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Grafting Wax.
How to make this is often asked, and
whil? there are many receipts given, the
one that we like best after forty years of
experience, is as follows: Use one pint
linseed oil, four pounds resin, one pound
beeswax. Melt all over a slow fire; stir
well and pour on water; when cool
enojich to work crease the hands well
o ^ # o
ana work it like shoemaker's wax or
taffy. Then roll balls of convenient size
for putting into the vessel used when
grafting. It should be heated over a
moderate fire, and put on the grafts thin,
but not too hot. This wax will not
crack in cold weather, nor ran, even if
the weather gets up to 100 degrees in
the shade.?Popular Gardening.
The "Waste Placcs.
Mr. W. W. Stevens suggests, in the
National Stockman, ways of making often
neglected and unsightly spots a source
of income, and even attractive:
"There is no use having a single foot
of unprofitable land on the farm, useless
bare rock, and this can be quarried and
the stone turned into a fence when a
permanent one is needed. "We rcccDtly
removed all out-cropping boulders for
building a barn ba-eraent, and wished
for more before the job was completed.
A row of fruit trees will grow and yield
good return alonga ravine where the soil
can't be tilled for fear of its washing
away. A walnut grove might be started
on stouy points or steep hillsides where
the plow can't be used, and an illshapen
corner will grow any amount of small
fruits, if only a little attention be paid
to starting them right. We are trying
pear tree8 along our ravines, fruit trees
along permanent fence rows, and forest
trees on the rocky points that border the
brook that runs diagonally across one
corner of the farm."
Cows and Calves.
It takes a smart farmer, says E. S.
Gilbert in the New York Tribune, to get
a calf away from a cow before she knows
she has had one, and the fuss she makes
after it doe3 not depend in the least on
the time she has had it with her, but
upon her own disposition. I had an old
cow who never was consoled in less than
a month; she would leave the pasture
every day to roar before the shea where
ehe supposed it to be; another in the
same yard would not come a step after
her calf as I carried it away; out of sight
it was out of mind; she would chew her
cud in perfect content from the first.
The progeny of these cows have inherited
the disposition of their respective mothers,
though the offspring of the one is
less frantic, and of the other less indifferent
TTiose who heed the advice so
often given to separate the calf from its
mother at the earliest possible moment
Will soon want to hear of a cure for
caked udder, and here is an e\tra good
one: Let the calf run with the cow until
the m lk is fit for use. It is good
for the calf if you intend to raise
it; it is good for the cow if you do not.
The calf's treatment is a great success
in all ordinary cases; an excellent palliative
in the very worst. Clean out the
milk twice a day, or you may take a
large part before the calf sucks in the
morning and let him bunt for his rations.
He will thus keep the bag clear of milk
and mellow it up in a way you would
never spend time to do, supposing you
competent to do it. To teach a young
calf to drink, back him into a corner
of the shed and stand astride his neck
so he can go neither backward nor forward,
having the pail in reach. Put
three fingers in his mouth, letting him
hold his heai as high as he likes; dip
up milk with your free hand and pour it
into the other; it will run down into his
mouth and he will begin to suck. Now
lift the pail up to his nose, and as he
gets interested gently lower it toward
the ground. He will object to this, but
you will come it after a little. Now befin
gently to take your fingers out of
is mouth; you will succeed in this before
long, and the calf is broken. A
neighbor, who always had good calvcs,
kept a large trough in their pasture,
which was full of milk all the time, the
calves going to it at pleasure, as if it
were a watertrough.
Feeding Young Pigs.
If the young pig is not getting enough
milk from its motner to push it, which
usually occurs about the fourth or fifth
week of .its life, fix little troughs so that
none but the little ones can have access
to them, and give the pigs two or three
mall rations daily of cow's milk. It is
not best at the start to feed whole milk,
or, if ?0, it should be diluted with onethird
water and fed to them warm and
perfectly sweet. Half a pint at a feed
until they are six weeks old will be found
a liberal allowance, in addition to what
they get from the sow. After the
eichth week "thev mav have * the
whole milk, and the quantity may
be increased gradually until they have
all they will consume. About the tenth
or twelfth week, if a small ration of
com meal is added to the milk, the pigs
will quickly respond with added growth
and appearance. * The milk is making
bone and muscle, and the corn meal will
interlard a streak of fat that will give to
the hams and shoulders that fine marbled
appearance that butchers and connoisseurs
delight in. If the feeder is near a
city or large home market, where he can
supply certain butchers, it is no hard
matter by a little care and foresight to
establish a brand of butchers' pork that
will readily command one or two cents
above the market. But there must be
real excellencc in the product. It cannot
be done with any kind of a pig, by
simply making it very fat. For this kind
of feeding the Berkshire and Essex, if
pure bred,, arc particularly well adapted.
By following the plan indicated above,
with grass or clover in summer, and
steamed fodder or hay in winter, it is no
trouble to turn off pigs of 200 to 250
pounds weight at seven or eight months,
and this is the most that butchers want
for the local market, while during the
summer 150 pounds suits them better if
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This, however, applies chiefly to small
farms and nearness to market, and no
doubt the same practice can be followed
by thousands of our largest feeders with
added profit to their present course. It
i? within the observation of thinking
breeders, that if there is any hog disease
in the country certain ones seem to get
more than their share of it. This is for
the most part due either to in breeding,
or to an exclusive corn diet. Either of
these will debilitate the constitution,
and are especially to be guarded against
if one would be succes-ful in this business.
As to how long the milk diet can
be profitably continued, we desire to
quote an experiment made by Professor
Bhelton, at the Kansas Agricultural College.
His experiment was made with
ten pure-bred Essex pigs, whose average
age w&b eighty days, and the average
weight forty-one pounds and a fraction.
Thej were divided into lots of five
each, but each pig had a pea to it
self. Soon after the experiment began, ]
one pig had to be withdrawn
on account of sickness. One lot
was led new milk fresh from the cow,
with shorts; the other lots shorts and
water. All feed was accurately weighed,
and several facts are deducible from the
experiment, but we wish to use it in its
relation to milk as pig food. The result
after feeding 100 days was that those
which received the milk diet weighed
141 pounds, while those thatgot no milk
weighed 101 pounds, a difference of just
forty pounds each in favor of the milk.
But this is not all. Professor Shelton says:
"The milk fed pigs at the end of the experiment
were ripe and ready for the
butcher, while those that were fed on
shorts alone were quite unsalable. The
pigs which had received the milk were
sold to the butcher at the highest market
price: the others, with possibly two exceptions,
were salable only as ' stackers.'
Indeed, three of them did not weigh,
four months later, as much as the milkfed
piss did at the end o? the experi
ment."?American Agriculturist.
Farm and Garden NotesPoultry
will not thrive in a wet or
damp place.
Confine the number of acres to your
ability to till.
" Pine sawdust in nest boxes is said to
[ keep lice from fowls.
Large growing trees should not be
planted in small yard9.
The codling-moth has got to Nevada
and become a squatter.
The value of manure from one hundred
fowls is about $50 per annum.
^Nasturtiums should be on every farm.
They furnish a luxuriant show of color,
and their seeds are valuable in pickling.
In selecting a few flowers for dooryard
culture, chose those that bloom at
different times, so far as to have a succession
of blossoms.
Mr. Strong, of the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society, thinks very highly of
clcth as a substitute for glass in raising
vegetables, and expresses the opinion
that it might be used with great advantage
in forwarding crops.
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New York Experiment Station, found,
as the result of a long series of tests, that
the productiveness of any strain of potatoes
can be materially increased by the
continued selection for seed of tubers
from the most productive hills.
The farmer who will succeed the best
in growing crops will be the one who
prepares the land the best. We now
have so many improved implements for
stirring the soil that there is really no
excuse for planting land that is not well
pulverized. The manure should be so
thoroughly mingled with the soil that no
portion of it shall be without fertilizer
within a few-inches of it.
The best way to get more corn is to
get increased yield from the same acreage.
A poor corn crop necessarily costs
so much labor that it rarely pays a profit.
But if the land is manured highly and
cultivated thoroughly, the crop rarely or
never fails to pay. It is easily possible
to double the corn yield on the present
acreage, and that, to:>, without coming
near the large yields which have been
obtained in special cases.
On suitable soils root grafts will usually
prove as successful as buds. This
mode of growing apple trees is largely
nracticed bv all of our leading nursery
men with very satisfactory results. It is
a very common practice, also, to cut the
roots into pieces instead of using the
whole root. There is a difference of
opinion as to whether budding is the
better mode. Either is good. For peara
and plums, the whole root is used.
The influence of the moon upon vegetation
is an interesting problem awaiting
solution. A recent writer upon the
subject mentions that wood-cutters in
Cape Colony and in India insist that
timber is lull of sap and unfit to be cut
at full moon. Another observation of
lunar influence in Cape Colony is the
rapid spoiling of meats and other provisions
when exposed to moonlight,
though this may be due to the fact that
the light serves as a guide to insects.
In working land early it will be dumpy
and must be worked fine. W. D. Philbrick
advises, in American Cultivator,
that especially in preparing the land for
deep-growing roots, like parsnips and
horseradish, it is necessary to run the
plough very deep and take a narrow slice
and, after harowing, plough again and
rake fine. Quick-growing crops, like
radishes and lettuce, spinach, eta, do
not require so deep working of the land,
but will usually well repay the extra expense
of two ploughings and often of
two manurings.
Large pansies are comparatively a modern
invention. In Harrison's Floricultural
Cabinet, in 1840-45, the frst
large improvements are painted. In ten
years they had advanced to their full
development, and no larger; a little
larger ones have been raised since. In
1850 the rust took thera, ns it subsequently
did the verbena, and the raising
of new named kinds was discontinued.
Seedlings revived their health, and pansy
seed instead of pansy plants came to be
popular. Modern improvements have
been in the line of new races rather than
increased size.
The asparajus bed should be well
manured and dug over early in the
season: if there be any grass in it, it
should be all carefully cleaned out, for
it is not half as much labor to keep an
asnarasrus bed entirely clean of crass and
weeds as it is to keep it half cleaned out.
It is not good policy to manure with
barn manure, because of the weed and
grass seeds. Ground bone and muriate
of j otash applied a few years will enable a
j good farmer to be rid of his load of weeds
j and to be able to neglect cultivation
| during the period of cutting. Some
neglect cultivation and keep the weeds
down by the liberal use of salt, but th s
is very poor policy, the asparagus is not
; as large or as good flavor, whatever may
: be said to the contrary.
Dental Transplantation.
The last discovery in dentistry?transplantation?in
not quite so new as it is
supposed to be. "In 1715," writes
Horace Walpole, "the only thing talked
j about is a man who draws teeth for sixj
pence, and puts them in. again for a
; shilling." The operation is now dearer,
j and it is ouly right that it should be
| more skillful. The new tooth, we aire
| told, nv.ist be a healthy otic,anU presmn-1
ably taken, as it were alive from a
healthy person. Of course there will be
"compensation for disturbance;" "a
tooth for a tooth" will not be given without
a good round sum into the bargain.
But I am much mistaken in case of this
market be generally opened, if it is not
made a democratic grievance. It is bad
enough to hear of the tresses of a penniless
damsel being shorn off to supply
false hair to her nchcr sisters, but she
gets another crop; whereas the exhibition
of a toothless young person upon a
platform, with a placard explaining that
she had parted with her ivories to sunply
grinders to the mill of Mammon, win
create a very unpleasant sensation indeed.
?'Independent.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
A Lesson in Butter.
A little maid in the moraine sun
Stood merrily sinking ana churning?
"Oh, how I wish this butter was done.
Then off to the field I'd be turning!"
So she hurried the dasher up and down,
Till the farmer called in half-made frown?
"Churn slowly I
"Don't ply the churn so fast, my dear,
It is not good for the butter,
And will make your arras ache, too, I fear,
And put you all in a flutter;
For this is a rule wherever we turn,
Don't bo in a haste whenever you churnChurn
slowly!
"If you want your butter nice and sweet,
Don't churn with nervous jerking,
But ply the dasher slowly and neat,
You 11 hardly know that you're working;
And when the butter has come you'd say,
V?a siimlv. this is the better wav?
Churn slowly 1"
Now all you folks, do you think that you
A lesson can find in butter?
Don't be in haste, whatever you do,
Or get yourself in a flutter:
And when you stand at life's great churn,
Let the fanner's words to you return?
"Churn slowly."
To Embellish the Corners.
Corners are sometimes eyesores from
their very barrenness. One of these may
be managed by a very simple arrangement
of three cornered shelves covered
with felt or plush, the fronts being finished
with a six-inch fringe, or with
strips of Lincrusta-Walton. The shelves
should be at least twelve inches apart,
and there may be two, three or more of
them, as desired. An India silk curtain
suspended from a slender brass rod from
the lower one is a pretty addition. Another
corner may have a single shelf upon
which is a bust or a handsome vase.
Take a sufficient length of soft silk or
other drapery, draw it through a brass
ring, which affix to the picture rail, letting
the ends fall in careless folds behind
the bust or other ornament, covering
the shelf and hanging some distance
A nn/lnotol foil lomn nr cnmfl
UCIUYV II/. A b!U4 tuui|y wvtuv
other arrangement would fill up the lower
part of the corner prettily.?American
Cultivator.
Darning Needle Cushion.
Take six pieces of silk braid, each measuring
four and a half inches in length,
and overseam on the wrong side neatly,
leaving half an inch at each end for
fringe. Any colors can be selected, but
purple, gray, brown, pink, green and
black look well together. The best way
to do, as the saying goes, is "to cut your
coat according to your cloth," and take
whatever odds and ends of braid are
useless in your scrap bag. Feather stitch
the seams on the right side with crewel,
or for the sake of variety, make different
fancy stitches. Theu overseam the
last two pieces of braid which were left
open for convenience, and also ornament
with feather stitch. Gather this
long bag at one end, above the half inch
left for fringe, and fill with cotton,
sprinkled with sachet powder. Then
Bew up the other end. Take a pin and
fringe the braid and tie a pretty little
bow of narrow ribbon ovjr the stitches
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in carefully and securely and you have a
useful addition to your work basket.
The perfume combines pleasure with
utility, and you can either follow the
scent as the hunting dogs do their game,
or you can stick your fingers in put suit
of your nee lies. This is supposing your
work-basket is in its traditional disorder,
but a careful little girl will have a
place for everything and everything in
its place; and youth is the time for
forming habits of neatness and industry.
Another needle cushion is made of four
pieces of braid, six inches long, overeeamed
and stitched as above, but
fringed for one inch?and has a place
supplied for a bodkin by working three
narrow bars, an inch apart in buttonhole
stitch, on one piece of braid, and
then filled with a piece of flannel rolled
irfVitlTT and finished like the first.?De
troit Free Press.
Recipes.
Asparagus Dressing.?A simply,
easily prepared dressing for asparagus
consists of one teaspoonful of made
mustard, a little salt and pepper and a
desert spoonful of vinegar mixed with
one tablespoonful of butter melted.
Baked Eggs.?Grease a pie-pan well
with lard, spread thick -with bread or
cracker crumbs, break the eggs over
them in a circle, pepper and salt; set in
the oven to bake until the whites are all
set, then run a knife round under them
and slip off onto a plate, and you have a
dish that is both wholesome and handsome.
VRvrra Pudding.?A delicious prune
nuddins is made by stewing a pound of
prunes until they are soft; remove the
stones, add sugar to your taste and the
whites of three eggs beaten to a stiff
froth. Make a puff paste for the bottom
of the pudding dish. After beating
the eggs and prunes together until
they are thoroughly mixed; spread on
the crust. Bake for half an hour, or
until you are sure the crust is done. A
jelly cake batter can be used instead of
the puff paste, and with the two remaining
layers you can make a Washington
pie.
Tomato Sauce.?Strain off the liquid
from a two pound can of tomatoes. Put
into a frying pan a teaspoonful of dripping,
a clove or garlic, or a small onion
chopped line, a spray of mace and a
teaspoonful of flour. When it begins to
color add the tomato pulp. Simmer
over a moderate lire to prevent burning,
stir and cover twenty minutes, salt and
pepper to taste. Press the pulp through
a fine sieve, and if too thick add a very
little beef gravy or clear soup. Return
to the range and keep hot until wanted.
Tmsistne simpnesi way 10 ma&e iuluulu
sauce at home.
Beet Sprouts.?A very wholesome
vegetable is the young beet greens.
Wash them well and cut up, bat not
fine. Put into a large frying pan quarter
of a pound of ham or bacon fat, after
it begins to fry out add the greens.
Pile them up high on the dish and put
a cover on top. They will gradually
cook down. No water should be added.
Stir occasionally. From fifteen to twenty
minutes is long enough to cook them.
The tender tops of radishes are excellent
eating and may be mixed with
other greens, although many throw
them away.
New Peas.?The green peas receive
more abuse from cooks than any other
vegetable. If they do not spoil the color
of the peas they invariably cook them
to a mush or drown them in a bath of
milk or water. Sometimes they soak the
preen peas in water after shelling them,
thereby ruining their flavor. Melt a
heaping teaspoonful of butter in a polished
fryingpan, add a pint of shelled
green peas, and stir the pan to prevent
burning. This preliminary cooking
brings out their color. Add a tablespoonful
of clear soup or hot water,
cover the pan ten minutes, and try the
peas. If not too old they should be
cooked. Turn them into a hot vegetable
dish, season with salt, white pepper, and
a little more butter. No so-called boiling
is necessary.
Mist Glass has been married to Mr.
Brittle in Pittsburg.
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A Simulated Suicide.
An exciting scene was witnessed by
the people who were walking along
the quays in the neighborhood ol the
Pont de TAlma in Paris the other afternoon.
Just as the crowd was at its
thickest a poor man suddenly jumped on
the parapet of the bridge and threw
himself over into the Seine. As he was
struggling in the water another man
jumped into the river after him, and
succeeded in bringing him safe to the
shore. The spectators of this thrilling
incident clustered round the poor fellow
and his gallant preserver and asked him
why he had taken so rash a step. Want,
he said, had driven him to suicide.
Moved to tears by the afflicting narative,
the man to whom this victim of
circumstances over which he had no
control, owed his lite, put nis nana into
his pocket, and, producing all the cash
which he had about him, presented it to
the sufferer. Inspired by this bright
example the crowd, which had mustered
in force, pressed silver and copper coins
on the poverty stricken individual who
had sought a watery grave. Soon a very
fair sum of money was in his possession,
and, with many protestations of gratitude
and promises that he would endeavored
in future to take the "ups and
downs" of life more philosophically, he
slowly quitted the spot in company with
the man who had so gallantly rescued
him. Now, it so happened
that a police inspector had
found his way among the throng, and
having less confidence in human nature
than the worthy holiday makers who
had been pouring francs and half-francs
into the pockets of the would-be suicide,
bethought himself of keeping an eye on
the couple. The pair walked on until
they reached a public house outside the
beaten track, and into this place of
refreshments the inspector followed
them. Oddly enough, their arrival appeared
to be expected with some impatience,
for quite an assemblage of
their friends greeted them with enthusiasm.
Drinks were ordered by the
poor man who had just bpen fished out
of the Seine, and a3 they were being
discussed he gave the company a graphic
account of his adventure: but the story
was a very different one from that which
the horror stricken spectators of the
thrilling incident would have related.
Instead of eliciting exclamations of
sympathy and congratulations, it was
received with peals of laughter, in
which, strange to say, the rescued man
and his gallant preserver joined heartily.
The whole thing had been goten up between
them. One man threw himself
into the river to attract the attention of
the crowd; the other followed, and ihe
tale of euicide was trumped up. The
accomplice gave his money to the friend
whom he had pulled out, in order that
the bystanders might be induced to contribute
freely. The "l.ttle game," however,
was entirely spoiled by the police
inspector marching the two rogues off to
the nearest station. There are many
such impostors in Paris.
Wise Saws on the Weather.
Cats with their tails up and hair apparently
electrified indicate approaching
wind.
If swine be restless and grunt loudly
there will be much wind.
Pigs can see the wind.
Hunters say that the direction in which
the loon flics in the morning will be the
direction of the wind next day.
Magpies flying three o* four together
and uttering harsh cries predict windy
weather.
Anvil-shaped clouds are very likely to
be toiiowea by a gaie 01 wins.
The vernal equinoctial gales are
stronger than the autumnal.
If it blows in the day it general hushes
toward evening.
If small white clouds are seen to collect
together, their edges appearing rough,
expect wind.
A light yellow sky at sunset presages
wind.
If the full moon shall rise red expect
wind.
A very red sky in the east at sunset
indicates stormy winds.
Heavy, white, rolling clouds in front
of a storm denote high wind.
The sharper the blast,
The sooner 'tis past.
A gale moderating at sunset will increase
before midnight, but if it moderates
after midnight, the weather will
improve.
Wind-storms usually subside about
sunset, but if they do not the storm will
probably continue during the following
day.
TOTtiArt fV?Q rylooa fa lntT
Ix>ok out for a blow.
Fast rise after a low (barometer),
Precedes a stormy blow.
Always a calm before a storm.
No weather is ill,
If the wind be stilL
Every wind has its weather.
Wind in the west, weather at best:
Wind in the east, neither good for man or
beast.?Boston Journal.
The Deadly Skipping Rope.
"Skipping ropes were formerly imported
from France," said a New York
dealer to a Mail and Express reporter,
1 *V.aw awa nAonlv oil nf nAmao.
"UUl, 11UW lUU mo uvowj iu. w uvuivr
tic manufacture. Canada turns out a
limited number, owing to the fact that
jute is cheaper there; but, on the other
hand, the wooden handles can be produced
in this country at a considerably
less cost than they are able to make them
across the line. Different houses have
started in to manulacture them in this
city at various times,J>ut it was considerable
effort to get their hands broken into
their work, and at the end of the season
they generally found that they could
have bought the ropes as cheap as they
were able to make them. They are sold
all over the country, and range in price
from twenty cents to $1.75 apiece.
A Cnrions Pack of Cards.
Governor Fitzhugh lee, of Virginia,
has been asked for a photo of his phiz by
an inventor who is getting up a pack of
cards, forty-eight of which will show the
faces of the forty-eight Governors of the
States and Territories. Four more will
have the pictures of the Presidential and
Vice-Presidential candidates of the two
leading parties, and the little joker, or
fifty-third card, will bear upon its face
a picture of either Mr. Blaine or Mr.
Butler. Truly, the American inventor
leads the world in fertility of resource
and audacity of consummation.?Baltimore
Herald.
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IN EVERY ONE A CURE.
No ReturM of PaiNL
9 AT liRUBBISTS'AND HEALERS".
The Ghas-A'VogelerCQ'BajQ'Mo*
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i What's the Matter With Tour Blood!
j ; Cleveland Prtst
Am much blood goes through the kidneys
as goes through the heart.
There is nothing startling about thif fact
except it be a revelation. Many people have
but a dim idea of the real work of the kidneys.
They not only drain the water from
the system, but also the poisonous matter
which that water holds in solution to carry
out of the system. Over half the time, how*
ever, the kidneys fail to do this work I
What is the result?
Gradual failure of strength and health and
eventually death by Bright's Disease or some
unsuspected kidney disease
But particularly in the spring of the year,
when one's blood is filled with poisonous
waste, as it invariably is at that time, you
feel depressed, tired, languid, do not seem to
have any disease, but your system doe* not
respond to the genial warmth of summer .and
spring as formerly.
You had better look outl
The kidney poison is accumulating in the
dioocl ionics won't ao any gooa, tney simpiy
treat effects. Yon can only secure a radical,
thorough renovation of the system by the
prompt use of Warner's safe cure, which is
the only reliable, scientific specific for th?
blood, because it is the only known specific
in the world for the kidneys which are the
only great blood purifiers.
GEO. F. RIDGEWAY, 93 Murlson St., Cleveland,
O., Ex-Deputy Sheriff, from uric acid poisoning
of the blood became, at times, totally blind, and
was troubled with greit giddiness. In 1882, after
offering for many years, and being distressed
beyond measure, he thoroughly purified his
blood by means of Warner's Safe Cnre, and says:
"I hare never had a day's trouble since, and have
fnlly recovered my health. Warner's Safe Cure
saved my life."
REV. J. P. AHNOLD, of Camden, Tena, In 18 and
'31 was grievously afflicted with many abscesses,
caused by kidney poisoned blood. The abscossea
were alive for many months and caused great
distress. After thoroughly purifying his blood
with Warner's Safe Cnre In 1832, ne reported
that In 1S83 he waa strong and well, over 71 yeat.
of age, and able to prcacn regularly.
CAPT. W. D. ROBINSON. United States Marine
Inspector foe the chain of lakes, residence Buffalo,
N. Y? in 1881 had a slight eruption on his
hands. It soon spread to his face and he was almost
blind. His body was covered with light,
flaky scales. His skin Itched excruciatingly.
For two years he gradually grew worse, trying
almost everything imaginable. In 1883, after
having given np hope of recovery,he began using
Warners Safe Cnre. "Twenty bottles," he says,
"completely cured me, and to-day I am strong
and well as ever."
JAMES WIGHT, 29? Fifth Are., New York, suffered
for yearn from inflammatory rheumatism?
a blood disorder?but in 1S33 was fnlly restored
to health by Warner's Safe Cure ana remains
well to-day.
The four above cases are as good as a
million. They prove what is stated, that the
organ that removes the impurity from the
blood most effectually is the kidney, and for
this when impaired there is but one sound,
rational method of treatment
Dr. Dio Lewis, who was opposed to the
ose of medicines in general, thought so highly
of this remedy that he said if he had a serious
kidney disease, he should use it.
A ?1? ar/4 MAI'MVIK/*v?a rcV) af fKav
AO^ J UUi UiOUUH OUU UOi|UUViO it uuw vuo T
think of it.
In the spring of the year, when debility is
so prevalent, and the seeds of dlseasa are
sown that may have a fatal blossoming
before the fall, the prudent man and woman
will give the system a thorough cleansing
and purification.
An Ocean Yainpire.
A devil fi.?h or ocean vampire was accidentally
caught near Tampico, Mexico,
in a fishing seme recently. Ropes were
thrown aroutad the monster, and by the
aid of horses it was drawn to the shore.
It weighed two tons, and, when spread
out on the beach, dead, presented every
appearance of an enormous bat or vampire.
It measured fifteen feet long and
seventeen feet wide from the edge of
the pectoral fins, and its mouth was five
feet across. A number of them had been
seen for some time, but all efforts to
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Mrs. Garrett Anderson, the leading woman
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Hnpplncas.
The foundation of all happiness Is health. A
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there has been, and Is now, more of
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Salt Rheum
"After the failure of three skillful physicians to
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cured. He Is now four ycarj old acd has
been afflicted sin;e he wrs fix months of age. ' ?
Mrs. B. Sanderson, 56Newha'.l St, Lowell, Has*.
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-Jl knowing what the matter
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