensible women
in this world there would be less half
starving families in the cities.
One Sided Dairy Knowledge.
Beware of the man of one experience.
His knowledge is very exact, but it is
too narrow. In an esteemed contem
porary we find a man writing about
garget his cows all got it, and be
cause he was feeding four parts of corn
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flood Farnilns I.and on Hallroads near
Kood towns from ti 09 per aero tip. huie
crops no drought JUKI winters and
KUiiimrrN. CIom? to Kastern markets.
Chrap ICoundTlip l:tes to go and look
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Latel-rindpalKxamlnt-r U S Prnslon Buresc.
3jrslu last war, ljaiudicatm-clxous, atty slnra.
it contains a quantity of organisms
varying widely with temperature and
other conditions.and it is to these that
the subsequent ripening is due. Dur
ing the period of ripening the organ
isms are growing and producing pro
found changes in the cream. Bac
teria are primarily destructive agents.
During their growth they are pulling
to pieces some of the chemical com
pounds of the cream and reducing
them to a condition of greater sim
plicity, giving rise to a greater num
ber of so-called decomposition pro
ducts. Chemistry has not yet explained
all of these changes. A few of them
we partially understand. We know
mat some 01 roe organisms act upon
milk-sugar, converting it into lactic
acid, with the carbonic gas as a by
product We know, also, that some
times butyric acid is produced, and
that sometimes ferments similar to
rennet and trypsin make their appear
ance in ripenitig cream. Alcohol is
also a common product, so muclt so
thtt the butter flavor has sometimes
been attributed to this product alone.
if
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Western Pass'r Agt. C. & 0. R. R. Mangers la Dairies
ST. LOUIS. MO. A foreign exchange calls attention
to the great danger that meets the
B a- IbJ milk consumer, when said milk is
drawn from a large number of cows
scattered over many farms, unless
some rigid system of inspection be in
vogue. Milk is known to be a good
medium for the carrying of disease
germs, and certain maladies are spread
through whole communities in this
way. 1 f scarlet or typhoid fever, for
instance, breaks out on a farm, from
which milk is being shipped, there is
i great danger that the germs of those
1 fevers will be carried to the factory,
, and thence scattered far an I wide
Dr. Welply of England, writing on
I this point, says:
'Dairy farming has been partly
. revolutionized by the adoption of
J creameries, to which a number of
faimers send their milk. The milk of
, all is there mixed together, the cream
removed, and some of the mired skim
milk-known as separated milk-is then
sent back to the farms. The common
danger becomes evident as soon as at
tention is pointedly drawn to the fact
that a group of dairies is thus placed
in intimatu relation with each other.
The milk going out from one goes to
all, and bears with it any impurity
that it may have acquired at its
I original source. Instinctively, one
thinks of the many diseases that may
thus be scattered widely over a dis
trict, and pre-eminently of caolera,
typnoia lever, scarlatina and diph
i thcria, epidemics of which have fre
quently been caused by infected milk,
' but such speculations mav bp snM
Isde new. no niafer what con- K nnnlv imamniirr. .:,l..
dition they ate m. .kb. hat TC Pureiy imaginary, without a prac
tical example, and the power of sup
plying that proof is ray reason for
writing this article."
The evidence adduced appears to us,
as aforesaid, to be incontestable. Ad
ding me cases in tne rural district to
those investigated in a town,
welply lound sixty-one cases of
typhoid fever, every one of which was
capable of being easily traced back to
the imported one. Fiftv-two con-
4lM!."t4-tfftsl 4ria rlipnncA l.AA4l al 1
NEBRASKA CLOTHING s"rt " i ""-"-" "c caac unctny mrougn
CoMuTandDouSiss "omahV. vv' . the creamery, and the remaining nine
inairecuy oy means 01 looa or milk
irom aair.es wnicn oecame infected
secondarily. The opinion here
up, shaken out elsewhere to dry and
sweeten, and then strewn again upon
the run or under the shed. In one casa,
where a large shed is used for the
ducklings, the straw is taken out
daily, and the mud floor swept, sprin
kled with a weak solution of carbolic
acid, and dusted with lime before the
straw is put back again. Great care
has to be exercised in keeping the
ducklings healthy, and cleanliness is
necessarily a first consideration. In
the spring of the year, a duck rearer
near Tring lost 1,000 ducklings, and
attributes their untimely death to a
species of louse, caught from the brood
hens, lie opines, fastening on the back
of the neck. It will be understood
that the young birds destined to be
killed as ducklings are never allowed
to roam at large, nor do they go on
the water, the object being to reduce
the wear and tear on the muscular
tissue to a minimum, so that as much
as possible of the food may be utilized
in adding to the we'ght of flesh
upon the bird. As the ducklings
are never kept for breeding purposes,
this somewhat unnatural mode of life
can have in ill effects of an heredi
tary nature. Sach water as the duck
lings are allowed access to is sup
plied to them in small troughs or shal
low vessels, and they use it for bath
ing and drinking purposes. The
duck rearers are very particular as to
the k"nd of grit which is given in the
drinking water. Where a large num
ber of birds of the same age are kept
together, it is usual, except when they
come to the front to feed, to partition
them off into smill "flock," of about
100 birds each. This is easily done
by means of planks about one foot
wide, set on edge, so as to divide the
ground space into a number of rec
tangular areas. The object of this is
to prevent the birds froai overcrowd
ing, and possibly killing the weakjr
ones oy ovenying. js tne u ras re
turn from feeding they are succes
sively partitioned off as fast as a suf
ficient ntrnber enter tha shed. Whn
the birds get larger with advancing
age, it is found expedient to conSne
fewer in each pen say two dozen or
so.
meal to one of bran, he attributes all
his troubles to corn meal, and advises,
as does the paper, against too much
corn meal. All of my cows got garget
once, and I had been feeding them on
shorts, or a rich kind of bran with no
corn meal, ergo, .do not feed shorts.
Probably others could give a like ex
perience with all the other popular
feeds until we CGuld not feed anything.
Again I say, beware of the man with
one experience. His limited knowledge
makes him the more positive in his
opinions, lie who really knows it all
knows there are two very strong sides
to all questions, with any number of
conditions to be taken into considera
tion. Farm and Home.
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Skt.kct the earliest hatched, largest
and best formed turkeys for breeding
purposes securing a mate not related
to the females in a near degree. Keen
the liens until seven or eight years
old, or so long as they continue to lay
well and keep their young are strong
andvigcrcu. Keep the males until
i three or live years old, and the breeder
will be well satisfied with the trial,
says American Poultry Ilaiser. In se
lecting your foundation ttock, dis
card all the various named colors,
white, buff, yellotv-mbred, slate or
blue black, and keep only the origi
nal of the color of the progenitors of
our domestic turkeys which :s a black
with a bronz2 or metallic tinge,
the nearest to tho color of a solid
Dr. I bla;k the nearest are you to the shade
oi me true oreeu Tne different off
colors are nice pretty birds to kteo for
ornamental purposes. A black or nice
white turkey is a beautiful sighs on a
well kept lawn cf a retired gentleman
farmer, but for practical use or for
profit it is quite useless to bother with
them.
Black fowls, though they dress
white, are not easily denuded of the
SHORT BA.SI) AND TXTE-FBITiXG.
OMestand EestBasiress C'lle la the West. No
racaUon. Tfaonsants 1 ciadnaie s and old undents
ecemytat- psyln- poitl -n-. Write for catalorne.
opinion nere ex
pressed was fully confirmed by a medi
cal oflScer of the local government j pin-feathers (that is, pin-feathers are
board, who subsequently made an j more easily seen and noticed), and in
independent and exhaustive in- j seme markets the color of the legs has
vestigation. Wherever there is ' mucb-lo tl with the sales of the car-
a creamery, Dr. Welply says, there ; caRics-
should bo a public inspector of tne I Keep our chickens well supplied
u-ii.cs mat ..uppty muic to ir, and lie with cone meal and notice 'what
4uuit: mc ruies in iorcj in uenmark, I difference in the mornin' there will
of which two are as follows: j be iu your eg'r crop.
The CAiutAGr. Maggot. Extensive
depredations of this maggot are re
ported this summer by the market
gardeners of Long island. The early
cabbage suffered very severely from
them, while the late planted varieties
are almost entirely free. It has
lately been learned that the insect
lives and breeds on the charlock or
wild mustard and other plants of the
mustard family, in the absence of cab
bage plants. The omission to grow a
crop of cabbages will not, therefore,
ensure a riddance of the insect the
following year, unless at the same
time the ground has been kept free of
weeds, especially those of the mustard
tribe. One of the best means of pre
venting the attack of the insect, which
lays its eggs on the young plants soon
after transplanting, is to wind a bit
of tissue paper around each plant
Hut this is expensive except in private
garden operations on a small scale. A
number of substances have been used
for the purpose of killing the maggots,
but none really satisfactory. Prof.
Slingerland of the Cornell experiment
station, is at work on this nroWpm.
The insect from which the maggot
comes has until lately been thought
to be Anthomyia brassica), but lately
it has been learned that this is a mis
take, and it is doubtful if the insect
which bears this name is in this
country. The true name is now said
to be Phorbia floccosa. Vick's Maga
zine. Money in Pakminf. There is no
trouble in making farming pay for the
labor bestowed upon it, together with
a good per cent on the value of the
property concerned. We know this
from our own operations, and we also
see it illustrated by any number of
farmers round about us. The idea
that there is no money in fanning is
all nonsense. (So through any com
munity of farmers and it will be found
they are generally getting on well in
the world. Anything different from
this is twe exception to the rule. At
the same time they have but a small
capital invested, yet they spend money
freely, have more of the comforts,
luxuries and pleasures of life than
any other class of laboring people,
and in addition, as a rule, lay bv
something each year out of the profits
of their business. Ex.
Dipping Hens fok
pleasant work to dip a lot of hens in
orcer to rid them of lice, says Farm
and Fireside. The best substances to
use are some of the well-known sheep
dips. The hens should be held by the
legs, heads down, with one hand
holding the head. Dip them with the
head under first, and let the solution
cover every portion of the body, not
even the toes excepted. Pull them to
and fro in the tub two or three times
and set them free. It should be done
only on warm, clear days.
A sow that has been tried and
a i proved herself a good mother should
Klml of Horse to Breed.
M. Butter arorth, 6peaking at a Mis
souri convention, said: The question
of the day is what kind of horse to
breed. So long as American farmers
find stock raising the chief reliance,
draft horse breeding must be the most
profitable and substantial branch of
agriculture. So long as the cities and
factories continue to grow, so long
w U the demand for good draft horses
continue, and good prices be main
tained in all the leading markets of
the world. While many farmers con
tent themselves with usingsmall scrub
horses on the farm, it does not pay to
raise them; be ter raise a big high
grade colt that will at maturity sell
for enough to buy two little horses.
The farmer that will content himself
with only small horses to do the farm
work generally breeds to a cheap
horse and raises a cheap colt, while
the more enterprising farmer breeds
to the best imported horse available.
and raises a colt to be proud of, that
grows rapidly, and when 2 years
old is so well matured that he can
work enough to pay his board, and.
when 3 years old, drive to town
with a load, and he can take a load
that is a load. The horse buyers are
continually asking your price for that
horse, while the farmer driving the
little scrub never is asked such ques
tions, ttut it pays to keep these big
grades until they are 4 or n years
old to thoroughly mature and harden
them for the city work. The dealers
who are eager to buy our young draf .
grades have them matured further
east and double their profit It pay
our western farmers to keep them
to maturity. Few farmers can afford
the luxury of a non-producing team
of geldings or mules that can
not breed. M.iny of our western far
mers find the draft mares the most
profitable and the most practical farm
team for heavy plowing with a big
plow, for hauling all our heavy farm
machinery, for taking large loads of
grain to market and large loads of
manure to the fields, and when once
we use them on the farm we will never
do without them. Some here may say
they are too big and clumsy and too
slow for them. The model draft horse
is not clumsy or slow; the American
draft horse is not bred on that line; as
to size, we want all the size we can
get; there will be, in spite of our best
efforts, too many small horses. We
must have better mares to raise the
better class of extra heavy draft
and coach horses for the city markets,
(irade up as fast as possible, keep all
the good mares and thev will breed
better with each additional cross;
breed to the best of sires and you will
have the best colts. Then you will
take better care of them, and best of
all, get the best prices. You will not
have to hunt a buyer or sell on time.
If France, with her 3,000,003 horses,
has increased her exportation from
10,000 in 1S80 to 3G.000 in 1859. what
might we do in ten years with our 1 1,
000,000 horses if they were only the
right kind, if they only had the size
for the foreign mirkets. Our export
of horses last year was less than four
thousand head; let the good work of
improvement go on until American
horses are the equal of the horses of
any European country, and good
enough to suit the best markets of the
vorld.
Tight, close collars, which aqveeze
the eye of hones in puttlms; them on,
are also very injurious to tns eyes of
the animals. I hare known one esse
of permanent injury to the eyes of an
excellent horse iron, this cause. Car
riage and draft horses should be pro
Tided with divided collars, secured
either at the top or bottom, so that
they are not required to be forced over
the heads of the animals.
The Work of leaves.
In the fall of the year the deciduous
trees shed their leaves, the organs by
which they derive nutrition from the
atmosphere in the form of carbonic
acid. Daring the period of growth
each leaf is an active chemical
laboratory, drinking in carbonic acid,
decomposing it, assimilating the car
bon and giving off the superfluous
oxygen. This decomposition of the
carbonic acid takes place only during
the day. Light is essential to the pro
cess, and our short winter days do not
furnish it in sufficient quantity; more
over, leaves are delicate structures,
affording very little protection from
cold to the sap circulating through
them, and would, consequently, if
they remained on the tree, be killed
by the first frost, causing a sudden ar
rest of all the functions of life, and a
consequent shock to the system which
would almost certainly be destructive
of life. The transpiration of plants is
a very active process; the water
taken up by the roots carries
small quantities of nutritive matter in
solution, this is assimilated by the
plant and the water given off by the
leaves. An idea of the activity of the
process will be gathered from the state
ment that a sunflower three feet high
requires double its own weight of water
every twenty-four hours. With a fall
of temperature, the roots cease to take
up water. The pores of a pumpkin
root close at a temperature of 45 de
grees Fahrenheit The leaves con
tinue to transpire, and the plant
gradually dies; the leaves wither for
want of moisture and are no longer
capable of performing their functions.
Do You Wish the
Finest Bread and Cake ?
It is conceded that the Royal Baking Powder is the
purest and strongest of all the baking powders.
The purest baking powder makes the finest, sweetest,
most delicious food.
The strongest baking powder makes the lightest food.
That baking powder which is both purest and strong
est makes the most digestible and wholesome food.
Why should not every housekeeper avail herself of
the baking powder which will give her the best food
with the least trouble ?
Dr. Haines, of Rush Medical College, Consulting
Chemist of the Chicago Board of Health, says: "Royal
is not only the purest, but the strongest baking powder
with which I am acquainted."
To Fat to Walk.
Sitting as a profession would seem a
novelty, but that is the professfon fol
lowed by a man in Indianapolis. His
name is Harry .lenningsi He weighs
3C0 pounds and his good nature is in
proportion to his superabundance of
flesh. So fat is he that walking is al
most out of the question, but he man
ages to go from place to place where
he serves at his profession. He has
several customers, they are men who
conduct oflices, but who employ no
clerks, and in order to keep their offices
while they go to lunch or other meals,
employ Jennings to occupy a chair and
I attend to business which may "drop
in" during their abscence. One of
, these otlices has a telenhone. nnd .Ton.
The fall of the leaves at the beginning nings takes a seat at the telephone
Ui V UV4 4U VUUO UXiVWaJQUll bvr wuc
is thus
plant's protection. If they were killed
off suddenly by the frost while in the
active exercise of their functions the
congelation of the large quantity of
water circulating through the plant
would rupture the tissues and cause
death; but the water in circulation
having been gradually evaporated at
an earlier stage, the plant is in no
danger from this cause.
where he will not have to stir durintr
tho hour he is on duty. His great
pleasure is to sit in a revenue position
m a chair with his chin resting on the
back. He will sit this way for hours
without hardly moving. He draws a
pension for obesity, Indianapolis Sen
tinel. ' SlOO Reward SIOO.
. Tho renders of this paper will be pleased
to I earn that there is at least ono dreaded
I disease that science has lieen able to cure
1 ? i, j. . ..... . . ... ...
in an us stages, ana mat is catarrn. Halls
M C T,tta in n.rpnnrttntVi Wrmt- r,,,nrrh Cl,re is tll on,v Positive cure
M. o. iTTA in a report to the What- , kllown to tho ,ncuical fmternitv. Catarrh
Am linitinn tniHi enntattr of Wael i ..: ..'...; , , -
buu -ivriv.uu.... ouivnj va iaau-t nciu u cuusiiiuuonai disease,
mrrton state, says of nroparratinsr and ' constitutional treatment.
IlimIno4 Anions Horses.
It has been stated that blindness is
more prevalent among horses in
America than among those of othe
countries. If this is the case th.
causes of the evil should be investi
gated and removed if possible withou.
delay. It is the fact that blindness i
more prevalent among horses in Ohi
than those of any other section of tht
country, says the New York World
The cases of blindness are attribute'
in a great measure to over-feeding, th.
Ohio horses being notoriously fat I;
is a common practice to force the fa
upon horses intended for sale by stuff
ing them principally with Indian corn,
and keeping them without service it
warm close stables. This method oi
feeding soon fattens a horse, but at
the same time its digestive function.'
are injured by the treatment It i
now believed that blindness can b
traced to a sympathetic relation be
tween disorder of the digestive organ
and the brain, and that through
the latter the optic nerve
becomes diseased and ends in destroy
ing the vie ion. Blindness is also fre
quently transmitted to the offspring,
and thus an evil, first originating in
disease, also becomes a defect by he
reditary descent Errors in feeding
horses, as is well known, also pro
duce blind staggers and organic dis
eases of the brain, therefore the
greatest care should be exercised in
feeding them. In order to prevent
the spread of horse blindness it is rec
ommended that whenever tli3 animal
shows the least symptoms of the dis
ease it should be kept on a light diet
of hay and oats. A horse may be
maintained in good condition on
twelve pounds of hay and five pounds
of oats for daily food. In breeding
horses it is also recommended that all
animals showing the least symptoms
of organic disease be rejected. One
of the first symptoms incident to
blindness, which any person may
readily notice, is the disposition of
the animal to raise his forelegs unnec
essarily high, while, at the same time,
the ears were drawn back and forth in
quick succession, and thus giving sure
evidence that the sagacious animal is
sounding the ground over which he
travels. These are the principal ideas
advanced by most veterinarians re
specting the cause of prevalent horse
blindness in our country and a mode
of arresting the spread of the evil.
There are some other causes of this
disease which appear more evident,any
of which are perfectly capable of re
moval. Blind horses are more com
mon in cities than in the rural dis
trict?. This is principally caused by
bad stables. Many of them are under
ground cellars, and with few excep
tions all stables are too smalL They
Lice. It is not ' do not admit a sufficient quantity of
fresh air for ventilation and
respiration, and this always tends
to injure the health of the
animals. Light is as essential
to the health of horses as that of men,
::nd yet most stables are nearly as
dark as dungeons. It would be far
better for most of the horses in our
Ities to be kept in open sheds than in
tne stables commonly provided for
them. I am also positive that eye
blinds on the harness tend to injure
fie eyes of horses, and as they are to
tally useless and unsightly append
ages they should be abandoned entire-
training the currant: In order to ob
tain the most satisfactory and profit
able returns we take cuttings for
propagation from bushes that produce
the largest amount of good-sized ber
ries, marking them at the time of
picking the fruit for that Durpo.se, and
our largest yields are invariably ob
tained in this way, in some instances
nicking thirteen pounds of fruit from
.i single stock, as trained in tree form,
vhile under the same conditions it
-vould take an average of three or
four of the cherry variety to yield an
equal amount While the currant will
bear as much or more neglect than
any other of the edible fruits, yet
.one of them respond so generously
to high and thorough cultivation, nor
pay a greater percentage on care and
abor. The plant is a gross feeder
.nd will assimilate readily any of the
coarser of the barnyard or other ma
tures; it is easily propagated from
.uttings of about eight inches in
ength, of the new wood taken
'torn the bush at any time
rom the falling of the leaves
n late summer until the buds are fair
y out in the spring; we take cuttings
in the fall and heel them in the ground
.uring the winter, covering them
ightly with mulch or rough litter,
nd plant them out as early as the
'round can be properly worked in the
-pring; if heeled in the fall, during
the winter the callus for the develop
ment of the roots is formed at the
ase of the cutting, and they make a
jiuch better growth the following
eason than if taken from the bush
and planted out in the spring. In
plantine out cuttings we rub off all
buds excepting the two nearest the
top; we place them in the ground with
the top bud about on a level with the
surface and tramp or press the soil
very firmly around them; if these
methods are carefully observed there
will be no difficulty in getting a large
proportion of the cuttings to grow.
requires a
Hall's Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
utxni the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying tho foundation
of the dii-easo. and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work. Tho
proprietors have so much faith in its cura
tive powers, that they ofTerOuo Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address. F.J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
C3?"Sold bv Druggists, 7."c.
Hall's Family Fills t5c.
Xu Pontage Stamp Sold.
In Mexico when the mail arrives at
the postotlice the names of people to j
whom letters are addressed are written t
on a slip'of paper and posted on a bul
letin board. Merchants go every morn
ing to examine this announcement, and
if they find their names on the list
iiand their cards to the delivery clerk,
who hands them their mail. No post
age stamps are sold, but those having
letters to mail take them to the post
master, who sticks the stamp on. In
He Was Overcome.
He called liimself a commercial trav
eler, bnt vnlgar people stylo Iiini a
drummer. Ho walked into a hotel of
fice and proceeded to place his several
pieces of lnggnge in the keeping of a
son of Ham. Then lie carelessly took
up a pen and wad registering his naiuo
when a good-sized sample of tho cimex
lectularius made its way slowly across
the page of the register. Tho drum
mer stopped snddenly, and, after taking
a long look at the insect, he cried:
"Well, I've traveled all over the United
States, and put up at all sorts of hotels,
bnt I'm Mowed if this isn't the first
house I ever struck where those things
come down-stairs and find out tho num
ber of a fellow's room."
He said to her: "Tho moon is al
ways just the same, and yet I always
find some new beauty in it." She said
to him : " It's just so with the circus."
He bought tickets for two.
Make Your Own llltterat
Steketeen Dry lilt tern.
One package of Stcketeo's Dry Bitters
will make one Gallon of the best bitters
known: will cure indigestion, pains in tho
stomach, fover and acne. Acts upon the
Kidneys and Bladder: tho best tonic known.
Sold by druggists or sent by mail, postage
lrepM. Trice in ct fur Mnjile . or tw pad-atc for
(0 ct.4. V- S. Mm taken In parmrat. AilJreei
GEO. O. STEKETKK. Craiul Hai.Ms. Mich.
A few weeks ago some minors discov
ered in the mountains near Bonanza
City, Idaho, the mammoth head and
horns of a mountain ram firmly imbedded
in a pine tree some eighteen inches in
diameter. Tho tree had grown around
the head, leaving the horns protruding.
As the horns are some twenty feet from
the ground, everybody is speculating us
to how that mm get its head into tho
tree at such nn elevation.
Karl's CIuTCr Knot Tra,
I Tlit-creat ISIimhI Iurin.r.i;ltirr-t.lin...snM,lrt"irn"r
1 tJtli-Comltfxiuii.iiitlL-iii-Cii-tiutloii. "i-.X-.,V-
Franco has an anti-tobacco league,
and the president of the affair has
cordially endorsed the elevation of
M. Ca.siinir-l'erier to the chief magis
tracy of the republic because the lat
ter is not a smoker. "lie does, occa
sionally, it i true, dip his hand into
a cigarette box, but after a whiff or
two he throws the poisonous weed
awav. "
all public places men are found sittin
around provided with pen, ink and if the itahr ! cuttioR Teeth,
paper, ready to conduct the corrcspon- iiireniinctiiatoM pi -iitri.-i remciv, sins,
dence of any one who has not the abil- . wim.ow s south;-... s m i- for eiuijrm TretiiinK.
iiy to do so. The number of these Lizzie Uamiton, it itiforvri woman
. . j , ........ ..... ..o...v..,o. .., t jivmg m union county, ooutii uaroiinn.
That
With the
health an
liness, which follows the use of Svrnn
of Fig.s. is unknown to the few who
have not progressed beyond the old
time medicines ami tho cheap substi
tutes sometimes offered but never ac
cepted by the well informed.
gave birth to two children of the Simn
i ese-twin order. Theyare joined togrth-
tlnvful Feeling:
exhilarating sense of renewed I er hi' n ion of th(' breast-lninc, having
d strength and internal clean- i b"t e navel, but suimciI to have two
seis oi liiiesiiucs cnuiiucu in one eavny.
Tlioy are living ami attracting much at
tention. ' llannn' IIair ('urn ulv.,t
Wamint! lniiroor n,.iuA r-fiHi,lnl. Alt ntir
drugget for It. J'rix-Uivntv.
in nearly all cases be kept as loner as ! iv. The open bridle has become more
she can be made serviceable. " .,mon. but it ould be universal.
KoiiKhage for Co us.
John W. Delk, writing in Epitomist,
says: We have been testing for seme
time the different kinds of roughage
commonly raised on the farn,, and find
that common fodder corn is one of the
best for the cows giving milk. Our
cows do better, give more milk, and
produce more butter when fed on it
during winter than any other kind we
have tried, and we get such a large
yield from the ground, as compared
with other kinds of roughage, making
from seven to eight tous of the very
choicest per acre when it is cured and
housed as it should be. When it is
cut at the right stage, and properly
cured, our cows even eat the stalks, so
there is but very little waste. Sorg
hum is our next preference; it makes
an excellent feed for cows in milk,and
isoneofthe best for youDg cattle.
Our cattle will all stay fat and sleek
on it, but the ones in milk, when
changed from sorghum roughage to
that of fodder corn, show a
slight increase, both in milk and
butter. Hence we recommend
fodder corn, in preference to
other hay or roughage, for it has been
proven to be a fact, here in the south,
that sorghum hay could not be excelled
by many others for dairy cattle, and
some even went so far as to say that
it was the best none excepted. Let
that be as it may, our experience has '
proven to us that the fedder corn pro
duced the greater amount of milk and
butter, and that is what we feed and
attend to our cows for. It not onlv
proves to be gcod in winter, but in
the dry, hot weather of late summer.
Wnen our pastures are failing, we find
that a bundle of fodder corn not only
increases the amount of butter, but is
eaten with a relish by the cows. It
may not produce as much per acre as
some, fuch as sorghum, cow-pea3, etc.,
but will make more than the major
part of our haying plants per acre,
besides giving so much more beneficial
results.
Home Fruit Cake. Three teacup
fuls flour sifted with three teaspoon-
fuls Price's cream baking powder, one
teacupful each brown sugar and
molasses, half a teacupful of butter,
three eggs, half a teaspoonful each
allspice, cloves, cinnamon and nut
meg, and half a pound each stoned
raisins, currants, citron and figs cut
fine, with one teacupful nut meats.
Mix the fruit and spices together the
day before making the cake. Hake in
a slow oven.
A Floral Jlyntery.
The Chinese, Japanese and Siamese
are particularly skillful at botanical
feats. One of their wonderful achieve
ments is known as the "changeable
rose.'' This bloom is white in the
shade and red in the sunlight. After
night or in a dark room this curiosity
of the rose family is a pure white blos-
som. When transferred to the open
air the transformation immediately
steps in, the time of the entire change
of the flower from white to the most
i sanguine of sanguine hues depending
on the degree of sunlight and warmth.
First the petals take on a kind of
WMt.wf! nt f?i,i.wl ltliio itnlnr nnrl i-iniill,'
change to a faint blush of pink. The'
pink gradually deepens in hue until
you find your lilly-whitc rose of an
hour before is as red as the reddest
peony that ever bloomed.
A xecuo, after gazing at somo Chi
nese, shook his head and solemnly said :
"If de white folks be so dark as dat out
ilar, I wonder what's de color of do black
folks?"
IIr,inn,4'.iiilir !rt,vltli Glycorinr.
Cure('iiamiHaniIarit!rai .TVrnl"rnrSr-l,'W.
CluIblaln.l'iU-,A CO. Clark Co. .S-w il.it hii. it.
Positive
chafed.
opinions are not easily jmr-
Private indifference kills public spirit.
Milliard Table, second-hand. For .aIo
cheap. Apply to or address-. H. ( Akin,
.111 S. 12th St . Omaha. Neb.
TAX ami FKF.CKI.KS warranted to be
remitted by No. v;77,H40. Hcnt by mail
ititli instructions, on receipt of price, 50c,
by SNOW, LUND & CO.. Omaha, Neb.
genius is a man who does something
that others snv cannot I e done.
There U no way of getting children to 1 e
good like shotting them how.
You don't have to hunt far to find a licking.
CUDS, Society
buds young wo
men jut entering
the doors of soci
ety or woman
hood, require t?-:
wisest care. To
be beautiful and
charming they
must have perfect
health, with all it
implies a clear
skin, rosy checkr.,
brirrht eyes and
good spirits. At
this period the
young woman ia
especially sensi
tive, and many
nervous troubles,
which continue
through life, have
tiWr origin zt this
time. If there be
pain, headache, backache, and nervous dis
turbances, or the general health not good,
the judicious use of medicine should be
employed. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip
tion is the best restorative tonic and nerv
ine at this time. The best bodily condition
results from its use. It's a remedy spe
cially indicated for those dr-Hcale weak
nesses and derangements that afflict wo
menkind at one period or another. You'll
find that the woman who ha3 fzithfully
uscd the "Prescription" is the picture of
health, she loots ucll and she feels zcsll.
In catarrhal inflammation, in cLrcnic dis
placements common to women, v.k re thcro
are symptoms of backache, din-st ; cr
fainting, bearing down sensation.,, disor
dered stomach, moodiness, fatigu . Cic,
the trouble is surely dispelled and th?
sufferer brought back to health, and good
spirits.
I M ATk
TV-Kf-- '
Making Use of Natural Laws.
Instances of a more complex charac
ter frcfiaently occur where a knowledge
of natural laws orforcesmay be brought
into operation to assist in surmounting
difficulties. Thus, a few years ago, an
iron bridge of considerable length, the
weight being about 200 tons, was con
structed in England and erected in a re
mote part of Germany. By some mis
hap, the bridge, when finished, was
found to be some distance "out" to
tine side, an error which ihe proprietors
insisted should be rectified. To take
down and re-erect the bridge would be
simply ruin to the contractor. But ne
cessity is the mother of invention, and
so it proved in this case. It was sum
mer time, and the contractor proceeded
' to find the amount of expansion which
was caused by the heat of the sun over
the whole length of the bridge. He
next ascertained what contraction took
place in the night by cooling. Armed
with these data, lie thought it might be
possible to bring the bridge to to proper i t g
JKlSIllOU III U lev. uuts. .. .ijufct, w
course, in its ordinary condition expand
ed from the center, pushing to two ends
outward, or farther apart, and again
contracting toward the center. Taking
advantage of these conditions, one end
was made fast in the morning, and tho
bridge was forced to expand from that
immovable point, instead of from the
middle, as formerly. When the iron
com jiosing the bridge had expanded to
its full extent in the direction intended,
that end was released, and the opposite (
end made fast. The bridge then con
tracted toward its true position. Thus,
whatever was gained by the day's ex
pansiwn was secured by the subsequent i
contraction when the metal cooled at '
night, and, the process being renewed j
day by day, the work was successfully
accomplished. I
"WOMAN'S ILLS,
Mrs. W. R. Bates, of
Dilzi-otth. Trumbull Co.,
Ohto, write:
ago X
ce's
Favorite Precriptioa,
which has been a great
bene6t to me. I ara ia
excellent health note.
I hope that every wo
man, who 13 troubled
with 'women's ills,
will try the ' Prescrip
tion ' and be benefited
as I have been."
aaaBP9aw!Sa aaK.
Mrs. Bates.
DROPSY
TREATED FREE
Positively Cured with Vegetable Ronn-dled
If are cured thousands ofca. Cnrrc3r pro
nounced bopIess br bt physician. Krum flrt l-9
ixroptom disappear: In ten daja.it leatlwo-lblid
ill armptums rmOTd. 8nd for free !or,ktctlnn.
alala of miraculous car. Ten dar- ircatrant
'nt by malt If jou orHsr trial end lite In stamps
opay pontaire Db.H.H.ORI!BXASo.ns Atlanta.Oa.
ouirdT trial return toL adrertlm-nr i.n
IV V lJ.0iaraha-l. li
Itiacu .Answering Advertisement atujuly .
Mention this .Paper.
i ST. JACOBS OIL
Fertimzatio?? increases the size and
quality of the fruit
PAINS
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