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I*?_____ H AGRICUTOAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. Rotation for Gardens. It is good occasionally to give the garden a rest by seeding it with clover or grass for a year or two, and highly manuring some other plat to use in its stead. It requires, however, one or two years' time to bring up even rich farming land to the condition needed for * ! 1 1.1 garden purposes, ine oeginumg Miumu be made now by manuring heavily a clover sod and planting with early potatoes. Then in the fall manure again, and sow the patch with rye. to be ploughed under in spring. By this mcan3 the manure will be thoroughly incorporated in the soil. The old garden after its use this summer may be sown with rye or wheat, and seeded with grass in the fall and with clover seed next spring. In two or three years this will restore a lightness and fertility to the soil that cannot be got in any other way.?American Cultivator. Warm Water For Stock. After attending the Farmers' Institute I began to th:nk of the warm water question for stock, says a farmer in the New York World, and concluded to try the experiment with a pair of yearling M steers, to see if I was wasting food by the method I pursued, which was to stable all my stock in a good, confortablc stable at night, turning them out at j 9 or 10 o'clock a. m., and feeding in rack at noon, letting them go to the open creek and drink at will. On the 19th of the month I weighed the steers. One weighed 925 pounds, and the other 995 pounds. The heavier one I kept in the stable and gave water warmed to 100 degrees. The lighter one was turned out in the morning as as usual to go to the creek to drink. Both were fedalike on marsh hav' and three pints of ground feed apiece, night and morning. This I continued for fourteen days and then weighed them. I found that the one haviDg cold water weighed i?27 pounds, a gain of two pounds. The one having warm water gained twenty pounds, weighing 1015 pounds, or eighteen more than the otner had gained. I Points on Corn Culture. "To grow corn successfully," says Jlr. A. B. t'oiem&n in ine Jiurai i\cio Yorker, "make the soil fertile if not already so; break deep; pulverize thoroughly; run a drag over it and let it take a rain or two. Re-break it not quite so deep; harrow again; then run a drag over it to make it smooth. Lay it off 8? to 4J feet each way. Plant good, sound corn. Begin to cultivate early, and quit early. Do not be too impatient to plant. Better to wait until the ground gets warm. If you plant too early the corn will make a slow start: the 6talks will get hard and the crop will never do so well; besides, the grass or j weeds mav get ahead of the corn. Put ^ - -? 1 J ?T 1 ! | ID? iurniu^-jiiu? auu uuuuis-juwiw mm- | Ider the tool-shed as soon as the corn is j p!anted, and use cultivator and a oneI horse harrow with short teeth. It is a r' fallacy to thicw up a big ridge next to the corn to keep :t from being blown f down. The root3 hold up the corn. Just as well pile soil around a fruit tree to keen it from being blown down. It iB a fallacy to plow corn deep when it is silking, during a drought, to bring up the moisture. The plowing is a serious injury. If the soil has been properly prepared the moisture will be Drought up by capillary attraction. It is a fallacy j to undertake, by five or six plowings in ' a field of growing corn, to do the work that ought to have been done before planting." Feather Eating Fowls. The cause of feather eating in fowls, says the Farm, FieU and Stockman, is attributed by some to idleness, while others incline to the opinion that the appetite craves some element lacking in the foo'i. When hens are permitted to run at large they seldom acquire the ; habit, and it is claimed that those which give the most trouble in confinement are the Asiatic variet'es and Houdans. When the habit has once been contracted ! all poultry keepers agree that it is difficult to eradicate it, and some claim that the only effective remedy is to cut off the offender's head. The first step is to confine each culprit in a separate apartment as soon as the habit is discovered, and turn the rest of the flock at large if possible. Cures have sometimes been effected by a diet of soft food containing a large proportion of bone meal. Place a few cabbage heads where the hens can have free access to them, also let them have raw potatoes, apples and tnrnips to peck. Mix with their soft feed a little sweet fresh meat, not tainted, choppcd fine. Salt the food slightly. Provide the flock with plenty of dry 6and in which to roll and dust themselves. Keep constantly within their reach a di.-.h of water containing a few rusty nails or a few grains of dissolved copperas. Fare for Calves. Several years' experience has given me a successful system of procedure in calfraising, writes a farmer in the New York I'ribui.e. They are taken from thecows at two dny? of age, and never before, because it is nature for them to draT the first milk to cleanse the system of congenital waste matter. If taken from the cow as soon as dropped they do not get the benefit of this wise provision of Nature, for it requires a day or more to teach them to drink. They are ^iven about 2$ qts. freshly drawn milk twice a day for ten days, and then for a week fresh milk[onc a day and skim milk once. After that the ration twice a day is 2 qts. Bwcet skim milk and 1 qt. of a strong decoction of (lover hay added, given warm, a month, and then the ration is gradually cooled; meantime they have ft lew oats once a day and hay constantly. They can be gradually weaned from the milk at three moDths of age if they have fresh grans, but will do the better the longer the milk-feediDg is continued. "Wheat bran should never be given, for it tends to produce scours. If they have access to pure drinking water only and what hay and salt they will eat besides their grass feed, they never will be troubled with unnatural looseness of the bowels. When first turned out, it should be in a small enclosure, with much shade, for they are liable to run too much and to get sunstruck. Those who avail themselves of this opportunity to halterbreak the iuvenile bovines will accom Lplish a good purpose. Robbery Amonj; Bees. Of all things connected with the apiary, robbing is the most perplexing, and often very disastrous. The primary cause is carelessness on the part of the apiarist. A colony of bees in proper condition is proof against robbers, and colonies that fall victims to robbers will nearly always be found to be defective in some particular. A colony that becomes queenless, without the necessary brood to rear another queen, seldom escapes being jobbed if left long in such condition. r- ' . ' .v : ..... * . . ; ' k ; Again, & colony may have a defective queen, and on the colony becoming discouraged will allow themselves to be plundered and destroyed. In such cases, and they are the worst of any, the apiarist is certainly responsible, and it is in his power to remedy such defects. A colony having a good, fertile queen may be so weak or few in number that j they are unable tore-pel robbers. In such c ises the ap:arist can strengthen them by uniting with other colonies, or draw from others to add to their force, and thus save them. Keep colonies strong at all times and furnished with good fertile queens. Carelessly leaving honey about where bees can get access to it often causes trouble,as this will incite robbing and the weak and defective colonic swill at once fall victims. Where robbing begins it is difficult to deal with. The colony being robbed >hould be allowed to remain where it is. Changing ltrromone position to another in the same vicinity does more injury than good; it should oe removed a mile or more from the neighborhood. If the bees show any disposition to protect themselves, robbing may be checked by simply contracting the entrauce. Hut if the inmates make no resistance whatever, a large sheet or covering of light cloth may be thrown over the entire hive. The bee tent,now much used by apiarists to repel robbers, is the best for this purpose. This is made to the hive, allowing room for the apiarist to work inside. Light muslin or musquito netting, drawn over a light frame, may be used for the purpose.?American Agriculturist. Farm and Garden Notes. Cheup seed are often expensive. Pigs and poultry are profitable. Succulent food makes succulent milk. The horse-stable should be cleaned daily. Butter unfit for table use can hardly be regarded as fit for cooking. Kemember that milk for young pigs and calves should be fed warm. Don't undertake to till more acres than you can cultivate thoroughly. Good corn-stalks, well cured, are about equal to hay for milch cows. It is not advisable to sow or plant until the ground is dry and warm. Put all farm machinery and tools into first rate order during leisure hours. Plant the quick-growing Virginia creeper around trellises and outhouses. Clover makes richer hay than timothy or otiier grasses, out ciover useu vwira greatly. That which becomes dead ripe before cuttiDg loses its leaves in curing and its stalks become hard and woody. No part of farming is more uncertain than the quality of hay given to stock. Inspection shows wide variation, dependent on greater or less success in curing, and also on the original constituents of which the hay is composed. In a wet teason all hay is com pari tivelv innutritious, even when it is not still further injured in curing. Hay on land sub-soiled and drained is richer than that grown on soil where the roots of grass tind ^stagnant water a foot below the surface. Taken one year with another, broom corn is a profitable crop on rich land, and where there is a good market for the product. Four to six hundred nf the brush can be crown per acre, ana besides this the seed has some value for food. It is grown in drills, planted twice as thickly as com, in order to make a finer brush. In many places where running streams run through level lands a very little labor in building a dam will overflow a a wide surface. If the fields so overflowed are in grass this is very beneficial. Even though the water contains little or no sediment, it has some elements of fertility which it has absorbed from the air or from 'contact with clods of manure on the soil. One who professes to know practically j whereof he speaks 8:i)'s that poultry for the table, to be set at its best, should be fattened <juickly. One of the best fattening properties, he adds, will be found in milk in almost any stage from sweet to clabber. It should be fed in connec 4 ^ fVKAin f'V* lVl'OnQ llUll Willi jilCilLJ Ul ?AOiU. Viiivavug should be fed plentifully before going upon the roost, also saith this experienced adviser. Cuttings of grapevines should be made with two buds?one about half an inch from the lower end and the other an inch or so from the top. The cuttings are planted in good mellow soil, in rows j twelve inches apart, in a sloping dircc! tion, with the lower bud live inches j under the surface. The roots <jrow from the lower bud. When a year old the ; plants nmy be set out in their permanent places. Ileaves is more often caused by indigestion than any other ailment. It has j been cured effectually by giving moist j food, of which cut turnips or potatoes j form a part. Two quarts of potatoes cut and sprinkled with corn and oatme:il ! rnav be siven three times a day, and the ; hay should be sprinkled with saltwater, j But the best method is to give moistened j cut hay or straw with ground feed in j moderate rations. The most important soil ingredients of ! plant food?the ones that the atmos| phcre can not supply at all, or not in ; sufficient quantity, and which the soil 1 or fertilizers must supply, so the plant ! can absorb them through its root1', are | potash, lime, magnesia, iron, phosphoric i acid, sulphuric acid, chlorine and some i compound of nitrogCD. Plants also take j silica, soda and some other materials from the soil, but these are needed only in j minute quantities, or not at all. Spices must be used with moderation. Fowls' insides aie not mnde of india rubber or sheet iron, but are quite like those of human beings. Red pepper particularly, should be used with care. At this season of year, when eggs are to | be used for hatching, ginger should be j substituted, as it acts upon tnc liver, i and serves as a medicine as well as a stimulant. Feed chopped clover hay ' before grass, steeped in boiling water and ; they will relish it wonderfully, after the I lack of green food during the long winter. It may be added to their warm mash in the morning. Southern Keganl for Women. In our Southern States one gets still another view of woman. I went through the Virginia mountains and learned that south of Masou and Dixon's line every white woman is a queen, ido'ixcd by I - ' * ? t 1 -1 lier Ijroincrs, Iiusuauu, SUU3 ?uu imuuia, rcspectcd as if sainted by her neighbors. When a poor old woman entered a railroad depot that was crowded by men, at a time when it was not expected that any woman would be .traveling, every man in that assemblage rose to his feet in order that she might select whftt seat she wished, and those men who were smoking went out and stood in the rain rather than choose to offend her. One of the men who did this was Fitz Hugh I.ee, now Governor of the State. That was only one illustration of a chivalric deference toward women everywhere observable and everywhere reflecting honor on the men who maintained it.?Albany Journal, - * j A Pig Causes International Arbitration. Between two groups of islands in the 1 extreme northwestern part of "Washing- 1 ton Territory run two narrow straits, one ' ' : called the Canal de Haro and the other .1 the Rosario strait, between the two is 11 1 San Juan Island. It commands both i ' water ways, and hence it would be of | | great value to (ither country that owned : it in case two nations should ever quari rel. The text of the agreement between j Great Britain and this country reads that i the boundary should be "the middle of I the channel," without saying which j I channel. A mamed Hubbs, who was pasturing sheep on the southern end of the island of fcfan Juan, had for a neigh- j i bor on the north end a man named ! Griffiths. This Griffiths was employed 1 ; to raise pigs for the Hudson's Hay com- ' I v>i.re nirormTl t>lA islfllld and JJttUY. Jiug |;i^o v? _ I caused Mr. Hubbs a great deal of trou- 1 I ble, so one day, in a moment of anger, j he warned his neighbor Griffiths that if j , another pig came upon his land he would j] kill it. The very next day a pig did j1 trespass there. Mr. Hubbs kept his ;! j word and killed the pig. Griffiths was i: : then as angry as Hubbs had been, aud 1 I immediately sailed over to Victoria?the busy little city on Vancouver island, where the officers of the government, ! the soldiers and the ships of war had !: their headquarters?and obtained a war- j rant for Hubb's arrest. A constable ' i went to arrest Hubbs and to take him to i Victoria for trial upon the charge of I killing the pig. But Hubbs refused to ' go with him. He said he was an Ameri; can citizen, and that therefore an Eng- j1 i lish warrant was nothing to him. The ' i constable departed, ana hudds, weu j ; knowing the officer would come back j i and try to force him to go to Victoria, i sent over to Port Townsend in TVashingj ton territory, for American protection. I A company of soldiers was sent him, and ; the English did not molest Mr. Hubbs. For five years that little island was j ; occupied by soldiers of the two mighty j nations. Each camp displayed the flag : of its country on a high staff over the j tents?the stars and stripes fluttering over ' the pastures at one end and the red banI ner of Great Britain among the hills at j the other, only a few miles away. On ! either shore . the people were greatly excited, and many on both sides favored | war, aud perhaps, if it had not been ' about the time of the actual war between ! the States in 1861, there would have been war over that pig dispute. Our government wished the middle of the j Canal de Haro to be the border line be. cause we claimed that it was the true 1 ship channel, but to this the British had never been willing to agree, since mat j j boundary would give San Juan to our ; country, and with that island went the j i control of the gate-way to the English ' ; possessions. Finally the papers on both ! sides were prepared by the respective j governments and submitted to the Em| porerof Germany, who decided, in 1872, 1 in favor of the United States.?St. : Nicholas. ! * | A Land Ever Poor. < j India, writes Ex-Mayor Harrison, of \ Chicage, to the Mail of that city, is fear- ' I fully poor to-day, and I find internal I evidence that it has ever been so. There J ! has "ever been the few who coined gold out of muscle and crystallized sweat into ' i gems. The few here was perhaps smaller : than in any other country. It built its : palac.cs and tombs of wondrous beauty, ] | but there is absolutely no sort of monument of past people or masses. These j have ever lived in squalor, their mud houses melting under the summer rain; ( and their little accumulations vanishing j j ; in the smoke of their poor funeral piles, i /v" * f/* tVinir i I uppressiou JL1U3 BU SUU&cu IU1U >UUM | natures that they have no conception of ; | anything else. If eels were half as fond i of being skinned as these people are of being ground down, they would wiggle from their mud houses into the fryiogj)an. Like spaniels, they delight in I licking the band that smites them. A Russian Prince's Virginia Farm. J The farm recently purchaced by Prince j Alexis Nesiororvitsch, of Russia, is i b'abot Island, Virginia. It is in Goochland county, on tLe Upper James. The 1 price paid was $25,UU0, and it was purchased from the present owner, Mr. 1 Arthur M. Seddon. Sabot Island is one nf most historic estates in Virginia. It was the seat of the late James A. J 1 Seddcn, Confederate Secretary of War, 1 and at one time a member of Congress ! ! from the Richmond district.?Bal.imore i I Avitrican. 1 I Now is tl Now Is the time to purify your blood and fortify i j ur system against the debilitating effects of spring I weather. Serious consequences often follow this I lassltude.whk-b degenerates Into debility ii ost favorable for the appearance of disorders. You are run i down. No specific disease has manifested Itself, but j the condition of your system is low and your blood I Is In a disordered staie. Take Hood's Sarsaparilla i now, before some serious disease gains a firm bold i upon your syftem. Purify Your Blood "I wm troubled with an eruption of my 8"tin, which covered nearly my whole body. I doc-tared It for a year without help; then I began to take Hood's . i Sarsaparllla aud two bottles completely cured me. I Cheerfully recommend Hood's SarsaparilVa for any ' similar disease." M. f. Clarke, Decatur, III. "For some years I have been afflicted with eczema of a very stubborn form. Three bottles of Hold's J S irsaparllla cured me. I am now well and pral?e this excellent rerasdy." Mary L. Owens, Troy, Iud., Hood's Sa Sold by all druggists. $1 ; six for $5. Prepared only I by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Poses One Dollar [ ?J? ?J? >J? ?1* ?J< ?J<??J? >J? >I? ?J? "f* Mk The man who lias invested from three Mjk to five dollars In a Kubtxr Coat, and m \ at his first half hour's experience In M S a storm finds to his sorrow that It Is L hardly a better protection than a mos- WW E qulto netting, not only feels chagrined at being so badly taken In, hut also (eels if he does not look exactly like HiH AikTnr the "FISH ltKAND'* Slickkr I I ! duf^not have the ?rs>u?usr>, bptk! fordescrlptlrecat^ fegTLY'S CREAM BALM ~ I Wp^ JhSr^-wl Cleanses the head of Catarrhal Virus, Rit*y.nVrpS? Allny* Inflammation, I H?" HEALS the SOKJiS, I Wf / It?*More? the Ht'imen of tCt- voh Tump nnd Smell. Apply Balm into each nostril. Ely Bros-?3 Greenwich St ,N.Y. $93 Sewing MacWne Free! 1 We want one peraon In every rill***, town and townihip, to keep In their borne* p line of oar AKT KAMPLKti; to tbo*o who will keep andaimply show three vamplcs to those who call, we will send, free, the very beet Hewing Machine manufactured in the world, with ell the attarhmetita. Tbi? machine is made after the St ^gbr patent*, which have expired. Before the patenta ruu out, this style machine, with.the attachment#, waa auldfur $93; it now eclle for $.*?. Header, it may aeem to you the moil WOKDBHia'L THING ON EARTH, butrou can eecurc one of tbeae machinea absolutely tree, provided your application cornea m tint, from your localitv, and if you will keep in your home and ahowto thoae who call, a aet of our elegant and anequaled art aamplea. We do not aak you to ahow theae earnplea for more than two month*, and then they becomc vour own properly. The art aamplea are aent to yon ABSOLUTELY FKE L of coat. How ran we do all tbla??eaeily enough 1 We often vet aa much aa $2,000 or $3,00U In trade from even a amall place, after our art aamplea have remained where thay could be aeen for month or two. We need one person in each locality, all over the cauntrr, and take this meana of aecuring them at once* Thoae who write to us at once, will aecure, rctz, tho very be*t Bewing Machine manufactured, and the fliieat general aaiortmoot of worka of high art ever ahown together In America. All particularsFKEE by return mall. Write at once; a poetal card on wbich to write to us vrMl coat yon but one cent, and after you know all, ahould you conclude tr go no further, why no harm ie done. Wonderful aa it eeetne, you need no ?-apifal?all iafree. Address at once, TKl'E 4 CO.. AiatfTApMAixft. ? 1 Adulterated Food. The articles in which dishonest practices are most common in the present [lay are milk, coffee and alcoholic beverages. The local government board estimate that Londoners are now paving ibout $350,000 "for water sold under the name of milk." In one district alone, Dr. Saunders calculates that the milkman received between $35,000 acd $40,000 for the water they had mingled with the commodity they supplied to (heir customers. Yet in that same district, he tells us, the fines imposed on dairymen, against whom adulterations had been proved, amounted to no more than $5000. The business, therefore, appears so profitable, and the risk is at the s-ame time so trivial, that Londoners cannot reasonably, under existing circumstances, expcct to get the pure milk they pay for. Coffee continues to be adulterated on an average to the extent ^ft? 4- TKo nrfiflfi em ui iiiijr uuu iuv vu.v. .... ployed is chickory, at eight cents a pound. Here the profit is also a handsome one, as the mixture is mostly sold at thirty-two cents the pound. In the matter of tea it is pleasing to hear that out of over five hundred samples tested only one was found to be adulterated. Forty years ago, when tea was from double to treble its present price, adulteration was practised to an enormous extent in this article. Now it is not only cheap, but it is also, practically, pure.? London Standard. The Chinaman's Wavotion to Rice. The Chinaman's devotion to his rice says a Canton correspondent, is as great as an Englishman's to his dinner, and at their regular times for "chow"?11 in the morning and 5 in the afternoon? nothing can take him away from his bowl of rice. As all the city life is al fresco, one sees miles of feeding Chinamen if he progresses through the streets at their meal hours. In each open room or shop the scene is the same?a circie 01 dirty heathens gathered around a table, shoveling the rice into their mouths as fast as chop sticks can play, the edges of the bowls being held to their mouths merely as a funnel to direct the stream. One can stand in the shops, vainly waiting to purchase, and a surly Chinaman will only come forward when he has finished his bowl of rice, and has a sublime indifference to trade, profits, and cheating when it is his rice time. A Reasoning Lobster. A curious story of "A Reasoning Lobster" is told by Willard .Nye, Jr., in the "Bulletin" of the United States Fish Commission. The sagacious crustaccan's home "was under a rock in Buzzard's Bay, in water about five feet deep. The author carefully adjusted a noose over the hole, and baited it with a piece of menhaden. The lobster passed its claw through the noose to get the bait; and the noose was drawn upon the claw, but slipped off when the animal had been pulled half out of his hole, and he escaped. The noose was fixed again, but this time, instead of putting out his claws as before, the lobster first put his feelers through the noose, felt the string a:l the way round, and then pushed one slaw under the string and seized the bait. The experiment was repeated several times, but every new setting of the trap was met in the same deliberate svay, as if by one who had thought the natter out. A Faithful Sentinel. There is a story told in the French war )flice to the effect that for ten years a woo otnfinnpd in the nassaee lead ng to the Minister's private apartments, ivith orders not to let the people touch :he walls. But no one seemed to understand why this was done. Now. a new Minister of an inquisitive turn of mind ietermined to find out the explanation 3f a circumstance that his fifty predecessors had never remarked. But no one :ould give him any light, not even the :hief clerks, nor subordinates who had been in service half a century. But a certain doorkeeper, an old fellow with a !*ood memory, recollected that on a certain occasion a soldier was placed there because the walls had been painted, and the Minister's wife had got a spot on her iress. The paint had dried, but the sentinel had been left. Connnmptlon Surely Cared. To the Editor:?Please inform vour readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanent!y cured. I Bhall be glad to send two oottles of my remedy free to any of your readers who have consumption if they will send me their Express and P. 0. address. Respectfully, T. A. SLOCUM. MX.. 181 Pearl St. N. Y. he Time Hood's Sarsaparilla Is prepared from Sarnaparllla, Dandelion. Mandrake, Dock, Pipslssewa, Juniper " ------- -* ? ??ii un/v.cn ??o<*otnkla romphufl. uernes, anu timer ??cu >uun.. ... In such a peculiar manner as to derive the full medicinal value of eash.llt will cure, when In the power of medicine, scrofula, salt rheum, tores, bolls, pimples, all humors, dyspepsia, biliousness, sick headache, Indigestion, general debility, catarrh, rheumatism. kidney and liver complaint*. It overcomes that extreme tired feeling. Build Up the System "Last spring I seemel to be running down hj health, was wexic and tired all the time. I took Hood's Sarsaparllla and it did me a great deal of good. My little daughter, ten years old, has suftere I Mom scrofula and catarrh, a great deul. Hood's Sarsq parllia did her more good than anything else we ha v# ever given her, and we have tried a number of medl clnes." Mrs. Louisa Cort, Canastota, N. Y. N. B. If you have decided to take Hood's Sarsapa rilla do not be induced to buy any other. .rsaparilla Sold by all druggist*. (1; nix for $5. Prepared only by C. L HOOD <1 CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Poses One Dollar L We oiler the man who want* service & (not style) a garment that will keep him dry In the hardest storm. It is . called TOWEkS FISH BRAND _ I " SLICKEIt," a name familiar to every m Cow-hoy all over the land. With them M the only pcrfect Wind and Waterproof I ami Coat is "Tower's Fiah lira nil .Slicker." II and lake no other. If ycur storekeeper lopue. A.J.TnwKR.208immon?St..BoJton.Mass. ^ ?jt? ^1 F* 4* $* "i* 4" 41 I CURE FITS! When I b*t cure I do not mean merely to (top them for a time and then have them return again. I mean a radical cure. 1 have made th? disease 01 FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a life-long study. I warrant my remedy to cure the worst cues. Because tnr not now receiving a otnera h?y? whbu ? u?? -? core. Sendatonce for a treatiie and a Frw Bottle of mr infallible remedy. Gi*e Express tad Poit Office. B. 6. BOUT. M. C\. 183 Pe*rl St. New York. "^^"JONES f*K?PAYSthfFREICHT (Mfc W t Ton Waxon Ijcalr*, Iran Lever*. Hu-el flearlngt, Bran jmHHhC Tare Beam irf Unit Box for "T,r7 ?i?ri?lf. For free price llrt ^r55?! \jnSWr^m' enilon thl? p?i*r end uldrru 4 C lO^J* V iONCS OF BIMOHAMTINi t Njy^ 1 BINGHAMTON. N. T. Valuable Horses are ften lost through ignorance on the part of the owner. Send 25 cents in stamps to Horsebook Co., 134 Leonard St., N. Y. City, and learn how to detect disease and how to cure it This may Bave the life of your animal. DUivUDilU Great English Gout and Dlflir SllliSa Rheumatic Remeiy, Oval Box* 34) round, 14 Pill*. KM* M Uveal home and aukrraor. money wuikln j fur e? ih?? UtraJJi t .tiTtlilnjtltr in th? *crlJ I'ilhrr wi CopiIt outfit jrmU.iL. Tvrma ? UkK. 4U4J>M, Tkl'E U Co., AvguhU, Waio* Some Foolish People Allow a cough to run until It gets beyond the reach of medicine. They often say, "Oh, it will wear away,'' but in most cases It wears them away. Could they be induced to try the successful medicine called Kemp's Balsam, they would immediately see the excellent effect after taking the first dose. Large bottles, 50 cents and $1.00. Trial tsize free. At all Druggists'. A FnExcnMAN claims to ba ab e to prove that fish can hear a man talking hi an ordinary voice half a mile away. >Vhy Lonrn Loot IT*r Bean. Laura once had an affluent beau. Who called twice a fortnight, or so, Xow she sits, Sunday eve. All lonely to grieve, Oh, where fs her recreant beau. And why did he leave Laura so? Why. he saw that Laura was a languishing, delicate girl, subject to sick headaches, sensitive nerves and uncertain tempers; and knowing what a life-long trial is a fre ful. sickly wife, he transferred his attentions to her cheerful, healthy cousin, Ellen. The secret is that Laura's health and strength arc sapped by chronic weakness, peculiar to her sex. which Ellf-n averts and avoids by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pescription. This is the only remedy, for woman's peculiar weaknesses and ailments, sold by druggists,under a positive eua-antee from the manufacturers, that it will give satisfaction in every case or money will be refunded. See guarantee on bottle wrapper There nre 900 b?et sugar factories in Europe. France manufactured 600,000 tons of sugar and Germany l.(J?4,000 tons. He ate green cucumbers; They madi; him quite siclc; But he took a few "Pellets" That cured him right quick. An easier physic You never will find Than Pierce's small "Pellets,* The Purgative kind. Small but prec ous. 25 cents per vial. Whale oil and buffalo hides have become commercial rarities. A Flat Contradiction. Some one has told you that your catarrh is incurable. It is not so. Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy will cure it. It is pleasant to use and it always does its work thoroughly. We havo yet to hear of a case in which it did not accomplis i a cure when faithfully used. Catarrh is a disease which it is dan.crous to neglect. A certain remedy Is at your command. Avail yourself of it before the complaint assumes a more serious form. All druggists. THKlate Louisa M. Alco't leceived about $100,000 from her literary productions. If Huflerern from CoiiHuinptlon, Scrofula, Bron hitisand General Debility will try Scott's Emulsion of Cod iver Oil with Hypoplioirphites, they will find immediate reli f and permanent b neflt. The Medical Profi s.?ion universa lv declare it a remedy of th? greatest value and very palatable. Reai: "I have used Scott's Emulsion in several rase < of Scrofuli and Debility in Children. Results most gratifying. My little patients take it with pleasure W. A. Hulbert, M.D.. Salisbury 111. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac ThomD- | ion's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle j ^JACOBS OIL FOR FOR H ? CUBKS Cuts, Swellings, Bruises, Sprains, Galls, Strains, Lameness, Stiffness, Cracked Heels, Scratches, Contractions,Flesh W'onndi, Stringhalt, Sore Throat, Distemper, Colic, Whitlow, Poll Evil, Fistula, Tuinors, Splints, Ring* bones and Spavin in its early stages. Apply St. Jacobs Oil in accordance with the directions -rlth each bottle* Invaluable for the Use of Horsemen, Cattlemen, StaLleraen, Turfmen, Ranchmen, .>iOckmen, Drove ru, Farmers. FOR FINE HERDS, CHOICE STOCK, Common Herds. Sold by Dntggiets and Dealers Everywhere. THE CHARLES A. VOKFI.PR f* . y,i N T If 17-14 l? """ ?L.? INVALIDS' HOTEL AND SURGICAL INSTI1 OXJR F T*The treatment Nasal Throat ?* Air pa^agea "*?*4 innuni as Chronic Catai Un Laryngitis, Broi nu and Cousumptl I MUG IllGCAQCQ correspondence and LURa UlvUOkO, constitutes an impoi We publish tiirce Nasal, Throat and Lung Diseases, which gh formation, viz: (1) A Treatise on Consumr Bronchitis; price, post-paid, ten cents. c2) A or Phthisic, giving new and successful trf -- ~ ' m r>k>Anl>< C paid, ten cents, (o; a jlivuum uu , price, post-paid, two cents. Dyspepsia, "Liver Diseases of constipation ' wi r|ielt Tnpc-wormi, ai OlGCCTinU nrc among those chronic UlUCollUn. cesaful treatment of which attained great success. 0 on Disensea of the Digestive Organs will be on receipt of ten centa in postage stamps. BRIGHT'S DISEASE ft ilHr i kindred maladies, have been and cures effected in thoui niociort had been pronounced boyoi UIOlIOlO, eases are readily diagnostic """ "o by chemical analysis of t personal examination of patients, who generally be successfully treated The study and practice of chemical analys examination of the urine in our consider reference to correct diagnosis, in which our became famous, has naturally led to a vci in diseases of the urinary organs. These diseases should be tree fiJUITinil IiBt thoroughly familiar with tl uauiiun. | petcnt to ascertain the exact of advancement which th< (which can only be ascertained by a careful ecopical examination of the urine), for i curative in one stage or condition do positii Being in constant receipt of numerous inr _ ? - ?* ?"? ""/i aiirahlllfv nf t Iipcp i worn on me nature ?ij<? style to bo easily understood, we have put tratcd Treatise on these diseases, which wil dress on receipt of ton cents in postage star _ INFLAMMATION < Bl ADDER ?er, stone in t DLAUULn cravel. Enlarged IlierftOCO Ketentlon of lJrfne UlotAotO. tiona, may be included arm of which our specialists lie dinary success. These are fully treated c Pamphlet on Urinary Diseases. Sent by mai 0vti.nTi.nr STRICTURES ANB STRICTURE. TUEAS.?Hundreds of cj of strictures, many of the by the careless use of inst of inexperienced physicians and surgeons, c urinary flstulae, and other complications, an relief and cure. That no case of this class i skil of our specialists ia proved by cures 1 trated treatise on these maladies, to which To intrust this class of cases to physicians is a dangerous proceeding1. Many a man life by so doing, while thousands annually lo unskillful treatment. Send particulars of cento in stamps for a large, Illustrated Trea testimonials. : * y * A NEW DI Said Uncle Sam: "I will be wise, And thus the Indian civilize: Instead of guns that kill a mile, Tobacco, lead and liquor vile, Instead of serving out a meal, Or sending Agents out to steal, I'll give, domestic arts to teach, A cake of ' Ivory Soap' to each." Before it flies the guilty stain, A WORD 0 There are many white soaps, each 'Ivory';" they ARE NOT, but like all < able qualities of the genuine. Ask for Corn-right hi Every Farmer's Wife * ? Sees some of her Poultry I die each year wlthoti OKQuwio^waui memauur was or how to effect a remedy If she docs recognize the Disease. This is sot right, as at an expense of 25 cents (In stamps) she can ^rooim; giving the experience of a practical Poultry Raiser (not an amateur, but a man worklnc for dollars and cents) during a period of 25yeora. It tenches yon how to Detect nud Core llim uses: how to Feed for Eggs nni! also lor Fattening! which Fowls to Save lor Breeding Purposes; and everything, indeed, you should know on this subject. Sent postpaid for 115c. BOOK PUB. HOUSE, 134 Leonard .Street, X. Y. City. NORTHERN PACIFIC. "LOW PRICE RAILROAD LANDS and FREE GovcrnmentL.ANDH ty MILLIONS of ACRES ol each In Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. CCUfl CAB fr'nolleatlons with Slaps describing the OEIIIi rUll BEST Agricultural Urozlng a cut Timber Lands now open to Settlers. s?eut Free. Addie-w PU4C D I AMDnDU Lmitl Commissioner, uHAq? P. LAWDUnHf ?t.Paul,Minn. SEND FOR OUR CASH reading to three or more housekeepers, a clrou ar we will send, describing A LAB A STINK, showing S4 fresco designs Is Interesting, telling peopl how to decorate their wiUls. Alabastlne Is appropriate without bor.lera ; wall paper is not Alab:stlne makes permanent coats th t harden with age. Sold by paint dealers. | Don't take kalso nine as a substitute. ALABASTiN? CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. CD A 7CR AXLE rilM?.hllGDC?CC BEST IN THE WORLD U H Ln\t tm tr Get the Genuine. 8oM Everywhere. ^ APm #8 a day. Samples worth $130, FREE % Line* not under the bone's feet, write W Brewster Safety Heln Holder Co.. Holly. Mich OLD Is worUi $500 pc7lb.~Pettit's Eye Salve Is., worth $1,000, but la sold at 25c. a box by dealers. ftlwi iSBaiamfll If Pi fH 41 HPS medicic Bk; | aoience. ikin!^r ticulax rUTE, GS3 Klin St., Buffalo, N. i. i??-> IELD OF STJ< i ?'d ES','4 Nervous I rj'i\, rli in the Hea<l, St. VH nchltla, A?tl?ma, nRFlSFS 52 on, both through UlotlOCO. Debil at our institutions, tion, ar rtant specialty. eases with unusual suci separate books on different illustrated pa ,'e much valuable in- which will be sent for t >tion, Laryngitis and for them is accompanie l Treatise on Asthma, tion, so that we may ki :atment: price, post- y?e Catarrh la the rte?d; pf '?<T. ro ar" ^JfOMENj^ mo? id kindred affections, _1 j_ ?1*U1 I diseases in the sue- wraiuj uuxwiMoji.. t our specialists have a,?V',' ^?4n,ci' ?? ur Complete Treatise Invalids Hotel and Si i sent to any address cents in stamps f< TV omen, illustrated witl 'very largely treated. '| Radical Cure |? sands of cases which *........ nd hope. These dis- (IF HUPTUHL 2! ated, or determined, ^ ? lie urine, without a can. therefore, our Illustrated Treatise at their homes. PILES, FISTLLJ is and microscopical bowels, are treated witJ ation of cases, with pile tumors, are perm institution long ago Send ten cents for Illu y extensive practice ? _ . Weak .ted only by a special- n Impaired bem, and who is com- Uru will-power condition and 6tagc mtn. tions arisi s disease has made nicions, sc chemical and micro- and permanently cure< nedicines which" are We, many years ago, :e injury in others. treatment of these di* luiries for a complete the most skillful pli.rsi< Tinladies, written in a that all who apply to ilished a large, Illus- full Council of the mos I be SCnt to any adWe Offer ?? hetSLSHR; No Apology, a Proatate Gland, w wrumai. jject i and kindred affec- wnicl >ng those in the cure intent on doing good ? I Hiirh cases, we cannot ?*v awncyrw 1-Aunwi- , if in our Illustrated it otherwise than mos I for 10 eta. in stamps, these diseases, we cann maladies which afflict I URINARY FIS- fj ises of the worst form m greatly agaravated 5j^ra_L?P'_ .a rumenta in the hands If y of these delio ausing false passages, Rliprn IT Unuc ?v0( nually consult us for ?l llUBt. at n a too difficult for the A Complete Treat eported in our illus- Bent tcalcd, in plain au we refer with pride, of only ten cents, in st of small experience, and secrets confided to MmJto 'through ^lettere ot inquiryyour case and ten WftRIIV8 II tase staining- many If UHUU 0 I - IPARTURE. r The grease and dirt no more remain; 'Twill change their nature day by day, And wash their darkest blots away. They'll turn their bows to fishing-rods, And bury hatchets under sods, Tn uncHnm anH in wnrth increase. And ever smoke the pipe of peace; For ignorance can never cope With such a foe as ' Ivory Soap.' " F WARNING. represented to be "just as good as tha :ounterfeits, lack the peculiar and remark" Ivory" Soap and insist upon getting it T Proper fr finmhi- . ROU^CATARRH^SS worst chronic casee. Uneqaaled for Catarrhal throa# Q alTectioni". foul breath, offcn-Jre odor*, sore throat, diphihcrla, cold in the head. Aak tor "Koc?h o* y-. Catakbh."7 60c. Prog. E- 8. Wpjj, Jerttj City, M. J. r ?\L00K r?M6 /~C t'- M loraragyoncan.pr*- J, /A /i\ r V rent tendency towTin/ i 1 rZr ~-/g\ kles or ajrelng of U? I? QIL Wrtnkloi.2 o.ni"roSS f 'nMI ?'116,110 B^! yj^Sblaiice known A PLEASANT MEDIAL POME. FULL 8TATP OF 1IENCED PHYSICIANS ? SURGEONS. j " CHRONIC DISEASES 8UC- - >V : >i ssfnlly Treated without a ' ' m Personal Consultation. <jc :' :M * btaln our knowledge of the patient's dis- ? '\y se by the application, to the practice of ie, of well-established principles of modern The most ample resources for treating: g or chronic diseases, and the greatest e thus placed within the easy reach of i, however distant they may reside. Write -Xi5cribe your symptoms, inclosing ten cents ps, and a complete treatise, on your pardisease, will be sent you, with our opino its nature and curability. 3CESS. leptic Convulsions, or Fit*, Pa* i?, or Palsy, Locomotor Ataxia, tna's Dance, Insomnia, or inability p, and threatened insanity, Nervous Ity, and every variety of nervous affece treated by our specialists for these dis2ess. See numerous cases reported in our mphlets on nervous diseases, any one of en cents in postage stamps, when request d with a statement of a ease for consultaaow which one of our Treatises to send. have a Special Department, devoted sivelu to the treatment of Diseases of /?cxj /innoiilHnff nur her by letter or in person, is riven the careful and considerate attention. I joint cases (and wo get few which have not of all the home physicians) have tie benefit illed specialists. Rooms for ladies in the irgrical Institute are very private. Send :>r our Complete Treatise on Diseases of 1 wood-cuts and colored plates (ltiO pages). HERNIA 'Breach), or RUPTURE, no atter of how long standing, or of what size, promptly and permanently cured by ir specialists, without the knife and without dependence upon trusses, bundant references. Send ten cents for 3, and other diseases affecting the lower ti wonderful success. The worst cases of anently cured in fifteen to twenty days, stratea Treatise. weakness, nervous debility, premature the manly powers, involuntary losses, memory, mental anxiety, absence of , melancholy, weak back, and all affeong from youthful indiscretions and perilitary practices, are speedily, thoroughly established a Special Department for the cases, under the management of some of ians and surgeons on our Staff, in order us might receive all the advantages of a t experienced specialists. offer no apology for devoting so much tion to this neglected class of diseases, ving that no condition of humanity is wretched to merit the sympathy and ??virthla nrnfp?tion 1Q OCft iVJXTD V4 mo uvwiv 1? we belong. Why any medical man, and alleviating suffering, should shun imagine. Why any one should consider t honorable to cure the worst cases of ot understand; and yet of all the other mankind there is probably none about :nernl practice know so little. We shall, heretofore, to treat with our best connd skill, all applicant* who are suffering fito diseases. , .. it of these cases can be treated by us when distance as well as if here in person. lee (136 pages) on these delicate diseases xlope, secure from observation, on receipt 1 amps, for postage. AH statement* maoe ] us will be held to be tacredLy confidential ' or of consultation, should be addressed to IISPENSiRr MEDICAL 13S0GUTI0M, ?0. 049 main St.,'.BUFFALO* YJfl. l