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- ; ) > AGRICULTURAL. TAPirc op tvtprp.qt RRLATIVE ~ ictfakm*axdgahden. The Best Tonic for Fowls. Probably the best tonic for fowls, declares the New York Observer, is the "Douglas mixture." Take one pound of sulphate of iron and two ounces of sulphuric acid and dissolve in one gallon of water. Add one tablcspoonful of this mixture to one gallon of drinking water j for the birds, liemove the droppings from the poultry houses every morning instead of once or twice a week, as <s often directed. If this practice were strictly adhered to there would be leas disease among poultry and better results j generally. Cull the fowls very closely. It will not pay to winter disqualified birds. There is more success with fewer j birds and higher prices. Want of Appetite in a Horse. A horse will refuse to eat sometime? ' because its teeta are diseased or its mouth sore. Examine the mouth, and if there is anything wrong have it remedied by proper treatment. A sharp, broken tooihshonld be rasped down; an ulcerated tooth with swollen gums around it should be extracted; sore gums should be dressed with powdered chlo - * * -.8 1 ?-A. I Tt raie 01 potasn mixeu wuu miNusses. n the mouth is all right give the horse a pint of raw linseed oil in the evening, and in the morning a quart of linseed tea, strained, with a dram each of powdered sulphate of iron and gentian root in it. Feed, an hour after, a rather warm bran mash, but give no other food until the horse is eager for it. Most often an overfed horse is best treated by a week's semi-starvation.?New York Times. Potatoes. Edmund Herscy's experience leads him to the following conclusions: Whole potatoes will produce a crop from a week to ten days earlier than cut potatoes. Small whole potatoes will produce for many years in succession ju t as good, if not better results,4 thrm large potatoes cut the size of the small oues. The seed end of a potato is better to plant than ' the stem end, because the plant starts with more vigor, aud produce larger and more potatoes. A large piece of potato is better to plant in ordinary soil, and will produce a much better crop than very small p'eces or single eyes, i Potatoes with sprouts long enough to break o If in planting are not as good as potatoes with their eyes started ju^t enough to show their good condition. The form of a potato cannot, as a rule, be changed by the selection for planting ?m- ^articular form. Two distinct va rieties will not mix by planting in the amehill. The potato scab is a blemish that the more we investigate the less we apppear to know about it.?lndejpemlcht. Properly Mixing Crcnm. In commenting upon the mixing and ripening of crea:n before churning, : Hoard's Dairyman says: "Not long | since a farmer's wife complained to us i that she did not get the yield of butter from her cows that one of her neighbors did, and she wished to know if we could give her any light on the subject. Upon i inquiry we found that the cows on both ! farms were neighbors, and handled about alike. But when we inquired further into the manner of earing for the cream, we saw at once where the difficulty lay. It was her practice to skim her milk every morning, ana pui me cream iuio an earthen jar which was kept in the i cellar. Churning was done twice a week, if her husband or the boys were not too busy. But the particular point where she failed was putting in the last i skimming of cream immediately after it i was taken from the milk. When we told her that she received but little benefit from the last skimming thus i handled, she could hardly be persuaded of the truth of our assertion. We are i convinced that this mistake is largely in- ! dulged in by the makers of farm butter. j But they might about as well throw the last skimming to the pig, for there is j where it finally goes in the buttermilk." j Cow Pea Vine as Fertilizer. While my trees were small, says a cor-! respondent of the Itural N:io Yorker. I commenced planting peas and turning : the vines under while green. It took but one or two trials to satisfy me that the cost was greater than the benefit received. I then tried planting later, allowing the vines to mature and die upon the ground. This proved much more no flifl naoa Y"!'11 fl I eaii3iav/iui j, uo v<iv> pvuo ^utuvivu for seed and labor, -while the land was left in much better condition. About this tijieJseciij^Uefti.Af |]ic Cpflrfe-ftear" Wluclj I continued to use until the trees were too large to permit of its being grown su.cessfully. The method I fol-, lowed was to keep the ground thoroughly cultivated until about the 1 first of June, then mark off in checks , three feet each way. When the ground is thoroughly moist, plant two seeds in 1 each checK, allowing but one plant to the hill when well established. This pea would cover the ground if planted ; twice distance apart. The advantage of close planting is that they will cover the fround in half the time, saving much la- j or in keeping the ground clean until the vines cover it. By planting in checks the cultivator or sweep can be run both ways, leaving but little to 1 e done with the hoe. If the ground is kept clean un. til the vines cover it, very little grass or weeds will grow, the pea-vines forming a | derise ma-s of vegetation, and taking the best of eare of the grove until the fol- j lowing February, when the soil will be j found Eoft and mellow, and the vines I sufficiently decayed to break up easily with the cultivator or plough. It will ; be necessary to go over the grove ouce each week to keep the vines off the orange trees. But little seed will be produced, enough, however, to in part' pay the expense of planting. Swine. A paperread by Theodore Louis, Louisville, Wis., at one of the Wisconsin Far- i rners' Institutes contained the following ' practical suggestions on the raising of swine: Clover, green or in a dry state, is ' always of first importunce. The near future will probably develop the fact that j the silo will enable the farmer to winter ! his swine at less cost, and insure them with health and vigor. Squash, pump- j kiDS, rutabagas and maugles will cheapen i the cost of production and add materially j to the growth. Bran, middling,, ground ! oats, of e<|ual parts, steamed aud fed warm, will be found profitable feeding, ; as to growth, development of muscle and bone. If oil meal is added, well cooked, one pound to twenty, it will fill the bill of fare for milk aud a large proportion of nitrogen. Where buttermilk is fed in large quantities, one pound of oil meal, well cooked, added to every hundred pounds of milk, will increase ! the leeding valu# highly. Buttermilk is slightly constipating, but the oil meal! will remedy this. The food should he as nature left it?sweet. Sour, decayed j swill ia poieon. Salt should always be placed where swine have access to it in ^ their yards or pens, in troughs or shelves. -A not on the ground in barnyards, a9 it will absorb the poison of yards. Two bushels of charcoal, broken into fine particlcs. one-half bushel of wood ashes, eight quarts of talt, well mixed, one and one-qtiai ter pound of green copperas, either d'ssolved ir water or ground tine, mixed with the acove, should always be in a self-feeding-box, with a good cover on it. where swine can have free access to it. When high feeding of carbonaceous and concentrated food is resorted to in time of fattening, soft sandstone, brick dust, or even dry clay, will be greatly relished?in fact all the above ingredients are essential to aid digestion and kill intestinal worms. I consider ground food, as a rule, the most economical. Suggestions About Packing Appl-s. In packing app'es the practice is to face two rows of fair, sightly apples, stem down, aga'nst the head, to be opened when offered for sale, as in this way they look better when the barrel is opened than if they were put in last and pressed down by the head. After tho apples, in what is to be the opeaing eud of the barrel, are properly arranged, it may be tilled up by laying the fruit in indiscriminately, but small or imperfect aoDles should all be kept out. The barrel should be packed as full as it I can be made to hold, and a little gentle rocking is allowable, as the tilling proceeds, to assist in settling them uniformly. The last apples put in should come up above the croze in the barrel, so that when the screw is used to put the head down into its place the packing will be tight enough to prevent any shaking or movement of the apples when the barrels are handled. The pro. er degree of pressure to be applied can omy be learned by experiuce, but it is quite as often too little as too much. It is worthy of note that apples slightly bruised or indented by the pressure of the heads do not ordinarily rot from that cause, while if injured to the same extent in some other way before they were barreled they would do so. The dillerencc is probably owing to the continued pressure; as it is penera'Iv believed apples keep better under J pressure in the barrel than when laid in j loosely, or when put into bulk previous j to barreling. It is advised, when packing apples in barrels, to make first and second quali- | ties, and in cases where there is a small j portion 01* unusually large fruit, even a third quality. In this way uniformity + r*r>nr\ f 1 t? f A tllft j Ill ttll.Uil luuiuwiuw givuvij iv iuv | appearance, can be preserved, and, while one quality will sell higher than a lower one, the aggregate amount received will be larger than when large, medium and small apples are packed together. It is sometimes advised to pack both heads al:ke, so that when opened each end shall 6how courses of the best apples, stem upward. A more general and far better way is: After the apples have been faced to the head standing on the ground and the barrel is lilted up to the croze, to finish up witti apples that will well represent the smallest ones the bar- j rel contains. Two good reasons ean be ' given for so doing. One is that a3 the apples are to be pressed down small ones j will lie closer together and pack down ; better under the pressure of the head j than large ones will, and if a few are ' squce ed too hard the damage will be less than if they were of the largest. ! Another atid still better reason is that a buyer may in this way have the opportunity of seeing a sample of the smallest as well as of the largest and be3t. Extremes, however, should be avoided, | and unusually large and fine apples should be packed by themselves, hs be- i fore intimated, and form an ext.*a fine quality to be sold for a fancy price, and quite small ones should not be packed at all. Only good, fair si/ed and merchantable apples should go in as No. 1, and the small size should be packed as No. ; 2. Uniformity in size should be preserved throughout as well as possible, except th:it when opened one head may show slightly above and the other slightly below the general average.?New York World. Farm and Garden Notes. Damp quarters cause roup. Never sort apples when once picked. White or light colored fowls bring the best price. Eternal v.igilance is the price of giltedge poultry. Womeu make the most successful poultry-raisers. Six poor apples will affect the grade of an entire barrel. On the farm, as elsewhere, misfortune ; is the shadow of carelessness. seeds 8{iechtfea*c.iQ induce I it to grow away from its native wilds. I To obtain the best results plant rhu- j barb not nearer than three feet apart each i way. A good picture of folly would be a man burning the straw his land had grown. I.ime, gravel ard bones should always be kept where the fowls can easily get all they wish. Do not storm and fret. Be quiet and kind, and the horse will be so too, in most eases. It is noticeable that the large majority of vicious horses are handled by badtempered men. Sulphate of iron is reported as the most popular of all remedies in France against mildew. Give the horses a large stall and a good bed at night. It is important that they lie down to rest, Remove the seeds when feeding pumpkins to cows. They do harm by acting as a strong diuretic. See that the drinking vessels are washed out clean daily, and kept filled with fresh, pure water. If you have nothing to exhibit at the fair, there is something wrong about your system of farming. Potatoes should be well dried beforo storing, that they might not gather moisture sufficient to decay easily. Farmers' children acquire a knowledge of botany easily, being much amont* tho flowers, and they will tind the knowledge useful later. A leading apiarist of Canada thinks that granulated sugar should be used foi feeding bees, as it is safer than to risk feeding cheap sugar. The common red clovcr is better thau the large for general purposes. The latter is difficult to cure, makes coarser hay and is more apt to become musty. The farmer of to-day with brains and ambition to make his farm pay must cleai his mind of cobwebs and his back of moss. He must read as well as labor. Plant your trees, vines, etc., this fall. Do not postpone the work until spring. If you can not possibly plant this fall, get the trees now and heel in until spring. I Plant grape vines, raspberry, blackj berry, currant and all kinds of trees from October 1 to December 1?the earlier the ! better. Notice how much greater growth ' they will make next season than those ; planted next spring. CRANBERRIES HOW THE LITTLE BERRY If RAISED ON CAPE COD. The Construction and Co9t of i Bo^ ? Setting the Vine9 ? When and How the Crop is Harvested. The Boston Herald, describing cran berry cultuie in Cape Cod, says: I'suall; there are three years of constant expensi to a bog before any income is derive< from it, and three years seem long whei one thinks of the capital invested Meanwhile ice, frosts, droughts, fire 01 worms may destroy the crop, and nearl; everything must be done over again while weeds must be fought perpetually In making a bog a piece of wild swam] land is selected. The conditions to h observed are that it must have a goo( quality of muck for a bottom, with ai abundant supply of water for flowage and also good facilities for drainage rtMnKni-i.iT oltVirmrrV* o wafnr Vlllft L ll\-> tiaui/Vilf) miuvugu ? 1. ?vw. . ... seems to want only a moderate amoun of moisture while growing and bearing There must also be an ample supply o Band at hand. The first step in construction is cut ting the trees and mowing down th< bushes with a stub scythe. These an heaped up and burned. Following thi: is the "turfing" process, wherein thi entire surface of the bog is cut int< squares by turf axes. '.Next the stumps are removed, anc then comes the process of ditching The usual method on large bog3 is t< have one large ditch through the nxiddl< of the bog with numerous side branchei which drain into i;, keeping the boj comparatively dry in summer, while or the approach of frost in the fall the flow of water is stopped, and all the available supply turned upon the bog to cover and protect the vines and fruit fro.n Jack Frost's nipping fingers. To facilitate flowing the bog is made a9 nearly a; practicable one vast level, or only rises a few inches at the most. The next step after grading is to sand it, and for this +Vi? Donrl mnat hp onarsfl anfl gravelly. The bog is usually covered tc a depth of four inches, the wetter portions re [uiring more than this. The bog is now ready to set with vines, whici must be brought from some older bog, and consist now of three leading varieties, Hoots are never set, but cuttings an used exclusively. An instrument called a punch, which somewhat resembles a dagger, having a flat blade 1.V inches wide, is used to open the soil. The shool or cutting is stuck into the cleft, anc the earth crowded down around it. Eighteen inches space is left on all side; of each plant. A completed bog will average in cost, aside from the first price of the land, about $400 per acre before the vines an Bet. These cost $5 for a quantitj sufficient for an acre, and the expense oJ setting them is Id cents per rod, or $lt per acre. All of the turting, ditching, stumping aud sanding are done by the square rod, and all of it ft as to ue none by hand, for the swamp is unsuitable footing for horses. Having completed the bog, the next thing is to fight the weeds and replace any vines which may have failed to take root. The l.ttle stalk, which is about ai large as the lead of a pencil, puts oul runners in all directions and continue! to grow until the third year, when t crop can be expected with some certainty, Vines often bear a few berries in theii second year, but the crop is rarely picked, As the vines spread they form a thick carpet, completely hiding the bog anc covering it to a depth of six or eight inches The runners each vine puts oul are several feet loag and interlace witt one another. These runners put oul small shoots called "uprights," and or these in the spring appears tLe little four parted flower. As the berry ripens, it hangs on a stem an inch long and ii completely hidden by the vine leaves, which alternate on either side of thi stem, and, although only one quartei Inch long and one-eighth inch broad,ar< 60 plentiful as to hide the greater por tion of the crop. Cranberries are a crop which canno wait, but must be harvested at one* when ripe, or the frost will spoil then by softening the berries and causfnj them to drop oir the vines. This can b< prevented by flowing the bog,if sulScien warning is given beforehand; and hen is where the signal service is doing ex cellent wo k by telegraphing dail; ? ^ A*>nnl\ovrTT fliafrinf tVl< llirUU^UUllb LliO V<1 UU UUl I jr uicbtiW I'll' probability of a frost within twenty-fou hours. With the coming of the middle o September the cais going towar<4_thi crtinbfeTry "~ufstric'c" ar<T"Tr6w(fed witl people bound for the harvest. Wholi families go, for each child can mak< from $1 to $2.5!) dai y, and many poo; families can make enough in the four o; five weeks' season to keep them com fortably all winter. Carver then double: its population. The pickers are quar tered in small frame houses, snugly anc well built, close by the bog, and eacl party has a cook. Beds are made lik< those on a steamship?a series of berth on the side of the rooms. The men a) sleep in one apartment, and the womti in another. A day's work usually mean: If 4-lks* mAnni n 1Q TO 1 n ' IUU liVUI", UUt 11 kuu IUVIUIIIU picking does not begin until the vine are dry, for the fruit must be perfectl; dry when barreled, or it will soon spoil A large bog will employ from 150 t 400 pickcrs, and even such an army a that makes but a small show on some o the largest bogs. Before work is begui the Superintendent "lines" the bog which consists in strctchiug white cord across it in parallel lines about six fee apart, each picker being given a space which must be picked clean. The picker creep on hands and knees over the vines picking as they go. They are divide* into companies, each appropriately lei tered, and each individual numbered When a picker has filled his measure h starts for his barrel to deposit his fruit at the same time calling out his numbe and company letter to the book keepei who, tablet and pencil in hand, sitsueo the barrels and credits the picker wit' one measure by drawing a straight lin beside his name. The marks arc counte at the close of the day and then tram ferred to the regular account books. Each measure holds about six quart; it requiring sixteen measures to fill barrel of 100 quarts. The pickers g< ten cents per quart, and there is inuc rivalry among them a9 to who can scoi the greatest number of measures in day. Last season one man picked c;ght measures full, or thirtecu bushels < cranberries, in ten hours, making ?8 f< his day's work. All nationalities ai represented on a bog, and the differei factions generally get along very am cably. They are too busy to do othe wise. i A picking machine ha9 been invente and is in limited use, but does not fin much favor with growers, who say : tears the vines. The most successfi one is made with a row of finders to slic over the vine, and a cover which shu down over them. A bacward pull di engages the berries and moves the mi chine off the vine. / _.T ' The berries are taken to the screen house from the bog, and are there rut through a screen, where all rotten, whifc , or otherwise imperfect ones are remo e& s They are next barreled and shipped t< market, New York being the principa 'one, with Philadelphia next, while Bos i ton is reckoned among the minor ones The demand for the berry is growing constantly, and even now exceeds thi supply of choice fruit. What this de maud is will be better understood whei it is known that the plant is so prolific - that yields as high as a hundred barrel; f per acre are not uncommon, e ^ A Sheep Whips a Dear. Squire Peter Morley, of Kettle Creek r Penn., owns a merino ram that can justl; y lay claim to a distinction that no membe , of the sheep family was eyer entitled t< before. The ram is a big one, and whil d Dossessinsr a formidable appearance e never until a few days ago "developec 1 any inclination toward pugnacity. Th< } ram is the patriari hial head of a some , what pretentious flock of sheep, o . which their owner is justly proud. , 'inquire Morley had no iaea that hii t flock or any member of it had fallen be neath the covetous ga?.e of any maraud f ing bear or other wild animal, but a! there were rumors more or less alarming - to sheep owners that the pastures of an 2 other part of the country had been in 2 spected by bruin, found good, anci s treated accordingly, the 'Squire thoughi 31 it would do no harm to set a watch ovei >! his pasture and keep it there until the I arrival of the time when bears succumt 1 j to boreal surroundings and hole up. A young son of the 'cjquire's was as ): sigued to the task of keeping an eye or J j the fold, with instructions to destroj i j with a shotgun, charged with buckshot, J j any audacious bear that might endeavoi i to select from that fold m iterial for his ' dinner. Subsequent proceedings indi i --.-j a.! :c , CflieU 111HI 11 juuuy Ml. iiiuuGjr uau cutcrtained the sligntest idea that thert : was even a remote chance of a bear api pearing in the pasture he would have | cheerfully acquiesced in the selection of | some other guard for the ancestral Hock. The young shepherd had stood guard I at the pasture for a week, and no bear | appeared. Consequently he uttered nc J complHint against the job. On Saturday > last he was sleepily reclining at the fool of a stone wall that surrounds the field, when he suddenly became wide awake. I lie saw a good sized bear jump over the ; fence not far away from him and slouch : deliberately toward where a group ol | sheep were grazing. 'Squire Morley was , at work in a field not more than three hundred yards away. The young shep^ {herd, ignoring the gun that lay at his ; side, cleared the wall at a bound, and 1 sped to give the alarm to his father, I shouting lustily at every jump and al ! the top of his voice: i I "Bears! bear3! bears!" 1 I ''Squire Morley heard the cries Ions 5, before the guard of the fold reached r him and hurried to the rescue of his f flock. When he reached the pasture i j wall the group of sheep had discovered t ' the presence of the bear aDd had tied ! bleating in fright to the farther side ol ' the tieid?all of them, except the head ' of the fold, the merino ram. He stood j his ground and eyed bruin threateningt ly. The bear evidently did not want tc 1 touch old ram for his dinner, and was 5 passing on by him to select a more toothJ some morsel from the flock, when the t ram shot forward like a m'ssile from ? }! catapult. He bucked the bear amid1 j ships, and bruin *601 down before the ! force of the blow as if it had been c r stroke of lightning. The bear got up, but surprise was : j p'ctured all over him. He stood stil I and gazed in amazement at the shee^ that presumed to throw down the gage t of battle with him. The ram was there 1 for business, and hurled himself again, t head lowered, unon the would-be de 1 spoiler of hi> flock. This time he landec 1 between the bear's eyes, and bruin's fall > j was more positive than it had been be 1 I fore, and he lay on the ground a momeat > i before he recovered su'-lic ently to under J, stand exactly what had happened. 1I< r got up again but had no time to mak< 51 up his mind what to do before the ram'i " | thick skull was hurled against him again, and down went the bear a thirc ^ time. 3 j These three attacks of the ram on th< 1 bear had been made so quickly thai ', 'Squire Morley had not had time to picl 1 up the gun where his son had left it anc t get within gun shot. After the thirc 31 knock-down the bear got up, and turn " ing tail on the ram, started in full retreat P j But the ram caught him in the neck th< 3: next shot, and the bear dropped and laj r , there. He had not succeeded in getting , up when 'Squire Morley reached thi spot, but the ram was waiting for bin ? tS-COlASL_to time. The 'Squire wasn' J sure whetheftijfi bcuf was ti 3 remove all doubt he put a load of buck 3 , shot into its head. r j But the victory was the ram's, and thi r j 'Squire thinks no other guard of tha flock is needed. l Talne of the Pearl Fisheries. 1 Never have pearls been more popula 5 or commanded such high prices as during ? | the past ten years. At present nothing < is considered in better taste than thi 1 i pearl, on account of its purity and sub 9 : dued beauty. This unusual demand ha ^ I had the effect of greatly stimulating thi 3 | search for them, especially on the wes ^ i coast of Australia, at Thursday Island j the Sooloo Archipelago, it Ceylon ant 0 the Persian Gulf, and also along th ?j coast of Lower California. The deman* j included pearls of all colors except th a i inferior yellow. The fine black pearl ' 1 of Lower California have been in grea ? request, single one3 bringing as much a j $8000. With these black pearls ar '' i found many beautiful gray and grayish I brown pearls. The different fsherie ^ ' of the world produce fully $1,000,00 . j worth annually, of which Lower Cal ; fornia fisheries produce probably one * sixth. Kentucky, Tennessee and Texa . j havo given us over $10,000 worth c '' i pearls per annum; their remarkabl . j fresh-water pearls, especially the pin ' ! ones, which are unrivaled for delicacy c ^ ! tint. The finding of two busheis c ; these in the Turner group of mounds i ^ the Little Miami \ alley. Ohio, by Pre fessor F. W. Putnam, gives us a fain idea of how plentiful they were befor j the arrival of the Europeans. But wit ^ the last live years many of the fancy colored pearls have received their variet "k | of color not from nature, but by artit .e | cial means. y The D ying Be'L >f The diving hell was fir.^t used on tt )r coast of Mull, off Knyland, two hundre re years ago, in looking lor the wrecks c it the Spanish Armada. Improvcmen i- were made by Stanley, who was tt r- fiist man to reach sea botton. Smeatoi builder of the Eddystone Lighthouse :d first applied the condensing pump f< d forcing air down to the diver. T1 it I'oyal George, anl nglish man-of-wa j1 whi h sank of Mymouth in 178:?, wi le discovered by a diver in 1817. The firs ts and so far as we know, the only lady 1 s- go down in a diving bell was the wife < i- Captain Morris, of Plymouth, who mad a descent a few years ago. . v; * ? THE 8 AT ACE WAI. 1 llow tbe Indian Treats an IaJnry?Old 3 Time Methods. The savage is emphatically the child of na j ture. He lives close to nature, his only edu. cat on is pained in nature's school. 1 When the Indian receives an injury, hf - does not seek a cure in mineral poisons, bul ?--- J - 1- i?e - J? . I Uliiua UIl bliC 2)iui[Jic itrai, auuuiuatcio wo uci u r al tea, and, with nature's aid, comes natural ' recovery. Our rugged ancestors, who pierced tbf * I wilderness, built their uncouth but comforta 1 ble Log Cabins and started the clearings in B the woods, which in time became the broad, 9 fertile fields of the modern farmer, found in roots and herbs that lay close at hand na ture's potent remedies for all their common ailments. It was only in very serious case* they sent for old "saddle-bags" with hie physic, which quite as often killed as cured. Latter-day society has wandered too far ' away from nature, in every way, for its own ' good. Our grandfathers and grandmothers f lived wholesomer, purer, better, healthier, 3 more natural lives than we do. Their minde B were not filled with noxious isms, nor their bodies saturated with poisonous drugs, j Is it not time to make a change, to return 1 to the simple vegetable preparations of our 3 grandmothers, which containedy-oe power - and potency of nature as renv&Al agents, f and in all the ordinary ailments' were efficacious, at least harmless? The proprietors of Warner's Log Cabin 5 remedies have thought so, and have put on the market a number of these pure vegetable preparations, made from formulas secured after patient searching into the annals of the past so that those who want them need not De without them. Among these Log Cabin remedies will be found "Los Cabin sarsat>arilla." for the | blood: ''Log Cabin hops and buchu remedv " t a tonic and stomach remedy; "Log Cabin cough and consumption remedy," "Log f Cabin hair tonic," for strengthening and re5 newing the hair: "Log Cabin extract," for ) both external and internal application; "Log Cabin liver pills;" "Log Cabin rose cream," an old but effective remedy for catarrh, and ' "Log Cabin plasters." All these remedies i .are carefully prepared from recipes which ' were found, after long investigation, to have been those most successfully used by our . grandmothers of "ye olden time." They are the simple, vegetable, efficacious remedies ol 1 Log Cabin days. The Smiths of England. i ] How many Smiths are there in Eng land? It is impossible to answer this i | question wilh precision; but there are ! j data from which an approximately cor rcct idea may be obtained. The Regis I trar-General tells us that in 1856 it was possible to estimate, from certain records > j in his keeping, that there were then r living in England and Wales about ; 253,0110 Smiths, or one in every seventythree persons composing the entire I population. Supposing that this estimate ) j was coricct, and that the same propori ' tion has since been maintained, the : statement may fairly be made that there i are now about 858, **14, or over two-thirds s of a million, Smiths in Kngland and Wales. It is not quite easy to realize :il i ence what an enormous number of people [ j those figures represent. A few simple , I illustrations may serve to make the ; matter clearer. For instance, there are more Smiths in England and Wales that there are people in Dublin?indeed, f excluding London, there are only foui i towns in the United Kingdom?viz., i Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool ane] ? Manchester?containing more DCODle i j than there are Smiths; while twenty-si> i out of the fifty-two counties in Englanc i and Wales, or one-half, have fewei I people than the immortal house of f*mitl i has representatives. It is on record,too, that in the seventeen years between anc > including 1838 and 18")"), 286,037 Smithi ? were reg'stered as having been eithei bom or marrie 1 or died. Although, a! ) every one knows, the Smiths fom i numerically the strongest tribe in Eng land, there being one Smith to ever] 5 seventy-three persons comprising th< i population, still the Joneses run then very close, indeed, there being one ii i every seventy-six persons. Nextinordei 1 on the list, according to officially com ) piled statistics, come Messrs. Williams > Taylor, Davis and Brown. Mr. Rob n > son. who is commonly associated witl , Messrs. Brown and Jones,stands eleventl on the list in respect of his relativi I numerical strength. ? Charnbert'a Jour 1 nal. i Old English Bread Regulations. During ihe reigns of Henry III. anc 3 Edward I., 121U-130 ~, certain laws wen 3 passed in England regarding the weigh J and price of bread. In the city of Lon 1 don, if the baker sold his bread himself ' by retail, he was particularly forbiddei to sell it in his house, or before hi.' 5 home, or before the oven in which i k had been baked. He wa< only to sell i [ in the "king's market,"and such marke | ; as was assigned to him, and nowhen * I else. Bread was delivered from housi * to house in London by regratresses o: * female retailers. These dealeis on pur 3 chasing their stock from the baker wen ' I nllrvA nd thirteen loaves to the dozen. th< > I extra loaf being the limit of their legiti 2 j mate profits. The baker was a'so for 1 i bidden to sell the regratresses in hii ' j shop, the sales having to take place a ? i-bts stalLiajhe "king's- market. ' iroit Fnc Prc3 . 3 Proof Bi ttrr Than Assertion. t With such proof as the following letter fron W. H. Dean, of No. 278 Seventh 6treet, Nev York, it is not necessary to make the bare as sertion that Allcock's Pohous Plasters curt lumbago. Mr. Dean says: r Some ten days ago I was taken with a verj y violent pain in the small of my back. It was s< I severe that I could hardly breathe; every move 0 ment caused great agony. I finally found ou _ it was lumbago. Being entirely helpless, i g friend sent out to a druggist and got two All 8 cock's Porous Plasters; these were wel . warmed and applied to my back, one above thi other. In half an hour, to my great deligli j and surprise, I found the pain began to abate In two houra I was able to walk out and atteni ? to my business, the pain being almost gone * Next day I was all right, but continued wear e ing the plasters for a week. a f The cost of aliigh class passenger locomotive is about 13500, and of a palace sleeping cai 8 from 815,000 to 817,000. 6 ? Very Sensible "Japs." ~ In Japan the old-school physicians are per 9 mitted to wear only wooden swords. This is t 0 gently sarcastic way of expressing the opinior : that they kill enough people without usin^ weapons. But the drutrglst who introducec Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery into th( 9 Empire, carries a fine steel blade. It was founc f that all who tried this wonderful remedy foi coughs, colds, consumptive tendencies, blood e skin and liver troubles, were, without exxiep I, tion, greatly benefited. The Mikado liimseli i: , said to have "toned up" his system by its use I and the importer was therefore permittee tl the exceptional honor of wearing the sword o: the nobility^ ). Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has just en . tered upon his eightieth year. e Do Not 1 hink Tor n Moment Jj That caturrh will in time wear out. The theory is false. Men try to believe it because itwouk ~ be pleasant if true, but it is not, as all know y Do not let an acute attack of cold in the heat : remain unsubdued. It is liaole to develop int< caturrh. You can rid yourself of the cold an< avoid all ci.ance of catarrh by using Dr. Sage' Catarrh Remedy. If already afflicted rid your self of this troublesome disease speedily by tin same means. At all druggists. ie Canaiu will experiment with lobsters trans (J planted to the Pacific from the Atlantic. Many People Refuse to Tnkc Coil CS Liver Oil on account of its unpleasant taste id This difficu ty has been overcome in Scott'i i Emui.8 on of Cod Liver til wiih Hypopho B' pliitee. It1 eing ns palatable as milk, and tin ' most valuable lcmedy known for th treat >' rneut of lonsumption, Scrofula and Bron K chitis, General Debility, Wasting Diseases o Children, Clironi Coughs and Colds, lia r< caused physicians in all par s of the world t< II | u e it. Phvsicians report our little patient f take it with pleasure. Try fc'cot.'a E.i.ulsioi ^ and be convii:-.ed. ..I Two ships recently leaded flour at Rich , lv.ond, Va., for Brazil. [(| Tbebest cough medicine is Pisote Cure fo wdftsamption. So.d everywhere. i v- ' v-: . v-\* * ; * ' -/*" Interested People. Advertising a patent medicine In the pccu' liar way In whifch the proprietor of Kemp's Balsam, for Coughs and Colds,does it Is indeed ' wonderful. He authorizes all druggists to give uioee wuu can lut iv a eauipic uumc r I ?r, mm , they may try it before purchasing. The Large ; Bottles are 50c and $1. We certainly would ad, rise a trial. It may save you from consump[ tion. Andrew Swensrdt, a blind man, is a suc cessful farmer sever miles north of Ocono mowoc, Wis., where he has 110 acres. Stamping and Embroidery. [ "Yee, Lizzie. I like to do fancy work, but I haven't felt like trying that pattern?or anything else?for a week. These awful 'dragging1 down' pains are just killing me!" "I know how 1 you feel, and I can tell you where to look for i relief. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a certain cure for all those peculiar weaknesses and distressing ailments. Whyl it even cured ! me of prolapsus, and many of my lady friends , have been cured of various grave maladies peculiar to our sex by this wonderful medicine." It is the only medicine sold by druggists,undei 1 a positive guarantee from the manufacturers, ' that it will give satisfaction in every case, or money refunded. Bead garantee on bottlei wrapper. Somb 50,000,000 pounds of cotton seed oil were used last year in the United States to adulterate lard. 25 Cents Will buy a Treatise on the Horse and His Diseases Book of 100 pages, valuable to every owner of horses. Postage stamps taken. CHJUL pUbLpttlU. u u.w I univ. iiuiwb. uwa , 134 Leonard Street, New York city. jtjacobs on For Strains, Injuries. RECENT, PERFECTCURE3. Crippled. Btreator, Ill.,lia7 SO, 18S8. fitr. M ZACX, profeiilonal itllt lUUr, In January, 1887, wrenched trie ankle and vu crippled fcr two month! on crutcaei; ha oied tvo bottlu oi 8t. Jacob* Oil and vaa permanently cored. I 0. E. CROBWELL, DrujgliV Crnihod. Cfcandlenrllle, 111., Kay IS, 1888. i About ilx monthi ago I wai Jammed betwtea care; tn bed 23 dayi; loffered four month*; <ued three bottlei It. Jacob* Oil; vai able to be aboat In one week. J. AS HURST. ! Strained. Kt. Oarmel, 111., Hay 28. 1888. Btralned my back In February lait; ojuld not set round for two week* without a cane; wsl cured tn tbTM dayi by Bt. Jacob* OU. J. P. WISHES. AT DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS. THE CHARLES A. V06ELER CO.. Baltimore. Ud. ? Diamond Vera-Cura FOR DYSPEPSIA. A POSITIVE CURE FOR INDIGESTION AND All Stomach Trouble! Artilng Therefrom. I Your Druggitl or General Dealer tcill pet VeraCura for you if not already in itoi.:, or it will be lent by mail on receipt of Jo ctt. (5 boxes $1.00) in I tUimps. S ton pie tent on receipt of 'A cent tlamp. THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Baltimore Hd. ) Sole froyriuton anil iIau?Uciur?:i. : ?The true American has ! a warm place in his heart for (he old Log Cabin.It's j not "English you know," j but from the Log Cabins , of America have sprung men in every respect [ greater than any from the grand castles ; | of Europe. Warner's I.og Cabin Sarsa| j parillais the best in the world. i What Next? 1 If this sort of thing keeps on they will be giving away houses and lots soon! I We now learn ihat W. Jennings Demo3 rest runs an immenso pattern manufac[ tory, and yet does not sell a single patr tern. What, nonsense? Not at all! , They are all given away to the purchasers and subscribers to that wonderful j family magazine, Demorcafa Monthly. 3 Kach magazine contains an order entif tling the holder to any pattern they 3 manufacture. We do not see how they ) | can aiiora 11, ior laeir cuaivus uic im. mense, and it seem9 incredible that each j magazine (price 20 cents) contains an , order for a pattern worth from 20 to 30 I cents. This will certainly hurt the patj tern trade, for ladies will soon learn that r they can get their patterns free by . simply buying or subscribing for DemoresCt Monthly Magazine. Published at [ 15 East 14 th street, New York city, j Send 10 cents for a specimen number x containing a "Pattern Order" worth 30 3 cents. ELY'S CATABHH CREAM i J suffered from ca WmJf^EAM 1 tarrh 12 years. TheM^T^CIJRroCO^l ' droppings into H^Anj t throat were nausea! VTvMl - I 4vtn nn*A bled ah FHAvrrvroS^ ? A most daily. Since the j first day's use of / $*<? Btm j Cream Balm have had^B / fiflg , no bleeding, the sfS^ nUB J new is entirely go nr.? t D. O. Davidson, icithm^^ntKS^\J t the Boston Budget. *'m-n\ , A particle is U.S^?| into each noHtril and isU AVa FFI/P P3 ; anTecable. Price 50c<n: s I rMTEif^ ? at drufCKists: by mail, registered, Gfi cents, f ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren St? New York. : SIXBOOKSFREE! 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Remember, JU and the *lx book* n*med above, alio our charmlnc jpa{iiS"for Three Month*, npon receipt of only Twelve Cental 1v* anbacrlptlon* and 8v* acta of thebook* ' for co cent* Thle creat offer I* made to Introduce the piper v Into new horn**. Satisfaction guaranteed or money rcfunagu. Addrwi; F. M. LCPTON, 68 Hirnr 8t, Mew Ywt ' FLORiDA%sj.;iu ! THE ORANGE GROVE cc ta for sample copy, * m pfl, 4c. BUY A HOME IX FLORIDA ' while?land Is CHEAP. All particulars in THE GROVE. Nomataria. Gcod schools and churches, 1 THE ORANGE GROYE LAND AGENCY, Liverpool, De Soto County, Florida. . MERCHANTS, IBTCHERStsE??9 We want a good man id your locality to pick up CALF SKINS for qb. Cash Furnished on satisfactory guaranty J1 Addiees C. S. Paoe, Hyde Park, Vermont, U. S. IFRAZER^ BEST IN THE WORLD Ulltfltf b tW Get the Genuine. Sold Everywhere. , aai ItimA all GET PENSIONS if 1 VIII 111 p |C V >? disabled: pay, etc.; Desertf UULUIEIltf ere relieved: Laws free. A. W. 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V. f TTYTYTYTTYTTTT The mun whohaa invested twin three to live dullurs in a ltubbcr Coat, and i nt his first half hour's experience in * m m a storm ituils to liis sorrow that It Is lllfl 3 hardly a better protection than a mos- V W qulto netting, not only feels chagrined w w at being so badly taken in. but also lecls If he does not look exactly like EJ Ask tor the "K1SH BKAN1)'' Slicker * ft does nut have the kissj skm! lor descriptive "> -5 ?. Wlyf# Cures &. ftraMfe aylA Jk| ,8ore Throat, Hoarsones*, rlS 11 ^oadachi. Rheumatism^ Quicker Than Any Known RemeijL No matter how violent or excrudatinff the uh Mi Rheumatic, Bedridden. Infirm. Crippled, Nenwfc ?cu uig, ur proairaiea witn aiBeasea may zxmtx. Rad way's Ready Relief Wll, Afford Instant Enne. INTERN ALLY?A half to a teaspoonful la MVS tumbler of water will In a few minute* cure Ononis Epasms, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Vomiting, Hartburn, Nervousness. Sleeplessness, Sick It ilufca. Diarrhoea, Colic, Flatulency and all internal palm. Malaria in its various forms enrod and prsvorML Thcro is not a remedial went in the wotidflB win cure Fever and A*ue and all other fevers(aMs< by RADWAY'S PILLS) so quickly as BADWilt READY RV.T.TF.V ACHES AND PAIN8. For headache (whether sick or nervous), tootftaehfe neuralgia, rheumatism, InmbaKO, pains and vmp? oess iu the bock, spine or kidneys, pains around OM liver, pleurisy, swelling of the joints and pains of m Kinds, the application of Radway's Ready Relief wfll ' . afford immediate ease, and its continued oMfcra few days effoct a permanent cure. Price, SB onto. ? Sold by all druyylata. B? Tlie Great Li?er anfl Stomach Resif. r ur ijje euro ui tui uinuiucio vi iuc owiuauk urab Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder. Nervous DIseoKeaTLt* m Appetite, Headache, Constipation. Costlvcneaa, I?diEestion, Biliousness, Fever, Inflammation at Urn owels, Piles and all derangements of the IfltSMt Viscera. Purely v?kc table, containing so muuaj, minerals, or deleterious drugs. PERFECT DIGESTION b51,t^SnT??SSSS 5 Pills. By ao doing ? SIGK HEADACHE Dyspepsia. Foul Stomach, Biliousness, will be *iaii ea, as the food that is eaten contributes its nooriAln* properties for the support of the natural WMti of the body. WObserve the following symptoms roruJUa* from Disease of the Digestive Organs: Constipatta*, Inward Files, Fullness of the Blood in the HeaC Acidity of tho Stomach. Nausea, Heartburn, Diacw of Food. Fullness or Height in the Stoniach.-SaW Eructations. Sinking or Fluttering of the Heart Choking or SutlocatinK Sensation* when in atyiai ,! posture. Dimness of Vision, Dots or Webs before tin SiKht, 1 ever and Dull Pain in the Head, DcficfaocV of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin and l?m Pain in the Side, Chest. Limbs, and Sudden FIimm* of Heat, burning in the Flesh. A few doses of HAD WAY'S PILLS will DM the system of all the above named disorders. l'rice!{] ct-?. per box. Sold by all druggiat*. Send a letter stamp to 1) II. K A l> W A V <fc CO? No. 3'i Warren Street. New York. EP~Infonnallaa worth thousands will be sent to you. TO THE PUBLIC. Be sure aud ask for BAD WATS and see that the name "HADWAY" is on what |?? buy; r2 N Y N U?4 3 ' CAUTION-T - ll I Beware of Fraud, as my name and the priaa are stamped on the bottom of ull ray adverttaM shoes before leaving the factory, which piote** the wearers against high prices and Inferiorpxida. If a dealer offti-s W. L. Douglas shoes at a ?? ,; ~ duced price, or says he has them without mr ornm and price stamped on the bottom, put hint dowm a. ,: a fraud. W. L. DOUGLA9 ' $3 SHOE. GEmran The only calf S3 SEAMLFSS Shoe nnoatt Inside. NO TACKS or WAX THREAD to Jiort the feet, easy as liand-sewed and wiIA NOT RIP. W. L. DOUGLAS 84 SHOE, the orfetetf * and onlv hand-sewed welt $4 shoe. Equals CM* tom-maile shoes costing from $6 to $9. XV. L. DOUGLAS 83.SO POLICE SHOB. Railroad Men and Letter Carriers all wear ttaML I Smooth Inside as a Hand-Sewed Shoe. No 1MB < | or Wax Thread to hurt the feet. ~*v XV. L. DOUGLAS 82.50 SHOE Is unexceM ' for heavy wear. Best Calf Shoe for the price. W. L. DOUGLAS 82.28 WORKIN?. MAN'S SHOE Is the best In the world tat ! rough wear: one nan ought to wear a man a yet XV. L. DOUGLAS 82 SHOE FOR BOO Is the best School Shoe In the world. XV. L. DOUGLAS 81.75 YOUTH'S Schoat Shoe gives the small Hoys a chance to wear ttm best shoes In the world. jAU made In Concrre6s, Button and Lace. If Mt old by your dealer, write XV. L. DOUQLUk I RROCKTON. MASS. ?1CURESWHEREA LL E LSEFAILST B a Best Cough Sjrup. Taates good. Ute B Ed in time. Sold by druggist*. PI I I believe Piso's Cure I - - ^ for Consumption saved I mv life.?A,..H, Dowkll, I Editor Enquirer, Eden- -M 8 ton, N. C., April 28,1887. g IpM I The best Cough Medi- I cine is Piso's Cuke fob ' /lAtfanutyrrAV H JVUXIOUUf \AVA1? _ take it without objection. By all druggists. 25c. Tg CURES WHERE All ELSE FAILS. Tf H Beet Cough Syrop. Tastes good. Dee B Uj In time. Sold by druggists. B marvelous MEMORY 1 Any book learned In one r?dlna> iUind wandering cured. ^peaiiiuK without notes. Wholly unlike artiticial systems. 1 Iracy condemned by supreme Court. Great inducement* to correspondence claows. Prospectus, with opinions of l>r Win A His. uioud, the world-famed Speci-llst in Mind ril^.uo. l>uuieUireepleaf Ihoiiiisan, the imait PHyekotOKiat. J. .U. Huckley, 1>. 1*., ivtitor of the c'Aris(iu/i .lUi-ucu/e, K.chur.i Proctor the Sciential. anil others, sent post fret! Oy X'ltUi1'. A. COidKTTK. gfl Fifth Ave.. Mew York. sull pearl,-v^si.oo Four Blades, f-r Finest Steel. S /*>.&*/, P* ?r.r>.n..,.utb?S / WV^T-f, t*.. k.if.* I A (fonts wanted. $1 an hour, bo now article. Cafbros I 1\ ami samples free. <\ R. Marshall. T n-v-j^rt. N T. i U. S. Mail RoutepS^ how to secure them. Zevely A: Finley.W .0 We oircr the man who wants tervics (not style) a garment that will keep i h liim dry in the hardest storm. It is ' culled TOWEh'S KISH URANB "SLICKElt," a name familiar to every " Cow-hoy all over tlie laml. With timm jam m B the utily perfect Wind and Waterproof &B lfj| Coat Is " J'owera Ki>h I'.raiul Sucker." Hi V and take no other. If your Ktnrckwncr catalogue. A.J.Towkr.20Simmons S'., liHston. Mast.