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AGRICULTURAL
IOPICS OF INTEREST REIiATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Early Maturity.
The question of early maturity in the
feeding of animals used as human food
is always interesting. It is simply a
question of the cost of material food, to
produce a pound of meat. The question
of preparation of food >comes in, of
course, collaterally. In the feeding of
any farm stock it is dethiitly settled that
the younger the animal the more
fully is the food assimilated. That is,
the young animal will give a greater re
turn for the food taken than will an
older one, and tho younger the animal
the more fully is the food assimilated.
That is, the young animal will give a
greater return for the food taken than
will an older one, and the younger the
animal the greater the return. Of
beeves, at the Fat-Stock Show at Chica-
' go it was shown that of nine steers
weighing 166 potiudserch nt the end of
the first year, the cost to the breeder
and feeder was three and a half cents
• ■ per pound. In the second year five of
these gained an average of 560 pounds
each, the cost being nine cents per
pound. Two of thes3 the third year
gained 630 pounds, but cost to make
thirteen cents per pound. This of course
is an extreme ca^e where the cost of arti- j
ficial feeding and care must be taken
into consideration, but the fact neverthe-1
less remains that the older the animal
the less gain is there for the food con
sumed. Tho time inevitably comes
when, however much food is given, i
however rich the food, no gain can be
found. Hence it may l:e set down as a
constant rule that the older the animal the
less return shall we get for the food
given. * In this connection the rule has
been found identical in England. In
relation to this matter the Burnley
Gazette (England), in relation to feeding
in that country, says:
* ‘‘At Islington Ipist year a prize-win
ning Devon steer"weighed 80y pounds
.} at 388 days old, having made the very
sktisfactory gain for a small breed of two
S ounds daily. This year at Birming-
am the pri/e-winners in the “under
four-years old” class had all gained less
than two pounds daily, the cross-bred
Short-Horn and Angus bullocks having
bred the highest daily gain of one pound
fourteen ounces. The “under threc-
. yeirs-old” animals had made a daily gain
of two pounds one ounce, and two pounds
one and a half ounces in the case of the
• pri. e Short-Horn and PoUcd Angus, and
of two pounds three and a half ounces
in that of the cross bred Champion oxen.
The same story, showing the advantage
of early maturity, might be told of sheep.
- Colonel d’Arbtes’s Hampshire lambs have
been exhibited, weighing 146 pounds at
ten months old, and whose young sheep
are sold as mutton at seven, eight, and
nine months old. weighing 112 pounds,
or as n.uch as wethers did formerly at
one year older.”
The practical lesson to be learned
from the foregoing is that tho feeder
who keeps animals in low flesh for years
and then puts them up to fatten loses
money. The daily waste of an animal is
a constant facter. It take a certain
amoundof food to keep this up. Only
the excess of this, or what is gained,
goes to the credit account. Hence it has
come to be a recognized fact among the
better class of feeders that the fuller any
animal destined for the butcher’s block
the larger the profit, and hence the ear
lier the maturity the larger the return.—
Chicago Tribune.
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Farm and Garden Notes.
Treat all plants as weeds when they
are growing where not wanted.
No matter hoW'hard the farmer works.
-v-cf lab*™ atrip tsi nnns,SstU
keep up with the progress of the times.
Like produces like, and it is impossi
ble after grain is put into the bin to tell
whether it came from a large, vigorous
plant or not.
High farming is precisely like the
keeping of superior animals. To get the
best return, not only the animals but tho
■oil must be well fed.
The man who puts up a barbed-wire
fence in Nebraska is responsible for any
damages sustained by men or animals
Coming in contact with it.
The American Dairyman says a thor
oughbred cow in a herd has a refinirfg
influence in the family,knd every farmer
should have nt least one in his herd.
A fine saw is a good implement for
cutting off the larger grape-vines, and a
sharp knife for the smaller ones. * In all
cases make a clean cut, without hacking
or bruising the wood which is to remain, !
so the wound will heal up neatly and not
leave-a shattered stock to bleed and rot.
The Fort Wayne Gazette mys: Farmers
should be sure and sign every paper pre
sented to them by a stranger. If the
stranger forgets to present one ask him
about it.„ It may be added, if signed, it
may come back in the shape of a promis
sory note in the hands of innocent (?)
parties, and the courts have decided such
must be paid.
' In preparing food for stock, 6uch as
cooked vegetable, chopped feed, etc.,
always season with salt. Every animal
craves it aud must have a certain amount
os saline matter introduced into its sys
tem to enable it to thrive. Many ani
mals really suffer for the want of salt,
and lose appetite, which is attributed to
‘some other cause.
A correspondent, who is an old fruit
grower, says that he prefers winter to
spring for pruning his or< hard. The tree
perhaps does not do any better for it, but
the bark does not peel off easily when
rubbed by the ladder or the boot soles.
Then, too, it is much easier gettingabout
in the tree tops v hen the branches are free
from leaves or blossoms.
It is claimed that a flock of sheep can
be made more prolific by selection. In
this way the Shropshires, that have been
improved so ns to bring forth a gre tter
number of lambs, are selected as breed
ers, and gradually the breed has become
more prolific and each ewe, taking a
fork as a whole, produces an average of
one lamb and a half per year.
When pullets are forced to lay early, by
stimulants or highly concentrated food, it
is an injury, as it taxes the vitality. A
pullet that -is forced will lay very small
eggs for a while, and when she ceases, in
order to nest, she will not begin again as
soon as a matured hen. She becomes
prematurely old, and does not prove on
the average as profitable as when she is
given ample time to mature before begin
ning to lay.
The protection of a bed of lilies, says
C. E. Allen, is a simple and inexpensive
operation. The best and most natural
is a covering, say six inches deep, of
newly fallen leaves: these kept in their
places by a few brush or pieces of board.
Salt or marsh hay is also an excellent
protection; corn stalks answer a good
"purpose: in short, whatever material is
the mo-t convenient that will accomplish
the purpose i£ the best to use.
There is no fixed rule for milking kick
ing cows, but a correspondent in an ex
change names the following as his
method: Approach the cow whistling,
singing or talking, to attract her at
tention. Lean gently against her side
and tell her to “hoist.” Place the head
against her and adjust the stool, sit down
and gently grasp the farther fore teat,
then the near one, and with the head
still resting against her keep milking,
whistling until the job is finished.
Wherever there is live stock to lie fed
there should be regular measures to deal
out the grain with. This will insure
evenness in feeding aud enable one to
know exactly how much grain is being
consumed. With the use of one-half
inch thick pine boards for the bottoms
auy farmer may readily get up a set of
measures. A one-quart size should be
four inches square, by four and one-half
inches deep; two quarts, five inches
square, five and three eighths inches
deep: three quarts, six inches square, five
and throe-fifths inches deep, and a four-
quart size six and three-fourths inches
square, five and nine-tcntlis inches deep.
Do not send half fat or otherwise mean
chickens to market. Send the fat ones
and feed the under ings a little longer.
It is the even lot of any stock animal as
well as birds that brings the most money.
Take special care in picking and packing.
,llere again is where money is lost. No
man will buy a nasty lot of fowls if he
can get those clean and nicely picked,
and then never at a paying price to the
grower. Take a lesson from the city
merchant. 8ce how nicely the packages
look. It is one of the “tricks of tho
trade,” and an essential and honest one.
The fault more often lies with the farmer
than with the commission man that tho
shipper does npt get reuinnerative re
turns.
A cow in milk should never be driven
faster than a walk. Good cows have
large aud well filled udders, which cause
pain to. them if they arc hurried or
driven in a run as by a careless boy ora
dog. Besides, there is danger of over
heating the blood and milk, and thus
greatly injuring it and rendering it un
wholesome. The common companion of
the “cow boy” is his dog. Every owner
of cows should understand that dogs ex
cite and worry cows, and this ought to
teach him that dogs should never be al
lowed to come near them. We have seen
a farmer send a dog to bring up the
cows, and he would bring them on a
dead run. The dog was less at fault than
the man, and he did as he was told with
out knowing how much injury he was
doing.
A Traveling Stable.
“Where do you stable your horses?”
said a Union reporter to Professor Bristol
during a conversation as to the care and
management of his trained steeds. “Why,
haven’t you seen our car?” said the pro
fessor. “Come down and look at it a
moment.” At the depot it was found
standing upon the side track, used now
as a stable for the va’uablo animals, and
in which they are transported about the
country. The car was built expressly for
the purpose for which it is used by car
manufacturers in Springfield, Mass., and
was first used in December last. Its out
side measurement is Od feet 2 inches long,
13 feet 6 inches in height, from the rail,
and 9 feet 8 inches wide. All the mod
ern appliance; have been attached to the
car, including automatic brake, Miller
coupling, etc., and it is intended to run
upon passenger trains only. The outside
of the car is handsomely painted and
lettered, and presents a very attractive
appearance. The inside of the car is nt
present a large ope:i stall in which all
the horses stand together, although it is
provided with temporary partitions for
twenty-two animals. The stalls were
taken out at Professor Bristol’s sugges
tion, as the horses were so well accus
tomed to each other as to render the par
titions unnecessary. The sides and ends
are sheathed and provided with windows
and ventilators, while overhead are rooms
At-doriiw —, „ - _ —
•wfboTrtt."'The cost of the car was abou
$2,600, and it is admirably suited for the
care and transportation of its valuable
occupants, who fi d in it a comfortable
and tidy home. Here the horses are
groomed and fed, their grain being served
from boxes and the hay they eat placed
upon the floor of the car in front of them.
When asked why raised feed boxes or
ricks were not provided the professor
said he would not have them fed in any
other way as he believed in following
natural laws in this respect and it was
natural for a horse to get his food from
the ground. Five men sleep in the car,
and one of them at least is always with
the animals when they are there.—Man
chester {N. If.) Union.
It Helped Both Ways.
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia,
is almost as well known as a story-teller
as he is as a physician. One of his sto
ries is a personal experience which oc
curred during the war. Reports of cru
elty to the Confederate prisoners con
fined in the millitary prison at Fort
Delaware were sent to the Federal
headquarters, and a committee of gentle
men, among whom was Dr. Mitchell,
visited the prison to investigate the mat
ter. The reports were found to be ex
aggerated and most of the prisoners lim
ited their complaints to an insufficient
supply of tobacco. One of the men,
whose uniform showed him to be an offi
cer, said he had been granted his ex
change, but had no money to return to
h s home. Dr. Mitchell emptied his
pockets and gave him $20. “To whom
am I indebted for this loan?” inquired
the officer. Dr. Mitchell told him his
name, and added: “Never mind where
I live; give it to the next Union soldier
you find who needs it as badly as you do,
and I shall consider that sufficient |ay-
ment.” The doctor returned to Phila
delphia, the war came to an end and he
had forgotten the incident of the Con
federate prisoner, when one day a
stranger, dressed in the uniform of a
Union soldier, entered his office and in
quired if he was Dr. Mitchell.. The Doc r
tor said he wa>. “Dr. S. Weir Mitch
ell?” the man asked again. “The same,”
said the doctor. “Then I have some
money to return to you which you lent
me through a Confederate officer you
found in prison at Fort Dalaware. He
gave it to me to pay my way back to the
North,” and the man handed the sur
prised doctor $20.—Philadelphia Press.
The Real Ruler.
This a free country?
Well, may be.
So Ions as you haven’t
A baby.
Young or old, tho’ golden
Or gray be
Our heads, wo’re all ruled by
A baby.
Fond aud foolish the words that
Wo say be
When we bow to that tyrant,
The baby.
The wise man’s a fool and
A gaby
And a hobby-horse for his
' Own baby.
- • -• '•%
- But of lights in our home, vfh«
, A ray be
Without that bright cherub, ,
.The baby? Y. v?
. Then, hallowed and blest lei \
“ , The day be '• <- • -
That brought that dear despot,
Tho baby! , , •
■ ‘ —Boston GhytiK "
FOX-HUNTING.
DESCRIPTION OF A WINTER
“MEET” IN ENGLAND.
An Institution Participated In by
All Classes—The Assemblage—
Following the Hounds—
Struggle for the Brush.
Fox-hunting has made a secure place
for itself in English literature, as every
re ider of novels, to say nothing of de
scriptions of out door sports, knows, for
it is a British institution. The chase of
the fox is tho ideal chase. It must be
enjoyed in the early morning of the win
ter, when the love of out door life, which
is the basis of the sportsman’s healthful
en’oyment, can be gratified under the
best conditions. The larger the com
pany tli; better, so that companionship
adds to the pleasure. There is no neces
sity for silence or strategy. No unfair
advantage, according to the sportsman’s
code, is taken of the victim. The un
skilful can participate in it with as keen
on oyment, if without an equal chance
for the honors of the brush, as veterans.
Ladies can ride to the hounds, and men
that lack horses are not thereby denied
participarion, while those who are
mounted have need for all their skill and
endurance as equestrians. It is a sport
in which all classes in England can and
do take pride.
The ladies and gentlemen assemble at
the meet, at an early hour in the morn
ing, mounted for the chase. The farmers
come on foot. The master huntsman
withholds the hounds, eager for the
race, until the morning greetings are
cheerily exchanged, and expectancy and
the bracing air have produced tho true
sporting spirit. And then the hunt be
gins. The hounds make excursions in
every direction, keeping, however, with
in hearing of one another, and riders and
footm; n follow slowly. When a fresh
track is scented, the successful dog gives
expression to his own delight, the others
“ open ” and follow him, at first slowly,
now and then losing the trail and going
back to find it again. A little later it
becomes warmer. The hounds follow it
with greater ease, at a swifter pace, and
in louder chorus. Now the excitement
of the race begins. The riders spur
their horses to keep pace with the dogs.
The footmen abandon the race behind
the hounds, and take shorter routes to
what each considers the course the fox
is likely to take, gome go in the wrong
direction, and lag further and further
behind. Others anticipate dogs and
riders, and meet them at the crowning
moment. It not infrequently happens
that the whole forest for miles around is
alive with the army and its stragglers
which are following one good runner.
The fox is not a rapid runner until he
becomes fully aware of the danger, and
then he is likely soon to run himself
down, so that when the hounds come
within sight of him his strength is al
most exhausted. And it is only where
the track is fresh that the hounds go at
great speed. But the most exciting pe
riod of the race is likely to be long
enough to give horses and riders, and
pedestrians as vigorous exercise as any
but cavalry desire. Yet it is invigorat
ing and exciting, without being violent
or dangerous. The excitement is just
great enough to supply a motive for a
ride across fields and over fences, and
through the forest, wherever the sly vic
tim leads, and the baying of tho hounds
acts on the sportsmen as music on sol
diers making a charge. There are just
falls and bruises, and other accidents
enough to b ar witness to the engaging
nature of the sport—to hint of reckless
ness without causing serious fright.
The sportsman carries off the honors
who is the first to seize the fox after the
is tue DTnsn. mere is sure to be
a spirited struggle for this, and the gal
lant fashio i still holds in England of re
warding the most daring lady in the
chase with the fox’s tail. Nor is it any
wonder that fox hunting has from time
immemorial been one of the favorite di
versions of the country gentlemen. In
Northern England it is an unwritten law
that miners and farmers and all the coun
try folk shall spend New Year’s day on
the chase, and there are always parties
of ladies and gentlemen who join them
in this combination of merry-making
and healthful sport. And it is a matter
of honor that a fox shall not be entrapped
or shot. The country gentleman world
judge any person fit for treason and un
worthy ot respect who should wantonly
kill Reynard, and thereby take away the
chance for him to sacrifice his life nobly
to the cause of healthful and merry sport
for a whole community of hunters.
There are as many days of genuine pleas
ure in store for English men and women
as there are foxes in the kingdom, and
nothing b it the extension oj the British
Empire gives greater glory than the cap
ture of many brushes.—Harper's Bazar.
Among the Gas-Wells.
A group of burning wells north of
Washington, Penn., has presented many
grand and beautiful night scenes.
Though several miles apart, they appear
at a distan e, to be close together, and
their light intermingles. On a dark
night, with all of them burning, they
make a great show. These wells in
full blast—with those flanking them on
the right and on the left, with the broad
glare of those at Wellsburg, W. Va.,
showing twenty miles to the northwest,
and with those at Murraysvillc, Pa.,
thirty miles to the northeast—make a
scene which would terrify a stranger, if
he should come upon it unaware of the
existence of such things as burning gas
wells. It would only need columns of
fiery lava to convince him that the whole
region was full of volcanoes. And his
terror would doubtless be complete when
he saw a great fiery column shoot syk-
ward, unless he was made aware of the
real cause of the phenmenon, when he
would remain to admire what a moment
before had filled him with alarm. The
explanation of the sudden burst of flame
is that it is necessary often to “ blow
out” the wells and the pipes leading to
the regulator, to keep them from being
clogged by the salt which gathers in the
pipes from the salt-water thrown up by
the gas. The Low of the gas is stopped
for a moment; and when again released,
the ga> drives everything before it into
the open air. The escaping gas is burned
at the regulator. The effect of the sud
den increased pressure is to shoot a
tongue of flame, hissing and roaring,
high in the air. On a misty night,
when the light is broken up and diffused
—the snow covered hills sometimes
adding their reflection.—the whole sky
is brilliantly illuminated, and the scene
is grand and beautiful.—St. Nicholas.
Surprising Ignorance.
“Young man,” he said in solemn tones,
“don’t you know that if you persist in
drinkiug you will - never get ahead of
this world ?”
“Won’t get ahead?” repeated the
young man. “Why, my dear sir, your
ignoiance surprises me. I’ll have a head
on me to-rrforrow morning as big as a
barrel.”—New York Sun.
BOYS AND MOTHERS.
Ob, If Boy* would Only Understand Their
- - Mothers.
Sometimes boys think mothers are in
the way; that they would have more
liberty if it were not for their mothers,
Mothers have such searching eyes, eyes
that seem to look right into the heart,
especially if there is anything hiding
there that mothers should know about;
and this is troublesome. If the boys
would only understand that it is love
that makes the mother’s eyes so keen,
hci voice so anxious, her questions so
searching; love that knows all the temp
tations that may come to a boy, and the
trouble if thero is no wise confident
about ! It is not the anxiety of a Paul
Pry, but the loving guardianship of a
mother. A wise man said, “God could
not be everywhere, so lie made mothers.”
God may seem far off to us sometimes,
but there is mother near, who will lead
us back. The wisest and best men’have
honored their mothers. Few men who
have accomplished a special work in the
world do not give credit to their mother
for the help and inspiration that made
their work po sible. In giving this
credit to their mothers they have honored
themselves, for it proves that as boys
they honored her instructions, were
guided by her advice, and made a con
fidante of her in their hopes and desires.
When the late President Garfield was
inaugurated, the first person he saluted
was his mother, showing plainly tho
plaCe she held in his heart, his life.
'I he world honors and respects tho
man who honors and respects his mother.
The neglect of a mother stamps a man
or boy as heartless, ungrateful, if not
cruel. The truly great men have never
forgotten those to whom they were most
deeply indebted. Many letters have
been written about mothers, but few
that show the sorrow that comes if the
full measure of a mother’s love has re
ceived no return until too late to make
it. The poet Gray, in 1765, wrote the
following letter to a friend:
“It is long 6ince I heard you were
gone in haste into Vorkshire on account
of your mother’s illness, and the same
letter informed me she was recovered.
Otherwise I had then wrote to you only
to o g you would take care of her, and
inform you that I had discovered a thing
very little known, which is that in one s
whole life one can never have any more
than a single mother. You may think
this obvious and (what you call) a trito
observation. . . You are a green
gosling! I v as at the same age (very
nearj as wise as you, and yet I never
discovered this (with full evi
dence and conviction, I mean) till it was
too late. It is thirteen years ago, and
it seems but as yesterday, and every day
I live it sinks deeper into my heart.”
Not Too Much to Ask.
Tramp (whose request for food has
been denied)—Well, ma’am, would you
let me sleep in the ten-acre lot back of
the barn if I won’t make any noise?”
Woman—Ye-es, I don’t mind letting
you do that.
Tramp (appealingly)—Well, one thing
more, ma’am, before I say good night.
Would you have me called at seven sharp?
I want to catch the limited cattle train
West.
Mns. J. W. Smith of Orange, TT. J.,
during the last year rode 2,643 miles
upon a tricycle, 2,228 of which were
made upon a tandem tricycle with her
husband and 415 miles alone upon a sin
gle tricycle.
Hon. M. A. Foran, of Ohio, member of House
of Representatives, writes that St. Jacobs Oil
relieved him of a^ute bodily pair s.
IS THERE ANY HOPE 1
Now aud Important Opinions of Pulmo
nary Expert*!
CAN THE UNIVERSAL CONSUMPTION BE SUC
CESSFULLY TREATED?
Dr. Borgeon, a leading French doctor, has
a new treatment for consumption!
He gives an enema of carbonic acid and
sulphu retted hydrogen gases, the latter gas
carrying the former into every part of the
throat and lungs.
This treatment, too, is directed at effects
—the cause remains undisturbed.
What this cause is has been stated by per
haps the highest pulmonary authority in the
world, i. e., the Brompton Hospital for Con
sumptives, in London, Eng.
This malady every year t arries off from
one-seventh to one-fifth of the entire popu
lation of England.
Dr. Payne, M D., M. R. C. P., London, is
authority for this statement.
The same ora greater proportion of deaths
obtains in America.
Dr. Payne also says that one-half the total
number of deaths from all other causes
have seeds of this disease in the system which
only require some irritant to develop!
Dr. Hermann Brohiner, an eminent Ger
man authority, says that consumption is
caused by deficient nutrition of the lungs,
by poor blood.
These authorities cannot be disputed. The
medical world recognizes them. The uric
a dd is the irritaut in the blood that causes
the development of the seeds which Dr.
Brehmer says lie dormant in the blood.
Every particle of blood which passes through
the lungs aud heart, also goes through
the kidneys, and if they are in the least de
ranged they cannot rid the blood of its kill
ing poison. The thousand little hair-like
sewer tubes of the kidneys very easily get
blocked up and diseased; and wheu they do
they corrupt instead of purifying tho blood.
Kidney disease may exist, and yet no pain
occur in that organ, because it is deficient in
nerves of sensation.
Dip your finger in acid every day and it
soon festers and is destroyed. Bend acid-poi
soned blood through the lungs every second,
and they soon give way.
'I he Brompton Hospital investigation
showed that 52 per cent, of the victims of
consumption were afflicted with deranged
kidneys, which permitted the uric acid poi
son to remain in the blood and irritate the
lungs. This uric acid is alwayS'fight ng every
vital organ, and if there be auy inherent
weakness in the lungs it inevitably causs
pneumonia, cough and consumption.
The real cause of pulmonary troubles being
so authoritatively shown to be faulty even
though unsuspected action of the kidneys,
explains why, in order to master the dreaded,
consumption, one must rid the blood of the
uric acid irritaut which inflames and burns
up the lung substance. For this purpose
there is nothing equal t) that great specific,
Warner’s safe cure. Tho remedy has now
the favor of medical men all over the world
purely on its merits. We have no doubt that
if the kidneys are kept in naturaljaction, con
sumption and a great many other diseases,
caused by uric acid, will not only be cured
but will be prevented.
When the kidney is healthy, no albumen
appears in the water, but albumen is found
in the water of more than half of those who
die of consumption 1
This, then, is the condition of things that
always precedes consumption: First, weak
ened kidneys; second, retained uric acid,
poisoning the blood; third, the development
of disea-e in the lungs by the irritant acids -
l assing through them. Theu there is a little
ccugh in the morning; soon thick, yellow
matter is spit up, followed by loss of flesh
and strength, with dreadful night sweats;
and wheu the patient goes to his school
physician for help, he is put on cod liver oil,
which his stomach, weakened also by uric
arid in the blood, cannot digest. Because
there is no pain present in the kidneys,
the patient does not think they are affected,
but the kidney acid is doing its work every
minute, every hour, day aud night, and by-
and-by the disease of the lungs has advanced
until pus is developed, then come hemor
rhages, and at last the glassy stare which de
notes that the end is near 1
A post-mortoin examination of such cases
shows that the terrible uric acid lias com
pletely destroyed the substance of the lung.
It is impossible to cure lunr diseases when
tho blood is poisoned with uric a id.
G >od fellows are not always the best citi
zens, especially if they get too numerous.
Too Much for the Judge.
A nice little boy, reared in tho intel
lectual and heterodox atmosphere of Bos
ton, haopened to be a witness in a case
in Cincinnati, and the question arose as
to his being old enough to understand
the nature of an oath, so the Judge in
vestigated him:
“Well, Wendall,” he said kindly, “do
pou know where bad little boys will go
when they die • ”
“No, sir,” replied the boy with con-
Bdence.
“Goodness gracious!” exclaimed tho
Judge, in shocked surprise; “don’t you
know they will go to hell?”
“No, sir; do you?”
“Of course I do.”
‘ How do you know it?”
“TheBible says so.”
“Is it true?”
“Certainly it is.”
“Can you prove it?’*
“No, not positively; but we take it on
faith,” exclaimed the Judge.
“Do you accept that kind of testimony
! n this court?” inquired the boy, cooly.
But the Judge didn’t answer; he held
up his hands and begged the lawyers to
take the witness.
LE PREPARAItOa
AMO
j BITTERS
IT IS A P U RELY VEGETABLI
c^ v '%. s hBARK
PRICK#ApRICMnri
SENNA-MANDRAKE-BUCHU
AMD OTHER EQ.UAUYETFICIEWT REMEDIES
It has stood the Test of Years,
in Caring all Diseases of the
BLOOD, LIVES, 8T0M
ACH, KIDNEYS,BOW
ELS, &C. It Purifies the
Blood, Invigorates and
Cleanses the 8ystem
Young gent (in furnishing store)—“I
want to get a bix of paper collars, fifteen
an’ a half inch, an’ a satiu neck-tie.”
Dealer (affably)—“Y~es, sir; all right,
sir; and how is everything over in Bos
ton ? ”
CURES
L ALLDISEASES OFTHE
LIVER
KIDNEYS
STOMACH
AND
BOWELSI
AILDRUGGISTStl
PRICE
DYSPEPSIA, CONSTI
PATION, JAUNDICE,
BICKHEADACHE,BIL
IOUS COMPLAINTS,Ac
disappear at once under
its beneficial inflncnce.
It is purely a Medicine
as its cathartic proper
ties forbids its use as a
beverage. It is pleas
ant to the taste, and as
easily taken by child
ren as adolts. <
| PRICKLY ASH BITTERS CO
Sole Proprietors.
St.Locib and Kansas Citt
c/i PISO’S CURE FOR
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE TAILS.
Byrup. Tastes good. Use
>. Sold ‘ ‘
Best Cough
in time.
Id by druggists.
Wretched, Indeed,
Ire those whom a confirmed tendency to btt
iousness, subiect to the various aud changeful
symptoms indicative of liver complaint.
Nausea, sick headache, constipation, furred
tongue, an unpleasant breath, a dull or sharp
pain in the neighborhood of tho affected organ,
impurity of the blood and loss of appetite, sig-
na'izeit as one of the mo?t d stressing, as it is
one of the moat common, of maladies. There
is, however, a benign specific for the disease,
and all its unpleasant manifestations. It is
the concurrent testimony of the public and the
medical profession, that Hosteller's Stomach
Bitters is a medicine which ach eves results
speedily felt, thorough and benign. Besides
rectifying liver disorder, it invigorates the
feeble, conquers kidney anl bladder com-
plaints,and hastens the convalescence of these
recovering from enfeebling disease 3 . More
over, it is the grand specific for fever and agu6
There are 18,000 operatives in the shirt, cuff
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Daughters, Wives and Mothers.
Send for Pamphlet on Female Diseases, free,
securely sealed. Dr. J. B. Marchisi, Utica* N. x
CONSUMPTION
Hainesville, N. J., I
October 15, 1886. )
E. T. Hazeltine,
Warren, Pa.
Dear Sir:
I was taken with a very
severe cold last Spring,
and tried every cure wo
had in the store, aud could
get no help.
I had o r village doctor
prescribe for me, but kept
gettiug worse. I saw an
other physician from Port
Jervis, N. Y., and he told
me he used Fiso’s Cure for
Consumption in his prac
tice.
I bought a bottle, and
before I had taken all of it
there was a change for the
better. Then I got my em
ployer to order a quantity
of the medicine and keep
it in stock. I took one
more bottle, and my Cough
was cured.
Respectfully,
Frank McKelvy.
Illgbmt Awards of Hrd.il* In Europr snd An cries.
The neatest,
remedy kn
Lumbago,
end all nches and pains. Endorsed by 5.UU) Physl
elans and Druggists of the highest rep ‘
Plasters promptly relievo
plasters and greasy salves,
are absolut-lv useless. Eoware of Imitations under
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and Intended to deceive. Ask for Benson’s anj
TAKE NOOTHEK8. All druggists.
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r-nuorseu uy o.waj rnyn
highest repute, Benson's
i and cure wltM* otjjef
s. liniments and ToWCns,
pa
CURES WliERE ALL ELSE FAIL
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use
in time. Sold by druggists.
CONSUMPTION
A*
L-nilics! Those dull
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speuk volumes I This
Remedy corrects nil con
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_ back youthful bloom I
A' * and beauty. Druggists. E
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^ precociousTrfffTwalking with his father
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A bottle of Red Star Coash Cure made a
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Spring; Medicine
Everybody needs and should t ike a good spring
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and Morphine Habit cured In 10
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