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is f v r-. - . ? i ! ,f if i i us I--1 K.e Cleaning Delicate Laces. Delicate white laces may be cleansed with calcined magnesia by a receipt of Madame Mojeska's. Spread the lace on a sheet of writing paper, sprinkle it on both sides with magnesia, place a second piece of paper over it, put away between the leaves of a book for three days, then shake off the powder, when the lace will be found perfectly clean. Laces are given a creamy hue by put tin? strained coffee or powdered saf fron in the rinsing1 water until the right cream or ecru tinge is procured. hite silk laces are soaked in milk over night, then soused in warm soapsuds, rinsed and finally pulled out and care fully pinned down while damp. Laces must be soused, gently squeezed and clapped between the hands until dry or nearly so. They may be whitened . by letting them stand covered with soapsuds in the sun, repeating the op eration several times. State or Ohio, City or Toledo, I Lucas County. f Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is .- . the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Che- net & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and . that raid firm will pay the sum of ONE . ; HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every . ' case of Catarkh that can not be cured by . the uso of Hall's Catakuh Cure. -.''' FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to Ieforo me and subscribed in my presence this 6th day of December, A. D. 1SS0. ..-. " A.W. GLEASON, I 6EAI f Notary Public, Jlnll's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and ncs directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. C5T"Sold bv Drujrgists, 75c Hull's Family Pills, 23c. Harper's Hazar for February 23d contains a piquant little play, or rather a dialogue, called "The Oral Method," in which a learned professor, who is absent-minded and deficient in small talk, receives some valuable instruction in the art of conversation. The Paris letter, which tarried on the Gascogne iich tarried on the Gascogne .presents a double budget of political and literary gossip, j ...:.i. .i. ci.: c i X ffl last week, the latest together with such fashions as the off- season affords. A front-page drawing i... t.i, r vv-.i.1 i t o d'n.ni-senson rawn is significant as an ! (, 0 indication of what we may expect when spring fashions arc more fully lecided than they are at present. A Great Success. Milliner I hope you will find that hat perfectly satisfactory. Miss de Fashion Yes. indeed. Sev eral persons left the theatre on account of it last night. Chicago Inter-Ocean. l.OOO HUa POTATOES PER ACRE. Wonderful yields in potatoes, oats, corn, farm and vegetable seeds. Cut this out and send 5c postage to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., for their great seed book and sample of Giant Spurry. wnu A riiotograplitc Cihost If you sleep in the house of a wizard, you must be prepared for experiences out of the common. So thinks a gen tleman who once passed a night under Mr. Edison's roof. In tiie middle of the night he was awakened by the sound of a voice at his elbow. "Midnight has struck!"' it said in hollow, but resonant tones. "Prepare to meet thy God!" The guest was out of bed in haste. He must be the victim of some hallu cination. There was no one in the room. 1 1 is would be a fine case for the "psychical research' people. lint even while these thoughts were passing through his head, he was making for the door. In the hall he met Mr. Edi son, who reassured him by saying: "Don't be scared, old man; it's noth ing but a clock." Youth's Companion. Coe'a Voagn. Balaam Isthn oldest and Ix-st. It will break una Cold quick er than anything ehc It Is always reliable. TrylU One misfortune of extraordinary genius es is that their very friends are more apt to ndiulro than love them. Life is too short to nurse one's misory "HanHoa'a ICaglc Corn Salve." Warranted to euro or money refunded. Ask yojr druKKt for it- Trice IS cents. The pleasure we have in the world only multiplies our orrow nnd deepens our grief. Makes Pure Blood These three words tell the whole story of the wonderful cures by Hood's Sarsaparilla. When the blood is impure if is fertile soil for all kinds of disease germs, and such troubles as scrofula, salt rheum, rheumatism, catarrh, grip, and typhoid fever arc like!' to appear. Hood's Sarsaparilla Purifies the blood an" thus '-.ires these diseases by removing dieir cause. No other preparation has ever accomplished the remarkable cures which have followed the use of Hood's Sarsaparilla. U t " tlie artcr-Uinner pill Hood s Pills ? &" raUar- See that Lump? That's Lorillard's CLIMAX PLUG HOMESTEAD ssar x . VW year (52 weeks) FREE on receipt of 25c to pay postage. Full of latest tel graph and farm news. Write at once. HOMESTEAD PU15. CO., Omaha. coNDmoNPowoERiReeman's Pensln Gum. Is the best inedwinc lor Horses, Cattle, liora and Sheep. It psriflcs the Hood, prevents dis ease and cures Couh, Colds Colic. Ilidelourd. "Worms. Distciapcr. etc Xoihitu: equals it for Ho? Cholera- lionest and reliable, ia honest 23 and 50 cent racka-ro: used and warranted for over twenty years. Kvcry oue owninc a horse or cattle should ?:ivc it a trial. Madebv Emmekt I'ltorniKTAKY Co., Chlrao. 1!L Uncle Sam's Nerve and Bone Liniment for Sprains. Bruises Rheumatism. Stiff Joints, "etc Goes risht to the spot of pain. .Xothins else so rood for Man and Animal Try it- BEAUTIFUL WYOMING RANgfU FOlTSALE. At the foot- of Iifcramlc Peak, commandinc tfaUiC of 1,000 ac crc. Good nnlnz buildings unci fences. Livins irate through Iand.iie for cattle e raisin? EIOE. 4 .T. II I .URAlJA3I.oliSLStli St.. Omaha IF THOSE WHO BAVE GUIMS ngaint the Govefrnent .vniirHtflnUflfrilAN BICKFOKO, I'crulon Patent Atl'r. i WMBlBCtoa.D.C.iihey will receive a prompt repljr. .. ... -.-.. ... .myw ....... . . . ... Riae or the Commercial Traveler. New York Price Current: One de velopment of commerce was for many years unknown. The bright, pleasant, sharp fellow who now calls on custom er after customer throughout the United States, always neat and always attentive to duty, the drummer, did not then exist0 He began to be .seen as soon as railroads became common, or perhaps a little before. There could not have been many oetore isu. mere were, however, salesmen who fre quented the principal hotels, such as Hunkers Lovejoy's the Howard house, the United States and the Astor long before this. They had a fine memory of faces and of names, and spent much of their time in scanning the hotel reg isters and in being in the lobbies of inns, so that when merchants arrived from the county- they mijrht be on hand to welcome them and to escort them to their places of business. Little scrutinj' of hotel lists is now made, but this was then the most obvious method of increasing and holding trade. Theie was in 1830 no way of knowing with reasonable certainty the rating of a dealer some distance away. Commer cial agencies were not then established, and selling to retail trade was much more of a lottery than it is now. Those wholesalers were successful who were the best judges of credit. Several articles which are an outcome of Julian Ralph's voyage to China, un dertaken in the interests of Harper's Magazine and Harper's Weekly, will be published in the Magazine during the summer months. The first of the scries will be entitled "House-boating in Chi na, and will appear in the .lune Har per s. in all there wm dc inree arti cles or more, amply and ucautuuiiy illustrated from drawings by C D. Wel don, who accompanied Mr. Ralph to the interesting points in China which are described. Vertical Wrltlnpln Telegraphy. Hoston Transcript: If the vertical I handwriting which is being taught in our public schools pre-ails, and be comes the ordinary handwriting, the " ui..a.. . ' people who enjoy its ad van ages v, havP " large measure the telegraph to thank for it. They have been 1 will lers the Pincers or vertical writing, rorine last twenty years almost every tele- . - .. i &raPh operator in the .country has writ- ten a round, vertical hand, plainer than any other sort of handwriting known, with round, fat loons for the letters, which drop below the line, and simple capitals. This telegraphers" writing has much in common with the English "civil service handwriting,"' which may have prececded it. but the civil service hand is less often vertical and has cer tain points of difference. Men's hand writing tends in a general way to con form to the fashion of Roman print prevalent at any time: and. as the most ordinary print letter nowadays is of a round or Scotch face it is not strange on the whole that the tendency in handwriting is toward a. round letter. AVomen's chirography is more capric ious in its fashions; though it has in clined pretty steadily now for several years toward angular Hriticism. It the Baby la Cutting Teeth. Re sure and use that old and well-tried remedy, Kits. Wikslow's Sootuiso Srncr for Children Teethins- Sliko F.xlln. Tattered Tim Wiiat does between th' devel an th deep sea" mean? Moldy Mike It's the same as bein' between a workshop and a bathroom. New York Weekly. Keep something out of ench week's earn ings nnd soon something will keep you. No man does his test who works only for pay- The sheep thnt goes astray never finds a green pasture for itself. Winter Tourist Tickets Via the Wabash Itallroad Are now on sale to all the winter resorts of the South, Rood returning until June 1st, tK. Ai.so Hakvest Exclusion Tickets to all points south on excursion dates. In ad dition to above, Railroad and Steamship tickets to all points in the United States and Eckope, at lowest rates. For rates, tickets, excursion dates and full informa tion or a copy of the Home Seekers Guide, call at Wabash Office, 1502 Farnam street, or write I' G. N. Clatton, N. W. P. Agt, Omaha. Neb. The birds with the brightest feathers dc , not sing the sweetest Weak nerves indicate as surely as any physical symptom shows any thing, that the orgaus and tissues of the body are not satisfied witli their nourishment. They draw their sus tenance from the blood, and if the blood is thin, impure or insufficient they arc in a state of revolt. To purify and vitalize the blood, and thus supply the nourishment which is needed. Those who keep their blood pure with Hood's Sarsaparilla have no trouble with weak nerves. Therefore take Hood's now. Hood's Pills easy to buy. easy to take, easy In ef fect. 2Ee. It's Much the Best Sold everywhere. Made only by the P. Loml LARD CoMrAvr. The o'dest tobacco manufac turer in America, and the largest in the world. FREE ! To any Subscriber of this paper we will mail an 8-page weekly paner one - -f- - V....J THE PERFECTION OF CHEWING GUM. A DeliciGCS Rsieij For all Forms of INDIGESTION. CAUTIOX 5cs that tio - nam.' Keeauut is on each wrapper. Kach tablet contains one S frrala pure i cp&ln. If the cum cacnos be oMamei from dctlcrs. send S cents lastamps for sample p:ckacc to 'iO Bant St.. Cleveland, . Criginators of Pepsin Chewing Cum. I fitlV foronronnonarementtn liCVT ioeorthii LUVrt paper. It 1U how a cut RCA I of 1 style of DAVIS CRL4M SEPARATORS It would take (CTeral r&scs to glrp details about tliet K Grins machine. Handsome Mart rated Famrhlet sited Free. VT aoexts wastes. DAVIS ARANKIN BLDC. AND MFC. CO. Sola Manufacturers, Chicago. ItiJiSpv nLaaaaaaSr MaLH&a i iw m FABM AM) GABDEN. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. 6oe Cp to Date Hlata About Cultiva tion of the Soil mad Ylelda Thereof Horticulture, Yitlcaltara and Flori culture Bains : Irrigation : Drainage. It Is found by observation that for dry farming to be possible not only must there be at least twenty inches of rainfalr during the year (being that of London, England,) but that the rains be moderate in character and that the temperature be not excessive; also that the rain be of considerable duration to allow of its penetrating the soil and dissolving the constituents in it, which furnish the food for the spe cific plant being grown, says Ir rigation Fanner. For if the rainfall occurs in violent storms of short du ration and falls on an impervious un broken prairie.having considerable de clivity, it runs oft into the valleys over the impervious surface, or through the porous soil, if such exists, into the streams, leaving the aou dry, tne at mosphere hot, and the surface of the ground parched. Observations show that mere are certain districts within the sub arid region where the rainfall is concen trated into certain months, producing a rainy season. When this occurs dur ing the growing season of the year and the temperature is not too high, twenty inches will suffice for dry farming. MeteoroWihts. for the purpose of comparison, divide the rainfall of Kan sas into three belts, the eastern, mid dle and western. The mean of observations for a period of fourteen years for these belts was found to be 37, 23.G and 19.4 respect ively. Of this last amount it is found that 65 percent of the annual rainiau falls durintr the irrowinff season of the year, thus giving 19.4.G5 per cent equals 12.0 inches, which for purposes oi col lection for irrigation may be regarded as the mean annual rainfall in that region. Long experience in the collection of water for city supply shows that 40 per cent of the rainfall is available, which gives 12.0x40 per cent equals 0 inches nearlv. This is the yearly average for a period of years which may vary forty times either way for a given snorter period. The above shows the necessity for two things, first, for the irrigation of a given area of land provision must be made for ample storage room, and second, in the interests of safety, that ample overflows or spill-ways be made to provide for the free discharge of the surplus water that may flow into the reservoir. The promoters of irrigation projects in westei n Kansas, in their demands for aid from the government for sur veying for reservoir sites and for their cjnstruction, would cem to be ignor ant of the physical characteristics of that region. In the mountain regions of the west, narrow canons furnish sites for dams which will impound large' quantities of water during the periods of floods, while in western Kansas, the source of supply of water i the rainfall, and although there are many depressions in the open prairie, which could be made to store water sufficient to irrigate many thousands of acres of land the conditions are such that the water can not be drawn out by gravity so as to be available for ir rigation. Growing; Evergreens from Seed. Good seed must be procured of the previous season's crop. Avoid seed that is old. Make examination and see that the germs are plump and sound. The seed of the pines, spruces and firs can be tested in the winter in the same way you would test wheat, oats or barley to find the number of grains that will freely germinate in a given number of seeds-. Seeds of the evergreens 'men tioned should be kept in a cool dry room until time to plant arrives. Soak in warm water from twenty-four to thirty-six hours before planting. Seeds of the Arbor Vitas should be stratified as soon as picked from the tree, dry ing destroys their vitality. Red cedar and all juniper seed should be strati fied as soon as gathered and remain in the stratified state one year before planting. The ground selected to plant ever green seed upon should be first class soil for corn, as free as possible from weeds or grass. The best way to secure this condition is to grow a crop of potatoes, with such culture as will absolutely destroy -everything of the weed kind. Plow and pulverize well in early autumn, then in about a week afterward throw the ground up in rough beds running east and west. This is done with horses and plow in such a man ner that the beds when finished will be four feet wide and from four to six inches above the general level. The alleys between the beds should be two feet in width. Set good strong posts eight feet apart each way over the en tire ground to be planted. Set them from two and a half to three feet in the ground and seven feet high from the ground up. Brace the outside row of posts all around. Then run heavy galvanized wire on the top of each row of posts, north and south, and east and west, and fasten securely with a staple on top of each post where the wires cross. Cover the whole top with com mon wire lath fencing, made with one twist of wire less than common, be tween the lath to bring them close to gether. Enclose the sides in the same way, fastening everything securely with staples to the posts. Instead of using lath, brush can be used by plac ing the wires two feet apart, and weaving and tying brush to them. The shade must be evenly distributed so that half or little more than half of the rays of the sun will be intercepted. After finishing your shading go over all your beds with a cultivator and then let it alone until spring comes and the ground is dry enough to work well. Scatter a liberal dressing of wood ashes over all the beds, then pul verize thoroughly to the depth of four inches, finish making the beds, have the edges straight, beds four feet wide and an inch or so higher in the middle than at the edges. The soil must be completely pulverized and absolutely free from rubbish of every kind. You are now ready to sow the seed; sow broadcast and have three cr four seeds to the square inch. After sowing a bed, run a common size garden roller over it until every seed is pressed firm into the soil. Cover the wholo bed with light colored, fine clean sand to the depth of one quarter of an inch for the spruces, Scotch pine and firs, and t about one half an inch for su." v.S-.r.?r;r ik ... . iry stove blacking may be pre- take'led by adding a pinch of powdered htTHta tragacanth to the blacking, rolle the exception that the Arbor Vitaiatd is just barely covered with aand and pulverized dry moss is sifted over them to a. depth of a little leas tham one quarter of an inch and the bed care fully sprinkled with water through a fine hose. After every rain the beds must be looked after and sand applied again -wherever it has washed off. The seed germinates in from ten to twenty days after planting. All weeds must be pulled out by hand as fast as they appear, as the beds must be kept per fectly clean. The object in having the sides enclosed as well as the top is to keep out rabbits, dogs, poultry and other vermin. A dog or rabbit merely walking over a bed when the trees are coming up will destroy thousands. A good boy with a shotgun is a necessary adjunct to keep certain birds from dig ing up and eating the trees. This must be attended to. While the little trees are coming up, if the weather is dry, the beds must be carefully sprinkled every evening. Use just enough water to thoroughly dampen the sand on the beds. Have some dry sand stored away so that during long spells of rainy, damp, foggy weather yon can get and sprinkle the beds with it after each shower. This coating of dry sand should be very thin, not over 1-32 of an inch deep. Pull out the weeds before they form the aecond set of leaves. Keep the alleys clean with the use of the hoe. The ground occupied by the seed beds should be at least six or eight rods from any building, trees, hedges or other windbreaks. A windbreak is a good thing to have around your seed beds if at a proper distance. I prefer a distance of about twenty rods or more to secure good air drain age. The beds mnst be constantly watched until the little plants have formed their true leaves. The most important objects to keep in mind are: First The birds must be kept off. Second The weeds and grass must be pulled. Third If the weather is too dry, sprinkle; if too damp, use the dry sand. After the true leaves have formed the plants require but little attention except that weeding must be kept np. When the ground begins to freeze in the fall cover all the beds-with wild hay; use just enough to cover them and no more. This is removed the latter part of the following April, and the trees will require no attention during the summer except to be kept clean from weeds. The next fall treat the beds to another covering of hay, and the following spring you will have, if you have closely followed my directions, in spite of possibly some severe losses, 2,000 or more trees on each 4 feet length of bed; 2 years old and from 3 to 10 inches in height, ready to be transplanted. Charles F. Gardner in Farmers' Review. Cultivation of Carrants and Gooseberries. Currants should be planted in rows north and south, in rows five feet apart," and plants four feet apart in the row. The thicker the hills are set, so they are not crowded, the more they shade the ground. Gooseberries should be planted in rows six feet apart and five feet apart in the row. We should al wa3rs set 2 year-old plants, as 1-year-old are dear as a gift. The ground should be well manured, and the plants should be well cultivated for two seasons. After that give thorough cultivation in the fall, cultivating very deep in middle of the row, but not close enough to the hills to disturb their roots. After cultivating, clean out and fix up the hills with the hoe. If horse stable manure is to be had, or old half rotted straw, mulch over the whole surface of the ground as well as around the hills. Currants andgooseberries like a cool, moist soil, and by mulching the whole surface in the fall, and not disturbing it in the spring or summer, it will hold moisture, and keep the ground cool until the fruit is grown, and it will be free from all dust. In the fall cut away all of the old wood that can be cut, without inter fering with the new growth, and keep the hiils well thinned out and train them upright. Currants produce their fruit on the old wood, but we should keep the oldest wood cut out so the hills will not become so thick as to crowd the young canes. Last season the late frosts killed the currants on the ends of the stems, so the bunches were rather short, and the drouth made the fruit somewhat smaller than it would have been, so by frost and drouth the crop was materially shortened. But for all these drawbacks we picked ten quarts to the hill, 120 quarts to the rod of ground.and twenty thousand (20,000) quarts per acre. At 10 cents per quart amounted to two thousand dollars (S2,000) per acre. Allowing S1,000 for cultivation, for crates, boxes, picking, extra help, expressage, and commission for selling, we have one clean thousand dollars profit from one acre. I did not look for a large crop, neither were the bushes loaded as they often are, and I think I have grown at least one third more fruit per bush than the past season, and that would make the profit about S500 more per acre. This is not stretching matters, for some hills picked twelve quarts each the past season. L. K. Ballard in Farmers Keview. Millet. Of this the South Dakota station says: Stems erect from annual root, unbranched, one and one half to four feet high; leaves very long and broad, rough, spike usually large, from two inches long in the smaller forms to eight or ten inches long and more or less compound in the larger and more highly cultivated ones, oblong or cylindrical, usually yellowish or pur plish and nodding; bristles either longer or shorter than the spikelets. This is one of the most useful of our cultivated annuals. There are many different varieties in cultivation, such as German millet, Hungarian grass, Golden millet, etc. As it is usually ready for cutting (if for hay) in from two to tsvo and one half months after sowing, it is an excellent catch crop when others fail, and can be sown after most other crops are in, and will then have plenty of time to mature. The yield of hay is usually a heavy one. When used for hay, it should be cut as soon as possible after heading. If allowed to stand until the seeds are well formed, it is thought to have a bad ef fect upon the kidneys of animals to which it is fed. On the other hand ground millet seed has been used for fattening hogs with good results. Be cause of its early maturity and the pos sibility of its being sown late and har vested early, millet is an excellent crop to use in fighting certain perni cious weeds, as, for example, the Rus sian thistle. Cut worms seldom damage it or even the crop following it the next season. A specimen analyzed as follows: Air dry substance Water, 8.74; ash, 10.19; ether extract, 2.96; crude fiber, 32.14; crude protein, 11.10; ah .gen-free extract, 34.87; total m nigl !Qi 1.78; albuminoid nitrogen, 1.10. in e walnut is a native of Persia, the onsltsus and China. Way It ICoadeased from Farmers' Review Steaefta- paio Report 1 At the Iowa dairy convention A. G. Lucas spoke on "Why It Rains." He did not believe that cutting off tie timber causes a decrease of rainfall. Cultivation of the soil makes rainfall greater rather than less. The cutting off of the forests does not bring drouths. The sayings of the Preacher apply to-day as well as thousands of years ago: "Say not why were the former days better than these, for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this matter." This last year the total rain fall for the state in the four crop growing months was small, but in 1892 the total rainfall was 5.37 inches per month. That was only two years ago. There had been a great deal of ditching done prior to 1881, and yet that year the fall of rain was over fifty inches. He then quoted statistics to show the great variation in the rain falls of different years. The past five years gave us mere rain than the pre ceding five years, and the two preced ing decades were as great. We have records of dry summers that are past, among them that of 1846. Mr. Irish says that year water was wanting, and none was to be had from wells or streams. Xot a drop of rain fell in Johnson county during that season.. During all that time the weather was' excessively dry. In many places water had to be hauled long distances from lakes and ponds. Two years before that New England suffered from a similar drouth, and two years after the people of Ohio. In 1854 occurred what is known as the "great drouth." It should be noted that at that time the great forests had not yet been de stroyed, and the frog ponds contrib uted their usual quota of vapor and malaria. We should have for the year fifty-two inches of water, or one inch per week. Now these wet and dry. seasons came in the course of nature, and we have not yet been able toi settle the reasons of their variations.' The common theor is very plausible,, but has no facts to rest upon. Moist ure is valuable, but so is the tempera-, ture. Cultivation does not prevent evaporation or lessen it Cultiva-. tion helps it. It has been sup posed that the waters of the present run off faster than in old times, but the opposite is true. The waters ran off faster then than now. The. water, does not run off so fast now as then,be cause now the fields are cultivated and' the waters sink down slowly. As a matter of fact the fields of this part of the country are not watered by moist ure that rises from this locality. The moisture that rises from this and neighboring states goes eastward' toward the ocean, while the rain we get is imported by the south-, west winds from the Gulf of Mexico and territory far to the southwest. The water surface of Iowa is only 55u miles. According to the average depth as set by the geological survey, that amount of water,if all made into vapor, would give us only one half inch of rainfall. In order to give an average amount of rain, which is an inch per week, the total amount of water nec essary to water our state, say thirteen inches for three months, it would re quire the total evaporation of a lake HU miles iong,ou jnues wiue ana ix icet deep. It would take a big frog pond to give uswthat amount of water. Diversified Farming. In every other business except farm ing there is some attempt to fit supply to demand,says Pioneer Press. Manu facturers and merchants take trade journals, feel the state of the market, i and would not dream of trying to force a commodity on the people after the people had auit buying it, or were willing to buy it only for less than cost of production. There should be information accessible to the farmer. In every state the commissioner of statistics should ascertain, as nearly as may be, what are the products of the soil which the state might produce, but which it does not produce in quantities sufficient to sup ply the home demand. These facts should then be placed in the hands of every farmer so that production might be regulated ac cordingly. It is simple imbecility that the farmers of any state should busy themselves with producing something that they have to send thousands of miles to market and sell at a price that keeps them constantly under the harrow of poverty, while the people of the same state as a whole are sending away hundreds of miles to get pork or dairy products or eggs or chickens that they consume. If we could have di versification of agricultural industry, and if we could have it diversified ac cording to the plain needs of the con sumers as shown by the records of trade, the attention of the farmer would be fixed upon supplying the home market. In that lies the greatest profit and the highest interest of the whole community. Chicken Cholera. L. N. Barr writes, saying: "Cai. you or any of your readers tell me of i a cure ior cnictcen cauiera. x nave been losing from three to five a week. I have tried pepper tea without any good effect." We nave no confidence in remedies for chicken cholera, and believe the prevention is the only thing that can be done. When cholera breaks out among fowls the first thing to be done is to separate the sick from the well fowls. At once give a change of food, which should be of a nourishing char acter. Many writers believe in giving iron in some form. The old method was to put rusty nails in the drinking water. English poultrymen use what is known as "Douglas Mixture." This can be made by putting eight ounces of sulphate of iron (also called copperas or green vitriol) into a jug; (never use a metallic vessel) with two gallons of water, adding one ounce of sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol). The ingredients can be obtained of any druggist. This medicine is to be put into the drink ing water in the proportion of a tea spoonful to a pint, and is found to be a useful tonic. As soon as the disease breaks out give this to the sick fowls, and also to the well ones to help them resist the disease. One writer says that he made a satu rated solution of alum, and whenever a bird was attacked, gave it two or three teaspoonfuls, repeating the dose next day: He mixed their feecUIndian meal, with alum water for a week. After adopting that course he lost no fowls. Others advocate cayenne pepper, gunpowder and turpentine, feeding a little every other day for a week. Fowls that are well fed,well housed, and kept in a dry place, will seldom have cholera. In fact we do not know that they ever have it when prop erly handled. We would like to hear further about the place where these chickens were kept, whether there were any cold drafts allowed to strike them at night, or whether their pens are cold, damp and dark. Also, what has been their food? Capeks originally grew wild is Greece and northern Africa. Sage is a native of south Europe. The cucumber was originally a trop ical plant. ) fears were Drought from tne .Ban by the Romans. 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Pick and stone one pound of the best Malaga raisins, which put in a basin -with one pound of currents (well -washed and picked), one pound of pood "beef suet chopped not too tine, three fourths of a pound of white or brown sugar, two ounces candid lemon or or ange peel, two ounces of candid citron, six ounces of flour, and one-fourth pounds of breadcrumbs, with a little grated nutmeg and salt. Mix the whole together with eight whole eirgs and a little milk. Have ready a plain or or namental pudding mould: wcll-bntlcr the interior. Pour the above mixture into it, cover with a sheet of paper, tie the mould in a cloth, put the pudding into a large stewpan containing boiling water and let it boil quite fast for four lioursand a half, or it may be boiled ly tying it in a pudding cloth well floured, forming the shape by laying the 'cloth in a round-bottomed basin and pouring into it. It will make no difference in the time required for boiling. When done take out of the cloth and turn out upon your dish, sprinkle a little pow dered sugar on it and serve with this sauce: Put the yolks of three eggs in a stewpan with half a cupful of pow dered sugar and a gill of milk. Mix well together, add a little lemon peel and stir over the fire until it becomes thick; it must not he allowed to boil. Flavor to taste and serve very hot. Unspeakably Miserable Is the man or woman troubled with dys pepsia. Heart palpitations, sour stomach, ' heartburn, uneasiness .of the nerves, op- presslon or a sense of emptiness at the pit of . the stomach, are anions its symptoms. Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters eradicates it, and entirely overcomes constipation, biliousness. rheumatic, kidney and malarial complaints. Use this thorough remedy systemati ally and it will achieve parmaneut results. Clubs for Farmers' Wivc. If possible, it is wise to go outside of the ordinary limits of acquaintance and i invite women of widely different as-j sociations and employments to become members of the elub, writes Helen .lay in a very practical article on "The ' Mental Life of a Farmer's Wife" in the i March Ladies Home Journal. We all need to enter into the lives of others. and for an organization of women I ( know no better motto than the words ; of Dr. Hale, "This club exists to find J out how other people live."' It will be i easier to do this than appears upon the surface. The ."Modern Way Commends itself to the well-informed. to do pleasant' y and effectually what j nua juuucii uunu in uiu u uutnu iiim- ner ana aisajrreeabiy as wen. 10 cleanse the system and break up colds, headaches and fevers without unpleas ant after effects, use the delightful liquid laxative remedy. Syrup of Figs. The laborer who has enough money on which to get drunk is iud too niiicli 1 THE GREAT GERMAN COFFEE ISF.KRY. f Coffee at one cent a pound,that is what it costs to grow it, good coffee, too. Some say that it is better than IJio. This ' we know, while in Europe last summer . in "search of seed novelties we often ' .1 -i- .1.:.. : i.,.i,. :n !.-....... 11.. 1 ' uiuiiiv una 111 iiuivjia 111 1 laatL, jnii , . land and Germany. Thirty-five packages earliest vegetable seeds, 81.00, not 3 cents per package. Largest growers of farm seeds as oats, grass and clover, corn and pota toes, etc, in the world. Early heavy yielding vegetables our specialty. If Yon Will Cat ThW Out wncl Son. I It with 15c postage to the John A. Salzer Seed compan', LaCrosse, Wis., 3011 will get free a package of their German Coffee Berry seed and their catalogue. wnu A fool never learns anything from a mistake. Readers of Marion Crawford's novel "Casa Ilraccio," now appearing in The Century, will be interested in knowing that the story, as printed so far, is true, except that the scene of the actual oc currence was in South America instead of in Italy. The nun. who really es caped from a Carmelite convent with a Scotch surgeon, was the niece of a bish op. A skeleton was placed in her bed. when it was fired, instead of a body as in Mr. Crawford's stor3'. After much suffering the surgeon and his wife reached the sea-coast, and were taken aboard anEngiish vessel, wiience they sailed to Scotland and lived for many years in Edinburgh. The part of .Mr. Crawford s story still to appear, por frarinw IIia rmniilimnnr. visited I.T 1 11 the pair for their sin. is ima-'ina ry. 2 If you've neuralgia, take St. Jacobs Oil rub it W 9 on rub it on bard keep rubbing it on itbasgot Z S to stop tbe pain that's what it's for. X A Vegetable Manure. Wisconsin Agriculturist: Here is a formula or a manure that has been successfully used by a New Jersey gar dener for vegetables: One thousand pounds cottonseed meal or bonemeal, both costing about S.10 a ton; .100 pounds boncblack. costing ?:.'" a ton, and ."00 pounds of muriate of potash, costingSl' to .iMr a ton. This makes one ton of lirst-class manure, costing about S-T-This gardener sa3s in American Gar- ilmirnr- ! Vm'i hnil lt.tir results from ... ..-..- - . v..... . this formula than from 40 special ma nures from the manufacturer. I used ! the above formula on two acres of sweet potatoes last season, making a tine crop of about sixty barrels to the acre, f put 1.200 pounds of the 30 fer tilizer on each acre, costing about SIS an acre. Worm In Horse. The only sure cure for pin wornr in horses known Is tftekctce's Hojr Cholera t'ure. Never faiis to destroy worms in horses, hogs, Mieep. doss or'ats; an excellent remedy for sli-k fowls. J-'end si.xiv cents in United Plates postase stamps and I will send by mail Cut this out. take it to druggist and Day him liftv cents. Three packages for 31.50 ' ev.r.ss naid. O. G. STKK ETEE. Crand Kapids, Mich. Mention name of paper. Ai'.tues :or teeing faults in "others is poor evidence of faultlessness in the fault seer. 1 believe liso's Cure for Consumption saved niv lv"s life Inst summer. Mus. Ai.l:c UoroLASs, LeUoy. Mich., Oct. 20. 'IN. Oliver Wendell homes says that a man vtou'd letter I o seventy years young than forty years o'd. Milliard Table, second-band. For sala chenp. Apply to or address, H. C. Akix, ill S. lUth St.. Omaha,.Neb. The cheerful River is always the one who gives much. WE GIVE AWAY A Sample Package (4 to 7 doses) of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets To auy one scllitt!r ame antl address lo us on a postal card. ONCE USED THEY ARE ALWAYS IN FAVOR. ! Hence, our object in sending them out I broadcast ON TRIAL. They absolutely cure SICK HEADACHE, Biliousness. Constipation, Coated Tongue, Poor Ap petite, Dyspepsia and kin dred derangements of the Stomach, I.iver and Bowels. Don't accept some substitute said to be "Just as good." The substitute costs the dealer less. It costs you ABOUT the same. HIS profit IS ill tlie JUSt W good." WHERE IS YOURS? Address for lRi:U SAMI'LK, World's Dispensary Medical Associalio. Ab. 663 Mala St., BUFFALO, iY. '. DIRECTIONS for wing CUE AM BALM. Apply a particle of the Balm well up fnl j the imtrV.i. After a moment draw a glrong breath through the nwe. le three times a day, af ter meals preferred, vul before retiring. CATARRH Ei.Y'3 CREAM BALM op-ns anl cloan th asair.i!as,AIIo.'ainain! Inflammation, Heals !. Son-", protect the Jlembran from C6K1 Ke j.tn'rr th S?nieof Tast? anil SmelL The Balmls juicily ab:crhl and s! vir rrSief at once. A particle Is applfol Intorarh nostril and bacre' ibl.. I'rieeSOcvaisat I)nirsitsorbymall. 2LT BKOTHERS, 56 Warren St., Hew York Wwfwut (jig u M W. L. 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