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FARM AND GARDEN.
EMBDEN GEESE.
They Are Fine Birds and Formidable
Rivals of the Toulouse Breed.
Although the gray or Toulouse goose
may be regarded as the more popular
and, probably on aocount of its size, the
most profitable, it has a formidable
rival in the white or Embden variety,
which is very line in quality, but does
not attain to the same size. This does
not always appear to have been the
oase, for old Moubray says: "The
white appears to be the largest, if not
the heayiest, of its kind, and, some may
even add, the prettiest, too, though that
must clearly be judged as a matter of
taste only."
The same writer goes on to say that
the Embden takes its name from the
Hanoverian town whence it was, many
years since, imported, and whence, as
also from some parts of Prussia and Hol­
land, we still continue to draw supplies.
It differs in no respect from the common
English goose, having precisely the
same form and shape, the same pure
white plumage, the same rich red bill,
legs, feet and websi indeed, although it
has been dignified by the title of a dis-
FRIZE EMBDEN GOOSE.
tinct variety, it modestly puts forth no
such pretensions itself, and the honor
has been clearly thrust upon it. But all
white plumaged geese come under the de­
nomination of Embden, except the Irish,
which are not so designated. They are,
however, smaller than the true Embden,
but in no other respect differ from them,
and therefore are not a distinct variety.
Of course white geese have one decided
advantage over the gray, namely—their
feathers are of much more value. As
this is an important point their breed­
ing should be encourged, even though
they do not attain the same size as the
Toulouse. The question of size oould
soon be remedied by careful breeding,
but the geese required for the early
markets can be best supplied by birds of
this variety, as they grow more rapidly.
There can be no doubt, however, that
for the later markets in this country
the Toulouse will be able to hold its
own, for size is then of great impor­
tance. I do not know that this is a wise
or well-regulated demand, for the largest
have seldom the finest flavor, and nat­
ure seems to hold a balance in all
things, for when she gives exceSB Of
size she seldom gives with it the same
quality, and a well-fed Embden is a
juicy and tender fowl, with the highest
of quality. Specimens of this breed do
not often attain more than nineteen or
twenty pounds, but at times heavier
birds have been found. At one time the
weights of all the waterfowl were taken
at the Birmingham show, and though
many of the birds were undoubtedly
grossly crammed because of the influ­
ence the scales had in determining the
prizes, for which reason the system was
given up, yet there are many interest­
ing features about the plan, and a rec­
ord could be kept from year to year of
the weights attained. It is to be noted,
however, that one of the highest weights
ever recorded at this show was for a
pair of Embdens, namely, fifty-seven
pounds the pair, which was the weight
of the first prize pen at the Birming­
ham show of 1876.—Country Gentle­
man.
LIVE-STOCK NOTES.
THE teeth of animals need more at*
tention than they often get. It seems
to be the common belief that disease
never attacks the teeth of animals.
A "W£LLrFED calf in autumn, having
full flesh, is worth two others of the
same age poorly fed and of stunted
growth, from which recovery is next to
impossible.
Ax Excited horse is like an excited
child. We have seen a child scolded
and "jawed" until it could not compre­
hend what was wanted of it.—Horse and
Stable.
In purchasing and bringing on to the
farm new and fresh breeding stock it
will be foiyd a good plan to know how
they have been fed, as a sudden change
of food, especially at this time, may
often prove quite injurious.
THE curry-comb is never more useful
than in winter. It is a pretty useful
thing any time. It should be used care­
fully, however, at all times. The man
who uses a sharp curry-comb as he would
a spade in digging had better not use
one at all.
In drying off a cow be sure that she
does dry off, and that milk does not con­
dense into a hard mass in the udder to
obstruct and inflame it and play the mis­
chief when the cow next comes in milk.
More trouble with the udder comes from
neglect in drying off the cow than from
any other source.
THE hog will thrive better if kept
clean and given plenty of water. Slop
food does not afford a sufficient supply
of water, Ifctilk will not answer as
water. The water-trough should be
kept filled with clean water at all times.
Many hogs fail to thrive owing to the
fact that they are given plenty of slop
and no pure water.
FARMERS should know that burnt corn
is said to be a sure cure for hog cholera.
It was first discovered through the
burning of corn belonging to a distil­
lery at Peoria. It was thrown to the
hogs and readily eaten by them. Be­
fore that time a number had been dying
eaueh day with cholera, but the disease
immediately disappeared. This remedy
is very simple and can easily be tried.
HYDRAULIC RAMS.
Handy Appllanoe of Which Farmers
Should Make More Use.
Very few farmers understand the
method of raising water by the use of
the hydraulic ram, though there are
many places where they can be profita­
bly employed. The invention is aa
old one and apparently comes near per*
petual motion. The ram itself is a
pear-shaped iron cylinder placed in the
ground at a depth sufficient to protect it
from the frost in winter. The spring or
well which supplies the water is situ­
ated at some point above, so that there
will be a fall of one foot for every eight
feet of perpendicular height to which
the water is to be carried. For in­
stance, if it is necessary to force water
up a hill to the house which stands
forty-eight feet above the spring the
fall must be at least six feet from the
spring to the ram. The horizontal dis­
tance has no effect on the calculation,
and it is often carried hundreds of feet,
and in some oases over a thousand.
The prinoiple on which the water is
forced up is by compressed air. The
water passes from the spring in a pipe,
say two inches in diameter, against a
check-valve which is lifted up by the
force of the water until it reaches a cer­
tain point, when a portion of the water
is crowded by its own weight into the
ram until the air is so compressed that
it discharges itself into a small pipe, say
half an inch in diameter, which runs up
the elevation to the barn, house or
wherever wanted. In well-construoted
rams the power has been found to be
about two-thirds of the energy of the
falling water. Wherever small quanti­
ties of water are needed, this way of
supplying the want has been found to
be very convenient. The only thing
that seems to stop the working is a fail­
ure of the water supply. Night and day,
year after year, the little air engine
works away, needing no rest, oil or
wind, simply water, and that in abun­
dance. One in Norfolk County, Mass.,
has been in operation for many years
and is still at work supplying the own­
er's house and barn with water. To one
who has never seen its workings it is
very interesting. No visible power in
sight, the little valve rises to its proper
elevation, remains there an instant,
then drops to its base of operations, only
to start upward again, which is repeated
continually.—American Agriculturist.
An Apple Picker.
I have a little devioe for picking ap­
ples off of high limbs that pleases me
very much,, says a writer in the Ohio
Farmer. I find the best apples grow on
these high limbs, out of ordinary reach.
Take a strip of muslin nine inches wide
and twenty feet long sew it together in
along sack or tube, both ends open.
Get a pole as long as you can handle
well, or make it out of light wood. Make
SIMPLE APPLE PICKER.
a hoop of stiff wire and fasten it to top
of pole, about six inches below the end.
Fasten three wires from the hoop up to
end of pole, and sew the hoop securely
in the end of the muslin sack or tube,
to keep it open. The cut shows the
method of using. The apples come out
at the lower end of the poke as bright
and sound as a dollar.. I can pick with
this device where no ladder can reach. I
have another device to send you soon.
Tainting of Milk.
George A. Smith says: "A cow feed­
ing on grass that grows in the immedi­
ate vicinity of any putrid animal matter
will give milk having the worst kind of
a taint. I have a case that came to my
knowledge last summer and which
proves this quite conclusively. A fac­
tory in which cheeses were well made
had considerable trouble with the
cheeses getting off flavor when they
were about twenty days old. They
started a thorough investigation and
found that the trouble came from cer­
tain dairies where the pastures bordered
on a small creek, and upon examination
of these pastures it ,was found that the
offal from a slaughter-house had been
washed by the high water down along
the banks of the creek and lodged where
the cows had been feeding. It spoiled
the milk, that is, the germs of putrefac­
tion from this decaying animal matter
lodged on the grass and were taken into
the animal system. I am well satisfied
that if the requisite means are used the
milk will come to the factory very
nearly as geod in July and August as in
September and October. The only ques­
tion is—will the dairymen use the
means?"
Wire Worm.
The wire worm depredates on almost
every thing except beans, peas and
buckwheat. The larvse of the wire
worm usually feeds on rotten wood.
Turn over a rotten log or piece of bark
and you will likely find the larvae. But
they may attack the newly-planted po­
tatoes and tender corn plants. They re­
semble in shape a wire and a worm.
The beetles are spring beetles, that is,
they have that peculiar power of spring­
ing up if they fall 09 their backs. This
peculiarity will aid in distinguishing
them. FalL plowing and frequent har­
rowing, to give the birds a chance at
them, is recommended. In England
they often bury a potato with a stick
attached to it to marli the spot. This
is done before planting time. The
grubs feed on the buried potato, when
they are gathered and destroyed. Gas
lime and salt are also good, remedies.
These are put in With the ""eed.—West­
ern Rural.
THE INTREPID REPORTER.
Charley Dtehl's Wonderfal Tact, Nerve
and Presence of Mind.
That the newspaper readers of the
United States got the news of the hang­
ing of Kiel at Regina, N. W. T., in 1885,
in advance of the Canadian press is due
to a cocktail. Charles .Diehl, war cor­
respondent of the Chicago Times until
1883, and then and since conneoted with
the Associated Press (he is now in San
Franoisco), was sent to Regina to do the
hanging. The writer had posted him
upon the military red-tapeism he would
encounter in the land where the red
coated mounted police are as powerful
as they are dictatorial. Charley is a
thoroughly good fellow, and upon ar­
rival at Regina at once set about mak­
ing himself popular. His success was
not marked until one day he invited a
number of police officers to take a drink,
and when the genial cocktails had been
prepared Charley, before raising his
glass to his lips, said: "How kola,"
Now tnis is the Sioux salutation, and one
of the principal officers immediately
said:
"Where did you hear that, Mr. Diehl?"
"When I accompanied General Terry
in 1877, and we met the mounted polioe
near Woody mountain."
"The deuce you say," said the officer.
"Why, I was there and I'll never for­
get how nicely your people treated us
all."
The cocktail was repeated amid friend­
ly enthusiasm, and Charley could safely
say: "The world (or all he wanted of
it) is mine." He was not only given
every facility to learn the time of Riel's
execution and the manner thereof, but
was allowed to bring his mounted courier
within the stookade at the Regina
prison, which is distant four miles from
the telegraph office. He wrote up all
the preliminaries to the time Riel don­
ned the black cap and sent his man
away on the gallop. The courier met
Diehl en route to town, after he had
filed his last batch of news, and was
handed the finis of the account. No one
else had taken any such precautions, and
the special correspondents of the Toron­
to, Ottawa and Montreal dailies had to
be contented with very short accounts,
or, worse yet, had to wait until the next
day.
Diehl was the Chicago Times man
who joined the Ilges expedition against
Sitting Bull, Gall and Crow King in the
never-to-be-forgotten campaign of 1880
81. During that campaign many a night
was spent in tents when the mercury
was frozen in the bulb and spirit ther­
mometers registered 53 to 55 degs. be­
low zero (Fahrenheit). Enroute to Bu
ford Diehl's driver was prostrated by
cold, and the plucky correspondent wrap­
ped him up as warm as he could,detached
the rear bobs from his sled, and tying
his nearly frozen companion to a stake
on the front runners, drove the outfit
twenty-five miles. He was nearly
played out when he reached Buford,
and the driver lost a limb, if I remem­
ber rightly, but after ten hours' rest
Diehl started off for Poplar river, sixty
five miles away, and got there in time
to report the battle on the Red water.—
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
MANY MILLIONS IN IT.
The Colossal Sums Stored in the United
States Sab-Treasury.
There is stored at the United States
Sub-Treasury down in Wall street be­
tween $100,000,000 and $150,000,000. A
Government officer who had just de­
posited a check for $25,000 accepted an
invitation the other day totake a peep at
the vaults. He presently found himself
in a moderate sized room whose walls
are honeycombed with little closets.
Each of these receptacles contains
$500,000 in gold. They are duly scaled
and marked, so that the amount can be
removed quickly on short notice. While
the visitor was present a subordinate
came in with a modest demand for
$1,500,000, and it was promptly served
out. "Here is something pretty," said
the cicerone of the occasion, opening
a vault on the opposite side of the
room. He thrust in a hand and
drew out a package having the base
area of a $5 bill and a height of some
inches. "How much does it contain, do
you suppose?" inquired the treasury
official: "You see it is made up of $10,
000 bills." The wondering spectator
was staggered when told that the pack­
age contained $8,000,000. The increase
in the amount'of money deposited in
these vaults during the past quarter of
a century is something surprising.
When John J. Cisco was the Assistant
Treasurer at this city, $40,000,000 or $50,
000,000 was considered a great amount of
money to have in the vaults at one time.
Yet during the administration of C. J.
Canda, President Cleveland's First As­
sistant Treasurer, the amount was in­
creased to $212,000,000. So perfect was
the system that Mr. Canda, in speaking
of this, naively said: "Yes, I suppose I
had under my charge more money than
was ever confided tone man at one time.
But then it didn't do me much good.
1 could not have drawn out or embezzled
a single cent of it without somebody
knowing it. I could not even enter the
vaults without assistance from a clerk
who carried some of the keys." But the
responsibility is, nevertheless, very
large, and weighs heavily upoYi the men
who assume it. Very few men care to
take it for any length of time, and Mr.
Canda, after a few months' trial, re­
signed and returned to the banking bus­
iness. Nearly all the men who have
held this office and remained in busi­
ness have found their way into impor­
tant banking establishments. This is
true of Mr. Acton, who is now president
of the Bank of New Amsterdam, and of
Mr. Canda himself, who is cashier of
the Western National Bank, of which
the late Secretary Manning was presi­
dent, and which is now presided over by
Conrad N. Jordan,who was Treasurer of
the .United States at Washington while
Mr. Canda was the Assistant Treasurer
here.—From a New York Dispatch.
—The wife of a Brooklyn insurance
agent visited his office during his ab­
sence, carried the contents of his waste
basket away with her, and after two
weeks of hard work She patched several
love letters together and made applies*
tion for divorc
GIRLS AS GYMNASTS.
They Are Reckless and Over-Darlag in
Their Enthusiasm.
"Girls should never be allowed in a
gymnasium unless they are in charge of
a thorough master of calistheniscs and
gymnastics," said a professor to a re­
porter. "It may seem strange to say,
but the girls are more daring and much
more reokless than boys when they get
the athletic fever. It seems to be very
catching nowadays.
•'Only a short time ago a young lady
came into the gymnasium. She had.
never been in a gymnasium before. As
soon as she got her suit on she was try­
ing to pull herself up a horizontal Bar
and before I could stop her she had
strained the tendons in both arms and
couldn't come back to exercise again
for nearly three months.
"Girls have to take a much more sys­
tematic training than boys. They are
not so strong and have to be treated
more tenderly. There are hundreds of
ways in which a girl can hurt herself in
a gymnasium unless she is very careful.
She can strain her arms and hands by
too much exercise at any thing. She
can sprain her back by jumping to far
on a spring board.
"I have known girls to sprain their
toes in the running high jump even
when the bar was only' a foot from the
ground. High-heeled shoes press the
toes downward and girls who wear them
always land on their toes when they
jump instead of on the ball of the foot."
"What exercise should a girl practice
at home?" asked the reporter.
"Gymnastics, to be healthful, should
only take a portion of the strength of
one's muscle, and the constant exercise
of these muscles is what develops them.
I have seen some delicate girls exercis­
ing with five-pound dumb-bells, when
some of the strongest athletes of the
country only use two-pounders. A girl
who wishes to expand her chest can do
so if, each morning after her bath, she
will stand erect, feet together, shoulders
back, arms straight down, and take
twenty-five full, deep breaths. Better
begin fifteen times the first week and
then gradually increase it. Keep up the
increase until in reaches the number of
fifty. By that time her lungs will be
much stronger and the chest will begin
to expand. A round-shouldered girl can
become straight by moving the arms
backward in regular motions until the
elbows are only a few inches apart. Let
the first exercise be twenty times and
increase it until 125 times can be done
without fatigue. The throat can be
made round and firm by judicious ex­
ercise of the head. 1 make my throat
pupils throw the head far back and then
forward slowly, and then from side to
side in the same way.
"There is no reason why any girl or
woman not deformed, and about twenty
five or thirty years of age, should not
have a graceful and well-developed
figure, and gymnasties will give it to
her, but not unless she is taught them
properly."—N Y. Mail and Express.
INCREASE OF KNOWLEDGE.
It Is the Necessary Substructure of Cult*
ure and Civilization.
It was a simple increase in knowledge,
the discovery of gunpowder, which
broke the power of the robber barons,
and by confining victory to regular
armies ultimately extinguished private
war. It is increased knowledge, among
other influences, which has given us
civilized order, and what that means to
mankind in happiness, and means most
of all to the poor, let those who have
lived in countries where order has never
been or has given way describe to the
men who have forgotten what ignorant
warriors or brigands or populaces will do.
But why seek for such evidence when it
is all around us? Ask any one of those
who really know, ask any really experi­
enced doctor or missionary or school­
teacher, whether the profoundly igno­
rant, the men and women of the re­
siduum who know nothing, are more
happy than the cultured, whether they
do not suffer more from fe.ar, from
disease—we mean, of course, when the
diseases are the same—and from all the
semi-madnesses which we class together
in the phrase, "want of self-restraint."
One ignorant woman of the slums will
suffer more in a week from ecstasies of
anger—anger rising to insanity—than a
hundred cultivated women will suffer
from the same cause in their lives.
There is no reason for pitying the low­
est class of Europe so unanswerable as
their suffering from sheer ignorance.
They know less than the half civilized,
who almost everywhere possess a fund
of traditional skill and though knowl­
edge is not culture or civilization, it is
its necessary substructure. Take all
knowledge from Scotland, save what is
possessed by Fiji, and you would have
Scotchmen more energetic Fijians—that
is, a race so unhappy that in its unrest
and self abhorrence it surrendered
freedom. Nobody tobk Fiji. Spec­
tator.
Berlin's City Postal Service.
The Berlin postal service, long one of
the best postal services in the world
has just been improved by a unique in­
novation. On November 1 ten large
postal wagons, with sorting tables,
stamping arrangements and every thing
else used in preparing mail for trans­
portation, were sent out from Berlin's
Station over ten routes to the city
limits to collect the contents of the
street mail-boxes. The officials who ac­
companied the wagons sorted, stamped
and bunched the mail brought them
from the boxes by a porter, while tjbe
wagons were being driven in from the
outskirts of the city. In this way.an
hour, and often enough, two hours, was
saved from the time before required for
preparing mails for the trains. A let­
ter-box was attached to the side of each
wagon, so that pedestrians could throw
in their letters whenever the wagon
stopped. These postal wagons have been
a complete suocess thus far, and will be
continued in use. Most of them cover
their routes in just an hour. The Ber­
lin post officials boast that they now
have the quickest city mkil service in
the world.—N. Y. Sun.
—A Smith County (Kas.) girl won
fifty dollars the otber day by husking
sixty bushels of corn in five hours
FOREIGN GOSSIP*
—Sir Edward Guinness has donated
$1,000,000 for the erection of dwellings
for the laboring poor of London.
—A yellow book issued at Pekin gives
the population of China proper iij 1887
as 803,241,060, which was a gain of 1,
164,885 over the year before.
—Phonographs are to be put in the
post-offices of Mexico, to be used by per­
sons unable to write, in order to send
messages to friends through the mails.
—Paris is surrounded by ramparts
twenty-seven miles long. Within these
the river Seine, which divides the city,
curves and doubles until there are seven
miles of it. It is crossed by twenty
seven bridges.
—Queensland, the youngest of the
Australian Colonies, is three times as
large as France and nearly six times as
large as the United Kingdom yet it
contains a population of less than 400,
000.
—The English statistics give a nota­
ble decrease in their convict population
during the last twenty years. The to­
tal number of convicts under sentence
of penal servitude was 6,44B in July
twenty yearB ago it was 11,660.
—According to an official statement,
the population of Chili, partly esti­
mated, is 3,115,815. This includes 87,
007 foreigners and about 50,000 Indians.
Santiago has 189,332 inhabitants Val­
paraiso, 104,952.
—King George of Greece is an in­
veterate walker and is a familiar figure
on the streets of Athens. The Atheni­
ans salute him politely as they meet or
pass him, but make no other demonstra­
tion, and he simply raises his low felt
hat.
—The Shah has ordered a globe which
is probably unique in its way. The
various countries of the globe are rep­
resented by precious stones—France by
sapphires, Russia by diamonds, and En­
gland by rubies, while emeralds will
figure as the various oceans and seas.
—Ancient Rome received from with­
out well nigh seven times the volume
of water now poured into modern Rome.
This city is the best supplied with
water in the world. Next to Rome,
Vienna is said to be the most favored
capital, if not in the abundance, at least
in the purity of its drinking-water.
—The Crown Prince of Brazil was the
last royal personage to receive the
golden rose from the Pope. The Pope
sends this auriferous blossom to those
whom he delights to honor, whom the
world sometimes does not delight to
honor. Queen Isabella of Spain, also
an exile, has the golden rose likewise.
—During a recent discussion of the
German patent laws in the Reichstag it
was revealed that last year Germany
granted only 3,921 patents, against En­
gland's 9,779 and the United States 20,
420. While in most civilized countries
the number of patents annually granted
is increasing, or, at least, not decreas­
ing, the number in Germany has fallen
off 927 in the last five years.
—The redecoration of the famous cor­
ridor in Windsor Castle has been com­
pleted at a cost of many thousands of
pounds. The work has been constantly
in progress all the year except when the
Queen has Leen at the castle. One set
of rose china, in a single one of the cab­
inets in this corridor, is valued at £30,
000 ($150,000). At the upper end of the
corridor is a bust of Gordon, close to
which is his pocket Bible inclosed in
crystals.
—The lash has never been abolished
as a means of discipline in penal insti­
tutions of Germany. Generally they
use a thong twenty inches long, fast­
ened to a handle a yard long. The lash
is thickest at the end. The thickness
varies according to the provinces. But
the smallest lashes are two inches
thick. Only in Saxony are the dimen­
sions fixed by law, the handle there be­
ing thirty inches long and the lash
thirty-six inches. The maximum num­
ber of blows is left to the judgment of
the prison directors, but it must not
exceed twenty-five in Mecklenburg and
Oldenburg, thirty in Saxony and sixty
in Prussia.
EUROPE'S SOVEREIGNS.
Only Four of Them Have Souud Minds in
Sound Bodies.
A wail comes from Berlin concerning
the unhealthiness and unhappiness of
the present rulers of Europe.
First, the Czar is hypochondriacal and
terribly shaky in the nerves. The Czar­
ina is even worse, and is subject to at­
tacks of intense nervous prostration.
The Emperor of Austria is a healthy
but a heartbroken, man, and the Em­
press is a martyr to sciatica, rheumatio
fever and melancholia. She belongs to
the Wittelsbach family, who produced
other samples of royal misery in the de­
mented Kings of Bavaria.' The King of
Wurtemberg is said—by North Ger­
mans, at any rate—to be more than half
crazy King Milan of Servia is haunted
day and night by the dread of assassina­
tion and, lastly, the Sultan can not en­
joy a moment's peace because he expects
to meet the fate of his' predecessor.
Three more miserable men, they say,
oan not be found in all Eurooe than the
Czar, the Sultan and King Milan.
The German Emperor's physical de­
fects, again, are well known. The King
of Holland is paying the penalty of vio­
lent liberties taken with a naturally
strong constitution, and has now sunk
into the dotage of an irritable invalid.
The King of Italy suffers from chronic
gastric derangement, brought on by ex­
cessive smoking of green cigars. The
infant King of Spain has no constitution
at all, for his father ruined his by ex
eesses, and was only kept alive latterly
by opiates and champagne. The King
of the Belgians is lame. The Queen ol
Roumania is haunted by hallucinations,
which sympathetically effect King
Charles. In truth, it is a grim and
ghastly list and of all the sovereigns
in Europe only Queen Victoria and the
Kings of Denmark, Sweden and Greece
seem to be blessed with sound minds in
sound bodies. To complete the list, it
should be added that the late King oi
Portugal had been a most unhealtj
and unhappy man for nearly thirtj
years, as he hajd never had a month's
respite from of qne, sort
other sinoe i860.—London World.
V' "V"' CATARRH.
Catarrhal Deafness—Hay Fever—A Kew|
Home Treatment.
Sufferers are not generally aware that
these diseases are contagious, or thatthey
are due to the presence of living parasites
in the lining membrane of the nose and.
eustachian tubes. Microscopic research,
however has proved this to be a fact, and
the result of this discovery is that a simplo
remedy has been formulated whereby
Catarrh, Hay Fever and Catarrhal Deafness
are permanently cured in from one to three
simple applications made at home by the
patient once in two weeks.
N. B.—This treatment is not a snuff or an
ointment both have been discarded by
reputable physicians
as injurious. A pamph­
let explaining this new treatment is sent on.
receipt of three cents, in stamps to
postage by A. H. Dixon & Son, cor. of Jot
and King Street, Toronto, Canada.—Chris­
tian Advocate.
Sufferers from Catarrhal troubles should
carefully read the above
1
THE claim that telephone business is con­
ducted on sound principles seems plausible,
but really it is supported merely by hearsay
evidence.—Baltimore American.
Consumption Surely Cured.
To THE EDITOH Please inform your
readers that I have a positive remedy for
the above named disease. By its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured. I shall be glad to send
two bottles of my remedy FREE to any of
your readers who have consumption if they
will send me their express and post-office
address. Respectfully, T. A. SLOCUM, M. C.,
181 Pearl street. New York.
ONB million dollars in silver weighs 58,
920.9pounds. 80you seethe poor million,
aire has a pretty heavy load to carry after
all.—'Terre Haute Express.
Children Enjoy
The pleasant flavor, gentle action and
soothing effects of Syrup of Figs, when in
need of a laxative ana if the fatter or mother
be costive or bilious the most gratifying
results follow its use, so that it is the beBt
family remedy known and every family
should have a bottle.
IT was a druggist's little boy who said
Ponce de Leon went to Florida to discover
the soda fountain «f perpetual youth.—
Texas Sittings.
IT is a pleasure to note the growth of the
Elkhart Carriage and Harness Manufactur­
ing Company, of Elkhart, Ind. Their new
shops give floor room of 125,000 square feet
'I his company deals only with the consumer
and save their customers the middlemen's
profits. They ship anywhere, with priv­
ilege to examine before buying. A 64-page
catalogue mailed free to any address. See
their advertisement.
IT is the unmarried lady who can give her
sisters points on the art of how to manage
a husband.—Boston Courier.
NEARLY every article sold is "cheapened,
in cost of production, at expense of quality.
Dobbins' Electric Soap is exactly to-day what,
it was in 1865, absolutely pure, harmless and
uniform. Ask your grocer for it.
LA GRIPPE ought to be popular in secret
society lodges if anywhere.—Rochester
Post-Express.
WHY don't you try Carter's Little Liver
Pills? They are a positive cure for sick
headache, and all the ills produced by dis­
ordered liver. Only one pill a dose.
IF "art is divine'-' then painting the town
red must be a cardinal virtue.—Detroit Free
Press*
FOR Throat Diseases and Coughs use
BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES. Like all
real good, tilings, they are imitated. The
genuine are sold only in boxes.
THE "witching time of night" is the hour
which you can't tell w'ich from t'other.—
Puck.
PEOPLE Are Killed by Coughs that Hale's
Honey of Horehound and Tar would cure.
Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
ONCB in awhile the weather clerk makes
signal failure.
BEST, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 25c.
A FEMALE lawyer may be a spinster and
have objections to marriage, but when she
accepts a retaining fee she tacitly admits
she is engaged.—Boston Courier.
True Economy
Is to buy the best things at the lowest prices. When
you need a good medicine, it is true practical
economy to buy Hood's Sarsapariila, for it is the
best at the lowest price. 10,1 Doses One Dollar" is
original with this medicine and true of no other. If
you wish to prove the truth of this popular line,
buy a bottle of-Hood's Sarsapariila and measure
its contents. Sou will And it to hold 100 teaspoon
fuls. Now read the directions, and you will find
the average dose for persons of different axes is
less than a teaspoonful. Thus the evidence Of the
peculiar strength and economy of Hood's Sarsapa­
riila Is conclusive and unanswerable.
Hood's Sarsapariila
Bold by all druggists. $1 si* for $5. Prepared only
by C.
1. HOOD & CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
EVIL ADt
IOO Doses One Dollar
From bad sewerage or undrained
swamps deranges the liver and un­
dermines the system, creates
blood
diseasesand eruptions,preceded by
headache, biliousness and consti­
pation which can most effectually
be cured by the use of the genuine
DR. C. McLANE'S
CHEDLIlPIUi
PRICE, 25 CENTS. Sold by all
druggists, and prepared only by
Fleming Brothers, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Get the genuine counterfeits are
made in St. Louis.
III AI CO
GOODYEAR
WALto
RUBBERS.
The best KuMer BOOTS aid SHOES 3*
tbe world are branded WALES QOODYEAK
MHOS W. When you want rubbers call for
WALES Goodyear,
and do not be deceived by buyingother rubbers
with
the word Goodyear" on them, as that name is used
by other companies on inferior goods to catch the
trade that the Wales
Goodyear Shoe Co. bas estab­
lished by always making good goods., which fact
makes it economy to buy tne WALES HOOB-
Salvation Oil ^SIISSSZ