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if Cripple The iron grasp of scrofula has no mercy upon its Yictims. This demon of the blood is often not satisfied with causing dreadful Bores, but racks the body with the pains of rheumatism un til Hood's Sarsaparilla cures. "Nearly four years ago I became af flicted with scrofula and rheumatism. Made Running sores broke out on my thighs. Pieces of borie came out and an operation tt-as contemplated. I had rheumatism in my legs, drawn up otit of shape. I lost Appetite, cotild not sleep.' 1 was a perfect wreck. I continued to grow worse and Bually gave up the doctor's treatment to take Hood's Sarsaparilla. Soon Appetite came back the sores commenced to heal. My limbs straightened out and I threw away my crutches. I am now stout and hearty and am farming, whereas four yea re ago I was a cripple. I gladly rec ommend Hood's Sarsaparilla." URBAN HAMMOND, Table Grove, Illinois.<p></p>Hoods Sarsaparilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1. Preparatory by C. I. Hood & Co., IoweU, Mass. Hr»r*H Pille cure liver Ills, easy to take, I IUUU ru,a easy to operate. 25 cents. The many imitations of HIRES Rootbeer simply point to its excellence—the genuine article proves it. Made only br The Charles R. Hires Co.. Philadelphia tie. package makes 5 gallon*. Sold everywhere. "Just as Good .« never yet equalled the & the BIAS VELVETEEN SKIRT BINDING* Simply refut* "just as gtod" If sort. yOtif dealer will not 6ttpply you we will. Sample* showing labels and materials mallei free. "Home Dressmaking.'' a new book by Mis! Emtni M. Hooper, of the Ladies' Home Journal telling how to put on Bias Velveteen Skirt Bind ings sent lor 25c.. postage paid. 8. H. & At. Co.. P. O. Box 699, N. Y. City. A reporter called, on Wednesday evening, May 8,1895, at the resi dence of Mr. William McMahon, No. 1688 Pearl street, Brooklyn Village (Cleveland), O., to learn, if possible the cause of the notice able improvement in his physical condition over that of a year ago, when he was a sufferer from indigestion and various organic disorders. "You see," began Mr. McMahon, "to start with, my work —that of setting type at the case— allows me little chance for bodily exercise, «nd is altogether too confining for anybody who is in the least subject to indigestion or dyspepsia. Perhaps not more so than many another mechanic or artisan who Is constantly indoors and under severe mental strain, while the physical development is sadly in need of something to keep it in trim. Well, that has been my complaint for years, and some months ago I became very bilious, and constipation made life misera ble for me at times. Then it took a seat in my LIVER, which became noticeably inactive, and I became alarmed about it The first thing I turned my attention to was to secure a 'liver regulator,' which, however, failed to regulate next I sought relief in 'liver pills,' which so pained and griped me that the cure was, I thought, worse than the disease. The next thing I did was to throw away the whole "shooting match,' and resolve to take no more proprietary medicines. However, on hearing my tale of woe. one day, at the office, a fellow workman offered me a small Tabule —Ripans, he called it—which, he said, he would guarantee to act on the liver. I took it under protest, expecting to be doubled up in about fifteen minutes with the 'gripes.' But I was agreeably surprised in its action. It was very gentle, and I resolved to try box. Since then I have gradually noted an entire change in the working of my system, and think that Ripans Tabules are the best remedy for liver and stomach troubles this side of anywhere. They are really a substitute for physical exercise. Have one before you go?" And Mr. McMahon produced his box of "stand-bys" 4I from his inside pocket as the reporter took his leave. KipMis Tabuies are gold by druggists, or br mall It I be price (CO cents a bos) Is sent to The Blpoos Chemi cal Company, Ma 10 Spruce Street, New York. Sample rial, 10 cento. "I am only too glad to tes tify to the great value of Ayer's Sarsaparilla which has been a house hold companion In our family for years. I take from 3 to 6 bottles of it every Spring, generally beginning about the first of April. After that I feel like a two year old, for It tones up my system, gives me an excellent appetite and 1 sleep like a top. As a blood medi cine it has no superior, at least that Is my opinion of it.—H. B. WILDEY, Philadelphia, Pa., March 20,1896. WEIGHTY WORDS Ayer's Sarsaparilla. PORPOISE FISHING. A Profitable Industry Pursued In Winter Off Cape It utter as. During the summer uorpoiaes are scat tered all over "the Bens, and nto a fa miliar sight to the steamship passenger, but when cold weather comes the prey upon which they feod, menhaden, herring and other small fish that iato ill schools, Co southward, aud ruble by millions In the shallows lyiiiK between O era coke aud Hatteras inlets. Cane Hatteras affords a barrier agaiust the fierce winds from the north, and in the waters below it these little fishes see'a shelter. There, accordingly, thousands of porpoises cougregate. There, too, nien gather to fish for porpoises. Usually there are about twenty men in a porpoise fishing camp. There uiust he a sufficient number to manage four boats and as many seines. The boats are distributed at three stations along shore. Two of them are together in one spot, while the third is a mile above, and the fourth a mile below. Each boat has a seine on board. Lookouts are continu ally stationed upon high bluffs to watch for game, and they signal with flags when a school of pOrpoises is coming. Suppbse the porpoises are coming down the coast. Warned iii time by the.sig nals, the men at .the station furthest south rapidly row their boats out to sea, dropping their seine as they gd. If the thing has be^n properly managed, they have been in time with their net to head off the first of the animals. As soon as the school, or most of it, has got past the station furthest north, the boat from that point is run out, dropping its seine on the way. Thus the porpoises find themselves hemmed in between two fences of net, each stretching a mile out into the ocean. They might easily escape by swimming seaward, save for the fact that mean while the two boats from the middle sta tion have put out a mile from land, not dropping their seines 011 the way, but ex tending them on a line parallel with the shore, and joining the two seaward ex tremities of the other seines. In this way is made within a few minutes a rectangular pen two miles long and one mile broad, in which the luckless beasts are confined. They could easily get out, of course, by breaking through the nets, inasmuch as .their strength is enormous, but they do hot think of that. The porpoises thus enclosed are sur rouuded with smaller seines and drawn inshore, where they are kept in a pound until the fishermen wish to kill them. Sometimes as many as 200 will be se cured at a single haul. The fishery is very profitable, because there are several products of the porpoise which are val uable. The skin affords nu excellent leather. Upon beiug strippel from the animal, the hides are salted down, tanned crudely, and shipped to Northern markets, where they are used in the manufacture of shoes, traveling bags, and other goods. This leather has a particularly tine grain, and boots made from it derive a waterproof qtiulitv from the natural oil of the skin. The highest priced porpoise leather, which is very costly indeed, Is obtained from the Un born young. It is of a most delicate texture and ejaihisjtPly inohleu iti black and whitCi For bboK covers it is an admirable ihaterial. Evehy one has heard of porpoise oil, which ifc used for watches and other delicate machinery. It is one of the most costly oils known, because only a few ounces of it are got from each ani mal. It is obtained from the jaws only, being tried out from the bones after the skin and flesh have been removed. There is another sort of oil. of very little value, procured from the fat beneath the skin and from the liver and other viscera. Hides are worth from 75 cents to $2..r0 apiece, the latter price being paid for the best skins of unborn calves. A school of 200 represents about $500 to the fishermen. Nobody has ever at tempted to make any use of the skele tons, which are scattered by tens of thousands along the shore below Cape Hatteras.—New York Sun. Noxious Seeds in Wool, "The recent warning from the Maine experiment station concerning weeds in seeds, says a Maine gentleman, "may well be supplemented by calling atten tion to those introduced in the vicinity of Maine woolen mills ih the wool brought from Australia or Texas or the Lord knows where. This is. one of the most prolific sources of fotil seeds the state has known. Two twculiarly ag gressive weeds owe their importation ifi to Maine to this cause-, Soy the Wool sorters these are what is pUpttlftrly called 'Majr weed' and 'rt rtoot' ttr 'burr weed.' The. May we'ed has one princi pal root Which runs, deep with a twist like a ctirkscrt?\v, arid when matured has a branchy, sprahgliiis, mazy-lookiug top full of fine seed pods, spreading in all directions and ready to shell out seeds in enormous 'quantity on the least provo cation. The 'burr weed' is more robust and grtws eighteen inches Or two feet high, a single stalk with a crown top at first, with sprouts developing other stalks .frttm the joints later. Its seeds are held ih a mass of burrs which be comes brittle ahd light When ripened, and readily blown about. It, too, has a tap root which goes straight down to a good depth. It seeds profusely. Both the May weed ahd the bhrr weed, when hoed Up or pulled from the soil, will not grow again if they fere carefully carried off the premises and burned. With anything less they are pretty sure to reappear, with additions. The burr weed, if left on the ground, Will send a root down and stalk up at every joint. Fortunately these weeds do not thrive in grass land. If they did the state would soon be overrun with them."— Lewiston Journal, Capture by Hand of a Big Fish. James Gatewood of Coral Hill had a thrilling experience a few days ago, which came near costing him his life. Just after the high rise in Beaver creek Mr. Gatewood went down in his bottoms to ascertain how much damage had been done. In crossing a small lagoon, which the high water had left, he noticed what he first supposed to..be a dead hog, but which proved on a closer examination to be a huge fish of the buffalo tribe. Mr. Gatewood quietly slipped his hands into the fish's gills and was in the act of drawing it out when it gave a flounce and threw Mr. Gatewood in the Water up to his chin. At this moment Mr. Gatewood would have gladly released his hold on the fish, but his hand had be come fastened. Then the fun began, and for one hour Mr. Gatewood was com pelled to follow his prize. Several time9 he was strangled and on the point of giv ing up for gone, but he finally managed to land the fish, which weighed 132 pounds. This is one of the largest fish ever caught out of any creek in this coun ty, and Mr. Gatewood says if he has to be the fisherman it will be the last one. A scale and one rib of the fish are on ex hibition in this office.—Glasgow (Ky.) Re public. —To every great man a hobby. With M. Sardon it is building himself houses. In this way he delights in spending his wealth. On Mount Boron, on the out skirts of Nice, stands a huge erection of stone, dwarfing the surrounding villas, which is merely the foundation of a pala tial residence which the eminent drama tist commenced, and after an expendi ture of some £40,000, was prevented from completing on the grounds that the structure would interfere with the out look of the fort perched on the hill be hind. ~v I.OVlt HAUNTKD. "I can forget htiu lu the woods," she said— Oh. foolish inttldl— And thither went she) But la her thoughts she met hlui every where} The very air Breathed teuder words that he had Spoken to lief, The young leaves stroked hel' cheek uud seemed to woo nets And call uer rail', His mime alone the tllttlng wild hltds sang, His uame alone the nodding ilower-bells rang: Ah, 110. not here can I forget." she said— Love-haunted luuld, r«rhnuee," she said, "the rush of the great towu Love-thoughts will drowu." And there she hied her. But In the clangor of the tUrouged street The uiauy feet Seemed treading to a measure soft aud low. That he had sung to her not loug ago, And clear and swet From steepled bells raug out the old re frain— "I love thee, Love"—again, aud still again, "1 shall go mad with loving here," she said. Oh, wretched maid! "Haply," she moaned, "at home 1 muy tlnd peace. And calm surcease Of tortuous thoughts." But "inld the garden's subtile fragrances, 'Neath evening skies, Her heart grew sore with yearning uud re gret. "Alas," she said. "I never eau forget. My tierce pride dies. All that earth offers I would gladly give To he his own. For hini alone I live." "As I for thee," his voice beside her said. Oh. love-blessed maid! —Elizabeth llarmau In Llpplucott's Maga zine. A woman may be mistress of her self though china fall, up to a certain limit, beyond which no conception of heroism reaches. The model woman screams at a spider, and discusses the merits of wired sleeves serenely while a priceless vase goes crashing to the floor. Such is the standard of feminine cour age, the foot-rule by which a woman may be measured. Yet when not one piece of china, but two pieces, and three, aud four. fall, the standard becomes use less. A woman is not expected to bear more. Yet more came. There was a fifth rash in the kitchen. Mrs. Melville stopped in the midst of telling Kitcliie— of the Sixth—that anchovy paste was to be struck off the commissary list she stopped and looked uppealingly at Mel ville. "Austin, can't you do something?" Austin gathered up Ills napkin, put his hand 011 the table and started to push back his chair then he sunk down again and restored his napkin to its place 011 liis knee. "If I go in there and he gets Imperti nent. I'll break his head—which would be bad for his head, a lid, incidentally, for my official lleCks" "Bht it's head or chiha." "Well, there is plenty more Hiillii—and when that gives out, the quartermaster has a new invoice of tinware." 'But. seriously. Austin, there won't be a thing left for the general to eat off of. What are we going to do about it V" "1 think the epidemic is over. There has not been a dish broken that I know of in five minutes. You must be reason able and make due allowances for him, Matly. It's hot out there. It's hot here, too. It's hotter than blazes everywhere." "I think, my dear, you are bordering 011 profanity. Of course it's hot. Within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, it has never been even cool in Arizona in •July. You really can't expect the in spector-general to bring ice. Mr. Ritchie, don't you think he ought to do some thing V" "I must respectfully decline to enter into a family difference, You and Mel ville miist settle the question botWeeu yourselves. (July let me suggest that if it comes to the actual breaking of heads I'd lake it out oh Sing, and not 011 one another." "There! Austin," fairly screamed Mrs. Melville, jumping up, "there goes anoth er and yet you sit attd laugh. 0h( iibw horrid you cap be!" "Sit d'Hvii. Matty iiiid talk seiise. feiifj pose I fchbuld gb out there aiid atttuipt to reasbh with Siiik: ih the natural se quence bf events it woiild cbme to, [tasa that in hi§ present hltmbr hi? wohlU b'e so_ ugly, that I should-: fbel bbliged, as I said, to break his head. Apart from the distant consequences of that act, you can see that the near ones would be pretty bad. You'd have to wash the breakfast dishes, and do the housework, and also cook and serve the general's dinner. Therefore, the inadvisability of my re ducing Sing's head to splinters is obvi ous. isn't it V" "I suppose so but I do wish to good ness Mrs'. Lawrence's cook hadn't got married." "So does she—the cook, I mean—since O'Halleran came home drunk two nights ago, and thrashed her-. He has been in the guardhouse, ever since, aud I'm out a good man. Shows what marriage does. Before he was married he didn't beat his wife. However,, it wouldn't have made the slightest difference whether she had committed matrimony or not the Lawrences would never have hail the general nor even a single member of the staff to dinner. She's never dined the paymaster, you know." "I think-it's too bad a first lieutenant's wife has to do it» hnd all the rest of the entertaining for the post. "You are also the adji member." "Yes, of course. I wonder what's the matter with Sing, anyway?" "That's obvious—approaching guests." observed Ritchie, stroking and curling his unduly military mustachios, the rnus tacliios that have entwined and ensnared so many hearts in their silken meshes since then, in the whirl of Washington society. Ritchie was Melville's second lieutenant at that time, and as he was not married, and didh't like the bachelor mess, he messed with his senior and that young officer's wife. "Why. didn't his cousin die-, theh?" "Perhaps he i^aiizete Unit the dead cousin's fiiherhl te a little worn as a method t»f obtaining a leave." "I should think so one died when the paymaster was coming to dinner tbe time before last, and another wheii tile Indian agent was here, and he polUhed off two in anticipation of the paviiias ter's last trip." "That's not all, Austin," pursued Mrs. Melviile. "Generally he oiily slams when he has lost at faro the night be fore." adjutant's wife, re- In pursuance of his method of fare, Sing precipitated a chopping bowl ana Knife to the floor, With ii resulting noise that only the fstlliikg of those tWo homely utensils could poBdibly accom plish. Melville bit I11S upper lip and clenched his -fist. "I wonder if it would do anv good for me to go out and speak to hini qui.nivV" suggested his wife. "Suppose you try it. If he takes a carving knife to yon, call out and we'll come to your rescue but unless it's .an actual carving knife don't get us mixed up any domestic brawl." w,tr- Mrs. Melville patted her lace-and-rib bon breakfast cap down securely, took a long breath, arose, walked resolutelv to the kitchen door, opened it, passed through, and closed it behind her. Melville and ftitchie listened. Melville leaned back in his pine Q. M. chair, with his ear bent toward the kitchen Ritchie scraped salt into little ridges on 'he cloth with his knife. They could hear droning of Mrs. Melville's voice, a pause. She commenced and paused again, and yet a third time, her voice rising a little higher at the last. But Sing was worshiping the g,)d of silence. After the third venture, Mrs. Melville came reluctantly out and resumed lier seat. "Well?" "Well, I told him." "Yes, we heard you. But what did he do?" "He didn't do anything—much. He just didn't answer." "Did he turn his back on you?" "Well—yes." "In short, he didn't pay any attention to you "I suppose he didn't." Melville took a biscuit aud passed the plate 011 to Ritchie. "What the dickens is one going to do about it?" he asked of the opposite wall. "If we were only nearer some town or the railroad, we might get some one else. But if we let Sing go it may be months before we can get anybody else. I wouldn't mind cooking for you and Mr. Ritchie so much, though it's pretty hard work, but I actually can't get up a din ner for the inspector-general and his staff, and serve the dinner, too." A pan went clashing aud clattering along the kitchen floor. Mrs. Melville sighed, Melville grew fiercer, and Ritchie devoted himself to the mackerel. The shattering of a china dish broke the still ness. 1"That's six," breathed Mrs. Melville. This time Melville bit bis under lip as he put his nankin ou the table beside hia plate and pushed away his chair, "Oh, Austlu, you'd better not go," ven tured his wife, mildly. He made 110 answer but strode to the door aud passed through, Ritchie re sumed the salt scraping, and Mrs. Mel ville grasped both arms of her chair aud held her breath. A.t first there was only tho rolling of Melville deep voice, theu the sound of a sudden scuttle. Mrs. Melville gave a smothered scream, uiul started Up. "Bit down," commanded Ritchie, pushing back his own chair, but keeping his settf. Mrs. Melville sat down. There was only a momentary scraping of boots aud Chi nese slippers in the kitchen, then a spriefi of thumps down "the back steps atld the scratching of gravel, also a low Mokeii murmur from the yard. "I guess." remarked Ritchie, calmly, that I'll go and see who's underneath." Mrs. Melville did not attempt to move again, but she watched the secoud lieu tenant anxibusly. ,He strolled to the window and stobd there biie haiiu ill his trousers pocket, the other stroking the mustachios. "Well?" ventured the filially. young woman, Ritchie turned around and came back to his chair "I guess Melville's doing about what he said he would—breaking Sing's head." Weak cries like those of a little child came up from the back .iraHl, "Is that Sing?" asked the liidy of lliC house. "It doesn't sound much like Melville." At the end of a couple of minutes, Melville went past the window and in at the side door, and a little later lie came into the dining room by the front en trance and resumed his seat. The shuf fle of Sing's slippers could be heard in the kitchen. The adjutant, despite his smoothed hair and newly-brushed coat, looked so ruffled as to temper that his wife wisely refrained from speetli. Ritchie was bolder. "Has the police party got to come around and pick up the pieces?" "No I guess he's whole." "Is he a little more reasonable?" "Oh. he's doing the lamb act now." "Tell us about it, Austin," begged Mrs. Melville. "I just old him he'd got to stop his nonsense and behave himself. Of course I didn't want to say anything ugly to make him madder. He muttered that he'd go. or something like that, and he flung the dish-towel in my face. I was a little riled at that, but I don't think I'd have done anything except kick him out, if I hadn't remembered the dinner. I knew he had to be pounded into staying. So I pounded. That's all." Mrs. Melville flow into tho sitting room a few hours later. "Austin, he's vamoosed!" Melville stood up, put down his news paper, and knocked the ashes from his cigar, "I'll get him back," he said. "How?" "Send a detachment out for liirn and bring hitti back,' So Mi-s. Melville Watched alld waited fttr httlf ail hpur, £ild at the eild of .thjlt time heard the shuffle Of feet jliid ill# tramping bf boots oh the porch. Sing glided into the room, followed, by his master. There was a guard at the door. "Here he is. Try the force of gelltle persuasion. Matty." Mrs. Melville was a coaxing little body she could have moved anyone but a Chinaman. Sing remained obdurate. "No." he grunted, "me 110 eomc back." "Just to get dinner, Sing you can go afterward." "No." She looked appealingly at her husband. "Theu you won't come back and get dinner, tonight, Sing?" asked Melville. "No." "Guard, take this man and put him to chopping wood in the sun." It was rather a stretch of official and military authority, but even the com manding officer, who was to dine with the general, realized the Urgency of tile cast1. An hour of wood-chopping under guard, under all the untamed glory of ail Ari zona stlu. brought Sing into subjection. He appeared downcast, uerspiring. gasp ing and penitent, at the door of Melville quarters, ''MiMsa.MelvHle: Me Wdntee siee Mis Meiviilt l,Nbi ybti can't sbe h^r she's lying down." "Yes. Me wantce. site Mis' MRfli Me telle Mis' Melville me cbme hack.' "She 110 want you hack, Sing." Oh ybu, go.telik", "All right I go {fellfc her Sh£ 118 come, I think." Melville disappeared and brought back his wife. Her face was contorted into an unrelenting frown. "Well, Sing?" she demanded, severely. "Mis' Melville, me come back." "No I no want you come back." "Me c-ookee good dinner. Allee samee heap good. Sun heap hot, 111akee me head hurt," moaned the child of the Ori ent. "No breakee plates 110 more." "All right," she consented, reluctantly, "1 keep you today, maybe." "Really, Mrs. Melville," said the griz zled inspector-general, as he sat beside his brilliant little hostess at the table, atid lbbktjtl ite l^ligtlt. at the gondl^ ar ray bf yet uhbrbkeh dishes. "I cah't see what you all make such a fitss iibbut these Western stations for. Of cpiirse they're a little far from the railroad, but you have pretty good society, you dress well, exactly as they do in Washington, so fur as my masculine eyes can tell yoli HVe bli tilt1 fht (t rile lalldt tU jtidge from what I see before me, and yott cer tainly have excellent domestic service." Mrs. Melville blessed the happy thought which had made her place ilie general so that he could not see the guard stand ing over the Celestial cook out in the kitchen, as the door swung to and fro. "Yes," she assented, "still there are some inconveniences." "You seem to have overcome them." "We hliVe—teliiporUrliy shli an.sweivd. —Sail Friiuciscb Argbhaut TrfE MOUNTAIN LION. One of These Big Cats Unhorsed a Man Who Had a Narrow Escape. W. .J. Gains an old-time miner, living twenty miles froni Grub Gulch, Madeira county, brought intelligence to town late yesterday, afternoon of an exciting en counter with a California lion last Wednesday morning. According to Gains' account of the af fair, he and George Wise and a man named Fuller left their cabin early Wednesday morning to examine a ledge they had discovered a few days before. They had proceeded hardly more than a mile when, without warning, a full grown and unusually large California lion sprang from the overhanging branches of a tree which grew near the trail, and, landing ou the horse rid den by Fuller, threw the rider to the ground. The frightened horse made frantic lunges to displace his unpleasant burden, and at last succeeded, but not until his back and sides wore lacerated and torn by the sharp claws of the enraged ani mal. The beast then turned his atten tion to Fuller, who still lay upon the ground stunned by his fall. The lion sprang upon him, but happilv before he sustained any damage b'e yond a few scratches, Gains by a well directed shot from his revolver killed tbe animal.—San Francisco Chronicle To Save the Lagoon of Venice. A great engineering work of immense importance to the city of Venice has just been completed. Fifty-eight years ago, in order to prevent the damage caused by the occasional overflowing of the River Brenta, the Austrian government, on the recommendation of the celebrated engineer, Paleocapa, carried out certain works by which the mouths of that river were carried into the Chioggia la goon, some distance south of their orig inal outlet. Since then the alluvium brought down by the river has threat ened to convert a portion of Chioggia la goon into a fever-breeding swamp, and also to cause serious damage to the whole Venice lagoon by silting. It was accordingly decided to con struct a new channel for the Brenta, six teen kilometers in length, giving the river a direct outlet to the sea near Brondolo, still further south. The scheme, which was estimated to cost 8,000,000 lire, and was begun in 1884, has now been brought to a successful conclusion. The new channel, by means of subsidiary canals, also provides a fresh outlet for the Bac chiglione and other rivers formerly flow ing into the Venice lagoon.—London Standard. Women Poor-Law Guardians. A bill providing for the appointment of women poor-law guardians 111 Ireland has just passed the British House of Commons by a majority of 272 to 8. After this one may reasonably hope that the bill will now be allowed to go through its remaining stages without op position, and that in a few mouths Ire land may have the advantages which England has so long enjoyed* of being able to utilize the services of women 011 board* of guardians. FOE THE FARMER. The Ooone Veatlier. (An American Indian Houg.) Black lake, black lake Thc wild goose hid within the brake Tho string upon my how fell loose. The arrow slipped aud missed the goose. He heard my step and flew away I found a feather where he lay. Arrow thlu, arrow thin— I struck the black goose-feather lu. Black lake, black lake— U« oose lie* dead within tbe brake. morn Ills Own black feather wlilrred, lihl siied the shaft that killed tbe bird. —Charles A, Collmiuui lu the Century. WlscoiisiS ADBICUI/rttaAt, KOTK#. Coufetirhiifg Kentucky Bluj Gltfus. Do Wisconsin farmers know and re alize that what they commonly call "June Grass" is the sable plant that lu Kentucky's boasted pastures goes tinder the'_name of "blue grass? When vis iting Ashlafid, the Hent.t (imf home stead, near Lexington, 16 stildj" itH life stock 1 gave the closest rittentiMrt to the sod grass of the pastures. Gettiilg down 011 my knees I examined the turf to compare it with that which so free ly covers Wisconsin pastures mid road sides, and was not able to discover any superiority for the Kentucky product, either in density of growth or in any dthej- way. What we call "June grass" in WiscWislfji is identical boianically with Kentucky bith' grass, and since it grows just as freely here, vhy sliould we not give it the more aristocfrttic name? Would not every acre of Wis consin pasture lands be worth more in the minds of her farmers at least, and would they not take more pride in them if the carpet which covers them so green today were called Kentucky blue grass instead of plain "June grass?" Ken tucky blue grass grows everywhere in our state with, a freedom and tenacity which is simply sfirpH&ing, It is the only grass of this region whith f(»riiis a sod so dense that it can be cut and rolled up like a carpet. Even the severe drouths which sometimes afflict us can not utterly destroy it. for though it may look brown and entirely dead, the first good rainfall works a magical change and it greens almost in a night time and springs forward to please the eye and nourish the cattle with a rapidity and vigor which is simply marvelous. I wish particularly at this time to call the attention of our farmers to the pe culiar habits of growth of Kentucky blue grass and draw a most important lesson therefrom. All through May and into June this grass grows rapidly and usually supplies more feed than the farmer has cattle to consume. So luxuriant is the growth that often as the farmer walks over his pastures during the last half of May he is apt to wish for more livestock to consume the over abundant forage everywhere so evident. A few weeks later, however, when he makes the same round (and what farmer does not enjoy these frequent tours of Inspection over his domain), he notes that the grass has almost ceased grow ing,, so that by midsummer the excess of the earlife't date ,has been cropped off and the ground shows bare and even brown. Our blue grass plants fire not dead, nor.even dying, but they have ex hausted theif energies and have entered a necessary period of rest, which lasts all through the latter, part of July, Au gust and even into, September. During, this period Winie's Mtd. tiflieS ^Vith the cattle, for now 11 tit Gnly.aR' (he fields quite bare of provender^ but ,the' $iiii is almost blistering hot anid the blOod-sjick ing insects most annoying. The' sli,eep seek the shade, holding their noses close to the earth, and frequently stamping to drive away the flies the fattening cat tle and young things show 110 increase in weight, and the dairy cows scantily fed and much frettted shrink greatly in their milk flow. Our farmer, who only a few weeks before was wishing for more cattle to consume the extra growth of grass, now wishes he had larger areas of pasture and regretfully realizes that he is losing money every day be cause his stock are not properly fed. Afoug in September, with the cooler weather and increased rainfall, the blue grass and normal conditions once more prevail. £rti?id« Forage, While. ev( rji''. farther lias each year ob sfervt?d. just what i§' .iibbvt dfe'Si'tlbed^ too •feW..6f them,br6vkle for the.deficiency as they shbuld have, ail cbme to think.that after .w£ have fed our stock fh& it 11 farm stock go hungry at any time, and why should cattle suffer for food in sum mer any more than in winter? I urge upon every farmer reader of these notes to at once make ample provision against the shortage above described by supply ing some kind of forage easily raised. Fall-sown rye is the first plant which provides green food for spring use, and is already large enough for cutting at this time. Next to rye comes the oat plant, which if cut just before heading or shortly after gives valuable forage. By June red clover is large enough to cui for sblliiig jMittle ,ttlwl furnishes ex cellent food. Thesl? plalits lisiiiillf come, however, before the blue grass pastures have given out aiid so are not particular ly needed by fanners Who have the usual area of pasture land. A great plant for helping over midsummer, shortage is Indian corn, aud I wish particularly to call attention at this time to its great merits. Every farmer wliO wishes to get the most from his stock should plant oUe acre of early Minnesota sweet corn or some other early variety for each ten cows or their equal of stock on his farm. This corn will be ready for feeding early in August. Another acre of Stowell's evergreen sweet corn or some good va riety, of field corn should be planted for e.vl'i'y ,leli liWUl of stock to be fed after that, first pliilitkl has bWui tist'd up. Plant this corn in some field cohvMiitilt to the stable or to the pasture whfcfe it may be spread out 011 the sod for feed ing. A load should be drawn each day and as much given to the cattle as they will consume without waste. If some stranger should come to Wisconsin and offer our farmers a means of paying all their state taxes without trouble to them he would be considered a great benefac tor. Let them know that if they will only provide forage corn in the way de scribed above for their stock they will save more than their taxes in prevent ing a great shrinking in milk flow and in faihire to gain flesh, which comes to all our stock in midsummer. The aggre gate loss to Wisconsin's creameries and cheese factories through this midsummer shrinkage amounts to $1,000,000 or $2. 000,000 each year, a large part of which may be saved by a little foresight and proper preparation. It is now time to plaht corn in the southern part of our state for the purpose above described. Let us not expect the blue grass bf our pastures to furnish a constant and proper supply of forage for oiir cattle during the whole summer season, but prepare to make up the shortage which will surely come by having 011 hand a goodly supply of green fodder corii. The farm er who cannot secure the seed of sweet cfirtt heed hot be discouraged, but will be greatly pleased with any variety of early-growing Held com. It is not so much a matter of variety as that of hav ing a liberal supply of some kind of feed when needed. Prof. W. A. Henry. University of Wisconsin. Late Planting of Early Crops. The month of April was generally so cold and the season so late that many of the early crops usually planted or sown in that month have been postponed until May. All these should be got in the ground as early as possible. We have grown good parsnips, carrots and onions in seasons like the present when the planting has been deferred until May. It is better, however, with the onion crop to sow the seed in a small, rich hot bed very thickly, where it will grow to sufficient size to transplant after the ground has been thoroughly warmed. Onions managed thus suffer scarcely any check from transplanting, and are much more easily kept free from weeds than if the seed is planted early in the open ground, where it necessarily makes only very slow growth for several weeks, and is in constant danger of being smothered by weeds which thrive better in cold, wet weather than any cultivated crop can do. Oat Meal for Poultry. Oats are cheap and can be procured in the ground condition or in the whole grains. They are most serviceable when ground, but contain quite a quantity of refuse. The better plan of feeding ground oats is to sift .them, using the finer portions for chicks aud the coarser parts for grown stock. But in feeding such materials some care is necessary or damage will be done in causiug the crops to become bound, and while the oatmeal is very nutritious something else must be given with the coarse ma terial. In feeding young chicks nothing is bet ter than oatmeal. Take one pint of oat VI -01 -"T* +J*--» r~ a» f^ts*^-^^ «-^-vfit I— -.^- -t- „R *\w-. I^W A. WI^V*" J* .*. -J- ^HU^WV^ RT- *. I*.** *SATTJTFH« .KFIK^ -^-ft metfh one pint of cornmeal, half a pint of bran flhd add enough milk, butter milk, whey or clabber to make i! of rather #tiff consistency, and then add sufficient boiling water to heat it through, provided It lu not made too soft. Before adding the milk mix with the dry meal three teaspoonfuls of ground bone, linseed incul and ground oyster shells, Mix the whole thoroughly and feed to youug chicks morning and night, as much as they will eat up clean, and they will have a perfect food, grow, aud keep healthy, and be subject to but little disease. At noon give them as much as they will eat, or give cracked corn one day and wheat the next. The coarser parts of the oatmeal should be mixed as follows: One part oatmeal, one part bran and two parts cornmeal. Add to each quart of the mixture a tablespoon ful of salt. Now add half a cup of lin seed meal, half a cup of ground bone aud half a cup of oyster shells. Mix with milk or hot water und feed it to the adult fowls in the morning. Hay for Cows at Pasture. The first pasture is always very thin and poor as regards nutrition. Cowe like ft, but they need something more than grass to keep them in good condi tion and maintain their milk flow. It was always our practice to feed a little hay each morning, and also a little grain meal to cows as long as they would t:.ke it. With the grain ration this usually lasted till the loth of June The hay would be refused earlier than this, or be eaten in very small quanti ties after the cows had spent the night in the stable with 110 other food. This oractice avoids all danger of the cow fillilig herself too full of green clover, and thus injuring herself. Hay for this purpose may be needed when cows ar turned 011 fresh clover as late as June, when the clover is sweeter and richer, and the cows will eat more greedily of it than they will any time in the month of May. Kggs as Chicken Food. For very young chicks^nd uutil they are old enough to eat wlnTe wheat, there is 110 better food than egg boiled hard, so that it can be crumbled. It should be given a little at a time, aud the chicks be allowed to run around for an hour or two lief ore any more is given. If th eggshell is crushed fine and added, thi.s will also be eaten, and it will furnish the needed writ to aid digestion, besides sup plying the lime which is essential ill growing bone and feathers. Many chick ens suffer from indigestion because cooped ou woodeh floors, where they can not get either sand or gravel, which all fowls must have if they would keep in good health. A LONG-LOST HUSBAND. A New York IresHinaker Claims a Man and Tells a Romantic Story. Barbette D'Arson. a pretty French girl, was married in Paris 011 October 1(5, 1860, to Louis A. Karl, a young Ba varian. They prospered ami had two children. When the Franco-German war broke out Karl decided to stand by the fatherland, so he left his wife and babies on July 10, 18(50. and went to Germany, saying he would return as soon as the war was -ended. But Karl never came back, and Barbette mourned him as dead. She learned to be a dressmaker and educated her children. In 1801 she came to New York to better her fortune and opened a dressmaking establishment on West Twenty-sixth street, where she did a fine business. She learned the English language by reading the newspapers and was making great progress. One day she read that Louis A. Karl, a shoe merchant, Who had two stores at 84 rind 12(1 Nassatt street, had again been sC1it. to Blooiiiingdflle insane asylum, from whicli he had been released. The description of {he insane man tallied with that of her long-lost husband, so Barbette went up to the asylum to make inquiries. The superintendent would not admit her becaiise he said Karl had a wife who had paid his board there for five years. There were (tho three chil dren, two sons and a daughter, one of the sous being 24 years old. Barbette went to court and got a mandamus and then went with the woman who had been described as Mrs. Karl to the asy lum. When Karl saw them be said: "How do you do. Barbette?" He had grown older, but the French woman recognized him as her husband. He is hopelessly insane, and makes no intelligent state ment, bttt Barbette says he has told her facts that prove fie is the man ahe mar ried in Parle. The other Mrs. Karl, however, insists that Barbette is mis taken.- Karl. Ih the Clouded condition of his mind, is hseleSs as -a witness, aud tin two women, as we'M the authorities, are perplexed oyer the condition of af fairs.—Philadelphia Times. OLD WOfiLD EXCAVATIONS. The Earliest Known Tffl# At«li—A Silver Vase Dating 4000 Years 8 The University of Pennsylvania exca vations in Babylon still attract marked attention. Among their discoveries at Nippur is a true arch which, from its re lation to the Sargon and Narim-Sin strata, must be dated about 5000 B. C. Like the earliest-known Roman arch, the ClQUt'a tinder, the Circus Maximus. it is tile iltcji of »t water drain. It antedates by RhK* years the earliest true arch yet found fit Egypt.- and by 4000 the Roman Cloaca. In 1888. during the exc/1 vtttioiis at Tello. M. de Sarzec found a silver vase dating about 4000 B. C.. which was placed in the museum at Constantinople. It has lately been cleaned and carefully studied by M. Heiissey, and proves to be very beautiful in workmanship as well as form. It is beaten put Of a single sheet of silver, aud shaped like the Greek pithos. Encircling the vase is a broad band of incised figures. A lion-headed eagle, with outspread wings, and holding with its claws two lions passant, is a group often repeated 011 bas-reliefs at Tello, and here repro duced four times. There is "a second band of figures, and an inscription which serves to fix the approximate date—The Lotos. A TEXAS RANGER'S STORY. His Wonderful Discovery of a Bat Cave 011 the Colorado. L. T. Harper, an ex-Texas ranger, gives an interesting account of how lie discovered tbe rear entrance to a bat cave 011 the Colorado river. "It was in the summer of 1870." he said. "I was sent by Maj. Jones to bunt up an outlaw who had escaped from the penitentiary guards. While feeding my horse before sunrise in a skirt of woods a mile from the river I saw bats returning from their night skirmishing, entering a hole in the bough of a tree. The bats came in countless numbers and entered in regular order, as if each 1* knew just when to ar rive to take bis turn, to a second. For more than an hour they swarmed into the tree in numbers sufficient to have packed it full if it were hollow from tip top to the ground. I knew the habit of bats, that they sleep hanging by their hind feet, head down, in rows, aud it made me wonder how so many could get lodging in a tree not particularly large. I mentioned it when I got to the town of Burnet, and it set one of the deputy sheriffs to thinking. He sug gested to me to return. We cut down the tree and there was not a bat in it. Next we pushed a pole into the stuiup and found an opening going into fathom less depths. The young officer, whose name I have forgotten, lighted a piece of paper and dropped it into the hole, and at once we understood the situation. The tree grew in the ceiling of a cave, and its hollow trunk had been a tube through which the bats made their exit and entrance. It was two years after ward before the enve was explored." Dallas News. Hair Cutting by Electricity. The electric hair cutter and singer consists of a metal comb, to which one wire of the electric circuit is attached, a cutting and singeing wire is stretched taut over the top of the comb by a suit able spring, which keeps it under suffi cient tension even when expanded by the heat. This cutting wire is insulated from the body of the comb, and is con nected to the other wire of the circuit, a suitable switch being arranged 011 the comb so that the current may be com pleted or broken at wiil. The barber first catches, the hair up in the comb in the usual manner, but jvith the taut wire in contact with the hair. He then press es the switch which is under his finger and the electric current passing through the wire renders it iucandescent imme diately and burns the hair off just as straight as .a ..pair.of_shears could have cut it. The action 'of burning also'singes the hair. "Embellishment," said Uncle Mben, "am all right 'nough in its way. But 't. ain't de curlycues in de hnndwritin' aat satisfies de gemman at de bank wncn er check comes 'longs'—Washington Star. The March of Science. A money changer's office in Marseille* vas entered the other day by a gang of ip-to-date burglars, who had taken tbe precaution to bring with them a steel *aw of the newest construction, worked* by a handy little ietroleum gas engine. Aided by these reinforcements of their uatural and acquire*] dexterity, the nefa rious scientists found little difficulty in overcoming the resistance offered by the stout iron walls of the money-changer's safe, which proved quite unalde to cope with the refined appliance brought tr» bear upon it, and abruptly yielded upb bear upon it, and promptly yielded up its contents, consisting of gold and notes to the value of £600. Thus was science jus tified of these latest among her adoptive, and adaptive—children.—London Tele graph. Wisconsin Patents. Patents for the following Wisconsin inventors are reported for this week by Erwin, Wheeler & Wheeler, 58 and 591 Loan and Trust building. Milwaukee, Wis. These attorneys will furnish the Inventors' Handbook" free on request. Hi rum, Utley, assgr., rock and ore pulverizer C. j? «e 2C *o #o •o «o H. Bolend, Milwaukee, soda water fountain: I\ Challoner, Oshkosh. spalt dropper for rotary sbingle sawing machines C. A. Drum and A. Kraus and H. Goedgen, Manitowoc, stove pipe W. D. Gray, assgr., E. P. Allls company, Milwau kee. sifting machine N. L. Holmes, Racine, bolster spring W. It. Kromer, Ashland, pencil holder r. J. L. Meyer, Fond du Lac, planer Chris. L. Sholes, assgr., Milwaukee, typewriting machine Chris. L. Sholes, assgr., Milwaukee, typewriting machine Chris. L. Bhoies, assgr., Milwaukee, type writing machine Nick Weiler, Milwaukee, steering device for traction engines. —Ecclesiastical precedents have been broken by the bishop of Bath and Wells, who has just made an unbeneficed curate of twenty-five years' standing a canon of his cathedral. Special Kid Gloves. 4 Button Ranniger in all the leading shades. Embroidered back, every pair warranted, at $1.00. 2 Clasp genuine P. Iv. Trianon Gloves. Embroidered back, at $1.19 a pair. War ranted. Send for samples of our New Dress Goods. Bargains. A postal card with your name will bring you our New Spring Catalogue. ESPENHAIN DRY GOODS CO.. Milwaukee, Wis. —Sir Albert William Woods, who has been Garter King of Arms since I860, is now 80 years of age. He entered the Herald's office as Pursuivant fifty eight years ago. —It is definitely stated that L'ord Duf ferin, the British Ambassador to France, will retire from diplomatic life about the middle of July. MC ,:--r «if.- 5", ST IA POIK HTT Bre&kf&st Coco* Made by Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., 5 Dorchester, Mass., is a perfect type of the highest order of excel- & Jl! lence in manufacture." It costs less than one cent a cup. FIELD AND HOG FENCE WIRE. fi6, 88, AS, BO, or B8 inches high. Quality and workmanship the best. Nothing on the market to compare with it. Vvrite for full information, UNION FENCE COMPANY, DE KALB. ILL. "Thoughtless Folk# Haye the Hardest Work, but Quick Witted People Use I AM JOHN W.i0RRI8. nEkioivn Washington, D, Ct Successfully Prosecutes Claims.. LutoPrlnclpalTBxamlrier U.S. Pension Bureau. 3yrslul*tt war, 15 adjudicating claims, attjrainoe.- PATENTS. TRIPE-MIRKS. Examination and Advice as to Patentability of In vention. Bend for Inventors* Guide, or How to Get a Patent. PATRICK O'FARHKIX. Washington. D. C. Drl5MCTH0HB0fcFYE SORfc P'ts WATER rtj* ^|3w^2**5? 3"* *:w^jps The flock of Gibraltar Is not steadier than a system ^Ujer^ted from tbe shackles of chills and fjwJWll®1!! re mittent or dumb ague by Hostetters Stom ach Bitters, a perfect antidote to malarial poison in air or water. Jt is also, an unex ampled remedy for bilious, rfacnmatlc or kidney coniplaiuix. riywpgta ,.a«d nervoas ness. It I as prove/, ai#per»t«' sleep and hastens convalescence. Six Miles of Crocodiles. A reward was .oOTe«offjipjffin one of the Indian states of a rai&%-for each foot of crocodile killed. If a seven teen-foot crocodile was killed^ the killer got 17 rupees. Some 30,000 rupees were paid for crocodiles while the offer of the reward held goodf say nearly six miles of crocodiles. Then it was found that crocodiles were being imported from various adjacent states, and reward pay ing was stopped. We will forfeit $1000 if any of our published testimonials are proven to be net genuine. THE PI SO CO., War ren, Pa. —It is an interesting circumstance that, while the Marquis of Lome married one of Queen Victoria's daughters, his father took to wife recently one of her majes ty's maids of hondr. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is a constitutional cure. Price 75 cent3- —M. Remier has bequeathed $400,000 to the Belgian government for the foundation of a medical institute to be called the "Institut Rommelaere." New Kai Ki Wash Silks for Waists at 19 and 25c a yard."' Shirtwaists with" detachable collars at 39c and 49c. Send for illustrated cata logue. ESPENHAIN DRY GOODS CO.. Milwaukee, Wis. —As late as 1800 40.000 African slaves were annually transported from the Dark continent to Cuba. Buckingham's Dye for the AVhiskers is a popular preparation in one bottle, and colors evenly a brown or black. Auy person can easily apply it at home. —Father Ignatius is preaching in Lon don on Marie Corelli's book, "The Sor rows of Satan." it that what A million women ta aftft 1b mlatafce They say they br tf*t 155. nnSIP?. Kleetrtc Is ruo-l economical, purest aii*t have had 31 years to try it. You give one trial. Fits.—All Fits stopped free by Dr. KiiDe'n Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after tho first day's UBC. Marvelous cores. Treatise and 52.00 trial bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St.. Philadelphia. Ta. Mr*. Winslotr's .-OOTHING SVEC* or chi!. dren teething, softens the gums, reduces inflam mation, allays pain,cures wind colic. £c a tattle. 1)0355 N0T Ol. JAlUDd UlLn GOES STRAIGHT TO WORK FROM RETURNING "Big as a Barn Door/' eAx PLUG For 5 cents you get almost as much "Battle Ax" as you do of other high grade goods for lOcents. Before the days of "Battle Ax" consumers paid 10 cents for same quality. Now, "Battle Ax"— Highest Grade, 5 cents. That's true economy. 'ROUND" M. A A.A in time. .......No. 20. SN WBITIW« TO ibTEB- I