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There Is a point beyond which Medication cannot go. Before ft is too late to mend persons of a rheumatic tendency. Inherited or acq aired, stiould use that bealxaaat de- . feaee aaiBst the further progress of tee super-tenacious malady-rheumatism. The ansae of this proven rescuer Is Hostetters Stosaach Bitters, which, it should also be recollected, cures dyspepsia, lirer coat plaint, fever aad asucdebility aad nervous sesA Mackerel a la Italic. An Italian fashion for eookiar fresh mackerel is to make a dressing1 from a tablespooaful of batter, mixed with a little minced shallots, parsley aad the green tops of young onions. Spread this on the fish, wrap them well in . strong white paper, saturated with olive oil, and boil or bake them in a ; quick oven. Garnish them with lemon and parsleyr Sweet peas, seasoned ' . with shallot and minced parsley, are also sometimes served with fresh maek- ereL Salt mackerel is very good cooked after the English fashion, that is, by Immersing it half an hour ia water containing a handful of fenael and . dash of vinejrar. Drain and serve with hot gooseberry sauce. How Ha Died. . A striking story of Gettysburg is told by General Doubleday, and published - in the Chicago Times-Herald: "An of ficer of the Sixth Wisconsin regiment . walked up to CoL Dawes, who was in command CoL llragg was in Wash-, ington on crutches. The officer was .very erect and very pale. Dawes and Doubleday both thought he was com- ing with a report to receive orders. Jlut he was not. lie had a favor to ask. 'Colonel he said to Dawes, 'will you tell the folks at home I died aa a man and a soldier should?' Then he unbuttoned his coat. His whole side was shot away. It was his last effort . lie died Standing. flail's Catarrh Cars la a constitutional cure. Price, 75c, . . . Ab Kloqaeat speech. A pretty little story is told about Irs, A. A. Johnson, the dean of Ober Jln college. It is said she never leaves American soil without carrying with her a silken American flag. At a din- . ner party in Germany on one occasion the host asked each of the ladies pres ent what in her country she was most proUtl of. Mrs. Johnson could not Speak German very fluently, but a hap py thought striking her she left the table .for a moment and returned with ai. American flag, which she waved while all applauded. Haw'i CaaaphT ler with CI yew la). TtxMiricliialnndonl.x cenulne. Cares Chapped Haadi au4tacc.CuMSurrH.ac CO. Clark CoKJiateaX. . Jolia Hardy. John Hardy, the inventor of the vacuum brake, who died in Vienna on . June S3, was born in 1820 at Gateshead, England, his father being a modeler. He was apprenticed to a locksmith ' and worked in various factories for some time under George Stephenson. He left England at the age of 21 for France, and in I860 went to Austria as . head of the repairing shop of the South ern railways. He brought out his in vention in 1878, and in 1885 retired in to private life. He is believed to have been the last of Stephenson's assist ants. Health Is impossible without pun:, healthy blood. Furl fled aad vitalized blood result from taUag Hood's Sarsaparilla The best ia fact the One Tree Blood Partter. Hood's PW for the liver and bowels, use. Nothing so Clcaa, -so Durable, & so EcoaKMnicalt rtm . so Elegant U. '& BIA5 . 10 ? VELVETEEN . SKIRT BINDINGS. You have to pay the same price for the - just as good' Why not insist o having what you want S. H. & M. If year dealer W1LLJWT sappfyyoawewH. , gavalMJaeMat'tfrsa. Home Dressmaking Made Easy." aaew 72 page took ay Miss Emma M. Hooper, of the Ladies' Home 'Journal, tells in plain words how to make dresses at home without previous training : mailed for 25c S. H. a M. Co..' P. Q. Box 9. N. V. CMy. OialaMisa' College. Fall Term Sept. t. Board for three boar's work. atalocae and peclaras trea v?E?TH MISSOURI. The best fruit section in the West. No aroma. A Xalluro of crops never known. Mild climate. Productive sou. Abundance of toed pore water. For Maps aad Circulars (Tiring fall descrip . tioaof the Rica Mineral. Fruit aad Agricultu ral Lands ia South West Missouri, write to JOBUf BL rVKOT. Manager of the Missouri Laad aad Live Stock Company, Neosho, New tea Co., Missouri. 1,200 N. CRIB $9.80. e. h. BLOomn. CawncH STE1JY WE FAY CASH WEEXXT aat waatawa errrywaef to SELL WORK -aaaoranyacac-BBiicrtHmtat, WijUta, STARK BKOTHEBS. LocmAXA,Mx, Bocxroar, lu. TANKS TXTaLtmr wooa or Steel. Aar ue. all shapes, at tail prices. Price list WWtmm. Address E. KSETCHMEK. Bed Oak. Ia. , PATENTS. CLAjajf- yyiw W..ttPHHi.aaaaaHLa.E. Mfm.lm.1tm as,atjssfcaHaa Sat. lawn. sUasa.Oalfjr.aaca. W.N.U., OMAHA-37-1890 When writing to advertisers, kindly mention this paper. ijSiaaaawaaaf wtaaj ajt tjf2Saaa5HaaBaaawl auaMkattT.siaaa. gC .. " ' - ' - EJaaf Jp!ppppppppppppppppppHpW mW IBBlaHHHsr Ht-i. v BaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaVaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal BaPC- awanaaiaBBBBaBaaaawaaaaaBBaBaWaaaanBaaVaaaj atwHaai siiswaii amd isarilsil tan hk- gBas aaaa . w.- a, i . -- w FABM.AHD GARDEN. OP INTEREST TO AGRICULTURISTS. transplanting o f the young plant, and good tillage, are necessary to best results in to mato culture. 2. Plants started under glass about tea weeks before transplanting Into elds gave fruits from a week to ten days earlier than those started two or three weeks later, while there was a much greater difference when th plants were started six weeks later. Productiveness was greatly Increased by the early planting. 3. Liberal and even manuring, dur ing the present season, gave great In crease In yield over no fertilizing, al though the common notion is quite to the contrary. Heavy manuring does not appear, therefore, to produce vine at the expense of fruit 4. The tests indicate that poor soil may tend to render fruits more an gular. 5. Varieties of tomatoes run out, and ten years may perhaps be considered the average life of a variety. $ The particular points at present In demand in tomatoes are these: Regu larity In shape, solidity, large size, productiveness of plant. 7. The ideal tomato would probablv conform closely to the following scale of points: Vigor of plant, 5; earliness, 10; colsr of fruit, 5; solidity of fruit 20; shape of fruit, 20; sire, 10; flavor, 5; cooking qualities, 5; productiveness, 20. 8. Solidity of fruit cannot be accu rately measured either by weight or keeeping qualities. 9. Cooking qualities appear to b largely individual rather than variety keeping qualities. 10. The following varieties appear, from the seanson's work, to bo among the best market tomatoes: Ignotum. Beauty, Mikado. Perfection, Favorite. Potato Leaf. 1L The following recent introduc tions appear to Dosses Tnrita for mar. i ket: Bay State. Atlantic RranrtvwinA juouee. Matchless, and, perhaps, Loril lard, Prelude and Salzer. 12. The following recent introduc tions are particularly valuable for ama teur cultivation: Dwarf Champion, Lorillard. Peach. Prelude. - w -- m o Va A TdiskMH u His Orchard. Aa Incident of commercial Import ance happened yesterday showing that Texas is making rapid strides to keep up with the pace. Mr. Lang of the Galveston Fruit company, was called to the telephone yesterday morning. uvtiw, u uii utug: came a uis tinct voice over the telephone. "Hello. Falkner. I didn't know you were in town. Where are you now?" "I am in my orchard. I have Lad a long distance telephone put In." "Isn't it rather expensive?" "Yes; but I had to have it to keep up with the progress of the world. Any time you want anything just call me up." After some business talk they rang off. The orchard man Is Mr. C. Falk ner, who owns quite an orchard about three miles out of Waco, 230 miles by wire from Galveston. He Is an excep tionally Intelligent fruit grower who came to Texas from the east and Is working his place on business princi ples. Galveston News. Frait PaUara la Oragwa. Mr. S. A. Clarke, of Salem, writing under date of May 31 in the Oregonian, says the failure of fruit in the state will be the worst ever known. He had just gone over 50 acres of hill or chard and found no fruit on 2,000 Ital ian prune trees; not enough to call a crop on 600 French prunes; not a plum on 250 Washingtons, nor on 150 Brad thaws, save a few near a heavy fir grove; on 500 Peach plums a half crop; on 1,000 two-year peach trees no fruit to speak of; on 500 Bartlett trees, 15 to 20 years old, not a pear, a few pro tected trees excepted; on 250 cherry trees not a tenth of a good yield, ex cept on 20 Black Republicans; on 1,000 six-year pears nothing to speak of. At the foot of the hill, in an orchard of apples, plums and cherries over 40 years old, mostly apples, no fruit; even the apple blooms had blighted. In an adjoining 16-year-old orchard some Bartletts and Fall Butters are heavily loaded. On Mr. Clarke's home orchard the entire yield will be about one eighth. There is no reason to suppose that other orchards of the valley will do any better. Ds Varieties sfPsu Kaa Oat?. Bulletin 131, Michigan Experiment Station: It is apparent to any one who has had much to do with peas that va rieties run out, or at least lose their original characteristics. In all cases, running out does not mean deteriora tion. Sometimes it is simply chanc ing of characters. In our work with peas, accurate descriptions, often Il lustrated with drawings, are kept of the varieties grown. From these bio graphical records of the varieties it is easy to seo that varieties change from year to year, even the old standard sorts, the characters of which are sup posed to be firmly fixed. Studies of the question have been made, too. by growing the same varieties from dif ferent seedsmen, and if seedsmen really sell the same thing under a giv en name, varieties of peas vary great ly in the course of their history. It may be said that, in the cases to be cited the variations were due to a change made In the seed by a care less or unscrupulous person, but such Is hardly the case, because some of the characters appear well marked and distinctive of that variety throughout all the samples. It is espe cially noticeable that the foliage and habit of the plant It lest variable than the peas, they being generally the ob ject of selection. Stratagem was grown from three seedsmen. Ia all. the characteristic dark green foliage, stalky, angular veins, aad exceedingly short nodes of the Stratagem were apparent and va ried bat little. Bat the pods, though irregular aad varying la each sample, yet takea as a whole were distinctly different, Ia two of the samples the pods were fairly aniform, bat la the third they were to irregular, probably reversIoBsjto oae of the' parents, that the peas were almost worthiest. It it a matter of ceauaoa observation that seed peat of the same variety, espe cially the wrinkled peat, differ ia color whea ssM by different seedsmen. Ia several cases peas grown on the m s2S2awasBBa9 haVS Oar frst aim Is to give the fsjaw pleaty of hreedimg rootm. No matter what method wo pars. If the aaeaa la crowded or rtlsmtialed. wo meed met look for the beat to stay. Wo there fore want plenty of brood-chamber pace, aad we waat it all la eme story, so the oaeea will mot have to aaat it up or go oat of the cluster ia cool weather. Not only a prollac aaeea with plenty of breeding-space makes a strong colony that harvests a large crop, bat this colony also staads the inequalities of teaweratare best. Ia the next place, wo waat pleaty of room, and If possible pleaty of empty comb for the beet to lodge their crop, espe cially at the opening of the honey har vest. Hence, wo waat a wide ceiling that may enable aa to pat oa a large nper. Ia oar owa practice, we al ways have supers full of empty comb, and this makes the gtriag of room to the beet much more practicable than when empty sections are given, for there needs be no lull ia the work, ao waiting on the builders, ao hanging In clusters while the honey is wast ing In the fields. The young beet alone do the comb-buildlmg, aad this la proper. We have had swarms for want of room. In such circumstaaces at mentioned in my last article, even though the space occupied and not filled might have been sufficient. Bees swarm because the circumstances do not suit them, they are ill at ease and lack elbow-room. If we do not wish them to twarm, we must give them that elbow-room, and the better the seasons open the more elbow-room we should give them at the start. Towards the end of the harvest, when the queen becomes tired of the Inces sant egg-laying, it Is of much lest Im portance to keep them supplied with so much space; and a little crowding, so we do not make them feel uncom fortable, does them no harm. It is then that they will fill every spare cell of the brood-combs, and make the frames too heavy with honey. Drone rearing Is a factor in swarming. In nearly every Instance the colonies that swarm are those that hare reared quite a large number of drones other things being equal. The drona Is stupid, he is big and noisy, and does not know how to get out of the way. See them on a warm after noon tumble in and out over the bees, or on some cool morning lie right in the way of the workers by the hand ful like so many lazy dogs. Do we not see them often crowded In one corner of the super by the bees, and seemingly asleep? But come noon. and they wake up and roar and tumble. Put yourselves in the work ers' place. Are not a few thousand of such fellows enough to disgust any peaceable laborer? Take out the drone-comb and replace It with worker-comb. Is that so difficult? Tou need not do it now. It would do no good, for the harm Is done. Do it in the spring, early,' when the honey is out of the combs and there Is but lit tle brood yet We do "it, and do not do it enough. C. P. Dadant In Ameri can Bee Journal. Veaesaela's PoUaaaas Apples. One of our consuls in Venezuela tells a fairylike tale about a poisonous ap ple upon which the soft shell crabs of Venezuela feed. It is called the man zanillo, and the crab eats it with im punity, although it is rank poison. The flesh of the crab becomes thor oughly impregnated with the poison and it is thus rendered a fatal diet The manzanlllo, or "litfle apple," is found along the coast. It Is about, an inch in diameter and grows upon a tree similar in appearance to an apple tree. It is very pleasant to the eye and has a sweet Insipid taste. It is usually found where there is fresh water and may easily tempt a thirsty, inexperi enced voyager. It is, however, a deadly poison, primarily causing intense burn ing pains in the throat and stomach. Unless remedies are promptly applied death is inevitable. It is even dan gerous to remain in the shade of one of these trees, and a person taking shelter under it during rain will suffer from painful blisters wherever a drop of water falling from the leaves touches his person. Exchange. Work for Wide Tires. Our friends should not forget to speak a word now and then for the wide tire. It Is difficult to have per manent roads without it We too fre quently see where some man with a narrow tired wagon has driven onto a lawn and defaced it Unfortunately, the one that does the damage is seldom the owner of the lawn. The narrow tire damages the dirt road, while the wide tire improves it by packing down the dirt instead of cutting into it Who has not been on a country road just after the mud had dried out and found the ruts so deep and the clods so num erous and hard that it was with the greatest difficulty that one could drive over it at all. If the wide tire makes a rut at all it is so broad and smooth that it makes an easy track for driving, and leaves less hubbies. Preparing for Wheat Good soil Is the prime requisite; and it is not al ways that the farmer has it or the fer tilizers to make it so; in such case he should look ahead a little, and set aside a piece of ground, and endeavor to bring it into condition for a crop at soon as it may be done. This in most respects can be best or cheapest done by sowing the ground to clover or rye. One or two crops of these put under will insure a fairly good crop of wheat Plow the clover under in the fall when fully matured, then early in the spring sow clover again, or, if preferred, a crop .of pete may follow; and whatever the crop, the last one should be turned under just before the, time for sowing the wheat If fertilizers can be supplied they should be lightly harrowed In the sur face soil, if not put in with the drill. Ex. Enriched Cheese. The adulterators of cheese have found a aew me for their nefarious product They call it "enriched' cheese,but aeglect to inform the buyers that it la enriched with hog fat supplanting the removed cream. Gullible people are very likely to in fer from the name that they are pur chasing a very superior brand of cheese, one containing not only the usual amount of butter-fat but a good deal more. A Hit at Oleo. The latest thing the English dairy journals have found out about oleomargarine Is that it is made out of the marrow of the boaes of human skeletons, as well as out of other bones! This is, we believe, the toughest accasatioa that has bees put forth against the mixture. Ex. Prices for hogs are much lower Lata last year. Stock keeping keeps ap the fertility of the farm. DAISY AND POULTBY. INTBRB8TINO CHAPTSRS . FOR JOUR RURAb READERS. TOHN GOULD, writ- I lag ia Practical U- I Farmer, says: "From all quarters comet the com plaint that a hew disease It making its appearance among the cows, affecting their teats and udders, and ruining the milk flow of the cow. The.troahle it ia the mature of garget, but commencet in an entirely different way. A small tore like a blister, comencea at the very end of the teat, aad refuses to heal, doting the channel, and to get the milk, it has to be torn open each time. The dis ease works Its way up inside the teat, the Inflammation getting more marked, aad at last gaining admltsiom to the adder; the inflammatory atagea are rapid, and all the troubles of a real case of garget are present; with this disadvantage, the flow of milk does not return with the reduction of the fever in the milk glands. All treat meat seems to be of little avail, and the cow is ruined. While hot water and like treatment ia valuable, it it too late to prevent the loss and treatment mutt commence at the first appear ance of the little blister. Take an ounce of carbolic acid crystals and warm them to a liquid, and to this add an ounce of glycerine. Mix this In ten ounces of linseed oil; and then with a small glass syringe Inject some of it Into the end of the teat at least three limes a day, first washing and cleaning the teat as well as can be done. The disease seems to be another of germ origin, and as the carbolic acid is death to germs, the trouble is arrested at the rtart fa some sections this disorder is very troublesome, and In our own stable one of our best cows has lost two quarters of her udder, despite our efforts to cure her, not knowing at the start the character of the trouble, Dr the remedy. When a blister forms at the end of a cow's teat, don't delay, but use the carbolic acid at once." &. c. Bennett comments on the above u follows: "The dairy editor of Rural Life hatmade the acquaintance of this malady, Dnt Waa not aware thmt ft common in the country. Two or three cowt have each lost the use of a teat, and the posibllity that more mv h-. come affected Is not pleasant The remedy Is therefore given for the bene 0t of all who are liable to have occa sion to use it As to Its efficiency we know nothing personally, and do not aaually give full credit to the claims made for cures by doctoring. It will be noticed that delay is fatal, that the remedy must be applied when the Mister first forms. We have no doubt that if this Is done nearly all cases would recover, and the reason for this belief Is that we find that many cases recover without treatment of any kind and the application would hardly pre vent recovery, to say the least How evr lt may be useful in these cases wnich do not recover without treat ment and they are by no means as uncommon. It seems, as could be wish- ed. Batter la Plaster of Paris, There seems to be no limit to. the ingenuity bestowed upon the devising of means for accomplishing the trans port of the perishable produce of dis tant climes to the English market A new method, described In the Austral asian, is that of packing butter in a box made of six sheets of ordinary glass, all edgea being covered over with gummed paper. The glass box is en veloped in a layer of plaster of paris, a quarter of an inch thick, and this it covered with specially prepared pa per. The plaster being a bad conductor of heat, the temperature Inside the her metically sealed receptacle remains constant being unaffected by external changes. The cost of packing Is about Id per pound. Batter packed In the way described at Melbourne has been sent across the sea to South Africa and when the case was onened at Kimbpr- ly, 700 miles from Cape Town, the but ter was found to be as sound as when It left the factory in Victoria. Cases are now made to hold as much as 2 cwt of butter, and forty hands, mostly boys and girls, are occupied in making the glass receptacles and covering them with plaster. The top, or lid, however. It put on by a timple mechanical ar rangement and la removed by the pur chaser equally easily. A saving of 25 per cent on freight and packing is claimed In comparison with the cost of frozen butter carried in the usual way. Ex. Will Keep Five Haadred Haas. A reader at Marion, Ohio, Intends to keep five hundred hens, and from his letter below he has much to learn, -and we give the inquiries for the purpose of discussing them, says Poultry Keep er. He says: "We are going to put up one of the new hen houses 250 feet long by 14 feet wide, capacity of 500 laying hens, 20 to the pen, 10 by 14 feet (Leghorns.) Now do you think they will do as well by letting these run all together or shall I keep them separate? I will leave runt 25 feet by 10 feet on each tide of the building, with a large win dow to every pen to the south, ten feet apart for plenty of light We want to keep 1,000 hens for laying, which if at tended to right and everything is looked after and kept clean, there is money In lt Please give us Ideas on this, for we are sort of laying luck on your paper for our success." It would require a whole book to comply with this request to "give us ideas," for there are hundreds, of de tails to be considered sickness, lice, etc., but let us look Into It some. We do not advise aa Inexperienced person ,to attempt to keep 500 hens, but to be gin with a few and gradually increase. Here is a reader. who asks if 500 hens should run together. Certainly not the smaller the flocks the better. He !taya: "We want to keep 1,000 hens, 'which, if attended to right" etc Stop 'right there. If attended to right 'well, that is just what we have been trying to And out for over forty years. .Every one means to do it right, thinks it can be done right and that lt is aa easy matter. But what is "rightr We ay publish our paper every month, filled with excellent articles ba how to do it right, aad we try to add our views, yet the "how to do it right" It aot known yet New, the reader at Marion knows that he has our sympathy, aad that we mean ao offense ia thus dis cuatiBg his letter, for we admire hit courage. He has the sight oreea, aad he writes like one determined. We will say, however, that Leghorns 'will aot stand coaflaement welk sad his PssaalBMBl eff .the lavrat A. sTwsr BOats as the Oara Uve sawak awaMl dTaPtBtsWe i CYfw ' 9 loo aaaalL They art active, aai aattght a fence. They cam ho kept ia flocks of aboat t or ft as tat axlitm, bat matt he kept at work. The plan of the house la correct bat there should be two yards, one oa each side of the hoate, ao as to givo sack flock a yard while green food is grow ing la another. They awy also have roam, brought by pigeons, or lice may prevail, varmints" kill them, rats get under the floors, egg-eating aad feather-pallimg bo .faults, over-feeding prevent laying, aad other drawback. Boat pat too mack money ia them the first yeas. Try it aad learn with a few. Experience is worth mora than capital. It looks as easy to keep five hundred as a dosea, bat a doxea cam have more room aad receive care which could aot be bestowed oa Ave hundred. a Park. The Canadian pork syndicate re ferred to la our last issue comprises some of. the wealthiest men in To ronto, Ottawa aad Montreal, who are interested to the extent of $1.000,00 and are prepared to take delivery of the pork. The bulk of the purchases were made at and in the vicinity of 17.02V per barrel la Chicago. A rich Toronto lumber firm hat purchased 110,000 barrels, and other large pur chases were made for account of To ronto and Montreal firms. This ia the largest pork syndicate since the days whea the late Mr. Rost. of Quebec. Messrs. Thomas Workman. Hugh Mc Kay, Louis Renaud and others, of Montreal, ran a similar deal in Chi cago over twenty years ago. The latter syndicate bought the pork and took delivery of It, but the quality waa much Inferior to that purchased and after delivery a considerable portion of it was found to be sour and un merchantable, so that when the deal was finally closed lt was discovered that the Chicago men had the best of it and the Montreal syndicate lost nearly $1,000,000. Thousands of deals in Chicago pork have been put through since then, but none of them approached in dimension that of the present Canadian syndicate, who have bought the pork at a low figure and are determined to carry out the deal even to taking delivery of the goods. As stated by us last week, the above syndicate Is rich enough to withstand the onslaughts of Armour and the other Chicago packers combined. Therefore the syndicate cannot be shaken out even if prices decline from this out It appears that the late heavy purchases by the syndicate have created quite a flutter of excitement among the packing interests of the windy city, as they were made in dif ferent lots so as not to excite sus picion, but when it was discovered that in the neighborhood of 1,000.000 barrels had been bought by a rich Canadian combine for future delivery at prices that are considered all right, and that the stock of 'contract pork in Chicago at present is about 150,000 barrels, which, along with other kinds, only amount to 225,000 barrels, it looked as if for once the Canucks had made a good deal and had got in well at figures that must show a profit Montreal Bulletin. Ideal Pastaraa. in the park country or in the forest region there need be no real difficulty in having an ideal pasture if the work is done right says Northwestern Far mer. In clearing the land, trees can be left here and there, and the land sown even at the outset with two or three or more kinds of grasses, such as will grow with us. One of these should be orchard grass. Another should be white clover. A third should be blue grass, and a fourth should be timothy. Such a mixture should grow well for several years, until the stumps at least have rotted. It could then be reno vated by plowing it up and sowing with grasses again. A nurse crop could be used, and under such conditions it had better be cut for fodder as it will not fill well when growing under the trees. It would only need to be thus cropped one year, when It could be again devoted to pasturing. Such pas tures are very fine,, more especially when they grow orchard grass, for or chard grass would grow In them quite freely because of the shade. They also furnish a landscape that is beautiful to look upon. There are many regions in this northwest that could thus be made to furnish the best of pastures and for successive years. Some of the trees would die occasionally, but could be provided for by leaving an ample supply of trees at the first Tfca BroUer Basins. A great many people are now turn ing their attention to the raising of broilers. The prices for this kind of poultry'product has in the past been fancy. At certain seasons of the year the birds of one and one-half pound weight have sold In Chicago for $5.00 a dozen. The report thereof has gone abroad, and the natural consequence has been that farmers and others have gone to figuring, and have found It an easy matter to figure themselves rich on broiler raising. But let us not lose sight of the fact that the chief reason why broiler raising has been so profit able Is the fact that there has been so few broilers to supply a large demand. We caution our readers not to build too high hopes on the future high prices of broilers. The supply tends to in crease. The time will come when the difference between the prices for broil ers and other kinds of poultry will be small. We say these few words for the benefit of those who may be entering on the business or those Intending to enter lt Not that we wish to discour age such undertakings, but that we de sire the farmer to count the cost of his venture and so avoid failure based oo wrong calculations. Experlsaaata with Flax. A bulletin has been Issued from the Central Experimental farm at Ottawa, by Dr. Saunders, dealing with the cul tivation of flax. It is stated that the dry western climate is not favorable for growing flax for fiber, as the latter is reduced both in quantity and quality, as compared with the article grown in the eastern part of the continent In the east flax is grown largely for the fiber. One ottthe claims put forth for flax is, that It can be grown on breaking the first year, thus giving the farmer a crop the first season. Tests were made at the Manitoba experiment al farm as to the quantity of seed to be sown per acre. rTom u pounas or ea J mK7ZSZLZL P were obtained; from 70 pounds .. m - B KhmKaIm a !? per acre w uuaucu ya wis us w talned; aad from 90 pounds of seed per acre, 26 bushels 50 pounds of seed were obtained. Dr. Saunders does not think that flax is much more exhaustive to the soil than a good crop of wheat or oats, and in a rich soil the difference would be scarcely perceptible. Ameri can Elevator and Grain Trade. Some naturalists believe that the whale was originally a land animal, sad that lt fled to the water far safety. PAST TRAIN TO OMAHA. f the taeWaris. If voa will co down to the Union Station almost any evening mow yoa will see the flaett mail train in the United States, or elsewhere, for that matter," said Chief Clerk P. M. Coates, of the railway mail service ia charge of the Chicago aad Omaha fast mail The cart have nearly all .been- remod eled, renovated, and painted anew. The third set of ears is mow is the Bur lington company's shops undergoing treatment All the old oil lamps have been removed and instead the entire train of five cars is lighted with Pintsch gas. There are seven lamps of four barners to each car.' The cars have been furnished with new trucks, or the old ones taken apart aad refitted piece by piece. All the most modern appliances in the matter of couplings and air brakes help to give the flyer the best possible equipment of any train extant The aew fast mail engine, No. 590, built especially for service on trains Nos. 7 and 8, by which Uncle Sam's trains on the "Q." between Chicago and Omaha are known has been trained into fine service, aad others of the same pattern will soon be on the rails. The government's train now makes Omaha in eleven and one-half hours, running 500 miles between 3 a. m. and 2:30 p. m. Chief Clerk Coates says that he can not remember of a single instance when Uncle Sam's flyer has been one minute late at the Union Pacific transfer this year. Naaaa Crowded Theaa Oat. "I read of a Chicago minister who displayed great presence of mind last Sunday when he discovered his church on fire during the services." "What did he do order a collection taken so as to have the congregation leave quietly and speedily?" "No better plan yet He announced that Mrs. Smith-Brown-Jones-Robin-son-Baker-Porkrib-Pygmete had been run over by a car in front of the church. Almost every man present exclaimed, 'Heavens, my former wife!' and lef the building." Truth. Her Last Kaqaest. "One moment" said the fated queen of Scotts as she paused at the foot of the scaffold. "1 have a last request to make. When you come to bury me and are about to restore my head to my body, be sure to remember one thing." "And what is that" quoth the impa tient warder. "Just try your best to put it on straight" And the cortege swept on. Cleve land Plain Dealer. I know that my life was saved by Piso's Cure for Consumption. John A. Miller, Au Sable, Michigan, April 21, 1805. She Sells Papers. Miss Clara Howard is working her way through the University of Califor nia by selling newspapers. "I believe in work," she says. "I do not think that any woman need allow auy pecu niary obstacles to interfere with it She can always reach an intellectual object through manual labor. It is a means to an end, and, besides, it ir sonducive to cleanliness of thought WHAT MEN DO. The fads of W. S. Gilbert, the libret tist are running a model farm and studying astronomy. Paulis, the cafe concert singer, whose "Boulanger March" had much to do with popularizing the general, has just died at his country place. I John D. Rockefeller, president of the' oil trust, owns 400,000 out of the 1,000,000 shares of the corporation and they are worth $100,000,000 according to report His income from this source Is $1,328 for every hour of the day and his annual income from all sources is estimated at $30,000,000. Baron Hirsch's place as the open handed friend of the British aristoc racy will probably be taken by Mr. Belt a German multi-millionaire, who is interested with the Rothschilds. Jules Jouy, the writer of many of Yvette Guilbert's songs, among them La Soularde," has gone mad. A per formance to provide the money to keep him in a private asylum has been got ten up by the poet Coppee and the critic Sarcey. Jouy was a commonplace looking fat little man, very particuar about his dress and umbrella. He imagines that he has a handkerchief worth seventy millions of trancs. JOSH BILLINGS' PHILOSOPHY. If yu waat to git at the aktual value ov a pekok. buy a bob-tailed one, and wonder if hiz tale will ever gro out. The man who iz never ashamed to borrow, will, after a while, git so that he won't be ashamed to beg. The more a man knows the more he haz got to kno to be very wize. It isn't so mutch what a man kan lift az what he kan hang onto that showi his strength. Ideas are what win, but even ideas may be smothered in words. It iz the sting ov the hornet that makes him respecktabel, and the want ov it that makes the butterfly a failure Kerosene is good for keeping bright any wood varnished in oil. No one has ever attempted to pull teeth by christian scien e. Most important i eop!o in the world are those who mind their own business. There is more cruelty to animals in country than in the city. the Gladness Comes With a better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys ical ills, which vanish before proper ef forts gentle efforts pleasant efforts rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are not due to anv actual dis ease, but simply to a constipated condi tion of the system, which the pleasant family laxative. Syrup of Figs, prompt ly removes. That is why it is the only remedy with millions of families, and is everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness without debilitating the organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important; in order to get its bene ficial effects, to note when you pur chase, that you have the genuine arti cle, which is manufactured by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by all reputable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health, ami the system is regular, laxatives or other remedies are then not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, one should have the best and with the well-informed everywhere. Syrup of Figs staads highest aad most largely MmiBWHKnutauuwHga. aap EaaPaaaaW !aBBBBHai bbbbbbb! tBBrBBBaBBBBsw'jR.H kW 1 'iaamaUaaaaaaaV aaV J vJUbs aaaaaaaaaaal BBBB BBBBBBBBBT BBBaBBBBBBar LANGUAQE O ntMa. I T SwH Amy Wsataaa . , I Amethyst Peace of mind. Regarded by the ancients as having the power to dispel araakei Bloodstone. I moara your ah- Wora by the aacleat as aa amulet or charm, ea account of the medlclaal aad magical virtues it was supposed to poetess. DIamoad. Pride. Awarded super natural qualltlea from the most remote period down to the middle eges. Has the power of making men courageous and magnanimous. Protects from evil spirits. Influences the sods to take pity upon mortals. Maintains concord between husband and wife, and for this reason was held aa the most appro priate atone for the espousal ring. Emerald. Success in love. Men tioned In the Bible aa worn in the breast-plate of the High Priest as am emblem of chastity. Ruby. A cheerful mind. An amulet against poison, sadness, evil thoughts. A preservative of health. Admonishes the wearer of impending danger by changing color. Sapphire. Chastity. Procures favor with princes. Frees from enchant ment Prevents Impure thoughts. Topaz. Fidelity. Calms the passions. Turquoise. Success and happiness. Preserves from contagion. Garnet Fidelity in every engage ment Onyx. Reciprocal love. Opal. Pure thoughts. Pearl. Purity and innocence. CURIOUS FACTS. A pound of phosphorus heads 1.000, 000 matches. School directors In the district of Duverne, Iowa, have ordered a cyclone cave dug at each of the schcolhouses in the district. It is said that there are only two words in the English language that contain all the vowels In their order. They are "abstemious" and "face tious." When falling, as out of a tree, or down a steep declivity, bears will roll themselves into a close resemblance to a huge furry ball, and thus escape without injury. Inflammation in the knees is a disa greeable form of retribution for wear; ing high heels. Lifelong lameness sometimes results from over indul gence in high heels. The mole is not blind, as many per Gons suppose. Its eye is hardly larger than a pinhead, and is carefully pro tected from dust and dirt by means of enclosing hairs. WaaS ' """ f . """"'at h "" -f - m fa,1 " '-si aK M -a--a - M - jV - taaaaa-a--a. . " J M a pT sbeS as saaaawPJ taaavaaaflii t-Haaff - I "Check it!" H BataE tsaSat aaaa aaaaaaaaaaaam aaaa! aaafl aaaa! aaaaaa SW$ aaaaaaaaataw l tBBanCfaaaaaUaaV aaaaa PLUG If he had bought a 5 cent piece he would have been able to take it with him. There is no use buying more than a 5 cent piece of " Battle Ax." A IS cent piece is most too big to carry, and the 5 cent piece is nearly as large as the 10 cent piece of other high grade tobaccos. MlW 1SSIMiM00 .. 0 mftsltmM swl J!t8lalKaaMlnaaTaal -"-' r 0-UBaaaaavBaaa BBnv3saaHalvaaLSaaaaaVatl jltavsal Wm W SaRv wslaflaiav2lsaaaaaw - vLWmw AM aaS ?SllSaflpjgiaaaaaaaaaa aaaaKtl w m aaaawBaf Tfll iMuSUmkm plmaamvaal aaaaawTmj - w aaaaasaau a i taaaawvj w LaaaaaPesaBaS haaaH SHBHlIiVAH saaaaaaaaaaaasasaaaaaaaawaSaaaaaa TeSwKSay A pretty, yet servfcmWe gowa, which was imported lately, weald salt aaj kind of ordiaarv weather. It mad ia moss-greea canvas, lined with a bright shade of pink. The tiff ht-fit- tiaa basone bodice had loar. rarer of white satin, over which fell cascades of coffee-colored' lace, aad the vest of white chiffon, was also vettea with lace. Pink ribbon encircled the waist and the neck, which was flaishoi with pointed motifs of lace. Dea't starch TaM Ctetke. Never let the laaadress ia her com mendable desire to give a gloss to table linen, starch it To produce a high satiny polish oa damask it should first be thoroughly dampened aad thea ironed with a heavy flat iron until it is absolutely dry. Table liaea should never leave the ironing beard until it is absolutely dry. If the Bahy la CMttsf ssar aadaaaaaatold aad wvB-triaa flrBULOVsSOOTBSM Sha Waa a Saw Tarkor. The cannibal king- summoned hie chef. "I think," he said, "that a light browning will be sufficient for the blond one." lie rubbed his hands together de lightedly. "1 overheard her say that she came from the juciest part of the tenderloin." New York lress. PTTa Moppi frre and petmaanUT earvd. X Ihsafi.r flnt Ut u of Pr. Kllae'aUreat Katie Jtrstorer. Frw SI tml buttle aad treatise. 8ead to Da. Kus. SBlArckta, Phllailelnila.ra, Tha Keasoat Why. 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