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Bjos^y 1b V "^AGRICULTURAL. W TOPICS OF INTEREST REIiATlVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. IS PROPER FOOD FOR CHICKS. S^PTrDry bread soaked in either warm -water or milk makes the best food for j^T "vounjr chicks until they are three weeks , old. At ten days old begin to give an ! evening feed of cracked -wheat. When three weeks old give corn bread crumbled fine three times a day, alternating with the soaked bread and plenty of greens. Let them have plenty of pure water at all times. They should have a good range, but not be allowed to run in the grass Tin til after the dew is off.?New York Herald. MILK TWICE A DAT. i According to no less an authority in dairy matters than Colonel F. D. Curtis, the old-fashioned notion to milk only in the morning after cows drop off in their yield is a mistake. If worth milking at all cow is worth milking twice a day. Che will not only give more, but the milk "will be of a great deal better quality. It does not do milk any good to remain in the udder so many hours after it is secreted, and it does not do the cow any good. Just why the last milk drawn is the best is unexplained. But we know it is the richest, and if the reason is because it is the last secreted, then the twenty-four hours' rule of milking is a poor one in more than one sense?poor in quantity and quality.?New York World. COLORING BUTTER. The practice of coloring butter is to be condemned for two reasons: It is fraudulent, and therefore dishonest, and it is il^Ilfeal. It misrepresents the character of Pe butter, and the majority of consuers are deceived by it. It is unnecessary, and is practiced sblely to please the eye and to meet the popular delusion that high-colored butter is superior in quality to the pale-colored. An excellent color may be procured by adequate and judicious feeding and the keeping of cows whose butter has the desirable tint. The oleomargarine law provides that any mixture of oil with butter renders it liable to the tax. As penal statutes are to be strictly construed, the quantity of the oil mixed is not an element to be considered, otherwise where could the line be drawn? So that when a colored oil is mixed with the cream to tint the butter it is, in fact and in truth, an adulteration, which renders the maker of the mixture liable to the onerous tax on oleomargarine, and puts him in a dangerous position of liability to prosecution. If the potash coloring solutions are used instead of the oil, one is on the other horn of the dilemma, which is equally sharp, and prosecution for adulterating food would impend.?New York Times. FEEDING FOR BACON. There is something else to be aimed j I for in breeding and feeding bogs besides j kg the amount of lard they will make. The j M best market at present is reserved for | H good bacon hogs. Buyers understand j that a hog fed nothing but corn, while i I he may be heavy is coarse, soft and M spongy. A h^rd constitution is what the I successful breeder should try to attain. B Pick out the best breeding stock, neat, Br 5^ump and well boned but avoid the ^coarse lubberly stock. Vary the food ^ pfrom corn to the more nitrogenous foods, ras rye, oats, bran, shorts, middlings, Se oil meal, grass and clover, with an ample gj svpply of good ashes, which is one of H {he best bone builders and worm deM stroyers. "We should make a distinction |g between feeding and fattening. Corn H furnishes very little health sustaining, 0 flesh-producing food; it is made up so largely of carbonaceous material that fat gi is almost its only product. After the n pigs are well grown and have good strong Br frames and constitutions they may be fed Si| on corn with profit. But even then care H should be taken or over feeding in one |Sj direction will injure their health. Hog TO cholera is often a proof of bad feeding, | and always takes the most hold on con gtitutions weakened by constant corn diet.?Farm, Field and Stockman. PREPARATION AND CARE OF CUTTINGS. It doe3 not seem to be generally under-, stood, says R. G. Newton, in the Amerian Agriculturist, that nearly all varieties of cuttings can be easily callused or rooted before it is time to plant them in the spring. The cuttings are made in autumn after the leaves fall,and tied firmly In little bunches of fifty or one hundred each. Each bundle should be marked by using two slips of pine, painted on one side jvith white lead, or yellow ochre, and the name distinctly written with a lead pencil in the fresh paint. This is covered by the other slip and the two are tied together with a piece of thread. This firmly tied in the bundle and it I wjtf not be necessary to guess at the name *'""o^he cuttings. They are stored through the winter either by placing on a bed of* moist earth, butt end down, or in a trench two feet wide and four inches deeper than the height of the cuttings. The cuttings are placed compactly in this r Stench, butt end up, and covered with nf rinK rrowlon PAI I lUiCO VI 4VU1 1UUUW w* guiuuu ov/n. When the ground begins to freeze, they ^ are covered deeply "with stable manure, straw or leaves, putting on enough to keep the frost from the cuttings. In the spring this manure is removed, and the Boil over the cuttings leveled. If it gets dry it is sprinkled with water and kept moist, but not wet, and when the time comes to plant them most varieties will have good roots started, while the buds are dormant, and when planted they are more 6ure to grow than if not so treated. The trench should be made on ground where water does not stand. For some of the choicer varieties of grapes, or other cuttings wanted early, a cold frame placed over the trench in the spring, after the manure is taken off, will forward them several days earlier. km variety ix feeding, ran You can't take something from nothjjel ing, neither can you make poultry pay without a reasonable outlay of care and attention. Too many men buy an expen SB give brand of fowls and think that when H this is done their money is made. The fact is that high bred fowls like fine stock B of any kind require extra care. A scrub H hen will live in a cold, dirty chicken house with nothing but corn for food, aildgnot pay for its feed to be sur<;, but alive. But the better paying Bl foira won't stand it. Anything that ? makes the hens comfortable and healthy will have it3 effect. Variety in food is gjX ione of the most necessary things in proH moting good health. Overfeeding is alSBmost as bad as starvation, but careful . . v- J * [regulation and change will work wonj ders. Bulk is as necessary in winter time for poultry as for cattle. Green feed,; such as cabbage, carrots, turnips and beets, is excellent. If it difficult to procure the?e, hay, especially clover hay,' may be used to advantage, if properly : treated. To make it edible for fowls, it must be cut into very short lengths and soaked over night in warm water. CloI ver contains quite a large percentage of lime and phosphates, and will help the I hens in winter laying. In feeding it should be mixed with grain in about the following proportions: j To every bucketful of dry cut hay add ten pounds of corn meal, ground oats | and bran. Linseed meal in the propor- j tion of about a pound to every ten of the mixture and an ounce of salt, well stirred in, will make the food more acceptable as well as healthy. Vary this feed in the morning with a warm mess of j middlings, barley meal and potatoes, and at night with wheat, and you ought to make a good profit on eggs this winter. ?Farm, Field and Stockman. SETTING MILK. Any observant dairyman has found out that he gets more cream the sooner after milking the milk is set and leit undisturbed. Milk that is to be shipped,used for drinking purposes, or sent to the cheese factory, may with advantage be stirred in cooling, but for cream getting, set as soon as possible, and let it be till you wish to skim it; this is our experience. Mr. J. N. Muncy, in Farmers' Reiieic, puts it this way: Some of the most practical information to be derived from the reports of Experiment Stations, seems to be a long while in getting fully incorporated in the brain tissue of some farmers. It is just as certain that you lose a certain quantity of the cream contained in milk, by delaying its setting, as it is that the sun rises in the morning. Thirty minutes delay means a loss of three to five per cent. Again, remember that shallow setting-of milk needs a warm temperature, say sixty degrees, while deep setting needs a cold temperature, say forty degrees or less. This is no fine spun theory of some ignoramus, but a settled scientific truth as certain that you can make ten pounds ot pork to the bushel of corn under proper conditions. If you don't believe it, try the difference in amount of butter obtained when the milk is set twelve hours at fifty degrees and forty degrees respecttively. Be sure you weigh the butter under similar conditions, otherwise your experiment will not be comparative. Butter holds different quantities of water under different conditions, and hence you must be careful to make the test comparative. I have set my milk the year round twelve hours, using ice or snow. We use coolers nineteen inches deep and eight inches in diameter. As soon as we have milk enough to fill one of these pails, I put it iu the water immediately. It seems to me that I can tell by the appearance of the skim milk whether the setting of the milk was delayed or not. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. The moon is never right while the seed-' bed is cloddy. Country roads are too often paved with cood intentions. o No man ever reaped foul wheat from clean ground and clean seed. When prices are low it is just the time to improve your farm animals. If there were more drains on the farm there would be fewer druggists in the village. Make easy and short the way to the butcher of the animal that has learned to break fences. Good farming consists as much in overcoming adverse circumstances as in improving fully favorable opportunities. On an average, the man with the fewest clods in the field in the fall has the most wheat in the field the next summer. Plants which may be desired for the window garden during the winter should now be given some extra care in the way of pruning, watering, etc. The price of butter is improving. Have you kept your cows in condition to enable you to reap the benefit of this improvement? If not, why not? Let the hogs clean up the waste apples and peaches under the trees, and there will be fewer waste fruit next year. There will also be better hogs this year. You cannot increase your products without increasing your expenses; but production increases at a faster rate than expenses increase. Herein is the greater profit of good farming. If you can find nothing better to hold the top on a stack of hay, a few hills of corn pulled up by the roots and tied together at the tips, when hung over the stack at proper distances will answer very well. The second crop of clover makes a first-class feed for hogs during the winter and should be cut and stored away especially for this purpose. If supplied regularly they will consume a considerable quantity during the winter. It. is of no use to cxpect to make money in the chicken business unless you are willing to watch early and late; and, unless you are fond of poultry. The details arc minute, but each one is important, and they all lead to success if rightly followed. If your young fowls are roosting on perches, see that the perches, are made of flat strips with the corners rounded, instead of round poles, as this latter is frequently the cause of crooked bones. Look to this in time: vow chicks are worthy of your care and protection at ! this stage of their growth. Don't fail to utilize all the turnip tops the garden affords. They make fine chicken feed. Either throw them on the ground, turnips and all, for chickens to pick at, or tie them in bunches with a coarse string that will not cut, and weigh them down with a rock. The turnips themselves, if - cooked, mashed and mixed with bran and shorts, make excellent feed for laying hens and growing chicks. An Unexplored Country. Thibet is the only known country on earth not open to missions. It has an area of 750,000 square miles. The greatest length from east to west is 1500 miles, and the population is estimated at 8,000,000. It is the stronghold of Buddhism. Lhassa,the capital,is the "Rome" of the Buddhists, and the Dalai Lama ia the Buddhist pope. He is supreme in both temporal and spiritual things. One monastery has about five thousand Buddhist priests,and there are about six thousand in the country. Thibet is virgin soil for missions. The country u tributaiy to China. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. IN THE HATTER OP MOTHS. More than one hundred and fifty years ago Reaumur, observing that clothing moths never attacked the wool and hair on living animals, inferred that the natural odor of the wool, or the oily matter in it, was distasteful to them, says Clothier and Furnisher. Consequently he rubbed various garments with the wool of fresh pelts, and also wet other garments with the water in which wool had been washed, and found that they were never attacked by moths. Experiments with tobacco smoke and the odors of spirits of turpentine showed that both were equally destructive, but it was necessary to close the rooms very tightly and keep the fumes very dense in them for twenty-four hours to obtain satisfactory results. Chests of cedar or sprigs of this tree are so disagreeable to them that they will not deposit their eggs where this odor is at all strong, but should the eggs be laid before the garments are packed away the odor will not prevent the hatching of the eggs, nor the destructive work of the larvae afterward. Clothing may also be protected from moths by packing it in stout cotton or paper bags, made perfectly tigHt, DUttnis must dc done ueiore m? moths appear on the wing. TO BROIL A BEEFSTEAK. The only way to make a beefsteak delicious is to broil it, and the only way to get the full benefit of it is to take pains in broiling. The first requisite is a perfect broiler; second, a good, clear fire, either wood or coal; third, a good steak. My way of broiling a stake is as follows: I use a cast iron broiler, circular in form, convex, with radiators three quarters of an inch in height at regular intervals, with a raised opening at the top of the cone; a fluted gutter passes around the broiler to receive the drip. Now comes the secret. There is a tin cover, deep enough not to touch the steak, with four half inch holes in the top and a wooden knob in the centre to handle it with. Now for the steak. It should be just what one can afford and nevnr be less than one inch in thickness. I remove the bone and the thin skin from the outside of the fat and make little incisions to prevent curling. If for four people, with different tastes, I cut in four equal parts; now, with a small piece of suet, grease the tops of the radiators, lay the steak on in its original shape, now place tne cover on, careiuuy remove me t>tuve lid, place the broiler over the opening, and procee<Mo broil to suit the taste of each by raising the cover. I can govern the broiling, as a portion can be used at any time. By this way all the rich juices ces of the meat are retained. The dish to receive the broiled steak should be hot and covered. No salt should be used until the steak is removed from the broiler, than a liberal amount of butter should be spread on (not previously melted, as heat has a tendency to make it rancid), and salt to taste and serve hot. The art once acquired you will never eat a steak broiled any other way. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Omelet with stuffed olives and buttered maroons is a breakfast delicacy served by imported cooks. Turnips, carrots and onions should not be split, but sliced in rings across, as they cook thus sooner. Clean the inside of vinegar cruets and bottles by putting in crushed eggshells with a little water and shaking. To prevent cake adhering to the pan when baked, scatter a little flour over tne greased surface before pouring in the dough. Careful diet will do much toward removing the greasy appearance from your skin. In addition put a little borax in the water used for bathing your face. Consumptives will find relief from using, daily, glycerine and powdered willow charcoal. Proportions: One part of charcoal to two parts of pure glycerine. Slumber blankets of silk plush sell for $30, but they are luxurious. One can dream in them, live in them and use them to drape an easel or a divan, or picture or a piano. To cure wrinkles, take a needle or other sharp instrument and draw it along the wrinkle, just hard enough to bring blood, then let it heal and the wrinkle will entirely disappear. New sofa pillows are filled with down and finished with a folded ruffle of some plain colored silk. For thft case an artist pattern or Pompadour design is used and tfie leading shade in the flower matched in the nlain silk. Onions should be soaked in salted warm watei previous to cooking to partly remove any strong odor they may possess. Peas, string beans and green corn should not be prepared for cooking until about ready to be used. To clean papered walls: Wipe down with a flannel cloth tied over a broom or brush. Cut a thick piece of stale bread and rub down with this. Begin at the top and go straight down. Care must, of course, be taken not to wear upon the paper. Have all medicines in one place?a box, drawer or chest?and always keep all therein. Have each member of a family understand where it is and what it is apd what it is for, and have your rolls of linen, cotton and flannel in a handy place easily got at when needed. To launder red table linen, use tepid water with a little powdered borax, which serves to set the color. Wash the linen separately and quickly, using very little soap; rinse in tepid water containing a little boiled starch; dry in the shade, and iron when nearly dry. There is nothing better for a cut than powdered resin. Pound it until fine and put it in an empty clean pepper box with perforated top. Then you can easil/; sift it out on the cut, and put a soft ?loth around the injured member and wet with cold water once in a while. It will prevent inflammation and soreness. A quick dessert may be made of dried apples. Roll a piecc of light biscuit dough very thin; spread with the stewed fruit, roll it up and cut in blocks an inch thick, place in a pan and sprinkle with sugar, a little cream or butter on each piece and fill the crevices with water. | Bake and serve with lemon sauce. When new lamp chimneys arc bought, place in a kettle of cold water, let it come to a boil, then set back of stove, where it will gradually cool. This is an excellent toughening process. All glassware, dishes, tumblers and the like treated this way will break less easily. Keep the kettle covered tightly until the water has had time to cool. Oil of peppermint in vapor diluted even to one part in 100,000,000 will J kill cockroaches in an hour, they dying I in convulsions. One drop of *he oil ; placed under a bell jar covering a culti- | vation of cholera bacilli will kill both bacilli and spores in forty-eight hours. It is also regarded as among the best surgical antiseptics, and of great value in phthisis and diphtheria. A Live Bu?r for an Ornament. One of the most interesting of the lit tic bits of quaint Boutn American me j which have been added to New York's ; street panorama by the Spanish-speaking | delegates to the Commercial Congress j was noticed in a Fourth avenue street car. ; The car was well filled when it reached ' Eighteenth street on its way downtown, | and most of the passengers looked like j business men immersed in their morning , papers. By the side of a young man in j a soft hat?a very dark-haired and black- | eyed young man?sat a handsome young woman. Suddenly the young woman gave a little scream, sprang to her feet, brushing something away in the meantime and hastily left the car. The dark young man in the soft hat smiled, picked up a , long green bug which hung from the ; lappel of his coat by a tiny gold chain j some eighteen inches long, and replacing j the curious creature on his breast went i on reading. Everybody in the car then i began looking at the bug which had j crawled away from the master and brought , up on the young woman's shoulder. The bug looked like a double Scarabaeus, al- j most, in fact, as if it were two beetles united by the very narrow waist about j which the slender gold links bound it. I It was about an inch and one-eighth long, i and each of the lobes of its body was j nearly half an inch broad. The head was distinguished from the other end by i short, black mandibles, and there were j sir hlar.k le<?s. three on each side, which j looked exactly like those of a spider. | These South American bugs, which are used as personal ornaments, have several times recently been exhibited as curiosi- i ties in the windows of Broadway jewel- j ers. The one seen in the street car is the property of Mr. Garcia Perez y Riera, a young Gautemalan, who chose this occasion for a visit to New York. He says it is harmless and quite tame.?Neio York j | World. Best Way to Copy Drawings. A new method of copying drawings which may be found of service in architects offices is given in the Deutchet Baumgewcrles Blatt. Any kind of opaque drawing paper in ordinary use mfay be employed for this purpose, stretched in the usual way over the drawing to be copied or traced. Then by the aid of a ; cotton pad the paper is soaked with ben- j zine. The pad causes the benzine to en ter the pores of the paper, rendering the paper more transparent than the finest tracing paper. The most delicate tints sbow through the paper so treated, and I may be copied with the greatest ease, foi pencil, India ink or water colors take I pmmllr woll on the benzinized surface. The paper is neither creased nor torn, remaining whole and supple. Indeed pen- ' cil marks and water color tintings last better upon paper treated in this way than on any other kind of tracing paper, the former being rather difficult to remove by rubber. "When large drawings : are to be dealt with the benzine treatment is only applied to parts at a time, thus keeping pace with the rapidity ol advancement with the work. When the copy is completed the benzine rapidly evaporates and the paper assumes its orig-' inal white and opaque appearance with-; out betraying the faintest trace of the benzine. If it is desired to fix lead pen-1 cil marks on ordinary drawing or tracing paper, this may be done by wetting it. with milk and drying in the air. Picturesque Old San Diegc>. Old Town, or new San Diego, Cal., was once the center of civilization and has a historical interest at this later day, with its broad streets, wide plaza and old abode houses. Here the missionaries, 01 Jesuit priests, says a correspondent ol the Springfield Republican, erected 8 church that has mostly crumbled away. The friar's garden bears no vestige of ita olden glory. Cactus hedges, some old j date palms, and some trees still bearing | olives are all that remain to tell the tale j of past grandeur. Among the literarj lights who are making their homes ir j San Diego are Bryant, the historian; Charles Edwin Markham, who writes foi the Century, and has a charming villa in a canyon retreat; Miss Estelle Thomp| son, a story teller for the Youth's Comj panion, and Lee Hardy, the Texas authoi i and novelist, who has recently come to } live in this bay climate that has such j healing properties. Joaquin Miller owns j several lots of Pacific beach, and antici pates making a summer home for himself there in the near future. Scattered along 1 the beach are some fanciful homes?and j many more are contemplated. When one I thinks that two or three years ago he i could rent a boat for fifty cents a day, ! and sail from the city over to this beach, J that had not a house on its shores, ot j any signs of civilization, you will under- I I stand that the story here told to-day and 1 so happily illustrated, is not such a mar| velous tale. A Reliable Dry Weather Sign. Speaking of the dry weather, says the I St. Louis Jtepullic, a close observer of i nature rcmanteu 10 me rnuu auuui wwu. i ' "I have a dry weather sign which foi j years I have never known to fail, and it at the same time illustrates the great J wisdom of small creatures, and that is this: "Whenever you see the grass of the ! lawn or field covered with numerous 1 small webs, as you have doubtless often seen, you may depend on it that the weather will be dry for some time. "The tiny creatures seem to know with unerring wisdom whea to spread their tents and they require no time to ' make calculations, for I have frequently no iced them immediately on the cessation cf a rain." Treatment of Fneumonia by Ice. Dr. Ficandt, writing in Duodecim, a | Finnish mcdical journal, states that he j , has now treated no less than 106 cases of ; pneumonia with ice, and with the best re| suits. Though ten of the cases were of | double pneumonia, only three out of the ! whole number succumbed, notwithstand| ing that the epidemic was by no means a | slight one. The method adopted was to [ apply over the affected lung an Indiaj rubber bag containing ice continuously | for from twelve to twenty-four hours after the crisis. In addition to the local treatment the pitients were given such medicines as are usually employed, that is to say, opium, ipecacuanha, digitalis, brandy, etc. The method has, we may remark, received of late some attention in thidf country?London Lancet. Are Tear Hem Moulting f I ( Many people have learned by experience i that Sheridan's Condition Powder given once daily, in the food, will supply the needed material to strengthen and invigorate sick chickens or moulting hens and get them to laying earlier than anything else on earth. Mrs. Edwin Brown, East Greenwich, R. L, says: "I could not do without Sheridan's Condition Powder when hens are moulting, I use it for gapes and diarrhoea; for when chickens are small they often droop and die. To a pint of clabbered milk I add a teaspoonful of the powder, mi* well, and let the chicks eat all tney will once a day; it does seem to be just what they need, they soon become so Vigorous. People laughed at me when I began to use Sheridan's Powder, and I had no idea I should win a premium. They laugh best who laugh last,' nowever. I cot more eggs than any of my neighbors, ana some of them had over 100 hens." For 60 cts. I. S. Johnson & Co.. Boston, Mass., will send two 25 cent packs, five packs for $1; or, for $1.20, one large 23^ pound can of Powders, post paid; six cans for $5, express prepaid. For 5cte. a copy of the best Poultry paper sent post paid. Eastern Beggars. Beggary throughout the East is a thriving profession. There are guilds of beggars, besides the numerous communities ot dervishes who are semi-religious mendicants. Many families have been on/1 oro mnnfll. t UC^gOia 1U1 ^CUCiailuuaj uu\4 ??W j cants from choice. Some of these professional beggars are actually wealthy. Four-and-twonty years ago the writer well remembers a ease. The Chief Beggar (the title was not conferred in derision) gave his daughter in marriage to a substantial farmer. The girl's dowry consisted of two freehold houses, the rooms of which were entirely filled with dry pieces of bread, and the sales of these begged crusts subsequently realized a considerable sum, being disposed of as food for cattle. It must be remembered that in the East there is no organized charity, that most Mussulmans are exceedingly charitable, many giving away a fifth and some even a third of their income. Under such circumstances it is not be wondered at that the professional beggar thrives.? Good Words. A Chinese Bank. In the course of a few weeks it is expected that a Chinese banking house will be opened in the heart of Chinatown. The originators of the project include Mr. Chu Fong, the most dressy of Chinamen and cashier of several importing firms and many other Mott street firms. The institution will be the first of its kind in this country. It is the desire of Mr -Chu Fong and his associates in the scheme to run the bank upon the basis of a savings institution. A small rate of interest is to be paid to each regular depositor, and the money is to be let out on a Digger interest to legitimate Chinese business houses in Mott street. The present rate of interest in Mott street is between ten and fifteen per cent for all small loans on good security. It is a very singular thing, and yet it is an undeniable fact, especially in this city, that the more ignorant a Chinaman is in the English language and ways the more money he has. As a rule those Chinamen who know how to talk and deal with the Americans are the poorest.?New York Telegram. Biggest Gun in the World. A cast steel gun weighing 235 tons has just been shipped by Messrs. Krupp from Hamburg for Cronstadt. The caliber of the gun is thirteen and one-fourth inches, the barrel is forty feet in length. The range of the gun is over eleven miles, and it will fire two shots per minute, each shot costing between $1250 and $1600. At the trials of the gun held in the presence of Russian officers at Meppen, the range of the Essen firm, the uroiectile. four feet long and weighing 1800 pounds, aad propelled by a charge of 700 pounds of powder, penetrated nineteen and one-half inches of armor and went 1312 yards beyond the target. The gun is the largest in existence. The Weight of the Whale. Nilsson remarks that the weight of the great Greenland ct right whale is 100 tons, or 220,000 pounds, equal to that of eighty-eight elephants or 440 bears. The whalebone ia such a whale may be taken at 3360 pouads and the oil at from 140 to 170 tons. The remains of the fosil whale whiih have been found on the coast of Ystad, in the Baltic, and even far inland in Wangapanae, Wcstergothland betoken a whale which, although not more than between fifty and sixty feet in length, must at least have had a body twenty-seven times larger and heavier thai: that of the common or right whale. Three Christian Japanese recently sailed from San Francisco to preach the Gospel among their countrymen on the Sandwich Islands, who number 5000. A New Departure From ordinary business methods is made by the manufacturers of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, in guaranteeing this world-famed remedy to cure all diseases arising from derangements of the liver or stomach, as indigestion. or dyspepsia, biliousness or "liver complaint," or from impure blood, as boils, blotches, pimples, eruptions, Ecalp disease, salt-rhenm, scrofulous sores and swelling? and kindred ailments. <Money paid for "Discovery" promptly returned if, on fair trial, it don't curc. Don't hawk, hawk, blow, spit and disgust everybody with your offensive breatb, but uss Dr. is age's Catarrh Remedy and end it. The parasols carried in the United States cost $14,QUO,000 annually. Oregon, the ParadUe ?f Farmers. Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant crops. Best fruit, grain, grass and stock country in the world. F^ill information free. Address Oregon Im'lgrat'n Board. Portland, Ore. Old smokers prefer "Tansill's Punch" Cigar. jButite trios! the differen Cleanliness and neatness comfort, and if he cant find know tliat BAP OLIO makes ; in a comfortable home. Do yc . : . -V * * *> .V" ' '''. "' ' A Fa ml It Gathering. Have you a father? Have you a mother? Have you a son or daughter, sister or a brother who has not yet taken Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs, the guaranteed remedy for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Croup and all Throat and Lung troubles? If so, why? when a sample bottle is gladly given to you free by any druggist and the large size costs only 50c. and $1. The total weieht of the great thirty-six-inch telescope at the Lick Observatory Is forty tons. All that toe can say as to the merits of Dobbins's Electric Soap, pales into nothingness before the story it will tell you Uttlf, or its own perfect quality, if you will give it one trial. Don't take imitation. There are lots of them. A Florida paper urges the town authorities to plant pear trees along the streets. Weak Women Owe to themselves a duty to take Hood's Sarsapa rilla, In view of the great relief It has given those who suffer from ailments peculiar to the sex. By purifying the blood, regulating Important organs, strengthening the nerves and toning the whole system, It restores to health. "I have been for years trying to get help for that terrible general debility and weakness so common to women. Within a year I have taken ten to twelve bottles of Hood's Sarsaparllla and the benefit derived from Its use has been very great. I am now feeling like a new creature."?Mas. F. B. Ross, Marlln, Texas. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. 91; six for #5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar n/mwAY's nra&f aw Ft s ^ READY RELIEF. THE GREAT CONQUEROR OF PAIN, For Sprains, Bruises, Backache, Fain in the Chest or Sides. Headache, Toothache, or any other external pain, a few applications rnbbcd on by hand, act like marie, causing the pain to instantly atop. For Conceptions, Colds,.Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Inflammations, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Lumbago. Sciatica, more thorough aud repeated applications aye necessary. All Internal Pains, Diarrhoea. Colic,. Spasms, Nausea, Fainting Spells. Nervousness, Sleeplessness are relieved instant!y, and quickly cured by taking inwardly 20 to 60 drops in half a tumbler of water. 50c. a bottle. All Druggists.^ " PILLS, An excellent and mild Cathartic. Pnrely Vegetable. The Safest and Best Medicine In the world for the Care of all Disorders of the LIVER, STOMACH OR ROWELS. Taken according to directions they will restore health and renew vitality. Price 25 ct?. * Box. 8*ld by *11 Dragfiiti. SYS U?41 w" So dlsgnlsed that the most ^ delicate stomach can talce it. *w**22 Remarkable u a !?|g?i? FLESH ntODVCBB. Penoai gala rapidly I while taklag It. SCOTTSEMULSIOI If Acknowledged by Physicians tc be the FINEST and BEST preparation of its class for the relief of CONSUMFTZOIT, SCROFULA, QKMEKAL DEBILITY. WASTING DISEASES OF CHILDREN, and CHBONIO COUGHS. to Papaya. Boott & Bowne. Jew Tttk. Ely's Cream BslmK^^I WILL CUKE Ej^TWW^jl CATARRH.^ Apply Balm into each nostril. WTflTk ELY BROS., 56 Warren St, N. Y.Bflril ijjg? D A OP D AI T Chadwick's Manual. DAlJU BALL J ln.* * 5 t?* 70 paxes. Illnmlnated Caver, CrWT PR PT1 on application enclosing one DXiJN X J! X&JUXj (2o.) atamp, by addressing THEODORE HOLLAND, P. 0. Box 120, Phi]a., Pa. 0^^ ^ |jj^ out pain. Bo?p HOW TO GET AN OFFICE BY MERIT. A Pamphlet on Civil Service Examinations. Pull Information. 25 cents. Also "The Civil Service Law: a Defense" SI. Pamphlet free. Address W. H. CLARKE, P. O. Box 26*5, New York City. Rjgnyr STUDY. Book-keeping, Business Forms ilUlnb Penmanship,Arithmetic,Short-hand,etc. ? thoroughly taught by MAIL. Circulars free. Bryant'* College, 457 Main St., Buffalo, N. Y linilllJ HABIT. Only Certain and fllf'iilfiM easy CURE In the World. ]>r. UllUBTlJ. 1j. S TEPHEXS, Lebanon,O PEERLESS pyjS srMural DR. KOEHJL.EJ for all domestic animals, wi ulent or spasmodic. R&relj stipate, rather acts as a las in more than 3000 cases, on treated promptly. Exp when needed, and perha clo:e 50 cents for sample tw Mixture" right along with s the befit colic medicine I hax ISAAC 3IOOO, ffora gSS "DISO'S REMEDY FOR ( K%fl -a to use. Cheapest Reli< Mz&j certain. For Cold in the Hea It is an Ointment, of whict to the^nostrHs. Price,^60^. t loving husbi ce i n h is H o rr saves labor ir about a houee-axe necessary t< it at home,.liewill saek elsewh a house clean and keeps it brigl n want cleanliness, .comfort and 1 i ' for (ure of . JHT, ^DMPTO^HD^EPvM)VfE!my ffi >ITHDtlr1<ETl]RM HFE\irJ.. #Tlli\dBGi5T5 AHDJEALE^SEYD^WHE^E TheChas-AVdbeier Go-Baiid-Md' m TF YOC WISH A ?> m - - . V:"* REVOLVER 1M"ggT% purchase one of the oele- (S*r_lv* bra ted SMITH * WES805 arms. The finest small arms B ever manufactured and the \J/ J) wQB first cholcc of all experts. 09 Manufactured In calibres 32,88 and 44-100. Sin- JHH fie or double action, Safety Hammerless and arget models. Constructed entirely of best Ity wrought steel, carefully Inspected for workmanship and stock, they are unrivaled for Cain*! durability and accuracy. Do not be deceived by #D. cheap malleable cast-iron imitation* kMcL are often sold for the genuine article and are AoC only unreliable, bnt dangerous. The SMITH 4k' WESSON Revolvers axe all stamped npoiv toe barrel with Arm's nsure, address ana date of patera and are guaranteed perfect In every detail, insist upon having the genuine article, and If tow. ?k>* dealer cannot supply yon an order sent tQ oddrese below will receive prompt and careful attention.. Descriptive catalogue and prices furnished upon application. gMITH & WESSON, fg lyMentlon this paper. Springfleld. Ma^fc. MT LATEST IMPROVED M HOUSE POWER Mnct'nes for THRESHING ACLEANING Uraln.also Machines for SAWING WOOD. MB with Cirealar sad Crm. Actaowlaiged Cat Drag Saw*. SsVOMFT, BURAB1LITV1CUAKTITY0F WBK A.W. GRAY'S SONS, - Piszsrto* juto Sole MAVXJWAorrmsaa. MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS, VT. ? tFor Dairy, Farm & Household.* Fnak'a Anerlcam Yfimier EmUu awaraeJl hlghc*t modals. Approved of and/ouad OK bj the highest dairy faculties. A; child can use l? A1 wuyi prodneoj ttnt.olass butter from sweet nfflk or cream Is S minutes. Works from one pint up to tae largest quantity. Makes more buctet1 Clear profit SO to ISO per ct BiiU.rmlk remains perfectly sweet fer coffee, etc. Is also recommended by children's physicians as best baby food. Machineaise/" a--'' makes llnest ice cream in 4 minutes. i uts.?&S0; U qts., $10; (0 qts..*3.eto Send for testimonial* and drauan la V. A. FRAN Kit CO., Patenteea and 8oU Mfra, 3U East M3 St.. Mew Ybrk. Reliable agents wanted. THE EDWARD BURRISOH <Bi MILL OO., Uiafaclannol tff* Harrlwa's tltaafaM Bar _JH| Staae Arladlsc aad Tlsnrlsi JfBMBol Mills of all slsee and varieties, /^sPWI Jrr^ffaMwrlff will* ??at on trla.1 te AtfSSSBXZCSMHSil responsible parties. . "UQS|^H9HV ww JPrlees. Write tar wH|9PWfl Sew Illustrate*'Cat*l?(ne snd mention thja paper. _jBHRIW Tie ?dw?r4 HirrUon ICO] Co., Sow Sim, Cosb. r ir <^^3?E fstenrtof .n iSL. lg^flfbr[rjnrtr?t^C^ofT?>.JV??. (1C TO $250 A MOUTH cam be made worJdac ?IU for us. Agents preferred wBo asn fqrabk horse snd give their whole time to the busfoao. Spare moments may be profitably employed iba. A f err vacancies In tow ns and cities^ B. JF. JOH5SON ft CO., 1009 Main St.. Richmond, Va. j?up:? Pleat's state eg?. and frurirvwj experience. Nevermind about sending stamp for reply. B. F.J.6Q* FRAZERj^fM BEST IT* THE WORLD O RCMOk > ty-OttthsQennlneu SeldBreijw hall PENSIONS HP* L)?KTWrr< muotW. L??i tree. a. w. VoCOUIClC-AjkMLi | OMlaaatl,Oa * ffMhlactM.bC. Jtcalk?-Ou | P AlUPUB bAllUMIBALTIO, aBm _ As applied at ^ I Holland Medical ?n?l Cjlbcct rrmorra Cancer without pita or UMfkBlft. ftM of patlenta cpeak In unqualified term* of prals* ?C the iaccess of this treatment. Write fat clrettUr,' , HOLLAND MEDICIWB CO., B?W?> X.J i ^ m After at.t. gtun Dr Lobb PHILA.r PA. Twenty yean' continuous practice in the treatment and core of the atrial effects of early lee, destroying both mind and body. Medicine and treatment for one month. Fire Dollar*, seat \ securely sealed from observation to any address. Book oa Special Diseases free. w m i prescribe and folly sa. dorse Big tt as tbe oaly specific for the certain cure JBmAl to 6 DaTLV of this disease. ffgyiii--y? ay "B O. H. I.NQRAHAM,It. D-. SgSj saa?? lirtsc* Amsterdam, IT. T. Is *rd?a57byth? ' We have sold K* Giar Bj- --??- many years, and It haa agMniiaiaSMlOfc^ rfVeD'the but of satleVA Cluclmirl.Eaai faction. V$3k OMe. .#15 D. R. DYCHE ft CO.. ^ V Chicago, lit. Trvj^gSBSP^.r^St-na. SoidbyDrnggstr CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS nco CROSS DIAMOND BRAND. ' <i*fr aid klnn reliable. Ladles, A. euk DrofgUt for 'ZHanumd Brand, In ?\ red. aeuiUc boxes, ?<*ltd with bfae WVA ribbon. Take no ether. All plUi S\V la pasteboard botei, plbk wnpptti, are \V lucenai etntcrAlta that 4e. V (marl) Mr particulars, tettlBcalali Mi "Keller fWr Ladlea," in letter, bj retara Ball. Ntnt Pmptr. LlUtkoter Qun'l Co., IiAud 84, PUIs^F* ft'S FAVORITE COLIC MIXTURE 11 cnre 99 out of every 100 coses of colic, whether flatr more than 1 or 2 doses necessary. It does not coast lve and Is entirely harmless. After 20 rears of trUI r guarantee Is worth something. Colic miut lend a few cents and you have a cure on hand, ready ps save a valuable horse. If notct your druggist's, eaittle, sent prepaid. LOEHLKR &' CO., Bethlehem, Pa. lorite Colic We cheerfully recommend. Dr. Koehler't \iccess. It it "Favorite Colic Uixture." Would not ha ye ever seen, without it as long as we. have, horses. Dealer, ISAAC MOSES <* BRO., few York. Sale and Exchange Stables, Eastern, f CATARRH.?Best. Easiest 1W it .is^ immediate. A cure is 1 a small particle is applied BSE] Sold by druggists or sent gJ&j Hazeltink, Warren, Pa. 1688 a a ? $ J*;GOPVM9HTa4 and will see ie if you use i house-work a > insure comfort. Man-likes ere for it. Good housewivesj it Happiness always dwells] mppiness? Try SAFOEIO.