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DECLARED OFF.
We’ve plighted troth: the day is set;
There is no fairer bride than she,
Than I no fonder lover, yet
That match is destined not to be.
An awful bar is in the way.
For though 1 ve wealth in goodly store
And ran not fear a rainy day.
Her name is Fticn, and my name's Poor!
Why did I never think of this
To save her from so dire a fate
And from a lifelong wretchedness?
For she was reared in high estate.
How very dreadful would it be
For one so gentle to endure
The taunts of those who’d say that she.
Who once was Rich, had wedded Poor!
Then “A Poor Rich Affair" wo’ft see
Tn every paper, and the wits
Would set to punning busily.
The public laughing at their hits;
I’ll call the invitations in.
However much I must deplore,
I'd rather, just to save the din.
She'd still be Rich and I'd be Poor.
—A. 11’. Hellene, in Detroit Free Prett.
SUPERSTITION RAMPANT
All Sorts of Peoplo Affected, Es
pecially Women.
What Dream** Denote and How They Act
an Warning* — ItHief* About th«
.Moon, Salt. Old Shoes,
ami Ollier Thing*.
Are women more ■ uperstitious thar
tn«'n? Possibly, and probably, as tln-ii
lives are more contracted than tin
lives of men. and they have greater
leisure for brooding over the mvsto
rious and supernatural, and comparing
the revealed, the real, with the fanei
fill, the occult forces which they lone
yet dread, to fathom. Some one ha*
said that every human tanner has a pet
superstition of some kind, but that
women have more than men. Intolli
pence, culture, reason, seem powerless
to remove the strange conceits, the odd
fancies which ruled and do still rulelln
will and hope of mortals in connection
with trifling circumstances which they
believe predict their future for weal or
woe.
With the promiscuous strains of blood
that we Americans have flowing in our
veins we have inherited the supersti
tions of many countries in the old
world. Whole volumes have, been
printed of the English, Welsh, Scotch,
French. German. Italian and Russian
superstitions. Perhaps we hare one or
two which belong to each nationality.
At all events we have a variety. Sneez
ing is not only very disagreeable, hut
ominous in the afternoon and evening,
as it predicts an influenza and had nows
of some kind. \\ omen arc partial to a
relation of dreams. An old English
writer says:
“Dreams arc hut the raised impres
sions of premeditated things."
'I his is anrt is nr»t true We ,1,'oijni
of situations, of people unknown to us:
predictions are made to us in drt an -
Which are the shadow, the foretaste of
the future, thus revealed. The com
monest superstition regarding dreams
is that to dream of gold predict- joy;
of silver, sorrow; of Hying, a journey,
of lightning, marriage: of killing ser
pents. victory; of blindness, poverty:
of combing the hair, sickness; of gray
> hair, death; of flies, enemies; of cupid.
love, but if he breaks his how, you are
to be an old maid or a widow. To
dream of white flowers is a good omen;
of yellow (lowers, you are to attend a
funeral. A lady tells the writer that
through her whole life all her various
afflictions have been foreshadowed h\
dreaming of an infant. The “child
dream,’’ ns she calls it, gives her
“warning,” and she begins to droop
like n flower that is partly crushed,
while waiting for a new baptism of
Borrow. Perhaps Jacob’s dream of the
angels and the ladder i- a sufficient
foundation for superstitious regarding
dreams. “Dreams, idle dreams.” says
the poet, but they are frequently very
delightful, if they are “idle.”
No woman need he ashamed to con
fess that she is superstitious re
garding the moon, or that she delib
erately turns her right shoulder
toward the new moon and takes a good
look at the new silver crescent. The
druids performed mysterious rites in
honor of the new moon, and Shakes
peare calls her “The sovereign mis
tress of the true melancholy." Proba
bly that is the. foundation of calling
Billy girls or boys ' lunv.” The old
superstition regarding illness being
caused by moonlight shining on tho
face of a sleeping woman has a curious
Btispicion of truth in it. Certain
Behool-girls having heard that one of
, their number had a horror of moon
light streaming through the windows
of her dormitory stole noiselessly into
her chamber while she was sleeping
and pushed back the curtain ,-c i.u to
let the moon sbine full on her faee.
The result of this prank was the so
rious^illness of the girl on whom it was
tried a malady which puzzled the
physicians in attendance until the girls
confessed their crime. The old Kn
plish custom for young girls to address
the moon New Year’s Eve regarding
their future partner for life prevails to
some extent among us. The girl says:
•• I pray thee, dear moon, reveal to me
who my hush ml will - etc." and looks
for the picture of her beloved that is.
or tf> be, in the round silver glolte. If
a cloud sweeps over the disk the girl
says: ‘'Alas! not this year, ugly
moon!"
Salt spilled between two people in
dicates a quarrel, yet, the Arabs eat
salt together in token of amity, and
the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans
used it in their sacrificial cakes. All
women like the comfort of an old shoe,
but better, the throwing of old shoes
after a newly-married couple to ensure
them happiness.
A lady who is wise in old supersti
tions always put her right shoo on her
right foot first in the morning to give
her good luck for the day.
Very many women are superstitious
regarding strange eats. If a eat is
found in a new house that house is
doomed for the ill luck of its occu
pants. Actresses are said to he very
superstitious regarding the appearance
of a eat on the stage the great bid
den* once faiuting when a black cat
walked before her during- a perform
ance at Drury Lane Theater. Most
"■omen regard the putting on of a gar
ment the wrong side out ns a presage
of laid luck. Friday is a black day to
some women. They will not start
upon a journey, begin a piece of work,
hiut company or do any act of im
P'Wnnee.
A lady of unusual culture, travel and
all opportunities which position and
wealth can give for intelligence, says
-lie has a horror of crossing between
1 he carriages of a funeral procession,
and tells her coachman never to drive,
across the line of a funeral cortege or
before a hearse in such a procession.
She considers such acts, by accident or
purposf. a warning of death to herself
or family.
I he “thirteen” superstition has a
wide dominion over women of the
higher classes. A lady recently in
' ited fourteen of her lady friends to
luncheon. At the last moment one of
the number sent a regret. Thirteen
ladies had sat down at the table. They
rendered themselves uncomfortable by
talking of their unlucky number, and
each insisted that stir was not the last,
to take tier place at the table -for that
woman would be the one to die within
the year.
! o break a looking-glass is the (ire
sage of some horrible disaster or
death in the house where it occurs. A
curious incident illustrative of this
ancient superstition has taken place
within the past two years or less. A
lady visiting in an elegant residence
w as dressing for dinner rather hastily,
when, in stooping for something, 'lie
leaned one hand on an old-fashioned
dressing-table. In a moment she was
thrown to the floor, the large glass
shivering over her head in a thousand
fragments. Stunned and bleeding she
lay prone and unconscious till a gentle
man of the household, horrified by the
unusual noise, burst in the door. Her
injuries were very slight, but when
>lie went down to dinner she found hor
hostess agonized at the circumstance,
as she. said: “There will ho a death
in this house in one year, and I shall
be the one called.”
“ IVrhans." renlied the visitor.
“either I or some relative of mine will
die within the year."
I lie hostess (lied very suddenly with
heart disease six months later, and tin
visitor heard of the death of her only
brother almost immediately after tin
incident. 1V< ’(instant, the favorite
valet of Bonaparte, tells of his master
being- so agonized while in Italy over
breaking a mirror that he sent an
especial envoy to Paris to learn if his
beloved Josephine was alive and in
safety. Josephine's ill luck, it is said,
began very soon after this. She was
as superstitious as her famous second
consort.
Tingling of the ears is a sure sign
somebody i - gossiping about you; horn
ing of the checks that some one is
thinking of you. and if your nose
itches you arc to see a stranger. Y el
low spots on the nails betoken a neat
approach of death; white spots pre
dict gifts. To cut the nails Friday or
Sunday is awfully unlucky. Then
there is the winding sheet in the
candle, hut if there is a spark in tin
wick it betokens a letter of good news.
To some people odd numbers are
lucky; to others, even numbers.
Women (and men, too) have a
curious faith in numbers, (tne woman
says: If two incidents of a kind hap
pen to me I know the third will occur
certainly.” She has been married
twice. She hates men. but says: •• My
fate in three will come. 1 shall marry
again in spite of myself.'’
There are pretty superstitions and
evil ones as well in connection with
birds and bees and spiders. It is un
lucky to go under a ladder. Of all
things a ‘'wraith” is most to be
I dreaded in short, a ghost of some
one you have known, or of yourself.
Hubert Dale Owen, in his "Footprints
on the Boundary of Another World.”
says that the Holland family, of En
gland. always sec their own resem
blance as a warning of death. One of
the fairest ladies of this noble family
saw a most complete and perfect like
ness of herself coming toward her in
the garden. .She understood this pre
monition. and calmly prepared for her
exit from this mundane sphere. A
group of ladies gathered in a country
house during the gloaming told ghost
stories recently until they wore afraid
to retire. The crowning experience
was that one of the number, while in
a curious mental and physical condi
tion, had beheld herself dead and her
husband weeping beside her. As the
| pathetic or the serious is tirsl cousin to
I the comic, so it was a relief tothisgnth
oilrig 1U IlCill I IM' n il r 1 n M M , it nuxom,
healthy woman, “fair, fat and forty,”
say: ■Hut you see hero I am. anil the
mourner has boon mourned.”
Two lovely little girls were recently
heard by a visitor in 1heir mother's
house saJMn/rflToir evening prayer for
protection and for good luck as follows:
“ Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,
God bless the bed that I lie on.
It any thing appear to me
Sweet Christ, arise and comfort me.
“ Four corners to this bed;
Six angels round me spread;
Two to pray, two to wake.
Two to guard me till daybreak;
And blessed angels guard and keep
Safe from danger while 1 sleep
“ This, the mother said, “is a prayer
of inheritance. Our family have always
been taught it by tho mother- md we
have boon a most fortunate family.”
In short, women have many supersti
tions, but even the renowned l>r.
Samuel Johnson had his pet super
stitions and Napoleon Bonaparte had
his, and, indeed, so have most men and
women who have been shining lights
in the world of genius and poetry of
song. They may be called "old wives'
fables," and we. may be rather ashamed
of owning that we harbor them or re
member them, hut all the same we do
on occasion. Possibly we are so con
stituted and the tangible is so close to
the intangible, the knowable to the un
knowable, that wo can not avoid it. If
one hundred women of fair or
average education and intelligence
were to answer truthfully if they had
one or more superstitions, ninety
would answer “yes” — probably all
would say the same. ■ Brooklyn 'Knylr.
—Toronto will try to get the next
Pan-Presbvteriau council, in 18!);’.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Baroness Gripenberg, of Finland,
Is editor for a magazine for children.
Boulanger s book appears to have
fallen flat and is already a drug in the
market.
— Mr. William Black is said to have
written a hook every year for the last
twenty-five years.
—A copy of “Pickwick” in the
' original parts has just, been sold in
! London for f‘250. It was the first from
[ the press, and was presented by Dick
! ens to Mary Hogarth.
—It has been an open secret, that
“Octave Thanet,” a name signed to
many excellent magazine stories, is a
pseudonym. The true name is said to
be Alice French, the daughter of Judge
French, of Davenport, la.
The cause of the dying out of the
| Indian races has at last been ascer
tained. A prominent dime novel
I writer has made a list of the number
I he has killed on paper since he be
gan to write, and computes it at a lit
i tie less than 18,000,000 Indians.
— Laurence Oliphant, the author oi
“Irene Macgilicuddy” interviewed on
thesubject of novels, confessed that “ol
; all the older writers of fiction Charlet
Heade stands at the head.” He prefers
the writings of Dickens to Thackeray,
but of the men he cared most for the
; latter.
A .Jewish Publication Society has
! been organized in Philadelphia, repre
senting all phases of Judaistie be
lief. Its object is to issue from time to
time publications designed to foster a
knowledge of Jewish essentials, litera
ture and history among the Jews of the
: United States.
Count Tolstoi is the title and name
of two distinguished Russians, and it is
well to know that fact in view of sus
spieions of attempted violence to one
of them. The confusion between Count
I.. N. Tolstoi, the novelist and philan
thropist, and his cousin. Count Tolstoi,
the narrow-minded Minister of Kduca
tion, is very commonly made. The
name of Tolstoi is found more than
once in the history of Russian litera
j turc.
—A man may be intelligent, emi
rent indeed in literature and philoso
phy, and yet exhibit very little com
mon sense in the use of money. Dan
iel Webster and Horace (Jreeley would
use money foolishly and recklessly,
even when they greatly needed it for
their own legitimate purposes. Tin
late Matthew Arnold left an estate
worth hut $5,000. The hulk of his ac
cumulations. it seems, was used to
pay other people’s debts.— Cniled Pres
byti nan’.
I’rof. Thurston says in an article
in the Forum that the world is await
ing the appearance of three inventors
greater than any who have gone be
fore. The first is he who will show us
how. by the combustion of fuel, direct
ly to produce the electric current; the
setond 1- the man who will teach us
to reproduce the beautiful light of
the glowworm and the firefly, a light
without heat, the production of which
means the utilization of energy with
out a waste still more serious than the
thermo-dy namic w aste; w hile the third
i' tlie inventor who is to give us the
first practically successful air-ship.
HUMOROUS.
—Wife "What do you think, John,
about my taking' up French?” Hus
band (busy with his paper) "A very
good idea, my love, if you will only lay
dow n Knglish."— N. T. Sun
— A lover's always partly blind.
This truth admits no doubt,
Smre always for the girl he loves
He's keeping an eye out.
— Time.
— “Shall I read you a pretty story,
Lucy?” "Has it got a moral in it?”
"Yes. dear.” “Then I'd rather not.
A story with a moral is like a jam w ith
■a powder in it. ”
Bolton “Young Jones is generous
A'ith his cigars, isn't lie?" Wolton —
"Yes (puff); but 1 think he would
(puff) be kinder to his friends if hr
-inoked them him-elf." Life.
— Mrs. Holyoke (who has not asked
him. an<l does not want him) I'm
sorry you can't stay to tea. witli us.”
Captain Whiffet (equal to the occasion)
•I'm awfully glad that I’m sorry 1‘vc
got to go.” Judge.
If ever there was a victim of mis
placed confidence in this self-seeking
world it is the man who imagines that
he is making the congregation believe
that he is wide awake while he is tak
; ing a little nap in church.--Somerville
Journal.
Mrs. Lenox Hill, Jr.—•' Kr—
doesn't it seem to you, Henry, as if
there was something I had forgotten
I/cnox llillJr. (critically)- Well, yes;
if it only had a handle, you know, it
would he easier to pound with." Fuck
Fond Father “John, 1 read in the
’j'ajjtcr that your base-ball nine 'lit on
the opposite lUtcitipr and pounded
hint all over the field.’ I lu>pc you
had no part in the disgraceful afia'r.”
John. 01 (sadly) “No, father, 1 diu
| not hit him once.”—Harvard Lam
i poo a.
Mrs. Matchmaker “Edith, if you
ever expect to catch Mr. Riehley, you
must say fewer sharp things. Skir
mishing drives the men away. A
little more tact and a little less tactics,
my dear." Edith “You good mamma!
your tact is so much better than your
tactics. Don’t you know that every
engagement is preceded by a skir
mish ?” Tlh Idea.
Deacon (to divinity student) — “If
yon were called now. what would you
do?” Student (somewhat absent
minded) “Why, show down my hand,
of cour I I that is I — ” Deacon
“That's right; always showr down
your hand. Don't pull a gun. The
other fellow might get a dropon you.”
Fllilwlclphia Call.
Young Man (to editor) “Here is
a little poem of a pathetic nature, sir.
1 showed it to my mother, and she
actually cried over it.” Editor (after
reading the poem) “You say your
mother cried?” Young Man — “Yes,
sir." Editor “Well, you go home
and promise your mother never to
write any more poetry, and I think the
| old lady win dry her eves,”—Harper's
I liar nr.
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
Hints for Sheep Farmers.
Rome men like to raise sheep, ami
I usually surh succeed better than oth
J era.
A sheep that is full of pood, sweet
food, and is otherwise comfortable,
will grow wool and lay on flesh every
hour in the three hundred and sixty
live days and six hours of the year, and
1 such sheep seldom have grub in the
head especially Merino sheep -nor
any other kind of disease.
A thin, poverty-stricken sheep
always keeps its owner hating sheep,
complaining of low prices, wanting a
dog law, a higher tariff on wool, want
ing to know what is good for this and
for that disease; or he thinks some new
disease has appeared in his flock, lie
always thinks lie has had had luck.
Poverty is, indeed, hard on sheep. It
is an embargo against all improve
ment. tiood breeding helps good feed
ing. and without good feeding all good
breeding is a failure The poorest
scrubs come from well-bred sheep
neglected.
The best mutton of England comes
i from the black faces of the mountains
of Wales. When taken to the agri
cultural lands and fed on the farm, the
rich, juicy qualities are gone. The
] native mountain grasses give the mut
ton its highest claims of excel cnee.
The same differences will be found
in this country. A friend sent some
mutton chops to our hotel last week,
to he prepared expressly as a test of
North Carolina mountain sheep, fat
tened on chestnuts. It was most de
licious eating. There was simply no
comparison with the common mutton.
Some farms and some farmers are
suited to raising sheep for mutton
and some arc not. Farms and farmers
must he alike suited to the business or
there will he a failure. To raise wool
as some do, there may be a short sup
ply of food and water occasionally,
which spoils the animal, and hinders
that symmetrical development so es
sential to a good butcher’s sheep.
.I
suited to one purpose better than an- j
other. Therefore it is important to
decide these purposes and the fitness
of each breed to those ends we wisli
to attain. Some regions are suited to
one purpose and not to another. Kan
sas. for instance, tuts been a choice
wool-growing- country. Now it is a
good place to feed and fatten sheep. 1
The arid regions may profitably send
sheep to the grain-growing sections to
be fitted for the market. Thus the
eheap corn, oats and hay ean be fed j
on the farms at a better profit :
than crowded upon the market. 1
The manure will be a profit in
keeping up the fertility of the soil.
Lands are too high in some grain-rais
ing sections to keep as pastures, and !
the uncertainty of prices of grain
would favor the feeding of sheep in
stead of hogs, which are more liable
to disease, or even cattle, since the
profits of feeding sheep are more cer
tain, if not so large.
High priced sheep do not always
give the best per cent, on the invest
ment.
Large carcasses are not most accept- ;
able to the butcher, for the reason that
quality, to the consumer, is most im
portant. Farm (mil Firi siih.
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Chufas.
A correspondent says that chutas are
the same as the ordinary nut-grass of
the South! Has he ever seen the two
plants? The common nut-grass is a
native of the South, we believe. At
all events, it has been growing here
since the time when the memory of
man runneth not to the contrary. It j
has been known on the. South Atlantic
coast for the past hundred years, cer
tainly. and lias gradually extended, or
been carried, into the interior. It is i
rightly feared as one of the greatest
posts in the shape of grass that a farm
er can have on his place, as it actually
operates to depreciate the value of the
land by really taking possession of it.
When it has once taken possession
of a tract of land, we do not believe
that there is any practical means of
getting rid of it. The roots ramify in
every direction, and with the small j
knots, or nuts, extend very deep. Now
chufas and nut grass, while somewhat
similar in appearance and manner of
growth, are really very different
things. The nuts are certainly three
or four times as large as those on nut
grass, and the roots do not take pos- !
session of the land or work it any in
jury. and are easily eradicated when
ever their eradication is desired. We
have planted them considerably, and
have never had any cause, for dissatis
faction with them. They are indi
f-' ll"MO — -C'"", -l-l'l "
prown in t hr (South for
many years, and we have never
heard before that they were introduced
by the Department of Agriculture.
They are well known to he a very ex
eelent food for the purpose of fatten
ing hops, boinp so pj-otitie that one
n.-iv is eapahle of keepinp twenty hops
fat fit: a month. We do not personal
| ly like fhtjfat or flesh made by ehtifas,
i as both are apt Ve be soft and flabby;
j but. this may be only a matter of taste,
and many farmers in the South would
not spree with us in this opinion. In
any event, even if this be a penoral rr
1 suit, it may be rectified by penninp the
hops and feedinp them for ten days
I on com. It is the custom to
plant the nuts in drills, opened
about two and a half feet apart, drop
ping- them ten inches apaA in the drills.
While prowinp they are cultivated
repularly, as corn or any other crop,
until mid-summer, when they shade
the rows so that no other weed or
prass can prow. In the fall, whim the
tops have hcen killed by frost, the
hops are turned upon them, and they
and the turkeys scratch and root them
up and-thrive upon them. They re
quire pood land, and do not amount to
much on poor soil. On pood land tin
yield per acre is very larpe, and they
certainly afford a very useful food for
hops anil poultry.—A. P. F , in Farm
an<! Fireside.
Corn and Pea Hay.
A severe drought has existed in Ten
nessee. imurinp the meadow-, and in
dicating a short hay crop. Corn, hay
and cow pens arc suggested by the
1'iiilrr ns a substitute for grass bay. It
is said that corn or sorghum food for
winter use by stock is better than tint
othy, and can he raised at four dollars
! per ton. In Tennessee it may be sown
in June or as Into as July 10, broadcast
two or three bushels to the acre.
*>n rieh land it may bo sown nearly
ns thick ns wheat. Corn will
grow as large ns a man’s linger
and many stalks will hear a nubbin.
It is proposed as an improvement on
the above that a bushel of corn and a
half bushel of peas be sown together
to the acre on good ground. The corn
stalks afford support to the pea vines
that will grow erect with such help.
The crop should be harvested by the
mower after the tassel dies. The stuff
should he shocked ns soon as cut. Let
farmers in latitudes north of Tennes
see t ry the plan proposed at different
dates between this and the middle of
July and note the results. Journal ><J
Agr icultun.
Packing Fruit for Shipment.
If peaches or apples, nail the box
securely, having the ends and sides even
at the top. Take, for one third bushel
boxes, two apples of a size just to till
the width of the box, place side by
side at the end, and then two and two j
along the bottom Ihe entire length of
the box to the partition. Lay with
blossom end down. Continue in this i
manner until the box is full. If in
putting in Ihe last layer it does not
quite till the box, turn the apples on
edge and select such sizes as will till
the box so that the top will not
go on without pressing down.
Li 11 small spaces with small apples—
better put in a few very small ones
than leave them loose. When the top
is nailed on. the apples should not
move on shaking the box. For peaches
observe the same general directions,
except that it will require three
peaches to till the width of the box. In
hr placed ill the box one hum'll ;it ;i
time and so laid as to till th" box. It
is a mistaken idea that fruit of any
kind should be so placed in the box as
to require the least possible quantity
to fill it. Ark. Farmer and Stockman.
Fruit Going to Waste.
Never in the history of the State was
there so abundant a crop of fruit of [
every variety. Pearlies, apples, pears,
plums, grapes, strawberries, raspber
ries and blackberries every where.
The majority of our people, how
ever, are in the. same fix the Texas j
man was the year of the great mast:
“He had no hogs to eat the
acorns: if he just had the hogs he would
be rich." Only a few evaporators and
fewer canneries Thousands of dol
lars' worth of fruit will rot on the
ground. W hy did we not prepare to
save this fruit before it was too late.
We knew six weeks ago it was coin
ing. It was then safe. Ark. Fanner
and Stack man.
HERE AND THERE.
Kwes that have weaned their lambs
may be fattened very easily if given
two meals a da,\ of grain with plenty
of grass in the pasture.
A fruit-grower who draped a plum
tree with a mosquito net to keep oil
the eureulio, obtained twenty-two
quarts of tine fruit. Another covered
a single branch with equal success!
Keep squashes and pumpkins away
from the cantaloupes and watermelons.
In fact, it i- best to grow no pumpkins
on a farm where melons are raised, as
the bees carry pollen from one plant
to another.
About the surest remedy for the
hordes of army worms that devastate
meadows and grain fields is to ditch \
against their progress and mash them
as they accumulate in the ditch.
A fruit tree that is kept healthy
and in good condition is far less liable
to the attacks of Insects than one w hich i
has been allow ed to sutler from neglect,
just as a healthy animal is better able
to w ithstand disease than a feeble one.
Keep both animals and trees in good
condition by care and judicious feed
ing.
If any one in the world has a right
to have choice berries, vegetables ot
fruit upon his table it is the farmer. :
Carelessness is generally the reason
why many do not. They tiro cheaper, 1
far better and much more wholesome j
than the strong bacon and coarse diet
too often found upon the tables of the
tillers of 1 he soil.
A writer in the Mirror and Farm
er declares that farmers are governed
IIHI ill ’> • .lll'l I I'M
bushels. They deride to plant so many
acres, and they make their manure go
over it. and it is apt to he pretty thin, i
The rule should he to put on all the
manure the crop can use, and stop
when the manure is "one.
Don't forget to give your breeding
stock, cattle, hogs, mares and colts
plenty of salt. Ihe grass is. in con
sequence of so much rain, very wa
tery and stock need more salt titan
usual.
—The copious rains have i a used the
grass to grow very rapidly, and the
pastures as well as the range are line.
Thi jgrass is long, tender and luxu
riant. nil visitor rfieri ; *0 cattle
and hogs. Stock of all kind lock well.
Many a good apple oreha-d ha
been injured because a ' few worthless
wild cherry trees were permitted te
grow and provide headquarters for tin
eatcrpillar. In every community [
where the authorities have enterprise
enough to demand the destruction of
weeds, the roadmastcr should lie made
to destroy all wild cherry trees.
If you have cut your tirst crop 01
clover, put on about one hundred
pounds of gypsum to the acre, lio
early in the morning while the dew is
on, or just after a shower of rain, and
scatter broadcast, it will nearly, it
not quite, double liie second crop.
Make a hole about six inches
square in the lot fence, near the house;
place a small trough inside, and feed
all the spare skim or buttermilk to the
young pigs: also all the kitchen slops
and scraps of cold victuals. Enough is
wasted about nearly every fanner’s
kitchen to r:dsc meat for the table.
TIDINGS FROM ABROAD.
A nrnr. telephone has been found in India
Mwr,-n two temples, and has been in use
lor over two thousand years
A si iFvrirti paper lias hern started in
laris with the novel feature of publishing
nothing not written by women.
A vr.iKTAHuN hotel is an innovation in
Iondon. There are already thirty vego
tarian restaurants in that city.
1\ the town of I’ataz, in Peru, a woman
a* eusod of lining a witch was recently pub
licly burned alive by the |>eople.
Til" coins struck at the Merlin mint dur
ing the reign of the late Emperor Fred
crick are already scarce and at u big pre
mium.
I nr National Telephone Company, ot
Scotland, has several submarine cables of
seven, eight and nine miles m length which
give perfect satisfaction.
Worn, comes from England that tlio lam
don A- Manchester railway has decided, ••in
deference to the prejudices of its American
customers,'’ to institute the system of
checking baggage.
five of the attractions of the Paris ex
hibition next year is to be an immense
model of the terrestial globe in the Champ
do Mars It will rotate on an axis, and will
give an idea of the dimensions as well as be
accurately constructed on a scale of onc
millionth.
^Hr.i moves' - bones were exhumed at
Vienna and mntmri with great pomp.
^ \ ankce a mate . i pb vgrapher created a
scene at the grave when the pones were
dug up by insisting on “taking" the re
mains of the great musician, regardless of
pistols and interference.
Tnr. municipal authorities tlnnk the cross
ings are so unsafe in Pans that ail English
pa|M*r says they have employed surgeons
disguised as policemen for the purpose of
helping the timid people across the perilous
parts of the streets and boulevards, and to
be at band in case of accidents.
KrNVTon Soxza yri iKoz. of Brazil, dis
counts even our bonanza Senators in the
matter of non-attendance He has not ap
peared in the Senate for forty years, and
his salary, which In has not drawn, now
“mounts to tftg.180.53, including interest at
SCI.-,I per cent. The salary is calculated at,
£MiOo per annum from isfs to JSot, and
CO.OOn per annum sines the last named date.
They Never Fail.
No. 1 Fn.Tnx Markka New York Citt, I
■fab nary 89. tssa (
I have been using It ha \ pr ktp s Pu.i.s for
the last ten years. They are a wonderful
mcdiriuo. There is r, ,thing equal to them
as Ulood Purifiers and Liver Regulators.
Hut 1 wish to state how remarkably tl*ey
cure rheumatism, and how easily, I was
n fTrvA’t ti iTientv , t i , ..r n. . i.. ... a»..
business (wholesale fish dealer) naturally
leads mo to damp places. 1 was so had I
could not walk, and at night 1 suffered fear
fully, 1 tried Balsams, Karsaparillas and
all kinds of tinctures, but they did mo no
Rood and 1 tvas afraid of being a cripple. 1
finally commenced using Bksnpketii's
Pri.Ls. I took two every nipht for ten
nights, then I began to improve. 1 con
tinued taking them for forty days and I got
entirely well. Now, whenever sick, I take
Braxdr -.tu's Piu.8. They never fail.
J. N. Harris.
Bovf girls are maidens all forlorn, while
others are maidens all for lawn tennis.—
I'iU.thwyh ( hmnirlr
A Good Impulii*.
Don't balk .your good impulses, particular
ly that ono which incites you to abandon
fruitless medication for dyspepsia, kidney
trouble, fever and ague and constipation,
and adopt instead Hostetler's Stomach Hit
tors, which supplements the important cro
dontial of a long and successful career, with
i he commendation of the medical profession.
Give it a systematic trial.
Tnfkr. are two things that a woman will
alwa.v« jump at a conclusion and a mouse,
- Jlurtfnafan Frrr Pres*
THE MARKETS.
Nf.w Vohk .Inly 25,
CATTLH—Native Sterrs $ I no f
COTTON -Middling H»*#
FIX)UR—Good to Chou *• . ... 3 So 't
W UK AT—No. 2 Red .
COHN No. 2 ..
OATS—Western Mixed ... 35 /t
PORK— Mess (new)... It 75 (ft
ST. LOUIS.
COTTON-Middling . 10 ft
BKEVKS Good to Choice. (> 2n
Fair to Medium. . I 65 ft
HOGS—Common to Select ... 5 25 ft
SHKKP—Fair to Choice. . 3 on ft
4 35 ft
2 40 (it
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FLOCK—Patents
X X X to Choice
WHKAT No 2 Red Winter
CORN No. 2 Mixed .
OATS—No. 2 .
RYF. -No 2.
T< )BA( < O- Lug**, Hurley IT* ft
Leaf, Hurley. . 8 75 ft
HAY -Choice Timothy ... 14 on ft
BUTTER—Choice Dairy. l - ft
KG4.S Fresh •* 4 it
i*OHK Standard Mess tnewi 11 2" rt
HAt’i »N Clear Rib. 8%<$
LARD—Prime Steam..
WOOL Fair to Choice . .
CHICAGO
CATTLF Shipping
IK ><;s -< iood to « hour....
SHEF.l* —t o)04i to Choice . ..
FLOCK - Winter.
Patents
W H FAT No. 2 Spring
4 (>KN No. 4
OATS No 2 White
PORK New Mess
KANSAS CITY
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CATTLE—Shipping Steers
HOGS—Sales at
WHKAT No. 2.
O ATS No. 2
CORN—No. ■-* 41
NF.W OKI.FANS
FI.OCR IlighCmlr 3 7V
CORN -White
OATS—Choice Western
HAY—Choice .
PORK —New Me.*
BACON—Clear Rib . '•»
COTTON—Middling
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6< U t
WHKAT N- 2 R"1
CORN—No. 2 Mixed
OATS—No. 2 Mixed
If ARK— Mess ....
HACON -Clear Rib.
COTTON-Middling.
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5 20
6 .30
5 25
4 50
3 30
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Tnosn Nui«»n<’Of», Khownatism and tb*f
Onut, Hro r^liovad bv filenn'* Hulphur Soap.
Hill's Hair and Whisker l>ye, •’50c*.
A norTOK^ report would properly ootne
Under the bead of the news of the weak.
Bruises, Burns, Wounds, Lame Back.
And All Pains 01 An Inflammatory Nature,
•old by ItrugtUta. SUr. and 11.00.
wo\o boor s*m.rn rtccE.
$85 SOLID GOLD WATCH FREE!
I In* apian li t, a. .’.-I r Id, honilnf-nie wat> h. le now eoid i^T
| [th» • (he heat hirram In Am»' ri until let-1/
I( r'>*il<f n-’t he pur-hased fr.r |e,a than f !<l> VV * have both la
dies and ":*es with work a and <-■» ••• of equal value.
O \ I ’ 1*1 ICSO\ m ea h l» • ijr*n i* -uff one nf th»ae
•larnnt wtt-1 *» aba.i.,!ely !•* |< I I".. 'I h*»e -a*' h»e mlv ho
depended ri. n •' as ao id r : i. t,.it aa standing eiw>rtg *h*
moat perfe- t. rnnvrt and reliable timekeeper* In the world Tot*
aak how it thia wonderful offer possible* We answer—wa want
ona person hi a#rh i keep In thrir home* and ihow ta
th «r w ho rail, a • oniplaia hn» of mtr valuable and »»r» o refill
li<>t ' KM"i i> SaMri.PM, th*aa aamplM, a» wall as th* watr-h.
ssa d ' t tr Apr r. and after yon have kapt 'ham in
y -iir h - » f r J m and shown l|»a®j to those who mif
III*" ' a.) I|,n | ar: olr t .iirowit pr jam , » '1 ;oi
» '.ia r. «ka rh s pr*at . ffa • a. ,g ' - "to ,, (| <| 44tvl*l
Watch and large I ,• of vahtahla sample* Frit*. for Uia
ra**on that the iV n nfr of tho sample* In mr Irvalitr, alweya
result* tn s iircs t;-d* f o' ••« . after our wamplea have b»en tn a
n ry f. r a mn h or |* wa ueually g*t h"in lUW la
f> “'In trade h.-m the »nrr *und‘rg enuntry Thoaa - no wrl*%
to n» at on s Bi'l ra> aita a g- Ml benefit for #-arre|y anv work
a'd troubio. I hi*, tha n at r*m*rkahte and liberal offer r»'-r
known, is n>ad« m order that <>nr saloahle Household ffampl'e
may ha p’a ■ ; at < n^a w here thav ran b» aa»n. all over A marl -
ra cn'er, it \r. i to bar ' tint trr.ul la p.r v**i fr. «how »h'm to
I a V ailats "ir h■ m», and your resvard will ba moat
M1 •'* t n A postal d.onwh< di writ* tie. rnefa but t.
crrjf, and if. eft«r * i ki v all, you do no* --are to go further,
ashy no harm is <l .nr lint If < ■ <\ «t<» send ronr addms at
0*1 * roa • Mi serure. Mtr*. A H Kl ln« IT ftOLID »i*>f t»,
II' mio. 4«» Wa k ii and our lar/e, complete |in**f vain*
all" l»or*r hoi n Rakpi rs. We par all »irt*M fmg bt, etc.
Atl-droaa, ftriff -fliiff A < O., J>o* 2t1 J utland, Alalna.
arMMt THIS TAPER »>»r* t mvw vnt*
Til** dy*»|*epllr, the <l«*hlllf al**d, wHefti
er from fit piut of «»rk of mind or
hotly, tlrlnk or rxpoMiro In
Malarial Regions,
will (littl Tnlt’i* f*ill« Hit* moat genial
r***toratlvo ever oflVrod flio »ufl>rlng
Invalid.
Try Them Fairly.
A vl&oroti* body, |»uro blood* utroDR
nerve* and n cheerful mind will renull*
SOLI> EVERYWHERE.
THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY
Kor Liver, Kile, In'ltf?'1 *i"M *•!<* Frrf front Merrtjr^;
contain* »>niv I'ure Vegetable ingredient*. Agent*—
■ir.% Kit is it on. a i o. nr. loi i». mo.
HI ST M VDK.
BUY FOR ECONOMY.
Prick St a m pro Pjlawlt in 8olkv
s»:e« ft to - - 41 ?5
S'7« R to 10';. - - IM
11 to -j . - - 3 m
f;*id hv . n* atnre whcrcyol
trade or lh**r will order for
you. BROWN-PESNOYF.RS SHOE CO., St. Louts.
“BLUE RIBBON”
SCHOOL SHOES.
$100 to s3co ‘
«n furnish th-ironn hurt..' *n 11 .irr thnr whole tint*
t.i t he hu.int* Rp.ro mom*nt« n <*y be |<roflt«hly em
P'1 v f**w u.-jn'i''* In towns and rtliea.
It. V J«ll NMl\ .1 4 |OI!| iMK'mi, Kitkinl. T*.
•ar.MAVr. ! HIS PAPER #*^ry u»e* *r«.
on 1 nisrnc AltGET PENSIONS.
O Lm 8 p-ill w,: *11 r,J• *1 pay. ®tc.; 1>.V
w wb uc icaii *•” -orters roller 00 Law* free
A. w. Or' lilt U|( K A MIOI, I .arlnnKil, O.. A IT(il|||iti,D.(.
fT U'll lilt-* I’iFSR *f'f d«f *nl«
T« <n'r-v|«rr „ H! nj**lr ef ■ptenflld < W« t* loeh ) 8-4 nl**r> d
IDEAL CRAYON-LITHO. PORTRAITS
Cl nvOland-Thurtr.nnSrHarri son-Morton
• ■Wi im i»jI I *ir •• • f. • I. P H' •ton '‘larinn.tl t>
.11 lr for i .n >r ( &n>i>aifD rrquiaitr*. 0__/^a%«nt. Wnrin,
TCVIC I tun .'i.iHrn,000 acres best asrrlcntt
I LAHa LNnU ,r,ii n- \ grazing land f< r .ale.
Address001)1.F. Y .1 PORTER, Dalian, Tex.
*/• ' iMd THIS 1'iTil »mji 0*» > •i,<t
TO S8 A DAY. S.tnpln* worth *I.M»
Fi; i ► 1 s i,«> - t,..i under tin- home'* feet Write
IlHinSTKK SUIT \ IIM MIDI DKR It)., Hell/, Sir*,
irrmam 1 nils uriK *.«*y m»* »■**•
t9nn n m ’ *1’ n,a,^*, by Agent* .piling the Acme
V "elf heat nix. hmn<itbing. fluting and Poltah
w a lr it, A H. Cl.awin AVo . Ann Arbor. Mich.
! I** «l and miktmnn mn*»» whrlm*f»r«i 'h«n
• inrihtncrU' in «h. ** ’f"! Fuller • tallroalftl
l/i«ri'U Addi.M, I aci R Co , A a(■>:*, Main*.
1 hi. I ilia > 4Pi.lt *wy !'*• ye. »rtM
rinyc in Ohio. Cheap, flood Fend fur description
I AtlmO and price. II N. Baxckoft* Jcfl>raon.o.
lAHt Tills fAi'BK *v«ry in. ywi »na
PISOS CURE FOR CONSUMPTION
EDUCATIONAL._
%AiSsiKi
Btiainea*. Shorthand and English Training
ftclinol. St. Lonia. Mo. Send for circular
IINBENWOOD COLLEGE 1;
For YOUNO
'.ADIRS. ftPtli
Seaaion opens s« pt. l»th. Kir«t-cla-s in all rt
, n > intmenta I r Huber Kdseation. No traveling
B ;„i, siM) KOR ' aTaI OUI'Ks KOI1F.HI’
IRWIN, I>. l>., l*rea.» HT- CHAUI.Es, Mo.
VAIIII£ KJCftft l earn Telegraphy and Railroad
I UUnU mtn AgenVa IIuatn«**n
cnod mi uationa.
AjrenVa Bualneee here, and aecura
Write J. I>. DROWN, Sedalia. M .
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> iu> C OLIiMiKof l.4W.Chlca«o Kail Term I
Kin* Sept. l'.» F t.rnri ular add H Chlra»>»
A. N. K. B.
1197
\WIKN WKITINtt TO AUVKHTIKKR* Pl.EASR
AtMte lhal you ■aw lb* Ad * rrtlirat at In tbt*
—Y
O MAKE
W^Tsrl A DELI ;IOUS BISO PIT
ASIv
SODA
DWIBHT’S
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ClNCINN.
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TAKE NO OTHER.
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