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m -v> i AGRICULTURAL. " TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. GAPES IN CHICKENS. Gapes are caused by a minute worm in the -windpipe. It is generally produced by filth or neglect. If taken in time, as soon as the chick is noticed to gape and sneeze, it can be cured. Give the chick every two hours a few drops of diluted camphor or turpentine, taking care to get some in the windpipe. The odor will, as a rule, kill the worm, and the chick can then easily dislodge it. English fanciers recommend corn meal boiled, into which a tallow candle has been stirred, then feed cold.?Boston Cultivator. STRAWBERRY BEDS REQUIRE ATTENTION. Immediately after bearing, the strawberry bed requires attention. The mulch should be removed, weeds pulled out and a liberal dressing of manure applied. If the plaDts are grown in hills all runners have to be cut off. In the alternate row 6ystem the growth of the runners 13 encouraged so as to fill all the bare space. When this is well covered the old rows are spaded under. Old beds overrun with grass are not worth the trouble of renovating; better plant a new bed as soon as well-rooted youug plants can be obtained.?Neu> York Observer. FILTERING MILK THROUGH SPONGES. Here is an idea worthy of consideration, with a view of adoption by American farmers who furnish milk to creameries. According to a Scotch journal, the method of filtering milk through sponges immediately on its beins drawn from the ^ cows has been practised for some time past by most, if not all of the dairy farmers (some thirty or thirty-five in number) in Dumfriesshire and elsewhere who supply the Annandale Dairy Company with milk. This new method was started by the company's dairy inspector, and has proved very successful. It will be at once apparent that filtering the * milk at the farm, before being put into the cans is a much better plan than filtering it aft<?r it arrives at the creamery, as by removing all impurities beforehand the milk reaches the consumers in a much purer and more wholesome condition than after a longer or Bhorter transit by rail in an unfiltered or imperfectly filtered 6tate.?New Tori Witnm. V- QUANTITY OP SEED PEB ACRE. ' A five ycare'experiment tit the Indiana Experiment Station to determine the amount of seed wheat per acre to grow the largest crop resulted as follows: Two 1 pecks yielded 17.96 bushels; three pecks, j B2.84; four pecks, 25.44; six pecks, 87.76, Beven pecks, 29.54; eight pecks, BO. 94 bushels. The best results were ob- i tained by drilling in the seed. The broad- i casted damaged the most iu winter. f The station recommends sowing less wheat, growing more grass and better live stock. When wheat is sown select ! bardy varieties that arc prolific and suited , to the soil and stick to them. "With good treatment it will not run out. Plow wheat ground early anfl harrow at once, as the soil is then the most easily pul-^-verized. If the soil is lumpy use a roller. ' When the manure and fertilizer are applied be sure that they are thoroughly mixed with the soil. These should be applied as the top dressing,and the man. ore Bhould be well rotted. Keep the the fresh manure for the corn crop. Adopt a 6ystem of crop rotation.?Ntw York Herald. * THE MOLE A MJISAJTCB. Moles are an intolerable nuisance in Gelds and gardens. And yet they are defended by scientific persons, who would have us believe that these pests feed only upon animal food, as worms, grubs and mature insects. The mice eat the seeds and roots, they say, following In the passages of the moles. But if the mice are thus enabled to devour seeds and roots in the ground, that is a sufficient reason fot the extermination of the molea, who thus make a way for the mice. But the statement that moles eat no vegetable matter is wholly without truth or excuse, for it is easily disproved. The writer has now before him the contents of the stomach of a mole, which ebow under the microscope the starch cells of the seed peas or corn the animal has eaten, and the digested matter proves, uy me iouine icst, tu wtieiat largely of starch. That a mole in confinement in a glass ja* will not eat soaked ?- peas or corn is no proof that it will not eat them when free, in the soil of a garden. When worms or insects are scarce, and moles are hungry, they will j eat vegetable food, no doubt, just as ' field mice, supposed to be vegetable! ^^ioeders, will cunsume worms and inBeets as freely as peas or com.?2\rac York lines. HORSE SHOEING. Many a good horse has been spoiled : by bad shoeing. AYbo has nat felt like j choking a blacksmith, who, by careless- i ?ess, bas driven .a nail into the quick, or i from bungling <w<*rk has left the shoe to | project,or the nail heads in such a way as j to cause interfering, ur who has cramped fee fnnt or otherwise Irv misfit caused I conns.or lameness Wiant of mechanical skill, .natural care-loeaness, too (much strong drink?all ttheee are prolific sources of trouble ia a blacksmith. Iforis this mereily applicable to "fine ar.d high-priced Lvjiraee. Sometimes a blackamith, who can do fairly good work, isf :he tries, well he (utterly heedless when working for a afcighboriDg fari&er. Bungling and misfe work are, in hie j mind, g.&od enough far farm horses. Such a bdieksmith deserves .to be ridden on a rail .out of the neighborhood. .Farmers should demand the best work. Jt is not oaljr a shame ?ad a cruelty to I choe a horse improperly, il ie & positive jwcuniary das&age to the owner, k Jn this, connection we are phased to uoie that the British Parliament has before it a bill for .the official regit ration of farriers and thoeiag smiths. It is proposed that no one should be permitted to shoe horses who had not previously obtained from the Farrier's Company a diploma, which would only fee delivered &fter carefnl examination into r tbe man's technical and practical knowledga of the business. The latter is one in which technical instruction is essentially requisite. "For unskilfnl treatment, whether in medicine, surgery, or even in the shoeing of a horse," as the New York Tribune well says, "is only one remove from carelessness, nt>d whereas the human creatures are able to |protest and complain, the poor beast ia I obliged to bear in silence, and can only indicate its sufferings by a limp." The Farm, Field and Stockman would suggest that similar measures be adopted in America by all our State Legislatures. ?Farm, Field and Slochnan. FARM AXD GARDEN NOTES. Look well to the watering of stock. Keep the wagon axles well greased. No "letup" on the weed nuisance. Rainy day work?Repairing tools, etc. Buy nothing you can produce as cheaply Change of diet keep3 up a good appetite. Work early and late, but rest at midday. A successful breeder must be a good feeder. Skimmed milk and buttermilk are good for horses. Don't expect all the good qualities in one animal. Shallow culturc of hoed crops is now the order of the day. A nice flock of good poultry is essential to every country and suburban home. The best stock raisers are now trying to grow meat instead of to accumulate fat. The perquisites or free things of the farm are equal to good wages for one man. Failures as well as successes tepch lessons. lie is wise who learns from both. Remember that one of the "most important cares of the farm is the care of health. "Whoever depends upon the public for a market mast consult the wants of the public. There is no benefit in applying to your soil any ingredient which it already has in abundance. Don't let the rays of the sun fall directly on your beehives. Pro vile some sort of shade. Good butter contains ten or twelve per cent, of water, but it should show no trace of buttermilk. Keep a vigorous growth of vegetation in all moist and malarial places. It will absorb the malarial gases. Farm work is hard work, but who can take a leisure day rnd feel it less in his business than the furmer? As soon as an animal is maiurea ic ceases to be profitable to keep, unless it is a work animal and possibly sheep. Butter should be kept cool during the working, and also during the few hours it may be left for the salt to dissolve. Do not expect any farm animal to "pick up" its living. If you do it need not surprise you if the crows should pick its bones. Have you feather-eaters among your stock ??a bad fault. Give them sulphur twice a week in their soft food, and give less heating food. Chickens assisted out of the shell are. generally assisted into another world. If they are unable to hatch themselves they seldom do any good. To make a fine quality ?cf butter, either dairy or creamery,requires healthy cows, good feed and judicious handling of cows, feed and milk. To kill the future of creameries have poor cows, poor milk, poor machinery, rvnnr hnildinrra. tioor maker, tkoor butter. ( O"' I I * poor consumption, poor price. As soon as the salt is dissolved, butter may be worked the second time in order to correct any streakiness which the first mixing of salt may have caused. Three-quarters of an ounce of salt to the pound will be the right quantity for most markets for immediate consumption, and one ounce to the pound for packed butter. Cheerful, active labor is a blessing. An old philosopher says: "The firefly only shines when on the wing; so it is with the mind; when once we rest, we darken." Loss of feathers is generally caused by want of green food, or want of a dust bath; supply both. Local application, mercurial ointment. The feathers will not return before next mounting season. Milk cans should be washed in cold or tepid water first, and then rinsed in boiling water before they are exposed to be aired. The addition of a little soda and borax to the hot water will increase its cleansing properties. Seattle's Indian Princess. One of the peculiar features of Seattle (Washington State) life is the number ol Indians seen on the street, dressed, not in the proverbial blanket, but in cast-ofl ck>thes of the whites. The tribes around there are Siwashes, and one cannot imagine their having an ounce of the desperate, brave blood that seems to belong to the Indian race. These Siwashes are vctt small and drag themselves siowiy around the street, barefooted, dressed iu dirty rags, carrying baskets of clams to sell and other baskets to fill with any scraps of food they may pick off the 1 stroet or out of the garbage barrels. They seem to be utterly degraded and the fiats oa which they live are fine fields for home missionaries. The principal -character among these Indians is the Princess Angeline, and old women whose face in a nass of wrinkles and who is ugly in the extreme. It is said that about the middle of this century ske and her husband, who has since died, tramped from the western part of this State through almost impenetrable forests to warn the people in this village (as it tisen was) that the Indians were going to attack them. This heroic act was the mesas of saving the town, and since then Angeline has been a part of it. Sho is the daughter of the old -chief, Seattle, for whom lihe city is named aaad to whose memory thejpioneers of the city have lately erected a handsome momueieai at Port Blakeley, where he was buried in 1866. The old ch5ef would hare great cause to be proud of his namesake, which, fmm a population of auuu m issu, nas jwt.n to beacitr of 44,0U0, doubling its size since '88.? Washington {D. C,) Star. A Home-Made Steamboat On St. Paul's River,in Liberia, Africa, there1 is a home-made steamboat. It was constructed by an African named Irons, who was ogee a slave in South Carolina. He built hitf>steamboat in this way: He rein aieled a opnoe fifty ieet long, put in the Sgine of ^ sugar cane mill, rigged up paddle wlieel^ and put in some bits of iron shafting. /J'he pteamer is not a beauty, but it carries freig-bt a&d passengers, and does good work. J?s builder Jias inventive genius, and sh^ttKl ?Qco^raged."Atlanta tymlitulwrt. ! HOUSEHOLD MATTERS A XEW THASII-BASKET. The new trash-basket is a bag. The willow baskets which well-intentioned young women have dressed up in babyblue ribbons and worsted fruits and flowers, or have gilded and decorated for church fairs, are stripped of their ornamentations and relegated to offices. The vide porche takes their place in the sitting-room and boudoir. This is a long, narrow bag about nine by eighteen inches in size. It is made of brocade, in any rare old tint, and lined with a plain silk in harmonizing color, which is turned down "enrevers" on one side; the bag is suspended by a metal cord and tassel or ribbon. If the bag is made from a piece of your grandmother's brocade gown it is so much the better, because it will show your grandmother was educated enough to wear a gown of brocade. ?JYcio York 2'ril/une. now TO KEEP ICE-WATER Ice is so expensive this year that I am sure my hint for keeping it ns long as possible in the ice pitcher -will be thankfully received. A friend gave me the hint some years ago, and I have profited by it m:iny times. She said* Make with strong brown paper, a cover large enough to drop over the pitcher like a bell; make it of two thicknesses of the brown paper and quilt a layer of cottonbatting between the paper. This you will observe keeps the warm air from reaching the pitcher, hence the ice will last longer than it would were the pitcher uncovered. This cover need not be unsightly and a disgracc to our side-board. Get a new piece of red brown wrapping paper for the outside layer and mark square or diamond-shaped lines over it, then put your cotton between the papers and thread an embroidery needle with green, blue or yellow zephyr and quilt along the marks in long stitches. It will be easy enough to make a bell-shaped contrivance to slip over the pitcher and completely cover it. Make a loop of the zephyr or attach a worsted ball to the * ? ? 11^ if 4mr\rr\ fVin nifrtK/lF lup vy WIUCU IU Uib Air ilUUA KUb ^IkVUUi ?Prairie Farmer. HONEY VINEGA.B Not long ago we were told that the finest quality of vinegar could be made from watermelon juice. Now a Canadian apiarist is making vinegar from waste and second-grade honey. He states that one pound of honey and one gallon of water are the proper proportions to make a good vinegar. 4'That is, twenty-nine pounds of honey will make (water enough beiug added to fill a thirty-two-gallon barrel) one barrel of the best vinegar. The barrels used to make it in are common alcohol barrels, which are found at drug Btores. Saw out one of the barrel heads and paint the Outside to prevent the iron hoops from being destroyed by vinegar. The bit re Is and vinegar are kept in the cellar, bo covered with burlap as to keep the dust out and let tha air in. One year converts this water and honey into the choicest vinegar. Moro age will make it sharper or more acid, but at one year old it is fine enough for any use. Sweetened water from washing honey drippings is the most common waste of the apiary, and to utilize it is presumed to be the desirable matter in connection with honey vinegar. Still, with the low price of honey, bee-keepers may find a reasonable outlet for some of their poor honey, such as is unfit to sell ?s an article of delicate luxury for table use.? California Fruit-Grower. PICKLES. For making pickles none but the best ipple vinegar should be used, advises Mrs. E. R. Parker in the Courier Journal, and it should never be boiled, but heated. A. porcelain or gran'te kettle should be ased in making pickles. For spicing, jare must be taken to flavor so no one kind will predominate. Almost all vegetables make nice pickles, but must be gathered at the proper season. Artichoke Pickles?Rub off the outer skin, lay in salt and water for a day, drain, pour over cold vinegar. Pickled Cauliflower?Take go 3d white beads of cauliflower, break in pieces and i boil for ten minutes in strong salt and water; drain, let cool, putin ajar; spice | hnfc vinficar and nour over it. Lemon Pickles?Remove the rind of two dozen lemons and pack in salt for a week; set in the oven until the salt melts, put in a kettle and pour over a gallon of well spiced megar; scald and put in a jar. * Pepper Pickles?Cut the stems out of fifty large pods of green pepper with a penknife; fill the peppers each with chopped cabbage, horse radish, mustard seed and salt; replace the stem; then pack in jars and cover with vinegar. Cucumber Pickles?Wash and wipe one hundred small cucumbers. Put in a large jar, and cover with boiling brine, let stand ten days. Pour off, put the pickles iu jars, cover with hot spiced vinegar, add chopped onions. Set aside fr>r twn tr/>eks_ -when thev will be readv for use. Tomato Pickles?Take ripe, firm tomatoes, puncture with a needle. Put a layer of tomatoes with chopped onions sprinkled with salt, put on another layer and more salt until the jar is full; let stand a week; then drain, and squeeze the salt water out; putin a jar and cover with 6trong vinegar. Onion Pickle?Take large white onions, pour boiling salt water over them, and let stand three days; change the brine and let 6tand three days longer, Take one gallon of strong vinegar, add two ounces of turmeric; scald and pour over the onions boiling hot, and let stand ten days. Then drain, and pour over spiced vinegar. Pickled Beans?String half a peck of green beans, put in a kettle, cover theni with boiling water, add a teaspoonful o' salt and let boil half an hour. Drain, when cold put in glass jars, sprinkle I with pepper, add a tablespeonful of mustard seed, two of chopped horse-radish, one of celery seed, with an ounce of cloves and allspice each. Cover with strong vinegar. Yellow Pickle?Take two galloos of vinegar, two pounds of sugar, one ounce of turmeric, three of allspice, one of cloves, one of mace, one pint of mustard seed, two tablespoonfuls of cclery seed. Pound all together, and put in the vinegar well heated. Take three large heads of cabbage, cut and scald in brine, squeeze dry and hang in the sun for two days. Then put in cold, strong vinegar and let stand over night. Drain, put in o jar, and cover with spiced vinegar. Large deposits pf phosphate of lime have been discovered Algeria, Africa, to the west of Oran. WORDS OF WlSBOM.^^fSi Faith never walks with a caneOak trees can not be raised in flower pots. You will never be happy unless you try to be. The only easy thing to do in this world is to love. Never look back and you won't want to go back. Indecision is the biggest robber on the face of the earth. Nobody cares what kind of a purse the money comes out of. The party who won't forgive is the one who is in the wrong. You are not fit for a leader unless you are a faithful follower. Ready money is a good thing to have, but a contented spirit is better. Those who love can never be separated, be they atoms, worlds, or spirits. Tt ia -nrftll hnnp fnr Kiinmsq. Tint it is *" vv ?r 1 better to determine to deserve it. Nothing keeps a stingy man from stealing but the risk of the thing. It is not the gift, but the amount of love in it that gives it value above. Prepare for little trials, and you won't have much trouble with the big ones. The hypocrite is only on his good behavior while he thinks he is watched. To be a jack of all trades is one of the easiest ways in the world to be nothing. Until a man has been tried he will always have reason to be afraid of himself. "I give as much as anybody else," mean9 that ?<I know I don't give half enough." "When you want to see the person most to blame for your misfortunes gaze into the looking glass. The woman who doesn't care much mUnt mt?a ia orvf fr* fWArlv nartimi. V> 1JUC OUC OUJO 10 U|/W W MV WIW41J ?.v?* lar about what she wears. You can find mea everywhere who don't know the meaning of the word "give," from actual experience. If you are not making the world better, it will be worse for your having lived. No man can leave the world as he found it.?Indianapolis (Ind.) Ham's Ham. The Carob Tree. The carob is a widely distributed plant of the Mediterranean Basin from Spain to the Orient, but more especially of Northern Africa, where it grows in all sorts of soils and situations from the slopes of the driest limestone mountains fcn the moat fertile oases. It is not com moil, however, even in Algeria or in Tunis, and grow3 as an isolated specimen. The carob is one of the most beautiful and useful trees of the countries which it inhabits. It grows to the height of forty or fifty feet, with a stout trunk, and a compact head of dark green, lustrous evergreen foliage. The flowers are not at all conspicuous or showy, resembling somewhat in size and arrangement those of our three-thorned acacias, to which the carob is rather closely related botanically. The fruit is a thickly-curved pod, and when it is ripe the seeds are incased in a sweet pulp, ! which is eaten by the people of the coun' tries where the tree is found. The great value of the fruit of this tree, however, is to feed to horses and hoga, which fatten on them rapidly; and great quantities of carob pods are exported from Crete and other Eastern countries to Cen^ L * -?J T?i?/\r?A AOrVOAl 011 ! frt | irui it Liu ^unui'ru jjurufjcj vojA>v?utij ^ Great Britain, for this purpose. The pulp has been found to contain 66 per cent, of pure sugar and gum, and it has been used in the manufacture of sirups, liquors and an imitation of chocolate,and by the Egyptians in preparing a sort of lugar used by the Arabs; the pods, too are preserved in the same manner that the pods of the tamarind are preserved in India and other tropical countries. There is considerable historical interest attached to the carob. The fruit was once supposed to be the fruit which supported St. John in the wilderness, the the seeds being held to mean "locusts" rod the pulp "wild honey," so the tree or its fruit came to be called "St. John's bread," and the dry valves of the pod have been considered the husks the prOdicrnl enn lnnnred for in the last stages of ?o? ? ? ?_> his misery and starvation. The wood of the carob is hard, heavy, ?ery durable and of a handsome rose ":olor. It is admirable furniture -wood ind is used locally for carts and agricul:ural implements. Its rarity is the only :ausc which prevents it from being used rery generally in construction and the irts. The carob, as it flourishes in all sorts of soil, and is able to withstand drought ind other hardships, is often planted, sspecially in the Orient and in Africa, for the grateful shade its heavy foliage affords, as well as for its valuable fruit. This tree was early introduced by the Smninrds into Mexico aud South Amer ica, and the experiments which have been made of late years with this tree in California seem to indicate that it may be depended on in that State, where its more general cultivation on ground too stony or too sterile to produce other crops can be recommended.?Garden and For tit. The Hermet Poet. Joaquin Miller has become so great a recluse that he refuses to see visitors at at his Fort Hill home, back of Oakland, Cal., and he seldom comes over to San Francisco. The poet's habits are peculiar. He does all his literary work in the morning, writing in bed until noon, when doffs hii nightgown, dresses, and spends /tnlfivnrinnr thf> t.refiS Oil kliV <*I UViUUUU iU w .... his fifty-arcre ranch or in long walks. He has three cottagcs. He lives in one, his mother in another, and his wife and daughter, who arc now visiting him, occupy the third. Joaquin believes that a man should not be familiar even with his own family, and he meets them in common only at the table. From hi? house one gets a superb view of San Francisco and the Golden Gate.?New Tori Tribune. A Lnnatic Swims Twenty-Two Miles. A marvelous feat was accomplished by William Blackett, of Chickasaw County, J an incurable inmate of the insane hospital at Independence, Iowa Gaining entrance to the sewer he followed its course to the river a mile and a half. Here he divested himself of all clothing and started to swim to St. Louis. He was discovered when going over the dam at Quasqueton, and as all efforts to induce him to land were futile he was captured by fores after he had swum a distance of twenty-two miles. Except a bruised shoulder he was all right.?Pitts-1 lura Diwatcfi. ' _ ..j-w . . -/ ?. ' V_. tbanNtStf .encounter Orwnvtte iaate of a N antuclS^^M0| and tfi^'-Diqke of Clarence, AdnmB^K the BrrtUh ffS?L<and afterwards Wiluc^Bj IV. The dispufltircse over the Duke's attentions % reached its climax in the Naafc^etSf$te.s seizing the future King oRjSoj flawi hurling him downstairs. of the affair was wont in a ft?r JeariotoCkd d as a decorative detiiil that -^e-%|i^S^the Duke's sword-hilt was stair. Greene at once wet^wjMl^R: ship and refused to obey alppSM from the Admiral, who, it aftHmijn| j transpired, had intended to maKoEjpp. plucky Nantucket man an officer in ftifl' [ English navy. All the strategic resources of a quick, ready mind were often called into play during a whaleman's career, not only in weathering storms and in avoiding destruction of boats and loss of life when attacking whales, but also in escaping massacre from 6avage islanders and in outwitting pirates. In 1819 the whaleship Syren, while on a voyage to the eastward of Cape Horn, met with an adventure which would have proved fatal to all hands but lor a quicK stratagem ot the mate. One fine day, off one of the Pelew Islands, all the boats being after whales, and but a few men left aboard the vessel, a large band of armed natives suddenly swarmed over the bulwarks. The crew fled to the rigging, leaving the naked, howling savages in full command of the ship. The mate, on coming alongside, took in the situation ajt a glance, and quickly ordered the men to open the arm-chests and scatter on deck all the. tacks they could find. In a moment it fairly rained tacks upon the naked savages. The deck was soon covered with these little nails. They pierced the feet of the islanders, who danced about with pain which increased with every step they took, until, with yells of rage and agony, they tumbled headlong into the sea and swam ashore. Unfortunately, in the struggle the mate on ? lllflf ATTfir ATlfl nf an bis eyes, and was obliged to retire from the sea.?The Century. What Tears Are Made Of. It is said that people sometimes weep for joy as well ns for sorrow, but such cases are at least rare; anyway, there is not probably any difference in the material of the tears so Bhed. They are both made of the Bame stuff. The principal element in- the composition of a tear, as may readily be supposed, is water. The other elements are salt, soda, phosphate of lime, phosphate of soda and mucus, each in small proportions. A dried tear seen through a microscope of good' average power presents a peculiar appearance. The water, after evaporation, leaves behind it the same ingredients, which amalgamate and form themselves into lengthened cross lines, on/1 lrw\l/- lilrn o niimhpr nf miniltfl fifih (UiU iUVU nuv %m UMiUk/v* v? boDca. The tears are secreted in what are called the "lachrymal glands," situated over the eyeball and underneath the lid. The contents of these glands are carried along and under the inner surface of the eyelids by means of Bix oi seven very fine channels, and are discharged a little above the cartilage supporting the lid. The discharge of tears from the lach. rymal glands is not occasional and accit dental, as is commonly supposed, bucontinuous. It goes on both day and night?though less abundant through the night?through the "conduits," and spreads equally over the surface of the lids. After serving its purpose the flow is carried away by two little drains, situated in that corner of each eye nearest the nose?into which they run?and called the "lachrymal points." The use fulness of this quiet flow of tears to both man and beast is manifest. There is such an immense quantity of fine dust floating in the air and constantly getting into the eyes that, but for it, they would Boon become choked. Very little is requisite to keep the ball free, and when some obnoxious substance?smoke ac insect, or the like, that affects the oerves?does make its way in an increased flow is poured out to sweep it away.?Brooklyn Standard-Union. Chewing the Cnd. A number of personally observed cases of rumination, or "chewing the cud," in man were lately described by Dr. Max Einhorn to the German Medical Society of New York. The coudition was defined as one in which, some time after meals, the food returns in small portions, without nausea, from the stomach through the aesophagus to the mouth, to be chewed 3 rtnr.TTT Pnminotinri UliU D?aiiunv.u uuv t?. a belongs to the normal physiological processes of most herbivora, who in pasture collect the great quantity of the slightly nutritious grasses necessary for sustaining life, and at leisure reduce it to small particles and mingle it with the saliva. The stomach of ruminating animals differs from that of other classes. It consists ot four oompartmeuts?paunch, or rumen, honeycomb bag, or bonnet, many plies, or psalter, and reed, or rennet. The first two serve more or less as reservoirs, into which the food enters at the firs act of swallowing, whereas the latter two contain the graaular elements for digestion, and receive the food after the chewing of the cud. Kumination occurs only very rarely in man, to whom it is unnecessary and more or less a hindrance. One can hardly define rumination as a disease, for *1 - 1?oroin nn vrnv ViarmpA imc UUUliy lUliV.llVUOmviu uv mmj by that process, but as "an abormal, anomalous condition, which must be socially ail uncomfortable and disagreeable burden to its owner." Summer Weakness Loss of Appetite, Sick Headache, QuicKiy uurea dv Hood's Sarsaparilla W Y N C?31 1 preicribe and folly e? dorce Big G as the only CbtmI* ipcclflc for tho certain cui? TO i DaTS.^B 0f ttalr disease. ^lH?rma?wd ?ot ?1 Q. H. IKC1 RAH AM. M. D? fEg mamBtrUmrt. Amsterdam, N. Y. El urd?oi7by ik? v T,> have sold Big G (of IQlne?tt?slMllh.' 7?? ! a?d.u Hajiuinimw^^ lT(n tll0 jj#ij 9j satisruction. OH* JM D. B. DYCHE k CO.. Chicago, lit J fRi7^HPbrviil.0A. Hold by Drecrlal# j eyeballZ^^MH^^HPnMHjP^^^M The favorable Imp^^H^H^HHBH^^H first appearance the alrc^Bfl^^BjHH^M remedy Syrup of Figs a few yeon^BflH^J^B more than confirmed by the pieasan^^HflBj atae of all who have used it, and the su^^HH pBj?cropr:etors and manufacturers, the Cal- ' 1TT8 r&gpfcj free by Dr. Kline's Great paWra. RpSspmi- No Fits after first day'j usb. jBBfMMBk Jtares. Treatise and S3 trial lottrt^fc^PirgBlB. f31 Arch St.. PMia., Pa. For a rthftjflewd Beecham's Pills. Don't raj^d!! think I Don't believed > you You women who* tJunlNil^ patent medicines bug, and Dr. Pierce's Favt#?| ite Prescription the big^^B humbug of the whole ( becaus^ US UCSl KUUWU U1 All) UUCO your lack-of-faith cure come? It's very easy to M don't" in this worlcL Suspicion always comes more easily than confidence. But doubt ? little faith ? never made a sick woman well?and the "Favorite Prescription " has cured thousands of delicate, weak women, which makes us think that our "Prescription" is' better than your don't believe. We're both honest Let us come together. You try Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. If it doesn't do as represented, you get your money again. Where proofs so easy, can you afford to doubt? Little but active?are Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. Best Liver Pills made; gentle, yet thorough. They regulate and invigorate the liver, stomach and bowels. Instantly Stop Pain fy*., AWTCTItDinrWHCAil l^/^RIOUS ccyp~ &$ f?j~i ii , !?jiu i>^w A representation ol t&e engraving on our wrappers.?RAD WAY & CO. BEW YOBJU nrucinuc **0.000,000 to t? paw Up M V111 M\ oat tnlj year under the new rbllUlUilv I>liabl )ty Pension Act Every soldier Included wno serred 90 days and Le now disabled, 110 matter what the cause; or In case of bis death his widow and minor children. Dependent parents also benefited. Write at ouoe for blanks and advloe to UBO. D. MITCHELL, Soltdter of Pensions and Patents, Box 233. Washington, D. C.. Clerk Committee on Pensions of the U. s. Senate for the last seven years. TjjCURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. ET Bert Cough Syrup. Tastes good. Use n?f UJ in time. Sold by druggists. *f| flPMQIAMJOHNW.nORRIS, lLlldl Vll Washineton, D.C.. *Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Principal Examiner U.S. Pension Bureau. 3yrs in last war, 15 adjudicating claims, atty since. nriimniin ol-d cl.ai.hs settlej rrNMIINN uxdeh new law. tllwlwI1U Soldiers, Widows, Parents, send for blaulc applications and information. Patrick 0'farrell, Pension Agent, Washington, d. c. /?3f^|P^?row { & lg&jife.}l-heir wor ^BhMi>hey use x Ifise^olu p5?S?^soakp use purposes LOVE'S LABOR S Li. works herself to death in the effort. If the h gets the blame?if things are upturned whil again. One remedy is within her reach. 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DrilClflllO NEW UT CLAIMS, r tildlUHd vm E Stereos iCi Attorney*, 1419 F St., Washington, O. C. Branch Oflicea, Cleveland, Detrolt.CHc?|lb " fii fiii Mirafi I A new and wonderful remedy for Liver, Kidney, Blood ^4 JJemale Dtsww^^Trial gaefcy, Mo. by man. Wtlft AUM/tvuia u__r WM. FITCH & CO.7" IS 1M Oorootan BaUdlng, Waahlagtoa, D. QL PENSION ATTORNEYS ofortrM yeanf experience. MeoeMaUjr pro? rate pendens sad culm* of all krnda In ihartMl puwlbie time. g"N'o'Kgg u>ua roocwroL. PENSIONS F0R *Ll?Si??!S3 LIlUIUIlU charge. New Law. Application blanks sent free. H. C. TANNER, Patent and Claim Attorney, 1317 F St., Waahlngtoa, D. 0. pcu ciniucM^ ll.llilll.lHmi gBce?norn?f?<. fcllwl VII V;jni. ixpiriMMAV. McCoralck* Bsai,WaihlB|ton, D. C., * ClsclaaaU, 0. ABIIIU HABIT. Only Certain u< 11 Kill M Ea?r CUKE in the World. Or. --,'*4 VI IVffl J. L. STEPHEN"', Lebanon, q FRflZER6^fsf 1 BESTJTJf THE WOULD U It CM3 ty'Oct the Pennine. 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ARCHITECT CO.. 15 Ysndewater St., Few 7ct% _ Onaaatioa Tula Paper_ Wives 1 ir in hhe light*ofks, especially if* SAP0LI0: | i ca.Ke ofscouring d foroJI cleaning' . All grocers keepir. no f by many a woman who strives JO I to please her household and ouse does not Iook as bright as a pin, she e house-cleaning goes on?why blame her fie uses SAPOLIO everything will look r will be quickly over. ' COLLAR or CUFF CAN BE RELIED ON fitoiit; ; to Discolor! AHS THIS MARK. TRADE i 111 nlfl !*w i-w i y mark. E WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. NED WATERPROOF HE MARKET. /