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we!" ness and languor whea
K2eMall Wood's Sarprill !
OXlCngWl taken to purify.enrich
uid vlUlize the blood. Hood's Sarsepa
rilla expels the germs ot scrofula, salt
rheam and other poisons which cause so
much suffering and sooner or later under
mine the general health. It strengtheM
the system while it eradicates disease.
HOOCl S parilla
lsthe Best -In tact the One True Blood Purifier.
A- D;t1c '.re Liver Ills, easy to
llCOU S PHIS Ke.ra.-itoo!rate.25c.
The June number of North American
Review contains u remarkably elever
article on "Popular Errors in Living,"
by Dr. Charles V. Purdy. who main
tains tliat it is hirh time more wide
pread and efficient measures were
adopted for the purpose of educating
tiie gen.-ral public in those physiologi
cal laws, the observance of which most
Surely conserve the bodily health, erect
the strongest barriers against the en
croachments of disease, and thus con
serve the attainments of long life.
NEW DEPARTURE
For tlic Wabash Kailroad.
Commencing Sunday. June 13, the
Wabash, by lease of the Grand Trunk
((treat Western division), will extend
its line from Detroit to Kuffalo, running
its own trains solid from Chicago. The
only line running reclining chair
cars free, Chicago to lluffalo and New
York: St. Louis to Niagara Falls and
Ituffalo, with Wagner sleeping cars
-from Cliieago and St, Louis to New
York and lloston. All trains run via
Niagara Tails, with privilege of stop-
. ping over on all classes of tickets. For
tickets and further information, or a
copy of "To the Lake Resorts and I5c
vond," call on agent of connecting
line, or at Wabash office, 1415 Farnam
street (I'axton hotel block), or write
('.. N. Clayton. N. W. Pass. Agent,
Omaha, Nebraska,
For significance, variety and inter
est of matter, and beauty of illustra
tion, there rarely issues a magazine
equal to the .lune numberof McClure's.
1'rof Langlcy's account of his ten years
of hard study and experiment in the
construction of living machines, crown
ed at last w ith a "machine that actual
ly .solves the problem and proves 'me
chanical flight"' to be both possible and
practicable, is a positive contribution
to science: but it is at the same time a
most interesting story of heroic pa
tience and effort directed to a noble
end. The p:ijer is illustrated with
pictures of Prof. Langlcy's own ma
chine (the only Hying machine that
has eVT flown) made under bis direc
tion. DitoT treated freebv Dr. H. II. Green's
Foti';, 'f At'anta. Cn. The greatest dropsy
specialist in tlio world. Head their adver
tisement in another column of this paper.
l'ow l! Via Ito re.
landlady I do think Mr. Star is
the most carcle.-s man 1 ever saw. Ho
leaves his thing-; lying around his
loom in such confusion.
Maid I've notice 1 it, mem. I
fjuess he must have boon raited a
married man, mem.
Hall's Catarrh Cure
Is tal:cn internally. Frice, THc
liiH 1 lain 10 I'itnl It.
Mr. Caivkcr. after his wife has road
tcveral j:acs Is there any news in
your mother's letter, dear?
Mr. Cawfcer I haven't come to tho
j)Os!serijt yet. Truth.
To Cere Constipation Forever.
Tilic Cascarcts Candi Cathartic. 10c or So.
If C C C. tall to cure, tlrusciils refund money.
tJod never made a cow
siill; puncli.
that gave
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Drs. Maybe and Mustbe.
To.3 ckcose ihz olJ doctor before tbc yovrgr one. TIty?
because you tlon't vrant to catrust your life in incs?:riencsd
lnnds. True, Ibc young doctor may hi experienced. But
lh: c-d doctor must fcs. You lake no ch?nccs xrith Tr. H3jfce,
wLea Dr. Musttc is in reach. Ssmc Willi medicines cs Tfith
mcJicinc makers the long-tried remedy lias your confidence.
You prefer experience to experiment wien yon are concerned.
The new remedy may in good but lei sor.el'cdy else r-rcre
if. The old remedy mast be good judged ci i:s rccerd cf
cares. Just one more reason for clioosing AYI'.R'S Sarsi
pariila In preference to any other. II lias t:er. tlie standard
househu'd sarsararilla for half a century. Its record inspires
confidence CO years of cures. If ot'aers may be good,
Aycr's Scrsaparilla mx:zt be. You take no chances wcea you
take AYUIZ'SSarsaparllla.
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FLUSH JOINT STRENGTH
Our Columbia 5 per cent. Nickel Steel Tubing shows
a tensile strength of over 00,000 pounds to the
square inch; 50 carbon tubing used in Hartford
mis
even than
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COLUMBIA BICYCLES $100
STANDARD OF THE WORLD.
1S96 Columbias, $75. Hartfords, $60, $55, $50, $40.
POPE MFG. CO., Hartford, Conn.
DR. KAY'S RENOVATOR.
REV. J. B. WADE, Curel rf C0NSTIPATI0W-
"1 am astonished at the mildness and yet the efficiency of Dr. Kay's Reno
vator in movinff constipated bowels, and in producing a regular natural dis
efcarpe 1 have teen afflicted witk constipation fcr 2, years." (Rev.) J. B
Wale, Morrison, Colorado.
Dr. Kay's Renovator
This remarkable medicine has cured so many of the worst cases of constipation
that it certainly REMOVES headaclv, biliousness, indig-estion. as well as
every other troub.e which rinds its cause in cons-ipation. It strikes to the
Tery root of the trouble and cures THE very Trorat cases which seem to be
obscure and in which physicians and all other remedies fa.l to cure or give re
lief. It is the best medicine for Impure blood, the CAUSE ot which iray be
scrofula, erysipelas, or other troubles, all of which arc treated in oar newbook.v
Dr. Kay's Home Treatment," a f8 page treatise on '.iscisci which vrill be seat
to any address for stamp. Dr. Kay's Renovator at dturgista or by raa'l for 25c
and II. Address: Dr. B. J. Kay Medical Co., Western Office, Omaha. Nebraska
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DR. KAY' RENOVATOR.
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rteat aUght Swindles.
An exchange says that a smooth pat
ent right swindling scheme is being
worked in some of the states. A man
comes to a farmer with a patent wagon
tongue for which great claims are
mad. He has only that one county
left and will sell the right for two
hundred and fifty dollars. A few days
later, while the farmer is thinking
over the matter, another man comes
along, who has learned that the farmer
has the right to the valuable invention,
and offers him four hundred dollars for
It, paying him ten dollars down. The
farmer at once goes and closes the deal
with the first party, giving his note or
cash for the two hundred and fifty dol
lars. In the meantime the second man
disappears and the two schemers meet
and "divy." If a note it is discounted
at the nearest tank.
Try Graln-O.
Ask your grocer today to show you
a package of GRAIN-O. the new food
drink that takes the place of coffee.
The children may drink It without
injury as well as the adult All who
try it lihe it. GRAIN-0 has that rich
seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it Is
made from pure grains, and the most
delicate stomach receives It without
distress. J4 the price of coffee.
15 cents and 25 cents per package.
Sold by all grocers. Tastes like cof
fee. Looks like coffee.
The Century for June lias as its high
lights the subjects of Queen Victoria,
appropos of the celebration this month,
and the work of the sculptor St. Gau
dens. appropos of the dedication of the
Shaw Memorial in Boston. The most
complete pictorial record of the work
of St. Gaudcns yet made is here pub
lished in a group of papers 13- Edward
Atkinson. W. A. Collin, and T. W. Hig
ginson. Resides three full-page repro
ductions of the Shaw Memorial, there
are twenty-nine pieces of sculpture by
St Gaudens shown in the articles.
There is also a sketch of the life of
Col. Shaw by the editor and an edito
itorial on the sculptor.
Tie lcTcloim-t ornM-hool from mall le;yinrlns
Into m creat cdacntioia! iti-tltutlnn. i lir-tlv trace
able to a ca-eful !: tiD-i ." th5 lC".t Millilj and
Dilnutr attention to tlio ilrtail r.f administration. Xo
rrtltntion Isofnora!ilj k intra in thin respect as th
p Kon! "ritVAT(nv ok !iric in Rostov.
With tic-.rlj a million dollars inre.tt It its tna;rnitl
rent ImiWin,?. ntA wit1! rt:rc. in music ni e!icu
tion anl rRrf-al i3ttritrUon ia piano ai1 nr?an
tunln. tho ail-antar olfcrrl are un;-ftraUe!e!, ail
prove lronl n .on tiiat tlie -t.liler.t ran maLc no
xnlstaUe vrho rhTt till-. vhoI lit pi cf-rence to an y
other, at Lome or abroa d.
t:iprns ttinn.
I). V. Tallent. mail carrier 'between
Knthcrfordton and Columbus. N. C,
ivalks twenty-seven miles each day,
carryingthe mail bag on his shoulders.
His compensation is (J00 a year.
JOWA I'AKSIS For Sale on crop payment,
8! per acre cash, Kilaiicc i crop yearly until
paid for. J. X ULUAL L, V.'auUcguu, 111.
A New Definition.
Inquisitive Tommy Say, pa, what
is sic tran-it?
Intelligent Parent Sic transit?
Why, an ambulance wagon, of course.
- Texas Siftings.
Kdneato Yoar noxrels With Cnsesrets.
Candy Cailtartie. cure constipation forever.
10c. If a C. C. taiU drujfKists refund money.
A ointt.iin f silver.
Tho greatest sum of coin that was
ever collected in one spot was in the
national trasury of the United States
in tho silver crisis, whn no less than
$.i00,UU0,000 was contained there.
I-AKKt:i.I!S Ki:U STAB KMRAIT If3
The best; all pmccr- xilll refund oui nioacy If
jou are not sail Ccd with It.
Attempt to make reform a paying
business and it eeases to be reform.
Ifece-amtTH ('anphor lcn with Glycerine.
Cures ChapiKsl Hands and iuiv. Tender or sore Ftt,
Chilblatns, l'jle. See. C. O. Clark Co.. Sew Ha en. Ct.
Others see our faults as plainly as
we see theirs.
bicycles shows about 75,000 pounds to the square
inch, and 25 carbon tubing ordinarily used in
bicycles shows about 55,000 pounds to the
square inch. Yet Columbia Patent Flush Joint
Frame Connections are very much stronger
our celebrated 5 per cent- Nickel
Steel Tubing
a convincing
proof of the
extraordinary
strength of
Col um bia
Flush Joints
and Frames.
DR. KAY'S RENOVATOR.
SOLD BY DRUGGISTS.
FARMS AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.
rSoaae Up-to-date Hint About Caltlva-
tlon of the Soil mad 'fields Thereof
Horticulture Yltlcultare and Fieri
caltare.
N the soil are found
(he decaying rem
nants of plants and
r.nimals, which con
tain considerable
quantities of nitro-
llal gen; the rocks irom
KpQS( "which the soil has
uecn maue usuun;
contain an appreci
able amount of ni
trogen, and every
rain washes from the atmosphere into
the soil small quantities of nitrogen
compounds, says an experimental sta
tion bulletin. Then the roots foraging
for food and sending out shoots here
and there in their quest take up by
means cf an apparatus carried by all
root hairs, wherever and whenever they
can, bodies containing nitrogen. But,
it may be asked, since It is a well
known fact that four-fifths of the at
mosphere is pine nitrogen why does not
the plant take this element directly
from the air? The reason is simply
this: That all the higher plants can
take up nitrogen only when it is com
bined with other elements. The leaves
can take it up when it is united with
another element to form ammonia; and
the roots prefer it when it is combined
in the form of nitrates as, for example,
saltpeter. Yet there are plants, as re
cent experiments have demonstrated,
that, by slightly indirect means, can
take nitrogen from the air. Among the
nianv mierascoiiic orennisins discov
ered in the latter days and shown to
be the cause of many subtle material
changes, some exist with the power of
e:itiug free nitrogen, or of taking ni
trogen from the air. They, the nitro
gen eaters, will live on the roots of cer
tain plants, though, as far as our
knowledge gees at present, not on all.
When a plant is fortunate enough to
meet the demands of the nitrogen at
i.ts its su;.piy of nitrogen compounds is
assured, if all other conditions are fa
vorablp. The minute organisms will
settle on the roots of the plants and, Ly
means yet unknown, will cause the ni
trogeu of the air surrounding the roots
to enter into combinations mat will be
acceptable to the plant. This, hoarever,
is not done without a just return. The
minute oiganisins need for their well
heing such organic substances as the
plants can produce; these are taken
from the roots of the plants, and the
organisms are thus seen to be parasites
on the plants, me piums -
these "nitrogen eaters"
will attach
iKnnic.ihnc nio tiir mpinii?rs cf the
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leguminous family; important mem
bers of which are the pea and lucern.
We haie now considered in a very ele
mentary manner the importance of the
nitrogenous compounds of a plant to
the farmer, and the sources on which a
plant depends fcr its supply of nitro
gen. Since it is a fact that several dif
Terent kinds of nitrogenous substances
a:c found in ail plants, we may now
logically ask: are all the nitrogenous
substances found in plants of equal
value as flesh formers The answer
to the question of the last paragraph is
emphatically, no. All the bodies con
raining nitrogen in any plant may be
divided into two clai-scs; those that
may be "used by an animal in building
muscular tis&uc, and those that may
not, '1 he first class is made up of sev
eral members which resemble each oth
er in composition and in general be
havior. They all. further, resemble the
white of an egg or albumen, and are
therefore, called albumhoids, like al
bumen. The other class of nitrogenous
substances may be called noa-albuml-noids.
In the study of the album'noids.
it has been four-d tint they weigh very
nearly bix and a quarte: times as much
as the nitrogen they contain. Since
the non-alb!:miii''ds usually arc pres
ent only in l:i....1 quantities, the chai
ist ery ofte: i. .rmiticsall the nitro
gen a p'ant co.:1j.i - and. after multi
plying it by ".x ai.t. . t.u.'.rter. calb it
Crude Protein.
Ohio Tkwii ;:ilj i'rtilt C'oimulstoner4.
Ohio Station Bulletin: niak-kno'
of plum and cherry is found wherever
these ties Pie grown. Peach yel
lows aj pears to occur in all portions
of Ohio where peaches are commer
cially grown. The San Jose scale has
been introduced probably within seven
r eight years at a great many points
.u tiic- Mate, exclusively in nursery
otcck :i.rcr,t(l with this insect. With
'i.'.r. o .,:tk-:J i:.tt rests the need for
great care in preventing the spread of
these cnenjiee of fruit trees is readily
apparent to ever;' one. Black-knot may
Le p: evented by the removal and burn
ing of all knots each year, before
.Match, it passible. Peach yellows is
he!u in check Ly the icmoval and burn
ing of ali infected trees each season.
The San Jose scale requires vigorous
measures, likewise. Badly infested
rccc should be taken out and burned
vhiie insects and trees are dormant.
Ttees less infested may be pruned and
seated v. ith whale oil soap solution
I'.ade by :issoIving l'.A pounds of soap
n one ga'Iun of water. The treatment
s applied at any time when leaves are
jff, and just as buds are starting in
he spring. The Ohio law of 1S96 pro
.ides for the appointment of beards of
'rail commissioners by the township
trustees, upon the written petition of
.ive free-holders. The law Is manda
tory upon the trustees, requiring them
o api'-Din these township fruit com
missioners upon petition, as stated.
Wherever fruits are grown and the
tiees are affected with any or all of the
:roub!es mentioned above, such cora
.iiiisioncrs are provided for by the stat
ute. Bulletin 72 of the Ohio Experi
ment Station, issued under the require
ments of the law, describes the black
i.not yellows and San Jose scale, and
gnes information concerning them.
It also contains a copy of the law as an
appendix. This tnilletln will be sent
ficc to all who apply and in quantity
to township clerks and fruit commis
sioners haing use for it, upon appli
cation to the Experiment Station,
Wooster, O. Ccmplsint has been made
that in some townships the trustees
tiave refused to appoint commissioners
upon the presentation of proper peti
tions. This matter of their refusal
was submitted to the Attorney Gener
al of Ohio. He gives an opinion to
the effect that where black-knot or
peach yellows is found to exist the
township trustees must appoint such
commissioners upon presentation of a
petition in compliance with the stat
ute. He states: "This duty is not a
discretionary one, but is mandatory
upon them (the trustees). If the trus
tees fail or refuse to perform any
duty enjoined upon them by this act,
the proper method to compel the per
formance of such duty is by a pro
ceeding in mandamus instituted in
the Common Pleas Circuit or Supreme
Court." It is also to be understood
that the cost of mandamus proceed
ings may not be paid out of public
y
monies, but will fall upon the trustee
personally. ,
Sbeep Note
There Is a rapidly Increasing Interest
In the sheep industry In the south and
wherever southdowns have been intro
duced they have nearer filled the re
quirements for that section than any
other breed. Southdown breeders are
to be congratulated upon the fact that
the Tennessee Centennial Exposition,
through its very liberal premiums, of
fers an excellent medium for bringing
tneir sheep to the attention of the far.n
ers of the south. The exhibition of
southdowns at this centennial ought to
be of the highest character, both as
fo numbers and quality of the animals
shown.
The annual meeting of the American
Southdown Breeders' Association will
be held in the secretary's office at
Springfield, 111., on Wednesday, May 26,
1S97, at 10 o'clock a. m. At this meet
ing the regular annual election of offi
cers will be held. Among other mat
ters pertaining to the association that
may receive attention will he the
changing of rules of entry, so as to re
quire the registry of an additional
cross, viz., great-grandsires and great
granddams. in cases whera the ances
tors are not already recorded. Also,
the matter of holding a meeting of tho
association In Chicago during the fat
stock show this winter, should such
ehow be held.
The Southdown Sheep Breeders' As
sociation and the Southdown Club, two
rival organizations in England hairing
the Southdown sheep industry In in
terest, have united into one organisa
tion, the Southdown Sheep Society, and
elected Mr. Walter William Chapman,
the former efficient secretary of the
Sheep Breeders' Association, as secre
tary of the new society. If members
of the united society will permit Mr.
Chapman to conduct Its affairs In up-to-date
modern ways, the Interests of
the Southdown breed of sheep will be
very creatly benefited. If, on the oth
er hand, as there are Indications, the
policy of the society is to be of an an
cient order, its usefulness will be of
little account, and it is even likely to
be found a detriment to the interests it
is intended to promote.
The recent test for early lambs under
the auspices of the National Stock
man and Farmer, and conducted by Mr.
Geo. M. Welber, Maryvllle, Ohio, was
made by using two Southdown and twe
Dorset rams, upon two flocks of grade
ttambouillet ewes, eigbty-nve In each
flock. This test Is of value, because
by It is shown that lambs averaging 7-1
days old may be made to weigh 4
pound3 each, and that these may be
sold at an average of $6 each. For the
butchers' block what other kind of do
mestic animal can beat this as a money
maker? The test also shows that fot
pronicacy the Southdowns can claim
equity with the Dorsets, although this
is one of the claims of the latter for
superiority. The Southdowns pro
duced 87 and the Dorsets 88 lambs.
J. G. S.
Corii-Grouinj; in the South.
By some the Increase in corn culture
in the Southern states since 1890 is
ascribed to a competition begun eight
years ago in one of the agricultural
papers, which offered a cash prize to
the American farmer who raised the
largest crop to the acre of any cereal,
says Fort Worth Live Stock Reporter.
The prize for wheat went to Utah, for
oats to Now York, for barley to Ohio,
and for corn, strange to relate, to
South Carolina. One fanner in Marl
Lorough county, In that state, estab
lished his claim to have raised a crop
from one acre of 239 bushels, and the
awarding of the prize was a revelation
to many Southern farmers who had
uniformly regarded cotton as the sta
ple agricultural product of the South
and hud seen neither reason nor protit
in the cultivation of corn. Since then,
vhaicver the reason of the develop
ment of the corn crop in the South may
nae been, it is a fact that it has been
enormously increased, and that the
western states no longer hold tluir re
lathe prominence as corngrowers. By
the oJIicial census cf 1SS0 there were
produced in the United States in that
J ear 1.730,000,000 bushels of corn, and
oy figures of the dsparement of agri
culture in 1S95, fifteen jears later, the
corn crop cf the United States was 2,
150,000,000 bushels. The increase, how
ever, was not uniform; it was greatest
in the southern states. Alabama In
creased from 25,000,000 to 45,000,000
bushels. Arkansas increased from 24,
JOO.C'OO to 50,000.000 bushels, more than
cleuL-Ie. Louisiana increased from ten
to twenty-two million bushels. Geor
gia from twenty-three to forty-two mil
lion. Florida from three to six mil
lion, and Texas, most remarkable of
all, from twenty-nine to one hundred
and seven million. Mississippi in
creased from twenty-one to thirty-five
million bushels, and South Carolina
from eleven to twenty million. While
the southern states have been Increas
ing their corn product, the former corn
states have either made no gain or
have been falling off. From 1830 to
1S95, Iowa increased only from 275 to
29S million bushels, Indiana from 115
to 121, and Michigan from 32 to 33
million bushels. Wisconsin fell off
from 34 to 33 million bushels, Ohio
from 111 to 92 million, and Illinois,
once the chief corn-producing state in
the corn belt, from 325 to 255 million
bushels. In the same period New York
declined from 25 to 18 million bushels.
The corn product of Pennsylvania fell
o!f from 45 to 43 million bushels, and
in other states of the east or middle
west the proportionate decline was
practically the same. The south is the
region in which there has been a ma
terial increase in corn product
Berry Bashes la Summer.
All berry bushes should be protected
from summer heat and drouth. This
may be done in two ways. First, by
frequent cultivation and hoeing thus
forming an earth mulch, which pre
vents the rapid escape of moisture
from the soil. Second, by covering the
ground around the hill with coarse ma
nure, straw and other material, which
prevents evaporation and retains the
moisture about the roots. One of the
best and cheapest mulches for the far
mer Is green clover, cut In blossom and
applied same as manure. It is easily
applied, retains moisture, enriches the
soil, keeps the berries clean and con
tains no germ of noxious weeds. A
good mulch well applied is one of the
great necessities in successful fruit
growing. When new canes of the
blackberry and blackraspberry are
eighteen inches high, nip the top off
about two Inches; this will cause sev
eral new laterals to grow which should
be trimmed severely In the spring. The
pinching back of new growth is Im.
portant It largely Increases the bear
ing surface, keeps the bush low, strong,
well formed and less liable to injury
from, severe storm3. M. A. Thayer.
Overwork is a thief of time.
"OLD HICKORY'S" INAUGURAL?
A Meh rUwd tolas from the Caatte!
aad Iaraded the White House.
Mr. Bishop says of President Jack
son's inauguration in the Century:
An eye witness who took a somewhat
jocose view of the day's events wrote
that the most remarkable feature about
Jackson as he marched down tho aisle
of the senate with a quick, large step,
as though he proposed to storm the
capitol, was his double pair of spec
tacles. He habitually wore two pairs,
one for reading and the other for see
ing at a distance, the pair not in use
being placed across the top of his hetd.
On this occasion, says the eye witness,
the pair on his head reflected the light,
and some of the rural admirers of the
old hero were firmly persuaded that
they were two plates of metal let Into
his head to close up holes made by
British bullets. When he appeared en
the portico we are told that the shout
which arose rent the air and seemed to
shake the very ground. The cere
mony ended, the general mounted his
horse to proceed to the white house,
and the whole crowd followed him.
"The president," says a contempor
ary writer, "was literally pursued by a
motley concourse of people, riding
running helter skelter, striving whe
should first gain admittance into the
executive mansion, where it was un
derstood that refreshments were to he
distributed."
An abundance of refreshments had
been provided, including many barrels
of orange punch. As the waiters
opened the doors to bring out the
punch in pails the crowd rushed upon
them, upsetting the pails and breaking
the glasses. Inside the house the
crush was so great that distribution of
refreshments was impossible, .:nd tubs
of orange punch were set out in the
grounds to entice people from the
rooms. Jackson himself was so
pressed against the wall of the recep
tion room that he was in danger of in
jury and was protected by a number of
men linking arms and forming a bar
rier against the crowd. Men with boots
heavy with mud stood on the satin cov
ered chairs and sofas in their eagerness
to get a view of the hero. Judge Story
wrote that the crowd contained all
Borts of people, from the highest and
most polished down to the most vulgar
and gross in the nation. "I never saw
such a mixture," he added. "The reign
of King Mob seemed triumphant. I
was glad to escape from the scene as
soon as possible."
GATHERING RUBBER.
How the AatlTes of the French Congo
Work.
The natives of the French Congo
"cut rubber" In March and April. The
rubber of Congo is not a tree, but a
vine, often three or four inches in di
ameter, and is found in the jungle,
says an exchange. Natives who scorn
to be industrious at all other times of
the year work hard during the season
of rubber gathering. Before the cut
ters start out the whole village in
which they live indulges in a tremen
dous debauch, after which the men
strike out boldly into the jungle, well
laden with food, for there are few
edibles in the rubber districts. The
vines climb up the trees, and as only
the upper and smaller portions of the
vine produce desirable sap the men
have to climb to the height of the first
branches, often as much as fifty feet,
to do their work. After the pieces are
thrown to the ground they are cut
again into lengths of three or four feet
and are then held over pots so that
the juice will run out. When a pot
is nearly full the juice is boiled down
for several hours, during which time
it is mixed with juices of several other
vines, which renders the mixture
sticky and more easily formed into
balls. When it is cooled sufficiently
to be handled it is shaped by winding
it first around a stick. After a while
the stick is pulled out and the ball
rewound. In some cases these balls
weigh three or four pounds; in some
others it takes five or six to make one
pound.
The best and purest rubber Is ob
tained in the shape of bracelets, which
are made by the natives catching the
juice as it runs out around the wrists,
where it is allowed to dry. When per
fectly set it comes off easily and
would be transparent if the negroes'
arms and hands were not dirty.
Bigamy In Italy.
Italy enjoys at the present moment
the distinction of being the only civil
ized country in Europe where It Is pos
sible to commit bigamy without expos
ing one's self to any danger of punish
ment. Since the constitution of the
kingdom in 1870 the authorities have
insisted that only a civil marriage is
legally binding. On the other hand,
the church refuses to recognize the
form of matrimonial union as valid
and requires the faithful to go through
the religious service, venting Us dis
pleasure on those who seek any civil
sanction to their alliance. The gov
ernment has repeatedly tried to secure
the enactment of a law providing for
the punishment of any priest who
should have performed the religions
marriage service without the latter
having been preceded by a civil cere
mony. But the vast body of the peo
ple in Italy are Catholic to the ore and
would not tolerate any measure which
had the appearance of encroaching on
the rights of the church. The result is
that today large numbers of unscrupu
lous people take advantage of this con
dition of affairs to have two wh-es. one
in the eye of the church and the other
in the eyes of civil authorities. And
they can do this without the bligh'est
danger of being called to account or of
being punished. New York Tribune.
KeatTcc Library to Write One Novel.
The amount of labor that goes to
the making of a good historical novel
is rather deterrent to the writer of fic
tion who is used to turning out regu
larly two novels a year. It is so much
easier to make over again, with a little
imagination, the charac.ers and inci
dents that one has picked up in the
ordinary course of life and travel.
Thackeray somewhere tells of the tre
mendous amount of reading that went
into the caldron before "Esmond" was
brewed. And a little while ago an
aged librarian related his surprise at
the research the great novelist carried
on, month after month, in his accumu
lation of historical details. A whole
chapter could be written in the time
devoted to verifying a detail of cos
tume or the turn of an antique phrase.
Moreover, the historical novelist real
izes that he Is taking this tremendous
amount of pains for a very few peo
ple; that hardly one In a thousand of
his readers care3 for more than the
skill with which he tells the story.
But that cne is the man who will tell
the next generation, with authority,
that the book Is worth preserving.
Ladles' Home Journal.
Fattening- Lambs for Market.
Prof. J. A. Craig says in preparing
fambs for the early market the best
gain to his knowledge Is that made by
three lambs at the New York Cornell
station, which made a weekly gain per
head of 5.36 pounds, extending over a
period of nine weeks. Another lot of
three made an average weekly gain ot
4.47 pounds per head, extending over
a period of twelve weeks. In neither
case, however, is the composition of
the ration or the amount of grain re
ported. The best gain in the writer's
experience at the Wisconsin station
has been made by four lambs that were
fed a mixture by weight of four parts
of bran, four parts of corn meal and
one part of linseed meal. When the
experiment started, the lambs were
about three weeks 'old, and they were
fed for ten weeks on this grain ration,
receiving in addition the milk of their
mothers. The average weight of each
lamb at the beginning of tho experi
ment was 18.6 pounds, and at the end,
C2.5 pounds, an average weekly gain
per head of 4.48 pounds. They each
ate 26.6 pounds of the grain mixture
during the ten weeks, costing eighteen
cents per head.
The results that come next to these
in profit were obtained from feeding a
grain mixture consisting of two parts
of ground wheat and one part of ground
corn by weight The lambs were about
four and one-half weeks old when the
experiment started, and averaged 26.1
pounds in weight When the experi
ment ended, fourteen weeks later, they
averaged seventy-seven pounds In
weight, having made an average week
ly gain per head of 3.63 pounds. They
each ate 40.5 pounds of the grain mix
ture in the fourteen weeks, costing 33.3
cents. Buyers do not always make
one-thirddifference for unwashed Mer
inos. One or two parties that had that
grade of wool received 9& cents per
pound last season. The standard price
for washed fine wools was 13 cents a
difference of only 3 cents.
Poultry Notes.
We have noticed that no business i&
without its troubles, and that the poul
try business is no exception to the rule.
Disease and disaster hover around this
as well as other occupations. It is
therefore best for the poultry raiser
to take everything philosophically.
However, it is just a little hard for
him to look with equanimity on the
taking off of bird after bird that has
cost him either much work or much
money.
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The time of tli9 year has come when
both road-dust and lice are near to us.
The dust may be a good thing to bring
into close contact with the lice, and
may result in their extermination. It
is easy now to get the road-dust and
hard to exterminate the lice if you at
tempt to do it otherwise than by use
of dust. Using the dust makes the
hen do the work. She will be only too
glad to take a dust bath, which is her
way of getting clean.
Immense quantities of eggs and poul
try are used by the hotels. One writ
er has been trying to find out how
many eggs the large hotels of Boston
use, and he puts the number at 1,449
per day for an average of the three
largest hotels, the largest user taking
175 dozen per day. Thus each of these
hotels uses more than half a million
the vast number of hotels in the coun
try it is not hard to realize that the
number of eggs used in these places is
enormous.
There are many concoctions urged
for the various poultry troubles. It
is doubtful If any of them are cure-alls,
and It Is more than probable that some
of them are of no value in reality. Good
care is of more value than anything
else. But diseases will sometimes
creep in despite the best of care.
Manipulating Breeds. It is the his
tory of all breeds that improving lands
makes them mature earlier, and this
is accompanied with a lurking pro
pensity to fatten. I am an admirer of
all the breeds; each is fitted for its
pasture, and American pastures vary
from the rich prairie that grows more
grass than average acres elsewhere, to
the scant herbage of the mountain
side. The best cow at the Royal Ag
ricultural Society of England in 1892
was an Angus; the next beet three
were Shorthorns. The best butter
yields at the Chicago fat stock show
in 18D1 were from the Brown Swiss.
The world's great private record of
butter is from a Holstein; and the
next highest is from a Jersey. These
things will teach us that we can make
a breed what we will. Tompkins, who
developed such fine beef cattle in the
Herefords, said he could as easily have
developed fine milkers, and every stu
dent of the cow believed him. Prof.
Wilson.
Relative ProGts. There have been
many ways to estimate profits in farm
ing. So long as the soil retained its
original fertility, the number of acres
that could be planted or sown was the
test of success. It is common even yet
in the south to estimate by the tiara
help that the planter can command,
whicli ranges from one mule upward.
But in the northern, and especially in
the eastern states, success in farming
depends not on number of acres, or the
team help, but on how much manure
can be had to use. Many a market
gardener on less than ten acres makes
greater profits than the farmer of a
hundred acres who ha3 not manure to
grow anything except the standard
farm crops. But the market gardener
must be near a good market, or the
cost of marketing will destroy its pro
fits. Ex.
Gingering Horses. Gingering horse3
at the horse shows, especially the sad
dle horse to make them carry their tail
high up and to present an unusual
amount of animation and appear smart,
is a disgusting and deceptive jockey
trick that should be prohibited by the
rules of horse shows in this country
as it doubtless will in England, since
the Humane society prosecuted and
lined a number of the grooms at the
London shows. The veterinarians con
demned the practice as painful to the
animal and a fraud upon the judge.
Green or Dry "Wood. There is noth
ing more provoking than trying to
cook with partially green wood. So
much more wood has to be burned to
overcome the waste In turning the
moisture in green wood to steam that
more heat Is given out than is needed.
It is the mark of a good farmer to have
a year's wood cut and piled always in
advance of its use. When this is once
begun there is a real saving in labor,
as less of the dry wood will be required.
-Ex.
Orchard and Inducement. Why is it
that "a good orchard" is one of the first
and most important improvements
mentioned by the man who offers his
farm for sale? Why does such an in- (
duceraent reach so far into the affec
tions and pocketbook of the prospec
live purchaser? The Epltomist,
CONSUMPTION OF GLASS.
Great Quantities of It Used U
Elee
trleal Work.
The consumption of glass in elec
trical work is very largo, and of lato i
years has led to many innovations. At
one timo it was confined chiefly to
largo disks used in frictional machines,
the jars for telegraph butteries and
the insulators. Now it is extensively
employed for tho jars of storeago bat
teries, switches, conduct tubing, tho
bulbs of incandescent lamps, tho
globes of arc lights and
many other purposes. Some of
tho storeago batteries of modern
times are largo enough for baths, and
it can readily be conceived that tho
glass must bo well mado for such work.
Not long ago tho bulbs of incandes
cent lamps were blown at tho factotics,
but now the lamp works buy thorn in
barrels, just liko so many oranges,
and tho molded glass is said to answer
admirably. A recent novolty has
baen the molded bulbs on which somo
pattern has been imprinted. Tho ef
fect is very pretty, says tho New York
Advertiser, and is cheaply obtained,
as hitherto this could only bo obtained
by putting over tho ordinary bulb a
i case or shade of molded or cut glass.
which, of course, lessened tho light
giving value of the lamp. In arc
righting tho globes remain much tho
same as when the lamps were intro
duced fifteen years ago, except that
attempts are made to use panes instead
of ono perfect globe. Tho lenses and
other glass for American searchlights
havo been imported until lately, but
are now being made of cxcellont quali
ty In this country.
BarllartoB Roita Only S3S.5 to
Francesco.
June 29 to July 3. account national
convention Christian Kndeavorers.
Special trains. Through tourist and
palace sleepers. Stop-overs allowed at
and west of Denver. Return via Port
lond, Yellowstone Park and Black
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Kndeavorers and their friends who
take the Burlington Route are guar
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Berths are reserved and descriptive
literature furnished on request. See
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The I adjr Applicant.
A medical journal says that a hand
sonic young lady stepped into tho
ollice of the young bachelor secretary
of a state medical examining board.
She, modestly Arc you the secretary
cf tho stato board of examin
ers? He. bashfully Yes, ma'am.
She I want a license to practice
medicine in this state. Ho You will
have to bo examined first. She By
j on alone? He No, ma'am; beforo
tho full lKarJ of examiners. She
Before the whole board! Why that is
terrible; I can not consent.
"A Huntl. of NerTes."
This tern Soften applied to poople whoM
ncrxiv. :irs abnormally sensltl. Tbejr
'.liquid stmigtlicti them with llostetter's
to:iiacb Bim-r-;. After acoureof that b-ni-n
toiiii. tl'ey will cea-u to Ikj conscious
t'iat t'n v li:te nervon-. -ystj-ni".. except
through agreeable sensation. It will enable
them to eat. sleep and incest well, the three
hioilia for increasing tone and vigor in thu
nerws. in common with tho rest of the
vstopi. The mental worry iiegotten by ner
loustlvspvuii.i will also disappear.
Tho Seal.
Tom Kaikcs. diseut and dandy, but
who-e face no amount of dandyism
could beautify, onco sent D'Orsay a
copy of otTensive verses anonymously,
which, being shown about, caused
great laughter at the beau's expense.
To maintain its assumed character,
the lottcr had lccn sealed with a
wafer and thimble. D'Orsay knew
who was tho writer. Tho noxt timo
lie sa' Ruikcs at the club, lie called
out: "The noxt timo, mon oher, you
write an anonymous letter don't seal
it w ith your r.oso." Argonaut.
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AIumth tlm Cats.
FgT Yes. I know he took lessons
from Liszt: but I never heard that ho
was l.is'.t's favorite jaipil.
Fogg Did 3-ou over know any man
or woman whom Lis.t taught for
even a single hour that wasn't Liszt'
favorite p;;pil?
Don't Its a Clam
"Oh!" cried the clam with salnes.
As he slowly cloicj hU cvc.
"I m well known an a stick in the muJ.'
For 1 necr advertise."
Printer's Ink.
Dr. Kay's Renovator is perfectly Fafci.
mild ami yet certain in effect. Koo nilvt.
Mint Tnfco Their Ci incei.
What do you think of these eggs?"
whispered the lean boarder.
"Tiie.se eggs," responded the fat
boarder, whose occupation was th-it
of advertising clerk in a newspaper
ollice. "are too late to classify."
It is easier for water to run up hill
than for a seltish man to 1 c happy.
and health making
arc included in the
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Rootbccr. The prepa
ration cf this great tem
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of importance inamillion
well regulated homes.
HIRES
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rain can be seen falling from the ciduds
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water reaches the strata of hot, dry
air beneath the clouds it Is entirely ab
sorbed before falling half the distance
to the ground. It is a singular sight
to witness a heavy downpour of rats,
not a drop of which touches the ground.
These strange rainstorms occur la re
gions where the shade temperature
often ranges as high an 123 degrees
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To Clean Cat OU.
Cut glass, washed in warm soap
suds, rinsed in hot. but not boiling,
water, and stood in a pan of dry saw
dust till dry. then brushed with a soft
brush and rubbed with a piece of
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Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for th
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After the prospective tenant had told
all that she expected to get in a $30 flat
the agent sadly shook his head.
"Even if we were permitted to sub
let the earth," he said, "we wouldn't
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change.
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