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AGRICULTURAL. : TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEX. Longevity of Trees. The longevity of a tree is largely a question of food. A tree which, with plenty to eat and drink, may be kept in good health for 200 or 300 years, is old and decrepid at less than 100 or 20J when it grows where food is scarce. On lawns and in gardens the tidy person keeps leaves and litter nicely cleaned up, and this material is what the wild trees love. There is generally nothing for a nice lawn tree to feed up >u but the minerals it can get from the soil. If the roots are kept strong with good living there will be no dead tops. Thfife is much more waste of moisture from dead and dying branches than from the | healthy living ones, and cutting away these simply stops the drain on the weak roots for a little while. In a very dry time or a very cold period the weakest branches suffer first. The weakest, from poverty of food or drink, are always at the upper portion of the trees or at the extreme ends of the branch es. Dairy Rulo9. The Michigan Dairymen's Association presents the following rules for dairymen wno deliver milk to cheese factories | or creameries: < Cows must have an abundance of good wholesome food, pure and not too cold water, to which they c:m have access at all times. Cows must not be overheated, or unduly excited or worr'ed at any time. The udder and teats should be thoroughly cleansed before milking, by washiug if need be, and the teats should be wet during the process of milking. Kindness and gentleness should be used at all times. Cows should not be excited by loud talk or other noises. Cows should be milk d by the same milker and as quickly as possible, and good, pure water and s-alt placed in easy access. During cold weather cows should be comfortably housed, their stalls well cleaned and littered, and an abundance of good, not too cold, water acce-sible. Milk, i' kept over night, should be placed in a tank surrounded by cold water or ice. Tf ?*511- i Kt.ffor nr prwm fnr 11 tllU ill 11IV n ivt uuuvi V* W.WM. the creamery or market, cool the creamer to about forty or forty-five decrees before turning the milk into it. l ut the milk in the creamer as s_>on as drawn. It 6hould rc main from twelve to twenty-four hours for complete separation. If the milk is for cheese, aerate it well, thoroughly stirring and cooling to seventy-five degrees before starting to factory. Milk should never be allowed to stand where it is subjected to foul odors of any kind. Nothing but bright, absolutely clean tin pails should be used in handling milk. I Milk must never be allowed to stand in cans after being returned to the farm, and they should belli roughly washed in warm water and then seal ed with water boiling hot and thorou hly scoured with Bait at least twice a week. Soap, soda or other alkalies should not be used to clcan cans or pails. Horses for the Farm. It is with horses as with men, says the American Uultivaor. j.arge size and great weight do not always indicate the possession of the greatest strength,much less of that more important quality, endurance. When our civil war broke out army surgeons were often surprised to find that many sob.iers of apparently excellent physique, large, hearty and strong. broke down early under the hardships or trie marcn, wnuc omera that at lirst seemed more frail toughened under exposure, ami rallied quickly when in hospital from wounds. We are told that "the spirit o; a man will sustain his infirmities; but a wounded spirit who can bear "' He is no clear-sighted lover of the hoise who does not see some applicability of this quotation to his fa vorites. The life, spirit and energy of a thoroughbred horse seem more akin to the finer attributes of a noble man than are the characteristics of any other domestic animal. The horse possesses great intelligence, and at the best often contrasts with s-ome brutal and inhuman owner, and almost as strongly as the satirist has portrayed in his m >cking representation of the traveler Gulliver, who was left in his wandering to contemplate the great inferiority of man as compared with the Hounhymas in the land where their supremacy was unquestioned. A horse at his best must be well bre3, well fed and have received during not only his own life, but generations before, a great deal of intelligent human kindness. It is not possible to build up nt once a horse, however perfect in form, that has not enjoyed tlu-se advantages. If we hear occasionally ot n*?lectcd or even abused young horses that afterward prove great winners on the turf, it is to show that tliev owe their I ? "-J "" J # V '"""fettccess to some strain of blood further back that has the making of spirit and endurance in it. These horses, better cared for in their later years, produce progeny that excel themselves. And, aside from all desire for increased speed, the energy and especial y the endurance, which characterizes the best race horse, arc almost equally important for farm uses and heavier woik anywhere. Weight counts for s )mething in heavy labor, but character counts for still more. Add to the massive proportions ot the Clydesdale or the more compact solidity of the Percheron a slight strain of the old Diomed, Messenner or Morgan blood and there can be little doubt that it will produce an animal fitted alike for the heaviest pulling or for good traveling on the road. Farm and Garden Notes. Plum shoot9 grafted upon wild plum ?tock> do well. To properly keep straw and hay in stacks the stacks must be constructed so as to shed water. The editor of the Orange. County Farmer trains his tomatoes to poles and they grow six feet high. A very successful Western dairyman 6ays he has only one ration for his cows, and that is crushed oats and bran. Every farmer must know what kind of swine breed wcil and are wanted in the ma:J?;ts. That is the kind which can be bred with profit. Farms nee:1 agricultural doctors as much as the huuan body ueeds a doctor In sickness. Most of the old farms are invalids, but none are incurable. It is estimated that 50,000,000 eggs are consumed every day in this country, or about one for each inhabitant, which includes, however, those used in the arts. The value which competent judges have assigned the various features of butter is as follows: Flavor, 25; keeping qualities 20: texture, 25; color, 15; appearance, 15; total, 100 points. ... Discussing the mooted question when j to cut timber, one man's judgment 19 ] that October and November are the best j months, but any time from the middle of July to G:st of November is generally safe. The coming buttermaker, according to the National Siockm-tn, must have a clean mouth aDd breath as well as clean clothes and a clean apron, be honest, neat, smart, level-headed and able to keep accounts. Burn all rubbish not suitable for the compost heap, such as bones, old boots and shoes, barrels, &c., and scatter the ashes over the garden. It will make a surprising difference with, its fertility in the spring. Chlorate of potash, much used in families for cold, is recommended of late for keeping fowls from croup and colds. It is put into the drinking water, which will dissolve a certain proportion of it and no more. Pnmmfintincr on the ODDOSitiOQ of Pro feasors Brown and Sanborn to the use of ensilage, the editor of the American Dairyman says: "The poorest ensilage we have ever seen has been in the silos of agricultural colleges." TVh'le milk is standing for cream to rise, the purity of the cream, and consequently the fine flavor and keeping of the butter, will be injured if the surface of the cream is exposed freely to air much warmer than the cream. A writer in the Kansas Farmer says there is a very simple remedy for tapeworm in sheep. Take s juash or pumpkin seeds, crush them and boil them in sufficient water to make a strong tea. Give each lamb two or three teaspoonfulls in a cup of water. If preferred, the seeds may be crushed and mixed with ground grain, allowing a handful to fifty lambs. A top-dressing for any crop remaining in the ground through the winter should furnish manure and shelter both, and it answers these purposes best when it is ru mofopifll ftnd ftntltftlllS fertiHZ ing matter. Coarse manure with considerable litter in it is the best form of top-dressing; if it is not to be procured, swamp muck makes a good substitute, with the addition of a liberal quantity of fine bone flour, wood ashes and plaster. Diseases are often communicated by feediug horses in stalls which have been occupied previously by diseased animals. Such stalls should first be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. To do this take a pint of sulphuric acid and put it in a bucket of water. Then, with an old mop wash all parts of the stall, especially the trough or manger. Alls'alls should be occasionally so disinfected, as their constant use permits them to gradually become unfit abodes of the animals. The first prize on eggs preserved for three months at the London dairy show was won on a lot of eggs packed in sweet bran with the small ends down. The second prize lot had been rubbed with a mixture of olive oil and beeswax and packed in coarse salt. The third prke lot had been rubiied, when new laid, with mutton diipping, and then put in powdered dry lime. All these were in good condition for cooking at the end of ninety days. Give the soil plenty of phosphorous potash and lime and humus, and with complete pulverizing and active and intelligent cultivation it will draw from the atmosphere and from the soil nitrogen, oxygen, carbonic acid and other atmospheric plant food, and make good crops. As the atmosphere is four-fifths nitrogen, the supply of nitrogen for crops is inexhaustible. And the nitrogen of commerce, is the most costly ns well as the most valuable for crops of all the ingredients of which commercial fertilizers are composed. The best way to feed mangolds, saya Professor Stewart, is to run them through a pulpcr and then mix this pulp with the ration of grain or ground feed and cut hay. This beet pulp will not only give a relish to the feed, but it contains pectic acid, which is a digester of other food. Four quarts of this pulp given twice per day is sufficient to accomplish the great benefit for which roots should be fed?to cleanse the stomach, prevent constipation and act as a digester for other food. The mixing in with other food is the true way to feed roots. When fed alone and in a large quantity roots are a poor food, but as a small part of the ration they have an important office. If your plants should freeze, as soon as Jyou discover it put them in a dark room, or the cellar, where the temperature is but little above freezing and sprinkle thoroughly with cold water. In most cases, such plants as geraniums, abutilons and the more harJy kinds c:m be saved iu this way, and often quite tender kinds will come out with little or no injury. The frost must be extracted gradually and with application of as little heat as possible. Keep them away from the light and warmth for two or three days. If the tops should wilt, you may feel certiin that they cannot be saved, so cut them off at once. The roots may not be damaged much, and if they are not, they will soon send up sprouts. Domestic animals, especially growing stock, do not thrive without a copious supply of light. Fattening stock put on plenty of weight in darkness, but this is not thrift; it is cruelty, and their fiesh is not tit for human consumption. Cleanliness may be observed (lj by keeping the stalls clean, and (2) by cleaning the animals themselves. Animals breathe, as it were, through the pores of the skin, as well as by means of their lungs. Dirt stops up these pore J and throws greater burdens upon the lungs, promoting disease and acting prejudicially to the products as food for human consumption. There should be free and constant comm nrcation between the air and the pores, which is prevented by dirt on the skin, and for this reason also the air in the stable should be pure. Rules for Business Men. "From some "Rules Tor Business Men," we extract the following in relation to advertising: "Take advantage of modern facilities. Use the means within your reach; in crease and multiply the means ol mlormation. "To successfully complete w'th a neighbor, participate in the facilities afforded to go ahead. "Don't depend upon your own lungs alone; use the lungs of the press. i ' Make it known by printers' iuk thai you :irc prepared to do business. ".rellat small profits for cash,and make it known through the newspapers. "All that any honest, legitimate conce n requires is fair judgment, close industry, unwavering integrity, superior workmanship, fair prices, and to do better by customers, if possible, than othurs in the same business?and give it publicity. "?lit <ih d Printer. It is expectcd that nearly twenty million dollars' worth of buildings will be erected in Kansas City, Mo., during the ensuing year. Exposed to many a trying situation? The juryman. - FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. , __ > The Russian soldiers are not allowed to mnrry. The Smiths in England and Wales are calculated to be about one in every seventy-three of the population. 11?* n.v.oln oauurs 5iiy lllUt LUC gunvt vi nig n uutu is so small that the largest eac that ever lived wouid be choked by a herring. Japan is manufacturing jackets of paper, linen threads being introduced to give them strength. The dress of the ancient Greeks was simple, without unnecessary coverings or useless display of ornaments. Between the sexes there was little difference of attire. In experiments in a Russian military hospital, smokers required seven hours to d'gest a meal exactly similar in kind and quantity to that digested in six hours by others. Mr. Edwin Boorman, of Findley's Lake, N. Y.f has a photograph of his mother, himself, his daughter, her daughter, and her babv. The picture represents five generations, all in good health. Dr. Hesse, of Leipzig, finds that bakers are especially liable to suffer from decayed teeth, and explains it by the lodgment of the dust from the flour in tne teeth, where it undergoes acid fermentation. In order to render paper as tough as wood or leather, a plan has been devised wlu.ch, it is said, effectually accomplishes thnt purpose, namely, by combining chloride of zinc with the pulp in the course of manufacture. It has been found that the greater the degree of concentration of the zinc solution the greater will be the toughness of the paper,and that it is thus serviceaDie ior muiwug boxes, combs, etc. The great circus, or Circus Maximus, a place reserved for public games, races and shows, was one of the most magnificent structures of Rome. It was copable of containing 200,000 spectators. The Flavian Amphitheatre, whose massive ruins arc known as the Coliseum, could scat from SO,000 to 100,000 persons. In the arena were exhibited the fights of gladiators, in whi h the Romans took such savage delight, together with races, combats of wild beasts, etc. A writer in the Chicago News asserts that Stonewall Jackson had a number of strange idiosyncracies. Among these was an idea he persisted in entertaining, notwithstanding his physician's declaration to the contrary, that one side of his bodv was heavier than the other. This wns his right side, and he used to carry weights ia the pockets on the opposite side to preserve his equilibrium. He consulted may doctors in regard to this fanciful malady, but was never rid of the delusion to h!s dying day. The theory of Dr. Wilson, of Meriden, that the burning of kerosene oil has something to do with diphtheria, is interesting. There were seventy-one deaths from diphtheria in a town of Meriden in one year, and by personal investigation Dr. Wilson found that in every case the family used kerosene lamps. There were many other cases in Meriden that year, the spread of the disease being from contagion. Hut not in a single case where gas or candles were used was there a death from that disease. Horseshoes Versus Naked Hoofs. There have always been two theories upot) the shoeing of horse3. One is that they ought to bs shod, and the other, supported by what we will call the Barefooted Brigade, is that they should go without shoes. The Shoers are much the more numerous, but tha Barefoots are, if anything, more cocksure that they are right. We have always been inclined to approve ol shoes, not for weak and defective feet only, but as the proper appliances for all feet, however good, and as practically indispensable For horses that are liable to be called on for a high rate of speed. When it comes to pounding, there must be something to pound with more substantial than the naked hoof. We have often seen instances of horses belonging to quiet country families going shoeless witli perfect comfort and safety, but the performance of Governor Stanford's trotting colt Antevolo, a flyer of the first rank, without shoes, maintains the arguments for bare feet in the highest prominence. Autcvolo has been trotting now for several years without shoes, or with tips only. He made a record of 2:1'.?? in September, 1885, and in the great race recently won by Ilarry Wilkes, Antevolo was timed in each of the four heats with this splendid result: 2:10, 2:17, 2:17}, 2:18^. It must have been a good, hardish track to allow Hnrrj Wilkes to beat that, and trot a half mile in 1:01? besides; but it seems that the barefooted horse's hoofs were lit to pound about as hard and fast in the fourth heat as in the first. It was a very noticeable performance, a id well worthy the care ful consideration of all horse-loving economists.?New York Sun. " Wiped Out." A man whose name it would be brutal to print went down into Wall street worth about $12,000 a month or so ago. Like most men new to Stock Exchange cr>o<Mil?tinn ViRfl ft "thenrv"?a theorv bound to boat the game and make liiin rich. He entered a broker's office with $2,000 in cash,his remaining $10,000 beinjj invested in a cozy home up near the Harlem. Following in the "'bull" wake, he made money; his $2,000 swelled to 000?ou paper, lie spread out his line of stocks. lie even drew $2,000 more by mortgaging his house. Then came the liquidation of recent days, culminating"^ Wednesday's crash. Poor fellow! His first investment, his paper 4 "???"1 *KA Kamoa tnA nvnro prU.IH ? JU3, ilHU l/Iiti nvuat, u\sks v?v?j ])enny he owned in the world?all were swept in a jiffy out of sight. Nor is this case an altogether exceptional one. The li-t of men who in Wall street's vernacular have been -'wiped out" would crowd this column in small type.?New York '1 imcs. A Daylight Burglary. "Burglary!" she gasped, as she entered the detective's room at police headquarters the other dav. "When i" ' Two hours ago! And right before ray eyes, too!'1 "Please get your breath, ma'am, and give us the particulars." "Well, sir," she said, after a few gasps to get her voice, "I was standing looking out of the window. A roughly dressed fellow came across the street and 4 1. T L'lW.Mf Vwi XtfOG O 1)111*. ufjuuuu niv; ^uiv. x iviiui* uv ?? vu. glar the moment I saw him, and I kept my eyes open. He looked up and down the street and around the house, and then?then, sir, he?!" 'Wasn't the front doer locked?" "Oh, yes." "Then how did he get in?" "He didn't get in, sir, but he grabbed my pug dog oil the doorstep and was gone before I could get down stairs l*"? Detroit Free Press. The enormously large hats worn by some very little girls make it difficult to decide wliich there is more of?hat or child.?Fne Press, J Atf OCEAN CHASE. A CONFEDERATE BLOCKADE / ?r ncTT CU1VI? i\ U -Ml.lt fi? UUUOU ou.. . u. Stealing Out of Port at yijjht and Making Her Way Through the Federal Squadron?Pursued by a Steamer. In the article in tho Southern Biroua relating to the Northwestern conspiracy oc urs the following account of the escape of the Confederate commissioners from Wilmington, N. C.: "We went on board the 'Thistle,' a swift, Clyde-built steamer, on the morning of the tth of May, 1804, and slowly steamed down the Cape Fear River to t ort Fisher, reaching the fort about four r. y. We waited until it was quite dark, and then started to run out of the harbor. We could plainly discern out j at sea Ihe I'nitrd States Blockading J Squadron, thirteen ships in number, j 1 he 'Thistle' wa9 very fast. It was said | 6he could make near fourteen knots an j hour. She was a long, narrow sidewheel steamer, lying low in the water, | painted gray or nearly white, so that j she co.i'd scarcely be seen at night. White has been defined to be the absence of color, so that I may say she was /?r>inriosa All of the blockade runners were so painted. Her machinery "was j perfect and in exquisite order. It was a plea ure to visit her engine-room. Every- j thing was clean and tidy, and the brass ! and steel burnished until they looked | like gold and silver. All the parts of : machinery were kept well oiled, so that j they worked noiselessly. When we j began our run every light was ex-1 tinguised. We kburned anthracite coal; ana made little or no smoke, and a sort of hood was put over the furnace to pre" *' ? -*1- ^cflfln vent any renecuon 01 us uri? ueiui^ a*.*,**. , "The land lubbers aboard were I 6martly excited; we were unused to that sort of thing, and when we crossed the bar, about 8 p. m., and were creeping along and twisting our devious and per- ! ilous way through he huge blockaders, j whose toweling hulls we could easily! distinguish, although they could not see us, we felt queerly. It seemed at times as if a stone could have been pitched from our vessel into one of these dangerous neighbors. If we were detected we might expect a broadside. Our Cap-! tain said, however, that the real danger I would come with daylight?just at day-1 light?when we could be seen, and not; far nway from the harbor might find our J ship close to some war vessel ready to , give chase. Then we would have to run 1 for it. A blockade runner was not built1 to fight, but intended to tru-t to her J heels. A man was always kept s.t the j masthead, scanning the hori on vitha p nverful glass. He pa d no attention to , sailing vessels, but so soon as he discovered a steamer, notified the Captain, who changed his ship's course. These block- j ade-running steamers ofton ran away i from <3:ieh other. About 7 a. m. oa the 1 " '1 Hi of hr> hurl I <in, iae iwjkuuh ? ?.? ( sighted a steamer. Our course was at; once changed. The stringer immediately i channel her course; and so on again and aguin, until it was plain that wo were being pursued. We could see the j b!ack smoke pouring out from the j ch'mneys of the pursuer, anl our Cap- j tain said she was gaining on us?in a few hours she would be near enough to fire into us. This was pleasant intell'gcnce to gentlemen going out on diplomatic business. I thought I might ns well have remained and have been shut j in the regular way on land. The captain thought th's pertinacious steamer was j the United States war steamer "Connec- i ticut,' reputed to be very fast. We made all arrangements to burn our mail and pipers, aud to distribute the money. ?a:h passenger began to prepare his littie story, that ho mi^ht be able to prop erly entertain his captors. Alt these dis- \ positions finished, wo thought it best to ' pledge our resolutions and fortify our- J selvc'3 for the coming encounter with some excellent 'Dutc'i courage,,' fur- J nished from the captain's stores. We all i agreed afterward that we were very cool and calm?that is. each mau said he was j ?and that ho would have tried with pa-1 triotic integrity to escape a fate not pro- j vided for in our instructions. Fortunately we never learned how we would ! have stood the racket. The chase lasted ! five hours. We were taking in more cour ? " A: TW,? Vontona I age auring an mat time. | seemed to gain on U9 rapidly. All at once our captain got excited for the tirsttime, and announced that we were running away from the enemy. He supposed | that some ] art of her machinery had failed. At any rate we got away, and in a short time were out of sight of that ominous black smoke. "Without further adventure wc ran safely into the Bermuda Islands and the port of St. George. The British flag flying on the fort in the harbor saluted the Confederate flag displayed from the 'Thistle.'" l)icd of Too Much Debt. "No, sir! he did no'; die of pneumonia; he died of bill brokers, sir. He pro- j jected an unwise improvement of a piccc j of real estate, made loans, covered him-1 self with bonds and mortgages, and finally incurred a street debt of $2,0C0, j which rapidly rolled up to $8,000 and j crushed the iife out of him. He bor- j rowed money on call, got paper discounted, and he worked, lived nod died | for the bill brokers. Yes, sir, he died of I a street debt, upon which he expended his strength every week, throwing it ahead from one day to so.en.? Dry Uoods u.ronicie. For ciglit years Col. D. J. Williamson, Quartermaster U. S. A. and c s-U. S. Consul at Callao, was crippled with rheumatism. He got no relief until he used St. Jacobs Oil, which cured h m, No remedy on earth equals it for pain. Price, fifty cents a bottle. ATBACTOf land on Cayuga l.nk-j. in New York, has been leaed for the raising of frogs for the New York mar., et. There is a large frog farm in the neighLo hood of Waterloo, and several in Canada but the demand is greater than thesuiply. Used Red Star Cough Cure effectually. Dr. C. Fawcelt, Union Protest an Infirmary, Baltimore, Md. No dep:es: ing effec'.s. Tiiehe arc in round number, U2.C0.),GOO head of cattle, :#i,(*0.000 horstri, iUO.t'01,000 sheep,and about 4(i,0()0,0'.'0 swine in Europe. The I nited i States has 15,i?10.(X0 cattl . 4.S,:cti,(00 shejp, 1-,- j 077,000 hor?es, and 40.01tj.000 swine. "The Wood is the Life." Thoroughly c.eanse the blood, which is the i - ' l.t I ! >/. 1>- flni.l. I lounuun Ol Jicaiiu, ill u>inn 1?. > >viivo>>u,uen Mcdi"iil Discovery, mid coo I digestion, u fair .-kin. buoyant spiri s, > itsil strength, mid soundness of cunstitut.o t w.ll be established. (."olden Medical Dis covery cures all humors, from the common pitip.e, blotch, or erupt on, \ to I he worst Scrofula o>- blond- o'?on. Ks e ciallyhasit pro\c i its e t cacy in curing Snltl'hcum or Tetter, Fever-sores, liip-'oint Disease, Scrofulous Soicj and Sweiliiigs, Enlarged glands, and Eating I'lcers. Go den Medical Dis overy cures Consumption (wnich is Scrofula of the Lung*), by its wonderful blood-purifying, invigorating and nutritive properties. For Weak I.tl lgs. Spit, ting of Blood, Shortness of Breath. Bronchitis, Severe Coughs, Asthma and k mired affections, it is a sovereign remedy. It promptly curcsthc severest Coughs. For torpid Liver, Biliousness, or "Liver Complaint," Dyspepsia and Indigestion, it is nn uncquuled icraedy. JtolMy druggists. Eleven American maidens are nov engaged to marry foreign titles. Is one preparation,and produces a permanent color. Buckingham's Dye for the whiskers. A safe and ceitain remedy lor throat and Jung diseases. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. i I Pile tumors, rupture and flstulte. radically cured by improved methods. Book, 10 cents in i-tamp?. World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo. N. Y t.ahoe nacks of wo'.ves crj roaming in the W( o Is of Northern Minnesota. Use frier ilerce's "Pellets" for all bilious attack?. Kansas ha? 437,134 children in attendance at her public schools. Important to All Who Work foraliving. Write to Hallet & Co.. Portland, Maine, and they will send you full informatio i, fiee, showing you how you cau make from $.510 $25 and upwards a day and live at home, wherever you are located. Some have made over $-50 in a day. Capital not required: you are start ;d free. All a ores; both sexea. All is new. Great incomes sure from the start. Fortunes await all workers who bezinato .ce. If you have numbness m arms and limbs,heart skips beats, thumps or flutters, or you are nervous and irritable? in danger of shock? Dr. Kilmer's Ocean-Weed regulates, relieves, corrects and cures. Original. DromDt. clean, sure and effective for pain and soreness. Hop Porims Plasters. The best is the cheapest. Hop Plasters contain active medicinal agents for the cure of pain. We Appeal to Experience. For a long time we steadily refused to publish testimonials, believing that, in the opinion of the public generallr, the great majority were manufactured to order by unprincipled parties as a means of disposing of their worthless preparations. That this view of the case is to a certain extent true, there can be no doubt. At last, several years ago, wo came to the conclusion that every intelligent person can readily discriminate between spurious and bona fide testimonials, and determined to use as advertisements a few of the many hundreds of unsolicited certificates in oar possession. In doing this, we published them as nearly as possible in the exact language used by our correspondents, only changing the phraseology, in some cases, so as to compres3 them into a smaller space than they would otherwise occupy, but without in the least exaggerating or destroying the meaning of the writers. We are glad to say that our final conclusion was a correct one?that a letlor recommending an article having true merit finds favor with the people. The original of every testimonial published by us is on file in our office, an inspection ot which will prove to the most skeptical that our assertion mode above, that only the facts are given as they appear therein, is true. But as it would be very inconvenient, if not Impossible, for all of our friends to call on us for that purpose, we invito those who doubt (if there be sucn), to correspond with any of the parties whose names are signed to our testimonials. and ask them if we have made any miss atements, so far as their knowledge extends in this article. In other words, if we have not published their letters as nearly verbatim as possible. Very respectfully, E. T. HAZELTINE, Proprietor Piso's Cure for Consumption and Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. Wo append a recent letter, which came to us entirely unsolicited, with permission to pub lish it: Dayton, Ohio, Jan. 12,1&S6. You may add my testimony as to the merits ot Piso's Cure for Consumption. I took a severe cold last February, which settled on my lungs. They became ulcerated and were so paint'ul that I had no rest for two days and nights. I got a bottle of Piso's Cure for Consumption, and was relieved by the time I had taken half of it. Since that time I have kept Piso's Cure in the house, and use it as a preventive, both for lung troubles and croup, for which I can recommend it as the best medicine I everused; and that is raying agreatdeal, for I have used at least twenty others, besides about as many physicians' prescriptions. Piso's Cure for Consumption lias never failed to givo relief in my family. A. J. ItttUiSB, 37 Springfield St. 3 months' treatment for 30c. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. Sold hy druggists. ^ MUM .I? . ??- COCKLE'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS, THE QBE AT ENGLISH REMEDY For LlT?r. Bile, Indlgettlon, etc. Free from Mercury ; contains only Pure Vegetable Ingrvllenta. Agent: C. N. CRITTENTO.V, Now York. N Y X P?51 UNEXPECTED. a mother saved prom an untimely death. Tear? of Sorrrw Turned t* Smile* of Rejoicing* Rochester, Aug. 31, 1886. Pardee Medicine Co-?Ue-vtlemen: I am now seventy-three years old, and until, I was seventy I was always strong and healthy; but the amount of suffering I have endured since that time, I feel lo be sufficient for a lifetime. 1 had a severe attack of sciatic rheumatism, which comp etelv prostrated me: my limbs and feet, and in fact my whole body was so dtawn out of shape that it was impossible to move without assistance. I was unable to straighten my limbs or to step on my feet for more than a year, and my life wn despaired of. Children and friends were called in to see me die. I was treated by three good physicians, and they and my friends did all they could to relieve my suffering, but to no avail. My hips were blistered, and my limbs rubbed, bathed and ba-idaged, but nothing they could do afforded me even temporary rel ef. Tongue cannot describe my su tering. I urged Ihem to let me try Dr. Pardee's remedy, as I had read so much about it, and of those who had been cured 'ov its use, that it gave me confidence in it, although l confess I had little or no faith in so-e nled patent medicines. The re t.edy was procured, and I commenced using it 8.s directed, and atter raiting 11 a auori. time could soe that It was helping me. I b> tan to persp re freely, and as the perspiration increased the pain decreased, but my clothing and bedding was a sight to behold, being nearly "as yellow as saffron." I had taken the Remedy but a short time, when I could s eep like a child, and relish my food like one. Thank God it lias cured me, and I am to-day as healthy and strong as before, and can walk and have as free use of my limbs as ever. I have reeommem e:l your remedv to very many who were afflict , d, and I do not kr ow of a case it has not cure 1. I am co. fident that it will cut e young people, if it will cure at my age. You are at liberty tousa my name, if it will do the means of indn-ing any poor si'fferer to use your excellent Remedy. 1 am very gratefully yours. MRS. JANE A. FLACK, 300 Jefferson Avenue, Rochester, N. Y. The sale of Dr. Pardee's Remedy for the past three months in Western New York has exceeded that of any remedy kno'.\n, By cures wholly unprecedented in the history of iredicines it has proven its right to the title of "The Greatatt Blnoil Purifier" ever offered to the afflicted. We challenge any medicine toshow an app eciation ut home, or whet ever used, like that wnich has been poured upon Dr. I'ard e's Remedy. The permanent cures it has effected have m.ide for itarepu'ation that no other remedy has been able to atta'n. Send for pamph et. PARDEE MEDICINE CO., Roc-hcater. N. Y. ELY'S CATABRH CREAM BALM For IS year* I rcaannoyed frith catarrh MM i^7^?^ClJJjrCvJ?'Vi, 1 severe pain in my head Uggt^r/fijt*Lp.nj discharges into UiM throat and nnpteasan R ^ breath, ilu tense o paired. I have ovei come these troub/er^^^^^^y^ Ml icith Ely's Cream ?J. B. Case, St. Deni,lg99B^^\l Hotel, Broadway, A'. Y Wtf9F\^& S V. ] I A particle Is ?pp''?''lMy U-*A.| Into ca-.'h nostril nndlfilJ AVaCrVrD ag reeable to use. Prlcen#%? r fct V ? ^5 5u cts. by mall or at <Irrjri{|?s. Send forclrcular. _ ELY BROTHERS. DrJgglsts^Owego, N. Y._ Our Little Ones and the Nursery. ~??? The Prince of Magazines for children from 4 to 10 years old. 32 pages each nrnth of original Jsjmk Stories ami Poems, bcauJc" /t tifully illustrated with /o^i |?jjA artistic ami original draw/"a^8SSr ings by the best liring artists. Clubs with all IPeriodicals. rscws<tcaiers Send h two cent stamp for Cme year, $ 1.5G Single Copies, IScts. Itasssll Publishing Co , 36 Bromfield St, Boston, Mass. iiiTorsCTfllHPOPER Ki'i'iiinzTrrlli PcrlVrl nnd (Juiiix Healthy. I" Pa<k?(j<* <tf FrjnefieUI VCattle Powder for ffl O Hors 'n.Catt:e and J'oultry. The best made. I vw KitoxEKiKi.n. :mk D lhvyn St., Plillsd'n, Pa. flATCMTC Obtained. Send btainp for I & A I Cll I 3 Inventor*' (, ulde. L. B:.\uI mam, Pjtent lawyer, Washington, i). C. IftP" tn$8n day. Saini'len worth $1.% FUF.E jkM^I.tno* not undor tlir horse's feer. Address IVW Hit -.WSTKR'S SakkTV ItKIN H01.DP.11, Holly,Mich. ir fl nU4r? onJamesItherVa..lit Clmeniont UAH M Colony. Illustrati d Circular free. I MIS 191V J. V. MAM'HA, Clarcmont, Va, TELFCRAPHY I*eorn here and earn I " * good psy. Situnti* ns I fnroit-bed. Write Valentine Eroi., Jaoe#Tiile,\Vui. For Weak Women. Mrs. Lydia E. Finkham, Lynn, Mas?.: "About the first cf Septemtar, 1881, my wife was taken with uterine hemorrhage. The best styptics the physician could prescribe did n check it and she got more and more enfeebled. She was troubled with Prolapsus Uteri, Leucorrhcea, numbness of the limb3, sickness of dIawo/iIi n?r? lnoc rtf onnAfitxt T nnr^HftCA^ a trial bottle of your Vegetable Compound. She said she could discover a salutary effect rom the first dose. Now she is comparatively free from Prolapsus, stomach's sickness, &c. The hemorrhage is very much better and is less at the regular periods. Her appetite is restored, and her general health and strength are much improved. We feel that we have been wonderfidly benefited and our hearts are drawn out in gratitude for the same and in sympathy for other sufferers, for . whose sakes we allow our names to be used." C. W. Eaton, 1 hurston, N. Y. The Compound is put up in Pill. Lozenge and Liquid form. All sold by druggists. The Pills and Lozenges sent by mail on receipt of price. I A Corrector, Eegulator, Nerve-Best. "The Heart is the. Seat of Lift*" One of every five we meet has some form of Heart Disease, and is in constant danger of Apoplexy or Sudden Death! SYMPTOMS and DISEASE. For which this Remedy should be taken Heart-pains Palpitation Heart-dropsy Skip-Beats Throbbing Spasms (FitaJ Numbness Purple-Lips Poor-blood Shaky-Nerves Syncope Faint-spells Hot-flashes Paralysis Heart-sympathetic Rush of Blood to the Head, Feeblc-circulation,LaJ)ored-breathina, Heart-enlargement, Nervous-prostration, Heart-rheumatism, Neuralgia and Valvular Disease. One Medicine will not Curo all kindi of Disease*. THIS REMEDY IS A SPECIFIC. I It Prevents Fab7, Shock, Sudden Death. | Every ingredient is from vegetable pro-1 nrklAh m^\nr in Mrvhf r\-f OfOrV unfnr. B uuvio nmi;uu*uiT iiioiguvv/i v?v? ? uu?vt- . tunate sufferer. It contains no Morphine, Opium or injurious drugs. \SJ~ JS'ot a of impurt Blood can etcapt U? 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Bilious and other fever*, aided bv RAD WAY'S PILLS, so quick as RAD WAY'S READY&ELI-E F. Fifty cents per bottle. Sold by dragglitf. . DR. RADWAY'S (The Only Genuine) SARSAPARIL1M RESOLVES!! v The Great Blood Purifier, For cure of all chronic diseases. Scrofula, BloM Taints, Syphilitic Complaints, Consumption. Gl&ndular Disease, Ulcers. Chronlo Rheumatism. Erysipelas, Kidney, Bladder and Uver Complaint'). Dyspepsia, Affections of the Lungs and Tliroat, purlflei the Blood, restoring health and vlgot Sold by DruKffiatn. Si per Bottle. DR. RADWAY'S PILLS The Great Liver and Stomach Remedy For the cure of all disorders of the 8tomach, Liter. , , Bowels. Kidnevs, Bladder. Nervous Diseases, Loss of Appetite, Headache, Costiveness, Indigestion, BUlousness, Fever, Inflammation of the Bowels, Pllei andall derangements of the Internal Viscera. Purely vegetable, containing no mercury, mineral* or . deleters in drugs. Price 2d cents per box. Sold by all druggists, . DYSPEPSIA! Dr. l(ndway;i Pills are a care for this oom. plaint. They restore strength to the stomach and enable It to perform Its function*. The symptom of Dyspepsia disappeared with them the liability of the system to contract diseases. Take the media as jcoordl ng to directions, aad observe whit we say la ^False aad True" respecting diet. BTSend a letter stamp to DR. RAD WAY ?fc CO., ^o?3!^ Warren Street, New York, for "False and True." V BE SURE TO GET RAPWAY'B. nil PA I DR. WILLIAMS' PI I FK " Indian Pil? Ointmwt ?# will euro any case of itchlug, Bleeding, Ulcerated or Protruding Flies. CURE GUARANTEED. Prepared for Plies only. [Physician*1 Jars by express, prepaid, $4.50.] Price per box, 30c. ana 81. Bold by druggists or mailed ou receipt of price br the WILLIAMS MF'H CO.. Cleveland. Ohio. a J ONES WStlwFREICHT Ton Wagon scale*, o Urvrn, Suel Bctrtoit, Brsss re Btaci and Cram Bex tor Etotilitlolc. Fer freeprwe 1M HfSLloa thia paper sad tddrea* ~JONCS Of IIHBHAHTH. X BINGHAMTON. N. 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