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"AGRICULTURAL^ TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. GET RID OF THE MALES. |tfK If you desire to preserve eggs for win^^ter use, get rid of the males at once. Eggs from hen? not with males will keep three times as long as those that contain the germs of chicks. As the hens will lay as many eggs when no males are present as when with them, the removal of the males will lessen the expense and the females have more room on the roost. ?Farm and Fireside. THE BUSH LIMA BEAX. It is clairacd that the introduction of the bush Lima bean is a valuable aid to bean cultivators. The chief expense in growing Lima beans is the poles, which require labor in staking and replacing when affected by winds. Those -who have tned the bush Limas claim that they are fully as prolific as the pole beans, as well as being equal, if not superior, to the latter in quality. A trial on a small scale will demonstrate whether this claim is well founded.?Keio York Witness. y FITS. Almost any of our animals may fall in a fit. It is especially alarming -when a horse falls in harness or under the saddle 4S-fLP.fiIInw or obstructed road or^j}l'j?e4 ; trembling and writhing in convulsions. The first thing to be done is to free the animal as coolly and quickly as possible from harness and vehicle, pour cold water over the head with a steady small stream, throw a blanket over the body, and if the animal struggles protect it with straw, litter or blankets from injury. W Great care should be cxercised to avoid personal injury as the animal is violently fK moved by internal irritation of the brain ' w or nervous system or of the stomach depressed with indigestible food. If the recovery is immediate no medical aid need be sought.?American Agriculturist. ? FEEDING BEAXS TO HORSES. Beans, either in the grain or with the vines, are nutritious food for all animals, but they are unpalatable and are not readily eaten. A horse or other animal may be educated to such food, as are English horses, of which beans are staple food when mixed with oats. But the beans are coarsely crackcd or broken and then mixed with the oats. Our beans are not the same a; the English beans, being botanical ly different, but not in any essential quality, and by following the English customs of preparing them ' "?? -Ml 1 - / -3 11 1. ior ieecung win jje iounu equuuy vuiua- i ble. The stalks are also nutritious as ; coarse fodder, but on account of their ' harshness are not fit for any animals but those which ruminate, as sheep or cattle. If beans are ground with oats or corn the meal is as readily eaten as pea-meal and is equally nutritious.?New York Times. TRYING A DORSE. If you find your horse's disposition 'will do you must next try the powers. Get to ascertain the capacity of the lungs. Unless these are sound and capacious the best legs will not carry him fast. On a good level road or on an uphill slope and without much load cither on him or bcrhind him, get him to trot a mile in five minutes. Then get down and watch him breathing. See if the nostrils easily open quite wide enough for their work. Listen at the windpipe and take care there is no sign of wheezing there. Look at the flanks and sea if they are working hard or if they quiet down as they do directly after the horse stops. Especially no tice it tneir wormng is regular, ana with no double spasmodic effort to expel the wind. Any sign of such uncomfortable action should be a fatal objection to any horse, and your trial need proceed no further.?New York Herald. CROSSING TIGS. A cross between a common pig and a pure Berkshire is a half-bred; a second cross of the half-bred with a pure boar is three-quarters bred, and the rest threeeighths. Consequently the cross will never be a pure bred animal, although four crosses, which makes fifteen-sixteenths of pure blood, is generally considered full blood, but is not pure bred. The half-bred pigs are quite as valuable for pork as the pure breed. No doubt i this breed is the best for domestic uses, as the meat is well mixed with fat and lean, and when well fed has a sweet flavor and is tender. But the feeding is the main point in making good meat. For young pigs, when milk is not to be had, a slop made of meal, thiee-fourths barley, one-fourth peas and one-fourth bran, given sweet and not sour, and in moderate quantity, say one pound of the meal at a feed for a two-months-old pig, will make excellent pork and a fair rgrowth. The food should be gradually increased, and with this breed or the half-breeds should make a pig of 200 pounds at nine mouths old. For fattening, an equal part of com may be added to the above mixture of grain.?New York IVvM/a * WSK0* THOROUGHBRED BOXE. "That must be a strong horse, for see vhat large bones he has." But bone, like other animal tissue, is made up of cells, and these cells differ in density even in the same bone, and are widely different in the different breeds of horses. If a bone is sawn across it will be seen to consist of a bard, compact exterior and softer interior. If a section is made of the bones of a thoroughbred and a scrub horse, or horses that show in life clean, flat legs and large, round legs respectively, it will be seen that the latter compare very unfavorably with the former in density and consequent strength. The bones of the higher bred animal exhibit less bulk but more strength than the big, loose, spongy bone of the lower bred animal. It is said that compara' tively, the smaller but more compact bones of the thoroughbred are in strength as two to one of the average carthorse. The experienced veterinarian can tell tuc breeding or a norsc oy examining his bones. Thu3 understood, the hackneyed phrase, "bred in the bone," is not meaningless. In view of these facts, how important it is that growimg colts be fed a due proportion of bone making foods, chief among which is wheat bran.?New York Tribune. Wf CUT STRAW FOn BEDDIXO. A German agricultural journal presents Borne cogent arguments in favor of chopped in place of -whole straw for animal bedding. The first consideration is the economy of it, which experiments have shown to be about thirty-five per cent. Secondly, the comfort of the i animal is better secured. Ia the use of long straw an even distribution of it will rarely occur, and the animal will be treated to a lumpy couch. Furthermore, it is far easier to separate the wet and soiled portions of a cut-straw bed from the dry. Also, the chopped bedding is a better absorbent of the animal's droppings, and there is lees waste of ammonia by evaporation. It is far more easily manipulated in the compost heap. Again, as the absorption of fertilizing material has been more equal in the short bedding material, so the compost heap in turn becomes more uniform and homogeneous?better fortified against external influences and less given to internal fermentation. This is a point of prime importance, as many will attest who have exposed themselves to serious loss in their manure heaps by burning. Important as is this matter in the stable, it is still more so in the pig-sty. Swine, especially brood sows, should be furnished with cut-straw bedding rather aT ? * ?' ~ As tQaa 1U?^ aiiaw. amw ??> uy> ??.>?.> iit.m snoRTnor.xs for mm on beek. The handsomest and most showy form for a Shorthorn cow includes a broad as well as deep chest, full crops, fore ribs so round as to leave no depression behind the shoulders; a straight line along the back to end of the rump; wide between the huckle bones, and well-developed quarters. This is the best shape for making bp?f._ For milk, the chest should be deeper and not s6Tt>rofrij iGZZ? rather flat and long, crops less full than for beef, and the quarters quite broad, so that in looking at her in front her body will appear decidedly wedgeshaped, the larger end to the rear. But even thus formed, when dried off, a Shorthorn cow will fatten quickly and cheaply, and make a good carcass of a fine quality of beef. Occasionally one of beef shape?that is, about as full in front as rear, and rather fat?proves a great milker of a highly excellent quality, like some Holstein-Friesians. Many of these latter seem to have changed their nature in America, yielding richer milk generally than in Holland, and yet of very abundant quantity. No doubt this change is owing to the difference of climate and quality of food. The summers in Holland are cool and wet, and in North America comparatively. hot and dry, with drier and more frosty winters, and the grass of our meadows is less rank and succulent. These have much influence in giving quantity aud quality to milk and also in the formation of flesh. Still, the difference in breeds of cattle is paramouut, and the animals should be chosen from such as excel in what is most desired by the breed 2r tc produce.?American Agriculturist. / FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Cut hay early. Keep the knives of the mower sharp. Worse than wear for tools?rust and rot. No dull, rusty or shackly tool now-adavs. Are you improving your farm this year? Potatoes and onions thrive on good ashes. The hay-loader will lessen the cost of the field work. Cut hay just after the bloom falls. Cut when possible on a bright day. This is the season for the farmer to be at home "minding his own business severely." If the ground is smooth cut low, but if timothy, cut above the bulb at the ground. Four hours of hot sun will cure sufficiently. It will pay to thoroughly examine every ear of corn intended for seed. Corn from fields infested with rust last season should be avoided. During the warm days of summer the manure will "fire fang" unless plenty of absorbent material be used, or the manure turned over occasionally. All fallen fruit, whether very young or nearly matured, should be destroyed in order to prevent the propagation of insects as much as possible. Professor Ladd concludes that it is preferable to cut timothy for feeding at the period of full bloom rather than after the seeds have formed. The hay-fork and carrier will lessen the cost of mowing away. If to be stacked in the field the gatherers and stackers will lessen the cost. The hoe will compensate for lack of manure in the garden sometimes. Nothing improves vegetables like a good hoeing of the soil and cuttiug out the weeds. The farmer of to-day requires more tools than the farmer of a generation ago, because he employs les3 muscle. They are a big item of expense. Take good care of them. From tests made at the Michigan Experiment station it was found that potatoes yielded better when planted only one and two inches deep than if covered four or five inches. Rust and rot do more for the implement maker in winter, than wear and tear do in summer, and rain and sun do more in summer than the wear and tear. House your implements. Stock need salt when grass food is plentiful more than at any other time. The lack of salt sometimes causes in jurious effects from green food that might be avoided by its use for stock. If it pays some farmers to raise the dairy cows that are purchased by dairymen who sell their calves, it should pay the dairyman to raise his own cows, especially if he does so with the aim of improving his herd. One hundred dollars' worth of cheese takes from the farm less than one-seventh the fertility taken by $100 worth of grain, while $100 worth of butter?if the skim milk be fed on the farm?takes nothing from the soil. A correspondent of the Massachusetts Ploughman says that a quart of vinegar in half a pail of water, if thoroughly sprinkled over the interior of a henhouse, will free it from lice when white washing and other remedies have failed. It is a bad plan to waste food by throwing it on the floor instead of feeding in troughs or some other vessel; also, to cram fifty cents' woith of drugs down the throat of a sick chicken that wouldn't be worth even a quarter if it was well. There is no lawful objection against asking a debtor for payment of his debt on the public street or elsewhere if quiet words are used, but it is an offeree to do this loudly so as to attiact attention WORDS OF WISDOM. If yon want to be happy, be thankful. Words "with gold in them are never wasted. Grumblers and growlers have no lifting power. We ofteu pay the most for what we need the least. Love is free, but it takes money to go to housekeeping. We never really kno ;v a thing until we can tell it to others. The man who is always looking for mud never sees the sky. Nobody has ever built a house that time couldn't overthrow. The man who has a high opinion of himself don't know himself. The man who lives only for what he can see is very short-sighted. Look out for the man who is always boasting of his own goodness. If you seek the world's blessing you will be sure to get its leprosy. If we would always succeed, we must always love. Love never fails. The man who nurses grief is as foolish as the one who feeds a tiger. Any fool can ask questions, but it takes a wise man to answer them. "Wc are all the time making character, whether we are doing anything else or not. "We are not ignorant because we do -HOt-iearn^ but because we forgot so much. ? _ To run cn a rock ifjnorantlv will wreck a ship just as surely as to do it purposely. It won't do any good to whitewash the well curb so long as there is poison in the water. The easiest way to bear your own troubles is to try to lighten those of other people. Some men can do more with a jack knife than others can do with a full 6et of carpenter's tools. One of the times when you ought to remember to love your neighbor as yourself, is when you are about to get the best of him in a horse trade.?Indianapolis (Ind.) Ram's Horn. Toet Whittier's Mocking Bird. In a bird store over on the West Side a few days ago I was much interested in the efforts made by the proprietor of the aviary to induce a prospective customer to purchase a full throated mocking bird. The dubious patron objected that he had heard that birds of that variety never lived for more than five years; that they often died within a much shorter period, ana mat ne was unwilling to expend his money on a songster whose voice would be so soon hushed. It was in vain that the shopkeeper argued that the tale of a mocking bird's years was much longer than was generally supposed, and that the five year limit was a mere superstitious fiction. The preconceived notion was indestructible, and the anticipated customer left the shop unconvinced. As I passed on I was reminded of an incident related to mc on the occasion of a visit to the Poet Whittier at his home at Oak Knoll a little over a year ago. It was the Sage of Dauver's eightieth birthday, and while he was receiving a group of literary dignitaries in his cosy parlor I was having a delightful chat with his charming little eighteen-year-old niece JPhebe in tue library. Phebe's love for the domestic pets is only second to that for her uncle, and it was with intense pride that she exhibited the great black cat, whom she christened Rip Van Winkle in Joe Jefferson's honor, and the mocking bird, whose songs in many keys are scarcely less tuneful than those of the gray bearded Quaker. The cat and the bird are in perfect accord, and together with the magnificent Newfoundland, who is always at Mr. Whittier's side, form, as Phebe says, "a perfectly happy family of three." "How old is he?" Phebe repeated, when I asked about the bird's age; "oh, he is ever so manv vears ahead of me." with a blush I and a laugh, and then she told me of a visit paid to Oak Knoll some time before by a rather pretentious Boston gentleman, who had remarked as he entered the library: "Ah, I see you indulge in the luxury of a mocking bird. Well, sir, mark my words, you'll not keep him long." To tbis sage observation Mr. Whittier replied dryly: "No, indeed, I fear not. He has been in he family for more than twenty-five years now." Whether this bird is still in the land of the living is more than I can tell, but the fact of the possibility of a mocking bird's longevity is, to my mind, well established, if only on bright-eyed Phcbe's authority. -~New York Herald. The Queen Joked Gladstone. Upon one occasion, writes j&ugene Field in the Chicago New, having been invited out to dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone entered a cab and attempted to get through Piccadilly. That thoroughfare was unusally crowded at the time, and after floundering about in the rank and file for two hours, the worthy couple were compelled to abandon their purpose, turn off at a side street and return home. This was considered quite a joke on the "Grand Old Man," and his acquaintances guyed him a good deal about it; moreover, the press got hold of it aad dished it up ad nauseam. The result was that Gladstone finally got very weary of the joke and he began to evince temper whenever it was referred or alluded to. On the occasion of the next reception given by the Queen to the leaders of the Liberal party, her Majesty,who had been treasuring up the disagreeable jest for several weeks, seized upon the opportunity to say to the ex-Premier: "I hear, Mr. Gladstone, that you recently had an amusing experience in Piccadilly; C * * * > nn 4-Vinf T mntT pray, ten iuu ui ii? iu uxuci vuau a. share- the merriment which it has given others." Mr. Gladstone was greatly nettled, but he had to keep bis temper. "May it please your Majesty, muin, said he deliberately and almost sternly, "there was a departure, a misadventure and a return; and that was the long and short of the matter, mum." The Land of Small Families. A law passed in France, designed to give certain advantages to fathers of more than seven children, has brought out the facts that in France there are in round numbers 2,900,000 households in which there has been no child; 2,500,000 in which there was only one; 2,300,000 of two children each; 1,500,000 with three each; about 1,000,000 with four; 550,000 with five; 330,000 with six, aud 200,000 with geyen pr more. - ' ' HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. APPETIZING SANDWICHES. This is the season of the year when picnics awake the thought ot light "woody" food and the mind turns to sandwiches. The old hntn sandwich is doomed. A lighter kind is called for. This can be secured by mincing fine, raw beefsteak and seasoning only with salt and pepper. This sort of sandwich is especially palatable for invalids.?New York Journal. HOW TO COOK BANANAS. Peel rather green bananas, rub them over with a split lemon, place in a pan with red wine poured over them until it stands three-quarters of an inch deep. Drop in six cloves and a few sticks of cinnamon, three tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar and a tablespoonful of butter cut in bits. Bake in a quick oven until light brown. This is the most delicious way of cooking bananas.? Washington Star. MENDING KID CLOVES. I will give you a suggestion for mending kid gloves, says Miss Norn's, in the Prairie Farmer; but just because it happens to be a quick and an easy way don't call it a lazy way before you try it. Have you ever had the experience of putting on a new pair of kid gloves that tore because of a weak place in the kid? I have had that/expcrience, and just upon going out when I had not time to mend the glove, and a friend standing near mended it neatly and quickly by drawing the rent together and pasting apiece of courtplaster on tE?^S2?jide,of the gl .ve. Bmce then I have offered the^ .courtplaster to many, who have found itgoocL' Of course a regular rip might better he sewed, and by using the glove-silk,which is fine and may be purchased in any shade it a first-class glove store, you can sew ap a rip so that the glove will look as food as new. In cases where a rent i< ragged and has been left some time, a few stitches may be necessary before putting on the court-plaster. now TO COOK STRIPED BASS. A keen angler and careful observer of ish and fishing thus describes in the Turf, Field and Farm the best mauner 3f cooking striped bass: It has taken a ash sharp just twenty-five years to learn bow to cook and serve a striped bass, and the trick was discovered by accident. He caught a three-pound striped bass In the Hudson River, killed it and removed its entrails immediately after lecuring it. The fins and scales were not removed, and in sending the fish to the kitchen he neglected to order the bass caled. Salt was rubbed on the inBide jf the fish, then butter in bits were placed on its side, a fish cloth was trapped snugly round its graceful form, ind it was put in the steamer, where it looked an hour and a quarter. Steaming is far superior tc boiling a bass. When the fish -was placed on the platter, to the surprise of the company It retained its beautiful appearance. The :haracteristic stripes were almost as disrinct as in life, and the whole general appearance of the fish was more pleasing to '.he eye and more appetizing than any Dass they had ever seen before. Then came the serving of it in such a nanner as not to scatter the scales over ;he flesh. This was easily accomplished. The fish knife was inserted along the back, shoulder and toil, and the scale was lifted off without any difficulty. Of :ourse, this could have been done in the sitchen, but the serving of the fish in ;ai;t it> au uuaiai auvauiuL;c. ?? HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Strong lye cleans tainted pork barrels. Tepid milk and water cleans oilcloths without soap. In sewing carpet rags, double them with right side out. Corn husks braided makes good mats to lie at outside doors. To make carpet look fresh, wipe with 3amp cloth after sweeping. Use a weak solution of ammonia for removing whitewash from carpets. A piece of bread boiled with cabbage iessens the smell while cooking. To clean knives: cut a small potato, dip it in brickdust and rub them. Grease may be removed from silk by ippiying magnesia iu uic wruug aim,-. New iron should be gradually heated at first; it will not be so likely to crack. Clean tea or coffee cups with scouring brick; makes them look as good as new. Fill crevices in floors with insect powder and scatter cayenne in mouseholes. Washing pine floors in solution of one pound copperas dissolved in one gallon itrong lye, gives oak color. A paste of equal parts of sifted ashes, clay and salt, and a little water, cements cracks in stoves and ovens. Upholstery should be beaten with a furniture whip. Two or three rattans twisted together answer the purpose. A lump of charcoal boiled with salt pork or beef prevents the unpleasant taste sometimes caused by the saltpetre. Black walnut and other hard wood ? - ? 1 * ?T lurniture requires oniDg iignuy wna boiled linseed oil and rubbing with a piece of flannel. To remove grease spots before painting, wash over the smoky or greasy parts with saltpeter or very thin lime whitewash. If soapsuds are used it must be washed^off thoroughly, as it prevents the paint drying it. Lamp burners that have become dim and sticky can be renovated by boiling them in strong soda water, using a tin tomato can for this purpose; then scour the burners with sapolio aud they will be as good as new. For polishing marble, sift over it two Darts of soda, one part powdered chalk and one part of pumice stone, dampen with water and rub vigorously; cleanse with salt and water. Stains will usually disappear when covered with unslaked lime for twelve hours. Willow chairs that have lost their natural color can be restored by using a solution of chlorine. Clean cane-seated chairs with salt or ammonia and warm water. Apply it with a nail brush,scrubbing it well, rinse with cold water and dry thoroughly. Wet the under part of the seat, and when dry it will become taut. Sleeping apartments need careful at tention. Each clothing reccptacle should be overhauled, bedsteads inspected, furniture wiped with a damp cloth and the paint cleaned. Hot alum water may be used to advantage in washing bedsteads. Wipe over the matting with a cloth dampened in either boras water or salt and wutcr. - v-:. Little and Big Legal Fees. The late Sunset Cox gofc $25 for Aia first law ease, and Henry Clay's first fee amounted to just fifteen shillings. Representative Holman, the noted economist, learned how to skimp the Government by skimping his stomach to fit the size of a country Hoosier's legal salary, and John Allen, the funny man from Mississippi, made his first jokes before the bar. Speaking of the investments of legal earnings, some of the big fortunes have come from fees in kind which have been retained and have grown into millions. The late David Davis died a millionaire. The bulk of his fortune came from some lands about Chicago which he was given for legal services when he was a young man, and when the lands were supposed to be worth practically nothing. He held to them, and the city grew and the lands grew with it, until they brought him in hundreds of thousands of dollars instead of a few hundred dollars. It is so with many of the cases that come betore many of the "Washington courts and before the departments. Patent lawyers accept sometimes interests in the patents they secure, and one of the rich men of "Washington is a pateut lawyer named Anthony Puliock,who manages the Goodyear rubber patents. The land claims | that come before Congress amount to millions of dollars, and when a lobby lawyer gets one through, on the condition that he is to receive one-half or one-third, he makes a big strike or I nothing.? Chicago Post. The Range of the Eye. [ There has been a great discussion going on in Europe lately concerning the . distance at which large objects on the earth's surface are visible. Emile Metzger mentions t&at be once saw Keizerspickt, in Sumatra, when sep?.rated from it by a distance of 110 English miles; he also says that on veiy fnvorabl" occasions he has made out to see Guy Merapi, in Java, whenl80 miles intervened. E. Hill, the civil engineer, says that he has seen Mount Blanc from Piz Muraun, near Dissentis, a distance of almost 120 miles. J. Starki Gardner states that Mount Blanc is visible from Piz Landgard, though distaut about three degrees. "Waympcr, the explorer, says that when he was in Greenland he could plainly see a mountain peak from which he was separated by 150 miles. The whole range of the Swiss Alps have been looked upon by J. Hippisly while 200 miles away. Sir W. Jones affirms that the Himalayas have appeared to his view from the great distance of 224 miles.? Courier Journal. The Land of Paper. The string with which the articles you buy are fastened is made of paper in Japan. Do you want a picce of string? Tear a sheet of paper, roll it between your fingers; it requires a strong wrist to break it. The handkerchief thrown away after use is paper 1 The partitions dividing the houses are paper! The pane through which an eye looks at you is paper! The method is very simple. One finger is passed through the paper?that is all! When one has had a good look a I cmoll jr\\nr?ek ?o cfur.lr r\rt nnnninop witK OLUilll |SA\,VsW JO V/U wu?'j v^/vuau^ grain of rice. The yakonnine hat passing is paper; the porter's cloak, who carrics his burden, singing a cadence, through the rain; the garment of the boatman who conducts you on board; the tobacco pouch, cigar case?all are paper! Those elegant flowers ornamenting the beautiful hair of the Japanese ladies, and those robe collars, which are taken for crape? paper!?New York Journal. An Infant's Long Journey Alone, Little two-year-old Ringhill Larsen holds the record as the youngest immigrant ever landed alone in New York. The pretty little tot, who was bom in 1888 in Stockholm, has traveled from there to New York to meet her father, who is employed in Newark, N. J. She had with her letters written in Swedish. English and French,asking the ship's officers and railway officials to take the little one in charge and see that she reached Newark. The stewardess of the Aurania | during the passage across the Atlantic saw that the wee traveler was well provided for, and at the Barge Office Matron Strickland sent the little one safely on her way to find her father in Newark.? I Times-Democrat. A Great Trotter's Shoes. The shoes worn by Maud 8. are kopt in Mr. Robert Bonner's writing desk. Two of the pair in which the beautiful trotter made her last record are displayed in a wall cabinet and have a value of $500 each. Mr. Bonner has had numerous requests to raffle them off at church Vviif rirnforrnrl nluTQVQ tf\ UI1U ULUliilJ ItUI Of U Ub UlVlWiiVU UIIIUJU ?v give his check for their value rather than part with either.?New York World. Loved by a Female Pj gmy. If Dr. Parke, the plucky young surgeon who accompanied Stanley, is more impervious to beauty than his chief, not so is the fair sex in regard to him. When Stanley enterested the forests of the pygmies, a youthful female dwarf showed herself. She would have nothing to say to Stanley, but conceived a great affection for the doctor. She replied to his signs, insisted upon sleeping at his tent door while the explorers were in the forest, and when they left she wanted him to co with her to her people.?London Truth. The Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, deliberately declares that in the city of New York there are not more tnan YDr 000 Protestant Christians. After dinner smoke "Tanslli'a Punch." Peculiar That Hood's t'amoparllla does possess curatlva powers Peculiar to Itself is coucluslvely shown by J ? 1 iinBiirnnaaM In IfltfWUUUCIIUI tUIWJlt UO0 y ? . ? the history ot medicine. This absolute merit It possesses by reason of the fact that it Is prepared 0/ a combination, Proportion and Procese Peculiar to Hood's S or aa par Ilia, known to no other medicine, and by which tne full medicinal power of All the Ingredients used Is retained. If you have nevjr taken llood's Sarsaparilla a loir trial will convince you ot Its merits. Hood's Sarsaoarilla Bold by all druggists. $1; six for $3. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD A CO., Lowell, Moss. IOO Doses One Dollar N Y N U?MS M 1 prescribe ana fully eo. dorse Big (J as the only Curtain specific for the ccriain euro .^Hvl TO 6 n>T8. of thlr diioose. flB^urmouod not ul Q. H. XN'.lItAHAM, M. P., f[Sw ***** Btrtotnn- .imLterdain, N. V. KB lira ally by the " T?<? have sold Big G for VSllmsClsalalCa. maPy ani U boa ^ fT~g"w~'JS^^elven tho best ot aatiflOlSCliiiMtljiKBVf^ction. D. R. DYCHE t 00.^ Snk^BHSfi^UrilfiLOO. ScldUrDivailiiT ' ' > - --r nv-.', SixNtrw's Free, will be sent byCragin A Co., Phi la.. Pa., to any one In U. S. or Canada, postage paid, upon receipt of 25 Dobbins's Electric Soap wrappers. See list of novels on circulars around each bar. Soap for sale by all grocers. Oca exports for the past ten months have exceeded our imports by $120,000,000. A. M. Priest, Druggist, Shelbyville, Ind.. Fays: "Hall's Catarrh Cure gives the best of satisfaction. 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