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" % ' *4-4 - iT . THE HOME DOCTOR. A Dietetic Experiment. J. "W. C. Fegan, manager of a largt school for boys in England, writes that he has made a dietetic experiment -with his pupils, substituting for meat oatmeal, for white bread whole meal bread, for tea cocoa; in fact, giving them a rich and perfect vegetarian table. There were 150 boys altogether. Two of them lost in weight a quarter of a pound each; 148 gained five and three-quarters pounds each during the first month. The afterdinner ennui disappeared, and a healthy spontaneity took its place in study and in work. The expenses of the school were markedly less, and altogether the experiment was considered a very great I success.?Herald of Health. A Valuable Antiseptic. Bisulphide of carbon, M. Pasteur thinks, will become the most effecaciousjof all antiseptics, as it is also the cheapest, costing but a fraction of a penny per pound in large quantity. It is likewise the best insecticide known, and for this purpose may, it is thought, be useful for preserving woodwork in tropical countries. Some idea of the use it is already put may be gathered from the fact, as stated, that more than eight million pounds of the substance are used annually to check the ravages of phylloxera. Carbon bisulphide, as produced, though an offensive compound in respect to odor, is capable of complete purification. Some Aches and Pains. Back-ache is often a constant complaint with overworked and delicate people. They get little pity for it. It seems almost a mockery to say: ''Remove the cause." But this should be done as much as possible, and an easy position studied while at work. Steel or steel with quinine will often do good, and the strength should be kept well up. As, however, back-ache is often connected with internal complaint, which may eventually prove intractable or incurable, whenever it occurs for any length of time a medical man should be consulted. Pain of all kinds is greatly relieved by the use of the hot bath. This is a hint which should not be forgotten. Head-aclies.?These are of so many different kinds that I caunot spare space to say much about them. Rest, aperients, absence for a time from food, and afterwards mild doses of quinine, will be found beneficial. But those who are much subject to them must take the greatest care how they live, and not neglect plenty of wholesome, happy exercise in the open air. Those who sit much during the day should be careful to hold the body as erect as possible. Cold water applied frequently to the head does good in fullness of the head. The last often proceeds from a disordered stomach and liver. The latter may be congested, and, if only transiently so, one or two anti-bilious pills will remove it. The stomach and liver sympathize very much with each other. When the latter is out of order, the former will be acid. Acidity of the stomach is a complaint with many. I shall treat of it, I trust, at a future day. Let me onl y here warn those who suffer from it not to trust too much to antacids, which always make matters worse in the long run. Slight colds and coughs should never be neglected. Unless one actually calls 'in medical assistance, probably it is better to trust to dietetic treatment, with rest and warmth, than to ^purchase cough mixtures from the shops, which may or may not be unskiliully prepared. The worst of these is that they so often contain such a quantity of opiates that, even when they do give relief, they leave want ot appetite, constipation and general inaptitude foi duty for days to come. Chlorodyne is often taken for coughs and colds. It is a dangerous remedy, in that weak-minded poople are apt to take doses of it so often that it becomes a habit, and nothing could be more dangerous. It leads eventually to chronic ill health, and is sure to shorten life if persisted in. A sprain is apt to be neglected. Rest and soothing applications, or even cold water, will be sufficient to bring matters straight very soon; but remember, many a one has become a cripple for life from neglecting a sprained foot or ankle.? CasseWs Magazine. A Boy Love Affair of Washington's. George Washington was a tall, largelimbed, shy boy of about fifteen when he fell in love with a girl whom he seems to have met when living with his brother Augustine. He calls her, in one of his letters afterward, a "lowland beauty," . and tradition makes her to have been a Miss Grimes, who later married, and was the mother of one of the young soldiers wbn sr?rv<*d under Washington in the war for independence. Whatever may have been the exact reason that his love affair did not prosper?whether he was too shy to make his mind known, or so silent as not to show himself to advantage, or so discreet with demeanor as to hold himself too long in reserve, it is impossible now to say; but I suspect that one effect was to make him wot k the harder. Sensible people do not expect bovs of fifteen to be playing the lover; and George Washington was old for his years, and not likely to appear like a spooney.?St. Nicholas. Digestibility of Cheese. The digestibility of cheese depends a good deal, according to Klenze, on its 'physical properties. All fat cheeses aro dissolved or digested with great rapidity, because the molecules of casein are separated only by the fat, and so the solvent juice can attack a large surface of the,cheese atone time. Whether the cheese be hard or soft does not appear to matter, and there is no connection between the digestibility and the percentage of water ipresent in the case. The degree of ripeness and the amount of fat have, however, considerable influence, for both ithesc conditions render the cheese more friable, and so allow of intimate contac t iof the juice. Chelder took the shortest jtime to digest (lour nours;, w:nic unripe 'Swiss cheese required tea hours for solution.?London Lancct. Depravity of Inanimate Things. Although it is said to be extremely uncomfortable to stand on one's head, it is a matter of fact that a tack will stand on its head on the floor all day to catch you as you walk across the room. The paper that contains an article on a subject in which you are greatly interested always manages to get torn up, so that you can only secure a piece containing an absorbing portion, and not be able to find the rest. Lay your fishing lines down perfectly straight, and when you go for them the next time you will find them all ttingled up in a perfect snarl of cussedness. From all of which it would seem that pretty much all the general cussedness we encounter in this life comes from objects not endowed with animal life.? Puck. , FARM AND HOUSE, MATTERS OF INTEREST'TO FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE. Cold Cream. A great deal of work may be saved now-a-day6 in churning if the cream is warmed before putting into the churn. The churn must be warmed also or it may chill the cream. Churning does not warm the cream as many seem to think. Hot water will warm the churn by being turned into it. it; snouiu uc icit ouuming long enough to heat the chum all through. The cream may be warmed by the same means, by setting the cream pot or pail into a tub of hot water. Never f)our hot water into the churn only as a ast resort. "When the cream froths it is a sign it is too cold. A cheap thermometer will save a great deal of guessing and anxious waiting.?Oar Country Rome. "Whitewash. Take half a bushel of unslacked lime, and slack it with boiling water. Cover it during the process. Strain it and add j a peck of salt dissolved in warm water, ' three pounds of ground rice boiled to a | thin paste, put in boiling hot, half a pound I of Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean { glue dissolved in warm water. Mix it and ; let it stand several days. Keep it in a j kettle and put it on hot as possible with 1 a brush. It is said to look as well and I last nearly as long as oil paint on wood, ! brick or stone. A very simple wash may i be made in the following manner: Slack i as above, and add to each pailful half a I pint of salt and the same quantity of wood-ashes, sifted fine; this makes it; thick like cream, and covers smoke much TTcn V? r\+ /^rJrvrln rr mnir ho iKprl ! UU Llti UOQ UVt* SJULKMJ ft/V MWVM I if desired. j i Strawberries from Runners. After three years trial, writes a corre- j spondent, I find that the best way to j grow handsome and superior strawberries j is to plant a new bed every year or two. And decidedly the best and easiest way i to do tills planting is to do it as soon as i picking is over. Have the ground pre-1 pared and marked off with a line, sticking in a bit of twig or weed stem about j as long as a lead-pencil to mark the place I for the hills (this for neat and exact garden culture). Then on the first cloudy day in July?don:t wait for August?take a basin or shallow kettle and a pair of scissors to the bearing bed and runners enough will be found that have escaped nipping. Scissor off these and retain the joint bearing an incipient leaf and incip lent roots. .Leave attacnea an incn or ; so of the runner and cut off its extension beyond the joint Throw these into the water as prepared, and when a number are collected take them to the new bed, where, if the ground is light and mellow, they can be planted as fast as they can be picked up by merely pushing the stump of runner horrizontally into the soil and closing this compactly against the young issuing roots. Such cuttings grow more readily than plants with roots and leaves of some length, because the I roots are not in the least narmed, and be- | cause there is so little leaf surface yet ex- i posed. Still, it is best to plant in damp, cloudy weather, and during the first week, or until the young roots have gone down to constant moisture, water must be ap- j plied at the first sign of flagging. If they ; begin to wilt under the beams of the summer sun, pour water around them, no matter what time of day it is. The gain in economy of work and strength of plants for good next June's produce by | this mode is very great. Mistakes of Farmers. An exchange furnishes us with the fol- I lowing list: 1. To think that anyone can farm; that a man who has starved as a canvasser for a patent tooth-pick, or has been unsuc- j cessful as a carpenter, can jump into a ' business requiring high intelligence and ] persevering efforts, and, being familiar ! with details, be able to make money. 2. The idea that a large farm, half I stocked and poorly cultivated, pays better than a few acres well and carefully tilled. 3. What is it but the worst kind of a mistake to pay hundreds of dollars for good farm machinery, and allow it for : want of proper shelter to rot and become ; useless a year or sooner than it should? 4. It is a mistake to let year after year i pass by with no attempt to improve the quality of the farm stock. Blooded cattle pays. They make beef quicker, and the cows give more and richer milk. Better blood in horses pays. A Norman or | part Norman colt is a valuable piece of ! property. 5. To let foolish pride or narrow- i minded jealousy prevent the adoption of | new methods when they have been proved ; by practical men. 6. To get up after the sun, lean on the fork handle speculate for an hour or two on what the weather is going to be, let the weeds get a good start, and then wonder why farming doesn't pay. 7. To leave a lot of unchopped, wet or half-6plit wood at the pile, a lot of old j harness hanging in the kitchen and muddy tracks in the dining-room, and expect to see the women folks good-natured. 8. To have a lot of half-fed,emaciated, lonesome-looking fowls roosting dejec- i tedly in some old cottonwood tree, when i a few good healthy Plymouth Rock or Brahma chickens, properly housed, would make the poultry yard an honor instead of a disgrace. Value of Cob-Meal. The question, Is there any value to , cob-meal? is answered by the Mumtchtt- j setts Ploughman as follows: If the cobs were to be ground separate, and the meal ! fed to the cattle unmixed with the corn- j meal, it is very doubtful if it would pay; but when the corn is ground with the j cob and the meal thus mixed, it is be-! lieved by those who have tried it that it ; will pay?in fact, that it would pay even 1 if the cobs contained no nutritive tjuali- ! ties, because of the mechanical eiTect I which the cob-meal has on corn-meal while in the animal's stomach. "When J corn-meal is fed unmixed it lays heavy j in the stomach, and is not readily mixed I with the liquid that is so important to ; hasten digestion. When the body of solid meal turns over in the stomach of : the animal it does not change its compact form so readily as is desirable, so :i 11 j parts of it do not touch the lining of the j stomach as they should: but when the meal is lightened up with the meal of the I cobs it greatly changes its nature and brings it to a form which is much more easily digested. For some animals the advantage derived bv a more thorough digestion is such that a peek of meal, with the cob-meal included, is of more value than a peck of clear meal. It may be said that meal may be 1 ii-ht- | ened up by mixing with it. wheat bran; this is true, but too many farmers neglect this; the bran has to be purchased; this requires money, which the farmer does not always have in quantites. .so he thinks he cannot spare it; and when he purchases it lie is not always willing to ] i spend sufficient time to so thoroughly 1 mix it with the corn-meal as is the cobmeal when the cob is ground with the corn. There is another advantage of grinding the cob with the corn?it saves the trouble and expense of shelling. Farmers are beginning to learn that to j feed large quantities of clear meal ?t? j farm stock is not economy, and, in fact, that it is not beneficial to the health of the animals, especially to pigs and hogs, and even horses. The feeding of clear fine meal to young chicks has killed large numbers; the meal sogs together in the on Vio r/1 +1-IO+ it pnnnnt. fHcTPSt. fllld so the chick dies, and the owner rarely suspects the cause. Whenever corn-meal is to be fed to swine, horses, or to poultry, there is but little doubt it would be more profitable to grind the cob with the corn than to shell the corn, and thus have only the clear meal to feed. Babv Beef. Considerable has been written recently characterizing all steers under three years old as producing meat little better than veal, and stigmatizing it as "baby beef." To show how erroneous this idea is, a first prize was awarded at the late Fat Stock Cattle show at Chicago to Messrs. Elbert & Falls for the pure bred roan Short-horn sixteen-months-old steer, Cleveland. The committee reporting on this class of animals pronounced him to be "a perfect model for the block, with little, if any, room for improvement. It would be difficult to imagine how the top, side and bottom lines could be made better for inclosing a more compact and profitable carcass. The steer was a marvel, and a more perfect outline for a profitable carcass has never been exhibited at any previous show." Cleveland weighed, alive, 1,290 pounds. His gain from birth to slaughter was 2.60 pounds per day. Throughout the show, he was the most admired of all the entries on the floor by all who critically examined him. He netted, of dead meat on the block, the remarkable percentage of 70.4. The meat was sold at the fancy price of $10 per 100 pounds live weight, amounting to lor tne sieer. ine generui mauager of the hotel for which he was bought, says the meat gave the best of satisfaction to his patrons and guests, that it was not "vealy" in the least, as some had predicted it would be, but possessed all the flavor and character of matured beef. The steward and cooks of the house joined in this opinion. Lambs also under a year old, have been slaughtered recently in England, the mutton of which was pronounced equal to that of older sheep. By hastening the ripening of animals in this way, there is much greater profit in rearing and feeding them, for they gain faster in flesh during the first year than in any subsequent one, for the food consumed, and the capital devoted to their breeding is more quickly turned and made available for raising other stock. In addition to these advantages is the added gain of considerable less risk from accidents, disease and death. Farmers will do well to carefully consider the above, and as soon as possible adopt breeds of domestic animals from which they can realize these sure extra profits.?Rural New Yorker. Recipes. Baked Eggs.?Break eight eggs into a well-buttered dish, season with pepper and salt, one-half cup of cream, one tablespoonful of butter, set in the oven nnil I !.-? tirpntv mi nnf.es. Fruit-Pudding.?One cup of molasses, one cup of milk, two teaspoons of baking powder, two eggs, three cups of flour, half cup of melted butter, one cup raisins, one cup currants. Boil two hours or steam three. Sour Milk Pudding.?One pint sour milk, one-half pint of molasses, one teaspoonful of powdered clove, one teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of cinnamon, one cup of chopped raisins, a little salt and flour, enough to make a thin batter. Boil in a tin mold two hours. Bean Soup.?Soak one quart of beans over night, put three quarts of water to boil them. Use any kind of stock. Put in onions, celery, carrots, a little summer savory, with salt and pepper. Boil all together three hours. When cooked mash through a wire sieve, and warm up when ready for the table. For white beans it is nicer to use a little cream. Almond Cake.?Two cups of sugar, two and one half cups of flour, one half cup of butter, one cup of milk, two teaspoons of baking powder. Bake in layers. For frosting and filling, whites of two eggs, sugar to thicken, one and onefourth pound of almonds. Blanch the almonds by putting in hot water, and, j when ready, take off the skins and shave in thin slices, stir them in the frosting on/1 cr\tv>'irl nn tViP tnn nnrl het.ween the layers. Household Hints. Salt fish is improved by adding a little vinegar to the water in which it is soaked. Hellebore, sprinkled on the floor at night, destroys cockroaches. They eat it and are poisoned. The best way of removing tea and coffee stains from fine damask, is to immerse them at once in milk. If boots that have become hardened by moisture be rubbed with petroleum they will be rendered quite soft. A pretty way to put up cards for ornament in one's own room is to take two light and slender canes and cross them, tie them together with ribbons, and put a bow al each end, letting one band of the ribbon go across from one end to the other ?through this slip the cards. Cogitations on the Top Rail. The fun of sleighing is more in the jingle of the bells than in the speed of the trotter. Memory fattens on trouble while the body grows lean. Never run when walking will answer the same purpose?it is a useless waste of tissue. The grin on the other fellow's face is far more aggravating than the fact that he has just whipped you. When a fellow really wants to fight he does not scream for some one to hold him. It is a positive luxury to have some folks abuse you. If a business man publishes the fact that honesty is his motto, the community is apt to tight shy of him. * - t - 1 ? .V .. X. i. A.X IllTllt snot* is niori* ui it ivnuu man cither a socialist or a boycottcr. The problem of life will be solved when you want nothing and can get nothing. It is always sonic one else's letters we forget to mail. When a man is painfully innocent watch him. Imprudence will take you further than timidity and also get you whipped ofteuer.?Detroit Free Press. An owl four feet long from tip to tip was killed the other day in the neighborhood of Luthersville, Ga. WORDS OF WISDOM. After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how almost impossible it is to reclaim it. The most cross-grained are by no inean9 the worst of mankind; or the humblest in station the least polished in feeling. Good-nature, like a bee, collects its honey from every herb. Ill-nature, like a spider, sucks poison from the sweetest flowers. "Wealth," says Dr. Holmes, 1 'is a steep hill which the father climbs slowly, and which the son often tumbles down precipitately. Old age is the night of life, ns night is the old age of day. Still night is full of magnificence, and for many it is more brilliant than day. The apprehension of evil is many times worse than the evil itself; and the ill, a man fears he shall suffer, he suffers in the very fear of them. Soft words may appease an angry man ?bitter words never will. Would you throw fuel on a house in flames in order to extinguish the fire? If there is a right thing to be done, and we seem to pass through a wrong thing on our way to it, there's another way to it, and a better one. Stories heard at mother's knee are never wholly forgotten. They form a little spring that never quite dries up in our journey through scorching years. ?v*/ A Mighty Cariboo Slayer. Perhaps no one disciple ofNimrod can point to a like success in ihe chase as Vioo Vinnn fYnf?ripnmr1 hv Mr. .Tames Porter, of Thibert Creek, Cassiar, who under all circumstances is credited with being a capital shot. While on a hunting excursion during the winter of | 1882-3, in company with Mr. Chas. Cameron, both of whom were armed with Winchesters, and the cold being forty to fifty degrees below zero, they came on a band of thirteen cariboo browsing on the bushes which are to be found on the mountains above the timber line. Cameron took one direction, while Porter made a circle to take advantage of a ridge, so that he might get within shot, which he succeeded in ioing and fired his first shot at 150 yards, which counted one bagged. The band then started on the run, and before they got out of reach he had sped twenty-two bullets ' among them, killing nine and wounding the tenth severely. Night coming on, they had to gather the slain, for the wounded cariboo could not be followed, but when the carcasses were skinned it was discovered that the nine were hit nineteen . times out of the twenty-two shots fired. Last winter, Mr. Porter, while out with Mr. B. Sullivan on a sporting trip, came on a band of some fifteen or sixteen cariboo on the mountains at the head of Dease creek, and eclipsed all his former feats of marksmanship. uwmgto ine nature of the mountain side on which they were feeding, Porter could not possibly get nearer to them than five hundred yards, so he quietly adjusted the sight for that range, dropped on one knee, and at the crack of his rifle there was one cariboo less. At the sound of the first shot they commenced running, and before they came out of range, Mr. Sullivan says, there were several lying at al: most equal distances apart. Mr. Porter told the writer that he did not take time to raise his rifle sight as the distance in! creased, but that he held at the top of the back of the last two which he shot. ? Victoria (B. C.) Times. Amonff the Bravest and Best. Rough fellows of the olden time! There is where the Bret Harte ideas crops out. The fellows of the olden time were not rough old fellows, but on the contrary, those old fellows who came here first were the bravest and most chivalrous men on earth. They would not have started to come had they not been brave. And very many of them were men of education and well read (not culi tivatcd as things go now), although sometimes some of those gentlemen did not wear fine clothes. William M. Stewart, whacking a bull ' ^ AT o ?roo n i ceam lip 111 muse muuuiaui^ >> tio n ; | man of as much brains, courtesy ] and bravery as when he sat in the United States Senate. John Bigler, when rolling barrels on the Sacramento levee, was as good a man as when John Bigler was governor of California; John R. McConoell. when he had on one old boot and one old shoe and was ragged as to the rear end of his trowsers, and while he was "totin" shakes to the top of a cabin in Nevada City, was then as fine a scholar as the State can boast of to-day, and he was as learned, polite and as considerate then as when he afterward graced the State's office of attorney-general. We could specify many other instances of learned men working at day's work in olden times. The gulches in this country were filled with scholars and gentlemen who were fighting for fortune with picks and shovels. Those men had neither the manners nor the language attributed to them by the writer of alleged California stories.?Grans Valley (Cal.) Tidings. Mr. J. D. L. Harvey, proprietor of the Palace Market, Chicago, writes that he spent $2,000 in trying to cure his wife of rheumatism, and that St. Jacobs Oil accomnlished what all else failed to bring about. He says it is a greater discovery than electricity. A Denver man drives a team of elks capable of going one hundred miles a day. When a man's notes are readily endorsed. his credit is good. When public men endorse Red Star Cough Cure as being safe, sure and free from poisons, you may be certain it is a great discovery. Price 25 cents. The king's palace in Corca is now lighted with electricity of the Yankee brand. Science is Approaching the cure of consumption?a disease caused by a deposit from the blood of impure matter in the lungs. For stimulating to healthy action the spleen, liver, kidneys and organs skin, which remove waste and poisonous matter, no Remedy is equal to Dr. Walker's California Vinegar Bitters. Evening funerals are fast coming into ! vogue in New York. Expresses His Gratitude.?Albert A. Larson, ol' Kirkman, Iu., writes to the proprietors of Allen's Lung Balsam: "1 firmly believe my wife would have died of consumption, if not for the 1 imely use of your Balsam." Price 25c., 50c. and $1 per bottle, at Druggists. The death rate in Dakota is only five in the 1,000. Lyon's Patent Metallic Stiffeners prevents i boots and shoes from running over, ripping in the seams or wearing unevenly on the heels. Loldon has 300,000 dogs. New York has 500, For removing dandruff and promoting the 1 growth of the hair, use Hall's Hair Renewcr. i Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,in thousands of cases, has cured a cough in a few days. " A TERRIBLE CONFESSION. A Physician Presents Some Startling Facta. oan it be that the danger indicated is universal. The following story?which is attracting wide attention from the press?is bo remarkable that we cannot excuse ourselves if we do not lay it before our readers entire: To the Editor of the Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat. Sin:?On the first day of June, 1881, I lay at my residence in this city surrounded by my friends and waiting for death. Heaven only knows the agony I then endured, for words can never describe it, And yet if a few years previous any one had told me that I was to be brought so low, and by so terrible a disease, I should have scoffed at the idea. I have always been uncommonly strong and healthy, and weighed over JiOO pounds, and hardly knew, in my own expox-ience, what pain or sickness were. Very many people who will read this statement realize at times they are unusually tir?d and cannot account for it- They feel dull pains in various parts of the body and do not understand why. Or they are exceedingly hungry one day and entirely without appetite the next. This was just the way I felt when the relentless malady which had fastened itself upon me first began. Still I thought nothing of It; that probably I had taken a cold which would soon pass away. Shortly after this I noticed a heavy, and at times neuralgic pain in one side of my head, but as it would come one day and be gone the next, I paid llttlb attention to it. Then my stomach would get out of order and my food often failed to digest, causing at times great inconvenience. Yet, even as a physician, I did not think that these things meant anything serious. I fancied I was suffering from malaria and doctored myself accordingly. But I got no better. I next noticed a peculiar color and odor about the fluids I was passing?also that there were large quantities one day and very little the next, and that a persistent froth and scum appeared upon the surface, and a sediment settled. And yet I did not realize my danger, for, indeed, seeing these symptoms continually, I finally became accustomed to them, and my suspicion was wholly disarmed by the fact that I had no pain in the affected organs or in their vicinity. Why I should have been so blind I cannot understand. I consulted the best medical skill in the land. I visited all the famed mineral springs in America and traveled from Maine to Califor nia. Still I grew worse. No two physicians agreed as to my malady. One said I was troubled with spinal irritation, another, dyspepsia; another, heart disease; another,general debility; another, congestion of the base of the brain; and so on through a long list of common diseases, the symptoms of many of which I really had. In this way several years passed, during which time I was steadily growing worse. My condition had really become pitiable. The slight symptoms I at first experienced were developed into terrible and constant disorders. My weight had been reduced from 207 to 130 pounds. My life was a burden to myself and friends. I could retain no food on my stomach,and lived wholly by injections. I was a living mass of pain. My pulse was uncontrollable. In my agony I frequently fell to the floor and clutched the carpet, and prayed for deathl Morphine had little or no effect in deadening the pain. For six days and nights I had the death-premonitory hiccoughs conI stantly! My water was filled with tube-casts and albumen. I was struggling with Bright's Disease of the kidneys in its last stages. While suffering thus I received a call from my pastor, the Rev. Dr. Foote, at that time rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church, of this city. I felt that it was our last interview, but in the course of conversation Dr. Foote detailed to me the many remarkable cures of cases lik* my own which had come under hi* observation. As a practicing physician and a graduate of the schools, I derided the idea of any medicine outside the regular channels being in the least_beneflclal. So solicitous, however, was Dr. *'oote, to at J nnauy promised i wuuiu waive my prejudice. I began its use on tht first day of June, 1881, and took it according to directions. At first it sickened me; but thii I thought was a good sign for one in my debilitated condition. I continued to take it; the sickening sensation drpart?d and I was finally able toretain food upon mystomach. in afew days I noticed a decided change for the better, as also did my wife and friends. My hiccoughs ceased and I experienced less pain than formerly. I was so rejoiced at this improved condition that, upon what I believed but a few days before was my dying bed, I vowed, in the presence of my family and friends, should I recover I would both publicly and privately make known this remedy for the good of humanity, wherever and whenever I had an opportunity, and this letter is in fulfillment of that vow. My improvement was constant from that time, and in less than three months I had gained 126 pounds in flesh, became entirely free from pain and 1 believe I owe my ; life and present condition wholly to Warner's safe cure, the remedy which I used. Since my recovery I have thoroughly re-investigated the subject of kidney difficulties and Bright's disease, and the truths developed are astounding. I therefore state, deliberately, i and as a physician, that I believe more than one-haXf the deaths which occur in Amcrica are caused by Bright's disease of the kidneys. This may sound like a rash statement, but I am prepared to verify it fully. Bright's disease has no distinctive features of its own (indeed, it often develops without any pain whatever in * ' * -- u..?. A tQ9 Kidneys or caoir yiuliuly;, ljui> una mo lymptami of nearly every other common complaint. Hundreds of people die dally, whose burials are authorized by a physician's certificate as occurring from "Heart Disease," "Apoplexy," "Paralysis," "Spinal Complaint," "Rheumatism." "Pneumonia," and the other common complaints, when in reality it is from Bright's disease of the kidneys. Few physicians, and fewer people, realize the extent of this disease or its dangerous and insidious nature. It steals into the system like a thief, manifests its presence if at all by the commonest symptoms and fastens itself in the constitution before the victim is aware of it. It i3 nearly as hereditary as consumption, quite as common and fully as fatal. Entire families, inheriting it from their ancestors, have died and yet none of the number knew or realized the mysterious power which was removing them. Instead of common symptoms it often shows none whatever, but brings death suddenly, from convulsions, apoplexy or heart disease. As one who has suffered, and knows by bitter experience what he says, I implore every one who reads these words not to neglect the slightest symptoms of kidney difficulty. No one can afford to hazard such chances. I make the foregoing statements based upon facts which I can substantiate to the letter. The welfare of those who may possibly be sufferers such as I was is an ample inducement for me to take the step I have, and if I can successfully warn others from the dangerous path in which I once walked, I am willing to endure all the professional and poraonal consequcnces. J. B. HENION, M. D. Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 30, A pound of bananas, it is said, contains more nutriment than three pounds of meat or as many pounds of potatoes, while as a food it is in every sense of the word far superior to the best wheaten bread. Although it grows spontaneously throughout the tropics, when cultivated its yield is prodigious, for an acre of ground planted with bananas will return, according to Humboldt, as much food material as thirty-three acres of wheat, or over 100 acres of potatoes. Ten thousand of the greatest faults in our neighbors are of less consequence to us than one of the smallest in ourselves. An improvement in railroading is the heated freight car for carrying sensitive | fruit. Three Utile Maids RrlRht. fresh and charming, say they owe their goo 1 health, and clear complexions to Hood's Sarsaparllla. Everyone may have good health by taking Hood's Sarsaparllla, which cures scrofula, salt rheum, dyspepsia, biliousness, rheumatism, catarrh, kidney and "? ?? cnmninints. and all diseases caused or promoted by Impure blood or Ion-state of the system. If you I feel tired and all worn out. Hood's Sarsapariila will renew your strength and purify your blood. The little daughter of Mrs. Charles Brewster. IJuf falo, X. V., suffered greatly with sties on her eyes. Hood's Sarsapariila completely cured her. Miss Carrie Ware, Mllford, N. II.. had a sore come In her ear, wlileh spread over her neck and both sides of her face. In two days after she began taking Hood's Sarsapariila the sore commenced to heal, and ' in a week it was all healed up. Jessie F. Dolbeare, Pascoag, R. L, had no appetite or strength, and felt tired all the time. Hood's Sarsapariila restored her appetite and strength. Hood's Sarsapariila Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $>. Prepared I by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowolt, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar 1 * Cooking Snails. It is but poor philosophy to despise snails because they are eaten on the other side of the channel, says the London Telegraph. Snails that feed on vines are considered best for cooking. Put some water into a saucepan, and when it begins to boil throw in the snails, and lei them boil a quarter of an hour; then take them out of their shells; wash them several times, taking great pains to cleanse them thoroughly; place them again in | clean water and reboil them for a quarter of an Hour, 'men taKe xnem cui, nuse them, dry them and place them with a little butter in a frying pan and fry them gently for a few minutes, sufficiently t<i brown them; serve them with somv piquante sauce. What Wonld the World Do without woman? asks the essayist who starti out to say something new on this oft-treate I subject. Of course, the human element of tlw world would not exist without woman, so thi question is gratuitous. It. would have been more sensible to ask: What would the world do without the salvation of woman, without a panacea for her physical ills and cure for he* peculiar diseases. In a word, what would tho world do without Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Pre7 scription," the great remedy for female weak-, nesses? It is indispensable for the ills o< womankind. ttvple Sam's liquor bill last year was $553,* 000,000. Nightmare, sick-headache, depression of spirits, and want of ambition are symptoms of a diseased liver. The lungs, sfomach and bowels are all in sym-t pathy. Life is only a living death. Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" acts upon tho torpid liver, and effectually removes all theso difficulties and disorders. Nervous feelings, gloomy forebodings, and irritability of temper1 all disappear. Great Britain has only 60,000 acres of mar' ket garden. "Tr tl~ nwfl/i mon ctiffDriric frnm I XUUU? UI UiiUUiC-UftUU MIVM guuvi.u. 1 nervous debility and kindred weaknesses should send 10 cents in 6tamps for large illus! trated treatise suggesting sure means of cure. "World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Kentucky has furnished eleven speakers of the House. Four pcore years and ten have not seen the equal of Ely's Cream Balm as a remedy lar Catarrh, Colds in the Head, and Hay Fever. It Svorks like magic, giving relief at once, and permanent benefit. A thorough treatment cui^es the worst cases. Apply with the finger into the nostrils. Price 50 cents at druggists. 00 cents by mail. Ely Bros., Owego, N. Y. A cold of unusual severity which I took last autumn developed into a difficulty decidedly catarrhal in all its characteristics, threatening a return of my old chronic malady, catarrh. One bottle of Ely's Cream Balm completely eradicated every sympton of that painful ana prevailing disorder.?E. W. Warner, 165 Hudson St? Rochester, N. Y. We have used Ely's Cream Balm in our home for nearly two years, and find it the best medicine we have ever used for colds or catarrh,?J. C. Vasselin.Covington, Tioga Co., Pa. Menbman'b Peptonized beef tonic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains blood-making force,generating and life-sustaining properties; invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility; , also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, overwork or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell,Hazard ? Co., Proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists. Hie M?t aeiacitiAc ceiaapoind fer th? cure of e?Ms and all threat and long troubles is Dr. DifelaWt Positive Cure. It is pleasant, prompt and safe. 60 c?ntg and SI. The Postmaster of Liverpool, Florida, writes: "The last Hop jfumer wonteu wonuere uu rheumatism. Send me another." 25c. The best Ankle Bpot and Collar Pads are made of zinc and leather. Try them. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c. No Opium in Piso's Cure for Consumption Cures where other remedies fail. 25c. How to Shorten'Life. The receipt 1b simple. You have only to take a Violent cold, and neglect It. Abcrnethy, the greal English surgeon, asked a lady who told him she onlj had a cough: "What would you have?the plague?'. Beware of "only coughs." The worst cases can, however, be cured by DR. WM. HALL'S BALSAM for the LUNGS. In Whooping Cough and Croup 11 Immediately allays irritation, and Is sure to prevenl a fatal termination of the disease. Sold by drug gists. Red Star TRADE Vm/ MARK. @*(5% Free from Opiates, Emetics and, Poison* sure! OKCts. prompt. AT I)ftVOOIITl AND D*kl.ru. THE CHARLES A. TOOELER CO.. BALTIMORE, BP. CBMnSSr W f% Cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, I All II A I M| Backache, Headache, Toothache, i"or ran 8 Vl I Ul 11 AT DKUGG1ST8 AND DKAI.BBS. rr'" ^MAJlLta A. TOGKI.ru CO.. IIAl.TIBORE. BO ICDRrFiTST When I say cure I do not mem merely to stop them for a time and then hare them return ajrain. Imean a radical cure. I hare made the disease of FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a life-long study. I warrant my remedy to cure the worst caaes. Became others hare faUed is no reason for not now receiving a cure. Send at one# for atreatlae and a Free Bottle of my infallible remedy, aire Express Mid Post Office. TtTrtuta vrm nothlntr for a trial, and I will cure TOU. *" W~AdifresaI)H. H.~G. ROOT, 1&3 Pearl St., New York. No Rope to Cut Of! Horses' Manes- kK Celebrated 4ECLIP.SK> HALTER JM1 and BRIDLE Combined, cannor jBrStv be Slipped by any liorse. Sample Halter to any part of U. S. free, on receipt of |1. Sold by all Saddlery. snBm Hardware and Harness Dealers ,MQgf Special discount to the Trade. JLgE&w YyB Send for PrlceLlst. ?"i V J. C. LIGHTHOUSE, T V ? Rochewter, N. Y. w " UnDDUaMC Chloral and MUnrnlllDpkim Habit EASILY CURED. ADVICE FREE. DR. J. C. HOFFMAN, Jefferson, Wisconsin. DEBILITY TXf VKXi.LV.mmr DECAY. Alifaaxparieaeo. Remarkable aad qnlck eore?. Trial paok? a<?(. 8?nd Stamp for lealed parileclara. Addrcia, Dr. WARD & CO., LOUISIANA, *0. WELL BORING AND ROCK ft BM A book worth 910. on I AIIP E, D ft BU & Courtship, sent free I II If pa fir H C. t b>'the Un,on F,lb- Co" " I I KB BB Newark.N.J. Send stamp* for post'xGEN. GRANT'S MEMOIRS .Special arranjfenjentMiind extra tcrins secured by addressing "APPOMATTOX," Uox i7'J, Fuila... Pa. ni.' L DSIIa GreaiEnglish Gout and Diail S I lluSi Rheumatic Remedy. Oval Box, 81.00: round, 60 etm* PENSIONS 8NCREASED ; r Write L. Bingham, I Att'y, Wash'n, r>. C. Hf ITCH ELL'S Perforated Ucll.adon'ia XT1 1'innirrrt cure an a'.-hcs ;iiiu rains. ..nn> m.-.ii. edy tor that < ?>i.u jtot between tlje sh >uluer.4. Sol.l bj Drui'tnsts everyw li.-rc. THURSTOFS KTOOTH POWDER Keeping Teeth Perfect and Cumi Healthy. PI l.ES?Needham's world-renowned Ued Clover Suppositories cure severe eases to <5 days. ?:? .; st'ir.ps taken. K. H Lewis, Hox 2nsi.San Kr'nelseo.Cal. DATCEUTC Obtained. Send stamy for [ A I E> 11 I *3 Inveutors' (iaida. L. Ui.vjham, Patent Lawyer, Washinnluu, o. 0. enng BITC B An !""tlve *'an or Wom?n lner?ry ??iJw S% RW E "county to fell our ;vo<li 8?l*rj $1&. Wfl Sfl ra per Sooth mid hxpenses. Kxpensr> :n sdHCTW Oa vjikt. Canvassing outfit FRKfc: Particulars Vl free. Standard Silver-ware Co. Boston. Ma a a. -iv vtm i"" . ; p$3-?ty'S 25 25 o\2sfS^/j&r rrwrc DEBTS "/f^oW^)vaaia for / ntm Cougy^|^^Croup . | THE BEST AND CHEAPEST COUGH or CROUP i REMEDY. AS AN EXPECTORANT IT HAS NO EQUAL ItContains no Opium In Any Form. ALL.EX'8 IjUNG BALSAM In Three Size Bottles, Price 25 Cents, 50 Cents and Sfl Per Bottle. The25-Cent Bottles are put up for the accommodation of all who desire simply a Cough or Croup Remedy. Those desiring a remedy for CONSUMPTION or any LUNG DISEASE should secure the large $1 bottles. Price, 25c., 50c. and $ I per Bottle, SOLD BY ILL MEDICINE DEALERS N Y N U?4 ( . |j| Vinegar Bitters .1 Is the ereat Blood Purifier and Life-givin* Principle; a Gentle Purgative and Tonic; a perfect Renovator and Invigorator of the system. In Vinegar Bitters there is vitality bat no alcoholic or mineral poison. Dtveoses of the Skin, of whatever name or nature, ore literally dug up and carried out of the system in a short time by the use of the Bitters. Vinegar Bitters allays feverishness. It relieves, and in time cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, r . Jj Gout, and similar painful diseases. v Vinegar Bitters cures Constipation and prevents Diarrhoea. Never before has a medicine been compounded possessing tho power of Vinxoab Bitter8 to heal the sick. Send for either of our valuable reference books for ladies, for farmers, for merchants, our Medical Treatise on Diseases, or our Catechism on Intemperance and Tobacco, which last should be read by every child and youth in the land. ?ny two of the above books mailed free on . :> receipt of four cents for registration fees. B. H. McDonald Drug Co., 683 Washington Si., N.Y. < H Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use Pa Ba in time. Sold by druggists. W "Pise's Cure for Consumption saved my life."-" L. L. Whiple, Druggist, Kintner, Mich. WHEIIAlt ELSITAIlsr Bast Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Uas B ^^^^^intlmfc8ol^ydrugJ?^^^IH^ "Will buy no other Cough Medicine as long as w? can getPiso's Cure.C. B. Laboczb, Kirkwood, 11L WHEItMLliscpi(UlS. fll Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Uas K9 in llm? Sold bv druearlflts. HI "Piso's Cure cured me of Consumption."?'ff*. 8. ( Robbetson, Brandy wine, Md. jKj ' e2I Beet Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use gfij EJ In time. Sold by druggists. Nn mTTMB j B ^1411 IJiBnBffl . if "Piso's Cure for Consumption is the best medic.ns we ever used.O. L. Bopsb, Abilene, Kana. UK CORES WHHEALL llSEr A M Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use Q| "Piso's Curefor Consumption is doing wondflrt far me."?H. H Stansell, Newark, N. Y. "ST 'Eks^KKM l B Best Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use H l fE?r.R'C 1 8mmi 1 MENDS EVERYTHING Wood, Leather, Paper, Ivory.Glass< China, Furniture, Bric-a-Brac, *c. Strong u Iron, Solid as a Bock. The total quantity fold during th? put five years amounted to over All dealers can sell it Awarded JSUaLl?IE&!fc Pronouaced Stronge?t Glue known Send dealer's card and 10c. postage teui?"oAcid' If a child Is properly nourished, quiet nights and joyous, happy childhood Is the result. Thousands of infants are peevish and fretful because they are boingslowly starved, owing to the inability or mother* to supply the proper nourishment. Ridge's Food will supply the deflclcney better than any other; Indeed. thousands have been successfully reared on Ridge's Food alone. FRAZER | AXLE GREASE. Heit In the World. Made only by the Frazer Lubricator Co. at Chicago, N. Y. & St.Louis. Sold everywhere. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is the H| Beit, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. H 8 Also good for Cold in the Head, Headache, Hay Fever, Ac. SO cents. tj| You are allowed a free trial of thirty days of the dm of Dr. Dye's Celebrated Voltaic Belt wftn Electric 8od? rv?n?nrv ADDllances. for the speedy relief and pep manent cure of Nervom Debility, loss of Vitality and Manhood, and all kin J red troubles. Also for many other diseases. Complete restoration to Health, Visor, and Manhood guaranteed. >'o risk Is Incurred. Dlu* trated pamnhler in sealed envelope mailed free, by ads dressln.* VOLTAIC BELT CO.. Marshall m C! >im talen tha l??d tm tile sales of that clisf of mSBt Cart* In >jcS9 and h.n give# Mje^f ] to 5 DaYS.X* ahnojt universal sitniicAByGa?r*nte?d not tj?/B c?ojm Striotarc. MURPHY^JROS., RBI Mr? .nlj by th? ? h*?,won ?he ??*or ,of UH. ? / _ the public *nd now ranks UBUrtSJ Cctmlal Co. among the leading Medio Clnoinnatl.GBHIcinat?[?e ?}g?| Ohio. ' 'Bradford, Pi. ^ SoMby Dru^sti. HNNYROYAL "CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH'* Tlie Original and Only Genuine. ' *?f*?ad reliable. Brwtre of Worth lea* IncitatieMk >'4ChIchr?trr'* En*llahr are the beat marie. Inrtl<peaiiibl# TO LADIES. lDclo<eic. (ktampa) fur particular*. te<4> moniiua, etc., in <<t?r at-nt tou br re-Bfe "!?AA?ixi'<y p is" 8307 Uadiasa 6<i.,rLllada, P? | IkbW B