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AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. * ! Best Time to Sow Beans. In answer to a question as to the best mode and time of planting or sowing beans, the Country Gentleman says: 4*The soil should be well drained, or not liable to be water-soaked: moderately manure on a previous crop, or with fine manure well worked in; if made too rich, the growth may be too rank at the expense of the seeds. As the plants are easily injured by frost, the planting should be done after corn p anting. They may be planted in liiils or drills about twice or three times as thick as corn, the drills being two and a half or three feet apart. If in hills, a foot or afootand a half, with four to six plants in the hill. Small kinds will require half a bushel to the acre: large sorts, with fewer seeds may need a bushel. Keep the crop clean and mellow by frequent flat cultivation. >^o crop is more quickly injured by neglect, or more benefited by clean and finished culture. Raspberry Farming. One of the aids to farm profits, and a pleasant as well as practical one, is the culture of small fruits, among which the raspberry takes first rank, says W. J. Green, of the Ohio Kxperiment Station. Farmers near market can cultivate them as readily as corn, and th<-y ieldom bring unprofitable price*. On light soils, where there is but little heaving from frost, they may be planted in the fall. The VkOQf- mot h O/l "IO fA Anon rt esl 1 ? .. .? V/^V-U n LULIVT Oii IV/ | eight inches deep, putting the plants in the bottom. The red kinds may have the furrow entirely tilled at on< e, aad if set in the fall the soil should be heaped above the plant several inches. Blackberries should ? not be coveied deeply, two or three inches being sulticient, and then the soil j ehould be drawn around the plants as j they grow. Mulching \yhere fall plant- j ing is followed is good to prevent heaving. Six feet between rows for the reds and seven for the blacks is about right, and eighteen inches and two feet between the plants respectively in the rows is practiced. I'pon heavy soils early spring is the best time for planting. Care should be taken when removiug plants at this time that the young sprouts do not get broken. When the" shoots have grown eighteen or twenty inches they oVirmlrl Ko hmvuiu wv uatA. X UIO DUUIU1CI j pruning causes the plants to thicken up I and become self-supporting without! stakes. Numerous side branches will grow out^ forming a plant at once bushy and productive. These remarks apply particularly to blackcaps. After fruiting the old wood should be cut away, and canes of l ist year's growth and all wood of the main stalks above three feet, and the laterals trimmed back to within one and a half or two feet from the main stalk-; These prunings should invariably be burned to destroy | the insect enemies of the plant, which j have taken refuge on them. When a | field begins to fail, which it will d after I four or live crops, it is better to plant a 1 new one and entirely destroy the old Hill planting is often practiced w.ih I red raspberries^and in this case the hills j should be five feet apart each way, using two or three plants for each. But two I or three sprouts should be allowed to the ! plants, and if grown in this way summer pruning as for blacks may be practised.? jV?c York Herald. In the Cornfield. The time for planting corn varies with the latitude and after that depends much i upon the weather. As so:>n as the days are mild and the ground warm, when-1 ever that may be, is a sale rule in all . localities. Three conditions are essential to the production of a paying crop of corn?namely, good seed, a rich, friable soil and thorough tillage. Progressive farmers here demonstrate the ! economy of a thorough preparation of the soil for the seed; indeed, not a few of our most successful growers advocate and pra.tice as best and essential thecul-1 tivation of the corn previous to planting; that is to say, they do not uic a plow , afty planting, but let all the deep ctil-1 ture of the soil precede it. Where manure is required, the better way is to sow it broadcast and plough it ib, if it be co:irse, or harrow it in if well pulverized and decomposed. When ; manure is" thorougly incorporated into the soil the roots of the plants arc certain to take it ud, and the develomneut of ear and grain will correspond with that of stalk aud leaves, which is not the case when a limited amouat of fertilizer is placed in the hill or drill only, j To gain the l>est results from the employment of stimulating elements in h.ll or drill available plaat food must be near at hand, and m sufficient quantity, to carry the plant, once started, on to the perfection of its growth. An early start is a great point gained, and the employment of fertilizers in the drill is of de-, cided advantage, provided, as has been already told,tlieJ?oil outside contains suf- . ficient food to keep up the growth of the plant. Poultry manure and Peruvian guano have each rendered valuable assistance as stimulators, applied in the drill. Large areas are nowadays usually planted in drills, and corn plauters and culti .ators are very generally adopted. It is generally conceded that planting in dnlis induces the greatest yields, other conditions being even. Flat culture is being very generally adopted for the corn crop, it having been long ago proven that hills are not required, as was formerly supposed, for the support of the corn plant. There is also a saving of labor *1 the flat culture system. A plan of drill culture favored by some on light and naturally dry upland is what is known as the ''furrow system"' of planting. The fleld is broken up as usual and made level. At time of plantiag one thorough harrowing is given and the gronnd laid off and thrown up in1o five-feet beds, the corn l>ein<r plauted in the furrows, between the beds. The object of this pl?u is to insure moisture to the crop. The fertilizers are sown U the bottom of the furrows and mi vAri&irith thpeni! )?v rtinnincr ttlnnrr lh? furrows a sharp single-shovel coulter or dragging a chniu through it. Then the eeecl is dropped and covered. The after cultivation is dune with cultivators, ! which gradually level down the surface of the beds, returning the soil to the corn and leaving the general surface level when completed. The system of "checking" corn so that the cultivation may be in two directions?direct and across?is much j practiced in the .Northern and Western States. At the East and in many of the Middle States, planting in drills and cultivating shallow and flat with cultivator and hoe, prevails among the more progressive farmers. As to the matter of seed, farmers are advised for their general crops, to plant j guch varieties as in former seasons have i proven successful in their own localities and in similar soils. Small plots may be profitably employed to the testing of. Dew and promising kinds iotroduccd by trustworthy scedmen or other farmers.? Nojo York World. A Revolution in Farming. In Harper's Magazine, Mr. Charles Dudley Warner has a remarkably interesting article entitled: "Studies of the Great West." Speaking; of the State University of Wisconsin, Mr. Warner praises its agricultural department in high terras; but what impresses him most is the connection of the university with the farmers' institutes. Under a recent act of the Legislature, farmers'institutes have been organized, and placed under the control of the regents of the university, who have the power to select a State Superintendent to control them. The farmers, therefore, while not actually students of the university, are directly instructed by it. The State appropriates $12,000 a vpnr tn this work, and ihe monev has beeu found sufficient to pay the salaries of the Superintendent and his assistants and the expenses of specialists who are called in from time to time. In fortyfive counties last year there were held eighty-two farmers' institutes. At the meetings 27'J practical topics were discussed, and 10? lecturers were employed. The meetings arc managed by local committees, and every e.lort is made to interest the farmers and bring them to the front. Before the organization of these institute*, the farmers of Wisconsin depended mostly upon one crop, spring wheat, and :n bud years they sull'ered greatly, as they had nothing else to fall back upon. Bat the institutes changed all this. The farmers at their meetings discussed clover as a fertilizer; recuperative agriculture; bee-keeping; household economy; the education of farmers' daughters; the economy of sheep husbandry; e?g production; poultry; the value of thought and application in farming; horses to breed for the farm and market; breeding ana management of swine; mixed farming; corn culture; breeding and care of cattle; small fruits; butter-making; the country roads, etc. .Mr. "Warner says in conclusion: 4,The faimers have been enabled to protect themselves against the effects of drought and other evils. Taking the advice of the institute in lS80,the farmers planted 50,000 acre* of ensilage corn, which took the place of the short hay crops caused by the drought. This provision saved thousands of dollar's worth of stock in several counties. From all over the State comes the testimony of farmers as to the good results of the institute work, like this: 4'Several thousand dollars' worth of improved stock have bet-n brought in. Creameries and cheese factories have been established and well suDoorted. Farmers are no longer raising grain exclusively, as heretofore. Our hillsides are covered with clover. Our farmers are encouraged to labor anew. A new era of prosperity in our State d<itts from the farmers' institute." With such lesults it must be admitted that the sensible system of agricultural education adopted in Wisconsin is working admirably. Perhaps precisely the same plan would not suit the farmers in every State, but something of the kind, modified to suit the wants and wishes of each locality, would no doubt be found of great benefit to our agriculturists everywhere. If these institutes are to be credited with the revolution in farming in Wisconsin, they should be given a fair trial in the South, where an agricultural revolution is most assuredly needed.? Atlanta Constitution. 4*. Ii'ttrm tnrl Hiinlpn Note?. Gentleness cannot be kicked into a cow. Learn how to make first-class butter and you can easily get first-class prices. Coal ashes are a helpful mulch for shrubs, but plants will not readily grow in ashes. Be sure to give the wheat a firm, solid seed bed. The wheat likes it; drouth and chinch bugs hate it. Trim all broken branches of ornamental trees, and prune shrubs too. Thin them as needed, but avoid formality. A farmer with quantities of experience savs: ,4Of all the kinds of cattle food I e.cr grew sweet fodder corn is the best." The best authorities claim that cream should be kept at a temperature of about fifty degrees, or between this and sixty degrees. lr is <ui:rt that a tablesnoonfnl of ! burned or powdered bone placed in a i calf's mouth back of the grinders will i cure scours. The proper time to plant tomatoes, peppers aud cabbage, is about six weeks before they can be transplanted into the open ground. To decompose bones put them in unleached as!ie6 in alternate layers, and in ; one year's time they will become completely decomposed. Old trees to have all accumulations of moss and loose bark scraped olf, should be given a wash of soft soap, mixed with enough water to apply with a bush. For fertilizing purposes there is no 1 more valuable form ot potash than wood ! a-hes. The plants have digested it once j and adapted it to the use of all other i plants. The following is recommended for lice on cattle: Mix oneteaspoonful of ground copperas with the feed of each animal, once in each week or ten days, until the pests disappear. The chief use of commercial fertilizers, j guano, phosphates, bone, potash, Ealts ! and special fertilizers prepared by for- j mulae for different crops is to supply ! nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash. Skim-milk of a dairy Ls worth more to j be fed to calves in winter than in sum- | mer, but it should be fed warm and j sweet, and with a little oat neal. Never | destroy a calfs digestion with cold milk, j The nature of rust and smut is not per- ! fcctly understood, and a careful investi- i gation of these parasitic diseases of j plants would be a most useful work for ' some well managed experiment station to , engage in. Butter takes nothing from the soil that 1 affccts its fertilization as do crops of cersa'.s. It is almost wholly carbon, i which is derived by the plants from the a r. ?sutier, mougn sometimes mgn in j price, is really produced fjom the cheapest elements known. Sulphide of potash is death to all , sorts of plant mildew. The proper way to apply it is in solution, one ounce of sulphide to four gallons of water, in the iotin of a spray. One single application on a badly mildewed vine has cured it permanently for the season. The creamery system is the only one for managing milk and making butter j that does not make slaves of women. It is the great emancipator of the house- j wife, besides makirj^inorc butter and of higher average quality. As a measure of economy no good farmer should be without a crtamery. The annual report of the commissioner ' of agriculture, recently issued, states ' that pleuro-pneumonia is now restricted to smaller areas than at any previous time in many years. There is now every j - * * * V? assurance that the present policy of the federal and state authorities, continued for another season, will entirely exterminate this disease. Draught Horses must reach well up to 1500 lbs. and from that 1800 and occasionally 11)00 to 2000 pounds. A good draught horse weighing 1500 lbs. is worth $200, and for every 100 lbs. of increase you can safely add tSS. It was a common saying, "No foot no horse." Buyers overlook or purchase a horse with a poor foot when he possesses extra good bone, but I have never known one to purchase a horse having poor bone, on account of good feet. An old Kentucky breeder of swine places salt first in importance as a preventive of cholera, and believes that salt, of all substances, is the best promoter of digestion as well as an antidote against worms. This breeder has adopted the plan of salting all his animals in watertight troughs, keeping a quantity of salt on hand continually. He also feeds some charcoal with the salt to swine that are closely penned, and gives ashes occasionally under all conditions. Limbnrger Cheese in America. The New York Board of Health recently destoryed a long ton of bad limburger checse, and the Sun declares that the occurrence shows the expertness of the officers of the Health Department. Any man who can distinguish between good and bad limburjjer checse deserves commendation. It will interest lovers of the fragrant cheese to know that it is growing in public favor, and that America is taking the lead in its production. Indeed, little or none of it is now made in Limburg, the city where it was first manufactured. Limbing is a town of Belgium, once the capital of the Territory of Limburg, TXTV*Wiic nflor 1 Kpf.WPftn Holland and Belgium. It is a ruined town, with a population of only 3000, although it was formerly a strongly fortified and gay place. Limburg cheese, once of its principal articles of manufacture, is now made in the ueighbor.ng town of Herve. This, however, is principally used for European consumption. America is to-day making as good limburger cheese as can be found in the world. Much of it is manufactured in Wisconsin, but Oneida and other counties in New York State produce limburger that is not to be sneezed at. Of course the people of the metropolis use more of it than the residents of any other city, but Philadelphia crowds us pretty close. The proprietor qf one of the great cheese stores on Chambers street led the way down into the aromatic cellar of his big establishment and showed the renorter several hundred cubes of lim turgor cheese which a -workman was wrapping up in brown paper. Each cheese weighed two pounds. "The tales they tell about how limburger cheese is made are matters of fiction," said he. 4,It is prepared like any other cheese, but the whey is not pressed out and its manufacture is after what we call the cold process. It is the whey in an advanced and aggressive state that gives limburger cheese its flavor. You will, perhaps be surprised to learn that about 70,000 cases of limburger cheese are made in this country every year. Every case contains on tho average 125 pounds, and thus America's annual product amounts to 8,750,000 pounds." A Costly Dish of Baked Beans. One day not long since a well-known citizen of one of the busiest towns in Sagadahoc county returned from a drive into the country, late in the afternoon, with |800, the proceeds of his day's collection, in his inside pocket. He was too late to denosit the monev in the vil lage bank, for the bank had closed. He went to his house and bygan to cudgel his brain for a safe place to put the cash during the night, lie had a great horror of burglars, and felt a little nervous about his $800. The gentleman roamed over the house, and finally dropped into the kitchen. The fire in the kitchen stove was out. His wife was away, and wouldn't return till late in the evening, and, ofrourse, wouldn't think of building a fire in the stove till the following morning. He opened the oven door ana laid the greenbacks in the farthest corner of the bottom of the oven. The capitalist went to bed, and at about 10 "o'clock in the evening his wife awoke h'm to ask if he wouldn't go down cellar and bring up another hod of coal. She said: "I've just built up a hot fire and put the beans in, but I don't believe there is enough coal on the fire to keep |^11 night." T^Have you built a fire in the kitchen stove?" shouted the Sagadahoc husband. "Why, yes; isn't that all right?'' said his wife. "All right! That pot of beans cost ?') nli Atiia 1 fVin nunif a liof on/^ V*o LLIC 'P DW'j ^uuuiga lug v?pivauoi? nuvt uv leaped from the room and down into the kitchen where the savory odor of baked beans and browD bread and a roaring Are in the kitchen stove greeted him. He pulled open the oven door, regardless of burnt fingers, but he was too late. The bank notes had been cremated, and only a handful of grim, crisp ashes remained of the fut $800 roll of os and 10s and 20s.?Boston Herald. Romantic Discovery of a Tenor. Since the days of George Sand the operatic tenor has invariably been reregarded as a romantic personage. The career of M. Bernard, the new tenor of the Paris opera, bears out the romantic tradition to the full. Two years ago ho was a working carpenter in Toulon. France; now he struts upon the sta.<;eof the grand opera. He was discovered in a properly romantic fashion also. 31. liartmann. the music publisher, was passing along the streets of Toulon and heard Bernard carolling gleefully as he worked at his bench. Struck witTi the singular beauty of the singer's voice, Al. Hartmann made iiujuir.'es on the spot, and ensaircd his newly-found tenor to appear^in the "Herortiade," which at that time was in rehearsal at Toulon. Since then M. Bernard has studied at Naples and Milan, and has made good his lack of musicul knowledge. "When fir.-t engaged by M. llartmann he confessed that he did not know a single note of music.- Commercial Adcertirer. " Blizzard."' Respecting the word "blizzard" a correspondent writes to London Note* and Queries: "The word blizzard is well known through the Midlands, and its cognat's arc fairly numerous. I have known the word-and its kin fully thirty years. Country folk use the word to de t-1???? i.i?A* IlOie UlUilUg, UllUUIllfj, zling, or stifling. One who has had to face a severe storm of snow, hail, rain, or wind, would say on reaching sheltei that he has 'faced a blizzer,' or that the storm was 'a regular blizzard.' A blinding flash of lightning would call forth the exclamation: '>ly! that wor a bli/.zomer!'or'That wor a blizzer!' 'Put towthry sticks on th' fire, an' let's have a blizzer'?a blaze. 'A good blizzom'?a good blaze. 'That tree is blizzared'? blasted, withered. As an oath the word is often used, and 'May I be blizzarded' (will readily be understood." m The Lessons of "tnser Fritz" Case. The greatest doctors in Europe don't seem to known what ails "Unser Fritz." Thus are the Garfield and Grant episodes repeated, and public confidence in "expert" medical knowledge is a^ain shaken. The effect is a revulsion. Since the fatal days of 1883 many of the doctrines of the schoolmen concerning extensive medication have been abandoned, and all schools of practice are more and more relying upon old-fashioned simple root and ' herb preparations and careful nursing?the only reliances known to our ancestors. These methods and reliances are iliystrated to-day in a series of old-fashioned roots and herbs preparations recently given to the world by the well-known proprietors of Warner's safe cure?preparations made from formulae possessed by many of our oldest families, and rescued for popular use, and issued under the happy aesignation of Warner's Log Cabin Remedies. "My son," exclaimed a venerable woman to the writer when he was a boy, "my sou,you're yeller and pale and weak like lookin', you're needin' a good shaking up with some sas'parir." A jug of spring sarsaparilla was just as necessary in the "winter supplies" 01 nity years ago as was a barrel of pork, and a famous medical authority says tnat the very general prevalence of the use of such a preparation as Log Cabin Sarsaparilla explains the rugged health of our ancestors. While Warner's Leg Cabin Sarsaparilla is an excellent remedy f ir all seasons of the 1 year, it is particularly valuable in the spring, when the system is full of sluggish blr>od and requires a natural constitutional tonic and invigorator to resist colds and pneumonia, and the effects of a long winter. Philo M. Parsons, clerk of the City Hotel of Hartford, Conn., was prostrated with a cold which, he said, "seemed to settle through my body. I neglected it and the result was my blood became impoverished and poisoned, indicated by inflamed eyes. I was treated, but my eyes grew worse. I was obliged to wear a shade over them. I feared that I would be obliged to give up work." "Under the operation of Warner's Log Cabin Sarsaparilla and Liver Pills," he says, ' the sore and inflamed eves disappeared. My blood, I know, is in a healthier condition than it has been for years. I have a much batter appetite. I shall take several more bottles for safety's sake. Warner's Log Cabin Satsaparilla is a great purifier and I most heartily recommend it." A few bottles of Warner's Log Cabin Sarsaparilla used in the family now will save many a week of sickness and many a dollar of bills. Use no other. This is the oldest, most thoroughly tested, and the best, is put up in the largest sarsaparilla bottle on the market, containing 120 doses. There is no other preparation of similar name that can equal it The name of its manufacturers is-a guarantee of its superior worth. j While the great doctors wrangle over the technicalities of an advanced medical science that cannot cure disease, such simple preparations yearly snatch millions from untime' ly graves. Womanly Unselfishness. Mrs. Mary Chapman, the young wife of a settler in the central part of Dakota Territory, remained alone at home while her husband was away looking after his cattle. A storm came on suddenly, and ! if mo noorltr tVirpp rfnvshf>fnrp he WftS able to get back through the drifts, and when he entered the cabin he found his wife lying insensible on the bed. There j j was just food enough left for one meal for her husband, and she had gone without eating for two days rather than touch a crust of it. When brought back to consciousncss the noble little woman threw her arms around her husband's neck and cried: "Oh, Jim! I thought you might come home nearly dead with huDger." I^hifi typical wife had a true soul sister in the heroine story that was not long ago published in London papers: A little girl lay dying in a hovel ; at Shoreditch. "Now there will te enough for the rest to eat," she said.? Detroit Free Press. Precoeions Pickpockets at Weddings. A London Telegraph communication from Vienna recites that "a band of juvenile thieves varying in age from eight to thirteen, were brought up before a suburban police magistrate. They picked {>ockets habitually in churches, particu arly at marriage ceremonies. One uj chin, barely eight years 01 age, who had stolen a bride's purse and handker; chief, was asked how, being so small, he could put his hand into the pocket of a grown up person. ' My companion carried me in his arms,' replied the boy. It transpired from further evidence that several ot these precocious young malefactors had ao.|uired extraordinary proficiency in their criminal art. The band to which they belonged had existed for two years without being detected. No adults were connected with it, the lads operating on their own account. Their place of meeting was in church every Sunday morning." A Novel Detective for Publishers, j The little stamp that has begun to appear in the inside of books recently [ published is part of a novel and very clever methoa of preventing "scalping," I fraudulent insolvency and other practices which have greatly damaged the I publishing trade. The stamp is numi 1 j t-f\A va/taf/ln/] vltt f vlo i JJCrtu nuu n^uuu, i&cviuvu mj ?Uv | publisher and registered iu the office of the Publishers' Protective Union. A duplicate stamp is bound into the covei of the volume and cannot be reached without destroying the work. The book can thus be traced just like a valuable watch movement or a railway ticket and i identified at any time without trouble by the publisher. The Dew system came into being in March this year, and is use all over the country. Henry Clay, who sat in the Speaker's chair twelve years, is the only man that ever filled that position longer than eight years. "We never see a tear in the eye," says a celebrated writer, "but we are reminded of a warm heart." Spring At no ttaer eeason does the human gyntem so much <? maHlolrifl lllra Hrviri'ft flup. saparlll. as now. The Impoverished condition of the blood the weakening effects of the long, cold winter, the :oet appetite, and that tired feeling, all make a good spring medicine abs61utely necessary. Hood's Sarsaparllla la peculiarly adapted for thia purpose and Increases In popularity every year. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is carefully ) .-jpared from Sarsaparilla, Dandelion, Mandrake, Dock, Plpslsscwa, Juniper Perries, and other well known vegetable remedies, in such a peculiar manner a* to derivo the full medicinal value of each. It will cure, when in the power of medicine, scrofula, salt rheum, sores, bolls, pimples, all humors, dyspepsia, biliousness, sick headache. Indigestion, general debility, catarrh, rhcuinatuun kidney and liver complaint* Purifies the Blood "We all like Hood's Sarsaparllla, it li so strengthening."?Lizzik Balfour, Auburn, R. L Hood's Sarsaparllla Bold by all druggist*. $1; six for$S. Prepared only by 0. L HOOD * 00, Apothecaries, Lowell, Uaci fOO Doses One Dollar ii? i . -is ?rrm- - ? * | u$f:W&& : " ;*. *:& *?.. ' & $-?>' ' !:,>'M---'y.C^ A Honse of Ice. A house constructed entirely, of ice has just been set up at the Aquarium al St. Petersburg, Russia. It Is built aftei the style of the historical house of 1740. The building, formed of dressed blockf of ice, comprises three spacious rooms. Bed, washstand, and all the furniture are of ice. The fireplace in the drawing room'ontains ice blocks imitating logs of wood, while a petroleum stove burns behind; the smoke from the stove escapes through an ice chimney. Out! side a balustrade of ice surrounds the I house, and the facadc is ornamented by | two laTge statues hewn out of ice. The I total cost of the structure was 4000 rubles. Koine Foollth 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'9 Balsam, they would immediately see the excellent effect after taking the first dose. Large bottles, 50 ce":ts and $1.00. Trial tize Jru. At all ; Druggists'^ I Deverga asserts that the proportion dying suddenly is about 100 women to <u0 men. A Pleasure Slmrcd by Womrn Only. Malherbe, the eift-d French author, declared that of all things that man possesses, women alone take nlea ure in being possessed. This seems generally true of the sweeter sex. Like t.ie ivy plant, she longs for an object to cling to and love?to look to for protection. This being her prerogative, ought she not to be told that Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the physical salvation of her sex? It banishes those distressing maladies that make her life a burden, curing all painful irregularities, uterine disorders, inflammation and ulceration, prolapsus and kindred weaknesses. As a nervine, it cures nervous exhaustion, I prostration, debility, relieves mental anxiety and hypochondria, and promotes refreshing sleep. The number of teachers at the twenty-one German universities is 2130. I "What Drug; Will Scour These English Hencc?" Wicked Macbeth, who murdered good King Duncan, asked this question in his despair. Thousands or victims of disease are daily asking "What will scour the impurities from my blood and bring me health?" Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will do it. When fh? nnrnlfi r slncruishrniiRiTiC' Hrnwfii. ness, headache and loss of appetite, use this wonderful vitalizer, which never fails. It forces the liver into perfect action, drives out superfluous bile, brings the glow of health to the cheek and the natural sparkle to the eye. All druggists. ' A citizen of Ypsianti is m-iklna; a collection of axes. Hehas nin ty-two different kinds "When everything else fails, Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures. The German population of New York City is i given as 350,000. . Itching Piles. Sj/fflptome?Moisture; intense Itching and stinging; worse bv scratching. If allowed to continue tumors form, which often bleed and ulcerate, becom njj very sore. Swavine'sOintwekt stops the Itching and bleediug, heals .ulceration, and in many cases removes the tumors. Equally efficacious in curing all rikin Diseases. DK.SWAYNEA 80N, Philadelphia. Sent by mall for 50 eta. Also sold by druggists. CoMBmptlon Sorely Cured. To the Editor?Please inform jour readers that 1 have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently 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. O. address. Respectfully, T. A. SLOCUM. MTC.. 181 Pearl St, N. Y. Farmers and others who have a little leisure time for the next tsw months will find it their /* mm'fA TJ IT Ta JBt Pi> ftf i IUIC1 COW KV "11W IV JU? A. VVKUOVU w WV?| v> Richmond, Va., whose advertisement appears In another column. Tliey offer gre it inducements to persons to work, for them all or part or their time. THE LEADING REMEDY. THE TRADE SAYS SO. The Suffering Class Says So To The Trada. ITS VIRTUES ARK PHKNOMENAL. ITS CURES ARE MARVELOUS. Chronic Curt 40 Year*'Standing Cured Permanently. Sold >y Dni'itjitUt and Dcalni Everyvhere. rile Churte* A. VosrelfrCo.. Ralto., Md, i o;ib pnFi" our diiuodiin muuuiib PKhh v LADIES, THIS IS POK YOE* B ? ^..w^n.ut, of 0^B9^HKwjnHNUM4fl3Hi thousand and on? tastyaiid uiefu dffl purposes forw MB JlU^En^SU ued,^0?d* "< tagr. To purrha?k ^LL,Ual ^rni^miny from j upon thousands of ^J^jCzJw^HBBNHMBBE^ bona among the 'nHHr booMiofAnitrioa be wflftngtodlapoeeofln balk, for a small fturllon of (hrircoit, to any one capable of purchasing largely, we Instituted* March, resulting In our obtaining' tlio entire stock of Hllk and Satin Ribbon Kemnunlnof eevcral of the largest of these houses, who Imported ilio lineal goods. Theae goods may bedepended uponnaauporiorto anything to be found, except In the very beat atore* of America. Yet they are given away rreej MUicMMK ever knowu. -a grand benefit for all Ibe ladleej beautiful,elegant, choice good* abaolutely free. We hare expended tliournwla of dojlira In thla direction,and can oflcf an Immensely, varied, nnd moat completeaaaortment of ribbon*, In every conceivable shailc end width, and all of excellent quality, adapted for neek-wcar, bonnet ittlnrs, bat trimmings, j bows, tcarfa, drcaa trimmings, silk quilt work,etc., etc. Some of theae remnants range three vnidxand npwarda to length. Though remnants,all the patterns arenewand late atylet, and nay be deluded on aa beautiful, refined, fashionable andelegant. Hovrto(etnboxcontalnlnzaCoim>lete Aaaortmcnt of tlicao clegtint (Tlibona Free. The Practical ]loiaseke?|?cr and Ladlea' I Flrealile Companion, published monthly by us. Is acknowledged, by those competent to Judge, to be the beat periodical of the kind In the world. Very large and handsomely 11 luatraled ; regular price /<jcu. perjvar; kuu UU whh, ...... ?w will send it to yoa for a trial year, and will also tend free* box of (he ribbons- X subscriptions aod 2 boxes, OS eta.; 4 I subscription* and 4 boxes, St. Onc-ccnt postage stamp* may be Kent for lew than $1. Get 3 friends to join yoa thereby getting-{subscription* and fl boxes fur only il; can do It In a leer minutes. Tlieabove offtr Is based on tills act:?(hose who read the periodical referred to, for ono year, want it thereafter, and pay us the full price for It; It is in after years* and not now, that we make money. We make this great ofTcr In order to at once secure 230,000 new subscribers, who, not now, but next year, and In years thereafter, shall reward ns wlch a proflt.beenuse the majority of thera will wl?b lorenew their subscription!, and will do so. The money required is but a small fraction of the price yoa wonld have to par at any store (or a much smaller assortment of far Inferior ribbons. Best bargain ever known; you will not fully appreciate it until after yoa aee all. Safe delivery guaranteed. Money refunded to any onenot perfectly satisfied. Bi tter cut thisont, or send at once, for probably It won t appeiiragaia. Address, 11. H Al.l.F. I r * CO., PCM.ISHKBS, POBTHJTD, MaIXE. DR.KILMER'S f?f jj | %/ BYMPTOMR AND CONDITIONS Thla Rometlr Will Itrlleve and Cure. I* Vnns heartthumi>saftci suc](lencirortvskip8 II IUUI bents or flutters, if you nave ncart i diaeiise, faint spells, fits or spasms, If Ynn feci as though water was gathering II IUII around the heart, or have heart dropsy, If Ynil have Vertigo, dizzy attacks, ringing in II lUU ears, disposed to nervons prostration, appoplexy, shock or sudden death, If Ynn have Neuralgia, Numbness In arms or II IUU limbs, darting tiains like Rheumatism, Ocean-Weed curesanu prevents going to heart Prepared at UUpeitiarT. "GUIDE TO HEALTH," Sent Free. Blnghumton, N. Y. . DRUGGISTN. PRICE $1.00. ' APtO 88 a day. am pi eg world 11.30, FRES 5k % Hues not under the horse's feet. Write 10 V trowaier ' afety Rein Holder Co.. Holly, Mleh |?rr By return moll. Full Description CP Id V Moody'* New Tailor System of Dress 0 PBfcfc Coiling. HOODY ft CO., C.^cjuuti, O j ^RECLA We once were factious, fierce, and wild, To peaceful arts unreconciled; Our blankets smeared with grease and stai From buffalo meat and settlers' veins. 'Through summer's dust and heat contenl From moon to moon unwashed we went; But Ivory Soap came like a ray Of light across our darkened way. A WORD OF There are many white soaps, each represer they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lacl the genuine. Ask for " Ivory " Soap and in Copyright 188ft, by F feJJ ELY'S CREAM BALM Is worth St 1000 to any " ISi^lMAN, WOMAN f CHILD k W&sFjjI anflerlns front g /3M CATARRH. Apply Balm Into each nostril. Ely Br?t.. 235 Greenwich St ,N.Y. SCOTT'S EMULSION OF PURE COD LIVER OIL fi5S HYPOPHOSPHITES Almost as Palatable as Milk. Containing the stimulating properties of the Bypophosphites combined with the Fattening and Strengthening qualities of Cod Liver OH, Vie potency of both being largely increased* A Eemedy for Consumption. For Wasting in Children. * V* W?V*IMvmf For Anaemia and Debility. For Coughs, Colds & Throat Affections, In fact, ALL diteatea where there if an inflammation of the Throat and Lungs, a WASTING OF THE FLESH, and a WANT OF VERVE POWER, nothing' in the world pguals this palatable Emulsion, SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. GOLUla worth $300. per lb. Pet .it's Eye Sal re 1 worth fl.000, ut U sold at 25s.? box by flealera W.L. DOUGLAS $3 SHOE. GENTLEMEN. | The only fine calf $3 Seamlea* Shoe In the world nade without tacka or nalle. As stylish and lurable as tbos? costing $5 or 96, and having oo tack* or nails to wear the stocking or hurt the feet, makes them as comfortable ana well-fitting as a sand sowed shoe. Buy the best. None genuine unless stamped on bottom "W. I* Douglas $3 Shoe, 1 Warranted." I W. L. DOUGI.A 8 84 SHOE, the original on? inly band sewed welt $4 shoe, which equals custommade shoes costing from $6 to $9. W. L. DOUGLAS 82.50 SHOE la one* ; tellcd for heavy wear. W. L. DOUGLAS 82 SIIOE la wors by all Boy a, and Ik the best school shoe In the world All the above goods are made In Congress, Buttoa |nd Lace, and If not ?ol 1 by your dealer, write iv. L. DOl'OLAS, Brockton, Maaa. | PfggS; ^?DIE IHTHr wiilSi# Gone Where the Woodbine Twineth. Rats are smart, but "Rough on Rate" beats them. Clears out Rate, Mice, Roaches, Water Bugs, Flies, Beetles, Moths, Ants, Mosquitoes, Bed-bugs, Hen Lice, Iusectn, Potato Bugs, o?A../xn,n aininVo Woncfll flnoherfl. ChiD* Ojiiuiunof unuuBDf ? v?? -r > --- ? . , musks, Moles, Musk Rats, Jack Rabbits, Squirrels. 15c. and 25c. Druggists. "ROUGH ON PAIN" Plaster, Porosed. 15c. " ROUGH ON COUGHS." Coughs, colds, 85c. J ALL SKIN HUMORS CURED BY i ROUGHEITCH ; "Rough on Itch" Ointment cures Skin Hu- [ mors, Pimples, Flesh Worms, RinsrWorm. Tet- | . ter, Salt Rneum, Frosted Feet. Chilblains, Itch, i Ivy Poison, Barber's Itch, Scald Head. Eczema. I 50c. Drug, or mail. E. S. Wells, Jersey City, j l ROUGHiPILES Cures Piles or Hemorrhoids, Itchic$, Protrud- J ing, Bleeding. Internal and external remedy In each package. Sure cure, 50c. Druggists I or mail. E. S. Wells, Jersey City, N. J. i ISSSL1CI HaSr jgas$s?s!issss! tsh)? Ai* lor tho FISH BRAND" su " ' v:>' - I MED. And now we're civil, kind and good, And keep the laws as people should. < ins We wear our linen, lawn and lace, As well as folks with pale* face. - *2*^ ; And now I take, where'er we go, I This cake of Ivqry So'A^to show What civilized my squaw and me And made us clean and fair to see* ifi WARNING. ited to be " just as good as the 'Ivory';" < the peculiar and remarkable qualities of isist upon getting it "rater & Gamble. ' , 'J ODD RaW n n n ?I,iIbi1? Rebel In from one to twenty minutes never ralto to ' lleve Pain with one thorough application. No ifta* ter how violent or excruciating the pain, the Rhea- ' matlc. Bedridden, Infirm, Crippled, Nervous, Neontgle or prostrated with disease may suffer, Radw*y*? Ready Relief will afford Instant ease. It 1"Tt*rn>y relieves and soon cure* Rheumatism, jr euratgia, ^ Coughs, Colds. Cola in the Head, Sore Throat, "2; Asthma, Bronchitis, Pneu nonia, Sciatica, Headache, Inflammations, ' '? Toothache, Congestions, - DIFFICULT BREATHING. Batltcau'* Heady Relief it a Cure for every J*?/?, Sprain*, Bmimes. Pains in the Bark, ihest or Limb* It was the First atid~is the'Onlm PAIN REMEDY . That 1 nauuitly nop* the most, excruciating pain*. 4 <3 lays Inflammations, and cnrew Congestion*, wltpttp ' 5 of the Longs, Stomach, Bowel* or other glands at organ* bv one application. INTERNALLY, a half to a teaspoonfui In half a pvrf tumbler of yater will in a few minutes cure Crampf, i w 8rasms, Sonr Stomach, Nausea, Vomiting, Hesi* << r> burn, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, 81ck Headache, Diarrhoea, Colic, Flatulency and all Internal pains. ' MALARIA IN ITS VARIOUS FORMS CURED AND PREVENTED. There 1* not a remedial asent in the world thai 7--i4r*P will cure Fever and Atrue and all other Hularlona. Bilious and other fevera,aidedby UADWAY'S / /ft ' PILLS, so quickly as RADWAY'9 READY -T , RELIEF- "? R. R. R. not only cures the patient seised with X*> larla, but If people exposed to the Malarial poiso* will every morning take 28 < r 30 drops of Ready Relief in water, ana eat, say a cracker, before going out, they will prevent attacks. . Price SO cents per bottle. Sold by druggists. v, HMHnBBMmBmMHHn RAD WAY'S PILLS M The Great Liver and Stomach Retnady ' For the cure of all disorders of the 8tomaoh, Mrtf. Bowels. Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases, Femala Complaints. Loss of Appetite, Headache, Constlpa. tlon, Costlvenees, Indigestion. Biliousness, fvrw, ' Inflammation of the Bowels, Piles and all aeraogamentBof the IutenialViscera. PurelyvejceUble, ooa- ?-'v tuning no mercury, minerals or deleterious drugs. PERFECT DIGESTION by' tatlog0 HaS w?>' t Pills. By so doing . v 1 './? SICK HEADACHE, Dyspepsia, Fool Stomach. Biliousness will b? avoided, and the food that Is eaten contribute* its nourish In* properties for the Bupport of the natural waste of fa1" Observe the following symptoms resulting from ^ , disease of the Digestive Organs: Constipation. Inward Piles. Fullness of the Blood la the Head, Aridity of ' y ; the Stomach. Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust of Food. Fullness or Weight in the Stomach. Boor Eructat ion* Sinking or Fluttering of the Heart. Choking or Solfo> -\ * : eating Sensations when In a lying posture, I/lcnnessoC Vision.Dots or Webs before the Sight. Feverand Dull Pain In the Head. Deficiency of Peraplratlon, Yetlownessofthe Skin and Eros.Palnlnthe3i<lelChest,Iimh? ;.:! and Sadden Flushes of Heat. Burning In the Fieeh. ...iA few doses of RADWAY'S PILLS wl* , t>r svntem of all the above named disorder*. PrictW oenta ^r bo*. Soldbr all drurrl'tv OTSend a letter stamp to DR. RAD WAY* CO., No. 3'i Warren Street, Sew York, toe Our Book of Advice. VMK SUttH TO GET RAD WAY'S. NORTHERN PACIFIC. "LOW PRICE RAILROM LANDS and FItEE Government LA.]N 1>0 t y 111LI .IONS of ACRES of each in Minnesota. North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. tFUn TAB Publication* with Maps describing the OCnlJ rUll best Agricultural Oraalng and Timber Lands now open 10 Settlers Sent Free. AddreM nUlP D I IIIDftDtl Land Commissioner, Unm? B? uuhbwhui ST. rAiL, .Ulna. amu- ia CURETheDEAF ??| Pre mi Pin.iT Iktbo? Ccuioao lUaDacm Perfectlyw&rtore the ! H?rinfr,?Utl?f&cij?aMaUa*?4 Aa^T-J'nISBbII by cold*, ftTtn or lajuriM to tbe ulsgU fl/llVF?&?] dnuna. IarfcibU, comfortable, ij*44e TOT I In poiltloo. Mnitr, conrmation, wkui'Jl V7^. pffibnrf AkUoctlr. VT? nfrr to U?* 5 A u?lji#tk?m. Writ* ? K. HI5C0X, 85X 3 lit Broadway, cor. 14th ft., }frw Yocl, for ' T-isl ^"<r V. niuitmu'd book of proofr. FREE. I CURE FITS! When X say cure I do sot mean merel/ to atop th? lor a time and then haro them return a*ajn. I mean a radical care. I hare made the diaeaae of FITS, EPXIr EPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a life-long atady. I warrant my remedy to cure the worst caaea. Bo i. aaea other* hare (ailedia no reason for not now recemag cur*. Seed at once for a treatueand a PVee Bottle of my infallible remedy. Glre Expreee and Port Qffloe. H. 6.BOOT.MLC.. 183 Pearl St. New Yerk. FRflZlR^M .i! BEST IN THE WORLD UlltHub tV Got tlie Genuine. Sold Everywhere. $700 to $300 insist in Agents prcfen e 1 who can furnish their own Horses and >lve their whole time to the buslne? spare moments may re profitably employed alia \ few vacancies la tovriu and clUss. B. F. JOHNSOX & CO., 1013 Main ?t., Btchra nd, Va. ' DERBSMO FiFTH WHEEL jff&SK improvement. 1IEKBRANI) CO., Fremont, O. Eli aim'A Dill A Great English Gout and dlsUl Si illSa Rheumatic Remedy. Ural Uox,J (t roumf? 14 l*11l?. PALMS' HiidincNM College. Pliija-, Pa. Slto* tious rui-iilHiiea. Life Scltolarsiilp, 840. Wrlta IflT Vl '**ve **,,omC make more money wof Win? for u? thrnm flJjllJi it nTthinrehc In the world Klther Ml Coolly outfit rfckK. 'JVnn* TUUS i? Co., Augualt, U??m? #I"IVintM , ? F RwaterproolGoaf \b El ErerMa3e. mm OT rubber coat ThoTISH BRAND 8tlCKES jr.nndvrill keep yon dry in tho baldest ?tona run and takenoothfr. If yonr rtorokcepwdooi ji^t^^^^OWER^^tmmon^t^o?tonJla? I