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farif and house hold. Brcfs as Feed for Stork, The beet, in its general properties, resembles the turnip, but has a larger per cent, of solid matter, and generally contains more sugar. The principal objection to raising beets for feeding Stock is the large amount of hand labor required in the early stage of their growth. Beets will not endure frost quite as well as turnips, and therefore they shonld bs gathered and stored somewhat earlier. They may be kept in a cellar, but if the cellar is very dry they are liable to wilt and become tough. This may be remedied by occasionally Bprinkling them with water. l>eets keep well covered with earth, but this method Is inconvenient in sevcie freezes. The roots may be deeply covered with straw in the brrn or under any shelter, and be kept well. In feeding, the roots should be cut so tnat cat'.le can eat them conveniently. This can best be done by slicing tiiem on an old-fashioned cutting box. They may be fed alone, or with bran or meal.?Indiana Farmer. Road paving1 THatcrlal. ^ ?- ' ? r\ f IliA nAiin. JC miUC'IS in uiuiiv tcoiuma vx iuvs t.vuu try worry both their teams and themselves with slowly pulling through muddy roads, when there are at hand gravel heaps, cool allies, slack and cinders or other material that, at small cost, would bring these same roads into good condition. In a paper on road paving material, read by John T. Campbell, a civil engineer, before the Indiana Association of burveyors and Engineers, at Indianapolis, a number of suggestions were made that come within the reach of many fanners to carry out. In sections where coal-slack, a<lu-s or cinders can be had for the hauling, farmers are assured that Baid materials serve well for the under two-thirds of the navincr materials, and that this covered with au upper third of gravel makes a road that cuts less than one all gravel. Sin h material is cheaper too than poor gravd. A team can haul a largo wagon l>o\ heaping full, being two and a half times the bulk of a load of gravel. Charcoal alco makes a fair paving material, not so good as good gravel, but better than poor grave!. .Mr. Campbell i therefore suggests charcoal for the main body of the roadbed, in localities where timber is cheap and gravel is scarc e.1 The charcoal absorbs and rapidly evaporates, water, hence gives a dry road Boon after a rain. It should be covered with a thin coat of good gravel to hold it down from blowing and washing away, and from taking tire. The use of common straw to harden and make compact sandy roads was also considered by Mr. Campbell, who claimed that if four inches of loose gtraw be spread on a sandy road, the road, after a few day's travel, will be-' come as firm and compact as a dry clay road. Straw that has been worn out 1 for bedding purposes, thrown on bad places in sandy roads is just suited to the purpose. It was suggested that broken Straw might be used to advantage on ! new gravel roads, where (he gravel is much mixed with sand, and thereby packs slow. It would give instant relief and would not hurt the quality of the gravel.?New York World. Treatment oY Hog:*. Hogs are too often treated, from birth to slaughtering, as if they had no rights that their owners wcrebouni to respect. The street hog is a king compared to many that ate kept in pens, for the Street hog has an opportunity to keep ' clean and to breathe as pure air as does his owner. The hog, as he is often kept by respectable, well meaning people, is very badly abused. He is kept in a email pen in the open air, exposed to hot sun, cold wind, and driving rain and snow. We have seen many pens the past summer, and they can be seen every day in the year by those who will look for them, where the soft mud and filth a foot deep extended over the whole area, so there was not so much as a single dry straw to sleep on. The hogs j must sleep in water and cat in soft mud, j made not only filthy but poisonous by , their own accretions. In such pens farmers often throw ears of corn to be eaten in the mud? and then when the animals become sick from exposure to cold or wet, or poisoned by their filthy food the owners wonder what made vucia The hog in his general makeup is sa'd to be more like man than any other animal. It is certain that human beings arc sometimes met with who are much dirtier than hngs ought to be, and in other respects comparisons might be piade that would bring little discredit to the four legged animal. The hog if left j wholly to himself is a very clcanlv disposed creature. lie likes grass, fresh fruit and grain very much better than he likes these things after they arc half spoiled by decay. In the open field he keeps his feeding place and sleeping place free from filth. He takes cold and gets fevers under precisely the same conditions that would luing a cold or fever into the family of his owner, and is subject to contagious diseases that affect him very much as other contagious diseases afTect man. He has to rjugh it. and like man he grows in a degree tough and hardy by such roughing. But there is a limit to his endurance and hardiness. As a money producing animal it would pay to treat the hog very much better than the average hog is usually treated. First of all, a hog confined in a small pen should have at all times clean, dry placos to eat and to sleep in. No animal is ever gaining profitably to its keeper when that; animal is bodily or mentally uncomfort- i able. A little muddy water to wallow in will not seriously injure a hog, if it can have a dry placc to lie in. Muddy water is better than none, especially in dry weather. It is believed by many that the pig's legs should often be wet, to keep the tissues open and active. At any rate water is agreeable to the hog: and if he is fed largely upon dry food pure water to drink is indispensable to good health. Farm and Garden Notes. To prevent rats and mice from gnaw ing leather of any kind, brush or rub it over with common castor oil. eneanng iamos m inuisummer is claimed by English far;ners to greatly increase the growth of the carcass. Most farmers who have thoroughly tested the experiment of cutting fodder and bedding for their stock are satisfied that it pays to do so. The wool with which sheep are covered is admirably adapted to exclude cold so long as it is dr}T, but when thoroughly wet it iyas bad as no covering whatever. If shelter is provided sheep will stay under it in stormy weather,and their wool will be enough better to make shelter profitable, asid} from the greater comfort and thrift of the sheep. There is unfortunately not enough demand for sweet apples for market to ?&ke them a profitable crop, but faun- ] ers having trees of produclir? tweet apples need not destroy them. Probably in no other way can as much good food be produced from a small area as from an apple tree tli it will bear every year, as some kind3 of natural sweet apples will. A New York farmer who grew his potatoes this season upon a rich piece j of inverted clover sod. a part of which ; was treated to a liberal coating of barn! yard manure, and the remainder not ferj tilized, states that there was 110 increase of yield on the manured portions, while ! the loss from rotting was nearly three ! times as great as upon that part of the ! tield where no manure was used. It is one advantage of turnips that 1 they arc a crop not damaged but rather i benefited by slight freezing of the ; ground. Of course they should not be i handled when frozen, but in a day or two after they will have a finer flavor than before. Some of the harsh, coarse ! taste is removed after light frost has j touched the roots. And it will take a ; pretty hard frost to spoil turnips, pro; vided they are left in the ground until ! thawed. i Before putting new pork in the barrel it should be thoroughiy scalded, to re; move impurities and to destroy any germs that would surely affect the pork | if nut removed. A barrel that has once i been used to pack beef should never I after be used as a pork barrel. It will i be found next to impossible to keep pork sweet in it. But this is a rule that ' does not work both ways. An old pork barrel is one of the very best for keeping beef. j From comparative experiments, Professor E. Wollny. the Ucrm;in investigator, has shown the effect of weeds upon the productive power of plants. Both quantity and quality of the crops were seriously affected by allowing the ! wee'.ls to grow, the injury being the greater the more slowly the plants were ^developed. Teas and summer rape suffered least; beans, maize and potatoes were injured to the extent of forty-live to sixty-six per cent.; and beets showed a loss of ninety-seven per cent. | An authority on diseases of sheep says the external symptoms of fluke in sheep arc: A wasting condition, skin loose and flabby, sometimes spotted yellow or black, with a peculiar crackling sound when handled. After death insects called flukes will be found in the liver. When it has fairly set iu rot is incurable. In the early stage3 the sheep may be fattened. Feeding vegetable charcoal is said to be a cure. One-half drachm sulphate of iron aud H drachms common salt should be given daily, mixed in the food. Thoroughly fattened turkeys and chickens should be picked dry, hung up nntil the animal heat has escaned, and then packed in clean straw, each fowl being separately wrapped in clean, poru3 paper. Some persons puck in clean leaves, using no paper, but only bright, clean, long straw. Ducks and geese should always be scalded and steamed by covering up with a blanket for a short time before picking. In other respccts handle them as turkeys and chickens; but no poultry should be packed until perfectly cool and dry. As far as possible beans should be thrown on scaffolds, or, if put in bags, spread thinly and not trampled. If beans heat in the mow they become musty and worthless. By leaving until cold, dry weather in winter surplus moisture is got rid of, and the beans thresh more easily and perfectly than in the fall. Probably the cheapest way to tlimsh henns is bv the tramninsr of horses after the | beans are spread on a barn floor. The horses1 shoes should be removed to avoid cracking the beans by the iron points which bear the weight of so large an animal. Recipes* Stewed Carrots.?Boil the carrots until tender; also, boil separately five sm:iil onions; cut the carrots into any smali, fanciful pieces you may choose; mince the onions and chop a sprig of parsley; have a pint of milk boiling, which season with a little pepper and salt, adding asmall piece of butter rubbed iu a tcaspoonful of flour; put in the carrots and onions and let simmer ten minutes; stir in the parsley and dish at once. Corn Bread.?To make a loaf of lijjht corn bread for breakfast, beat up two fresh eggs, add a cup of milk, half sour and half sweet, a lump of soft, fresh butter, a little salt and a little salaratus. Beat in enough corn meal to make a moderately thin batter. Beat very hard, pour into a buttered pan and bake it in a pretty hot oven, one not hot enough, however,to burn the top before the nnciaic is cooKea. Pumpkin Soup.?Take three pounds of pumpkin: peel it and cut it into small pieces. Put it in a sauce p:in with water enough to cover it, adding a little salt; boil gently until it is soft, drain it and pass it through a fine colander, for it must not be watery. Put three pints of milk in a stevvpan and mix with it the strained pumpkin; let it come to a boil; add a very little white sugar and salt and pepper to taste, and serve. A Breakfast Disit.?Take some slices of cold beef or lamb, season them with pepper and salt, and broil them; take some raw potatoes and after taking off the skin pare them or sl'ce them as you would pare an apfde; dip these thin parings into a batter made of flour and milk, then fry them a dcllcatc brown in a good liberal allowance of very hot lard. This is served on a platter, the meat put on llrst, and the potatoes laid over it. Household Hints. Take fine white sugar and put it onefourth of an inch thick on top of your jellies and they won't mold. Carbolic soap not only keeps mosquitoes olT, but every kind of insect, for which reason it is wise to use it to scrub floors and paiut, and always to take a cake when traveling. Old newspapers will put the finishing touch to newly cleaned silver, knives and forks, and tinware better than anything else. Kub them well and make perfectly dry. They are excellent to polish stoves that have not been blackened for some length of time. A good way to clean wash basins, etc., I is to rub with a little baking soda on a damp cloth; it is also good to clean wash bowls, and unpainted woodwork; and a tablespoonful added to a pail of mop water will clean your lloor easily and make it look well. A little turpentine in the wash-boiler j will make clothes very white, and will 1 often remove incorrigible stains from ; white goods. A tablespoonful of turpentine to a large boiler, or a teaspoonful to two gallons of waier. There is no smell, the boiling preventing it. In 1855 each operator in a shoe factory I (according to Massachusetts Labor com| mission statistics) made 455 pairs of 1 shoes and earned S205 a year. In 187G 1 he made 1,205 pairs, and his wages had j risen to $397, though he worked twelve [ per cent, less in time. TIMELY TOPICS. ?" I The Palma Christo plant, now beiug extensively planted in parts of South Carolina as a substitute for cotton, is as ( easily cultivated as corn, requires no par- ] ticular care in handling the seed, and yields a large profit. The climate of Lower South Carolina i3 all that could 1 be desired, and on the sea islands the < plant attains remarkable growth without labor or attention. < The supreme court of Indiana has just J ! decided that a man whose mill was fired 1 by the negligence of a railroad company < may recover full damages therefor from ' the company, although he may have been paid for his loss by an insurance) company. The court held that a contrary decision would give the wrongdoer the benelit of on insurance on which others had paid the premiums. Professor V. C. Riley, the well known entomologist, has presented to the National museum his collection of insects, which contains over 20,000 species, and more than 115,000 mounted specimens, beside additional unmounted material, j A large number of books and pamphlets j accompany this gift, which is considered c one of the most valuable ever received * by the government. 3 The expression "galvanizing a corpse" ? has ceased to be exclusively metaphori- ( cal. M. Kergovatv, a Frenchman, has discovered a method of preserving bodies by giving them a metal coating. We may, according to our means, become silver-plated, nickel-plated, or galvan ized with zinc or copper. The process has been thus far tested successfully on eleven hum in bodies and more than one hundred times on the carcasses of animals. The cave nut of which General Israel Putnam dragged the wo'f is seldom 1 visited, because it is in a stony, moun- s tainous forest in a remote corner of Con- "] necticut. A picnic party this summer e made the tedious trip, which involved 1 scver.il miles of rough walking. There c arc pictures in primers of Putnam entering the cave erect, with a blazing torch held above his head. The hole is really so small that it can only be explored on hands and knees, and an adult cannot turn round in ^it. The length is 200 feet, and tradition says that ho followed the beast to the farther end, shot him between the eyes by their own glow, and was drawn out with him by means of a rope. A young man in Chicago, last summer, suddenly found that one side of his face was ailing. An hour or two afterward his right eye refused to close, aud the paralysis of the whole facial region was complete, lie went to the doctor and found that personage treating threi other young men for exactly the sami affection. The right eye remained open four weeks. The sense of taste was greatly weakened. The main nerve, e which had been shut off by a decrease ? in the orificc of the skull, was finally loosed, and no chronic effect beyond a slight optical weakness followed in any of the four. It would be interesting to know, adds the Current, whether or not tobacco had aught to do with these remarkable cases. In some recent scientific experiments on the effects of cold, two frogs were frozen solid in a temperature of about twenty degrees Fahrenheit, and kept in that condition half an hour. On thawing slowly they recovered perfectly, but it was found that longer periods of exposure invariably killed the animals. ; The experiment was tried of freezing hermetically sealed meat, so as to kill its bacterial organisms, and thus render it incapable of putrefjung. It was found, however, that so low a temperture as . eighty degrees below zero would not destroy the vitality of micro-organisms. ^ It was thus made clear that the attempts to preserve meat for a long time by a j; momentary freezing of it must be abandoned. ? The ladies of Japan show not less p readiness to adopt Western ideas and ? usages than the Japanese of the other a box. The belles of Yeddo order dresses ^ from Paris; and the progress of imita- v tion has gone so far as to make a knowl- j] edge of the fashionable dances of Eu- ^ rope an' indispensable feature in the ed- ? ucation of every Japanese lady who q respects herself. A riding school is ^ about to be opened in Yokohama ex- t clusively for the use of native ladies, and ]n it promises to be largely patronized. ^ The Japanese government is about to ^ take a stej) which will have the effect of D bringing the more solid branches of y Western education within reach of the n female subjects of the mikado. A number of youncr women are about to be a sent to Europe to receive a thorough training in the essential branches of fe- <] male education as it is understood there, T with a view to their subsequent employ- c ment as teachers in their own country 0 when qualified. c a A French periodical lately gave some d remarkable statistics concerning savings 1 banks. Fifteen European States, with a population of 102,000,000, are included in the statement. Since 1874 the progress made by savings banks in these n countries has been astonishing. The in- a st.itutions themselves date from 1817, s England being their birthplace. It took ^ the fifty-seven years between 1817 and s 1874 to arrive at an aggregate of 12,000,- a 000 of depositors, possessing among them t $1,-110,000,000. Within the next four 8 years the depositors had increased to t 10.000,009 and the stock of savings to f ?1.880 000,000. This had increased in t 1S82 to upward of 21,250,000 depositors t and $2,520,000,000. A novel feature of t (he system in France is the school-sav- s ings banks, introduced in 1874. of which J there arc now 23,000. These institutions r not only lead children to become pru- t dent, but have a reflex influence in the e same direction upon the parents. c In his address before the third Na- t tional Convention of Stockmen, held at Chicago recently, Hon. Normaa J. Cole- r man, commissioner of agriculture, placed v the number of cattle within our borders ^ fit 45,000,000, and he estimates their c value at $1,200,000,000. . This is a vast i aggregate of wealth locked up in one industry alone. Add to this sum the money represented by 1:5,000,000 of c horses and mules, 50,000,000 of sheet) r and 45,000,000 of swine, and we have a grand aggregate of $2,500,000,000. The Turf, Fie'd and Farm says: "Notwithstanding the enormous development of d the live stock business, the national leg- j islature at Washington has been slow to recognize its importance. It has been 1 mortTready to pass bills for the protection of other interests than of the great ? animal industry. But through convention the stockmen are impressing the truth upon the public mind, and Con- 1 gress is less inclined to dismiss bills in- 0 troduced to guard the industry from the 13 dangers which surround it." j g SHOT FOR DESERTION. The Punishment o? n Woulcl-Ke Bounty Jumper. "Fall in to witness execution. Turn out every man," said the adjutant on the morning of December 1864. We were then near Fort Dushane on the Weld on railroad, and the wide field near this work had been selected as the scene af the most impressive service in military life. No excuse availed that clear and cold December morning, but every man in the regiment was put in the ranks, and marched with unwilling steps to the place assigned in the division line. The 'litriciisMi fArmnrl nn flirnn airl(>c nf n square in two rankg, opened and faced inward, leaving a lane about ten paces wide. After the lines were formed we iid not have long to wait, but the pris- J Dner, preceded by the division band, led , !>v Henikc, late of the Gcrmania band of i Boston, entered the lines, and commenced the march of death. The band idded to the solemnity of the occasion by playing a dirge. The victim, a liueooking young fellow of twenty-one, ( narched with head erect, glancing from i ight to left, as if the affair was a street 1 parade in his honor. It seemed impos- ] sible that he was taking hi9 last look at ! lis comrades, and that he could be a de- ( ;erter to the enemy- In answer to the < juestion, "Whois he?" this was told: I [ John E. Dixon was living in the Brit !sh provinces a few months before, and \ j sought the hand of one of the fair j i i r l-J- A:-.~ TUA ?? * ! i laugxiicrs ui ma uuiivt; iu?u. auu ouio , ? vas rejected, and although the young ! 1 ellow declared his intention of going to j J he States if she persisted in her refusal, j i ;he was obdurate, and he became desper- < itc. True to his word, he came to Massa- | 1 'husetts, and enlisted as a*private in * :ompany II, First Massachusetts heavy 1 irtillery, and was sent to the front as a 1 ecruit. After a time the young woman leard what her lover had done, and hen she repented of her conduct. She i vrote to him beseeching him to come < lome, and promising that if he would i he would bestow her hand upon him. i This very naturally made our recruit un- ^ iasy. lie had received a large bounty rom the town of Ilolliston, aud he 1 irgued that could he get home once 1 nore, with a wife and several hundred I 1 lollars, he might reasonaably hope to be I lappy. The girl continued to write lrging him to come home, and her per- | * istence put the idea of desertion into ; 1 lis head. While in this stale of mind le came across one of the circulars which , he Confederates issued and scattered t lear our picket line, and distributed in J he camps where they could do so. t nl - 1 1_,1 1 I (Jirtruiiua uppcuicu tu auiuici^ugio n the Union army, promising any < vho -would desert to the Confederates c hat they should at once be returned ] ,o their own country at the expense of t ;he Confederacy. This was a great ' :emptation, and we lost a good many nen by the ingenious plan. Dixon re- 3 iolved to accept the offer of the Confcdsrates, that he might also accept the olTer J )f his girl. i ] One night on picket he threw off his !1 squipment and gun, left his post and * tarted for the Confederate lines. It was i lark, and he did not know our line had * nade a turn at right angles not fur from lis post. The consequence was j hat he left our liues, obliquing l little in tne aarKnesy, uuu m- i tend of reaching the Confederate [ r >utposts, he very soon came upon one of j j >ur pickets. "Hullo, Johunv!" said 1 le, "I've come over to surrender myself. I 've got sick of stopping with these tanks any longer." "The deuce you t lave!" remarked the vidette, and the leserter was quickly secured by the sol- , liers and marched back to camp, i ,'harges were preferred, a court-martial ] ound him guilty and he was sentenced ? o be shot. As desertion had been quite j :ommon among the foreign born soldiers, c t was decided to make an example of his case, and his execution was ordered. ? Ilis grave was dug in the open Bide of he square above described, and a plain * offin placed beside the opening. When s he procession reached the spot the band arched to one side, and both lines were | accd toward the prisoner. He coolly re- c aoved his cap and coat and conversed yith the chaplain, who prayed fervently 8 or the soul about to take its flight. The 8 irisoner then seated himself on the foot ? if the cortin. his nauas were not ueu, ? nd he requested that his eyes be not ^ andaged. But the provost marshal rould not consent to that, but tied a j landkerchief over his face. The firing c /arty consisted of eight men with seven 1 ;uns loaded with ball and one with blank artridge, neither one of them knowing phich had the blank. Silentl}7, by mo- ( ion of the provost marshal, tht squad rought their guns to the "ready" and he uaim," and on the dropping of the landkerchief the velley broke the still- c icss, and the man fell back a corpse, i .''lie surgeons stepped forward and pro- ^ lounced him dead, bullets pf the provost t ;uard haviug done their work instantly e nd humanely. The men in the ranks fainted away i luring the scene, and the effect on all : ras ?ery marked. The men who fainted i amc under suspicion as bounty jumpers, r as meditating desertion, and were arefully watched, but for sometime fterward there were no desertions, if it i lid not wholly break the practice.? Yob urn (Mass.) Journal. The Italian Tarantella. Some five or six half-grown girls have aanaged to buy or borrow a tambourine, nd there in some secluded court or dc- . erted threshing iloor they aie dancing. J{ ?he vine and tig boughs in which the , ? hadows are now massed against the ' J ,mber sky overhang them, and so light \ i et wild are their movements and so pas- j ] ionate their gestures, that you seem to : . le looking through the dark portal into 1 airyland. As soon as the girls notice : bat they are being watched, however, j he tambourine is hushed, the dance is ' >roken, and the performers slink in a i by group away to some dusty retreat. 1 t requires all the authority of one of the nost respected of the villagers to induce hern to resume the broken thread, and iven then they move bashfully and with ionstraint. You may see the tarantella in some of he great hotels of Sorrento and Capri, ind there it seems an inferior ballet in- j * re n.. 1 1 \\r I I lilicruiuiy jjuriuriucu. >y uuu vuu uikwiui; j ipon it thus in one of the out-of-the-way ! illages, you seem to have caught a glimpse of the real poetry of Southern ife.?Saturday Review. { Comoville, Cal., has forty houses and inlv one inhabitant, the rest having aoved away. Three Quotations. f When a man is hanging, cut him " town, then go through his pockets.? l> Fexas Pout. n "When a man i9 coughing, give him jj ^ed Star Cough Cure.?Baltimore Neics. h "When you want to conquer pain, use v >t. Jacobs Oil.?Philadelphia Neics. There arc 243 more females than males n Southbridge, Mass., but the Journal * ffice is not for sale. Bachelor editors ^ aust start a Lew paper to be on the j ;rcund. I A Help to Goad Digmtlon. In the British, Medical Journal Dr. X Roberts, of England, discusses the effect < liquor, tea, coffee and cocoa on digestion. A of thom retard the chemical processes, bi moit of them stimulate the glandular act! ity and muscular contractions. Distilk spirits retard the salivary or peptic digestic but slightly when sparingly used. Wines were found to be highly injurious 1 salivary digestion. On peptic digestion o wines exert a retarding influence. The stimulate the glandular and muscular actr ity on the stomach. Effervescent wines e ert the greatest amount of good with tl least harm to digestion. When one's dige tion is out of order everything goes awry,ui less, as in the case of T. T. Seals, of Eelair Ohio, who had bad dyspepsia for seven year me tiigesuve apparatus is Kept; in appie-p eating order by Warner's Tippecanoe, tl best appetite producer and regulator in tl world. Tea, evon in minuto quantities, complete! paralyzes the action of the saliva. The tai uin in strong tea is injurious. Weak t< should be used, if at all. Strong coffee an coca are also injurious if used in excess.?Tl Cosmopolitan. Origin of the Esquimaux. There is one peculiar theory about ti origin of the Esquimaux by Prof. Boy Hawkins, of Great Britain, which pu' them in ancient times in the presei temperate zones, which were then Arcti in their climatic conditions, or, in shor during the great glacial period, whe other Arctic animals, as the reindee: etc., grazed to the very foothills of th Pyrenees mountains iu France. As th treat glacial sheet slowly withdrc northward?whatever may have causei its coming or go'ng does not conccrn i here?the predecessors of the Esqu naaux followed the migrating shore c ice until it withdrew across the Arcti :eas,?when, having no form of boal that would allow them to launch out o mch wide waters, they stopped wher il_ _ - - J J1 1 ~ 1 tne occiiu comraencuu, uuu ucre rnuu ;heir homes.?Lieut. Schxcatka. Throughout the Southern State! it certain seasons of the year, who! immunities are subject to fevers, ague bilious attacks, and a hundred ailments "Quinine" is the popular remedy, bu :he occasional use of Vinegar Bitter enders such medicines entirely unneces ary. Nothing is known to relieve ;orpid liver so quickly. It is illegal in Paris for a newsdealc ;o lend out a newspaper to anyone fc reading purposes. It is a Fact veil established thut consumption if attende o in its first stages, can be cured. There ii lowever, 110 true and rational way to cure thi lisease, which is rfeally scrofulous ulceration c ;he lungs, except through purifying the bloo< -Ceep the liver in perfect order and pure bloo vill De the result. Dr. Pierce's "Golden Med al Discovery," a purely vegetable compoun Joes all this" and more: while it purities tli -1??> -1 ihn a cfvonrrthm J1UUU 1L U1MU uunua up I/IIC djObViu. ouv?ibv.iv. ng it against future attacks of disease. As 'or Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery. Take no other. 01' druggists. Gray liairs that do not respect tliemselvf n ill not be respected by others. Some Fo'kn lave much difficulty in swallowing the hugs )ld-fnshioned pill, but anyone can take D Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets," whic ire composed of highly concentrated vegetal)] extracts. For diseases of the Jiver and ston icli, sick and bilious headache, etc., they hav 10 equal. Their operation is attended with n liscomfort whatever. They are sugar-coate ind put up in glass vials. He who can suppress a moment's anger ma )i event a day of sorrow. Decline ol .Hun. Mental or organic weakness, nervous debilit md kindred delicate diseases, however ir luced, speedily and permanently cured. Fc argo illustrated book of particulars enclos 0 cents in stamps and address, World's Di: jensary Mcdical Association, (ki3 Main Stree Buffalo, N. Y. The highest exercise of charity is charity 1 he uncharitable. a nunarea years migm ue spent m seaitn ui emedy in search'of Catarrh, Cold in the Hea ind Hay Fever, without finding the equal o ily's Cream Balm. It is applied with the fingei Seing pleasant and safe, it supersedes the use c ill liquids and snuffs. Its effect is magical. 1 elieves at once and cures many cases whic mffle physicians. Price f>0 cents at druggist: 0 cents by mail. Ely Bros., Owego, N. Y. Ely Bros., I have used two bottles of you 3ream Balm for Catarrh since December, i ore in my nostril?the cause of much sufferin -has entirely healed; have used no other mcd cine. This spring I feel better, can walk an vork with more ease than I have in any sprin iince 1801.?Mary E. "Ware, Hopeful. Va. I am on my second bottle of Ely's Crear 3alm, being a sufferer from catarrh since vas a child, but with this medicine I am bein :ured.?Wm. L. Dayton, Brooklyn. For dyspepsia, indigestion, depression o Sirits, general dobility in their various forms so as a preventive against fever and ague am ither intermittent fevers,the "Ferro-Phosphor ited Elixir of CgJisaya," made by Caswell,Ha? ird (?: Co., New York,and sold by all Druggists s the best tonic: and for patients recoverin rom fever or other sickness it has no equal. How is your back? If it aches put on a Ho faster. Nothing equals this porous plaster fo uring pain and strengthening. Fresh Hop: Jurgundy Pitch and Balsams combined. 2o( Tfi tt'tflt eftno ni'no nco Hp Tcno 11 tllllii; ICV*. nilli DUIV VJVO Jiy? . JLOWCV I'hompson's Eye Water. Druggistssell it. 25c No Opium in Piso's Cure for C'onsuxr.ptior ?urcs where other remedies fail. Sic. Nothing Like If. No mediclno has ever been known so effectual li he cure of all those disoases arising from an itnpur onUltion of the blood as Scovill's Sarsapaiulla, oi Ilood and Liver Svrup, for the cure of Scrofula \'hlte Swellings, Rheumatism, Pimple?, Blotches Iruptlons, venereal Sores and Diseases, Consumj Ion, Groltre, Boils, Cancers, and all lclndrel dis ases. No better nieausof securing a beautiful com lexion can be obtained than by using SCOVILL'i ILOOD AND LIVER SYRUP, which cleanses th lood and gives beauty to the skin. RedStar Free from Opiate?, Emetics and i'oisoiiSAFE. SURE. VjRCtS, PROMPT. lt Druggists and Dsalkrb. THE CHARLK8 X. YOOELER CO.. HAI,TIJlORE. M&. EER^rSV F ^ ? ft ? " Cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, LAC U Alii natkarbo, lleadarhr, Toothache, rOr S alii PkS^fVtY CENTS. " "11 MOID AT DKl'CGIimi AND DEALERS THE riCARLKS A. TOQE?,F.tt fO.. J1ALTIJORE, J1D. EPITHELIOMA! OR SKIN CANCER. For seven years I suffered with a eancer on mj nee. Kight months ai;o n friend recommended thi so of Swirfs Specific, and I determined to make ar ffort to procure it. Tn this I was successful, a nr cgan its use. The influence of the medicine at firsl as to somewhat aggravate the sore; but soon tin lflamatiun was allayed, and I begun 10 unurim fter the first few bottles. My general health ha: really Improved. I am stronger, and am able to <lc ny kind of work. The cancer 011 my face began tc ecreaso and the ulcer to heal, until there Is not a estlge of It left?only a little scar marks the place. Mils. Joicik A. McDonald. Atlanta, Ga., August 11,16K5. Treatise on niood and Skin Diseases mailed free. The Swift Specific Co., Drawer ;i, Atlanta, Ga. Y., 157 W. 23d St. UPPER'S Pfl8TILLEs|E^EiIS Get Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffeners applied V to those new boots and they will never run over. The best Ankle Boot and Collar Pads are ^11 made of zinc and leather. Try them. J' Life is too short for attempts or pretences j that end in nothing. ... - - - | S Oafarrh in the Head Originates In scrofulous taint In the blood. Hence t. the proper method by which to cure catarrh Is to f purify the blood. Its many disagreeable symptoms E je and the danger of developing Into bronchitis or that I ,a_ terribly fatal disease, consumption, are entirely reu moved by Hood's Sarsnparilla, which cures catarrh J< p by purifying the blood, and also tones up the system ll St and greatly Improves the general health of those I ie who take It. ie General Health Benefited 1 ie "For many yearn, beginning so far back I don't rely member when, I had the catarrh In my head. It eonU. slsted of an excessive flow from my nose, ringing and ,a bursting noises In my ears, and pains on the top of [d my head. The hawking and spitting were most exie cesslve in the morning, when the back part of my 1.1 > fur on,I tlioro E would be a bad taste In my uioutli. My hearing was alTectod In my left ear. Five years ago I began to g use Hood's Sarsaparllla. I was helped right away; but I continued fo use It till I felt myself cured. My IC general health has been good ever since the catarrh ^ left me."?Mrs. E. H. Caulkield, Lowell. ts Hood's Sarsaparilla v ]t Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Made only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar y i 60.000 Presents. . -ut-uj ts? iii! hi lilllia dmba 11 1 j' Have been given away during the past twelve months w to those who have aided In extending the circulation l d of the AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, Fifty IS thousand more are to be presented to those who sub- ^ i- scribe before December 25th. For example If, on jf seeing this, you Immediately forward us the subserlpI tlon price, $1.50, plus 15 cents extra for postage on a tho book, making $1.65 in all, wo will send you the w "s American Agriculturist for the rest of this year and ti n l3Sti, and also our AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST tl e LAW BOOK, JUST OUT, a large Volume, elegantly 0 bound in cloth and gold, weijfli* one pound and u a half, and Is a comDlctc compendium of every day law for all classes of people. Unparalleled Inducements to '< CANVASSERS. = ' Send a cents for mailing you grand double Novem- tl ber number of the American Ahrlcnlturist, sample ~ it pages of the Law Book, and complete Canvasser's _ 3 Outfit. With the commissions given by us, every ( Canvasser ought to bo able to readily make $10.00 a day. Address Publishers of ' a AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 751 Broadwny. Now Y?rk. Consumption Can B? Cured! HULL'S \ luats.BALSJM li Cures Consumption, Colds, Pnenmonla, In- < , flncn/.a. Bronchial I)ifflcii!tiei< Bronchitis. HOlirMeiiess Aniiiimir ?? uuuuiu^ i- Cough, and all D'mcrhm oft lie Breathing Uric (rails. It soothes and heals tue Membrane 01 " tlio Lungs, inflamed and poisoned by the disease, and prevents the night sweats and tightness across the oh st wlilcli accoinnany ?R It. Consumption Is not an Incurable iiialndv. HALL'S BALSAM will cure you, even Few people are aware how easily Ridge's Food ran be prepared. A housekeeper caD never be at a loss ,0 for desert, If there is a can of Ridge's Food always In j the house. Recipes for Puddings. Custards and ? Blanc Mange with each can. Ridge's Food Is now c a kept by many grocers. Druggists always sell It. 0 ,i Four sizes.- No. 4 size is thb cheapest for regular ? family use. li ! SPACES; s fgiLIQIIID GLUE j rt MENDS EVERYTHING B S Wood, Leather, Paper. Ivory,Glass, lis#JPvOj China, Furniture, Bric-a-Brac, Ac. ? 11 HfcsraPrVS StTong aa Iron, Solid as a Book. * I SnRsE^^VSi The tota* Quantity sold during th? ~ " past Ave years amounted to over 32 MILLION BycOCaSS^ bottles. EVERYBODY WANTS IT. f A11 donlars can sell it. Awarded j ^Mii?,JoLD,?k Pronounced Strongest Glue known Send dealer's card and 10c. postago ; Contains UO Acid. T, for sample can FREE bv malL ^ wuwuua RcssuCBJtEXT Co. Gloucester, Mass. PATTERNS OF ANY SIZE. ? UNPARALLELED OFFERI r^EWIOREST'S T J TUB Dec! " KV I II k W i. W 1 ' Of all the Magazines. Illustrated with Original Steel Engravm iHtjs, Photogravures and Oil Pictures. n Each copy of "Demorest's Monthly Magazine" con* e tains A Coupon Order, entitling the holder to the selection t of any pattern Illustrated In the fashion department in that number, in any of the sizes manufacturea. l| Send twenty cents for the current number with Pattern Coupon and you will certainly subscribe Two Dollars for h a year and get ten times its value. '* W.Jennings Demorest, Publisher, 17E. 14th St.,NewYcrk. g Vol, 22] Sold by all Newsdealers and Postmasters. [1806 3 Paynes' Aut omatic Engines and Saw-Mill OUR LEADER. . Wo offeran fi to H) H. P. mounted Engine with Mill, i 5().in. solid Saw, 50 ft. belting. cant-hooks, rig complete , forop^rntion, on cars, $i,l(n>,. Engine on skids, $1(0 ! less. Send for circular (B). B. W. l'AYNE & ' SONS? Manufacturers of all styles Automatic En? 1 eincN, from 2 to3.:i) H. P.: also Pulleys, Hangers and j Shaftng, Elmlra, N. Y. Box ] 8.10. CONSUMniUN. 1 k I haye a positive remedy for tho above disease; by Its nso thousands of cases ot tho worst kind mid of long . standinc have been cured. Indeed, fOBtronRls my fait b n In ltsoMc?cy,tliac I will genii TWO BOTTLES FREE, ffil together with a VALUABLETREATISE on this dlseaat m to any sufferer. Give express and P. O. addrtcs. EH DR. T. A. SLOCUM, III T^arlSt., Kay York. iSftI30U!&!E Chloral and J ; ffgUSBr If ilvklplumHabits 1 j EASILY CURED. BOOK FREE. DR. J. C. HOFFMAN, Jefferson, Wisconsin. a I A BR ARTE ft An ^an or "Woman in every IMS NKl B C "county to sell our Jk'od? Sal?rr!?7o. JJ" MM Lagy " per Booth and hxpenses. F\pi'tite.< in ad- I SaSs? oo vani-c. Canvassing outfit FKI-'fc! Particulars OU (fl (rec. fa'Uudard Silver-ware Co. Uos'.ou. Miiaa. ? Skunk, Mink, Red Fox, Muskrat, i ? ? ? . ?nau of m reayi'k and mi ll.\?> r no u>.v?. liiKiifHt pi ic<'N. Send for circular which elves full m particulars. K, C. Boiijjliton, 44 Bond St., N.Y. City. \ INSURE YOUR HORSES AND GATTLE k. 111^tli<; .Dtna.K: t ml I.ivc Stock Co. Address W. A. Van Hkamkn, Jlan'Kr, Vulatie, n. Y. An'ts wanted, mm . GEN. GRANT'S MEMOIRS. J , Special nrruiiRCiiientsanrt extra tcrmssecitrcd ? I by addresxinsr "APPOMATTOX." Uox 17'J, i'liila.. Pa. P THURSTON'S "TOOTH POWDER ^ Keeping TaetU Per feet and Cuius Healthy. MITdllKIJi'S Per. orated Belladonna PliiM.frs cure all Allies and Pa; us. Sure Heair edy lor that cold spot between the shoulders. Sold s by DruKRists everywhere. A DIP nirereD r? introduce thorn, we will ulu Urrcni give away 1,000 saifOperating Washing Machines. If you wans on9 send us your name, P. O., and express ottice at once. TI10 National Co.?*J3 DEYST., N.Y. ! HSB3a Great English Goutand ?, k mail ? 0 ISlSa Rheumatic Remedy. Oval Box, SI.00: round, 60 ctg. I (2"| P7 K Domestic Type Writer. 20,(10.)In use .1 *5-L? 4 t# in Business. Ureal Instructor for Children. Ag'ts wanted. II.S.InKcrsoll.4<i Cortland St..N.Y. 1^ to Soldiers & Ileirs. SendsUmp \\ ' h?lfqiaif for Circului-s. COL. L. BINa- , CIBwIUilv ham, Au'y. vVashiuRiou, 1>. 0. 2 HB1IH1I Morphine Habit Cared In ifl *' IIBpII INI to 40 days. No pay till cured* I U VI 0Vltl Dr. J. Stephens, j^bftuon, obia J I Owe ray Life. CHAPTER I. "I was taken sick a year ago ? ~'3. with bilious fever." "My doctor pronounced me cured, bck $ ;ot sick again, with terrible pains in my baofc ind sides, and I got so bad I Could not move! I shrunk! From 228 lbs. to 120! I had been doctoring or my liver, but it did mo no good. I did lot expect to live more than three months , began to use nop witters. * Directly ray appetite returned, my pains eft me, my entire system seemed renewed at . t by magic, and after using several bottle*. am not/only as sound as a sovereign, btrt reigh more than I did before. To Hop Biters I owe my life." Dublin, June 6, '81. R. Fitzpatbick. chapter il ''1..'3? "Maiden, Mass., Feb. 1,1880. Gentlemen? I suffered with attacks of sick headache." Neuralgia, female trouble, for years in the aost terrible and excruciating manner. . No medicine or doctor could give me relief r cure, until I used Hop Bitters. "Tho first bottle Nearly cured me;". Tho second made me as well and strong as ' rhen a child. ' "And I have been so to this day." My husband was an invalid "for twenty ears with a serious "Kidney, liver and urinary complaint, "rronouncea ay uoston s ueso puysicians? _ 3 'Incurable!" "Seven bottles of your Bitters cured him nd I know of the "Lives of eight persons" In ray neighborhood that have been saved y your bitters, S'tt And many more are using them with great enefit. "Ihey almost do miracles?" ?Mrs. E. D. Slack. How to Get Sick.?Expose yourself day . nd night; eat too much without exercise, rork too hard without rest, doctor all the [me; take all the nostrums advertised, and ' $ lien you will want to know '. ...rf/Sa How to Get Well?which is answered 1 three words?Take Hop Bitters 1 ? '-m None genuine without a bunch of green [ops on the wbite label. Shun all the vile, oisonous stuff with "Hop" or "Hops" in iieir name. N IS U?48 # )nly Temperance flitters Jinowii* Jm... Grateful Thousands proclaim Ymzois . Jitters the most wonderful Invigorant that ever ustained the sinking system. * V . :?j Made from California roots and herbs, free rom Alcoholic Stimulants. A Purgative ind Tonic. This Bitters cures Female Complaints, nflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism* tout, bilious, Kemittent ana incermuieni rorers, Blood, Liver and Kidney Diseases. >. Dyspepsia or Indigestion. Headache, >ain In the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Jhest, Dizziness, Sour Stomach. Furred Tongue, Jfiiaua Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart. Pneunonia, and Paia in the regions of the Kidneys, ire cured by the use of the Bitters. For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Boils, - 7 Erysipelas, Scrofula, Discolorations, Humors ana liseases of the Skin of whatever name or naure, are literally dug up and carried out of the . ystem in a short time by the use of the Bitters. * - " It Invigorates tilc stomach, andstimilates the torpid Liver and Bowels, which renter it of unequaled efficiency in cleansing the ilood of all impurities, and imparting new life ,nd vigor to the whole system. No Person can take the Bitters and remain :>ng unwell. Pin, Tape and other Worms, ara estroyed ana removed from the system. * Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever b is foul; your feelings will tell you when. Keep he blood pure, and the health of the system rill follow. In conclusion: Give the Bitters atriaL It rill speak for itself. One bottle will prove a beter guarantee of its merits than a lengthy adertfeement. . ^ R.H.lVIcDonald Drug Co., Proprietors, An Francisco, Cal., and 628,53u & 632 Washington SU Cor. Charlton St., New York. ^ Sold by all Dealers and Druggist* | BASE BALL J I CARDS. I vt| litiWSVlN UAAX; WW. ^ " ^^IWbb^all^F Stationers. Newsmen, Fancy Goods Dealers. frazeiT IXLE GREASE. est in the World. Mad? only by the FrazerLubric*? >rCo. at Chicago, N. Y. A St.Louis. Sold everywhere. rCURE FITS! '? When I say cure I do not mean merely to stop then* for a time and then have them return again, I mean a radical cure. I have made the disease of FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a life-long study. I warrant my remedy to cure the worst caseri. Becauif others have failed is no reason for not now receiving* cure. Send at once for a treatise and a Free Bottle of my infallible remedy. Give Express and Post Office. It costs you nothing for a trial, and I will cure you. Address Da H. (1. ROOT, 143 Pearl St, Now Yore. BPIso's Remedy for Catarrh Is the H| ,\ Best, Eilslest to Use, and Cheapest. H ^ a Also good for Cold In the Head, |H j Headache, Hay Fever, <fcc. 50 cents. MB ' JSKGrind j*?!? fts flliSSSSKlioRAHAM Flour und CorH aKBfgsyfl j?intheSsiacA.i<sr:DMXXiii wgggS&iWVTllson's Patent). lOO per cent, more made in keeolnz poal; y.' Also POWER MILXS and )FARJt ?. EED MILLS. Circulars and Testimonials sen! . application. VVILSO.\ BROS., Eu.ton, FcU R. U. AWARE |PS?Lorillarcl's Climas Ping, bearlnc a red tin tog, mat Lorlllard'3 Rokc LenfllnecutithatLorlllard'i ivy CUppinus and that Lorillard's Snuffs ara 0 best and cheapest, qualltyconsldered ? 'CI EP0ADUV Learn hero and earn Roodpay. tLbUnArn I Situations furnished. Writ# VALENTIN IC BROS., Jnnesville, Wis. 1 A TCMTC Obtained. Send stamp for rt I Ci IX I O Inventors' Guide. L. Bixd, m, Patent Lawyer, Washington, D. C. vfMRUL. m 6 has taken rht lead ta tlie sales of that class Of Cores In remedlef. and has give* I TO 6 DAYS. .?3 a.lnl?st universal 6atis/ae? caote Strloturc. ? MLRPH^ BROS? BOB Mfd only by th? G has won the favor of g?Hr. , ,, the public and now rankl lSBKEvaci Cc?aIc?I Ca. among the leading Medfc Cincinnati HHfcMI ciacs of the oilJora. A.L.SMITH. ^ ?8^. Ohio. Bradford. Pit Ij Scli! by Oru^sts. PfNNYFOYAI "CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH1*.. The Original and Only Genuine. afe ar.d relleblr. Beware of Worthies* ImltatioM, Ohlcnetter'a EiiclUlin are the best made. Indispensable 'O LADIES. Inclose4e.(itunpi) forparticulars, teitfc onlili. etc., in feller lent you by rt*fln I Jfc B sbeS^PILLS!