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i agric ultu ral TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. p Feeding Fumpkins to Mwine* Pumpkins, like wheat bran, are useful adjuncts to the more concentrated kinds of food, but aloae cannot be depended upon for fattening purposes. Hogs in process of fattening should be filled up with a good meal of corn before the j! pumpkin is given, otherwise they will eat too much pumpkin in proportion to the corn. By all means cut open the pumpkins and remove the seeds before feeding, as large quantities of pumpkinseed affect the urinary organs injuriously. Any change during the feeding season should be from light to heavier and . more nutritious food; never the reverse. "While gradually increasing the quantity of fattening food, do not give more than the animais will eat up clean, and let the rations be at regular hours?early in the morning, at noon and late in the evening. ?New York World. | Enclosing Straw Stacks. As the object of most farmers who I grow grain is to work the straw into manure as quickly as possible, stock is ' usually allowed the free access to it. They will work large holes in it, usually on the fide next the barn, where the car? ~ " J Iaiimah inn r\ f rier UU3 Ufpt?Ul-U tilC piuvn Vi the chiif, to.) fine to bo easily pitched over the sta k. This finer portion is a valuable feed, and more nutritious than the coarser part of the stalks below the head. In getting it from th'j s ack by pulling it out. more is wasted than is eaten. It the stack is fenccd in, this ^ part may be cut down and fed to cattle and horses in their mangers, while the coarser part may be thrown out as bedding. If there is a large stack, and any likelihood of scarcity of hay or stalks, i this economy in the use of the better part of the straw will more than repay the extra trouble. By using more grain much i of the straw nmy be fed to stock, keepl ing them better and making better masu e than the results from using straw only as bedding. ? Cultivator. (Salt ami Wood Ashes. Mr. Joseph E. Ca c reports to the Michigm Farmer that during a five years' test he has fojnd salt and wood ashes,, a barrel per acie, mixed half and A ofroinot /?n frTrnrm q in P jjaii^ a oj/vv.iau u^wuisv Vuv?? f cornfields, and this in a region where [ the pe?ts are very destructive. "One of my neighbors planted twice and the worms took all the first planting, and were so bad the secoud that he dragged part of his field and sowed rutabagas. Two more have given up and have no corn. I sow the mixture right ahead of the plow; d n't sow nuy more than I can plow under in half a day. or one day at most; then I get it under with the i ?reen sod, which the worms have to | leed on before the corn comes up. Two years ago I planted two ten-acre fields to corn; on one sowed salt and ashes before plow'ng; planted both the snme time. When the corn came up the field I sowed with salt and a^he3 had no worms; on the other, as soon as the corn came up the worms commenced their work. 1 then applied equal parts of salt, ashes and plaster, mixed well [ together, for too much salt, I think,will kill the young plants The worms stopped their wcrk, and my corn came | on and was a good crop. I Raising Sheep. How I raise ray sheep was the topic of a succcssful wool-grower at the meeting of the Iowa live-stockmen. He said: <41 would prefer pure bred stock, but as that is e.\p?nsive I usually get grade? and breed up, for it takes but a short time to breed up a /jood flock. I have always used pure bred Merino rams, being convinced that for profit, where sheep are kept in l'o ks of 100 or more, there is no equal to the Merino and its crosse?. I aim to couple so as to have lambs droppel as s ion as grass comes in spring. I want lambs to come early, yet not before there is pasture enough so that the ewes will have plenty of milk. During lambing tim-j I k ep a close watch, and if a lamb is dropped?unless it is warm weather?I seo that it goes to the stable at once and as soon as possible see that it sucks?after which no further care is needed, except in storms. I aim to castrate all lambs before three weeks l old, and wean them by September 1st. | During summer I kr.ow nothing better ? man gooa cuic grassiinu mat Kepi pretty short, as sheep do not like long grass. I never feed grain in summer; yet when pasture is short, I think a little grain i would pay. I feed lightly at first in the fall, but by the time winter sets in I aim to give full feed of abo it one bushel of corn to 100 head p -j- day, with plenty of hny; while on dry feed in winter it is important that sheep should have plenty of water. When the (old fs .11 rainS commence they should bu kept dry; no sheep > will thrive when its coat of wool is oaked full of water. Good care and shelter are just as important as good feeding, for sheep well sheltered will t shear from one to two pounds more per j nccce tnan wnen exposta to tne weatner, y and the wool will soli fur a higher price ' in the market. With fine-wool shesp the wool can be left on until quite late in ' the season?fir^t, b cause there i3 great danger of losing shc.'p by cold storms, if sheared too early in the season; and, second, Ihewool is not in the best eon, dition until tha "grc !^e'' raises, which ? will not be until the weather is quite I warm. We usually sell a? soon as the clip is ready. I think the Merino sheep and their crosses the most profitable, because they, being much smaller, eat less, and shear more than the coarser ones. You can keep at least live fine wools on the same feed you keep three coarse ' ones. Farm and Garden Notes. Skii ming at the right time prevents rancid butter. Dry quarters are essential to the thrift of young chicks. Stirring the cream frequently will make more butter. Chum at sixty-two degrees to get the cream quickest into btuter. The richer and better tilled the ground the less seed will be required for small gran. Sheep-walks should be dry, for damp I 60;ls a e irumui causes 01 uver-roc, nuKe, foot-rot, etc. Make harness fit properly, and keep it soft and clean, and a horse can wear it without di9tres3. For your chickens corn meal is not a good food, but the older fowls find it warming in the winter. It is claimed that clay soil produces the best quality of wools, sand second, jj^^ymd lime the most inferior. [^^^^Keep the windows of the potato cellar at night and closed in the day ^^^^^^ unlcss the days be cool and dry. I^HjH^^Boes, carrots, cabbage and turnips, l^^flBR^ftked and mixed with meal, and are excellent food for chick In the case of trees which bear in al- j ternate years, judicious thinning will often result in considerable fruit in the ! n<T vpiirs "Wheat cut when ripe is the best for j seed; cut when the berry hardens, when I it is passing from the dough state, is | best for flour. If one or two pigs of a litter are smaller and weaker than the rest, allow them to suck a week or two after the strong ones are weaued. There is only one profitable system of feeding, and that is to feed the calf, the lamb or the pig liberally from the day of its birth to its maturity. There is nothing like uniformly good condition, with no shocks given to the system of the sheep, for producing a uniform fiber and the best possible wool. Mo;> and wash all part's of the stall, trough or manger, in which a diseased horse has been standing, with a pint of sulphuric acid put in a bucket of water. To m:ike a profit in dairying try putting two cows in one skin; that is, make the feed and care bestowed on one cow produce as much as you now get from two. Fowls should be j rovided with fresh, clear drinking water, especially when streams are frozen. Both sheep and chii kins need constant supplies of good water. Instead of selling old cast iron at onehalf cent per j ound p.it small pieces near the roots of grapes, currant', gooseberries and fruit trees. It is very bencfieial. 1 here is no better place for rows of currant, gooseberry, raspberry or DiacKberry bushes than along the fence in the yard. The feuce gives good support to the vines, which, if tied to it, are easily picked. Some philosopher says the young farmer who spends in rich living, show, etc., all he makes the first year he begins life on his own account, will be apt to continue in the same line as long as he lives. Although the short-horn is one of the largest breeds of cattle, it is stated that ccw of that breed, belonging to Jlr. David Xiles. of Pickaway County, Ohio, gave birth to a calf weighing only eight pounds. It was well developed. The ingredients of commercial fertilizers, upon which both their agricultural and commercial value depend, are nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash. Sulphuric acid and lime are also always present in superphosphate in the shape of plaster. The first thing to do before storing corn in the crib is to have the crib ratproof and well protected against beating rains. Rats will destroy moregrain than the most liberal estimate allows for loss, and the crib should be so protected as to prevent them from getting in through auy source. A ripe, dry onion contains at least eighty per ccnt. of water, and when a large mess of them are together they are likely to "sweat." And yet, in order to presc.ve onions during the winter, the great point is to keep them dry. If in a cold climate, it is as well to suffer them to freeze solid, and stay frozen until wanted in the spring. The following de;cribe the characteristic po'.nts of excellence in any breed of hog9: Face short, fine, and well dished; wide between eyes; ears fine and thin; neck short and thick; jowl large; shoulders broad and deep; back broad and straight; ribs well arhtd, making the legs broad an 1 strong; hips good length; hams thick, full and deep; coat, fine and soft; legs short, straight and strong. It may be surprising to some farmers to be told that filling a horse's rack with hay, as some do, and permitting a constant supply to remain before the animal, is one of the most probable means of producing disease, and the most positive in rendering the animal unlit for fast work. Lar^e supplies of hay have the effect of making the stomach large and weak. Everybody knows, too, that the ventilation of the stu' le should be as perfect as possible, so that all the odors and gases will have an opportunity to escape. If the drinking water be ice-cold it will re |uire the Consumption of much extra fi-ed (fuel) to bring it up to blood Vinot in tlm cfnrrvifh Thft ftnim.il i<J t?\ed to digest and assimilate 'this extra load of foo l above that required for the ordinary p :rposes of sustaining life and making muscle and fat. Would it not pay for the farmer, in addition to warm s ables, to have some method of warming the water for his flock? Wood and coal are certainly cheaper fuel than hay or grain. At least it will pay to give water fresh from the well, and^not allow it to stand until chilled. To allow them to driuk from a fro en stream or pond is wasteful and barbarous. One may ke;p ten or twelve fowls with profit who could not doubio or treble this number sucessfully, because with a larger number all the difficulties "which arise, such as want 01 cieanuness, the presence of vermin, impure air, and risk of infection, increase in a much larger ratio than does the number in the flock. But if one has succeeded with a small flock there is no reason why he should not do so with several flocks, if each is kept in just the same manner as the original one. Afterward the flocks may be enlarged, but as this is the very point on which young poultry raisers fail th;i greatest caution should be observed in adding to the number of fowls kept in eavh coop or house or yard. Handy Things to Know. Here are some figures and rule3 very handy to know and have at hand, in the mind or on paper: A rod is 10 1-2 feet, or 5 1-2 yards. A ?U A .A/1n uiuc lb o-v iuuo, A mile is 1,700 ya:ds. A mile is 5,280 feet. A square fost is 144 square inches. A square yard contains i) square feet. A square rod is 272 l-l square feet. An acre contains 43,oG0 square feet. An acre contains 4,840 square yards. An acre contains 1G0 s |uare rods. A scction, or square mile, contains 040 acres. A quarter section contains 1G0 acres. An acre is 8 rods wide by 20 rods long. An acre is 10 rods wide by ten rods Ion g. At. acre is about 208 3-4 feet square. A solid foot contains 1,72s solid inches. A pint (of water) weighs 1 pound. A solid foot of water weighs 02 1-2 pounds. A gallon (of water) holds 2:31 solid inches. A gallon of milk weighs 8 pounds and 10 ounces. A pint (of water) holds 28 7-8 solid inches (28.875). A barrel (31 1-2 gallons) holds 4 1-2 solid feet (4.211). A solid foot contains nearly 7 1-2 solid pints (7.48). A bushel (struck) contains 2,150 solid inches. A bushel (heaping) contains 1 1-4 struck bushels. A struck bushel contains about 1 1-4 solid feet. HERB GATHERERS. HOW SOME NORTH CAROLINA PEOPLE MAKE A LIVING. Collecting Medicinal Plants, Roots, Barks and Berries?The Largest Hcrb-Collectinff House in the World, Etc. In r. letter describing the industrial growth of Statesville, N. C., a correspondent in the New York Commercial Advertiser says: Besides the many stores carrying considerable stocks, there are five tobacjo factories in operation and one under construction, three tobacco warehouses, two tanneries, a spoke and shuttle block factory, and two large establishments for the collcction of medicinal herbs, roots, barks, gums and berries. One of these, the largest house of the kind in the world, does a business of $100,000 annually in these goods, of which it handles more than 2,U00 varieties. weighing upward of 2,000,090 pounds. Thia concern began business in a small way in 1839, but\vas broken up by the war. Soon after it endei the firm of "Wal'ace Erothers was formed and the business resumed. At first they dealt in few articles except gensing, but after awhile they added to their variety such things as druggists called for until their catalogue contained the names of nearly 2,100 articles. Professor Gray, of Cambridge,has said that there are more medicinal plants in western North Carolinn in onw Ann r\1 or>r\ in "NTnrfl"! Ar.icrica, and the business of this firm confirms his statement. The system employed is simple enough, but it required executive ab iity of no mean order to establish it and to keep it in successful operation. The Wallaces were country merchants doing business with people who had little or no money. The little crossroad traders came to them for goods, and paid their bills with such produce as they could get from their customers. Ginseng was the most markctab'e article. China never gets.too much of it, and has, when it was scarce, given its weight in gold for it. Seneka sna'.<e root was another equivalent for ready cash. The Wallaces encouraged their customers to get all of these they could. They in turn sold their stocks to exporters and druggists, and through the acquaintances thus made they learned what the trade would buy and at what prices. After a time they concluded that if they could secure the services of a thoroughly capable botanist they could increase their business and consequent profits: The m in they wanted was living fit Marion, 111 jucuoweu couniy. rrofcssor M. E. Hyams was born in Charleston, South Carolina, received a preparatory education there, and graduated at the State University in Columbia. When seventeen years o!d he began his botanical studies, which soon became his ruling passion. At the age of twentyfive he made the collection of botanical specimens his business. When the Wallace Brothers found and hired him he knew more of the flora of Western North Carolina than any one had ever kuown before. His duties were those of an instructor. The women and children in the mountains were taught where to look for plants they had ne'ver dithered before, when tonluck them. and in what condition to deliver them at the stores. The merchants who received them were then instructed, and finally the heads of the firm and their chief employes. It was a long task; there were collectors and stores iu some thirty conntics to be visited. During all that time and for years afterward the Professor explored the mountains in search of new botan'.cal specimens, or of fresh fields in which the more valuable herbs grew. While in one of these botanical quests in 187b the Professor found in .McDowell County a prize. The discovery of a mate to the Koniiioor would not have elated him so highly. It was the shortia galu- I cifolia. a rare plant once found and described, then lost to botanists for seventy-tive years, lie could scarcely believe his eyes, but there it was beyond mistake." So carefully gathering a few specimens from the very small number that rvmnr nnrl nnfinrp w/il 1 fhr> onrrnnnfl. glUO lUUIW,,IUHUVV...b w*... ings that ho might find it again, the Professor left the wilderr.e3?and put himself into communication with Professor Grey and other eminent botanists Tney were almost as excited as the discoverer, and Profe sor Grey left his beautiful garden at Cambridge and made haste to the mountains that he might see for himself this long-lost and rare plant. There is not much of it, certainly, and to the untrained eye there is nothing attractive about VHyam's sparkling shortia," the name popularly given it,* but it placed the i rofessor's name on the scientific roll of honor, and-he and h:s children to the latest generation will have au affection for all plants of the natural order of galacinea to which this shorti i belongs. There is a phase of this botanic business of intere t to both philanthropists and political economists. The collectors are usually women, children and maimed or broken down "hien. Most of them have no other means at command for frefctinrr store troods. Thev live, as a rule. c O O J "" -f 1 remote from all villages or from p'ace* where they can earn wage*. Were there no wild fruits to dry and medicinal herbs to gather they would be destitute indeed. Time is of no account to them, because there is nothing in their lives to give it value. They will therefore spend hours in gathering a few pennyworths aud preparing it for the store. l ater they will walk barefooted ten, twelve and sometimes twenty miles, to trade off their little stock for such things as they need. Between four hundred aud five hundred country stores deal with the Wallaces. All of 40,000 persons collect the stock. Here in a small way is a great beneficence. Invention of the Lock. This is not a modern device. Among the ruins of the gre.it temple of Ivunak its general principles hive been discovered. From this we gather that it is at least forty centuries old. The locksmiths of China, we are told, had, centuries before the birth of Christ, perfected a lock out of which a sharp bamboo thorn would dart and strike the hand of any ouc wrongfully tampering with it. The end of this bamboo thorn was steeped in a poisonous deletion, aud should the luckless tbief escape death lie would be maimed for life. Hut this story ts hardly entitled to full belief, for tho reason, as the Cliincse themselves dam that gunpowder was manufactured by lliem at that time, a Celestial safe blower could easily render the thorn harmles by the aid of a few grains of powder. Thirty years ago 150,000 people in England were employed in the silk industry; now the number is not more than 00,000. A new expression has become popular in the ?outh. When chargcs for labor or merchandise seem extravagant people say thev are "earthquake price"." I mmmm Cambodia, The following extract from a letter from Ponompein, the capital of Cnmbodia, h:is been communicated to a Paris correspondent of the London Timet: "In passing from Cochin-China to Cambodia the difference between the Cambodian und the Annamite typo is . ? mi /*? 1 J ! 1 very striKing. me tamuuujnu is inmost the height of Europeans, and is idle nnd dirty, while the Annamite is small and active. A full-grown Annamite woman is like a French girl of twelve. The banka of the river are covered with luxuriant vegetation. The en- i tire territory and its inhabitants belong ! absolutely to the king, who lives here I with a second and third king beside him, while a forth is stat'oned in the interior. lie has iOO wives, chosen from the handsome-t women in the whblo country. The second king at present is j in opposition to King Merodom. All the Cambodians are the king's earmen, or slaves, and pay him rents. The country is a very curious one. Elo.ihants are very numerous here, and wander about in freedom through the . brushwood like oxen in the meadows of France. The cnpital of Cambodia consists of only one street, which is neatly four miles long. In all the town there are not ten houses built of stone or of bricks, a id those so built [are public buildings. All the officers are lodged together in two payothe3, which are almost contiguous. A pavothe is composed of a ' * _ /T -1 .1 wooden lloor vesting m turn on a scanoiu- j ing of ;bnmboo. The walls are formed | of a trellis of si raw or leaves, in the style of the thatch of cottages all over Europe. If you push with your finger a little strongly it will pass through tie wall. The roof is of tlvitch. The furni- i tuie is very primitive. It consists of a bed formed of a frame in bamboo, on which is placed a mat, and of a table. Half the population of the centres 5n Cochin-China and in Cambodia consists of Chinese. .Dr. Macgowan has sent to the Agricultural Bureau, through Consul-General Kennedy, of Shanghai, a collection of Bhoes made of rice straw, and worn by laboring people in the south of China. Dr. Macgowan sends them, suggesting the introduction of rice-straw shoemaking into the rice-producing regions of the South. "Are you fond of tongue, sir?" 'T was always fond of tongue, madame, and I like it 'still.'" In the United States Senate, during a recent jc- .? it; nnlfl ft hirrli ucuuiof ccnatui ? csirf v* iu*3ovwti, ? rtribute to the merits of St. Jacobs Oil. Other prominent men havo also found it prompt in its cure ot rheumatism and neuralgia- Price, fi:!ty cents a bottle. Dr. Warren, an associate of the Washington Ornithological Department of the Agricultural Bureau, says .bat hawks and owls feed on mice and insects, and not on poultry, as lias been commonly supposed. 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Treatment sent on trial r IrlUffl HUMANE REMEDY CO., LaKay?tti, InJ ' THE GIANT OF The Most Effectix Remedy Ever WHY IS IT SO EFFECT DIFFERENT 1 WHY one remedy can affect so many cases ia th and a remepy that can affect tiie cause, per any other organ in the body, the Kidney when aiae the very fact that it is not painful leads many psop: cal Authorities agree that it can be far gone pain, because it has few if any nerves of sensatic veying the sense of pain; thus uuconsciously diaeaj do not open a watch to see if it is going or is in goc the accuracy of its time. So we need not open the the condition of the system. Now then. KIDNE'. lowing Common and Unsuspected QVTVTDTATVTa Backache; Unusual< Q X Ull X l/JXLD ing- and pain in the hea Greasy Froth in water: Irritated, hot and di tions; Acid, bitter taste, with furred tongue int Abundance of pale, or scanty flow of dark-< burn with Dyspepsia; Intense pain, upon sudden ea posit,of mucous some time after urlnatlc and fever and Pneumonia; Dropsical Swellinzs; Ri tube casts in the water ; Constipation, alterna risy and Bronchial affections; Yellowish pale airin, These are only the chief disorders or symp kidneys. Now, tnen, isnt clear to you that the ki< ments", if they are restored to health by thi great e majority of the above ailments will disappear ? T1 It does cure many bad states of the system preciael kidneyB are diseased, the albumen, tha life property and passes away in the water, while the urea, the k ney poison in the blood, that, circulating thrc organ, and produces all the above symptor Therefore, we say confidently that "Warner FECTIVE MEDICINE EVER DISCOVER. mon remedy which, overcoming the common cau number of evil effects from the system. L they are affected by kidney poison, and cured by "WARNER'S S. CONSUMPTION; diseased^sonditioi if the kidneys are inactive and there is any natu poison attacks their substance and. eventi stroyed. Dip your finger in acid and it is burned, soon becomes a festering sore and 13 eventually d< blood has the same destructive effect upon whose kidneys are ailing will have grave attacks of Lung fevers, Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Pleurisy, e action of the kidneys by "Warner's SAFE Cui done, and you will be surprised at the Improve IMPAIRED EYE-SIGHT: * and though wo have never urged it as a cure for written us expressing surprise that after a thorougl SAFE Care*" their eyesight has been vast oculist/ in the country says that half the patie examination he discovers are victims of kidney reason why so many people complain of failing eye to themselves, their kidneys have been out of c is gradually mining the system. IYDTTTM TTAPTTfl* it fa a w^n-know VxlUili IlaJDllD morphine, cocaii habits capture their victims by their paralyzing eff organs the appetite Is developed and susta th e habits cannot be gotten rid of until the perfect health. For this purpose, leading medi ation of all claimants for the nonor of being tl awarded tho prize to "Warner's SAFE Cure.'' T? TTPTTTVr A TTQTVT Every reputable r UllXi U UliillljiU caused by on acid unc acid, or kidney poison; in others, it is lithic acid, is caysed by inactivity of the kydneys an< and food assl mllatl ng organs. It effects ol the acid has been collecting in the system for years acidified. These acids produce all the various fore m?\a? fJin Iri/lnarra nnrl Hvfir TlAnt.Pfll VUiO av.uug u|/vu vuv jmumvjw u, v. f action, cures many cases of rheumatism. "Warn nating with the use of "Warner's Safe Cure" com] BLADDER DISORDERS: I inate with false action of the kidneys, coursing through these organs inflames and even ducing tne intent suffering. Sometimes this the form of Gravel, -?*hich in its descent to the bla< the acid solidifies in the Bladder, producing ealc\ Cure'' has restored thousands of cases of inflammj effectively corrected tho tendency to the formatioz comparison with all other remedies in this worl "WARNER'S S. PnVrtPQTTnM Congestion is a col uUil uljuiXUl^ ? If there is loss of nej do not allow the blood to circulate and it stagna collecting blood clots and eventually destroys t scious victims of this very common condition. blood into every part of the system, has to work hi and eventually the Heart breaks down a blood to tho head, distressing headaches, indica chronic and is doing damage to the entire system ? ?*- ? a ??W in K/}/1 / M /m/I /II commonest Ul CUIUUUUUU tuiuu wguvytimx.y WJ SAFE Cure" will remove it FEMALE COMPLAINTS: complaints. They are as common as can be, and a begin in this congestive condition of the i rccted, grows into disease and produces these com: but not discribed in a public print Thousands ha BLOOD DISORDERS: S?thorough treatment with "Warner's SAFE C heavy, blotched, irritable skin have disappeared poison in the blood thickens it. It is not re is the impurities come out of tho surface of the bo all the badness in the blood seems to colU the statement that "Warner's SAFE Cure" is treatment must be very thorough. STOMACH DISORDERS: i orders: Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Waterbrash, heat frequent aches, want of appatita, lack of energy. 1 that will be produoed in ttia stomach when the b People doss themselves with all sorts of stomach re get tatter until they give their attention to a tnc by the means of the only specific?"Warner's Si CONSTIPATION, PILES: i original disorders, but are secondary to imj liver. The natural cathartic is bile, which is ts liver fails the bile is not forthcoming and the p eventually followed by pile3, is almost always an 1 breaking down of the system. Remove the conge neys by the use of "Warner's SAFE Cure," a disappear. 14 A Tl A rtTPQ" Many people suffer u Ul/ilUAl/JlLO. They try every rem cause. "With some temporaments, kidney acid in i will irritate and Inflame the brain and pr headaches which do not yield readily to local trea of kidney origin. THESE ABE SCIENTIFK forth, it will plainly be seen, that the statemjnfc wt is the "most effective remedy ever discovered tor t justified. It is not a remedy without a reputati greater than ever, and the advertising there< hiv fchnt the. merit of the medicine has given People have a dreadful fear of Bright's disease, t that it is the ordinary kidney disease th the greatest enemy of the human 1 in nine cases out of ten, its presence is not su victim! 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Kl nnillU and .Morphine' Habit cured In 10 CEa 11 Ml 11 HI toil days. Kefer to liwo patients cured fjj ^ I IV III lnallpart . Dk. JiABsii.yuin y, Mlcik W 2END FOR 40-PAGE Catalogue of Farms, ' ? ? Mills. Store*. Hotels, etc., for ?A 1<E and EX- ft I ;HAN('B. Mention this paper and enclos? U 9 tamp. W. 8. Ilotcbkln, BIKQHAMTON. X. V. | ? MEDICINES. 1 "'3i bbsbhhhbb *"1 V ?. re and Popular--^" Discovered. PIVE IN SO MANY JISEASES ? is: The diseases hare a common cans*, manently cures all the diseases. Unliks ased, may itself ba free from pain, and le to deny that it is diseased. But Med4~ ~? ?"""v~ with disease and yet give forth R4 n, and these are the only mwun of oon< sed it affects the entire system. W? >d order. We look at the hands, or note kidney to see if it is diseased. We study Y DISEASE produces Any of the/ok * , * - , - ?... Xcoire iu imnute at nignt, riuwer irt; Tired Feelings; Unusual Amount of Z- skin: Fickle Appetite; Scalding sens&e Morning; Headache and Neuralgia; colored water: Sour Stomach; Heart* ccitement, in the Small of the Back; Den; Loss of Memoir; Rheumatism, chills ad or Whits brick oust, albumen and ting with Looseness; Short breath, Pleuetc. . toms caused bv a diseased condition of thf> ineys, beinar the cause of all these derangeipeciflc "Warner's SAFE Cure," the liere is NO MYSTERY ABOUT IT. y as we have indicated Now when the ' of the blood, escapes through their walls idney poison, remains, and it is this kid>ughout the entire body, affects every ns. 's SAFE Cure*1 is THE MOST EF ED for the human race. Itisthecomso, removes the greatest possible ?: et us note a few o* theee diseases and how . . A.FE CURE." cases Consumption is only the effect of a 1 of the system and not an original disease; ral weakness in the lungs, the kidney tally they waste away and are (toWash the finger every day in acid and it estroyed. The kidney poison acid in the the lung# For this reason a person Pneumonia in the Spring of the year,-' tc., at all seasons of the year. Rectify-the re," as many hundreds of thoasands nave mentin the condition of the lungs. janey acia wiin some persons nas an special affinity for tlie optic nerve, disordered eye-sight, many persons hare a coarse of treatment with "Warner'? "* ly i.nproved. In fact, one of the best J nts that come to him with bad eyes, upon disorder. We have no doubt that the -sight early in life, is that, all unconscious truer for years, and the kidney poison n fact, recently shown anew, that opium, ' ie, whisky, tobacco and other enslaving ects upon the kidneyB and liver. In these Anea, and the beet authorities state that i kidneys and liver are restored to cal authorities, after a thorough examinee only specific for those organs, hav? ihysician will tell you that rheumatism k condition of the svstem. With somoi^s , or liver poison, this acid condittm/^L^ I liver, false action of the stomac d people more than young people because i and finally the system becomes entirely as of rheumatism. "Warner's SAFE lizing the acid and correcting their false ,er*8 SAFE Rheumatic Cure" alterpletea the work. Jross and other high medical authorities ay that most of the bladder diseases orig, and urinary tract Uric acid constantly tually destroys the inner membrane, prokidnay acid solidifies in the kidneys in Ider produces kidney colic. Sometimes * o twn A ulous or oione. " it amcr o/ir u ition and catarrh of the bladder and has i of gravel and stone. It challenges - Buy to-day, AFE CURE." V looting together of blood in any one plaoa. *vous action in any organ the blood vessela ;tea If this condition exists very long the he organ. Many persons are unconThe heart, determined as it is to force arder to get it through the clogged organ, nd palpitation, excessive action, rush of . . te that the Congestion has become l Congestion of the kidneys is one of tha rmuch chronio misery. "Warner'? What we have said about Congestion ap plies with particular iorce to tne aoovs is every doctor can tell you, most of them r' 8ystem, which, not being regularly coritless sufferings which can be alluded to ve been permanently cured. lot strange that so many, many people us that since they have given thomselvea Jure" their thick and turgid blood, their under its potent influence. The kidney ' adily purified in tho lungs, and the result Jy, ana if there is any local disease ict there, our experience justifies us in "the greatest blood purifier known." The Many people complain more or lest throughout the year with stomach dis* ; and distress in the stomach, sharp pains, Tow, these are exactly the cotialtion* lood is filled with kidney poison. iliefs, but get no batter. They never will roueh reviving of kidney and liver action 1FE Care." . rhese distressing ailments, more common unong one class than the other, are not terfect action of the kidneys and men rrora ins dioou upr me urci. u. iu> erson gets into a constipated habit. This, Indication of congested liver, and stion, revive the liver and restore the kid,nd these constitutional secondary diseases / ntold agonies all their lives with headache^ edy in vain, for they have not struck th* the blood, in spite of all that can be done, oduce intense suffering. Those obstinate tment, may bo regarded quite certainly at ^ T? A PTQ and, from the way J -T ?L\J A Of we have set them i make, that "Warner's SAFE Care" he greatest number of human disease?," is on. Its sales for the past year have been :>f less than ever, showing incontestiit a permanent place and value. )ut we can tell them from our expsrienc? tat produces no pain that is to-day 'ace} great and all powerful, becausi spected by either the physician or th< after year troubled with little odd aches ;itate a moment as to the real causa of his tonal treatment with "Warner's SAFE ill get a n;w leas 3 of life aad justify in his ne, that 9 J per c>nt of human diseases are hu kidneys, and that thoy will disappear :nds what they think of AFE CURE." . iv:ew iwvupfmowi sawed by fmrfb lour*. Hundreds have cawed 61: o corn* claiiv. -Ex. " whatever;' Farmer and Wood Chopperwants, t ortler from your vicinity secures tho Airrru. trated Catalog }'HKK. Address Folding Bu?ia* hlne Co., COS K Cuool St.. Chir nco. IIL IPlso'B Remedy for Catarrh Is the M Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest, fcaj I Also good for Cold in the Read, w Headache, Hay Fever, &c. SOceuta. I 11VA Inventor** Hiart-bwl rn?. 15 rrt I I PM I V experience. FI.EN'SKK & CO, I I Mil I v Attora?vj, WaaUia,Jton, D. a