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"^RICULTURAL. t / / ^TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. I*!-' f MASGE7, WCRZEL. 1 The farmer who has once grown a crop of mangels for feeding his stock will never fail to repeat the pleasant and profitable experience. This succulent food is wholly nutritious. There is no waste, every part of it is digestible, and no other crop produces as much food per acre as this, and there is no other food so healthful. There may be some difficulty at first in growing this crop, on account of weeds, which in its early growth are l apt ta overwhelm the young plants. But a good farmer is not to be frightoned by weeds, and if the land is cultivated as it should be or should have been,the weeds will not stand in the way. An easy way of growing roots is in cross lines, that is, to drop the seeds in hills, making drills twenty-seven inches apart and mark out cross drills ten inches apart. Or the 1 seeds may oe aroppea ic iae unus auu ? hand cultivator (the hand drill changed for this purpose) run across the rows when the plants appear to cut out teninch spaces. This lewes very little hand weeding. One acre of mangels will easily produce twenty tons of roots, which will afford a daily ration of forty pounds for ten head of cattle for 10U days.?Jfetc York Times. THE IMPROVEMENT OF SOILS. Soils are often greatly benefited by an admixture of different varieties, and nowhere is this more apparent than whenever it is practicable to supply an extremely sandy soil with a portion of clay from another field; and so a clay soil will rhe equally improved by a heavy dressing with sand. The trouble in such cases, however, is that the mowing of soil in quantities sufficently large to produce an appreciable effcct is attended with too much cost to render it at all common, so that it can only come into use in isolated cases and to a limited extent. The continued cultivation of the soil can only be . Tendered profitable by supplying it seasonably with whatever it requires for plant food in lieu of what is yearly abstracted by the crops; and not infrequently a change iu its texture will, to some extent, have much the same effcct ' as the application of a fertilizer, with the additional advantage that it will remain a permanent improvement. In many cases by doing a little yearly, as time and opportuniiy permit, a farmer can permanently improve the character of a moderate area in this manner and without sensibly feeling it cost. Especially where a garden plot needs it, will k such a practise be found of great benefit and can soon be made to result in a wellbalanced soil. On stiff soils the application of coal-ashes, although practically destitute of any fertilizing properties, is often highly beneficial and furnishes a good method of disposing of them.? New York World. #3 ABOUT TOUXG PIG9. iff; Three weeks after farrowing is the critical time of the sow. The pigs then require much more milk, and are cou stantly pulling at her. She will begin to ? .- fall off in flesh, and this is not in itself MF-objectionable, provided it be not carried too far. It is here that the breeder must V exercise his best judgment. The sow B must have a liberal and regular supply of H nutritious food. Care must be taken not gg to give her a comparatively innutriticua food one day and a full supply of rich % food the next. The true plan k to feed IB the little pigs, and thus lessen their de mands on the mother. Give them a small w supply of milk from the cow, and take pains to teach them to drink it. If you Im teach one to drink, the others will be k| likely to follow its example. The pigs gB should be gradually weaned. They do hpf-.fpr to remain wifch the sow until eicht Ior ten weeks old; bui^ we would commence weaning them when they arrive at their third week. Let out the sow alone, at first for -an hour or so, gradually extending the time as they get older. When a month old they may be allowed .to go out with the sow for an hour or two in mild weather, but not when it is cold or the sun is very hot, as in some breeds the sua blisters the backs <af young pigs. The little pigs need more exercise than "the mother. The great point in the man-agement of the young ones is to keep i them growing rapidly. If strong and vigorous, they are seldom liable to any disease, and if attacked soon throw it off. At three months old the boar pigs should be separated from the sows.?-.Agriculture. ECW TO SET A HEH. It may seem to be an easy matter to I many 10 uo aaiis seemingly simple piece of work, but it is indeed a thing that requires forethought, experience and great care. To act a hen so as to secure the best resulte is indeed no child-'s play. In the first piacc, be sure your hen wants to sit. Then be sure she is in a .good location; if not, .move her to one. If ehe can be set on the ground, you will iind it to be the very place; if not, cut . .a sod, turn it oner, -scoop out a dish-like place, then ptst the -sod in a box, .grass lide down. A. ne3t made in this way will hold moiaturo?one of the reasons whya hen sitti&g on -.the ground always hatches better than>w.hen up in a building. Sprinkle a little .litter over the asst and put in your eggs. Alwajs have the nests arranged so ithotTthc .hen can walk on and not fly down .upon the eggs. If you breed the heavy satieties the beet nest can be made toy turning down barrel with only one head out and scooping out a place in the gnound so the ibarrel ra^y be sunk La .the ground a little. T&e hens can then, walk on their 'j |?ggs witaQur ine aanger .01 Dreaitage. The ground will help to secure moisture for the eggs ;cud you can close :the open ?nd of the h&rrel every night, pj<o,venting tats and skutte from interfering. Take the hen of! evter\y day or two to give the <egg*3 an airing if rihe hen does not ?0 off rou iwx own aceavwt. Be sure and te,t jour hens in such way Others will not iuUxtcre. Mark the eggs so that if others Uy with the hen you cui remove the fresh ones. After a week test the eggs to see wlrkh are fertile and which are not. It ig noit your policy to have in the nest eggs that vill not hatch. After removing the unfryii/ul eggs you ^tan repltce them with fresh ones, marked, and upon the first ones hatching, the others can be placed under other hens. Always set two or more bene at the same time when possible, that the chicks may all bo placed with one of the?,hens and the other set over. Thin BavcAJn th? way of two Riothers for a few Sickens, If your sre sitting Lv^- -- ? i;;V- *>, - II l l l ll m?Tf high off th^. ground, where moisture is not sufficient, sprinkle the eggs daily for a week, "before. A day or two before hatching take a bucket of water, heated to about one hundred degrees, place the eggs in and let them remain for some five minutes. This will soften the shells and inside covering, and the chicks can come out of the shells with greater ease. Oh, yes, it is no trouble to set her, but you always find that the persons who take the most pains with their sitting hens always raise the most chickens.? Farmer*? Call. WHY POTATOES DEGENERATE. The well-known fact is thoroughly established that new varieties of potatoes deteriorate rapidly in yield, or, as farmers say, "run out," to an extent not known forty or fifty years ago. It raay be that there was some of this deterioration even then, but it was not critically noticed, as it has been of late years. Potato growing on a large scale is a comparatively modern industry. Not only the increasing proportion of population in cities, but the increasing use of potato? liv all classes, has contributed to this result. When almost every household I grew for itself the few potatoes it required, a lessening of the yield was less likely to be noted thau when grown for market. There are, however, especial reasons why the potato 6hould deteriorate more rapidly than it once did. It is within the last forty-five years that rot attacked the tuber, and less than fifteen years since the potato beetle began its work, destroying the leaves on which the quality of the tuber must depend. As the potato is usually reproduced from cuttings, and not from seed, whatever weakness or imperfection is developed is carried along into the new growth, which is only a further reproduction of the original plant. The rot, weakening the vitality of the potato, becomes cumulative. It is a fact, we believe, that the potato rot was first | successfully fought by developing new varieties from seed which does not reproduce the -weakened vitality of the old. But probably some of the characteristics of the original stock were reproduced in the seed, and some even of the new varieties became liable to decay. There is also a weakened vitality, due to the destruction of the potato leaves by the Colorado beetle and its larva. It is not a sufficient argument against this theory that trees and plants of other kinds usually propagated by cuttings do not show the same tendency to degenerate as does the potato. So far as known, this tendency in the potato has only been developed within the past fifty years, and is amply explained by diseases andinjuries to which the potato has within that time been subjected. So long as a plant is entirely vigorous and healthy, a cutting from it reproduces the same char- I acteristics. But let its vigor be impaired | so as first not to be seriously noticed, and it becomes greatly increased in the cuttings made into new plants from it. This is only another illustration of the fact that evil influences are cumulative, and if unchecked will work destruction. But with potatoes, this evil need not go far, as a frequent return to new varieties grown from seed balls set the plant with renewed vigor, until increasing attacks of its enemies disable it. Most practical potato growers have learned that it is good policy to experiment* with new varieties, as they are usually much more productive the first few years after their introduction.. The reason above given is undoubtedly the explanation of the admitted fact.?American Cultivator. FARM AND GARDEN NOTE9. Keep your feeding troughs clean and sweep them out each feeding time before putting in the feed. Not every new machine or tool is necessarily an improvement, although the agent may tell you so. It is a good plan to have a reel and line handy for aid in making all rows of fruits and vegetables straight. If you want to seed land to clover sown with oats, sow the oats very thin? some say the thinner the better. Feed what hens eat up clean and no more. Experience will teach how much grain to feed as breeds differ in this respect. Course sharp gravel supply the "hens teeth." In the absence of gravel,coursely ground oyster shells will answer the same purpose. When hens refuse to eat either wheat or corn readily it shows they have been overfed. Overfeeding is worse than not feeding enough. Hens do not eat their eggs unless they learn the habit from having eggs broken in the nest. Never use stale or frozen eggs as nest eggs. The quickest way to relieve a crop bound fowl is to cut the crop open and remove the contents. Carefully sew up the opening and feed for a few days on milk to which a few drops of whisky have been added. Onions and garlic are excellent tonics rfor fowls, but care should be exercised ia feeding these to laying hens, as eggs will partake of the odor. A laying hen is uaually in a healthy condition and seldom requires tonics of any kind. deeding sulphur te fowls to increase the fertility of their eggs is a favorite fad | with miny writers. It is simply absurd to follow sueha practioe, as sulphur is a dangerous irritant and should never be used in a poultry house .except for lumi- : .gation. All-stone fruits are difficult to graft. As rthe cherry buds swell <very .early, the -scions should be cut some time before. It is a^low process, formings junction of ] theinew scion with the old wood, end if rthe bud is swollen almost into leaf .before the graft is inserted, there will be -too I U ??? .Kc EIUUL.U ?C> UL1VSU Uvlwl Kr WV TaujJpiied from the new stock. if your cows are doing* well .on tho feed tthey are getting do not changie it every time you sead what some other dairyaaan has fed to his cows. The lat ter possibly require a change of food, but experience has sisown that cows, like human beings, becoo? accustomed to certain foods and do *<ell on them. A cow that becomes dainty about her food has very likely been overfed. In olden times farmers sometimes fastened a board oyer the face of an unruly cow, which wa? often called a pair of spectacles, to help her see the fence. The same object can now be accomplished- by stringing barbed wire over or beside* a fence that breachy cattle have learned ndi to respect. This is a method of using barbed wire much preferable to making a fence of it ?lone, which animals might $i?ily run into and be injufgfj by before Jh?jr fcad l<?rn?4 t9 flVoidltK*^ * 2rn^'-- '?s5S,;. ' HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. MASHED POTATO SALAD. ./ _ Boil and mash one quart of potatoes. Make a dressing of two ounces of fresh butter, one teacup of milk, two tablespoonfuls each of mustard and sugar. Season with salt and pepper. Rub the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs to a powder, and add vinegar to moisten. Chop the whites of the eggs very fine and mix in. Put a layer of the mashed potatoes in the salad bowl with a spoonful of dressing dropped over it in spots, then another layer, then the dressing, until the bowl is filled. Put the dressing on top. Garnish with parsley and sliced lemon. CHICKEN SALAD. Take one plump chicken; when done stand it away until perfectly cold; then | remove all the skin and fat, remove the j meat frum the bones in large pieces, cut it into good-sized square pieces; add to | this the same quantity of celery cut in I pieces; remove the yolks from three hard boiled eggs and add to them the yolks of two raw eggs and half a cupful of cream; rub all to a paste; then add three tablespoonfuls of olive oil, one teaspoonful of melted butter, a saltspoonful of salt, one and a half tablespoonfuls of vinegar and a very little cayenne; mix a little salt with the chickea and celery, pour over ! the dressing, garnish with thin slices of beet and it is ready to serve. ROLLED FISH. Take some fillets of any white fish, I wash in salt and water, wipe them carefully and place on a board of any white surface and sprinkle each one with salt, pepper, sage, minced parsley and cracker crumbs, and the last thing add small pieces of butter; roll the fillets up and secure them with a string or skewer; lay them on very thin slices of pork in a baking pan, add half a cupful of water, cover the fish with a buttered paper and | bake half or three-quarters of an hour; prepare some toast, butter it well, and place each roll on a slice; sprinkle with lemon-juice and dried parsley, and serve with drawn butter. SIIEEP'S HEAD SOUP. Wash a sheep's head thoroughly in cold water, then rinse well in lukewarm a ?!iL water ana sair, men put ji mm wc tongue to boil, with water enough to cover it; let it boil up once or twice and skim it thoroughly; add a half tablespoonful of salt, two small or one large onion, one carrot and one turnip cut in pieces; cook slowly for about two hours, then remove the meat, strain the soup and rub the vegetables through a colander; add them to the liquor with pepper, a little sage and a heaping tablespoonful of corn starch dissolved in a little milk; let it boil up once after the thickening is added, stirring to prevent scorching, and it is ready to serve. Soup balls are quite an addition to this soup, but they should be very small.?Boston Herald. HOUSEHOLD HINT8. Sweeping heavy carpets with salt will exterminate moths. A red hot iron passed over old putty will soften it so it can be easily removed. Kitchen sinks or other house drains should be flooded every week with boiling water. Oilcloths will last longer if one or two layers of -wadded carpet lining are laid under them. If fried cakes are made of brown sugar they will keep moist longer than with any other kind. If the cover of a fruit jar cannot be easily removed, insert it for a minute or two in hot water. Keep a small, open box of unslacked lime standing in the pantry, and it will keep the air pure. Scalding water should "bever be poured into dishes which have held milk, until it has been removed by cool water. The light in sleeping rooms should never fall directly on the eyes, nor should the rooms be either too dark or too light. Buckets and all wooden pails not in use, as well as washtubs, should b* turned bottom side up, to prevent leaking. A case of common muslin sheeting that can be removed and washed occasionally, will keep a mattres3 clean a long time. The toughest fowl can be made eatable if put in cold water, plenty of it, and cooked very slowly from five to six hours. It is said that if the hands are rubbed on a stick of celery after peeling onions, the disagreeable smell will be entirely removed. j Kerosene poured on red flannel and bound on the throat will greatly ease a sore throat. It will also heal cuts ajid cure chilblains. j Strong muriatic acid applied with a cloth and the spot washed thoroughly with water is recommended to remove iak stains from boards. * It should be borne In mind that headache may arise from internal eye troubles, and all cases which resist well-directed mcdication should be sent to an oculist for examination. Loug-Sightediiess. A St. Louis detective says in the Globe~ Democrat: Whitely., the former Chief of the United States Secret Service, had a mo9t invaluable gift. He was longsighted, and could accurately read a written letter at a distance of thirty feet. I have recently heard of a man who has cultivated an equally valuable accomplishment. He can sit in a room at some distance irom a person Tvriuug at a desk, and tell by the motion of the hand and pen what the person is writing. Most any hotel clerk of experience can read writing upside down. This will explain the readiness of the greeting you receive at the hands of the hotel derk, whom you have never seen befoie. TH E OLD EN EIBY7 erf aie*odntfi, acute pains end nche^. St. Jacobs Ml cures promptly and permanency this enemy frbifhle: RHEUMATISM. , Eundy villc, Ohio, June 18,1SS8. Was taken with rheumatism in 1861; euf? fered at times ever since and used cmtchcu. St. Jacobs Oil relieved me about tvto yean ?o. GEO. L. NIXON. At Druggists aj<d Dealers. THK CH^LU A. V06ELER CO.. tcHlmor*. Hi. ! "* 1' ?' ' " . w-' "r " :.3T" : . r" "f ^Sfi^fSTpt :-;' : /.< . Safe Blowing Extraordinary. Captain William A. Pinkerton, the defective, having seen that two burglars of his professional acquaintance were advertised to blow open a safe on the stage in live minutes, went to the theatre one night in Chicago recently, and told them that they could not do it in five. They declared they could. Thereupon he put $500 in the safe; they did the same, and he locked it with his own combination. "If you get the safe open in five minutes," he said, "the money is yours. If you don't, it's mine." He then stationed himself at the wings, watch in hand, and awaited for the burglary scene. The cue given, they jumped through the window and set vigorously to work. In two minutes the diamond drill had bored through the steel door. Then a powder-blower was inserted, the bellows set to going, the crevices around the door puttied,and the crank drill was cutting the hinges. The fuse was inserted; a wet blanket hung over the door and the match struck. As Pinkerton's watch showed the passage of three minutes and forty-eight seconds there was a flash from the sate, a cloudlet of smoke, a heavy jar and the massive door fell on the stage. The detective , remarked: "I've been chasing safeblowers around the country for thirty years and I thought I knew something about the business. But this is the first time I ever heard of a safe being blown open inside of four minutes. The lesson is easily -worth $500."?Commercial Advertiser. The Bottle-Tree. Ampng the singular and rare plants of the world is the Australian bottle-tree, an indigenous tree of a limited portion of tropical Queensland, and found nowhere else in. Australia or on the globe. This tree takes its name from the shape of its trunk, which is wonderfully like the outlines of a giant bottle of the common-order. The thick part of the trunk from the ground upward is from fifty to sixty feet high, from thirty to forty feet in circumference, and quite straight up to where the neck tapers to the spreading foliage above all. The bark of the tree is about three feet thick, of a brown color and of cork-like consistency. The foliage, which is very graceful, spreads from the top of the tree, and the branches have their base in the top of the "neck." The leaves are similar in size and shape to those of a cherry tree, but their color and consistency are much lighter. The spread of the branches and foliage form a regular-shaped dome of about forty feet in diameter and of moderate density, giving ample 9hade from the rays of the eun.?Prairie Farmer. A Thirty-Mile Flume. The San Diego (Cal.) flume is a stupendous affair, measuring about thirty miles in length. In the course of the flumes there are 315 trestles, the longest being 1700 feet in length,eightyfive feet high, and containing one quarter of a million feet of lumber. Another trestle is on the same height and 1200 feet long, the main timbers used in both of these being 10x10 and 8x8, being put together on the ground and raised to their position by horse power. The number of tunnels in the course of the flume is eight, the longest of which is 2100 feet, the tunnels being in size 6x6 feet, with convex shaped roofing. Each mile of the flume required an average of one-fourth of a million feet of lumber for its construction, and the redwood used entirely in the box is two inches in thickness throughout. An Arid Desert Flooded. Tf ?o onlnilnted to uDset popular notions of the African desert of Sahara to learn that within the northern edge of the desert zone, south of Algeria, a big rainfall has turned the valleys into lakes and the wadies into torrents, inundating the oases of "Wargia and Tuggurt, threatening the town of Laghouat with overflow, and melting many of the clay Saharan houses into shapeless earth heaps. The same thing has occurred before, and the oldest inhabitants recall the great wetness of 1833. This is the region known as the Algerian Sahara. It is not many years since a great scheme for turning the Sahara into a vast inland sea was discussed for months. It was some time before it was discovered that the great obstacle in the way of this beautiful project would be that the Sahara, as far as we know, lies wholly above the sea level. !? 4 I1UYY la I To ptirlfy your blood and fortify your system against the debilitating effects of spring weather. At no other season Is the bitter taste In the mouth more prominent, the breath so offensive, the drowsy dlulneas so frequent, or that extreme tlrod feoling so prevalent. Hood's S&rsaparllla la just the medicine to build up the system, purify the blood, cure biliousness and headache, overcome that tired feeling and create a goal appetite. The peculiar medicinal merit of Hood's Sarsaparlila is shown by the many remarkable cures it accomplishes where others faiL Hood's Sarsaparilla "For a flrst-olaas Spring medicine my wife and I think very highly of Hood's Sarsaparilla. We both took it last spring. It did as a great deal of good and we felt better through the hot weather than ever before. It cured my wife of sick headache, from which she has suffered * great deal, and relieved me of a dlrry, tired feeling. I think every one ought to take something to purify the blood be fore the liot weather comoa on."?J. H. Pgtncg, Bujjt Granite Ry. Co., Concord, N. H. Hood's S; field by all druggist*. $1; ?lx for $5. Prepared Ml/ by 0. L HOOD ft CO., Lowell, Una. IQO Poses Ona Dollar Ely's Cream BalmK^uVN QITE8 RKUIF AT OWCX PO* MCO/ rA*uTtPI COXD IN HEAD.I?r,y?Vj C U It EM Ir JfrfM catarrhI Ajs*Jy Balm Into eaob nootril ELY BltOtS., 56 Warren St, N. Y Vi-1 dr. schenck's qeaweed 01 0 tonic B Ii a Pofitlrs Cure for hm dyspepsia t /TT An4?llDI?o"Je ofth?DlRe?tJ It* Organi. It ie likewlh# ? I ?oiTobor?tlrf, or (trengtbenpS2^J| log SlAiJcine, aud m*r b# L- ujen wHh *re?t litaeflt lomll com of Debflitj. For .8*!? bf til Drugriit#. Mce.lI-tfJpMbotfl#, Prttiohenok * Viw Book on Ltv^lP LiT?r?<ul 8tom*cbin?rtJed (r?. AMrMfi Or. J. H.^.CHENCK & W1I, Phlf^'phlt. f 'j.- -j& ;3 r *;. -O*.' ' j s**~< ' State or Ohio, City or Toledo, I ? LCCA8 COUNTY, l Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cbeney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for eacn and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D,, 1888. ] A. W. Gleason, < seal > Rotary Public, Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces ox the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. PP" Sold by Druggists. 75c. Women's societies in this country and In Europe support 5431 missionaries. l The Only Guaranteed Care For all blood taints and humors, pimples, blotches, eruptions and skin diseases of evenr name and nature, is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. A certificate of guarantee from a responsible business house warrants it to benefit or cure, or money refunded. Chronic Nasal Catarrh positively cured by Dr. Sage's Remedy._60 cents, by druggists. Queen Victoria receives on an average nearly 403 letters a day. Six Nr/vcl* Free, sent by Cragin & Co., Phlla., Pa., toanvone in U. S. or Canada, postpaid, pon receipt of 25 Dobbins's Electrical Soap wrappers. See list of novels on circulars around eacn oar. ?ms soap lor cam uy an uiuvac A cranium mine?the only one in the world ?has been found in Corn well, England. Ifc The L.adiea Delighted. The pleasant effect and the perfect safety with which ladies may use the liquid fruit laxative. Syrup of Figs, under all conditions make it their favorite remedy. It is pleasing to the eye and to the taste, gentle, yet effectual in acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels. A pocket mirror free to smokers of Tansill's Punch" 5c. Cigar. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac ThompfCn's Eve-water. Druggists sell at 25c.per bottle Watch for "Murray" Buggy adv. next week. Blood-Brotherhood. "Writing about the Bangala canuibals of the Upper Congo, Africa, Herbert Ward says in the Ledger: Among my first experiences after taking command of the station was that of submitting myself to the ceremony of blood-brotherhood with Mata Bwiki; a form of cementing friendship and a guarantee of good faith, popular with all Upper Congo tribes. In the presence of hundreds of the savages owning the sway of Mata Bwiki, we were seated upon the low wooden stools placed opposite each other. Silence be ing commanded by the beating of the big redwood drums, which gave forth a hollow sound that can be heard for miles, a charm-doctor appeared, arrayed in all his mystic apparel. An incision was made in both our right arms, in the outer muscular swelling just below the elbow, and as the blood flowed in a tiny stream, the charm-doctor sprinkled powdered chalk and potash on the wounds, delivering the while, in rapid tones, an appeal to us to maintain unbroken the sanctity of the contract; and then our arms being rubbed together, so that the flowing blood intermingled, we were declared to be brothers of one blood,whose interests henceforth should be united as our blood now was. The witnesses of this strange ceremony expressed their agreement with the utterances of the charm-doctor, and gave way to boisterous expressions of approval of what had been done already, ere setting to work to drink the huge earthenware jars of fermented juice of the sugar-cane, known as "masanga," which had previously been prepared to celebrate the even\ Cost of a Head of Hair. A fine head of virgin gold colored hair will bring from $200 to $500, according to its length and luxuriance, and to those who have it and are anxious to convert it into hard cash, it may be pleasing to hear that there are orders in advance for all that can be produced of this description for the next five years.? Chatter. According to information gathered at Pekin, the Emperor of China in his early childhood had more than 400 attendants, among whom figued 80 nursos, 25 fan-bearers, 25 palanquin-bearers, 10 umbrella-holders, 30 physicians and surgeons, 7 cooks and 23 scullions, 50 servants and messengers, 60 dressers, 75 astrologers, 16 tutors and 60 priests. Marion Crawford, the novelist, knows eleven languages well. "With French he is as thoroughly familiar as he is with English. Timo li i iiiiv 1 Hood'd SarsaparlUa Is the best blood purifier before the public. It era 4 cates scrofula and all humors, cores salt rheum, bolls, pimples, etc. The severest cases of blood poisoning hare yielded to itt I superior curative power. HThls is to certify that I have used Hood's Sarsv parllla la my family for lomo time past ?u)d have found It to be a goal blood purifier. It has been ot great beneflt as recommended and I hare no hesitation In reoommcndln; It to all who are In want of any medicine of the kind."? ROBIKT A. Smith, Justice of the Peace, Honesdale, Pa. The Spring Medicine . "I wish to enroll my name as one of those who have derived health from the use ot Hood's Sarsap&rllla. For many years I havo taken It, espoolally fa the early spring, when I am troubled with dlailness, dullness, unpleasant taste In my month la the morning. It removes this bad taste, rolleves my headache and makes me feel greatly refreshed. ITbe two bottle* I hare used tnu spring nam u?u worth a dollar a dose."?Jons Bimw, M3 43d Street. Town of Lake, Chicago, III arsaparilla ISold by all druggists. #l;?Ixforf3. Prepared o*lj by O. L HOOD * CO., Lowell, llaa*. IOO Doses One Dollar SYS P?14 Here It Is! Want to learn a A about ? Hone ? How to Pick Out a A Good One? Know lmporfeL'^'^i^* ttoos and ?o Guard against \ * Franri y TViOCt DUeOXC aQl J _ , - "1^"{ Effect a Cure whea (tamo 11 f \ / possible i Tell the age by m \. / \ he Teeth? What to call tho Different PurCi of tlia Animal? How to Shoe a Horse Properly/ All this and other Valuable Information can be obtained bX readlti* oar 100-PAUE ILLUSTRATED IIOltHE HOOK, which we will forward, posted, on recelptof only 43 cents in itaopi. BOOK PUB. HOUSE. 134 Leonard St.. New York City DITCIITC No Patent. No Pny! Book free. rm I Ell I a N. W. Fitzgerald A Co., Wash., D. 0. Money loaned, money saved, wonted AgentA everywhere to represent The Capital bttvlngs and Loan Society. Provident Bldg., Pnlla. IMKEF.aiAN Si MONEY, Washington, d. C fsxtios, clmm un> Laito Attomikts Fj. d. Money. 10 ;?*rs Member of Congress' A/ A- t'KeeniatL b jeari Au't 0. & Att'j-Gon * jl&ite I J MABEL'S ( " The world is even as A/id life, dear child, i This is sense, even if it is not Shakespearean. Indeed, it is the opening stanza of an anonymous poem. It was the sentiment of an old lady to her grandchild MabeL And many a Mabel has found it to be true, and she has mads her life a very happy one because she has taken care of her health. She keeps on hand a supply of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, and so is not troubled 'with those wasting diseases, weaknesses, '' dragging - down " sensations and functional irregularities that so many women endure. It is the only medicine for women, sold by druggists, under a positive guarantee from the manufacturers, that Ft will give satisfaction in every case, or money will be refunded. This guarantee has been printed on the bottle-wrappers, and faithfully carried out for many years. "Favorite Prescription" is a legitimate medicine, not a beverage. Contains no loohol to inebriate: no svrup or sugar to derange digestion. As peculiar in its reme- I dial results as in its composition. As a powerful, invigorating tonic, it I SBlxevce's DR. P Un equaled i to Take. One Tiny, Sngmr-eoated P< Billon* Headache, Constipation, Ii teancementa of the rtomach and bowels. March, April, May are the Months when the Blood should be renovated with Ayer's Sarsaparilla and t>i? Svatem fortified for the change of Seasons. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. | Hi scom EMULSION DOES CURE | CONSUMPTION i l I In its First Stages. j Be sure you get the foiulnc. j i I I I 1 t, . L. , c0\^ Safety Bicycles Send stamp for IlluaGEO. B. BID WELL CD A 7CD AXLE ^IIHAhlieDCICr BEST IN THE WOULD UMLHlJl tW~Oct the Genuine. Bold Everywhere. (1C TO 8*250 A MONTH can be made working f I w for us. Persons preferred who can furnish horse and give their whole time to the business. Spare moments may be profitably employed also. A few vacancies In towns and cities. B. K. JOtf.t bO.N & UO., 1J i Main St., Richmond, Va. DEMCIflNG w??[hout rCliolUilu Sfe r h jss or II. ill'NTLlt, ATTOKNEY, WASMIHUTUPi, i>. V. PATEHTS-PEHSIOHSlSr US }J'? cc.-it of Pension and Bounty laws. Send for Inveintora' Guide or How to Get a Potent. Patrick O'Farrell, Attorney at Law, Washington, D. U. AllllllA HABIT, Oaly Uertali aatt r P M tuyCUttKlnUit Worll Dr. UriUlfl J. L. STEPHENS, Lebanon.O OPHCinM C SURE *OR A 1.1, or NO I'A V. ? 'ENwIUna N. W. Fltxgeralil, Att'y, Wash., 1). C. nPMGiniujui(nw^iuRiii8< ! IJClVOIUni W'uBhlngton, D.CV | 'Successfully Prosecutes Claims. I m Lata Principal Examiner u. B. Pension Bureau. ^ In Iaa* ar*r 15 uilinriir alluff attr a ill OA. IjJ Best Cough Medicine. J l*J Cures where all else fails. ^[| taste. Children take it wit] j 11 ypi 1.1111 1 11 . - ... ' . =' ' yy/^ JRANDMA, wc take it, s what wo make it." imparts strength to the whole system, * ana to the womb and its appendages H n&rticular. For overworked, worn-oat." ? run-down." debilitated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, "shop-girls." housekeepers, nursing mothers, ana leebl* women generally, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is tie greatest earthly boon: being unequaled as an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic, or streugth-giver. As a soothing and strengthening nervine. "Favorite Proscription" is unequaled anc is invaluable in allaying and subduing nervous excitability, irritability, exhaustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms and othtf distressing, nervous symptoms, commonly attendant upon functional and organic disease. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and despondency. A Book of 160 pages, on ''Woman and Her Diseases, their Nature, and How to Cure them," sent sealed, in plain envelop*, on receipt of ten cents, m stamps. Address, World's Dispensary Mkdicax. -^59 Association, 663 Main St, Buffalo, N. T. lEBCE'S PELLETS Vegetable and Perfeotly Harmless. is a Liver Pill. Smallest, Cheapest, Easiest sllet a Dose. Cures Siek Headache, idigeetlon, Bllioaa Attack*, and ?l % cents, by dniggigta. TOBIAS' 1m TlnnW flnnriitinn DnmfloiUI MUJf UU11U1UU11 lUWUUliI -m ARE WARRANTED SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHERS OR NO PAY, For the Cure of Distemper, Heaves, HUt> bound, Worms, Bats, Scurry, l.ona ( . Food, etc., In Horses, Worms, Horn I) Is tenser, Black Touaroe, Colds, Coafhs s*4 -'3 MM of Cod la Cattle. No one has ever used them bat continues their wo and recommends them to his friends. Price 35 Cents per Box. DEPOT, 40 MURRAY ST., NEW FORK. Sold by all Druggists and Saddlers. tyQet Pamphlet and read the Certificates. $1,001 galdtf not genuine. UTS U-14 __j |||?|| Ci III 3 fly/?GOTTfcrf B07TLS Op* KEMP'S BALSAM I MY 7HRPAT FEELS BAD,AND I MUST HAVE IT TO STOP MY COl/GH? Ourei Coughs, Cold*, Bore Throat, Croup,Wiioepilf Cough, Bronchitis ud Asthma. k ocrtslo can tar Consamption to Ant ?nd * tun relief In advanced (U|ti. Vtnoaet. You will w? the excellent effect after taking the flrat doie. Sold b/ deii?r? eTsrjwbsra. lAfft) bottles, COctoti utd 91.00. '.^9 AFTER 1L WSffl, CONSULT DR. I.OBB. 3i9 North Fifteenth 8treei, Philadelphia. Twenty yean' experleao* In special diseases; euros the wont case i of Nerroai Complaints, Blooi Poisoning, Blotcaei, EruptlonC Piles, Calarrh, Ulcers, sores, Impalrel Memory' Despondency, Dliunrss of Vlsloa, l.un;, Liver 6tomach, Kidney (firlgbt's Disease); confidential. Ur~Call or write for question list and book. l prescribe and fully ?*done Bis U as the only ^^rCinili^H specific for tbe certain cv? TO 6 DaYB/V Of tbli disease. flS?ruM<MtHl Q.H.IKGRAHAtf.ll. D* gjgj omwBWww. Amsterdam, If. T. - - ? - ni- fl |M ?9 MMoalybylha wo nave soiu "<i " *~ 0Bl?....rTi.n-ln?1(h. many years. and It M ?ainMra?Blailo^^Z,TeB'the fc^t 0f uti? QUiHnnartJ^^W faction. D-E- DYC^,f 4 00^t Sold by Druggist* CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH ? PENNYROYAL PIUS J -CTv RCO CROSS DIAMOND IRA NO. J /Sl.' 7S Httfeaad ilnji reliable. Ladle*. A ? <( uk Drenlit tbr Diamond Mra%d, la ?\ fa^4 >>%lffVi ?~*i arUlUc Win, Malad with bio* iBVN rv ?-!^^3rlbbee> Take a? etkeis All pUU \\Or H flk <(Vi' > p??t?bo*rd b*xa>, pink wrapper*, an Vy ^7 - TV Ja**er??ao^uit*rtW?a.sin<14?. V. w. Jr <?* ? ) tor partfealan, tMtlaomlal* AM l W 0 "KtHef for Ladle*," <n bj llin JT BF b*1L KtmUPaftrT (AlrtwUr Cli^'l C?.. WUim IU Pbll*?T? t'S "Favorite colic mixture 1 cure 98 out of every 100 caws of colic, whether flat; more than 1 or'J doset neceuary. It does not oon? tlve and Is entirely har.tile-it. After 2U year* of triai Kuaraut-jj Is wjrtn Ho.n.'tjU(. Coifs m:ist b? ad a fetv cents an 1 you hav<j a card oa U?n 1, re ad/, i savj a valuable h ).*ij. if no; at your dru;;iJt'i' >ottle. seat prjpil.1. OEH 1.Kit Si CO., Bethlehem, Pa. orite Colic | We cheerfully recommend Dr. Ko6Mer*? "?? ?? " ' ' a,olio Mixture." Wo\M net e ever seen. I be without it as Ion] at toe ham horse** Dealer, I ISAAC MOSES <? OR(X, \'ew York. | Sale and Exchange Stables, Easto.\ Recommended by Physicians. K1 Pleasant and agreeable to the KB lout objection. By druggists. El _ - ^ _ ' ' - -