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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.
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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
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'"""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. ,
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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"
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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
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<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
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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
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Maine, and they will send you full informatio
i, fiee, showing you how you cau make
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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.
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THE QBE AT ENGLISH REMEDY
For LlT?r. Bile, Indlgettlon, etc. Free from Mercury
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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.
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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.
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rom the first dose. Now she is comparatively
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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? Purifying Mnfluenc*.
Price $1.00?6 bottles $5.00.
t3J~Prepnred at Dr. Kilmer's Dispensary,
Binghamton, N. Y.. TJ. S. A.
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of water and eat, say, a cracker they will escape attack*.
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Kidney, Bladder and Uver Complaint'). Dyspepsia,
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For the cure of all disorders of the 8tomach, Liter. , ,
Bowels. Kidnevs, Bladder. Nervous Diseases, Loss of
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Fever, Inflammation of the Bowels, Pllei
andall derangements of the Internal Viscera. Purely
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