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I ^RMltural. | ? TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE ' TO FARM AND GARDEN L 9B Board Floors for Piff Pens. B A pig's foot is small in proportion to j B its weight. If allowed to trample over | B wet ground in its pen, it must inevitably \ B mire it up worse than other animals. Some think the pig loves this condition B of things. He does not, but he cannot B help it. By all means, give piggv a j B board floor over at least a part of his j B pen, and under cover. This he will keep B scrupulously clean and neat, goinir out- ' 4m *Ua rtAlrloe* ll'Aath6t> vnirl llllllifi I 01UC IU C11C ;_? or solid excreta. Very young pigs quickly learn this habit of neatness. American Cultivator. To Make a Cow Mother Two Calves. First put a blanket fan old gunny ! sack will do) on her own calf for a; couple of days; then take her calf away > at night out of her hearing if convenient and keep it away until morning; then take the blanket off the calf, and while warm put it on the strange calf and give ; the strange blanketed culf to the cow; after a night of bellowing she will own it > as soon as she sees the blanket and gets one I smell; she is satisfied that she has found her own. After the cow fcns liad her : new calf a fex hours trot out her own I calf with no blanket on, and it is sport: J io see her smell first one calf then the i other. The old cow has now marched off proudly with her "twins," taking both without any regard to age, size, ; color or previous condition.?^cto York i Herald. Groomlnn a Horse. The curry comb is a source of pleasure to the horse, or an instrument of torture, i accordingly as it is handled. It may be i made to gently flatter the skin of the horse, removing impurities and opening ? -- - ? i A me pores, or m rt ics? bmuui u;iuu it may scrape and irritate the surface, ; > bruise prominent points, and leave the tortured animalvso sore that it will for- j ever after shrink from the touch of one in any hands. Every person who has j the care of a horse should learn to acquire , a deft, rapid, light touch which does j th< rough work but so skilfully that the horse enjoys it, as a man in a barber's chair enjoys a clean shave from a skil-1 ful workman, while he dreads a scraping ' from a bungier. I nlike most men when under a barber's hands, a horse greatly ' likes to be talked to during the opera- j tion, and equally uulike, never talks back. But kind pleasant words to the j horse, and an occosioual caressing pat with one hand while the other wields | the curry comb, puts the horse at its ease and establishes pleasant relations with its master.?American Agriculturist. Lettuce AH Winter. The -winter crop of lettuce grown in glass houses is beginning to come forward in the market; and from now on to spring, some of the largest growers will j send in daily supplies, just as regularly as though it were summer. There is no difficulty at all with this crop, with low houses heated bv hot water or steam. One end of the benches is used for a seed-bed, from which plants are obtained, and. as fast as oue crop is cut, the soil is turned over, some manure added, and a new crop put in. At least three crops can be obtained during one winter. They are set quite thick, three or four inches apart, and crow upright rather than spreading. "All are partially bleached by the process, and just as soon as large enough, are tender enough, and fit for the market. A temperature of fifty-five degrees at night is ubout ri?ht, ! rising fifteen to twenty degrees during ' the day. The principal enemy is the green fly. I This is easily kept down by means of to- i bacco. Stems distributed among the growwig plants help a good deal in keep mg these down, which, with fumigation i regularly once a week, whether any can j be 6een or not, will do 'he rest. If green flies once get a firm foot-ho:d,they "*re difficult to got rid of then. In this case, an ounce of prevention is better than any cure.?Prairie Farmer. Points in Batter-Making'. In every 100 pounds of milk, besides eighty-six or eighty seven pounds of water, there are four pounds of sugar and four pounds of cheesy matter in which there arc an enormous number of small round globules which contain the butter fat. Such a lluid is particularly liable to lerment and decompose. Consequently the whole system of butter- : making must be directed to keeping the globules in a state of the utmost purity, otherwise the butter will pot be pure or ' likely to keep. Cleanliness and pure &ir in the stables are indispensable, also pure water and proper food. ^either roots, linseed cake, cotton cake or gra:n should be given in too large quantities to cows whose milk is to be made into butter. The quantity of food supplied should be regulated somewhat bv the quantity of milk received. In other words, the cow that gave the smallest quantity should not be fed as liberally as the one that produced considerably more. \ The dary roorn should be free fn.m the slightest smell. The cows should I e kept comfortable and not be annoyed by dogs or driven ' rapidly, or forced to wa:k lon<; distances. The utmost cleanliness in milking should be observed, shallow pans were the most common for setting, but in winter deep setting was better. For large ouantities the inechinical separator prothe host results. The nrocess of i ripening the cream should s-to'p short of Bouring. Butter colorcd with carrots could not be expe;-te<i to keep. From forty to fifty revolutions per minute in the chum aie enough. The buttermilk should be run through a strainer, and bure col:l water poured into the churn. The I utter should be taken out with a wooden scoop and not with the hands. In working and salting the grain of the butter should noi be broken.?Neui Tvrk World. Beauties of Bjickwheat. There are several arguments in favor of buckwheat as a farm crop. The time of filling the ground and sowing, in late June, just between the hurry of planting and haying, is an interval of comparative leisure. Insects do not trouble buckwheat, and so on land full of wireworms or grubs this is an excellent plant not only to escape the ravages of these destructive pests, but to rid" the soil of them preparatory to the raising of other crops. In some parts of Michigan wirc worms are very destructive. I lost not a little from their attnck of my corn on a low piece, which I had drained. Upon examination of a similar piece intended for corn next year I found it also full of these grubs of the elater beetles. I have raised a good crop of buckwheat on it, I which I expect wi 1 secure against iirjury of my crop another year. Many beekeepers object to planting especially for bees; but all favor such crops as alsikeclover and buckwheat, for these are valuable for other purposes. This season ha9 been the poorest for honey ever known in the Lnited States, Canada and Europe. The early honey crop was ft failure. How fortunate the beekeeper who secured from buckwheat or other fall honey plants enough honey at least to winter his bees. Last summer I planted the Japanese buckwheat?half the field early in June; the remainder July 1. Both parts did equally well. I had to pay $3 a bushel for seed, but am not sorry I did so. The size of berry ar:d prolificnese of this variety are surprising. The bees also worked on the flowers nil day; usually they do not work on buckwheat after noon; the flowers do not seem to secrete nectar except early in the day. I expect the buckwheat cakes from this variety will -% _ 3 7J_ - be, at least, up to trie stanuaru.?rrufenor A. J. Cvo'\ in NtW T^rk Tribune. A Novel Implement. It occurred to me last spring that a steel rail would be an efficient implement to spread manure, and I borrowed one from the Canada Atlantic Kailroad Company with which to make the experiment. The manure, a large portion of it uight soil, had been deposited on a fouracre field. I hitched two heavy teams to the rail, about four feet from each end, and started them, taking a sweep of thirty feet each time. It worked admirably. The lield was level, and after going over it four times with the rail, which was done more quickly than once with a harrow, 1 had the satisfaction of seeing the manure not only evenly spread, but well incorporated with the surface soil. In half a day. with two men and two team9, I had spread as much manure as twenty men could have done in the same time with forks and shovels. In the adjoining field I had dug a drain several hundied yards long and tilled it twenty inches deep with stone. After having covered the stone with coarse litter, it occurred to me that I could make the horses till in tne carta wun me slcci rail. I placed a team on each side of the ditch and had the rail drawn on an angle. The clay was thrown in by the ra:l as fast as the horses could walk, and in an hour I had covered as much drain as would have have taken my whole force a full day to do with shovels. After harvesting my corn last fall (it had been cultivated on the ridge system) I decided that I would try to level the ridges and root out the corn stubble before plowing. The corn had grown so strong that the stalks had to be cut with a brush scythe, and the stubble was as thick as stakes. A three-horse team on each end of the steel rail leveled the ridges nicely and uprooted and scattered the cora stubble so thoroughly that the soil (a stiff, black clay loam) plowed as easily as a summer fallow. I tried the rail as a leveler on a rough field plowed out of grass, I found it too heavy a job for four horses and worked it with two three-horse teams, drawing the raii lengthwise with the furrows. I hardly expected it to work well, but I was surprised at the result. After going over the ground twice with the furrow and twice on an angle with the furrow, the rail left the field as level as a billiard table, and packed the sod so firmlv that it is now, three weeks after, well rotted and will cross-plow as easily as stubble. I kept a summer fallow free from weeds, destroying a heavy crop of thistles and couch grass during that season with one plowing in .June and one in September. Beftire I could turn the plows into it in the spring the weeds and grass had formed a heavy crop at least fifteen inches high. They were turned under by fastening a chain to the plow beam. I harrowed the field with an Acme harrow and then allowed it to stand until the sccond crop of weeks began to show up. It was then worked with the steel rail two or three times during the summer, and the young weeds. torn up by the roots, fell back over the rail and withered in a short time in the hot sun. The result is a thoroughly clean field with the least possible outlay of time and labor.? Rural Neu) Yorker. Farm and Garden Notes. Add ground meat scraps to the poultrv feed. The first desideratum in winter ia warmth. Warm feed promotes laying during ccld weather. The chicken park should be under the direction of the wife. The "bronze" is the favorite turkey with many who raise for market. Cream not stirred enough is sometimes the cause of white specks in butter. Scanty fare, exposure and neglect is ruinous to farm stock attnis season. There is no better food for breeding sows than skim milk and wheat brau. The droppings should pay for the labor of cleaning out the poultry house. Each bushel of ften manure saved and put on corn land will give one bushel of corn. If well taken care of, chickens will pay better than any other stock on the farm. The practice of drawing out manure as fast as it accumulates seems to grow in favor. Professor Cook thinks it desirable to combine bee-keepiug with 6ome other business. Keep the pig out of the wet and give it a chauce to keep clean by having a board rloor in at least a part of the pen. A hen of the large breed should not lay le>s than lrom 110 to liO eges, the small breeds from 1~>0 to 175: any that lay less eggs than that should not be kept.if you are a breeder of thoroughbred stock cull the fowls very closely. It will not pay to wiuter disqualified birds. There is more money with fewer birds and higher prices. Sheep and swine kept constantly on woodeu floors often have| hoofs grown badly out of shape. Such hoofs should be frequently pared and shortened to bring them in shape. j Always select your horses for special I work required. The heavy draft anii mals are best ior farm purposes. TrotI or-a intnnrlofl f/>r tho rnnfl thnn 1 for drawing heavy loads. A Michigan bee-keeper says: My way of jrett.ng rid of ants in bee-hives is to kill what I can, then place green j catnip over the brood where the ants ; gather, which I find drives them away i effectually. j Provide a leathern bit for cold weather ! or cover the iron bit smoothly with j common bridle leather and protect the I cheek pieces with the same. It is cruel , to force a horse to take the iron bit ic , hard fiee/ing weather. , The best butter cloth is parchmenl , paper. It is practically air, water and | grease proof and does not stick to th( j butter. "When you wrap your butter ir I parchment paper consumers cannot i Knf>r>ii!ntA -whfitlier the butter cloths be' ! gan life as part of shirts or sheets. | No permanently successful attempts I at poultry-raising are recorded whert ! the crowding of the fowls ifras practiced. ! One hundred fowls to the acre seems tc be the limit of safety with experienced poultry men. A wide range is absolutely essential to the health and vigor of fowls Beea should have not less than twenty "r'i ^ ' j'v pounds of honey or sjrup November 1st, per colony, to pass the winter in safety. The more fine days in winter that bees will fly the more stores they will con I sume. Protection of any kind has a ' tendency to lessen the consumption of I food. Mr. P. A. I.arsen, of Norway, recom| mends ;is a preventive of ants, the use of j the intestines of fish. He puts some of it into the nest, and insists that the ants J always leave if this remedy is used once or twice. Another gentleman, Mr C. Omberg, recommends the use of powdered lime. He puts some of it j around the hives with tne same guuu elTect. Flower Farm in sr. We are told that the flower trade of London is es imated at the value of j $25,000 a day, and to anyone in any way ; acquainted with thisgigantic brauch this ! fact is not to be wondered at. Between Nice and Cannes to London, j especially during the winter and spring, ! there is a special railway and postal ser! vice by which the flower cultivators of j France arc enabled to pour into the English markets flowers and ferns by i the"thousand dozen bunches at a time; j in fact, these consignments are proj digious. | The pjincipal kinds of flowers imported to our markets, especially Covent ! Garden, from the continent, etc., con! sist of lilac and syringa, violet, both { parma and the czar, and mignonette and | i ent lilies, in enormous quantities, mimo3a or acacia in two or three kinds, i narcissus in several varieties, including ! paper white, double roman, grand moni arque, soleil d'or, and the white roman j hyacinth; all the above, if English ; grown, realize a better price in the j market, but they are not grown in . sufficient quantity in this country; and i the Anglo-French salesmen in Covent Garden aie now during winter, I might state, without hesitation, the most hni portant venders in the market, and they nm fulltr oTOorfi of their imnortance. ?IV.U.V 1 I It is said the ottar of roses, manufactured in the Valley of h'esanlik, : Koumelia, is exported "to the value of ! $-220,000; and some one has made a cal1 culation to show that 10,104,000,000 j of blossoms are used each year at this one place alone. In connection with flower culture ou the contineut, and now in the United States of America, the ! manufacture of perfumes from flowers ' forms a very profitable industry, i and one which certainly might be ; adopted by the hnglish grower. The ! town of Grasse, near Cannes,the capital of the department of the Alpes Maratimes, ; is the centre of a flower-growing district, ! and the principal seat of the manufacture ! of perfumes in France. Making Bent Wood Fnrnlturc. "We have all seen the beautiful Austrian bent wood chairs aud furniture, which j owe their popularity, perhaps, as much ; to their c harming design as to their i strength and durability; and most of us have had some curiosity to know how j they were made. The /iewie JmJustrUlle ; explains the matter, as least so far as the I processes coula be observed at the indus' Within ! trim tJAillLMllWU uu xj uvtn-1 voiu. II ivuiu a few years ihe methods of treating the wood have been improved, and the ap' plication of the material much extended; ! carriage wheels, for instance, having | their rims made of a single piece of ash ' or oak, bent to a circle, with great adI vantage in point of strength and cheapj ness over those mude with tellies sawed ! in small scction9 out of straight pieces j of wood. The material to be bent is, ; for furniture, usually red beech, which { grows very abundantly in the Hungarian forests. The timber is sawed into strips I one and one-half to two inches square, I according to the work for which it is inj tended, and then turned in a lathe into ; smooth, round rods. These rods are placed in an air-tight case, where they are exposed for fifteen minutes to the action of superheated steam. They are then so I soft and pliable a? to be ea-ily bent by j hand, and are in this condition fitted to : iron patteins, well secured, and left to dry. The drying takes from two to eight days, according to the size of the ! piece. "When it is oomplete, the wood is detached from the pattern and is ! ready to be joined with other pieces, varnished, polished, and sent out in the j shape of finished furniture.?American \ Architect, A Story of John .Bright. J John Bright, the great English Btatcsi man, used to be fond of salmon-fishing I in the Highlands. One evening be and | his party were returning to their inn, after a day of poor sport to all except ! himself?and he had a brace of fine ; salmon. By the roadside, on a henp of I stones, they passed a wretched-looking ! man weeping, with his hands on his I face, and all in rags. In answer to Mr. j Bright's inquiry, he told a piteous tale : of starvation at home, of a sick wife and five hungry children. The Tribune put his hand in his pocket, but unluckily ! had no change. "2s'ever mind, take j that." he said, offering a salmon. "It I will at least mnlce a good dinner for you ! once." The sequel was as follows: After washing his hands Mr. Bright was coming down todinnerwhen a girlhappeued i to be crossing to the larder with a line i fish. "That is my salmon," said Mr. : Briyht. "I know him, for he was hooked on the outside. Where did you get it?" "Oh, from Sandy," said the simple Scotch lassie, "and he is ia the tap-room." Mr. Bright, looking rather irrim and stern, forced his way into the ' tap-room, where his lachrymose friend ' sat with a number of cronies taking hU "nip," and in full ylee recounting his adventure. Nor was he a bit abashed at the Btem face of the People's Tribune, | but had begun a loDg explanatory state| ment, when the glance of scorn which , had electrified Parliaments and audiences swept over him. Without a word Mr. i Bright returned to his place. Afterward j he was not so lavish with his fish. A Precocious Criminal. j A nice little girl is one ( elina Doiselct, ! for that is the name of the little monster ; who has just appeared before the Assize Court of the Aube. in Prance, on the ' charge of deliberately killing two chil11 dren. She herself is but a child not yet J thirteen years of age; but in the spring i of the past year she was placed in j service by her parents, her duties being I those of a nursemaid. She had two 1 - - * ? - - * _ - Ji | little boys to taKe cnarge 01, ageu re11 spectively three years and 6ix months, , i and it seems from the evidence given [ j thut this youthful criminal, being of a l ! lazy disposition, did not like having to j take care of them. So as a means ot re. | lieving herselt of her little charges, ^ho '! killed them both, the elder one l'aul, by | twisting a pillowcase about his head | and sitting upon him till he ceased to . breathe, the younger one by stuffing a handkerchief into his mouth and kneeling on his chest. Iloth the children were thus got rid ot the same day. The 1 murderer was asked in court whether 5 she regretted having committed the<c terrible crimes, and she said she thought ' she did. This precocious criminal nas ' been sent to a house of correction for r ten years. When she comes out it is to 1 doubted whether 6he will get another ' place aa nursemaid.?London Standard. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. Exterminates Cockroaches. A housekeeper who was recommended to try cucumber peel as a remedy for cockroaches, strewed the floor with pieces of the peel, cut not very thin,and watched the sequel. The pest covered the peel within a short time so that it could not be seen, so voraciously were they engaged in sur king the poisonous moisture from it. The second night that this was tried the number of cockroaches was reduced to a quarter, and none were left alive on the third night. ?Baltimore American. Paste Thfit "Will Keep. How to prevent paste from turning sour is a question often asked. The fol | lowing method will make paste that I will last a year: Dissolve a teaspoon of j alum in a quart of water; when cold stir | in as much llour as will give it the consistency of thick cream; stir until all i the lumps are moved; add as much powdered resin as will lie on a dime, and a half do/en cloves. Have ready a teacup of boiling water, pour the flour mixture into it, stirring well at the time. In a very few minutes it will be of the consistency of mush; let it cool; cover it and set in a cool place; when needed for use take out a portion and soften it with warm water.?Detroit Free Press. \ Cleans! nc FeathersWhere feather9 need deodorizing, it is best to have it done by persons who make feather-renovating a business and have the appliances for doing it in the best manner, which families have not. This is done by steaming, and afterward drying and sifting out the dirt and broken particles, so that the feathers are j not only deodorized but are livened up in such amauuer as to appear almost^as ' good as new. i\ew feathers need no treatment except drying sufficiently to take out the moisture they contain after being pluckcd from the geese. Owing to their extreme lightness'thcy can rarely be spread out, but should be dried in a j closed room where if possible, the sun I can shine on them through the windows, I or in thin sacks to nrevent them from flying about when laid on a scaffold out of doors in the sun. Feather beds and pillows should be thoroughly aired and exposed to the sun quite often, and if properly cared for will last a long time without any necessity for sending them to a renovator.?New York World. To Do Up Black CambricDissolve enough salt in a gallon of water to make a strong brine, and when cool enough soak the cambric in it for one hour; then wash it out, using a very little or no soap, and rinse in clear, cold, soft water with some powdered borax dissolved in it. Soak some white glue in cold water for two hours, then dissolve it by putting the pan on the stove in another containing hot water. When melted add enough more water to dip the dress; there should be ju9t enough glue to make the water feel sticky w4ien cooling on the linger. Put in a teaspoonful of salt, make the glue water quite blue, and use it when lukewarm. Put a dark cover on the skirt board,and iron on the wrong side. If these precautions are neglected, the dress will be shiny and linty. Use no water in which white clothes have been washed; a good cambric washed in this way can scarcely be distinguished from new. Care must be observed in preparing the glue, that too much is not used, ss the water needs only enough to feel the least trifle sticky when the hand is dipped in. Rubbing the flatiron on a cloth saturated with kerosene oil is a good plan to pievent its sticking, and usiDg a piece of sandpaper to rub them on occasionally, they may be kept as smooth as glass. Itecipes. RrcE Croquettes.?Roll one-half pint of rice in a quart of sweet mlk or water with a little salt until soft, add half a cup of butter, two beaton eggs and a little corn-meal, cut any shape desired and drop into hot lard, or fry with a small quantity of butter or lard. Ginger Snaps.?One pound of flour, half a pound of treacle, hiilf a pound of sugar, a quarter of a pound of butter, half an ounce gro ind ginger, sixteen drops of essence of lemon, half teaspoonful of soda dissolved in two teaspoonfuls of hot water. Roll out and cut into shape. Homtxy MuFFr*:?.?One large cup of white flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, two teaspoonfuls talt, mix together d?y. Add two cups of cold boiled I linraJniT linolon cmnnfK thrftP COrcrs. one I UUUlill JF " ? OO I half cup of melted butter, two table! spoomuls white sugar, and sweet milk enough to ma?e a thick batter. Oi:as?e Cake.?Two cups of sugar and half a cup of butter stirred to a | cream: one cup of sweet milk, three ! eggs well beaten, three cups of flour, I two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. For the frosting take the whites of two eggs; save out enough to frost the top; add to the rest the juice and grated rind of an orange and spread between the layers. Potato Salad.?Cold boiled potatoes sliced very thin, three hard boiled eggs, one small onion chopped tine; season with salt and pepper and pour over dressing made of the yolk of one egg stirred into a half teaspoon made mustard and one teaspoon strong vinegar; j beat in by drops three tablespoons of j 6weet cream and the white of one egg beaten to a froth. Fig Pudding.?Three-quarters of a pound of grated stale bread, half a pound of best tigs, six ounces of suet, six ounces of moist sugar, a teacup of sweet I rrV*/. ??rl ! | muit, a Jiinu iiuimc^. luu u^i> I suet must be chopped very tine. Jlix the bread and suet first, then the figs, susar and nutmeg, one egg well beaten, and lastly the milk. lioil in a mold four hours; to be eaten with cream and sugar containing a little nutmeg. sriced Bkek.?Take from four to six pounds of beef, wa>h and cut off any part ot the skin which is not sweet and clean, pick off all fragments of bone and cut meat into ocverui pieces; cover with boiling water; skim carefully as it boils, and then simmer until the meat falls to pieces and the liquor is rcduced to hnlf a pint. hemove the meat, season the liquor highly with salt, pepper, sage and thyme; add it to the meat and mix with a fork until the meat is all broken. | Pack in a br.ck loaf pan and when cold cut in sticcs. Dried Yeast.?Peel six good sized lintnfnps and boil till tender: have ready in a stone crock three pints of flour; I while the potatoes are hot rub them J through a colander into the dry Hour; boil a large handful of hops fifteen minutes in three pints of water, strain out the'hops, add the water to the flour and potatoes, mix wellaudwhen almostcold add cold water enough to make it as thin as bread sponge; have half a pint of dry yeast soaked soft and stir it in; let the yeast rise, stirring it down several time.% then add to it three quarts of sifted corn meal, mix thoroughly, roll, cut into cakes and dry quickly. The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Gas and Oil Company have struck rich lubricating oil at a depth of 1000 feet, in a well dug twenty miles west of that city. Dentil of nn Improvident Freak. "General Tom Pounce," a dwarf known in connection with Tom Thumb all over the world, has died in poverty on Green street, in Cleveland, Ohio. He was only a trifle larger than Tom Thuml). He was brought here from Saxe-Welmar by his parents in 18 when scarcely a year old. and from the first was exhibited as an infantile curiosity. He had earned more than ?100,000 in his life, but spent it freely, and ceasing to be an nttraction after the loss of his health, came here four years ago to live with his biother. Two years ago the brother died and the dwarf in vested all he possessed in a little cigar store. He had no business capacity, however, and was nearly starving when, three weeks ago, John Wiamann took him and cared for him until he died. All the goods poor Pounce possessed were a small diamond ring and a gold watch. He had saved them in order to . Vifivp pnmirrh to uav for decent burial. lie was interred in a child's coflin, clothed in the dress suit in which he used to appear on rhe stage. His name was Ernest Geyer.? Chicugo Herald. Mexico's National Beverage. Through the center of the pulque region of Mexico the railroad runs a train called the "pulque train" into the City of Mexico every day loaded with barrels and bottles of pulque. These bottles remind one of the bottles known in Scripture time. They are made of hogskins. The skin is stripped from the hog a'.most intact, turned inside out, ar.d then, with the legs, tail and throat tied up,it is filled with pulque. The baggage car of our train, a correspondent says, is nearly filled with these uncouth objects, and until we knew what they were we supposed it was a load of hogs. As the train stops at the small stations on the way to Vera Cruz, boys and men rush up to the baggage car with bottles, pails and demijohns, which are filled from these hogskins. In the cities the pulque shops are frequent, and you can always see a crowd of Mexicans standing before the bar absorbing the pulque. They drink it from large glasses which hold about a quart. I am told that when it is fresh pulque is as sweet as honey, but it ferments rapidly and is sour in a day or two. rv/?itumonr Xnr Ovnr. 1 he rush on the druggists still continues and daily scores of people call for a bottle of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis and Consumption. Kemp's Balsam, the standard family remedy,is sold on a guarantee and never fails to give entire satisfaction. Price 50c and $1. Trial size free. Tue St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway now operates 3280 miles of road. A Wonderful Food find Modiclnc? Known an 1 used by Physicians all over the world. Scott's Emulsion not only gives flesh and sirengtli by virtue of its f\vn nutritious properties, but creates an appetite for food that builds up ihe wasted body. "I have been using Scott's Emulsion for several years, and nm pleased wi h its action. My patients say it is pleasant and palatable and all grow stronger and gain flesn from the use of it. I use it in ail cases of Wasting Diseases, and it is specially useful for children when nutrient medication Is needtd. ns in Marasmus."?T. W. Pierce, M.D., Knoxvillc, Ala. A Rtid cnl Cure for Epileptic Fir*. To the Editor? Please inform your readers that I hare a positive remedy for the above named disease which 1 warrant to euro tha worst cases. So strong is my faith in its virtues that I will send flee a sample bottle and valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give me his P 0. and Express address. Kesp'y, H. G. ROOT. M. C . 1S3 Pearl St.. New York. Best, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 50c. The Plain Truth ^ y.n~ +>innafin^R of 18 mat IIOUU miiTHlt'luiiaa .... people who ynffered severely with rheumatism. It neutralizes the lactic acid in the blood, which causes thow) tertible piina and aches, and a1 ho vita inea and ?nriche6 the blood, thus preventing the recurrence of the disease. ThcfiO facta warrant us in urprin? you. if yon suffer with rheumatism, to give Hooa's Sareaparilla a triaL "I had rheumatism bo that when I Bat or laid do*n I could hardly get up. Hood's Sarsaparilla hasalipoet cured at."?P. Cabsiw, Gallon, O. N. B. If yon make up your mind to try tqfca Hood's Sarsaparilla. do not be induood to take any other. Hood's Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggist*. #1: tlx for fi. Prepared only by C..I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. [OO P 3&s One Dollar jjP^J "ELFscreamBALM IN HEAD, ELY EBOB-.tCWcmn St.. K. \ FOR THE BLOOD. Swift's KjH-cific hah curcd me of a mrJiptaEas?? nant breaking out on ray letr, which enured wSsgLJintolerable pain. It was culled Ecz-w by ByatLt doctor??four of whom treated uie with 1?* T /.rtnrlMl V t nil fpKJl 1 >iat T AWA lilt' !pr<BHit (rood healtii to S. K. 8.. in my estimation is lnvohiablp an a bloat remedy. Misti .1 UXJA DFAVitt. 2227 N. 10th St. St. Louis. SIo. Our bsihr when two months old. was attacked w.tli Scrofula, ivh'ch for a long time destroyed her eyenifdit entirely and ca.-ned u* to despair of her life. The doctors failed to relieve her. ami wo gave Swift'* Specific, which noon cured her entirely, and slid is now hole and hearty. E. V. Dklk. Will's Point. Texas. Scrofula de-sloped on my daughter?swelling rii<1 luinj* tn her nock, we gave her Swift's Specific, and the result was wonderful and the cure prompt. S. A. rr.ARMONn. Cleveland. Tenn. ClF~S?md for l>oolc giving history of Blood Diseases and advice to sufferers, niaile ) freo. THE S\V 1 FT SPEC!FI CO.. Drawers, Atlanta. Oa. CHEAPEST ADD BEST GERMAN DICTIONARY ? OF 624 PACES /fi^h))l\ FOR ONLY QBE A FIRST-CLASS DICTIONARY AT VERY SMALL PRICE. V It plves Ensll h Words with the German Equ!**i hnIk and Pronunciation and German Words wJth Lu&llsh Definitions. Sent postpaid ou receipt of $1 READ WHAT THIS MAN SAYSSai.EM. Mass., May 31,1311 Fook Pub. TJoiife, 134 Leonard St.: The German Dictionary Is received and I am much pleased with it. I did uot expect to llnd such clear print In so cheap a book. Please scud a copy to ?, and inclosed Cud 31 lor same. M. II. Haskell. Addres? BOOK PUB. CO.. 134 Leonard Street, New York City. Q wl?h ? ft* men to vfll i- K R/l 0- sy OHLLuSveL!^ fftterass I cent ttanifi Wages $3 Per Day l'orni*neiii |.uaitlon. No poitalt nmwered. IJoue.v mlT*ncwl for utrertfrihi-. etc. Centennial Manufacturing Co., Cincinnati. Ohio. AT- _ ggf who hare used Piro's & fivTl-r^ESv Cure toT Consumption ^ INUP lO My " Is BEST OF ALL. ^ Sold everywhere. 25c. AAV rS!*"fT*(fft A'-'' (iV-T I'F.NMONSIf ^ill hguj' KA l-4 disabled: pay. ,to.: Df-serttfULU ikllV its relieved: Laws free. A. W. McConuick i: Sons, Washington, D.C. & Cincinnati, O. Onilllfl UADtT Painlessly cured !n 10 to 20 rlUnl nflBI! Days. Sun'.tarr.m rr Home Treatment. Trial Free. So Cure. X > Pay. The Unman e Itf nieiiy Co.. l.u Fit yet tc. I unuc STI'DY. Bork-keepinfr.BusinessKorins. CUmC Penmanship, Arithmetic, Short-hand, etc.. II thoroughly taupht by MAIL. Circul rs fr.e. Hrynui'w t'ollciff. 4 '>7 Miun St.. Buffalo, X. V. kiaov'e PaBlo creattnglish bout ana 131311 5 D BBISd Rheumatic Kernel/. OtdIJIox, 34; round 14 PUIt>. ' liflTfl Ure at borne aad make more money worktop for tuthnn ) iUsVI ?t onythinp eUr In the world. Either mi. Co?tlv outfit ^ TSKg. Term* iklk. AddrxM, TltUK & Co., Augusta, Maine. /PEERLESS DYES Sold bt Xmutwari V / ^ A*1' S-TOTRADE MARK^I REMl'?^"?>Alhl XT CONQUERS PAIN. Keueves ana cures HEADACHE, RHEUMATISM, Toothache, Sprains, NEURALGIA, BRUISES, Sciatica, Lumbago. Burns and Scalds* At DrngffMt* and Dealers. THE CHARLES A. VOQELER CO.. Baltimore, Ml |f?l Piso's Cure is our best selling medicine. I have a personal knowledge of its "beneficial effects, and recommend it. ?S. Larry; Druggist, Allegheny, Pa. GRATEFUL?COMFORTING. EPPS'S GMSM BREAKFAST. 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