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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
rROFIT FROM DEES.
The profit from bees depends wholly
on the management. A well-worked
apiary will extract more value in the
honey from a field of clover than a dairy
of cows will make of butter from the same
clover, and the bees will leave all the hay
and clover seed. A field of white clover,
buckwheat, or any flowering crop will
make the most income in the form of
honey. So that a bee farm provided with
a succession of the best honey-yielding
crops would be more profitable than any
other kind of agriculture.?New York
Times.
EXPOSING TREE ROOTS TO AIR.
Few persons realize how great damage
results to trees from even short exposures
of their roots to air. It is this which |
makes even the most careful transplanting
such a check to growth. When the trees
are taken up and carried on wagons, with
roots sticking out into the air several
hours, the finer feeding roots are so
withered that even moist earth will not
revive them. The tree must wait until
new roots can be put forth, which is best
promoted by trimming back the points of
the roots just before setting them in the
ground. The swelling of the buds will
make a demand for new supplies of sap i
from below. Some of the best protected
of the old roots will revive and hasten to
furnish moisture to the tree. Others with
clean cuts will callous over and form roots
from the callous.?Boston Cultivator.
MUTTON FOK THE TABLE.
The same breeding, feeding and care
will produce a higher quality of mutton
than of beef or pork. Both beef and
pork are occasionally from diseased animals,
and human beings often contract
scrofula and tuberculosis by partaking of
them, while this appalling feature is never
attributed to mutton. Mutton agrees
with the digestive organs better than the
other meats and can be produced cheaper.
Ten lambs can be grown in six months
that will dress as much meat as a steer at
two years of age. They will consume no
nay or grain, simpiy pasture, dui me steer
has to be pastured two seasons, fed hay
two winters and grain one. The lambs
consume 110 more grass than the steer
does in his second summer and when sold
they bring more money. In case of the
lambs the money is returned in six months
and the steer in two years?a large gain
in interest for the lambs. The first cost of
the lambs is not so much as that of the
steer, for their ewe mothers produce
fleeces to pay their way and the steers
mother has to be raised to at least two
years of age without returning anything.
In comparison with the cost of pork there
is not so much difference, but it is in favor
of the lambs.?American Agriculturist.
a chicken's growth.
The mysterious development of animal
life from the egg, as revealed day by day
during the process of incubation, is a i
most interesting study. Usually on the
third day after heat is applied to a fertile
egg the "germ" is visible. The eye and
brain first assume form. Veins radiate
from this speck. By the fourth day these
vessels are marked distinctly, appearing
-to emanate from the eye. The head is
given shape on the fifth; the body on the
sixth; the heart, liver and other internal
organs developing rapidly from this time.
On the ninth and tenth days the bones of
the chick, and the legs with small scales
upon them, are discoverable. Life ap
pears on the twelfth day. iieat is evolved
from the atom off a creature. The circulation
of blood is noticeable. Thereafter
the egg throws of a certain amount of
heat and the incubator needs less artificial
warmth to maintain the required 102
degrees. Up to the fifteenth day the
chick's eyes has been the most prominent
feature, but from that time on the growth
is seemingly proportionate. To the nineteenth
day the chick enlarges in its several
parts, with legs, incipient feathers and
beak. The following day that beak is
used to batter clown the lime wall that
confines the bird; and during the six or
twelve hours of imprisonment the little
fellow's system absorbs the yolk of the
egg, which furnishes the sustenance during
the first day of adventure in a heartless
and conspiring world.?American
Poultry Journal.
SEED POTATOES.
There is a great difference of opinion
among farmers upon the subject of planting
potatoes. Some claim that by planting
a piece of potato with only a single
eye in each hill they will get a much
larger proportion of good-sized, marketable
potatoes than by seeding more heavily.
There is no question that when the
object is to produce the largest possible
yield from a given quantity of seed, regardless
of expense, it can be accomplished
by cutting the tubers so that there
shall be but a single eye on each piece,
and then dropping but one picce in a
hill. When experimenting with new varieties
that come very high this course
may prove most profitable. As our correspondent
is in a section of country favorable
for growing potatoes on a large
scale, where seed potatoes can be bought
at reasonable prices, he will find heavy
seeding the most profitable. Experiments
in potato growing have been made
at most of the agricultural colleges. The
results of those at Michigan were as follows:
"The yield from cuttings, one j
eye to the hill, was fifty bushels; two!
eyes, seventy-one; three eyes, eighty-six; j
one-half potato, ninety, and whole po- !
tato, 117 bushels, showing a very large
gain made by planting whole seed. "\V.
J. Green, horticulturist of the Ohio Agricultural
College, says on this subject:
Larger yields of potatoes have invariably
been obtained from planting whole
than cut potatoes; but a portion, at least,
of this increase has been offset by the
greater cost of the seed and the larger
per cent, of small potatoes in the produce."?Boston
Cultivator.
THE TEETII OF nOKSES.
The illiterate and ignorant horse doctor
is very prone to attribute every slight
ailment in young horses to the presence of
what are erroneously called "wolf teeth."
Every man who raises horses should know,
even if he does not, that a foal, when
about a year old, has six temporary or
front nippers, as they are termed, in the
upper and lower jaws. At two years old
the two centre nippers are shed, and new
and permanent teeth fill their places. At
three years the next two teeth, one on
each side, drop out, and at four years old
the permanent corner teeth appear, and
usually the tushes, but sometimes the
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latter do not come in until the animal is
five years old. As these first or temporary
nippers become worn and are
crowded upward by the growth of the
permanent teeth they often turn quite
black long before they drop out. It is
these milk or first teeth that give the
country horse doctor bo much trouble,
but it is rare that they seriously trouble
the animal in whose jaws they have
grown. In some instances, however, there
is considerable irritation and fever attending
the cutting of the teeth in animals.
Horses sometimes suffer from what
is called detention fever, especially in the
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and eiglit back ones, also in the fourth
year, when the same number is cut, with
the addition of four tushes. If the gums
are red and highly inflamed they should
be washed with tincture of myrrh, and if
there is much swelling slight lancing will
usually give immediate relief. Soft food
at such times should also be given, as it
is more readily masticated. If one of the
temporary teeth should become loose and
interfere with mastication, it may be
drawn out or cut loose from the gums,
but there should be no "knocking out"
with file and hammer, as is far too often
practiced with country . horse doctors.
Wild horses appear to get along very well
without any assistance from man at teething
time, and those under domestication
rarely require any assistance in getting rid
of their temporary teeth. The teeth of
old horses do occasionally require a little
filing if worn uneven with hard and coarse
food, but rarely otherwise.?New York
Sun.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Never keep food before the hens continually.
The secret of feeding is to avoid getting
your laying hens fat.
Always keep your hens at work. An
idle hen is never a good layer.
Do not compel a few good hens to sup
port the others. Kill tne drones.
Never mix wood ashes with manure of
any Hind, but apply it to the land separate
and alone.
To throw a tree into the ground and
in any sort of a location, is not the way
to plant a tree.
If you have not planted that bit of
sweet corn yet, you need not wait any
longer. Put it in.
You can't produce eggs and lice at the
same time?the one business is entirely
separate from the other.
Grain is deficient in lime and mineral
matter, but bran is rich in nitrogen, carbon
and mineral matter.
Young trees should be cultivated during
the early part of the season very much
the same as a corn crop.
Feed boxes should not be kept full of
feed. If they are, the hens will have no
inducement to work and scratch.
The machine for converting food into
eggs must be of the best to be had. Anything
and everything will not do.
If your fruit crates are getting old and
looking dirty and rusty, paint them with
some bright colored paint at once.
Beans and peas, cooked, and thickened
with bran, and fed twice a week, is
an excellent food for laying hens.
Do not waste time trying to cure eggbound
hens, or persistent cases of roup.
The labor -will be worth more than the
hen.
Don't pile manure up around the bodies
of your old fruit trees, but scatter it
over the surface as far out as limbs extend.
Be careful in setting strawberry plants
not to plant the roots in a bunch, but
spread them out fan shaped and all will
grow.
The more wrinkled the pea seed the
better the quality, but the kinds that are
of the wrinkled varieties are not usually
the earliest. :
Poor, light, sandy soil will produce the
earliest fruit, and old strawberry beds
will ripen the same kind earlier than
young beds.
A mold from the leaves and small
twigs of maples mixed with one-sixth its
bulk of sand makes the best soil for potting
Hippeaster.
If you have a first class seedling of a
peach, pear or apple, sow pits or seeds
from it, and as a rule you will get fruit
the same or similar.
Whitewash the fruit trees, getting it
well in the crotches with lime. "Whitewash
the limbs as far up as it can be
done, as well as the bodies.
Plow among the raspberries at once,
throwing furrows up to them, and then
run through with the cultivators up to
nearly time of ripening fruit.
A grape vine, no matter how large or
old, may be cut down almost to tne
ground. Fresh growth will be made
from eyes that were dormant.
It is said that rags saturated with kerosene
and fastened into a split stick that
has been driven into the squash, mellon
and cucumber hills will keep bugs off.
Condition powders cannot assist a hen
to get something out of nothing. If the
albumen is not in a large amount of food
it will not be found in a teaspoonful of
condition powder.
Perfnines From Roses.
In Eastern Roumelia, formerly a part
of Turkey, but now joined to the new
principality of Bulgaria, a very attractive
business is carried on?the cultivation of
roses to be manufactured into perfume
known as attar of roses. The valleys
lying around the famous Shipka Pass,
through which the Russian troops
marchcd into Turkey in 1877, are covered
with fields of cultivated roses.
The name Shipka itself means wild
rose. It has long been supposed that a
peculiar variety of white rose grew here,
and yielded the delicious perfume. But
specimens sent to French gardeners for
identification prove to be the familiar
white rose of European and American j
gardens.
The making of perfumes from roses
has, moreover, long since ceased to be a
monopoly of the far East. It is carried
on to a considerable extent in this country,
and notably in Florida and Georgia.
Romance of Invention.
Some of the pioneers in electrical application
have reaped golden harvests.
Professor A. G. Bell was at one timo
walking about Washington anxious to sell
telephone stock for ten cents on the dollar.
Before that he was teaching a deaf
and dumb school in Boston. The telephone
brought him fame and riches, and
he has now an income of hundreds of
dollars a day,and a fortune of $6,000,000.
C. F. Brush is said to have been working
at $15 a week before he struck the electric
light which made him a millionaire. I
A TINY KINGDOM
WHAT MAY BE SEEN IN A VISIT
TO THE ISLE OF MAN.
A Diversity of Beautiful Scenery
in a Very Small Space?Relic
of an Ancient Scandinavian
Custom.
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It is snid that there is no other spot in
the world where such diversity of scenery
has been compressed into a small space as
the Isle of man. It is a Liliputian kingdom
from its miniature constitution to its
tiny rivers and waterfalls; from its pigmy
mountains to its little valleys. Everything
is abridged and petit, writes Marion
Taylor in the San Francisco Call. Manxland
lies midway between the ports of
Belfast and Liverpool, its rocky coast continually
washed by restless waves of the
Irish Sea. Douglas, the principal town
and 15011:. was simply a fishing village not
very many years ago, but cow it can boast
of London shops, fine hotels and boardinghouses,
and in the season there is such a
mighty influx of visitors that many have
to seek shelter in the bathing-machines
for lack of better accommodation. Its
beautiful bay is guarded at one extremity
by Onchau Head and at the other by that
majestic promontory, Douglas Head, the
view from which is unsurpassed; while
between the two on an islet of rock is
Wordsworth's wave-washed tower of
refuge.
Douglas owns some beautiful walks,
notably one through the woods to the
nunnery grounds, and another to Kirk
Braddan, where lie both Druid and
Scandinavian in the graveyard consecrated
by the associations of 1000 years.
At Castleton, in the south of the
island, is the House of Keys, where the
Manx Parliament is held; it boasts also
Castle Rushen, which dates from the
twelfth century,and which was the prison
of the heroic Countess of Derby, who, as
Sir Walter Scott tells us, was detained
there after the island had succumbed to
Cromwell until the restoration. At the
present time the castle is used as the
Manx House of Detention. Port Erin is
a sweet spot, and from it may be obtained
a fine view of that mountain-like rock,
Bradda Head. A sail round the Calf of
3Ian insures for the tourist sublime scenery,
for it is there nature assumes her
wildest mood. The cliffs rise to giddy
heights and wear all manner of weird
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SOapCS. Ilie outers, luc uu^ai u.u>
Rocks and the Thousla Rock, each stand
out as a picture of superb coast scenery.
Spanish Head, a stupendous cliff on the
mainland, with hidden rocks, sharp as
knives, stretching out under the sea, is so
; named from having been destructive to
Jthe -warships of the Invincible Armada in
!1588.
i Ramsey, the second town of importjance
on the island, has many attractions,
'among others its proximity to the beautiful
Sulby Glen, and many prefer it to
Douglas on account of its quieter aspect.
Laxey, a few miles distant from Ramsey,
is noted for the largest water-wheel in
the world, used for draining the lead
mines of that locality, and standing as it
does, a miracle of mechanism, amid the
most romantic and beautiful mountain
scenery, Snaefell overtopping all; it lives
long in the memory. Then, how many
lovely glens there are, with their wooded
banks and fairy waterfalls?Glen Helen,
with the music of Rhenass ravishing the
eye and ear, and Dhon Glen, with its
rushing waters making melody everywhere.
Surely it is the land of poetry.
A glance at the Isle of Man would be
incomplete without a few words on the
subject of what is called by the Manx
people Tynwald Day, which means a festival
attended by the population of the
entire island. It is held on the 5th of
July every year, and is the lingering relic
of a Scandinavian custom, elsewhere obsolete
for a great number of years.
The main purpose of the gathering is
to hear the public promulgation of the
laws of the island from the lips of the
governor-general, on Tynwald Mount, a
mount hemu\ed in with hills in the hamlet
of St. John, an out-of-the-way spot
situate between Doucrlass and Peel. It is
a quaint ceremony, in which those laws
that have passed through the House of
Keys during the past year and have received
the imperial consent are declared
to tho people. The law-giver reads the
statutes first in the English language and
then in the native tongue of Mona, a
dreadful dialect, which is still spoken
there to a considerable extent. Outside
the Mount there are all the characteristics
of a country fair, for the rest of the day
is devoted to fun and pleasantry --the <
Manx peasantry evidently agreeing with
the old proverb which tells us "all work
and no play makes Jack a dull boy," and
there, mingling feeling freely together,
are seen the Peel fishermen, the farmers
from the interior, the pretty Manx girls,
attired in gaudy colors, the swarthy
miners from Laxey, soldiers in their gay
uniform, belonging to the detachment
sent thither for the day from the military
headquarters; and last, but not the least,
the good-humored tourists, full of delight
and enjoyment. And thus we leave this
happy people, content with their own
beautiful island, their humble lives and
primitive ways.
lYhale's Milk for Consumptives.
"TVhaloid, Infallible Cure for Consumption.
Dispensing hours, 8 to 10 a.
m. ; 3 to 5 p. m." On turning down Oxford
street my attention was attracted to
this huge sign on the opposite side of the
street, and also by the number of people
flocking into the building. Entering the
building, I was at a loss what to make
of the matter, as all I could see was the
crowd and a large tank in the centre of
the room. This tank -was some seventy
feet long, thirty feet wide and as I learned
offorroarrl nViAiit. t.liirHr fpp.t. flppn h/ivinnr
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been constructed at a great expense.
While waiting patiently for deve.opments
I found that the liquid was being lowered
or let out by some means. Soon a smooth
black surface appeared to view, and as
the water continued to recede I became
aware that a captive whale was on exhibition.
Surprised at not having to pay
any ad nission fee, I was soon made aware
of the reason. A framework had been
constructed on which the animal rested,
and soon an expert milkman was engaged
in extracting for the consumptives whaloid
(or whale's milk), which was greedily
absorbed at five shillings per glass.?
London Druggists' Bulletin.
Flowers 2000 Years Old Well Preserved.
P. E. Newberry, of London, has exhibited
and explained a case of flowers,
wreaths of narcissus, roses and amaranths
predominating, which had been
taken from an ancient Egyptian ceme- J
tery. Though 2009 years old they were
in an admirable state of preservation.
) Into the ''Black Lands" of Russia.
The road stretches over silent and
empty plains, where the horizon retreat
incessantly before the eyes, without
changing in aspect, like the waves in the
open sea. It is indeed a sea?a sea of
wheat with its golden ears undulating as
far as the eye can see. Nothing in our
thickly populated country districts can
give an idea of the profound stillness of
the Russian steppes. At long intervals
you come across a peasant seated in his
telegue, or astride of his droghi?a primitive
cart made of a beam placed on two
axles. A few versts further north we
leave the last village of Greater Russia,
with its black and low cottages built of
pine trunks and wattling. As the traveler
advances into Ukrania, the houses of
Little Russia assume a more comfortable
air, with their whitewashed walls. The I
l-dpnor nf tVio inn wliprc wp stork was for- I
merlyaserfof La Generate; liberated before
the emancipation, he has made a small
fortune. Now his two sons are beginning
to learn Latin, with a view to obtaining
diplomas at the gymnasium of Kiev. At.
the door one of these boys, in long black
coat, black boots and cap, is playing on
an accordion. The other is absorbed
in a volume of the poems of Nekrassof.
The carriages plunge once more into
the corn fields or into the shade of a
birch wood. This latter is rarely met
with in the "black lands," which are almost
entirely cleared and cultivated.
Furthur on to the north you often travel
for a whole day through an ancient forest,
in which are stagnant marshes covered
with dazzling flowers?with roses, anemones,
orchids, floating islands of orris
and of water-lilies. At last we arrive in
front of the mill which turns on the river.
The Jew farmer salutes and bows to the
ground. The peasants that we meet on
the road, with their familiar faces, greet
La Generate with a respectful "Goodday,
little mother." On the hill a flag
floating from the top of the turret marks
the house of the seigneur; a few more steps
and the horses rush at full gallop into a'
large courtyard surrounded with buildings
and dependencies.
Fifty or sixty persons, men, women
and children, are drawn up on the steps
awaiting the arrival of their mistress.
These are the families of the "court,"
for the seigneur has his court just like
the Tsar. These families, employed in
his immediate service, and living on his
liberality, constitute the aristocracy of
the village. Serfdom has disappeared, it
is true, but its manners and the obligations
it has left still survive. All these
people pav their tribute of grati
tude by kissing the hands of the benefactress
as she gets out of her carriage.?
Harper's Magazine.
Battle With a Boa Constrictor.
One of the most perilous battles between
a "woman and a large boa constrictor
occurred at Grand View recently,
says the Kansas City Traveler.
About 7 o'clock, as Mrs. H. N. Strait,the
handsome and accomplished young wife
of H. N. Strait, of the Wyandotte
Plumbing Company, descended into the
cellar of their residence on Sixteenth
street, Grand View, she was startled by a
loud hiss and two fiery red eyes looking
at her. Returning with a lamp, the lady
discovered a large snake coiled around a
piece of wood. Taking a coal shovol in
her hand, Mrs. Strait prepared to do
battle with the monster. The first blow
seemed to infuriate the reptile, and, with
a loud hiss, it sprang at the now
thoroughly alarmed but brave woman.
A blow from the shovel knocked the
thrust aside, and with the rapidity of
lightning the snake again prepared to
strike. Five consecutive times did the
huge monster retreat, and then plunge
through the dimly lighted air at the
woman who was so nobly defending herself.
At last a well-directed stroke
knocked the reptile to the floor and seemed
! to stun it for a moment. The glistening
eyes had become two fascinating balls of
flame, and the great fangs worked with
awful velocity. Following up the blow,
Mrs. Strait succeeded in killing the boa,
and with fast-failing strength she reached
the floor above, where help soon reached
her.
Mr. Strait is in Wyoming Territory,
where he is largely interested in a newly
discovered mica mine, and his wife was
alone with the servants. A party of neighbors
were summoned and the snake
carried into the woodshed. It proved to
be a boa constrictor and measured eleven
feet and eight inches from the head to the
tip of the tail. It is supposed to have
escaped from some menagerie.
Gold Plating the Hnman Body.
There is a St. l^ouis gentleman engaged
in the silver and gold electroplating business,
who has for five years been engaged
in a private laboratory upon a series of
remarkable experiments, the object of
which is to supplant the present art of
embalming the dead by silver or gold
plating the human body. The electroplating
process would, of course, present
a hermetic surface, and the body if prepared
as now for embalming and then put
through a silver or gold bath would keep
forever. An egg electroplated seven
years ago, when recently opened was
found to be as fresh as the day when it
was laid. The experimenter had progressed
a long way when he succeeded in
plating a chunk of cheese, and later on he
succeeded in preparing successfully the
human leg. His experiments are conducted
with great secrecy. It is probable
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the bodies of the dead has been discovered.
The advantages of silver-plated
ancestors mounted on pedestals as statuary
are at once apparent.?Star-Sayings.
The Rome of America.
St. Louis is called by the Catholic
clergy of this country the Rome of
America. Baltimore is the oldest stronghold
of the Catholic faith in the United
States, but with the shifting westward of
the center of population she lost her position.
It is the large number of church
structures, the convents, asylums and
academies, the vast area of valuable and
centrally located property, the large attendance
at the churchcs and the numbei
and sacrcdness of the possessions of the
various parishes that have combined to t
give St. Louis the pseudonym mentioned.
?St. Louis Star-Sayings.
In 1885 the beet-sugar product of
France, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Hungary,
Holland, and Russia amounted to
2,546,000 tons; and in the same year the
entire cane-sugar production of the world
was only 2,260,000 tons.
In this country there are crematories
for the incineration of the dead at Washington,
Lancaster, Pennsylvania; New
York, Buffalo, Detroit, St. Louis, Philadelphia,
Chicago and Cincinnati.
!, Feod for Reflection.
The New York World of February 9tb
says:
"The question as to how much of what they
pretend to know doctors really know is a very
interesting one.
"They possess exceptionally great facilities
for humbugging, ana the presumption is that
thev are not proof in most cases, at all times
at least, against temptation to make use of
them. Their profession comes as near being
an esoteric one as any that is acknowledged
to be resp<?ctable. But the revelation as to
their views in the Robinson arsenical poisoning
cases in Boston is startling.
"There were five deaths from the drug, and
the doctors in their certificates attributed
them respectively to pneumonia, typhoid
fever, menigitis, bowel disease and Bnght's
disease of the kidneys. The truth would nave
never been known but for suspicions with
which the doctors had nothing to do. There
is food here for reflection?ana for doctors."
The above criticism is fully warranted bv
the start! ing ignorance shown by the attending
physicians in the Somerville cases.
It can be aptly said that human life is too
often sacrificed to the ignorance and bigotry
of the profession.
Too often it happens that fatal results follow
an improper course of treatment?the
physician treats the patient for consumption,
general debility or for nervous disorders,
whilst the real disease, which is slowly destroying
the kidneys and filling the system
with a poison quite as deadly as arsenic, is
altogether overlooked or does not attract attention
until too late.
Physicians too often treat the symptoms of
disease instead of the disease itself.
It is well established that four-fifths of the
ordinary ills which beset humanity are the
results of disease in the kidneys which will
Sield to the curative properties of Warner's
afe Cure if timely used, and to it alone.
What is apparantly a disease in the other
organs is more oftentimes a mere symptom of
kidney disease, which should be quickly
eradicated by Warner's Safe Cure before it
secures too firm a hold on those organs.
Country and City Lnngs.
A few days ago a New York specialist
in pathology showed the writer two
bottles. One contained a section of a
healthy lung of a man who had lived in
the country, and the other the lung of a
man who had lived and died in New York.
The country lung showed a clear pink
color; the city lung was almost black, and
it was impossible to trace tt.e veins
through the smut and dirt. Thu experiment
proved, of course, that the air in
New York is so impregnated with dust
and dirt that the lungs become in as much
need of a bath as if they were laid in a
bed of charcoal.?Hartford Courant.
There is a great deal of typhoid fever in
the City of Mexico.
What is sweeter than roses
That bloom in the beauty of June?
Or the stately and fragrant lilies
Whose bells ring a summer tune?
Ah, sweeter the roses blowing
On the cheeks of those we love,
And the lily of health that's glowing
The cheeks' red rose above.
But how soon the lily and the rose wither in
the faces of our American women. Why is it?
Simply because so many of them are victims of
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