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L f "AGRIctilTUEAL. TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE / . TO FARM AND GARDEN. HARNESS DRESSING. One gallon neat's foot oil, two pounds bay-berry tallow and two pounds of beeswax make a good harness oil. Put the above in a pan over a moderate lire. When thoroughly dissolved, add two quarts of castor oil, then while on the fire stir in one ounce of lampblack. Mix: well, and strain through a line cloth to remove sediment; let it cool, and keep it in tin cans.?Rural Home. EELLS FOR S!IEEI\ The cheapest and best insurance against' dogs killing sheep are bills?plenty of bells. The sheep dog is a great coward when in pursuit of mischief, aud he wants to do it quietly?wants no noise, Tlr.lli liniirrlit nt-. wholesale do not ???*?"? O I cost much. Buy a side of bridle leather | at the carrier's for collars and put a bell on every sheep if your flock is small. The j price of one sheep will buy a .cross of bells 1 and leather enough and buckles enough ! to strap them. Put this gross of bells on I a flock of slice]) and they will frighten 1 every dog out of the field.?Southern Fanner. COAL ASHES FOR FRTIT TREES. There can be no doubt that coal ashes spread under fruit trees are very helpful, and as they show little or no manurial value, there is often difficulty in explaining their good ellccts. One way they help is to make a mulch. Coal ashes are light, and the fact th..t they have not much manurial value makes them all the better for keeping down grass, which depletes the soil of the moisture that the trees need. Three or four inches deep of j coal ashes spread under trees keep the soil moist and cool. If they are spread on sod they kill the grass, aud this with the decaying sod roots make a fine feeding-place for the roots of the tree. It is probable, also, that under this mulch the soil itself undergoes important chemical changes, fitting its manurial elements for 1 absorption by roots.?Boston Cultivator. SOWING GRASS-SEED. It is hard to say, to the inquirer, "howdeep bluegrass seed may be covered with light, loose soil in winter and not be killed out but grow up through the soil i in the spring." Very few experiments j have been made to determine this point, r The general practice is to sow such light! . seed on the surface either early in the I autumn or in spring, and then lightly i f harrow or cover with a brush drawn over j | the ground. By these methods the seed I , is rarely covered more than a half-inch, ! and much of it will not be covered at all, I ! but a light shower will beat it down deep J enough to insure rapid germination. ! i When grass seeds arc sown in spring the t plants become so firmly established before the following fall that they are enabled to withstand the cold of winter. Sowing the sped of hardv snecies of irrass in i " O X w the early fall is often practised by farm, ers, aud in regions where heavy snowfall. gives protection to the young plants it answers very well, but in milder regions ^ and where the young grass is not pro- ; 1 tected there is always more or less danger : A : of the plants being thrown out by frost. P;; ?Aflo York Tribune. T* CORN-FED HORSES. | Corn is the banc of the farm hwr.-c, as , it is also of the horse doing any other sort of work, not because of not being , sufficiently nutritious, but because it makes too much fat and not enough j muscle. The horse's muscle wears away by work as metal does by friction. Fat wears away under exercise, but its dis- * appearance in no wise lessens the power !1 for draft or speed. On the other hand I! well nourished and vigorously exercised muscles, without a deposit of fat to keep !' them company, are much more efficient! '? ?l\nr^o ' i lor uu^ puijiujc jui n u?.u , is kept, than when there is a load i of fat to be carried. The trainer acts j upon this proposition, and works the fat 1 off, experience having shown that the ; muscles, trained down by exercise i until fat accr nidations are removed? : fattening foods being mainly abstained from?gives the best results in the case of a speedy horse. The same rule will hold good with the work horse, though modified by the degrees in which the , movements of the latter are slower than . those of the former. If the farmer has ; only corn for feed, then he will be wise j if he makes sale of his corn, or the great* est part of it, buying oats instead.? National Horse Breeder. MANAGEMENT OF SriUXO LAMBS. Children and lambs have a natural liking for each other; but do not have a ^ pet lamb unless you are ready to tolerate a nuisance, and do not permit the chil-, dren to tease the lambs unless- you are willing to have vicious sheep hereafter. This applies mostly to the male lambs, i While the sheep is naturally docile, vice | is easily induced in the ram, and a vicious ram is an ugly customer. Wean lambs when four to five months old. Place : __ ihem on fresh, lender pasture. If clover ; has been sown with small grain, and a ' rain brings the clover along nicely after the grain is cut, it makes a tine pasture for weaninsr lambs. Or, three to four j weeks before the young grass is needed, I mow a few acres of pasture. Give the ! _ lambs?and all sheep, for that matter? ! easy access to salt ami water. Accustom : the lambs to dry feed as soon as the pas-; tures begin to fail, by yarding them at ~~ night. Failure to do this is one of the things that takes the profit from sheep . rearing. Castrate and dock when young j ?as soon as the lamb is surely owned by ' its dam is none too early. To dock, have : an assistant set the lamb on a board, ' holding it with its back to him, a hind ...? leg in each hand and drawn well up. Make the incision through a joint, f downward and outward. This leaves a * hood to protect the wound, Fish oil or castor oil is as good an application as tar. j and less objectionable.?American A'jricultumt. j RAISING THE CALF. At the Farmer's Institute held in Gen- j eva, 111., Mr. E. E. Garfield read a paper; .1 oi .ir r., 4.? ? .upon "Kaismg rne uan. m uv;uuiy mn subject, lie said it was necessary to first j .'decide to what purpose rlie coining cow iwas to he devoted, meat or milk, beef or I butter. In raising the calf, the treatment >of the pregnant dam has much more to 'do with the success or failure than most. jpeople allow. You must have constitu- ' itional vigor if you want to raise a calf profitably. This cannot be obtained if ! -the dam is not properly cared for when j * ipregnant. Cats fed to the mother will j | f help to give constitution to the calf. A! good compound is formed of one part corn and two of oats; another is one part corn and one part oats and one part wheat bran. The nearer the time of birth of the calf approaches, the more care should be given, and the less feed, especially of the corn. After its arrival, give the calf two weeks probation in which to get used to its new surroundings, then teach it to drink. Commence by giving five pints of new milk twice a day; at a month old j let it have what clover hay or corn leaves it will eat and a half pint of oat meal i daily; at two months give a pint of oal meal and at three mouths increase to a quart. 1'easonably sweet buttermilk is the next best feed to new milk; skim milk next to that. If you feed buttermilk, warm it by immersing it in watci j heated to not over iuu uegrees, .is ju ?.ii< j separate if heated warmer than that. I) j you feed skim milk add oil meal rliicb j has been gelatinized by adding to it sis times its bulk of warm water. "When the calf is three and a half oi four months old. double its feed of oats, and let it have all the good hay or pasture it wants. Let the calf have free access to pure water and salt at all times. "Would not advocate a milk diet after six months old. Make nil changes from one feed to another (as from new to skim or ; buttermilk) gradually. If you are raising beef let the calf do its own milking, giving it access to grain, hay and water as in the other case.?Farm, Field and Stockman. FARM AXD GARDEN NOTES. W Look well to the seed corn. It takes a woman to set a hen. Cover your water trougn u you nave pigeons. Have you laid your plans for a winter dairy next scasou ? The dairyman pays liis biggest tax to his own ignorance. Farmers who honor their profession will, in turn, be honored by it. Newly hatched chicks need nothing for twenty-four hours after leaving the shell. Let parsnip seed be planted early, and when well up thinned to six inches apart. A dairyman should be very inquisitive and observant, for his profit depends upon it. See that the food given to your cows is of the best quality and in the best condition for digestion. The general farmer should keep some sheep, and it is practicable for him to do so if he has good fences. Burn all the old wood that is cut out of blackberries and raspberries, to destroy the eggs of insects. Iron post* and wire arc to be the fence of the future. The quicker the farmer is j prepared for it the better. When you turn the cows to pasture ! give them a feed of hay or nice corn fod- I dcr in the morning and at night. The oil test is the shortest, least expensive and most simple test for learning ! the amount of butter fat in milk. To save plants from the cureulio, spray first when the blossoms fall; a delay of ten days caused a loss of the crop. It is the testimony of some good sheep men, that they use barbed wire for fencing their pastures, and lose little or no wool. Slippery watering places are dangerous for the in-calf cow, as a fall may cause abortion, eveu if the cow herself escapc injury in other ways. * J- il- - me reason ior not mixing ine mgiii, s i *nd morning's milk until ready for heat- \ ing up and curding is, mixing warm and > cold milk hastens decomposition. Never purchase a farm -without having j % search made, back to the State, to know J that your title will be perfect; and be ' sure that there are no incumbrances. Drill points heated to a cherry red and ] tempered by being driven into a bar of ; lead will bore through the hardest steel or plate glass without perceptibly blunting. If your brood-mare is expected to foal . this season do not spare her from work, i Moderate exercise will benefit her. It is unwise to keep a brood-mare in the stall ' and overfeed her. Do not let the milk more than slightly Krwrin tn f>li<mcrr? hofnrp skimminrr. Tf) i let the milk lobher is positively bad, as j it renders it impossible to remove the | cream without takiug too much caseous j matter with it. The Pyramids' Mechanical Mystery. At one of the meetings of the British Association a paper was read on a plan of raising large stones for the purpose of building huge masses of masonry, and which was supposed to be the means employed in building the pyramids, although the precise method adopted by the mighty builders of the valley of the Nile was admitted to be a vexed question. The supposition is that the lifting power was applied from below, the stoue being raised by a tilting process. One end of the stone would lirst of all be raised from the ground by means of powerful levers, which might he of considerable length and worked by a large number of men. After getting the stone to the proper height, a slab of stone or metal could be inserted, and a similar process adopted with the other end of the stone. So, by alternately working at either end, a certain niiirlit }?> itf'iinorl Thr-n hv I V.W.I * """J the use of wedges and rollers, the stone might be got into position. Another nu thod suggested was by means of slightly inclined planes formed of strong timber work or even masonry, working the stones up on rollers by leverage applied behind. There docs not seem to be any suggestion of any direct lifting power applied from above. The question is certainly one iuvolved in considerable obscurity. A Long-Perpetuated Biblical Error. A Parisian paper calls attention to a singular mistake in the revised version of the Old Testament, or rather to the perpetration of an old error. It occurs in II Chronicles, xxii., 1, where Ahaziab is described as. at the aire of 42, having succeeded his father, who died at the aye of -1U. Seeing that another, and a perfectly possible account of the same circumstance is given in II Kings viii., 26, it is surprising t hat this obvious error should have escaped correction. According to the Book of Kings, Ahnziah s real age at his accession was only 22. At the time of Ahaziah's birth, therefore, his father was IS?a fair age for a Syrian father oi a firstborn. This particular error is older than the art of printing. It dates back to some ancient copy of the Book of Chronicles. It is reproduced ia :he Douai version of the Old Testament. THE RUSH FOR GOLD. A WILD RACE FOR CALIFORNIA IN FORTY-NINE. The Adventurous From All Parts of the "World Participated in the Scramble ? High PricesQueer Use for Tobacco. Old Forty-niners laugh at the attempt to compare high prices at the Lower California placer mines with those which prevailed in the lirst flush of gold discovery in the Caloma mill-race, and they are right, for there is no parallel between the cases. The California gold discovery of forty years ago was literally a worlddisturbing event. It occurred at a time when no great wars or enterprises of any kind serving as outlets to surplus energy were in progress, and the announcement j stirred up the adventurous in every part of the globe. It acted with equally electric ciTect upon the spirit of commerce. A race began for San Francisco. Hundreds of vessels were put on the route with every imaginable kind of cargo. Immense losses were incurred by merchants and shippers, first, because they had to guess at the market and often dispatched unsalable goods; secondly, because the arrival of all ships at Yerba Buena was the signal for indiscriminate and helter-skelter desertions. Often every soul on board, from the loblolly-1 boy to the Captain, set off for the mines. It was scarcely possible to find shipkeepers, no matter what wages were offered. Ten dollars a day was refused for stevedoring, and longshoremen would hardly accept the cargo for the labor of unloading it. Ten dollars for an hour's1 work was frequently demanded in those times, and as promptly paid. Scores of ships rotted at their anchors. Some broke adrift, weut ashore, and being left where they stranded, were in time buried under the constantly growing city. Some which lay at wharves were served in the same way. They were not always completely unloaded. Several years ago, for example, while some street repairs were being made in the "made ground" (the lower part of San Francisco) the hull of one of these buried vessels was uncovered, and in it were found several cases of champagne which had been lying there since 4'J or '50. It is a curions fact that even when prices generally were highest liquors and wines remained comparatively cheap. The books kept at Sutter's Fort show that in '-19, when a pair of gum boots cost ?75, a pound of tallow candles $2.50, a box of German matches $1, nails SI a pound, pickles from S3 to $5 a bottle, and so on in like proportion, there was plenty of champagne to be had at 825 the basket. The explanation of this is that all the shippers naturally dispatchcd wines and liquors as miners' staples sure of a market. The result was to glut the market with "wet goods." But many other things which were needed at the mines never got there because of the lack of transportation,and the famine in the San Francisco labor market caused the loss oi incalculable quantities of valuable merchandise. At one time the greater part of a cargo of plug tobacco was used to mend the streets; hundreds of boxes being dumped into mud-holes and employed to build crossings with. The waste in these ways must have been enormous from first to last, but nokodj' 2m ever so much as tried to compute it, and any such attempt would be idle in the circumstances. In that mighty convulsion (for it was nothing less) men never stopped to estimate losses of any kind. The four great fires of San Francisco swept away scores of millions, but the heaviest losers knew that recovery was only a question of pluck and persistence, and they did not wait for the embers to cool before they began to build again. ah mat ims country uuuiu furnish of energy, grit, enterprise and staying qualities gathered in California then, and presently all the world sent of its best and its worst to the great new Tom Tiddler's ground. Nothing is impossible, and so it will not do to say that such seenes will ever be seen again; but at least it is improbable that the overwhelming excitement, the fierce fever of that time, will recur.?Xeio York Tribune. Paris Wastes Nothing. The Jteruc des Deux Mondts has some curious statements respecting the food consumption of Paris. In the large lyceums and schools boys are gcuerally very wasteful; they will throw away half the bread they get for lunch, tread upon it, kick it into the gutter, ink it, etc. None of these fragments are lost. The servants sell them to certain dealers who are called boulangers en vieux, and turn their acquisitions to good account. They first pick out all the tolerable pieces, which they heat in an oven, and then rasp clean. Thus prepared these bits reappear in the market in the shape of toast for soup. Most of the coutons cut into lonzougcs and served on the tables of the rich, with spinach, have no other origin. As for the dirty crumbs and refuse left after the picking, they are pounded in a mortar and sold to butchers as chapelure, with which they cover their ? 1 1 1 l wtnll,. UUUUIS UUVl Ul JKIIU. AI1V 1V(*nj filthy remainder, which is too had even for chapelure, is blackened over a fire, pounded and then mixed lip with honey aromatized with a few drops of essence of peppermint. This is sold as an opiate for the toothache. Why a Cat Falls With Impunity. It is quite wonderful to see a cat jump from a height. It never seems to hurt itself, or to get giddy with the fall. It always lands on its feet, and these arc so beautifully padded that they seldom or never get broken. "Why does not the animal get a headache after its jump? Why does it not receive a concussion of the brain, as a man or a dog would if he performed a similar acrobatic feat? To answer this, we must examine a cat's skull, when we shall sec that it has a regular partition wall projecting from its sides, a good way inward, toward the center, so as to prevent the brain from suffering' from concussion. This is indeed a beautiful contrivance, and shows an admirable internal structure, made in wonderful conformity with external form and nocturnal habits.?Scientific American. A Male Ueauty Show. A novel sort of beauty show is about to take place at Vienna. The beauties on view arc gentlemen, and their claims are to be decided upon by lady judges. There are prizes for the handsomest man, and for the finest mustache. Gentlemen in the sere and yellow leaf will not be excluded from the competition, for there is a special prize for the most imposing bald head.?Lmlon Life. A Faithful Feathered Pet. The keenness of vision and the perceptive faculties of the carrier pigeon have been noted in song and prose, but it is doubtful whether the most fanciful writer ever suggested the probability that the "angels of the air" could find their way to their homes after an absence of nine months. This has hap pened, ho a ever, and a bird owned in Fittsburg by Mr. Hermann Haupt, of Sarah street, south side, is entitled to the distinction that belongs to the feat. The Disj.nfch, of Pittsburg, says that one day in June of last year Mr. Haupt and several of his south side friends, who are pigeon fanciers, sent a large number of carrier pigeons to Richmond, Ind., on a trial trip. They were all excellent flyers, and had beeu away cn a good many excursions of almost that distance. Among others Ilaupt sent the one which only returned the other day. The pigeon is named Favorite, and it has a very good record as a fast and sure raccr. Haupt was much astonished, therefore, that Favorite did not return the next day, but he wa3 even more astonished when he saw the bird alight and walk into its own coop the other day. Haupt thinks that somebody caught the pigeon ana locKeu it up, whu i a view of keeping it, and he values Favorite now more than ever. Cnrbinpr the Nile's Vagaries. Fgypt is very anxious at present over the vagaries of the Nile, which has r ever been so low at this time of year since a record began to be kept of the water supply. The Nile usually keeps falling till June, and, if it were possible for the process to continue at the present rate, She river would become dry. The conJit'on of the Nile at low water for two successive seasons has been calculated to bring into favorable notice the great project of the American engineer, Mr. bope Whitehouse, for storing the surplus water during the inundation in the Raiyah basin, a little southwest of Cairo, :o be used during the low ISile period. He eitimates that a reservoir can be made at a cost of $2,500,000 that will lupply the Nile at low water with fifty million cubic metres of water a day. His plans have been approved by engineers ind by the Egyptian Government, but ;he money to carry them out is not yet forthcoming. It is a noteworthy fact ;hat his scheme contemplates little more :han a restoration of the reservoir, dikes, ind canals that are believed to have jeen used for many centures to equalize :he Kile Hood, and whose ruins can be teen to this day.?New York Sun. Slaughter of Seals by Marauders. "Unless the laws prohibiting the killing of seals by marauders are faithfully nforoed," said Representative Dingley, *c ~ ?illl lin iiiro ;i .incline, lCLcntij, it uiu uuv i??v fears before the valuable seal rookeries >u the Alaskan seal islands, which now field the United States Government an innual revenue of over ?300,000 (to be probably increased to half a million), tvill be "destroyed, as all the South See ookerie* have been. The fur seals retort to the Alaskan seal islands five lionths in the year to bring forth and :ear their young, the females leaving ;heir young upon the shores and going >ut into the waters of the Behring Sea iaily for food. If marauders are allowed :o pursue and kill the females while :hey are searching for food, not only dc ;he females perish, but also their young. More than that, not more than one out )f seven females killed in the water is ecovcred, so that 20,000 sealskins oblained by the marauders represent 140, )00 lemale seals destroyed, and the young in addition: while the regular and au,'borized killing on the land by authority >f the Government is confined to the non>reeding male seals, thus preserving seal ife." Moonshiner Miners. Some of the rugged moonshiners who ire brought down to Atlanta from the nouutains of North Georgia and jailed, ichose lawlessness consisted in making a ittle contraband whisky, know some!hing of crude metal. In their search for ridden places to screen their operations 'rom the keen eye of the revenue asent, n the mountain gulches and the beds of lhallow streams they often find glittering Darticles of gold, and sometimes nuggets arge enough to be of considerable value. While they live from hand to mcuth, :hesc little pieces of gold are treasured md frequently carried about lor years in :bc pocket of the finder. Sometimes in ;he Fulton County Jail, when they have 'alien victims to Uncle Sam's vigilance, iheir own wants or thoughts of the helpess ones at home bring out the little ireasured picccsof gold and the ^ewelers jet them. The United States Deputy Marshals act as the middlemen in these iransactioDS, as the relation between the Jeputics and the prisoners here is often juitc friendly. ? 'Times-D. mocrat. mi A Strangre Piece of Artillery. One of the strangest pieces of artillery n Kurope is at Mctz, Germany, and is mmvM hv the name of the "Griffin," :'rom the figure of the fabulcjs animal which is to be found anion*; the ornanental portiou of its workmanship. The *uii was cast in 152!) at ! hrenbreitstein, lear Coblentz. It is seventeen feet in ?ngth and three in diameter. The bore is ten and one-half inches: weight, 22,500 pounds. Its carriage is twenty-foui ,'cet in bngth, and the weight of the ball which it carries is 157 pounds, ( "orty-two pounds of powder is required ;or the charge. Napoleon intended it for the war department, Paris, but found Jifficulty in transporting it. Your Blood Seeds a good cleansing this spring in order to nercomethe impurities which have accumulated iuring the winter, or which may be hereditary, and tauseyou much suffering. We confidently recommend Hood's Sarsaparilla as tho very best spring iicdicinc. By its use the blood is purified, enriched ind vitalized, that tired feeling is entirely overcomo and the whole body given strength and v.gcr. I he appetite is restored and sharpen'd, the digestive organs are toned, and the kidn< y J and liver invigorated. | "I was f: cling very much worn out and found aothin< to benefit me till I took Hood's Sargaparilla. [ have now taken feveral bottles and it has made me feel p rfectly well. I was also troubled with sores br-.-aking out in my mouth, but sine i taking Hood's Sarasparilla have had n"> further trouble frcm them. I have recommended it to others, who have be. n very much benefited by using it."?Mas. Marx Adi>eiu.t, 627 Xorth Water Street, Decatur, 111. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggwta. $X; six for $r>. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD t CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. _ IOO Doses One Dollar WE guarantee no other LAWN MOWER pk ^NSVITva N i"? l<a\vn :tiower orContiueninl J.awnlUower, LloVD k SlTPPI.EE HasdWAUK Co., Philadelphia. Pi i fijl free Masonary. Siena, Grip* and Morgan's fate by mail on receipt SI wCwi vEu Peoples Pub. Co.. St. Paul, Minn SJfiW? ST;'?Y. Book-keeping,Business Forms EMUMfa Penmanship, Ari hm< tic,Short-hand,etc. I thoroughly taught by MAIL. Circulars free Bryant'h College, 457 Main St.. lii:ffalo, N. Y to S8 a day. Samples worth $1.50FItBfl ft Lines not under the horso's feet. Write tflP W BrewHter Safety I'.eiu Holder Co., HoUay.Mioh An % TAR5 I ? th&'ehi 1 I Vivi?l Writing. A little descriptive piece entitled "Over the Guns," from the Detroit Free Fress, of which we give a paragraph, reminds us that great advertisers, like H. H. Warner & Co., proprietors of Warner's celebrated Safe Cure, might get a hint from it. Here is the paragraph: "Shoot to the right or left, over the guns or under tbcm. Strike where you will, but strike to destroy. Now the hell surges down, aven to the windows of the old farm-house? now back under the apple trees and beyond them. Dead men are under the ponderous wheels of the guns, mad devils are slashing and shooting across the barrels. No one leems to know friend from foe. Shoot, slash, kill and? "But the hell is dissolved. The smoke is lifting, shrieks and screams grow fainter, ?nd twenty or thirty living men pull the lead bodies away from the guns. Three Hundred dead and wounded on the single icre. They tell of war and glory. Look aver this bell's acre and find the latter.1' And n just as deadly a strife, though noiseless, ire men falling at our right and left to-day. ?s it war' Yes, war of the blood. Blood oaded with prison through imperfect kidley action. And is there no power to stop ;his awful slaughter? Yes, Warner's Safe 3ure, a tried specific, a panacea that has Drought life and hope to hundreds of thoulands of dying men and women. Be enlisted, therefore, in the great army )f living men and women who have been rescued from disease and premature death, ind be eternally grateful that the means <>f ife can so easily be yours. PiflPnl Tawai* VlATfltnrQ The Eiffel Tower, at the Paris Exposition, has enough elevators to take 21550 >ersons up to the iirst story and 750 jersons to the top in an hour, and couutng all tne stairs five thousand visitors :an be admitted to the tower every sixty ninutes. By means of the two elevators >ne can reach the apex in five minutes. Ls to the means required for that result t is estimated at lour hundred horsejower. There is consequently installed it the foot of the tower a pump of four tundred horse-power, which will send o the upper reservoirs all the water retired. So, you see, the going up "as ligh as the sky," not to mention the oming down again, will not be the east interesting of the many industrial ncidents of which the Champ de Mars trill soon afford us?the spectacle.? San | i'rana$:o vnronicie. No Chemical*. Is These Days when food adulteration Is so :omrnon, it is a comfort to find an article for he table that is thoroughly reliable. Walter Baker & Co.'s breakfast cocoa is eminent in his limited class. No chemicals are used in ts manufacture and it is absolutely pure. It orms moreover a delicious and healthful irink, as refreshing and more nutritious than eaor coffee,and free from the injurious effects hat those beverages sometimes produce. And I is very cheap withal. The house of "Walter laker & Co. has maintained for more than 100 ears a great and honored repute by the cxellenco and puri'y of its manufactures. There will be about ninety vacancies this ear at the United States Naval Academy. Interested People. Advertising a patent medicine in the pscul?r wav in which the proprietor of Kemp's Salsam, for Coughs and Colds.does it is indeed rondcrful. He authorizes all druggists to give hose who call for it a sample bottle Free, that hey may try it before purchasing. The Largo lottles are 50c and SI. We certainly would ad1se a trial. It may save you from consumplon. An* Australian experiment of shipping ranges to London proved very successful. Tor Rickcts, Marasmus, and Wasting Disorders of Children, (cott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with lypophospliites is unequaleJ. The rapidity rith which children gain flesh and strength ipon it is very wonderful. Read the folio wng: "I have used Scott's Emulsion in cases of tickets and Marasmus of long standing, and iave been more than pleased with the results, a in every case the improvement was narked."?J. M. Main, M.D.. New York. A Radical Cure for Epileptic fits. To the Editor?Please inform your readers hat I have a positive remedy for the above lamed disease which I warrant to cure the vorst eases. So strong is my faith in its virues that I will send free a sample bottle and 'aluablc treatise to any sufferer who will givo "TnrfrisP. O. and Express address. Resp'y, H. GTSODT. M. C.. 183 Pearl tat.. New York. The best coujirsjaedicine isPiso'a_ Cure for ,'onsumption. Sol<r><erywl}ere. :sc. 5TJACOBSQH TRADE MARK*^ REMeWFA!^ IT CONQUERS PAIN. Relieves and cures HEADACHE, RHEUMATISM, Toothache, Sprains, NEURALGIA, BRUISES, Sciatica, Lumbago. Burns and ScaldsAt Druggists and Dealers. THE CHARLES A. VOGELSB CO.. Baltimore, Hi. Diamond Vera-Cura FOR DYSPEPSIA. AND ALL STOMACH TROUBLES 8UCH AS titlitrcation. Sour Stomach, Heartburn.Naurca.fiidlinms. CozuitiriuioD. Fullness after satin?. Food Paaingr in the Mouth and disajfrw-abie taste after a tint,-, fvcrvousness and^ Low Spirit 8. At Druayii-ts end Dealers or rent by mail on re>eipt o/25 cU. (5 boxes $1,00) in stamps. Sample sent n receipt ofi-cenl stamp. rhe Charles A. Vogokr Co., Baltimore, Md N r N U-l 5 ELY'S IREAM IS WORTH siooo TO ANY MAN, fH^FEVER?)? Voman or Child SUFFERING FROM BatT / ?AVAmh^5?X ot a Liquid or Snuff. A particle is applied HAY-FEVEJ? .tdru^-ists: by mail. registeraJ, 60 cents. KLY lil:OTHEliS.53 Warren St.. Xew Tort CR ATEFU L?COMFORTINC. EPPS'S CUBA BREAKFAST. i "By athorough knowledge of the naturallaws which kovern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the tine properties of well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Eppa has provided our breakfast 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 built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle m ?] ad if s 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 fortitied with pure blood and a properly nourished frame."?Civil Service Gazette. Made simply witn boiling water or milk. Sold only in half-pound tins, by Grocers, labelled thus: J A."Uli!S EPI*!* ?St CO., Homoeopathic Chemists, London. England. Ohio IMPROVED (MflrsFMfei jSrs&L warranted CHOLERA PROOF. t^S^T Uwii* EXPRESS PREPAID. Wins 1ST iT'^y /fp "gP" PRIZES IH U. S. fc POHEIOM Couh* vL_f t TRIES. 2 WEIGHED 2806 LBS. K aj/ ''SKa 4f Scwo FOR OECORIPTION ti PRICE OF 5 TMCBE FAUOUB HOSS. Also FOWLS. 'Jrj&r L. 8. SILVER CO. CLSVIL*M0,O. EfcJB^ (This company wild 102b head for broedinu purposes in 1&SS. bend for (acts and mention Uii* paper.) TGOGB IsviHG _ Nurserymen^ "* | t?eueva? w. ?.. ?... . . . for terms. Unequaled C V E EJ V SLfl AM facilities. Many rnlunhU ? B kef I IseMiI rpeeiailiti. One of tbo TPfr r rvp rfn trnnir IwjiMt and foest*known WILLING TO WORK. Nurseries in the country nffinn QCVI GENEVA Nl'HSKKV 538JU&J tr?&?Ej Established 1846. OOMMptson t have a positive remedy for the above disease; by its us? thousands of eases of the worst kind and of lea? standing liavobee.. cured. So strong Is my faith In its efficacy that 1 will send two bottles free, together with a vafuabli treatise on this disease to any sufferer. Give Express aad P. 0. address. T. A. BLOCUM. if. C., 181 Pearl St., N. Y AN HONES'. wtefi fo? the best blood-purifier, Medical Discovery, because he knows i! best satisfaction to his customers. Gol from a common Blotch, or Eruption to Rough Skin, in short, all diseases caus powerful, purifying, and invigorating heal under its benign influence. Esp curing Tetter, Eczema. Erysipelas, JE Sores and Swellings. Hip-joint Disea Goitre, or Thick Neck, and Enlarged Consumption, which is Scrofula of remedv. if taken in the earlier stages c p?tr?r- . ... nm||m | n wmmmm i i i ij I WARE ANTES J is xamraabdbhabmmibbam gu cases of diseases for which it is r will be promptly refunded. For Weak Lungs, Spitting of I Asthma, Severe Coughs, and kindre Sold by Druggists, at $1.00, or six Bo Copyright, 1888, bj World's Dispels. OATARK eeptic, soothing and healing properties of Dr j. SI . . I52HAESABL3 CASE. | _ jSd jm ' ' f For two years I had ST rlinumatism so bad that f y it disabled mc for work aud^cor.Gncd rac to^rcy for 3 moatlia could not fS ?H move myself in bed;wns fr W reduced in flesh from ^t0 ' hs. V.'aa treat Oiiijr iu gruu uuicc. Finally I took Swift's Specific, and soon began to Improve. After a while was at my work, and For the past five months have been as well as I ever was?all bom the effects of Swift's Specific. t ****# ' -?r - Johk Rat, Jan. 8,1833. Ft. Wayne, Ind. Books on Blood and S!:In Diseases mailed free. ~ ctot Spzcitic Co., Atlanta, Ga. TF YOU WISH A z^> , \*vGol%ln f%y purchase one of the cele- Ire xkzUV* bra ted SMITH & WESSON arms. The finest small arms // xy\f \W?\ ever manufactured and tho \\J/ Jj 11) first choice of all experts. jgMI Manufactured In calibres 32,:? and ?-lOO. Sin- Ml gle or double action, Safety Hammerless and Target models. Constructed entirely or best quality wrought steel, carefully inspected for workmanship and stock, they are unrivaled for finish, durability and accuracy. Do not be deceived by cheap malleable cast-iron imitations whicn are often sold for the genuine article and are not only unreliable, but aanirerous. The SMITH & WESSON Revolvers are all stamped upon tho barrels with firm's name, address and dates of patents and are guaranteed perfect in every detail. Insist upon naving the genuino article, aud If your dealer cannot supply you an order sent to address below will receive prompt and carefnl attention. Descrpttvecatalofiiie and prices furnished upon applicaton. SMITH & WESSON, aar~Mention this papsr. Springfield, IHasa. Taylor's Hospital Cure for Catarrh Warranted to give satisfaction or money refunded. Sold on ten f\ .klfev days' tr>a^ Price coinf jfV 4^^^^\piete $2.50. For pam' plilets and termsofsale address City Hall Pliarmacy, No. 2fl4 Broadway, New Yorfc. - WANTED! A reliable man in each county- to take tli? agrency for tli? best, most easily adjcsted and simp'est Aulomatic Bumlar Alarm on th market. Agents mak? from $5 to $25 per <lny. Portable or Stationary. Can bis ailixed instantly. Srrif-'WrKDEi:; rim<s loudly. The verdict of ever om who sees it: "The best Alarm I ever paw." Address with stamp. The Excelsiort Burglar Alarm Co.. Cleveland, Ohio. Pri.O.III. JOHNW.iWOJlRlS, 5c; MB a S I du Latc Principal Examiner, B a w B B H S B 3 a u- S. Pension Bureau.Att'y in I v \& Ivil at Law, Waohiiigtsn, D. C., successfully prosecutes, claims-original, increase, re-ratine, widows', children's and dependent relatives'. Experience: S years in last war, 15 years in Pension Bureau, and attorney since then. R?<aSv'9 DbM* Great English Gout and Bails 3 rlSSSs Rheumatic Remedy. 1 Oval Ho.v,;Mi round 14 Pilla. I701t S A IjE.?1.900 Acres Timber Land in Tucker . Co., W. Va.. uear Hendricks, on W. Va. C. R. R. Heavily timbeivd;Popiar, Ash. Oak, Cherry, Walnut, Sc. Price $15.00 jit-r acre. Title perfect. Address E. W. McN'KIL, Old Fields. Hardy Co.. W. Va. "rem tv fttlv world 0 r s lb " jy-Get the Genuine. Sold Everywhere. CAnnoN WilU ? sol'.l by your dealer, wrl ?T< ??, ? < >}> ^ ?? ??< >l< ?J? >1" ?I? ?f" ?" J Tiie man who has invented trom thres J to tlvc dollars in a Kubber Coat, and m at Ills tlrst half hour's experience ia |fl B a storm Duds to his sorrow that I', Is 0L5?< hardly a better protection than a mos- ? Vtj qulto netting, not only feels chagrined w w at being so badly taken in, but also E [)l fcfll ifl'j does not look exactly lixo Sgag I Ask for the " FISH BI'AND" Suckkii BB I does uot hare the fisk uutu, tend for ties crip tire ci fcTa |-T< >Tj |Tj |T< >T4 ti g |T^ |Ta - >7 a ^ vVTV vTTTTTTTi TTTtyT Wm ? _. . , . ? - Jb; V DRUGGIST, always recommends Dr. Pierce's Golden ; has by far the largest sale and gives the den Medical Discovery cures all humors, the worst Scrofula. Salt-rheum, Scaly or ;ed by bacl blood are conquered by this medicine. Great Eating Ulcers rapidly ecially has it manifested its potency in foils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Scrofulous ise, "White Swellings," "Fever Sores," Glands. the Lungs, is arrested and cured by this >f the disease. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery the only medicine of its class that to arantced to benefit or cure, in all ecommended, or the money paid for it Hood, Shortness of Breath, Bronchitis, d affections, it is an efficient remedy, ttles for $5. CO. iuy Medical Association, Proprietors. I INTCTB^ffiAT) ^ is conquered by the cleansing, anti. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. 50 cents, by druggist*. Fain REMEDY stop* the ma it >3^ E excrnclatlBg ! jntlti ??/fni"' truly the great *!_-< CONQUEROR OF PAIN, and kr, hai done mure '""'-vvsS *?,-? ... 'i?i SI known remedy. For SPRAINS, CIU/ISES, BACKACHJE, PAIN in the CHEST or SIDES, HEAD- ^ ACHE, TOOTHACHE, or any other EXTERNAL PAIN, a few application* act .. "* like magic, causing the FAIN to INSTANTLY STOP. For CONGESTIONS,IXFLAM3IATIONS, SORE THROAT, BRONCHITIS, COLD in tho CHEST, RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, LUMBAGO, SCIATICA, PAINS in the Small of the Back, etc., more extended, longer continued and repeated applications are necossary to effect a cure. All INTERNAL PAINS (In the Bowels or Stomach), CRAMPS, SPASMS, SOUR STOMACH, NAUSEA, VOMITING, HEARTBURN, DIARRHOEA, COLIC, FLATULENCY, FAINTING SPELLS. ar? relieved Instantly and QUICKLY CURED by taking Internally as directed. Sold by Druggists. Price, 50c. DlDWAfO n pills o a THE (Mira&StoiiiMeiily' 3 For th? care of all disordors of tho STOMACH, LIVER, BOWELS, KIDNEYS, BLADDER, NERVOUS DISEASES, LOSS of APPETITE. HEADACHE, CONSTIPATION, COSTIVENESS, INDIGESTION, BILIOUSNESS, FEVER, V.^ INFLAMMATION of the BOWELS,PILES and all derangements of the Internal Viscera. Purely Vegetable, containing no mercury, mineral, or DELETERIOUS DRUGS. PERFECT DIGESTION will be accomplished by taking RADTVAY'S PILLS. By so doing ? ! DYSPEPSIA, M cm.- iirininir WOlll. CTll M t f'T) BILIOUSNESS, will be avoided, and tho food that is eaten contrlbnte Its nourlihing properties for the support of tho natural waste of the body. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS, Price 23c. per box, or, on receipt of price, will be sent by mail. 5 boxes for One Dollar. RAUWAY & CO., 33 Warren St.,N. Y iS I prescribe ana lolly ea. dorse Ble G as the o?ly f <4wRTc?r?i in specific forthecertalncuro *C 6 daYB.\? of this disease. I AgEf&sanatMd not toU (J. H. INtiRAH AM,M. D., ! aS# cms*Birtsiatt " Amsterdam, N. Y. Kip urdtoir byth? We have sold Blr G for I r\fa many years. nnd It baa . fWaSrUlCijauJWMj^^ Klyen the best of satlsi SfiSbt Otitjianid.HHBBi faction. ; ^S?k Ohio. ^13 D. R. DYCKE 4 CO.. ? Chicago, nr. j Trr^^'^g^r^si.oa. Sold by DruggUt.1"PEERiTOS aV?g sot.n^T Duuixicrfc. ^ =1 The Gold Hunters9 Adventures in Australia, by Wm. If. Thomes. -^n ric^AI ?tory of two YasW Adventures fa Amtralia, la tUe eviy <Uy?, when the iUcorsry of jold attracted a xnsliey crowa 01 maim, M..a Huahrinjtr, Tlekett-of-Lcare," Outlaw^ aid tvnj St 6^^ variety of Adrenturen. ' Tha most fasciuztinsstory of DAX|WH GER. EXCITEME.M', HARDSHIP M&3BJ' and CONFLICT, ever written ! IlKS Si^Bl A tp'fRdld roluae of 564 Psgw. ?>1 41 '"II P S? WJ 5j|uv Illuilntion, with h.tuiiome Enjrjred C?l?r?d Carer. j??}3F?2r cbejpnt. I.ir?eit ?iJ inoit Kud??llnf of Booki! SS?ja& PKICE ONLY 25 CENTS! S?U k? ?U or tent postpaid Vy paWbhos, SFi^Skr' M.EX. T. LOYO it. CO., Th? Lake Mififfls sld? BuilcUnc*, C'liicusTo, 111. HL'i'IW OTRamlt bv P?t*l X???? Coin, or o?? ceat ttampt, , I, DOUGLAS SHOE GENTLEMEN. Best in tno worui. examine nig r,.00 GENUINE HAND-SEWED SHOE. 4.00 HAND-SEWED WELT SHOE. U..">0 POLICE AND FARMERS' SHOE. >.. EXTRA VALUE CALF SHOE. i.25 WORKINGMAN'S SHOE. .MlUaiidSl.^S BOYS' SCHOOL SHOES. AH made In Coujrcss, Button and Lace. L. DOUGLAS SHOE lafb?,res. Material. Best Style. Beit Fittlar. Iia<t the W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES withont ipe<i on bottom, put liiin down as a fraud. If not te W. L. DOUGLAS, BROCKTOK. MAbS. UK Wo oOer the man who wuati service Hi (not style) a aaruient that will keep mam SSBH lilm iry lu the hardest gtorni. It is |T [J tailed TO WICK'S FISH ?R.ANI? C_ 1 " SLICKER," a name faniiUjr to ?" Cow-boy all over the la:id. J* ltd thew Bi MX m the only perfect W:nd and Waterproof Ui gmH Coat i? " Tow?r's I'lth Brand h.loker. zjjs I andTake no other. Ifyouritorekamer Ltalornc. A. J.Towau.a)SimmerjSfc, HoiWn.Maiii.