The McCormick advance. [volume] (McCormick, S.C.) 1886-1887, February 03, 1887, Image 4

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A AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. Spring te Autumn Planting. From long and extensive experience in planting in different situations and soils, 1 am in favor of autumn planting of forest trees, and also evergreen shrubs, unless in cold, bleak situations, when the latter are best deferred until spring or early summer. There may be situations where the soil is too wet to admit of early planting, but such is unfit for planting at any season till drained. There is an old saying, which in practice I find to be correct, viz.: “Plant a tree in autumn and command it to grow; but in spring you must coax it.” Some are of opinion that severe frost will injure early planted trees. That I have proved to be a fallacy. In order to test it, I left young trees with their roots uncovered during severe frost, and planted them when thawed, and I found that they sustained no injury. There is more risk from drought in spring planting than from frost in au tumn or winter planting.—London Gar den. farmer. It does not even require a ham mer and nails, though with these and a few boards the work can be made more attractive in appearance. Ashes which have been leached often contain much fertilizing value. In phos phates they are sometimes richer than the unleached, from the fact that phos phate in ashes is not readily soluble. But this inert phosphate is of little value. Occasionally, however, old leached ashes have been so long in places where they have absorbed nitrogen that they have formed a nitrate of potash, which is one of the best fertilizers known. Such ashes, whether leached or not, are very valuable. Farm and Garden Notes. Drainage enly will destroy the acidity * certain soils. To keep potatoes well keep them in total darkness, steadily cool. For sheep it is recommended to change the range frequently this time of year. To clean the red lice out of the hen house, burn sulphur and old tobacco eaves in it. Laths make a good and cheap fencing for poultry-yards, though not quite so fanciful as wire-netting. White fowlSj when dressed for market, do not show pin-feather holes as black- feathered chickens do. An agricultural writer recommends giving sheep a mess of ground oats every evening between now and lambing time. Under-draining lands raises its tem perature from twenty to thirty degrees, -greatly increasing its producing qualities. Horses greatly enjoy and thrive upon S >od, systematic currying and rubbing. rooms can not “fuss” with their horses too much. Some are recommending renewed at tention to the cultivation of flax,' which is said now to give a profit on both straw and seed. A liberal sprinkling of dry earth, and also a solution of copperas, should be made once a week in a stable of dairy milch cows. It is denied that fowls and turkeys in jure the grain by roaming through it, while it is clear gain for them to devour slugs and enrich the soil. A horticulturist says make cuttings of currants and gooseberries now—six inches long—and insert them vertically in mellow soil, pressing them down. With care, it is said the English wal nut can be successfully grown in this country, even in the Northern States. But our common walnut is richer and better. Grapes are recommended as the best rops to grow on grav«^Mj|isides, but chilly ]§^d the north usu- snd wi maKe«wa>s*AM si ill the life out of the soil. [ the oxygen in it give life to so it makes life profitable and it in the soil. r 1 Manure in a heap, according to Mr. Stewart, does not lose anything by evap oration and fermentation. A heap of fomenting manure is undergoing rapid decay ready for plant food. If a farmer feels more at leisure at this season than in spring or summer he can keep himself employed snugging up about the house and yard. Some could look to the winter wood with profit. A silo has been built in North Carolina of heavy plunk, on top of the ground. It has double walls, four inches apart, filled with earth to exclude air. Size thirteen by sixteen feet; cost sixty dol lars only. Dry leaves from the woods make the best bed for pigs, ns fine litter of any kind is always preferred by them to that which is course. Mast-fed pigs always bed comfortably in the woods. If cream becomes sour, the sooner it is then skimmed and churned the better, but it should not be churned while too new. The best time for the skimming and churning is just before acidity be comes apparent. Park Earle, the great Illinois straw berry-raiser, says unmuiched vines will be more or less dirty, and iTgood mulch helps in a drouth. The paths and all va cant ground should be mulched, which will lap on to rows somewhat. The ingredients of commercial fertil izers, upon which both their agricultural and commercial value depend, are nitro gen, phosphoric acid and potash. Sul phuric acid and lime are also always present in superphosphate in the shape of plaster. . The finest butter product is only pos sible where the butter is made from the best milk, by the most careful pro cesses, untouched by hand, and when it is brought to market just at the time when its oxidation or mellowing by con tact with the air brings about the mature OX ripe flavor. “"^A successful apiculturist will take one strong 8warm, and by fall have four or five colonies from it, and all with honey to-spare. By the old system of natural swarming, only one good swarm would be hoped for. If a second or third came forth, they were weaklings, and not worth saving. No kind of stubble, except of clover, of which the root forms the principal part, is worth anything as manure. Of grain crops, especially, neither the stub ble above ground nor the root below is worth regarding as a fertilizer. If the straw of grain stubble can be burned, it is no waste to make this disposal of it. In selecting a dairy cow the most im- S ortant point is a good constitution, in- icated by large lungs, stomach and di gestive capacity. She should come from • good milking family, the eye should be bright, muzzle broad, nostrils thin and large, chest and lips broad, legs fat, udder broad, milk veins large and head small. A Southern paper says potatoes should be dry and handled carefully, not bruised nor cut, put in banks or hills of twenty or thirty bushels, covered with litter or cornstalks set up all around.and then old boards or split stuff. and over these at least a foot of dirt. Those who put two feet of dirt on each hill say they never lose potatoes by frost or otherwise. One of the best devices for keeping stock warm in winter is to put up a frame, cover it with piles from the woods, and build a straw stack over it. leaving an opening on the side opposite the direction of the prevailing winds, j With plenty of straw a shed of this char- ftctsr U at warm at a b-'lament barn and ofeoaptr, and eao bt made by asp M Kissing the Book. The idea on which oaths, or adjura tions, was founded was that the unseen powers or deities would always punish a falsehood if their attention were called to it. That is, the person might be as untruthful as he would ou ordinary oc casions, but whenever he called on one of the gods to witness the truth of his assertion,he was bound to keep his word, lest the deity, outraged at being made a party to a falsehood, would wreak spe cial vengeance upon him. From this idea, which has survived from the ear liest times to the present, came the belief that the proximity of an object regarded as sacred made the oath more binding; i. e., made men more afraid to violate it. The ancient Jews touched their phylac teries in taking an oath. Later, their E ractice was to lay their hand upon the ook of the law, whence came our cus tom of swearing on the Bible. The va rious customs of taking oaths iu different countries, have all a similar origin. The early Anglo-Saxons laid the hands on a pillar of stone, because stones were re garded as sacred to their gods. In me diaeval times it was customary to touch a relic, and this was regarded as giving the oath more sacredness even than when taken upon the Missal, or prayer-book. When Harold swore allegiance to King William of Normandy, the Missal was placed upon a chest which, when after ward opened, was seen to be filled with bones of the saints. It i* a curious proof of the superstition of the times, this idea that an adjuration to the Almighty was made more solemn by the presence of a knuckle bone, a jaw, or a double-tooth, of a dead man. Another custom of me diaeval times was swearing by churches. A certain number were mentioned, and the attestor was obliged to go to each one, taking the ring of the church door in his hand and repeat his oath. From very early times the Russian custom has been to kiss the cross to attest an oath, and the practice has extended into other countries. This was the oath of the Knights Templar and other similar bodies, and the laws of the Order of the Garter in Henry VIII’s time, required the Knights to touch the book and kiss the cross. A common attestation of the oath in Germany in the middle ages and later, was by the bosom, placing the hand thereon. This came from the practice of wearing a crucifix or amulet suspended from the neck. Kissing the book, which is still the common practice throughout the British Empire, as well a* iu this country, has not been permitted in Scot land since the reformation.—Inter- Ocean. New Britain and Its Cannibal People. New Britain is one of the most beau tiful cfipritries in the world. The con- yerj tropical ♦erdure"JW!WM^:tlve as if is unusual.-’* ’1 he dense foliage is inter sperse! with patches of grass of an eme rald hue. At.’ Matupi in Blanche Bay there is an active vol ano, a curious vol canic islaud, and a region of hot springs. The New Britain people go entirely naked. They are not a tine race, and want the activity and vigor of the Solo- rr.on-Islanders. Foreigners have intro duced a good many fire-arms among the inhabitants of Blanche Bay and Kara- beirah, but us a rule the s-peir, usually adorned with brightly colored feathers, is their weapon. 1 hey build good houses and make ingenious fishing-baskets. They are the only cannibals I know who are not ashamed of their fondness for human flesh. A German settler told me that overtures were made for him to ar range the purchase of the body of a man who who had been accidentally killed by a neighboring tribe with whom the would-be buyers were not friendly. The reason given was a desire to eat what otherwise might be wasted in a common place interment. The curious and little understood cere monies of the duk-duk arc extensively performed in New Britain and the neigh boring Duke of To: k group. < ne thing about them is certain, and that is, that? those who are initiated into the mysteries obtain consideiablc influence over the rest of their tribesmen. There is another very remarkable custom, about which I was given information by the Rev. Mr. Rooney, of the Wes'cyan Mission, which labors in this part of Melanesia. It may be described as follows: If A injuries B, B burns down 0\s hut, or makes a hole in his canoe, or stick a spear in the pathway so that C is nearly sure to run against it. B lets C know that he has injured him, and the reason of it; when C is expected to settle the account with A, the first aggressor, (in the whole,the New Britain people are the least attrac tive of all Mi lanesians whom I know. They are very d rty. and do not possess the skill in fashioning pottery, or carv ing wooden bowls, of their neighbors in the Solomons and the Admiralty Islands. —Popular Science Monthly. A Castly Breakfast. A costly breakfast was the one related of, as follows, by the Independence Beige: ywo gentlemen, Mr. Stanhope and Mr. Colvin, were recently having a game of cards at the London Jockey Club. The stakes were important. The loser was to give the winner “a breakfast such as no one had ever had.” Mr. Stanhope lost. He invited his adversary to come and see him on the following day at Hyde Park for the famous breakfast. At the ap pointed hour Mr. Colvin betook himself to the rendezvous, where he found Mr. Stanhope awaiting him near an inflated balloon, in the car of which was an aero naut preparing for a voyage. The two gentlemen took their seats, and were presently joined by a cook, who was all breathless with running and carrying her utensils. Mr. Stanhope invited her to bring her portable stove into the car. This done, he shouted: “Leave go!” and the balloon majestically ascended. The cook, who had not counted upon this aerial flight, shrieked with terror. But Mr. Stanhope, as calm as a veteran sea dapta n in a storm, cut her screams short with: “Now cook these two beef steaks, and be careful above all things that no spark escapes from the stove, or the balloon will explode.” The fright ened cook set herself to the task, and Mr. Stanhope, turning to Mr. Colvin, more dead than alive, said: “I have kent my worl; this will be the dearest breakfast either you or I ever had. There’s £?00 to pay for the bailoon, and £•200 indemnity to the cook.” The combined Vanderbilt wt&lrU is •bout $300,000,000, CAUGHT IN A CLOCK. * • A Terrible Experience In a Gburrii Steeple. Have you ever been at St. Paul’s? I mean the great Cathedral of London. If you have you doubtless know the dome. You have looked down perhaps from its dizzy height, on the people walking on the pavement below, and who seem in the far distanco beneath you, like black ants crawling about. When I was comparatively a young man—I am not an old man, even yet, though my hair is so gray—I went to London, and one of the first objects that I visited was St. Paul’s. I had read of it so often as a child. I had been told so frequently it was Wren’s masterpiece; every Englishman assured me tru SIX SONS DEAD BY VIOLENCE. Singular Fatalto in an Arkansas Mountain Farmer’* Family. had no rival, except, perhaps, of that tl lat it St. Peter's at Rome, and even of that there was a doubt, that I was eager to see it. Ac cordingly taking an omnibus at Charing Cross, I went along the Strand, passing by the memorable Temple Bar, until a large dome, looming into the heavens before me, told me that the object of my pilgrimage was close at hand. At first, I confess, I wa§ disappointed. On a nearer approach I found that the western facade hid the dome almost en tirely. The interior, too, was cold and gray, without a bit of warm color. Tho aspect chilled me I did not remain long in consequence in the auditorium, if it may be so called. I did not care to linger and read the epitaphs on the monuments to departed heroes. I at once ascended the stairs until I reached the great clock, and there, attracted by the immense wheels that move the heavy hands around the clock-face, I took my stand. Just below the centre of the great dial-plate, and to the right of the pivot upon which the hands revolve, is a hole about fourteen inches square, possibly, somewhat more; and this hole is usually left open to admit of repairs to the clock as needed. A strange fascination took possession of me to look through this hole, more than two hundred feet above the street, to get a panoramic view of bustling London below. I thrust my head, therefore, through the hole, without further thought. What a spectacle rewarded me! For miles and miles in every direction, the city and the country about lay spread before me as iu a map. I saw the Thames iu the rays of the mid-day sun, looking like a silver thread: I saw the many bridges; piles on piles of fine edifices. I looked down upon the vast parks, whose wide carriage-roads seemed like narrow paths. So busy was I with the scenes around me, that I took no note of time; all my attention was engrossed by the view spread out around me and beneath me. Nearly an hour had passed unheeded since I took my position, and as one ob ject of interest after another met my gaze, I was still unsatisfied. At length something pressed upon my neck. For an instant 1 was ignorant of the cause, and my hands being on the inside of the orifice, I could not raise them then to clear away any obstruction. The truth, the horrible truth, burst on me all at once. Judge of my surprise and agony, when I thought, for the first time of the inevitable passage of tho E onderous hands! Slowly and steadily, ut firmly, tho great minute hand was making its regular trip around the dial- plate; and it was that which was press ing against my neck. to extricW my serf-too nre to head ! I shouted aloud for help. But my feeble voice could not reach the street below, and a moment’s reflection showed me that, ev n if it could, it must take longer than three minutes to reach me at that height, and before that three minutes had become six, my head would, doubtless, fall among the people on the sidewalk! Oh! dreadful moments! The great hand pressed more heavily every sound. With every tick of the mighty pen dulum I counted off another moment of my fast lessening life As my throat rested on the lower edge of the hole, L had the greatest difficulty in breathing. Heavy drops of moisture oozed from my head, at every pore. My eyes seemed starting from their sockets! In these brief moments I thought of home, of my mother, of my early days. Incidents, long ago occurring and for gotten, throng to my mind. In that space of time I seemed to live years. Ask the victim to the Spanish garote, as the executioneer, having fastened the strap around the neck, begins to turn the fatal screw behind; slowly at first, but surely, then suddenly, till the head falls, as the neck refuses longer to hold it in place. Ask that victim how many years he is living over again, as that dread screw is turning? I closed my eyes, uttered a feeble prayer, and became insensible. But I live to tell the tale! Yes, at the last moment, when life was barely assured and death was imminent, the sexton, coining to oil the works of the clock, entered the room, saw my peril, and with ready presence of mind, stopped the pendulum. But only just in time. Then with a lever attached to the cogs of the great wheel, he pried back the hand and set me free. I lived, but was thoroughly exhausted. My nerves were unstrung. A brain fever followed, and death again seemed beckoning me away. But my strong constitution enabled me to rally, and after four weeks’ confinement at my hotel, I rose once again a well man. But my hair, from a dark brown, had become gray. Do you think, after this, I can ever forget the clock of St. Paul’s. Littlh Rock, Ark.—Silas Case ia. a farmer living in Searcy County, in a rough log cabin situated in a gulch iu the Boston Mountains, and surrounded by a clearing of many acres in extent, from which he has earned a living for his wife and nine children—seven sons and two daughters. All these children grew up, but oniyason is living and only he and the two daughters are beneath the old roof-tree which sheltered them in infancy. For more than half a cen tury Case has dwelt in this mountain retreat. The nearest neighbor is five miles distant. The nearest town is eighteen miles away. One strikes the railway after a journey of 160 miles through a virtual wilderness, the wild and rugged country being interspersed here and there with small settlements. Case himself is a splendid specimen of manhood. He is sixty-seven years old, but straight as an arrow, brave as a lion and strong as a giant. He is a dead shot with the rifle, and his cabin is stored with the skins of bears and deer which have fallen before his unerring aim. In the war with Mexico he led a company and in the war of the rebellion he be gan as a private and ended as n captain on the side of the Union. After hos tilities ceased he returned to his cabiD, content to end his life in isolation and solitude. A 6trange fatality has attended his children. Two of his boys were killed by guerillas during the war. In 1880 the revenue officers raided a “moonshine” distillery in the Boston Mountains. The “moonshiners,” though surprised, show-r ed fight, and several were wounded, among them two of the Case boys. They succeeded in hiding in the underbrush and thus escaped capture. One died from the effects of the wound five months after; the other died in Texas from the same cause a year later. In 1884, in a fight on Calf Creek, another of the boys was fatally stabbed, dying in a few days. To-day the father, who is in this place with cattle, received w T ord from Colorado City, Tex., that the son who accompanied his ill-fated brother to the Slate named had been shot and killed in a quarrel with a man on a ranch sixty miles beyond the town. Thus six have perished by violent means. The only surviving son is living quietly with his father, lie has a violent tem per, and only by shunning intercourse as much as possible with his fellowman can he liopejfcto escape the fate which has overtaken his brothers. oq late urnTTry Shoes In the Confederacy. ■ns that wood had long been worn by the slaves and by some of the white people, in their shoes, before tho war, but the foot coverings of this description were manufactured at the North; were bought for ‘all leather;’ and the woodwork, apart from the pegs, consisted in ex ceedingly thin shavings, which were deftly concealed in the soles, and xvere made to take the place of the paste board filling that is sometimes used for the same purpose at the present day. The sabots, which Mr. Dodge describes so minutely, we never heard of before, and the fact that even a few' wooden soles were made and worn at the time he specifies will be news to the vast ma jority of the people whom he represents as having brought them into general use A Confederate officer, who is now living in Massachusetts, and who has read Mr. Dodge’s testimony, writes to us to say that he ‘served under General Price in Missouri, with Van Dorn in Arkansas, with Beauregard and Bragg in the West, with Johnstou in Georgia, and with Hood to the end, and never saw anything of the kind xvhich Mr. Dodge describes.’ Our observation is entirely in accord with that of our cor respondent, and we are, therefore, com pelled to believe that Mr. Dodge has either drawn on his imagination for his facts or has fallen into the not infrequent error of generalizing his own individual experience.’’ Unsolved Mysteries. A Genial Restorative. Rostetter’s Stomach Bitters are emphatical ly a genial restorative. Tho changes which the great botanic remedy produces in the dis ordered organization are always agreeably, though surely progressive, never abrupt nor violent. On this account it is admit ably adapted fo persons of delicate constitution and weak nerves, to whom the powerful min eral dr gs are positively injurious. That it, in tiatei those processes which resuitin the re establishment of healthful vigor is conspicu ously shown in cases where it is taken to over come that fruitful caus-e of debility, indiges tion, coupled, as it usually is, with biliousness and constipation. Thorough digestion, regu lar evacuation and abundant se -retion, are rtsalts which promptly and invariably attend i ssystemati use. It is, besides, the best p o- tcctive aga nst malar.a, and a first rate diu retic. A "Rich Man Ealing. A contemporary records, with due solemnity, the remarkable fact that Mr. John R. Alley, of Massachusetts, whose wealth is estimated at twenty millions, ■was found in a Philadelphia restaurant recently eating a bowl of bread and milk which cost ten cents. No account is taken of the fact that possibly Mr. Alley didn’t need anything but bread and milk. The idea seems to be that a millionaire ought to eat iu proportion to his capital, and that a man worth twenty millions ought to eat twenty times as much as a man w’orth only one million. The gastrouomlo test of aUlu« •no#, Uwtrtr, ii • dutrouiag faUwr The Charleston (S. C ) New*, alluding to Mr. David Dodge’s article in the At lantic Monthly in relation to the alleged expedients resorted to by the people of the Southern Confederacy to meet tho necessities imposed upon them by the enfor ernent of the blockade during the war, and especially the assertion re specting the use of wooden bottoms for shoes, says: “The one fact that is con tained in the whole mass of rubbish, so far as we can learn, is that a few wood en-bottom shoes were made and worn in some parts of the South in the latter part of the war, when they were regard ed with as much curiosity as they would xaa»rded poyr. .It.is true, indeed, An unsolved Mystery—How a woman can stand on a cold day, with her sleeves rolled up, and her head bare, and visit with her neighbor across the fence, for 1 fifteen minutes, and not think of taking cold, and yet cannot sit in a cold church half an hour, wrapped in furs and plushes, without shivering all the time, and sneezing a week to pay for it. Another—How a yotmg man can stand in front of the store, bare-headed, and buzz his girl for hair an hour without a struggle, and yet can’t even go to the post-office without piling on all his clothing, and then-kicking about the beastly cold weather. Another—How a little girl can go and 6lide down hill with the boys all day long when hej throat was so sore in the | morning she couldn't go to school. Another—How a boy can walk four miles and skate until after dark, on the same day his back was so lame that he couldn’t bring in a scuttleful of coal for his mother.—Danville Breeze. Too Damp.—Last summer a pretty and romantic city girl spent the sum mer on a Maine farm, and got up.a mild flirtation with the young man of the house. He was not particularly bold, and so one evening, as she swimg in the hammock in the moonlight, she coyly said to the young fellow, “What is God’s best gift to man?” He pondered a moment, as he watched the color come and go in her cheeks, and then said de cisively. “A hoss.” The young woman said that it was getting damp, and she must go right into the house. Dr. Morse, physician at Marina Hospital, Baltimore. Mil., found Red Star Cough Cure a harmless and most effe five remedy in the : cure of coughs. He recommends it especially i for children who ars irritable and obstinate, j as p e-i-ant to ta'ce an l prompt in its effect. Price, twenty-five cents. DOTTLES OF Warner’s SAFE Cura Sold to Dec. 27, 1886. NO OTHER REMEDY IN THE WORLD CAN PRODDOE SDCH A RECORD. This wonderful success of “Warner’s Safe Cure” is due wholly to the real merit of the Remedy. For a long time it. has been REGARDED BY THE HIGHEST MEDICA L irWVJ 4S T1U: ONLY SPECIFIC FOR KIDNEY, LIVER AND URINAIl Y DISEASES AND FEMALE COMPLAINTS. Thousands of people owe their life and health to “Warner's Safk Cure” and we can pro duce 1OO, OOO TESTIMONIALS to that effect. Read the following and note the large number of bottles these figures to be correct, as our sales-books will prove: distributed. We guarantee Boston, 1,149,122. CAPT. W. t). ROBINSON (U. S. Marine Insp., Buffalo, N. Y.), in 1885 was suffer ing with a skin humor like leprosy. Could not sleep; was in great agony. For two years tried everything, without bene fit. Was pronounced incurable. “Twen ty bottles of Warner’s Safe Cure com pletely cured me, and to-day I am strong and well.” (Feb. 5, 1885.) Pennsylvania, - 1,821,218. F. MAYER (1020 N. 12th St., St. Louis, Mo.), afflicted with tired feelings, dizzi ness and pain across the back, and lost ap petite. Was sallow and care-worn all the time. The doctors failing, he began the use of Warner’s Safe Cure, and reports: “I feel like a fighting cock. ” 171,929. EX-GOV. T. G. ALVORD (Syracuse, N. Y.), in 1884 began running down with General Debility, accompanied with a sense of weight in the lower part of the body, with a feverish sensation and a gen eral giving out of the whole organism. Was in serious condition, confined to his bed much of the time. Alter a thorough treatment with Warner’s Safe Cure he says: “I am completely restored to health by its means.” Portland, Me. 441,105. MAJOR S. B. ABBOTT (Springfield, Mo.), in 1871 was afflicted with lame back, Rheumatism and Kidney trouble. Consulted the very best physicians in San Francisco, and visited all the mineral springs there. Took a health trip to tho Now England States, but for seven years suffered constantly from his malady, which had resulted in Bright's disease. After using a couple dozen bottles of War ner’s Safe Cure and two of Safe Pith, he wrote: “My back and Kidneys are with out pain, and, thank God, I owe it all to Warner’s Safe Remedies.” Bal. of New Eng., - 441,753. MRS. J. T. RITCHEY (562 4th Ave., Louis ville, Ky.) was a confirmed invalid for eleven years, just living, and hourly expecting death. Was confined to bed ten months each year. Was attended by the best physicians. Her left side was paralyzed. Could neither eat, sleep, nor enjoy life.The doctors said she was troubled with female complaints; but she was satisfied her kidneys were affected. Under the operation of Warner's Safe Cure she passed a large stone or calculus, and in Nov., 1885, reported: “Am to-day as well as when a girl, v New York State, - 3,870,773. Chicago, 2,808,693. MR. R. BROWN (2221 Woodward Ave., De troit, Mich.) injured his back from a fall. Was confined to his bed six weeks. The fall injured his kidneys, producing in tensesuffering. Warner’s Sake Cure re stored his kidneys to their natural con dition," and he writes: "I am now eighty years of ago, smart and active. ” Detroit, 846,946. MRS. THOS. SCHMIDT (Wife of the Vice- Consul of Denmark, 69 .Wall St., New York), reported that her little son, after on attack of Diphtheritic Sore Throat eight years ago, was afflicted with Bright’s Dtsoaso in advanced form; by the advice of Gcn’l Christiansen, of Drexel, Morgan & Co., Bankers, New York, she prescribed Warner’s Safe Cure, with the consent of the physicians, and reports, “the physi cians say that he will be perfectly well.” Milwaukee 458,894. MISS Z. L. BOARDMAN (Quechee, Vt), in in May, 1882, began to bloat, thence came stomach trouble, terrible headaches, and finally the doctor’s opinion that It was Bright’s disease, and incurable. Eventually she became nearly blind, pro nounced by tho doctors to be the last stage of Bright’s disease. After having been under treatment by Warner's Sake Cure for one year, she reported: “J am as well as any one.” Minnesota 648,617. IION. N. A. PLYMPTON (Worcester, Mass.), in May, I860, was prostrated by Gravel. Under the operation of Warner’s Safe Cure alone he passed a large stone, and subsequently wrote: “I have had no recurrence of my trouble since Warner’s Safk. Cure cured me. ” Bal. N. W. States, - 1,767,149, - ASK YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS ABOUT WARNER’S SAFE CURE. TE MOST POPULAR REMEDY EVER DISCOVERED. Cleveland, - - 682,632. St. Louis, - - 1,530,527. EX-GOV. R. T. JACOB (Westport, Ky.) was prostrated with severe Kidney trouble and lost 40 pounds of flesh. After a thorough treatment with Warner’s Bake Cure he re ports, “I have never enjoyed better heaI th. ” CAPT. GEO. B. WILTBANK (919 Spruce St., Pliita., Pa.), prostrated in Central America, with Malarial Fever, caused by congestion of Kidneys aud Liver. Delirious part of the time. Liver en- 1a rged one-third. Stomach badly affect ed. Could hold no food; even water was ejected. Using less than a dozen bottles of Warner's Safe Cure he writes: “I was Completely Cured.” Cincinnati, • - 873,667. GEN. H. D. WALLEN (144 Madison Ave., New York), scarcely able to walk two blocks without exhaustion, and, having lost flesh heavily, began the use of War ner's Safe Cure and says: “I was much benefited by it.” Kansas City, - - 717,860. MRS. (PROF.) E. J. WOLF (Gettysburg, Pa., Wife of the Ed. of the Lutheran Quarterly), began to decline with pulmon ary consumption. (Over 50 per cent of all cases of Consumption are caused by dis eased kidneys.) Despaired of living. After a thorough course of treatment with Warner’s Safe Cure, she writes: “J am perfectly well. ” Bal. Ohio, (State,) - 633,158. COL. JOSEPH H. THORNTON (Cincinnati, O.) in 1885 reported that his daughter was very much prostrated; had palpitation of the heart, intense pain in the head, nervous disorder and catarrh of the bladder. She lost fifty-five pounds. Other remedies failing, they began tho use of Warner’s Safe Cure, Safe Fills and Safe Nervine, and within three months she had gained fifty pounds in weight and was re stored to good health. That was three years ago, and she is still in as good health as ever in her life. Col. Thornton, himself, was cured of Chronic Diarrhoea of eighteen years’ standing, in 1881, by War ner's Safe Cure. Bal. S. W. States, - 746.789. EX-SENATOR B. K. BRUCE (South Caro lina), after doctoring for years for what he supposed was Malaria, discovered he was afflicted with Sugar Diabetes, and hav ing obtained no relief whatever from his physicians, he began the use of Warner's Safe Diabetes Cure, and he says: “My friends are astonished at my improvement” Southern States, - 3,534,017. San Francisco, - 1,242,946. v. H. ALLEN (Leavenworth, Kan.), son Edwin, two years of age, afflicted with ex treme case of Bright’s disease, and the doctors ga ve him up. By the advice of the doctor's wife, began the use of War ner’s Safe Cure, and after taking seven bottles he is perfectly well and has had no relapse. J. Q. ELKINS (Elkinsville, N. C.) suffered for ten years from Gravel, which attacked him every six months. He lost 4(1 pounds in three months, and his strength was nearl y gone. After a thorough uss of Warner’s Safe Diabetes Cure h* re ports: “I am as well as I ever was, af ter using fourteen bottles.” Canada, - - 1,467,824. Every Testimonial we publisf enclosing stamp for reply, and learn Bal. Pacific Coast, - 732,317. i is gennine. Write to the teatatora for yourselvea. A Corpse, bnt no Panper. An exchange has an article on “Why Rees Make Honey.” They make it to cell. Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, an aged widow, once quite well to d , and presiding all her life at Tuckahoe, was taken to the Westchester County Almshouse and died in the carriage which landed her at the door. Instead of being received there as a pauDer she was carried in a corpse, The old ‘lady wept all the way to the Almshouse, and prayed that . death might overtake her before she became a pauper. Her prayer was answered at the very threshold. When the carriage stopped at the great door which i* opened to so many unfortunates, eh« looked out of the carriage window, gav* a shriek thiew up her hands, and fell over dead. She died of shock and ex citement. —N. V. Herald. For weak lungs, spitting of blood, shortness of breath, consumption, night-sweats, and all lingering coughs. Dr. Pierce s Golden Medi cal Discovery” is a sovereign remedy. Supe rior to cod liver oil. By druggists. It looks as if somebody would have to be put on the Bu'garian throne and held there. If Sufferers from Consumption, Scrofula, Bronchitis and General Debility will try Scott’s Emulsion of Coi Liver Oil with Hypnphosphitss, they will find immediate re lief and permanent benelt. The Medical Pro fession universally declare it a remedy of the greatest value and very palatable. Read: “I have used Scott’s Emulsion In several cases of Sciofulaand Debility iu children. Results most gratifying. My little patients take it with pleasure.”—W. A. Hulbbrt, M. D., Salis bury, 111. Dentist, who was former'y * photographer (to pitient)—T.ike a seat, please. Now H r i your head a trifle lliis way -tint's it. Tu i>! Look right at the knob on that door, anil as sume n p!ea«rtut expression. Now keep p-r- fecsty still, and I'll be through in a moment. *‘A most extraordinary an l ah;olute cure for ; rheumatism and other bodily »11it st. i Jaoobs Oil,” says He? *, Ja cm UarUa, i**Vie#* ; We think we violate no confidence when we state that a J^ard conundrum is like an artist’s model, inasmuch as it is a poser. “What we learn with pleasure we never ror- C et.”—Alfred M< icier. The following is a case in point: “1 pai l out hundreds of dollars with out receiving any benefit.” says Mrs. Emily lilioads, of McBrides. Mich. “I had female complain s, e specially ‘dragging down, for over six yeais. Dr. H. V. Pierces 'favorite ■ Piescr.ption’ <lid mo more goxl than any med icine 1 ever took. 1 advise every a ck lady to take it.” And so do we. It never disappoints its patrons. Druggists sell it. The wind is noteviilentiv tempered tho shorn ■Wall street lamb. Stranger than Ftctloa are the records of some of the cures of ©o»* sumption effected by that most wonderful remedy—Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Dis- covery.” Thousands of grateful men and women, who have been snatched almost from tha vary jaws of death, can testify that con sumption. In its early stages, is no j®" curable. The Discovery has no equal as a peel >ral and alterative, andtbe most obstinate affections of the throat and lungs yield to it* power. All druggists. 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