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/ ' AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. Warming Food for Cows. When cows first drop their calves a mash of bran mixed up with warm water is excellent to cool the internal heat and prevent fever. At this time and for a week afterward all the water the cow drinks should at least have the chill taken from it. There is no doubt that Warm food and drink are greatly stimulating to the production of milk, but is it best for the general health of the cow to continue it? The failures in giving Cooked food to stock may throw some light on this subject. They are generally given warm, and while the experimenter is usually much pleased with the results at first, he finds after one or two years' trial that the new method is not so advantageous as lie had supposed. If food is giver warmer than the animal heat it aids digestion, but in the same proportion enfeebles the stomach by giving it less work to do. It is something like the effect of stimulants when taken by human beings.?American Agriculturist. Turning Out Sheep Too Early. It i9 comparatively an easy matter to turn out the sheep too early in the spring, says the Chicago Sheep Breeder. While it ia nf fnnrsp rlesimlile to let them have grass as soon rs it cau be secured in the spring, yet c: should be taken not to turn out entirely. We have always found it a good plan lo sow a patch of rye in the fall, on purpose to turn in the breeding ewes in the spriug when they especially need something green. While we may be able to keep them in a fairly good condition on dry food, yet to insure the best growth, not only of the auimal but also of the wool, green food should be given whenever possible, and especially the breeding ewes. In order to keep them thrifty and healthy, and at the same time furnish a full supply of milk to keep the lambs growing, grecu food is almost a necessity. But it is better not to turn into the pastures too early. It will answer to let them have the run for two or three hours each day, when the weather is pleasant, but in cold, wet, or stormy weather it will be much better to feed under shelter, and this is especially the case with sheep that have been reasonably well sheltered all winter. It is certainly poor management to keep sheep all winter, takiug.painsto feed and shelter so as to obtain a good growth in flesh and wool, and then in the spring, j just when they need the feed and care the worst, to turn them out and let them look out for themselves. It is an easy matter to stunt the growth of the wool of the sheep and the lambs, j and a stunted growth is never desirable j in anything. The longer we farm the i more thoroughly satisfied do we become I that it pays to keep stock growing j Bteadily ail the time, just the same as a ! crop, and that any failure to do this is a j failure to secure as much profit as we : could. Bee-Keeping. "Who can keep bees? Anybody pos- | sessed of confidence, gentleness, patience ! and sense. There arc persons who bo- i lieve that the bees instinctively select ; them for enemies, pursue them and sting, j Founded in this belief such persons will j hever become bee-keepers, but if they | .should attempt it, throwing aside all j fear, they would find that the "instinc- | tive antipathy" against them personally j did not exist. Man is the enemy of every j living thing regarded from the standpoint of the living thiug. If it be desired | to take eggs from a brooding hen, they j are not abandoned because the hen drives her beak into the floh, or flies into the face of the intruder. The bee-keeper may be stung a hundred times in a season, and yet he has no more fear of bees than of flies. The beginner is advised always to wear gloves with long gauntlets bound to the arm by elastic cords. ; When confidence is established fully the ; glove will be laid aside. All bee-keepers i Wear veils. There may be a few exeep- j tions, but only a few. Women bee-keepers have been very j successful. A bee paper, perhaps the first one of any account in this country, was published by a woman who worked out apicultural problems in her own ftDiarv. The "bloomer'' costume, or a modification of it, is recommended by j Borne writers. But there is a general dis-; like for that picturesque dress. The ob- j ject is gained by having a skirt so full at i the hem that it may be gathered about each ankle below "the top of the shoe. The material must be strong, but may be as light as gauze, and being light and ample will not interfere with any movement. For all there is recreation, exercise, health, and at least twenty-five per cent, profit. There are two ways to start an apiary, namely: either to buy colonies in modern hives all ready to make harvest, or to buy ' colonies in old-fiu-hioned hives and transfer to modern hives. The latter is the cheaper, and the transferring, even of I one colony, will usually rob bee-keeping j of any terrors it may have made in any . timid mind. It is a grand introduction 1 to the whole science. Colonies in mid- I winter have been bought for two dollars j apiece, and taken at once (not lon^ dist- \ ances) to the places they were to occupy ! in the coming summer. But the removal must be made carefully iu cold weather. The combs are brittle and will break easily, and if the bees are jarred from the combs to the bottom of the hive they will remain there to perish. There is no risk in buying bees in winter, that is, no money risk. If the hive, un ordinary box hive, weighs thirty or forty pounds in January there will be honey enough in it to pay the cost, even if the bees be dead. But a colony of this weight will not be dead unless killed by an overturning of the hive, when the combs might fall together and crush them.?George C. ^ Slockicell, in N. E. Farmer. Farm anil Garden Notes. Garden seed should be selected in due time. If ouions are planted, see that the ground is line, rich and well manured. Equal weights of oats and corn make a good ration for fattening young sheep. If a hog is worth having on the farm then he is worth feeding until he is at his beet. CIAW fnotliot'inrr nrrnwiruf considcml indicative of hardiness in fowls. Do not burn your straw stacks, but fix them up for food and shelter. "Waste makes want." A good hedge makes the best kind of wind-break for a garden or orchard, in a cold climate. A feed of cookcd turnips, beets or potatoes, occasionally, is greatly relished by dumb animals in winter. Roup in chickens usually proceeds from dampness. Keep your fowls well Sheltered in early spring. Constant chanse of stock 2ive3 you no opportunity to realize the full value of ! any breed, however good. A covering of straw, leaves or stalks j burned over garden ground, will serve to destroy not only seeds but insects. Experiments show that the native thick skinned grapes are better winter keepers than our improved varieties. Nobody has seen ground harrowed too much for the preparation of wheat, for it is hardly possible to get too fine tilth. Cabbages, onions and steamed chopped hay are good for stimulating fowls, and will greatly increase the laying of eggs. Under like conditions young animals make greater gain, in proportion to food eaten, than those that are fully matured. If you -would not have your improved Berkshires and Poland-Chinas to dwindle down to razor-backs, be careful of them. Do not use fertilizers too lavishly on nlnntg A smnll OimntitV aotllied r?? r. ,, r, frequently is better than a full allowance at one time. The demand for bulls of good blood, for use on the plains, has been so great that it has absorbed nearly all the surplus stock of that kind for years. It is said that good butter cannot be made from the milk of cows kept in a dark stable, air, light, cleanliness and warmth being essential where cows are kept for profit. Raise everything needed on the farm and make cotton a surplus crop?such is the rule the Southern planters are adopting. in order "to find their wav out of the wilderness." The Garden journal observes: "Little scientific knowledge is necessary to a full belief in the importance of repeated' changes of ground for kitchen garden crops, and to fully carry out systematic rotation." A writer says: ' 'Potato growers should run a common harrow lengthwise of their rows just before the plants push their noses through,and thus destroy all weeds; afterward cultivate flat through the season with a common cultivator. The Indiana Farmer says: Sir. C. D. Heldt writes us that he cured splint on the leg of his horse by simply rubbing it two or three times a day till it was warmed by friction, with a corn cob. He did this during four days, and cured the horse permanently. Beets, turnip9, carrots and other succulent roots and tubers are capital food for dairy cows, and so are cotton-seed and linseed, but it would be as sensible in a landlady to subsist her boarders on fruits and plum puddings as for a farmer to rely on those vegetables for the steady diet of his cows. It is plain to practical fanners that if there were no means to restore the exhausting fertility of soils the earth would cease to yield her increase, and all animals, the human family included, perish from the face of it. Individual cultivators act most wisely who keep their soils in maximum producing condition by enlightened and generous treatment. The Atlanta Constitution says red clover grows readily through Middle Georgia, aud the climate of "that region is a pretty fair average of Southern climate. Other things being equal, clover grows best on rather thick clay soils, and will take care of itself almost as well as ordinary weeds. The journal says clover is a profitable crop on clay and lime soils in Georgia. If any one will go over a corn field in spring, after frost is out of th(? ground, he will find many of the corn stubs tilted over by the frost, and also so loosened that they will uproot easily. This shows that they are mainly near the surface, and gives a hint as to the best method of culture during the growing season. With flat culture the roots stand firmest. Where a mound of earth is made around the corn the frost almost entirely uproots it. Gardens are commonly visited very early by the various kinds of noxious insects that destroy the vegetables grown in them. One reason for this is that they remain dormant in their hidingplaces under weeds, pieces of board or clods of manure. It is a common practice to change the garden spot occasionsionally, so that the plants when they appear will not be immediately disturbed by their insect enemies. The better plan is to remove all weeds, litter and rubbish from garden?. Then late in the fall plow the soil, leaving it as loose as possible, and some time during the winter cover liberally with manure. This will give plenty of time for the soluble fertility of the manure to leach into and be incorporated with the soil. How Long Starvation Can Be Resisted. In an article on "Fasters and Fasting" in the Cosmopolitan, Henry Howard says: As to animals, Chossat reckons from fifteen to eighteen clays as the average period during which they arc able to resist. inanition. The extreme limits of endurance, however, arc very varable, fat animals and cold-blooded animals resisting a much longer time than the others. Take as examples of the former, creatures that hibernate, such as the bear, marmot, etc., audof the latter, tortoises aud frogs. As every body knows, a bear or a prairiedog will remain several months without food; a tortoise encased in plaster of Paris will retire from its enforced domicile after three months in fairlv good condition. Thus the hibernating animal, the reflex sense of hunger being latent, feeds ur>on itself: iinrl n<j if Vine ?nflir>i<>nt. fat stowed up to Dourish it until the conclusion of its winter's sleep, it does not succumb. Man, in certain diseased conditions of the nervous system, is enabled to suppress the sensation of hunger, and to live by autonutrition, or feeding on one's self, and also by a sort of hibernation with or without the element of dormancy. All specialists on diseases of the nervous system have under observation hysterical or insane patients that remain weeks and months without food, and yet maintain a tolerably good physical condition. Again, influences purely physical, such as powerful moral emotions, without any diseased condition existing in the individual subjected to them, may also lessen the denutrition that results from deprivation of food. In this condition, Henri de Parville cites the experiment of an alchemist named Duchanteau,who imagined that bv depriving himself <.f nourishment for forty days, and drinking his own urine, he could produce the philosopher's stone. Duchanteau supported this ! regimen during twenty-six days, aud ."li - uiuji t uit'i Dctectivc Cameras. The detective camera is so constructed that the touch of a spring starts it noiselessly into action, and is variously inclosed so as to resemble a paper-covered package, a hand satchel, &c. The latest invention in this line is the "vest camera," a flat disk, shaped and sized like a pie, which is carried under the vest, the all seeing eye of the lens doing duty as an innocent looking button.?Ntto York J [(raid. J ; BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES PROM VARIOUS SOURCES. It Succeeded?A Personal MatterIt Made a Difference?A WellEarned Title?The Colonel's Strategy, Etc. "Augustus," said Maud, who, as he had been calling on her for some time, thought she would give him a hint, "I should like to be an actress." "An actress?" repeated Augustus in astonishment. "What on earth do you want to be an actress for?" "Because then I might be engaged." She ncAv wears a solitaire.?Ncio York tSvn. A Personal Matter. "Ought we to annex Canada?" inquired a Detroiter of a stranger in one of our hotels yesterday. "No, I hardly think we should. Still my opposition to it may be a personal matter." "You are not interested in property there, are you?" "Well, no. But you see I have a son who used to be Cashier of a bank in Ohio, and, and?" "Ah, yes, certainly. Of course, under the circumstances you would be rather rather prejudiced. Good-day."?Detroit Free Press. It Made a Difference. Mrs. Robinson?What an extremely candid person Mrs. Higgins is. It is pretty hard for any one to impose any false pretenses on her, and the hints I have got from her have been of great value to me. See how she exposed those Simpkinses and Wilkinses. Mrs. Jones?Yes, and if you could have heard what she said about you, yesterday Mrs. Robinson?About me I Mrs. Jones?About you. Mrs. Robinson?Well, I never! The idea of her making tm a subject of conversation. She is nothing but a tattler anyway. I won't believe another word she says.?Tid-BUs . A Weil-Earned Title. "How are you, Judge?" said a commercial traveler cheerily to an old resident in a Texns town. "Good day, sir," returned the gentleman addressed. "By the way, Judge, did you ever have any of the amusing experiences that are uusually supposed to be incident to the life of a jurist?" "No, I can't say I ever did. Yer see, I never hed anything much to do with the courts." "But everybody calls you 'Judge?'" "Yes, that's a fact. I lend I rockon I've got a right to the title." "How's that?" "Why, yer see, I'm gennerly 'lowd tei be the best jedg o' hosses in this intir# county."?Merchant Traveler. The Colonel's Strategy. Col. Dick Wintersmith was tryiug to write a letter in a room where Dan Voorhees, Mr. Beverly Tucker and two 01 three others were sitting. TheSe three gentlemen formed a conspiracy to worry him and prevent his writing. Every time he would put pen to paper one 01 the other would ask him a question. At last old Judge Key came in, and the Colonel greeted him very cordially. "Judge," said the Colonel, "I wish you would sit down and tell lis about your trip to Europe." "Did I never tell you about my life in Europe?" said the Judge with some surprise. "No, never. These gentlemen want to hear it." The Judge turned to hang up his coat and hat, and the Voorhees party made for the door. When he was ready to take his seat no one was present but Col.Wintersmith. "Why, where are those gentlemen?" asked the Judge. "They are gone, sir," said Col. Dick; a S x_ ix i i : mey waniea 10 iusun 3 uu uy icaviug. It is an outrage. I would seek satisfaction." The Judge, being of a fiery nature, put on his overcoat at once and started in Lot chase after the offenders. As soon a9 he got out of the door Col. Wintersmith quietly locked it and wrote his letters. Hard to Construe. ''Look here," said the brnkeman, stirring up the sleeping passenger, who was dozing the miles away while a forbidding looking dog slumbered quietly at his feet. "Look here, that dog can't ride in this car." "I know he can't," muttered the passenger, "but he docs, doesn't he?" "But he can't ride any longer, "shouted the brakeman. " 'Course not," said the passenger, half opening his eyes in sleepy interest, "full-grown dog; never be any loDger than he is now." ' %- J ? ? "iiUl ne can t riue any more, aiiiu lue brakemail, showing signs of irritation. "No," replied the passenger, opening his eyes wide, "he seems to be getting all the ride the old train can give him now." "But," roared the brakeman, "he won't ride another mile." "Can't bet on that," said the passenger, dozing away again; "queer dog; owned him six years, and never can tell one minute what he will or won't do the next." "But he mustn't ride inhere," shrieked the brakeman. " 'Course he musn't," sleepily ?aid the passenger, "Wife says every day he musn't come into the house, and he just lives in it." "Well, by thunder!" roared the brakeman, "he's got to get out of here 1" "That's what book-keeper says at the office," wearily groaned the sleepy passenger, "and he sleeps under the desk when he isn't scratching for rats under the safe and in the waste-basket." Then the brakeman got mad and went to the conductor. "There's a man in here got a dog with him," he s'aid, "aud * u 1.. i.!? -r *1.~ A call i iikiku uuu uuujjv uui ui iuu war with it." "Oh, that sleepy old duffer in the Pennsylvania coach?" said the conductor. ' I tried him myself and he wore out the imperative mood of all the verbs iu the grammar on me before I got mad enough to bounce him, and then he went to sleep. Let him alone. He gets off at the next station, and I'm going to run him by about seventy miles."?Burdette, in American Traveler. In his earlier years the late Professor E. L. Youmans was very fond of rare roast beef; but on one occasion Professor Agassi/, told him that triclrince were as liable to be found in beef as in pork, and that the only way to avoid the risk of eating them was to have one's meat thoroughly cooked. Always afterward Professor Youmans insisted upon having bis beef "well done."?Harper's Weekly. SIGNIFICANT* Nome of the Lnnt Public OpinVttM of a <?reat l?Inn. New York Correspondence Cleveland Ltader One has a most excellent opportuni ty to study "man" as represented by the average New Yorkers. Among the wealthy classes, very many of them have the waxy skin, dropsical Ho-h, and "puffed eyes" tha.t are indicative of serious kidney affection. "Bright's disease" is plainly written on their faces. Since General Logan's death tho subject of rheumatism is being discussed by the medical profession. Every intelligent person, with any knowledge of the human system, is well aware that if the kidneys are in good condition all unnecessary material is regularly carried off by them. If not, various acids, such as uric acid, one of the chief causes of rheumatism, are left in excess,creating deposits that cause all sorts of chronic organic diseases. It would seem, therefore, that rheumatism, like dropsy, is not a disease, but the result of a disease, and it is safe to Fay that if the stomach and kidneys are kept in h.althfu] condition, there will be no deaths from rheumatism. General Logan was well aware that his disease was of the kidneys, and once expressed himself in indignant terms at the r>t AnMnra (rooting him for rheumatism. when it was the kidneys that caused his attacks. The high living and the excesses in all thini^s prevalent among -wealthy men in large cities, especially in New York, is the chief cause for Bright's disease, and the aristocratic trouble known as rheumatism, even as insufficient and improper food bring about the same results among the very poor. The above article, which we reproduce be cause of its general interest, is very significant The public believes that rheumatism is an effect of diseased blood, this disease being caused by uric acid or kidney poison. Enough of this is developed daily to kill several men, and if it is not removed by the kidneys as fast as formed, it gradually ruin:; the health. This fact is a scientific demonstration. If doc tors do not admit it, it is probably because they do not wish to attract attention to the meuae deranged kidneys offere to the general health, since they have no authorized specific for those organs. General Logan knew what his real trouble was, and be recognized the nonsense of treating the effects?the real seat of the disease was the kidneys. Senator Sittig, of Illinois, whose vote elected Lcgan Senator after four months of balloting, tells us that Logan often complained to him of great distress it his kidneys. Disease of the kidneys always produces rheumatism, and besides that, it cau-es paralysis, apoplexy, impotency, stomach and blood disorders, brain troubles, female complaints and countless other diseases which would almost never develop if the blood vrai kept free of uric acid or kidney poison. These facts the public recognizes even though medical gentlemen, for very evident reasons, will not publicly acknowledge them lest, perchance,some proprietary medicine like Warner's safe cure, now admitted to be the only siieutific specific, will get the benefit Fie on such bigotry! It bas been authoritatively stated time and again thut there can be no real sound health if there is any false action of the kidneys. Insurance companies millinne rtf nn fVio ftrnilnH ftlniiA. hence it is that there i8 such universal popularity given to t he great preparation namod ?a popularity that is based upon intrinsic merit. Too much dependence UDon professional advice, especially in matters ovsr which medical men admit they ha ye no power, too often results very disastrously, but of w hat use to the victim is experience gained by fatal disaster? How much better it is to ae guided by an unprejudiced public opinion in such matters. Had Logan been so guided, he might have been spare 1 many years. A Lion-Tamer's Nerve. Crockctt made the greatest name for himself of any lion tamer, not in England aloDe, but in France, Germany and- America. '"I remember well," sc.ys Archibald Forbes, "the time when the six lions were loose at one time in Astlcy's. The 6angers had sent the beasts up from Edmonton the night before. Nobody to this duy knows how they got out of their dens; but it was thought at the time that some one of the oilmm flin mnnirr^r wnc ^IV/VlilO ITilU niiviU %itv UIUMU^V. very unpopular, he used to fine tliem so mercilessly?had let them loose maliciously, that they might get at th2 horses. There they were, anyhow, loose in the place, smelling (he horses, and mad to get at them. They had already killed a man, and had eaten him wher. Crockctt arrived. Without halting an instant, he dashed in among them single-handed, with only a switch in his hand, and I'm blest if he didn't manage to den them all 6inglc-liandcd. That was nerve for you." A Queer Town. ' The queerest town I know of in this part of the country," said a commercial traveler, ui9 at Milledqcville, 111. For some reason or other the railroad people and the principal owner of the town site had a falling out and the railroad decided to start a new town. Through the company's influence a brick block was put a mile or more away from the old town, but nearer the station and side tracks. That block conlains nine store-rooms 011 the first floor, and a large number of offices overhead. In it is almost every kind ot business usually camca on in a country town. In fact, that brick block is a whole town in itself, but it looks odd to sec farmers' wagons hitched in a circle about that building, and the entire business of a prosperous little place being carried on under one roof. There is orily one other building in the new town."? Chicago Herald. A leading physician has made th? startling revelation that six thousand people, mostly children, die yearly in this country from the effects of couuh mixtures containing morphia or opium. Red 3iar Cough Core contains neither opiates nor poisons; purely vegetable. A Ritzville, W. T., farmer digging a wsl came upon an immense undergroud caviuy whence a strong breeze blows constantly,with a noise like the humming of telegraph wir ;s. *r V *coo 0?? T. vr fin(?? P P In. .UUUU, iotw, iic?. u?. ....... dian Missionary, Glen Falls, N. Y., wrote: "A single application of St. Jacobs Oil relieved ics f rheumatism." October 29, 1686, he writes again: "It eared me then.". A Merckd (Cal.) farmer has poisoned over 20,000 jack rabbits In the last four years, a id yet, in spite of the warfare against them, they are increasing in number Ana are becoming a veritablo plague tor the Merced and Fres:io farmers. 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Their tasks are rendered doubly hard and irksome and their livus shortened, jet hard- necessity compels them to keep on." To s'lr-h I)r. 1'ierce's "Favorite Proserin! ion'" offt rs a sure means o.' r?*:iif. For all "female we aknesses it is a certain cine. All druggists. Ti n cent - is the ]>ricc set on tlie head of the crow found in the .state of MaineYoung and middle-aged irea suffering from nervous debility, premature old oge, loss of memory, and kindred pymiiloms. t-hou!d seud 10 cents in stamp3 for illustrated treatise suggesting sure means of ( ure, World's Dispensary Medical Association. Buffalo. X- Y. A gross of steel pens can now be produced for eight cents. They once cost $35. No lady should livo in perpetual fear, and suffer from the more serious troubles that no often appear, when Dr. Kilmer's Complete Female Remedy is certain to prevent and cure Tumor and Cancer there. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomoson's Eye-water. Druggists sell at25c. per bottle Royal Glce1 mends anything! Broken Chi. na. Glare, Wood. Free Vials at Druga & Gi"o ] appearance of a mud swamp. There is no difficulty in walking or wading from one end to the other, for with the sole exception of several places where the pitch is in a state of ebullition in a soft and viscid consistency the "lake" is semisolid. On it I found chestnut-colored men and women digging out large clods of the asphalt with ax and shovel and loading it upon donkey carts. Each lump of the asphalt exhibited small cavities, and wc were informed by the diggers that they never dig deep enough to find the pitch at all softened. The roughened surface of the pits is exposed to the tropical sun, and wif'iin a few days the cavities ?re full again. From 30,000 to 40,000 tons of the asphalt are dug out every year, each cubic foot of the pitch weighing on an average sixty pounds. 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McCl MVPfl ni?PI$P writes: "I addressed: IJftn UtdUdL in regard to my healt IHn liver disease, heart troi .. V ness. I was advised HCIDTTRnimir Golden Medical Disc liun I inUUOLC. gcriptlon and PeUets. I nf f^e Prescription.' try,' and four of the4 Pleasant Purgative I gan to improve under the use of your medi came back. My difficulties have all disappef I all day, or walk four or five miles a day, and a I b?gan using: the medicine I could scarcely most of tbo time, and I did not think I coul I havo aJlttio baby gjMeight months old. 1 delicate in size and appearance, she is healtl dies ail the credit for curing me, as I took no beginning their use. I am very grateful t thank Ood and thank you that I am as we of suffering." umm Mrs. I. V. WrBBKR, of York I > writes: "I wish to say LIVER ?' your 'Golden Medical Dis n Purgative Pellets.' For flv niCCIOC taking them I was a grea uiauniu severe pain in my right s unable to do my own work I am now well and strong, thanks to your Chronic Diarrhea Cured.?D. Lazj Decatur Street, new Orleans, Iax.. writes: ". the ' Golden Medical Discovery/ and it ha< diarrhea. My bowels aro now regular." _ "THE I Thoroughly cleanse the blood, which digestion, a fair skin, buoyant spirits^ ?ni UOiaen Mcaicmi ulbcov i;ry uura ui ui poison. Especially has it proven its effi and Swellings, Enlarged Glands, and Eatii Rev. F. Asburt Howk NDIBEST ON Church, 0/ Silverton, N. inuiBLO I IUN flictcd ^ catarrh ^,5 j OILS blotches began to arise muilvj Bkjnj and j experienced HI OTRHFS dullness. I began the HLUlUnCO. Oolden Mcdlcaf Discov him for such complain! time I began to foel like a new man, and an The ' Pleasant Purgative Pellets' are the bes aiok headache, or tightness about the chest mouth, that I nave over used. My wife cou, floor when she began to take your ' Goldei Now sho can walk quite a little ways, and ( Mrs. Ida M. StroVH, of A HlP-JO NT I "My littlo boy bad been t: HIT UUini disease for two years. Wh n?Pi*p I iiw of voiip Ooldon Me IUIStASL | 'pellcta/ be was confined not bo moved without fluff* now, thanka to your * Disco very,' be is able CONSUMPTION, 1 Golden Medical Discovery cures Co tin? and nutritivo properties. For Wea! and kindred affections, it Is a sovereign and purifies the blood. It rapidly builds up the system, and t "wasting- diseases." Consumption.?Mrs. Edward Nswn Ont., writes: " You will ever be praised b> ble euro in my case. I was so reduccd th yiven me up, and I had also been given up b wont to the best doctor in these parts. He was only a punishment In iny case, and wo troat me. He said I might A , ii_ lilted, as that was tho only tl UlYEN lir bly have any curative power _ far advanced. I tried tho < T(1 Hip treatment, but I was so wea I u uiu on my gtonmch. My husbani to give mo up yet, though t everything he saw advertised lor m.v coinplt tity of your 'Golden Medical Discovery.' 11 and. to the surprise of everybody, am to-day l and am entirely freo from that terrible coug night and day. I have been afflicted with rhe | of years, and now feel so much better that tinuation of your * Golden Medical Discove to perfect health. I would say to those wlu that terrible disease consumption, do not d thing else first; but take the'Golden Modi I early states of the disease, and thereby sav< fcrlnjr and bo restored to health at onee. still in doubt, need but write me, inolo addressed envelope for reply, when tho for be fully substantiated by me." Hirer Cnred.?TfAAO "Downs, Esf] Rockland Co., -V. Y. < P. O. Hoi W), write*: (ioldeu Medical PiscoTevy is S< WORLD'S C Why did tl of this country use over i Procter & Gamble's Lenox Buy a cake of Lenox ami yoi * A Prairie of Pitch. I have just returned from a trip to the so-called "Pitch Lake," writes a correspondent from Port of Spain, Trinidad, to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Running south down the Parian Gulf to La Brea, some forty miles distant from this port, we there disembarked, and, climbing a gentle ascent of 140 feet, we found the lake, a little more than a mile inland. Strictly speaking, there is no lake in the common acceptance of the term, but a level plain, composed of a concrete, though flexible, mass of pitch, covering an area of perhaps 100 acres. Bushes, patches of vegetation and occasional pools of brackish water diversify the surface here and there, giving it the That Tired Feeling I* to general at this season that every one knows what Is meant by the express: on. A chance of seaion. climate, or of life, has such a depren-Ing effect upon the body that one feels all tired out. almost completely prostrated, (he appetite Is lost, and Oiore Is no ambition to do anything, The whole tendency or the system Is downward. In this con-llt^a Hood's Sarsaparllla is Just the medlclno neoded. It purities the blood, sharpens the appetite, overcomes tho tired feeling, and Invigorates evury function of the body. Try It. "We all like Hood's 8arsap;irllla, It Is so strength enlng. "-Lizzie Balfour, Auburn, P. Q. The Weak Made Strong "I never tookany medlclno that did me 10 much good In so short a time as Hood's Sarsaparllla. I was very much run down, had no strength, no energy, and felt very tired all the time. I commenced taking Hood's Sarsaparllla, and before 1 had used one bottle felt like a different person. That extreme tired feeling has gone, my appetite returned, and It toned me up generally. My brother and sister have aUo rcclved great benefit from It,"? CfARA W. Phslw, Bblrley, Ma g. N. B.?Be sure to get thj^pecullar medicine, Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; tlx for *3. Prepare4 only by C. I. HOOD ft CO.. Apotbecartea. Lowell. Mua. 100 Doses One Dollar BPPW ?vftf cine)?F F0l0?yfflSTER Hltfaest Awardt *f letbb la Earsp* ud Aaertea. The neatest, quickest, safest ani most powerful j remedy known for Rheumatism, Pleurisy, Neuralgia, Lumbago, Backache. Weakness, cold in the chest and all achcr and palm. Endorsed by S.UOO Physicians and Druggists of the highest repute. Benson's Plasters promptly rellove and cure where other plasters and greasy salves, liniments and lotions, are absolutely useless. Beware of Imitations under slm lar sounding names, such as "Capsicum," "Capucin." "Capslclne," as they are utterly worthiest and intended to deceive. Abk fob BensoVs ahd take no others. All druggists. _ BEABT7RY & JOHNSON, Proprietors, New York. AGENTS WANTED for the LIFE OF HENRY WARD BEECHER br Taos. W. Knox. An Authentic nni Couplet* History of his Ufa and Work from the Cradle to the Grave. OatMlU >11 atkrra 10 l* 1. The HK.ST ami CIIIAPIST. fipleadjdly illustrated, (alia Ilk* ulldflr*. Distance no hindrance far ?i par tfca rr*l*k? and (Its (xlra Taraa. Send for clreulir. Addnm HiaTfOHD Plik. CO., Hartford, Conn. ^ a Ladies I Those dull I tired looks and feelings I v speak _ volumes 1 .This| V itemeay corrects ail con dltione, restores vigor v jnRjl . and vitality and brings back youthful bloom idiPaRjyV-V * and beauty. Druggists. \LVjJF Prepared at Dr. Kllmer'sins<y \ <!? noajL&Y, Bingham ton, N. Y. w Letters of Inquiry answered. ' t> Guide to Health (Sent Free). FRAZERAfKI BEST IN THE WORLD U VIE A U E PF" Get the Genuine. Sold Everywhere. nrUCinDC Offleera' pay, bounty proIJUlMI IN A cured; deserters relieved. W tllWI WIIW) 21 years'practice. Buccesaor I no fee. Write for circulars and new laws. . A. W. McOormioU A* Son.Washington,D.O. IRKS' IMPROVED ROOT BEER PACK. AGES. '23c. Makes li gallons of a delicious sparkling temperance beverage, strengthens and purifies the blood. Its purity and delicacy of flavor tommend it to all. Sold everywhere. TRY IT. flip to 88a day. Samples worth 11.90 FRE2 B% Lines not under the horse's feet. Address W Brewster's Safett Rein Holder, Holly,Mich AftlllM and Morphine Habit cored in 10 l|l#ll|Bf| to90days, Itefertolouopatientscurod Ul IV III In all pare-1. Dr. MAnsH.vjuln. y, Mich n ffl n oqjbin? Aivcr vo., jii viurciuuiii kflK HI m Colony, Illustrated Circular free MlBlflU J. F. MANC'HA, Claremout Va. BATCMTd Obtained. Send stamp for VA I Cl? I O Inventory' Guide. L. Bino1 uam, Patent lawyer, Washington, D. a nmilU Utiblt Cured. Treatment sent on trla UrlUW HUMANE REMEDY CO., Lafayette.ini OD AND LUNG UR*. Columbus, Kant., Mrs. P. rou in November, 1884, I BCVCDII I Loekport h, being afflicted with I UERunlL I %j2Tne able, and female weak- I flCDII ITV I sore thrt to use Dr. Pierce's I UtBILITT. I My liver overy, Favorite Pre- LkkjwmJ dyspepsij , I used one bottle Medical Discovery' am five of the ' Discov- ailments and I cannot 'ellets.' My health be- gay a word In referenc icine, and my strength has proven itself a mc ired. 1 can work hard it has been used In my tand it well; and when _ . walk across the room, . ?y8PeP,ia*,~'JAMls d ever feel well again. Minn., writes: I was i Although she is a little heartily and grow poor a ly. I give your rcmc- Bour stomach, and man i other treatment after Jnnw srsnsBswK wmmtes in n &nif I, ihirc, Cattaraugus Co., THE SYSTEM. flve y a few words in praise one j covery' and ' Pleasant much 0 years previous to the same long t sufferer; I had a medicine that seemed id? continually; was th? whole system equal IJ'1? haJ?Py wy Dyspepsia.?Theiu medicines. 441 was troubled.one y irrb, Esq., rn and t?7 deeplessness, but your ' [ used three bottles of Chills and Fever 1 cured me of chronic writes: "Last August I I took your' Discovery' 3LOOD IS THE is the fountain of health, by using Dr. Pierci 1 bodily health and vigor will be established, amors, from the common pimple, blotch, or er cacy in curing Salt-rheum or Tetter, Fever-sc ag Ulcers. ex, Potior of the if. E. can walk with the 1 J.. says: 4<I was af- Pain.and can eat and s. indigestion. Boils and about three months sic on The surface of the ? words wli a tired feeling and benefit he has received use of Dr. Pierce's . ery as directed by Sttl a, and in one weeks I A ICDDIQIC 1 now sound and well. I * ' tUnlDLt Ann t remedy for bilious or I |miAV|Mii . and bad tasto in the I AFFLICTION, ft'Aj Id not walk across the Golde 1 Mcdical Discovery/ , pear? >?<*?.? ? covering the whole of attacked the elbows an ineworth, Inc?., writes: After being treated by roublcd with hip-Joint commenced the use of en he commenced the began to mend and is i dical Discovery' and the medicine has saved to bia bed, and could Mr. T. A. Aybeb, of I. jring great pain. But vouches for the above : to be up all the time, WEAK LUNGS, SPIT nsumption (which Is Scrofula of the Lungs), by k Lungs, 8pitting of Blood, Shortness or Brea remedy. While it promptly cures the seve ncreases the flesh and weight of thoso reduced ox, of JTarroumHth, cal Discovery' has cure<! mo for the remarka- on the tbiffh. After tryi at my friends had all Procured three bottles < y two doctors. 1 then perfectly." Mr. Downs told me that medicine ? uld not undertake to Consumption an try Cod liver oil if I thank you for the rema bing that could possi- For t over consumption so U/ioTrn Tn I 5J?. d Tod liver oil as a last nioTEu TO I Befor k I could not keep it I ?8kel 1, not feeling satisfied a NlfFl FTQII. I times 10 had bought for mo ? en ' tint, procured a quan- . , _ hopes :ook only lour bottles, took months treat doincr my own work, olmort discouraged ; ooi. h which harrassed me but the third month I I umatism for a number cannot now recite how I believe, with a con- rcturriinK .health gradi rv,' I will Ixj restored -To-day I tip the scales )'are falling a prey to ZffSSSiiSFffSi i j a grrcat d?-al of Bnf- i i?uy < T sini'a rasfsJ!! j Bleeding I ^~"ra|hw?LuNiisJS [., of Sprlnn VnVni, j "' " "n" '." b1k? b " The ' l< o)d< n M'.di- ilieeontinued it." )ld by Druggists. Price $1.00 per Bot IISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOC1ATU No. 66j M ie Women ! i kirteen tmllio?i cakes of J .^>oap in i i will soon understand why. rTRW 1 li.U.K. m I CURES AND PREVENT3 ~ H Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Influenza, 8roa fl chilis, Pneumonia, Swelling of the Joints Lumbago, Inflammations, Rheumi* ?| tism. Neuralgia, Frostbites, Chil- .i. blains, Headache, Tooth* , ache, Asthma. 'J DIFFICULT BREATHING. ^ CURES THF. WORST PAIN8 In from one to tweutf fl minutes. MOT ONE HOUR after readlnc thU *1- I Tertinemont need any one SUFFER WITH PAIS. S Bail way'. Ready Relief In a Sore Oarf t?f Evf_r,Pan, Sprain*, HrnWov Pal tula tli* Back, Cheat or Limbs. It wu -jfiM the Pint and I. the Only vB PAIN REMEDY TVia Inafantlu ofA.^i ? - 1.11 allays inflammation, and cures Congestions, whethai' H of the Lungs, Stomach, Dowels, or other gland* at organs, by one application. A half to a teaspoonful in half a tumbler of water will in a few minutes cure Oraups, Spurn*, Soot' fl Stomach, Heartburn. Nervousness, Steeplesioaa^. SB Sick Headache, Diarrhoea, Dysentery. Oollo, 7Ut&- M lency, and all internal pains, MALARIA I Chills and Fever, Fever and I Ague Conquered. J RAD WAY'S READY RELIEF 9 Not only cures the patient seized with this terrible jfl foe to settlers la newly-.-ettled districts, where tbe - J Malaria or Ague exists, but if people exposed toll v will, every morning on getting out of bod, take twenty or thirty drops of the Heady Belief in a flap of water and eat, say. a cracker they will escape at- ^*1 tacks. This must be done before goln^ oat m There is not a remedial agent In the w >rld that wJU enre Fever and Ague and all other Malar!ouv Billcm4 and other fevers, aided bv RADWAVS PILLST M so quick aa RAD WAY'S RE A DYKE LIB ft . ?%M Fifty centa per battle. Btld by 4ra?glata._ DR. RADWAY'8 1 The Only Genuine) 1 SARSAPARILLM RESOLVES! I 1 The Great Blood Purifier, . K For curt of all chronic diseases, Scrofula, Bloel I Taints, Syphilitic Complaints, Consumption. Qlan4- , nlar Disease. Ulcers, Chronic Rheumatism. Emla elas, Kidney, Bladder and Liver Complaints, Djh a popsla, Affections of the Lungs and Throat, purlM the Blood, restoring health anil vljot ^^8oldbyDrnggl?i^8lperBoUle^_^ - I DR. RADWAY'8 PILLS 1 The Great Liver and Stomach Remedy 8 For the ctire or au disorders or ine aramacn, unr. Bowels. Kldnevs. Bladder,Nervous Disease*. Lowof Appetite, Headache, Coativeneas, IadfeertlOD, BtV .9 lousneas, Fever, Inflammation of the Bowetai PllM and all derangement* of the Internal Viscera. Pure . ' It vegetable, containing no merenry, miaanU* at ,9 deleterious drug*. 11' Price 25 ceau per box. Sold by all draggtsta. ^9 DYSPEPSIA! 1 Dr. Railway's Pill* are a cure for this ooi% "-^gO plaint. Thfiy restore atreacth to the stomaoh an) enable it to perform its function*. The symptom* of Dyspepaiadisappeared with them tha liability of Vr? the system to oontract disease*. Take the medial a* M according to directions, and obeorva what m say la 2 1-5B "False and True" respecting diet. i , (VSend a letter atamp to DR. RAD WAT 4b a CO., No. 3*2 Warren 8treet? New York* for 9 'Talne and True." s'j&M VBE BURK TO GET RADWAY'S. -^1 W. L. DOUGLAS 1 $3 SHOE, gag~ f I Th^beflt S3 Shoe in the or ;.ui 82.50 Shoe e'jnals $3 Shoes advertised by other I Arms. Boys all wear W. L. Donrlaa'S2 Shoe. ?* I vare of fraud. Xont genuine unitu name and price 1 art ttamped on bottom of each Shoe. . '.>^91 W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Msm. | M to Soldiers & Heirs. Send ?*am> KAIt CI AH? for circulars. COUL. B1NC# | I CIIOIwllw HAM, Att'y, Waahlngcoa, IX O 1 DISEASES. I anrn Beuhdagb, of 161 Lock Street, ' ''M ; N. Y. writes: " I was troubled with I rvoufl and general debility, with frequent sat, and my mouth was badly cankered. I was inactive, and I suffered much from. I i, lam pleased to say that your 'Golden 4 1 'Pellets' have cured me of all these I say enough in their praise. I must also J 0 to your 'Favorite Prescription,' as it * ?t excellent medicine for weak females. I family with excellent results." 1 1 L. Colby, Esq., of Yucatan, Houston Co* | troubled with Indigestion, and would eat | ,t the same time. I experienced heartburn, 1 y other disagreeable symptoms common I it disorder. I commenced taking your { en Medical Discovery' and 4Pellets/and - now entirely free from the dyspepsia, and n fact, healthier than I have been for j ears. I weigh one hundred and seventy- I nd one-hair pounds, and have done as . work the past summer as I have ever , th of time in my life. I never took a I to tone up the muscles and invigorate j to your '^Discovery' and 'Pellets. j i&jl A. Cass, of Sprlnafldd, Mo* writes: ] ear with liver complaint, dyspepsia, and j Golden Medical Discovery' cured me."i j .?Rev. H. E. Moslet, Montmorenci, 8. CH J thought I would die with chills and fever. { and it stopped them in a very short time." Ha LIFE." ' .|?| j's Golden Medical Discovery, and good ] uption, to the worst Scrofula, or bloodires, Hip-joint Disease, Scrofulous Sore* . i?1_ -s Ar^om mltern anv j UCip Ui U1 UbCUCO. UV UVW MVW teep as well as any one. It baa only beea ice he commenced using your medicine. Ada th which to express my gratitude for the through you." . n Disease.?The "Democratand News,* j imbridge, Maryland, says: "Mrs. Kt.tzA jgM Pools, wife of Leonard Poole, of WU? 1 mrff, Dorchester Co* Md., has been cured )ad case of Eczema by using Dr. Pierce's j n Medical Discovery. The disease apJ first in ber feet, extended to the knees, l the lower limbs from feet to knees, then Yf id became so severe as to prostrate her. several physicians for a year or two shs the medicine named above. She soon iow well and hearty. Mrs. Poole thinks her life and prolonged her days." . ,ig kut New Market, Dorchtetcr County, Mi* \ TING OF BLOOD. 'M its wonderful blood-purifying, invJffora* HmnfiiiHa. fi<>vpre Couorhs. Asthma. rest Cougha~7t strengthens" the Bftted I below tbe usual standard of health by I my daughter of a very bad ulcer located ing almost everything without success, we or your ' Discovery, which healed It up continues: 'jSj d Heart Disease.?"I also wish to xkable cure you have effected In my caw. hree years I Bad suffered from that terri- J isease, consumption, and heart disease. e consulting you I had wasted away to eton: could not sleep nor rest, and many wished to die to be out of my misery. I . s ,33 consulted you, and you told me you had of curing me. but it would take time. I ment in all. The first two months I was ild not porccive any favorable symptoms, x-gan to pick up in flesh and strength. I -2s , step by step, the siriis and realities of wily but surely developed themselves. vjSl at one hundred and eLsty, and am well e in curing Mr. Downs' terrible disease al Discovery." eph F. McF.aiu.and, Esq., Athens, La* >-JI s: "My wife had frequent bleeding from H mgs befoi-e she eomuienced using your i<-n Medical Discovery.' Sho has not iny since its us\ For some six months ice been feeling so well tliat she hits tl#?. rtr Sit Unfiles for $5.00. )N, Proprietors, alu Street, BUFFALO) T*. Y. ?. . ??? . aFlso'B r.emedy for Catarrh Is the H 3 Also Rood for Cold In the Head, ' Heedn^R?, Ilev Fever, ?tc. 5"rent?. ?