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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
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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.'"
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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. In examining
a number of the stomachs of these birds
he found no poultry.
Throat troub es yield promptl; to Red Star
Cough Cure, as vouched for by U. S. Arch tect
Clark. Its ingredients are purely vegetable
and free from opiates. 25 cents.
Ax Berlin, Germany, about 500 workwomen
are employed ia ihe production of shoo r?tsettes;
the salo amounts to about a millioi
yearly, and the roseitts are exported to al
the European countries and North and Souti
America.
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j ,a- ? ' ? lo rrtnra
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Allegheny, Pa., Sept 20,1836.
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Sprino Hill, W. Va., Oct. 20, 1885.
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mo.
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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! The prudont man who finds himself year
and ailments that perplex him, ought not to ha
disease. If he will give himself thorough constituti
Cure," and "Warner's SAFE Pills." ho wi
own experience, as huadre !s of tuousand-i have do
really attributable to a deranged coniitioa of t
when those organs are restored to health.
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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."
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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.
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I I PM I V experience. FI.EN'SKK & CO,
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