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i i AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. Play This Joke on Your Chickens. IAn amusing test of the difference of lisposition in barnyard fowls may be nade by placing a piece of looking glass gainst the trunk of a large tree and aying a train of corn in front of it. I jome hens will discover what they all oL-o Ko .1 new arrival with milf] Cllfi jsity and merely look at it intently, perhaps peering around behind the tree and then wa k quietly away. Others peck the glass angrily and insist upon fighting, while a few nervous females snow auch of the same noisy excitement that seizes upon most hens when they spy a snake. We tried the valiant old auto:rat of the farmyard with this trick and lie was at once aroused to fury. Dropping his head when some ten feet in front of the glass, he began the cautious advance paralels which" every one familiar with poultry has seen before a fight. ? The Poultry Yard. \ Fattening Sheep la Winter. It is a difficult matter to fatten lamb3 the first winter. As a rule, the only way it can be done profitably is to commem e :o feed the lambs, the earlier the better, before they are weaned, and continue to feed them grain or cake while run- ( iiing on good grass in the summer., and Autumn. Prof. .Roberts, of Cornell TTniversity, says that late and inferior lambs can usually be purchased in the latter part of September for from $1 to $1.50 per head, and that if properly fed and cared for there is a nice profit to be made from them. We doubt this. Tar more profit will be made if bought at the same price per pound, live weight, from good, strong, almost fat lambs than from inferior lambs. In fact, we would rather pay five cents a pound for a good lamb weighing eighty pounds than three cents a pound (if obliged to try to fatten him in winter) j ' for an inferior lamb weighing forty pounds.?American Agriculturist. Clearing Land of Stumps. Stumps may be taken out of land in the quickest way by means of dynamite. A small cnarge will throw out a large I stump, tearing it into several pieces, which may be cut up for fuel or used to j build into fences. The method in use is I as follows: A pointed iron bar is driven into the ground under the stump so that the cartride w 11 be in the best place for licof-il offart in lifN'ncr thfl stumn OUt of itS ugw'" ? - . bed. The cartridge is then attached to I a fuse having a fuiininating cap in the end next the dynamite, and the fuse is fastened by wrapping the oiled paper of ; the cartridge around it and tying the paper with a piece of string to hold the fuse in place. The cartridge is pushed gently to the bottom of the hole and sand or water is poured in for tamping. Very little tamping is required, as dynamite explodes with much greater force than common blasting powiler. The fuse is then lighted in the usual manner. Dynamite has eight times the force of common black powder. This method has been in use for at least twelve years; and although a patent has been taken out for the process two or three years back, it is invalid and worthless because of the long previous use.?JYew Yuri; Times. The Creamery Business. The advantages of the co-operative system of butter-making arc daily becoming more aDnarcnt. In those sections where the system has been tried, on right principles, it almost invariably inures to the benefit of the farmer in giving increased returns for his milk-product, and in the enhanced value of farm land on account of increasing its fertility and productiveness by stock-keeping. The removal of much hard labor from the shoulders of the housewife is one great advantage of the system and one too often under estimated. If the farmer could get no more per pound for his butter by selling his cream to'the creamery, the saving of labor in-doors is a weighty argument in favor of his patronizing the creamery. A writer in the Western hural adds testimony on th:s point, by saying that he esteems the factory as a great blessing to the overworked women of our farms. taking them as a whole. The cream gathering system is the means '.-Anil,. klo?-L'ii\rf AI1H nri'ffoc m r?}-V? r*ra U1 ^ICUbiJ vui ni'vs), i_u i v. * w and sisters. One man wrote us some time since that he had yiven up dairying, because of the burden it imposed upuu his wife, and was selling hay. AYel), that is a bad plan. Secure the establishment I of a factory in the iie:ghborhood, and feed the hay to cows on the farm.? Ntw York Independent. To Make Poultry Grow. Nothing will enlarge the capacity of a chicken quicker than a varied bill of fare and a good supply of green food. To chickens in continement onion tops are especially acceptable, and the tops are relished more thau are the bulbs themselves. Beet and turnip tops will be greedily devoured. That they may not be wasted lay them with the tops all one way and weight them down with a. stone. Bran and shorts, wheat and oats, table scraps and meat, with a very little corn, a few sunflower seeds, and a small amount of buckwheat, make an irresistible combination, a combination that will make a chicken grow and thrive in spite of itseif. To make pullets trot along toward maturity with a wonderfully accelerated pace, give them every morning a warm feed of bran and shorts and ground oats mixed up with milk or mea: stock in which is a little salt. At noon give a feed of meat and at night all the wheat they will eat and a little left to scratch for the next day. In addition to this, provide green food, crushed bones, and pure water, and u'ive each day one heavy leed of broken d shes: they wili be eaten with avidity. Feeding pepper often to fowls as a regular appetizer is a bad piactice. Although a \ery little will do no harm, yet the continued use of the condiment is liable to cause liver complaint. Warm feed tends to have the same stimulating effect without possessing the injurious qualities of the cayenne. The only way to make a chicken-house is to build it with aboard floor. "Where the droppings nightly fall on the ground the soil will become foul and damp, even though it be cleaned out every day in the year. The odors that then ari-e arc unwholesome in the extreme, will cause roup, and in fact nearly jail the ills that poultry flesh is heir to. 'The board floor should then lie kept covered with two or three inches of dry ?r?n/?fito/ll\r r?_ H>1I, AVUICU BUUUIVI .VJ/I..IV...J . N, newed. The only way to m;ike roosts i3 lo make them on a moveable frame that may be taken out of doors, there to lie sealded with boiling hot water in which is a little crude carbolic acid. Make the roosts all on a level and not more than two feet high, thereby preventing much quarreling and the bumble foot.? [Chicago Times. Winter Care of Colts. : The first fall and winter is a critical l (period with colts. During this time: I (improper care, shelter, or food,or insutli-! I icient water, or a lack of exercise, may ' . take a large per cent. from their value I I when matured. A colt is easily stunted I or weakened, and it may even contract disease on account of bad food or imi proper sanitary conditions. Providing | stables or sheds in which colts can barely exist, to make them tough, is both inhuman aud unprofitable. Warm quari ters not only save food, but aid healthy : growth, which 6hould bemaiutained all winter. The stable should be warm ! enough to allow the manure to freeze only in the coldest weather, and as in all buildings for domestic animals, draugnts ! of air should be guarded against. Colts 1 coming through in spring time with long hair, prominent ribs and projecting hips, and lousy, are a disgrace to their owners. They are so reduced in vitality, I aud the basis for the next summer's I growth so undermined, that they cannot make nearly so much profit out of pasi tures as it well wintered. Since form and quality of the muscle's, tendons, and frame arc equally as important as si e the feeding of colts is even of more importance than that of Calves for beef, or pigs for pork. Corn alone has not enough muscle and boneproducing elements, and in the hands of J the ignorant feeder is often unprofitable. No one grain food with hay answers the purpose in point, of efi'ecti eness, combined with cost, so well a3 oats. If they cannot be obtained cheaply, a good ration can be made up of 100 parts by weight of bran, fifty of cornmeal and fifty of ground linseed cakc, feed with nice hay chopped in the feed cutter. Four to nine pounds of the mixed grain food should be given cach colt per day in two to three feeds. It s-hould be mixed with about its weight of cut hay before feediug. -No definite amount can be given, as some colt6 will require more aud others less than an average. In several days, or at mo^t a few weeks, an observing feeder will know whether or -* *? u c_ not me ieeu iur uiu;u iuuiviuuui wiu i should be increased. Colts as well as I milch cows, will enjoy water warmed to seventy decrees, and mixing in other foods, for variety's sake, will give tone to the appetite and "condition" to the animal.? Wincondn Agriculturist. Farm and Garden Xofe.s. Krod treatment and warm barns lessen the feed bill. The parsnip is generally considered the sweeter and better for a little freezing. Xo eggs need be expected if the poultry house is not made comfortably warm for the winter. A good rubbing with card and brush is liked by the cow as well as the horse, and gives equal benefit. Roosting in the trees may be a cheap way of providing roost with ventilation for fowls, but it don't pay. A mound cf earth built up hard and sharp around the base of young fruit trees will protect from mice. Parsnips may be left in the ground till spring, but a sufficient quantity for winter use should be kept in the cellar. Queens over two years old are apt to become barren, and should be superseded with those of greater vigor and more fecundity. When bees swarm the first time the old queen goes with the swarm, leaving the parent colony queenless, or, at least, that is usually the case. There is nothing like heat for milk making in winter, and with ensilage for food, there is no reason why the supply of milk should be any less in cold than m warm weather. It will do no harm to begin feeding the fowls green food now. They will not require so much grain and will keep in better condition if they have a liberal supply of vegetables. When bees do not work, when they are seen running around over the hive in an apparently unsettled state, with but few guarding the entrance, it indicates the absence of the queen. If a change of horse-feed be necessary make it gradually, by mixing the old and new, or by beginning the new in small quantities and gradually raising it to the required amount. Twenty pounds of corn, fifteen pounds of oats, ten pounds of barley and ten pounds of wheat bran, ground fine and well mixed, makes splendid poultry food for young or old birds. The storing place for apples should be cool, just above freezing point. Apples will stand more cold than notntoas. but should be in a dry place, and be without | spot or blemish when put away. A course of twenty-four lessons in j poultry keeping would be of more practical benefit to the majority of farmers' daughters than a course of twenty-four lessons on the organ or piano. A stone heap under a tree often causes its death. It obliges the tree roots to feed near the surface, aud then freezing. Against this the stones oiler no protection, which is the cause of the in.ury. An Iowa farmer states that he keeps wolves and dogs from his sheep by putting bells attached to straps around their necks. The sound of the bells alarm the .rapacious animals and they run away. To break young horses from chewing harness or anything that happens to be near them soaK some old straps with a strong tea, made of cayenne pepper, and haog them within easy reach of the youngsters. Cranberries may be kept till summer by placing in a stone jar in the cellar, and cover with water. It is better to change the water in the spring, after warm weather, occasionally. They may also be canned in gla<s jars. If the hogs to be slaughtered are fed within twelve hours of their killing the food is wasted, the meat will be more disposed to sour, and it will be more difficult to remove the distended intestines and take from them the lard. Hubbard squash, properly 6teamed and mixed with corn.rye or barely meal, -will make the best hog feed in the world, it is claimed, and will cause the animal to lay on fat fast. The mixture should be about ten pounds of squash to two of meal. Given two cows of equal size, dairy markings and condition. One makes a dive for her grain and cats in a businesslike way. The other eats and moves clnxelxr nnrl ln'/ilv Whlfh would VD11 select for a better cow? We took the nervous cow. "Were we right? "When chicks droop and appear / sick without cause, especially :ii sunmcr, look for lice, not the little red mhos, nut the large gray body lice on the. heads and necks. If you tind them u>e a few drops of grease of any kind. A tablespoonl'ul of oil of pennyroyal to a cup of laid is e:.c;llent. A man who lives on a farm alone began last April with seven hens. They have paid iu eggs for the grain fed^Jto-nished the person with his groceri^^^A raised forty chickens, now on This, together with the veget^^^^B used from his garden.enabled J^^^^Hpwell without otherwise spend^^^^^w* for The electrician son^^^^^^^Ar in h;s conquests in Euron^^^^^^^^Bca. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. History of Mustard. Mustard was little known at English tables until 172!', when a Mrs. Clements, residing in Durham, began to grind the seed in a mill, and to pass the flour through several processes necessary to free it from husks. She kept her secret to herself for many years, during which she sold large quantities of mustard throughout the country, but especially in London, llcre it was introduced to the royal table, where it received the approval of George the First. From the circumstance of Mrs. Clements being a resident of Durham it obtained j the name of Durham mustard.?Argonaut. Simple Kid Glove Renovator. One of the best preparations for cleaning kid gloves that I have ever tried can be bought for a small sum at any drug store. Get one quart of deodorized benzine, one drachm of sulphuric ether, one drachm of chloroform, two drachms of alcohol. Cologne on can dc aaaea if desired. Pour a little of this into a clean bowl, and wash the gloves in it as you would wash anything. After the I dirt is nearly out, rinse in more of the clean tiuid. Usually one rinsing is enough, but it the gloves were very much soiled rinse the second time. If the gloves are of cheap kid it is better to dry them 011 the hand, but a nice glove after having been rubbed with a sol't cloth to smooth out wrinkles, may be hung on a line to dry. This preparation is an excellent thing to keep in the house, not ! only for cleaning gloves, but for taking j out grease spots from clothing ana carpets, and for sponging coat collars and felt hats.?Brooklyn Citizen. Make Your Own Dye?. A variety of very useful colors and dyes may be obtained from very common plants, grow.ng in abundance almost everywhere. The well-kuown huckleberry or blueberry, when boiled down with an ad lition of a little alum and a solution of copperas, will develop |an excellent blue color; treated in the same manner, with a solution of nut-gall9, they produce a clear dark-brown tint, [ while with alum, verdigris and sal ammoniac various shades of purple and red can be obtained. The fruit of the elder, so frequently used for coloring spirits, will also produce a blue color when treated with alum. The privet, boiled 1 in a solution of salt, furnishes a ser- j viceable color, and the over ripe berries i yield a serviceable red. The seeds of the common burning bush, "euonemus," I wheu treated with sal ammoniac, produce a beautiful purple red. The bark of the currant bush, treated with a solution of alum, produces a brown. Yellow is obtained from the bark of the apple tree, the box, the ash, the buckthorn, poplar, elm, etc., when boiled in water and treated with alum. A live'y green is furnished by the broom corn.?Picayune. Good Household Recipes. Hamburg Smoked Beef and Ilam: To prepare beef ancl hams in the <elebrated Hamburg &tyle, the salt has to be thoroughly rubbed into the meat while it is yet blood warm. Take one part of saltpeter to three parts of salt; then rub the meat thickly with rye bran, and when quite cold wrap it carefully in paper, and at once hang it up to smoke. With this process failure is almost impossible, and the meat keeps sweet and juicy. German Potato Pudding: Take three J cups of cold boiled and mashei potatoes; put them into a saucepan with a little salt and grated lemon rind; stir over the fire; add butter the size of an egg, a half pint of cream, and two tablespoonfuls of sugar; remove from the lire; flavor with orange i'ower water; add four beaten eggs and the yelks of four more. Mix all well together and pour into a mold well buttered, and sprinkled with bread cumbs. Bake and serve hot. Bread and Butter Pudding: This is a good substitute for a plum pudding, when the latter is not desirable on account of its richness. Add to one pint of new milk the flavor of the yellow rind of a small lemon, or of stick cinnamon, if preferred. Simmer from ten to twenty minutes and then mix with a gi 1 of cream. Sweeten with four ounces of white sugar,and stir in slowly, wliilc hot, six well oeaten egg*. nave in readiness a buttered pudding dish with three layers of bread aud butter alternated with four ounces of currants, and one and a half of finely shredded candied lemon and orange peel, four the eggs and milk on by degrees,allowing the bread and butter to absorb it. Soak two hours and bake half an hour in a moderate oven. Hare Soup: Game is plentiful at this season. In many parts of the country the youngsters of the family may procure a supply merely by the setting of a trap, which is always a pleasure to a rightly constituted boy. Skin and clean a hare or rabbit, and cut it in joints as you would a chicken for a fricassee. Fry a quarter of a pound of salt pork cut in strips; take it out and fry the .oints in this. Put all into a soup kettle, and cover with three quarts of boiling water; add two sliced onions, some stalks of celery, a ba> leaf, thyme, parsley and a h!nflf> of mace. Simmer sic wlv until the meat is tender, then remove the nice pieces; chop the meat from the inferior portions; strain the soup; return to the saucepan; add the min.ed meat; boil for ten minutes, and pass all through a sieve. Put the best pieces into the tureen and pour the soup over them. Boiled Chickens with Celery Sauce: Lay aside the whitest part of a bunch of celery for the table, and chop all the rest except the very green stalks; cook in boiliig water until tender. Truss the chicken, and stull" as for roasting, adding some of the stewed celery to the dressing. Add the water in which the celery was boiled to that in which the chicken is to be cookc;l. It will llavor it deliciously. Brown the chicken in a | little Hot, sweec dripping; covcr wun i boiling water containing a small sliced onion and carrot, and simmer until tender. Lift out; dredge with t'.our, and brown in a quick oven. For the sauce, melt in a saucepan a tableapoonful of butter, and stir in a heaping tablespoonful of Hour; when 6moothaud bubbling, add one cup each of hot milk and the water in which the chicken was boiled. Season with salt aud pepper, and add the stewed celery. dimmer for five minutes. Send to the table in a bout. Even an old "chicken" may l>& cooked i in this way.?American AgnmUurut. Origin of Tanning. It is difficult to determine the origin nf tlip nrt, of tanniny leather. OWITIST to the confusion exi*tin<; in ancient authors, and in the translating of words, which sometimes mean raw"skins and again prepared hides, and possibly what we now term leather. Haw hides were, no doubt, first used, and afterward softening processes introduced similar to those employed by our Xorth American Indians. It is said that the pounding of skins and sewing them up and inflating them is shown in the ancieut paintings of Kourna.?Ntw York Han. WORDS OF WISDOM. Who waits for dead men's shoes may have to go barefoot. Honesty is best policy, but policy not . always best Honesty. Balances on the credit side of the ledger always look the best. Better to begin the world without a dime than end it without a dollar. The man who lays his hand to the plow and doesn't look back is doubly blessed. No consciousness of rectitude will entirely take away the sting of being cruelly misjudged. Every man is society's debtor, not creditor. Will our anarchial friends please bear that mind.' As water runs down from (he swelling hills and flows together in the lowly vale, so grace flows not but into humble hearts. The leaders in the coming conflict, those who will be crowned when the victory is gained, are not to-day sitting astraddle of fences. Let not him who prays suffer his tongue to outstrip his heart; nor presume to carry a message to the throne of grace while that stays behind. It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it required knowledge to perceive it; and therefore he that can perceive it hath it. lie who, in advance of the world, grasps a truth is a seer who shows others how to see. He carries a torch that dis| pels darkness which a thousand suns could not dispel. The man who is right needn't care for appearances. All things for or against will be found in the end to have worked toward victory; courageous ! honefulness is rightfully his. Story of a Millionnaire. Three well-known clubmen sat in the lounging-room of the Gilsey House chatting over the mauy changes that have occurred in the Inst iifteen years among the ranks of the American plutocracy. Said the eldest of the trio, a thickwaisted, double chinned millionnaire: "There is one man in New York whose career has been in many respects remarkable. He used to haul wood. Those were the good old days when a judge and his retinue of lawyers went from place to place in the circuit, holding a brief term of court in each district until j the calendar war cleared. On one of his I rounds a famous old circuit rider, long since dead, came across a young man I with a load of wood for sale, and entering into conversation with him learned that he was poor, and a farmer, with aged parents dependent on him. The lawyer saw that the boy was made of good metal, and proposed to educate noma fimo fVlO I mill, UIierJU?? linu at Clio oauiw bimu vuw I loaa of enough money to keep the old couple from want while he went to school. The offer was acceptcd. The boy passed through the college, became a merchant aud after a few years turned his attention to railroad speculation. "Fifteen years ago he came to this city. Four years ago this month his eldest son married Miss Carrie Astor. The other day his daughter was married to the Hon. Michael Henry Herbert, charge d' affaires of the Hritish J egation at Washington. Another daughter is the wife of Ogden Goelet. Thus, besides the acquisition of enormous wealth, he has gained a firm footiDg among the older families of New York, and the acknowledged leaders of society. It is scarcely necessary to add that the youth who sold wood to make ends meet on the farm is the noted financier and railroad magnate of Wall street, Richard T. Wilson. His familiars call him "Dick." ?New York Tribune. Maple Sugar Making-. The manufacture of maple sugar is a paying industry when properly conducted, the profits being usually in proportion to the quality, and thus mostly within the control of the manufa turer, and a large bush can generally be more economically managed than a small one. There is an inherent quality in good maple syrup that will sell itself, and nothing but honey can ever compete ! against maple sweet, and there is no real competition between them. Both are sweet, but have no other property in common. Neither is used for the sweet aloue. At present not enough maple sugar is made, including enormous adulterations, to afford a pound a year to each inhabitant. If all were made into maple syrup there would not be half a gailon for every family of six. Less than onehalf of one per cent, of the world's sup - ? 1_ ^ ply ot sugar 13 reponeu us mapic, nuu the demand for pure maple is constantly increasing. The appetite is cumulative, and what was once a luxury rapidly comes to be considered a necessity. Pure maple syrup is u cheap dessert at a dollar, or even a dollar awd a half, a uallon. It is about the only farm product there is on which the producer can fix the price. Only a few weeks are employed in the manufacture, and that at a time when there is the least demand for work on the farm. Pasturage of the ground and fallen timber for firewood are more than an offset for taxes. As a rule the sugar bush ia Michigan is made up of original lorest trees preserveu iur tuc puipu?. The sugar bushe3 commonly stand in small isolated areas exposed to the full effect of wind and weather. These two causes, old age and exposure, and not tapping are to be aasigned as the true :auses of the loss of sugar trees.?Neu> York World. A Palm that Belonged to Washington. John M. Gorinsr, of "Wappinger's Falls, Dutchess Count}*, X. Y., has a sago palm with quite a history, which added :o its great age?lull }ears? makes it a valuable plant. The palm was originally jrown at Mount Vernon, and was once swned by George Washington. It was Drought from there by Mr. Van Uensselaer and planted in Xiblo's Garden at :he time that pleasure resort was lirst ;onstructed. After some years it was brought to Clinton Point, the Van Kcnsjelaer homestead and for four decades was cared for by Edward Downing, the gardener to whom it was eventually \'on Tinnccolnors Ipft. that section of country, and afterward it became the property of the tiorings. The plant stnnds ten feet high and weighs nearly four hundred pounds. Astonishing a Hell Hoy. Harry Meredith is considerable of an athlete and a wag. It is his habit to carry with him a pair of heavy iron dumb bells for exercise. These he frequently puts into his valise, making it so heavy that an ordinary man would find it a task to lift it. On entering a hotel it is a favorite joke of Meredith's to hang the valise 011 his little linger, assume an inuocent expression, and call to one of the bell boys: ''Here, take my valise." The yonugster, thinking from the way its owner carries it that it must be very light, takes hold of it in a careless, easy manner, and the next instant is dumb (bell; founded to find himself and the valise on the floor.?LelrAt Fres Press. - - : ' r'v Eels that Scale Precipices. One of the moat novel sights in the spring of the year, at the rocks of the "Willamette Falls, is the swarms of gyrating eels. They are friskiness itself, and show a low order of intelligence. If you put your hand in the water over the eels, or spit on it, instantly they are gone. But poke a stick down among the snaky things and they do not notice 1a. _ e 11 a. _ i * it. i ue sense 01 smew seems 10 ue ineir main guard against danger. Like salmon, they do their level best to dart up the rocks in order to ascend the river, and with good success, fays a fisherman: "I have seen as many as a hundred bushels of eels hanging on the rocks at one time by the suckers of their mouths. They would wiggle and flutter their tails, and by the momentum thus obtained, letting go with their suckers, jump up about six inches higher. I caught about forty barrels lost season that 1 salted and sold to the Columbia fishermen for bait. I picked them oil the rocks with a fish hook tied to a pole. I started at the bottom row of hanging eels, and would silently pick off barrel after barrel. The upper rows hadn't sense enough to perceive the enemy. I have caught eels in the headwaters of the Santiam, in the Cascade Mountains. Suppose they had swum up from the Willamette."?Oregon City Courier. South .Africa exported last year 3,598,030 carats of diamonds worth $21,200,000. We gratefully acknowledge the receipt,from Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell. Mass.. of a bound set of their Almanacs for 1&<9, making a handsome and valuable presentation volume. Besides various editions in English there are editions in French, Spanish.Gennan. Portuguese, Swedish.Norwegian-Danish. Dutch,Bohemian, and Welsh; also, specimen pages of pamphlets issued hy the firm in eleven other languages. Nothing could belter illustrate the extent of the business done by the copipany than such a collection of its advertising fssues. For ourselves, wo confess wc should often bo lost without Ayer's Almanac, accustomed as wo have long been to rely upon the accuracy of Its calculations; and we have no doubt that Ayer's Sarsaparilla Is equally trustworthy as a medicine. The familiar yellow-cover pamphlet can now be had at all drug stores? Tht Endeavor. The sword carried by Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga is owned by a Michigan woman. Interested Pcop le. Advertising a patent medicine in the peculiar way in which the proprietor of Kemp's Balsam, for Coughs and Colds,does it is indeed wonderful. He authorizes all druggists to give those who call for it a sample bottle Free, that they may try it before purchasing. The Largo Bottles are 50c and $1. We certainly would advise a trial. It may save you from consumption. Arkansas contains seven million acres of Government lands. Your Friend Committed Sniclde. You never suspected it, none of his friends dreamed of it, he did not know it himself, but it is exactly what he did, nevertheless. Do you remember his sallow complexion? Do you recollect how he used to complain of headaches and constipation? "I'm getting quite bilious," he said to you one day, "but I gufss it'll pass off. I haven't done anything for it, because I don't believe in 'dosing.'" feoon after that you heard of his death. It was very sudden, and every one was greatly surprised. If he had taken Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets he would be alive and well to-day. Don't follow his example. The "Pellets" are easy to take, mild in their action, and always sure. The public debt of France is now over $8,300,000,000. Edwin Forrest's Sccret. The great tragedian, Forrest, had a secret which everybody ought to learn and profit by. Said he: "1 owe all my success to the fact that everything I have undertaken I have done thoroughly. I never neglected trifles." That s the point?don't neglect trifles. Don't neglect that hacking cough, those night-?weats, that feeble and capricious appetite, and the other symptoms, trifling in themselves, but awful in tneir significance. They lieia'.d the apEroach of consumption. You are in danger, ut you can be saved. Dr. Pierce's Golden ?? -.l/- , TX- ? KnoltV, .tlCUlCai JJlbCtM cry nm icoiuic juu iu uvmw and vigor, as it has thousands of others. For all scrofu ous diseases, and consumption is one of them, it is a sovereign remedy. The total value of the mineral productions of the United Stat"s in 1887 was S5&,05(S,345. We aecidently ovcrhea'd the following dialogue on the street yesterday: Joitc.*. Smith, why don't you stop that disgusti-cnawkingand spitting? Smith. How can I? You know I am a martyr to catarrh. J. Do as I did. I had the disease in its worst form but I am well now. ,S. What did you do for it? J. I used Dr. Satjc's Catarrh Remedy. It cured juc and it will cure you. S. I've heard of it, and by Jove I'll try it. J. Do so. You'll And it at all the drug stores in town. No Man's Land is the arm of Indian Territory that lies between Texas and Colorado. The Erie Railway is constantly receiving additions to its stock of magnificent Pullman cars and other detachments. They have just received certainly the most maznificent parlor cars that have ever been delivered by that famous company. The latest additions arc the "Begonia" and the "Aicrida," which will be placed in servi e on train 3, leaving New York at 8:30 p. St., and train leaving Buffalo at 5:130 p. m. com/? f}.ui*nr?fpr linvp. this I week, be* n placed between Is'ew York and Hornel.svillc. Consumption, Scrofula, Gciternl Debility, Wasting Disuses of Cnrr.dnev, Clironic Coughs and Bronchitis, can be curcd by the use of Scott's Emci.mon of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophospliites. Prominent physicians use if and testify to its gre.it value. Plcise read ilie following: "1 used Scott's Emulsion for ?n obstinate Cough with Hemorrhage, Loss of Appetite. Emaciation, Sleeples-ness, &c All these have now left, and I believe your Emulsion ha - saved a case of well developed Consumption."?T. J. Fisdley, M. L)., Lone Star. Texas. A Rnd enl Cure for Epileptic Fit*. To I he Editor?Please inform your readers ?Vnt 1 hnvoM. nnsltive remedy tor the above named diseRf-e which I warrant to cure the worst cases. So Wrong is my faith in its virtues that I will send fiee a sample bottle and valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give me his P O. and Express address. Hesp'y, H.G. ROOT. M. C . 1KJJPearl St.. Mew York. The best cough medicine isPiso's Cure for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c. Catarrh Is a complaint which affects nearly everybody more orlesji. It originates in a cold, cr succession of colds, combined with impure blood. Disagreeable flow from th ? nose, tickltns: In the throat, offensive breath, pain over and between the eyes, ringing and bur* ting noises in the ears, ire the more common I r.t.Ml, in nnnxl Kv UftAl^'a fl WldrHFl U A which strikes directly at its cause by removing all impurities from tho blood, building up the diseased tissues and giving healthy tone to the whole system. Hood's Sarsaparilla Bold by all dmprp-inta. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by C. L HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar eL*'s C&TARHH nu_ui?p^j I Cleanses the Nasal^ j Passages, Allays | Pain and Inflam-/tJ4yr | .nation, Heals i Seres, Restores tho^^v , ' Senses of Taste and Sp y Smell. p^Sf' r- <$>" TRY THE CURE. A jiartirlo is applied iiaSutor into each nostril and is L! AV E1 E? V F npr<Tabli\ PriceMct-nts".#^II r.lh Vr 16 i4 atdruKi'ifts; by mail. rcsrintprifl. cn cents. ELY BHOTHKliS, 53 Warren St., Sew York. PENTECOST FOR 1889. : COMMENTARY on the SUNDAY SCHOOLLKSSONS 1'ItICE, 51) Cent*, poatpaidi CLOTH. SI. A. S. BARNES & CO., Ill and 113 William Htrpet. New York. PiPRL!SS BIS8 ScLJE'^UBcauisr* ^ I @ '/-r.v * ' : . / ' .' . "^ ' . ." - .... *.' .'. - fewrt&CUnGK PROMTCTa^E^maMENTLY Druggists, and Dealers.Everywhere The EhaS'A-Voeeler Ed-Baito-Md' CH^^-:- FAMILY ^TLAS known. ONLY 23 CENTS. 191 Pages, 91 Full-Page Maps. Colored Maps of can la Stat.' and Territory in the Tnited State-n. Also Mops of every Country in thft world. Tfie lett.-r ores-. wves tun square murs or each State: time of settlement: population: chief cities: average temperature; salarv of otticials and the principal lKistruasters in the State; number of farms, with their produ :tions and the value thereof; different manufactures and number of mii'loves, etc.. etc. Also lb- area of each Foreign Country: form of jrovernm -nt; population; principal products and their money value: amount of irade: religion; siz? of xriny: miles of railroid and tele>.T ph: number of horses, cattle, sheep, und a vast amount of information valuable to all. EVERY FAMILY SHOULD HAVE ONE. All newspaper readers are constantly n cdinpan Atlas for reference in order to intclliKenily understand the artic e th-y are perusing. It is surprising how much information is thus stored away in tho memory, and how soon one teconies familiar with the chief jioints concerning all the Nations of the Word. 1'oMrnid fnr tiS ccnlw. BOOK PUB. EOU-SK. 131 Leonard St.. X. Y. City. The mother of a member of our firm haa been cured of a cancerous sore on her face of twenty Team' standing by S. S. 8.?Pendlttox, Yeabv b Rirxr, Druvxists, Farmersville, 'IVx. Swift's Specific cured our babe of an angry ernp tion called Eczema after the doctor'* prescriptions had failed, and she is now hale and hearty. H. T. Skob?. Rich Hill, Mo. C?~Send for our books on Blood and Skin Disease* and Advice to Sufferers, mailed free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta. Ga. GRATEFUL-COMFORTING. EPPS'S COCOA BREAKFAST. "By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careiul application of the tine properties of well-selected Cocoa. Mr. Epps has provided our hreakfaet tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually buiit up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hun dreds of subtle maledies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping our- elves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame."?Civil Service Gazette. Made simply witn boiling water or milk. Bold only in half round tins, by Grocers, labelled ttius: JAAIEtt EPPS ifc CO., Homoeopathic Chemiata, London. England. fft i I _ \ where all other remedies fail. Oav K / I-* I method of direct and cou tlnuon* k" fl ItWrV \ medication of the whole respirefc I 'HhX. \ tory system produces same effect \ wVU>Ov -\aD a favorable change of climate. \Vi\j|a No smoke or disncreeable odor. ILLUSTRATED BOOK giving full Y I particulars,free upon application. COMMON SENSE CATARRf. flJRB -US \ 50 State St., Chicago, I1L MERCHANTS, BOTCHERS We want a good man in your locality to plcicap CALF SKINS for tin. Cash Furnished on satisfactory cnaranty Addioss C. S. Page, llyde Park, Vermont, U. S. A Proof that ?100 a month ta Mix ? ?t, BH I C3 made selling our New Book " Rev Dr. falmace, also Mother, Home and Heaven. 195,000 sold. Edited by T. L'Cityler, D. D. S2.75. 10.000 Cnrtooitle*of the Bible. Introduction bv J. H.Vincent, D.D. Illustrated. 02. E.B. TREAT, Publisher, 771 Broadway, N.I. SOLBIERSl?B^ McC'onniek & Sous. Washington, D.C. & Cincinnati, (J. IBnur *Trr>Y. Book-Ker plnp,Business Form*. KHUnlC Penuisiivhip. Arithmetic, Sliort-liand, etc., Eu thoroughly taught by MAIL. Cinmirs free. BryanlN Colleu?-, 4 !j7 Mwin St.. Buffalo, K. Y. flftC" 10 SS n day. Samples worth $1.50FKiZ ;|lH Lines not under the horne'sfeet. Write V? %9 iirc-wnterSafety Iteiu HolderCo.. Holley. Mic\ Agents wanted. $1 an hour. 60ne\r articles. Cat'lgne and samples free. C. K. Marshall, Loi-Uport, N V. CHEAP South Florida Homes. No frost or fever Xewst ai'flf tree. P.M. Crosby. S3 Franklin CHEAPEST AND BEST GERMAN DICTIONARY m OF 624 PACES FOR ONLYJJNE OQUA^/V-W A FIRST-CLASS DICTIONIRT AT VERY SMALL PRICE. It plves Fngll h Words with the German Equlva IrntM a.id Pronunciation and German Words with English Definitions. Sent postpaid on receiptor SI READ WHAT TUTS iUAN SAYS: Salf.m. Mass., May 31.1533. Book Pub. IToruif, 134 Leonard St.: The German Dictionary Is received and I am much pleased with It. I (lid not expect to find such clear print In so cheap a book. Please send a copy to ?, and Inclosed liud 81 lor same. 1L M. Haskell. Addres? BOOK PUB. CO., 134 Leonard Street, New York City. *''h * m'n ,0 CUmE ll S5!ff&!?T 2-cent jtamp. Wages S3 Per Day i'criuitK'jii |k.?:Uou. Xo poitals answered. Money ailtiuiced for wage*. tblvriixiii:, etc. Centennial Manufacturing Co., Cincinnati. Ohio.' YOU CAT All aoout a norse. Jtiow 10 pici fectionsandso Guard against Frai Cure when same is Age by the Teeth. Different Parts of to Shoe Properly. hundreds of others ought to be in the j man and boy who / /,? J may have occasion, \ \ w ''fidl I of all animals, the linl-iln to1if>rpnnirf?f1 r \\v m the lack of them of dollars. All of much other infoi*m- ^ Horsemen can be ja ing our ioo-Page Book,which we will Dn rcccipt of only Ittfl 100-P3 ONLY A QUARTER, IN BOOK PUB. HOUSE, I - }y- *; > Y: *% '" * %. ;* t i ,r~-: ? - " ' ? ***?< ' tain ?.-yl umtm Fmin REMEDf ln tb* world! in a i iiiautnuj ozcrnc ialUsg H truly the gnat CO.VQIEROa I Rood than ?"jr \ I known remedy. For SPRAINS, BRUISES. BACKACHE* PAIN in the CHEST or SIDES. HEA> ACHE, TOOTHACHE, or any other EXTERNAL PAIN, a frw application! act like mitelc. causing the PAIN to Df? STANTL* STOP. For CONGESTIONS,INFLAMMATIOffS, SORE THROAT, BRONCHITIS. COLA In the CHEST, RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, LUMBAGO, SCIATICA, PAHTS In the Small of the Back, etc., more extended, longer continued and repeated application* are necessary to c if net a cure. All INTERNAL PAINS fin the Bowel* or Stomach), CRAMPS, SPASMS, SOUR. STOMACH, NAUSEA, VOMITING* HEARTBURN, DIAKRHffiA, COLIC, FLATULENCY, FAINTING SPELLS, air* relieved Instantly and (fcUICKLY CURED by taking internally as directed. Sold by Druggists. Price, 50c. ' ' RADWAY'O ll PILLS 0 ? " E 'HfJiK.H (IroatTifPpU/fJtnmQPliPimal? i UiUUlUirUi tlUlUUlUUUlLUilLDIIJ ; For the care of all disorder* of Ikt STOAIACH, LIVER. BOWELS, KIDNEYS, BLADDER, NERVOUS'DISK ASES, LOSS of APPETITE. HEADACHB, CONSTIPATION, COSTIVENESS, INDIGESTION, BILIOUSNESS,' FEV INFLAMMATION of the BOWELS.PILKS mid all derangements ?T the lateoul Viscera. Purely Vegetable, canUUilif no mercury, minerals, or DELETUIOUS DRUGS. v :' PERFECT DIGESTION will be accomplished by taking II At) WAY'S PILLS. By so doing DYSPEPSIA, SICK HEADACHE, FOUL STOMACH, BILIOUSNESS, will be avoided, ud the food that la eaten contribute Its nourishing properties for the support; kf' the natural waste ef the body. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Price *3e. per box, or, on receipt of prle.i, will be sent by mall. S boxes for One Dollar. v RADWAY & CO., 33 Warren St.,*. T. / MIS U?51 ' ' ' . .* ? ELECANT LADIES' KNIFE Fl*Et! This cot represents onrr^. Warranto* tie* Ladles' Kfltfe and GIoTey ' ig* .<e8i ?.? Bnttoner, . combined with \ X . * V eleRa.ni (oriotsehandle, glren \ ^ sfaetjoa Gaar with one year'a subscription \ ^ mmtmi tn th. American Rural Home Vv for 81.10 postpaid* ^ \ V (Ne.t| \ Given free to the per? on \ sendlnz os Vro? 8 x*. V-A icflptlonstotheAmcr- ^ ican Rural lifim' at 85 cents each, without prunilpe Address all orders?to RURAL HOME CO. I ImKMlp Rochester. N. y. Mention uiis paper. WHY WEAR EYE-GLASSES ? DR. TElZirS cukes Eye Restorer RESTORES DISEASED SIGHT EYES. At all Druggists. Send for Circulars. EYE RESTORER CO.. - ALBANY. H. T. ; GODEY'S LADY'S BOOK teiaL-SKlNJ SEtfSuC IMAAMIiJafl Without paying (II. FStW ISACQUEi irx.i?\"?V?? !Z3K R FREE. How to ?fterwtrd you c?n dedaet yaw 3#j2?E-???<li52l *6 ct?. from your sabgcrlptfq*. Toil alio get a cat paper patten jwtu FKKKi OI "J ?"'t? - ? the Book. A<i<ire?a ?oi?nr*? TtMTfrffiwBlWi Lady's Book, Pbim.P*. Money in Chickens If you know bow to rroperlv care for them. ForiS cent* in sta'tii s J* ( y 11 can procure a 100-I'AGE BOOK I >i VS yivint? ilje experience of a practi- / :'/ / A ral if ultry Kqisu'?t)"t an am:.- / / teur. hut a man working for do'-/ % Iain and cent?during a i^rird o'lL * Ji years. It teachm you how toX J Detect itctl Cure Diseases: to Fod ^'i ?' for Fkvr and also for F. tteninij: 1 1' which Fowls to Savo for Creed inff I V Fiirpos- b: and e verything, ndeea. I -) you should know on this subject to niaKe it prafltnble. Kent postpaid fo ~.1r. book PUS. HOl SK, 134 iitwiaril M-cei, N.-V. City. GONSIMPTIDt " i h.tv, a poxitiTc renwdr for tbo above dfseaa*: Irrk* ua thousands of cun of tae votU kind and of lonsactndisff have be*n cured. So *tron^ b inr faith in lUtfflcafrtM I will end two bott'e* lire, to'i-thar with a vahuM* treat'se on thin dlseaa<- to anv sutferer. Give Kipreai aad K O. vidrev. 'f. A. SLOCOM. hi. 181 Petri .He. It. T si cures whtfie aiTclse fails. h , > Best Couch Syrup. Tastes good. Use E| 1 Jp in time. Sold by druggists. n 9 nxaiii ana R?A* IV WOS??R BLfcSS U.??\\ JtONA I) J^ A. : vll Priw 50 cents and 51. By mail. Mar- ^aS/ tyr? t<> iVmali' comp.aintssend for treatise /W' anu to tiraonials. JOS. S. HALL. 1 62 First St. Jersey City, K. J. Blair's Ova I Box. :;41 rnnnil 14 I'lll*. PflT fJ" " iomf ,nd a"< m"ncr worUi.-f,r na? HUbVI nT nnr'hinr c|pc in the wntM F.ithrr Mi. Co?t]<rotlft TK1K. T?riui rKKk. Adumi, 'luit.li CO., Aoftuta, Maiam. 0!5( : a L-fl3'T Jfainiwaiy cured ,u u to M ri-iift r. ft-3 I bays. Sanitarium or Hoam :t rt'.v nr. Trial I'ree. No Cure. No Psv. Tho " " II 'if H ! > <-ily (: ? I,u Farpxr, ln?L CHIC H ESTER'S EN G L! S H mnmmi pills ,~???v bed csoss diamond bba^. a V^z/tTV^v Or!rlnal,b*?t, only fi?nnln# and i^\ & A? rHioole pill for ?ale. Never Fail. Aak for (.Tiieke?ter'M t'ngtUJiyK^ ,33 Diamond Brand,red mc- \?JB' ' ySLi\vj boxi*?. ac*l<r?l with blue rib- \W3r ^hjj/bou. At DrufgUta. Accept \/ / fPi no other. All pill* in pane- v W u(f board boxes, pink wr*pp<n. ire a dawge^ L 15? oua counterfeit. Scud 4c. (stamp*) fcr \ /Jvj p.vticulari and "Krflcf f?r J.adlw,* to ^ r*' letter, by return mail. 10,000 teadk monlula fro.n LAD IES >Th0 ha ve U8-,J them. Name Paper. Chichester Chemical t'o.,31adisou!s(i.,l>hila^F*? ? fWKWhf ^ BntzaaraB asu : Out a Good One. See Imperid. Detect Disease and effect a possible. Tell the SWhat to call the \ (Jr^ the Animal. Ho-vr *A These points and . equally important RSfWft possession of every ff. \ ( has occasion, or / / vis M to use *^at n?blest viaii'i?. M ]ri Horse. They are at any minute, and ma3" cost hundreds ~ Jf\/v) ^ie foregoing and rJj VK" ation valuable to ^ ^ obtained by readIllustrated Horse forward, postpaid, 25 cents in stamps. m fln Boot SILVER OR STAMPS. 34 Leonard St., N. Y.