Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, September 21, 1898, Image 4
Costly Butterfly.
X young man camping In the Sierras
discovered and captured a butterfly of
an unknown species. He sent it to
Smithsonian Institute at Washington,
and received for it a check for ?1,540,
with the request to make careful
search for other moths o? the same
kind. It was an Individual of a fossil
species supposed to be extinct, and
great was the excitement among the
scientists at the discovery that one of
the race nad been recently alive. Al
though search has been made by men
paid for the service, no other specimen
has been found.
Ha? not Slept for Five Years.
It ls reported that a man In Indiana has not
had an hour's sloop for flvo yoars. lie con
stantly walks about, unable to rest, and ls
now Hui o more than a skeleton. There are
thousands of mon and womon who aro unable
to sloop more than an hour or two a "night
bocause of nervousness, weaknoss, dyspepsia,
headache and constipation. A certain remedy
for these disorders is Uostotter's Stomach
Blttors. All druggists soil lt.
Tho proportion of foreigners to English In
England is about 1 in ?VJ.
Don't Tobacco Spit ?nd 8moko Tour Ufo Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, bo mag?
nette, full of lifo, nerve and visor, take Nc-To
Boc, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. AU druggists, 50c or fl. Cure guaran
teed. Booklet und sample free. Address
Sterling lie med y Ca, Chicago or New York.
James Balfour-Melville, who had oeen a
member ot the Royal and Ancient Golf Clab
pince 1816 and had won tts gold medal, was
choked to death by a pieco of beef while at
dinner recently.
To Cure a Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
, Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c.
Houses in the West End of London are not
lettintr well this year. The only places that
are letting well are shootings in the high
lands, which are snapped up very rapidly.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens tho Kam?, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle.
Fits permanently cured. Nb Ats or nervous
ness after first day's ase of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free.
DR. R. H. KLINE. Ltd, 831 Arch St, Phila.. Pa.
I havo found Piso's Cure for Consnrnptlon
an uufailinic medicine.-F. R. L?TZ, 1305 ?scott
St.. Covington, Ky., Oct. 1,1891.
Lyon ?fc Co'? "Rick Leaf" brooking Tobacco
. gives the consumers the very best Tobacco
they can get. 2 ounces for 10 cents. It is fasv
winning its way to public favor. Trv it.
No fewer than 1.173 persons have been
buried In England In Westminster Abbey.
To Cnre Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists rofuud money.
Over sixty thousand oil wells have been
sunk in the United States.
fad Your Nerves
Upon rich, pori, nourisbtag blood by
taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, and you
will be free from those spells of de
spair, those sleepless nights and anxious
duys, those gloomy, deathlike feelings,
those sudden starts at mere nothings,
those dyspeptic symptoms and blinding
headaches. Huod's Sarsaparilla has done
this for many others-it will cure you.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is America's Greatest Medicine. $1: six for $5.
Hood's Pills cure sick headache. 25c.
Flogging at the Cart's Tall.
Although flogging at the cnrt*s tall
ls generally supposed to have ceased
after 1827, various instances are on
.record up to 1836, according to The
Gentleman's Magazine, when a man
couvicted of robbery from the person
was slowly paraded through the prin
cipal streets of Saltash "with bare
back and flogged at the cart's tail, to
which one of his har; rs was lashed at
either side. * * * Two men, armed
with cats-of-nlne-talls, laid on heavily,
" fr*- thc b^dle.
it larce ; .. . ti . adndnis
and had been well "oiled," or
i to a soft-hearted officer of
""Justice; as in a case mentioned by the
poet Cowper, where the thief was the
only one concerned who suffered noth
ing.
A youth had stolen some Iron work
at Olney. "Being convicted," says
Cowper, "he was ordered to be
whipped, which operation he under
went at the cart's tail from the stone
house to the high arch, and back
again. He seemed to show great for
titude, but lt was all an imposition up
on thc public. The beadle who per
formed it had filled his left hand with
red ochre, through which, after every
stroke, he drew the lash of his whlD,
leaving the appearance of a wound up
on the skin, but In reality, not hurting
him at all. This being perceived by
Mr. Constable Hischcomb, who follow
ed the beadle, he applied his cane,
without any such management or pre
caution to the shoulders of the too
merciful executioner. The scene im
mediately became more Interesting.
The beadle could by no means be pre
vailed upon to strike hard, which
provoked the constable to 6trlke hard
er, and this double flogging continued
till a lass of Silver End, pitying the
pitiful beadle thus suffering under the
hands of the pitiless constable, joined
the procession, and placing herself im
mediately behind the latter, seized
him by his capillary club, and pulling
him backward by the same, slapped
his face with a most Amazonian fury/'
CONSULTING A WOMAN.
Mrs. Pinkham's Advice Inspire a
Confidence and Hope.
Examination by a male physician is
a hard trial to a delicately organized
woman.
She puts it off as long as she dare,
and is only driven to it by fear of can
cer, polypus, or some dreadful ill. '
Most frequently such a woman leaves
a physician's office
where she has un
dergone a critical
j examination with
an impression,more
or less, of discour
agement.
This condi
tion of the
mind destroys
the effect of
advice; and
she grows
i worse rather
than better. In consulting Mrs. Pink
ham no hesitation need be felt, tho
story is told to a woman and is wholly
confidential. Mrs. Pinkham's address
is Lynn, Mass., she offers sick women
her advice without charge.
Her intimate knowledge of women's
troubles makes her letter of advice a
..?eilspring of hope, and her wide experi
ence and skill point the way to health.
" I suffered with ovarian trouble for
seven years, and no doctor knew what
was the matter with me. I had spells
which would last for two days or more.
I thought I would try Lydia E. Pink-,
ham's Vegetable Compound. I have
taken seven bottles of it, and am en
tirely cured."-MF^. JOHN FOFJEMAN, 26
N. Woodberry Ave., Baltimore, Md.
The above letter from Mrs. Foreman
is only one of thousands.
vi PISO'S :CURE' FOR
.V' CONSUMPTION"
WOKE OF THE BED CEOSS
BATTLEFIELD HORRORS, LED TO THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SOCIETY.
Henri Dana ut so Shocked by the Scenes
He Witnessed at Solferino That He
Formed a Corps to Work In the durna
of Humanity-Some Interesting Facts,
The history of the Red Cross so
ciety is but little known iu the United
States. Our peace-loving people have
been for so many years free from the
terror of war which has continually
confronted European nations that we
became supremely indifferent to the
emergency that at some time might
arise, when we should be called upon
to take care of tbe sailors and soldiers
wounded in the defence of our coun
try. .
It is nearly forty years since M.
Henri Dunant, a native of the republic
of Switzerland, witnessed the battle
of Solferino, and was a horrified ob
server of the unnecessary suffering of
the wounded from lack of care. Be
ing greatly impressed by tho sight he
published a little book called "Sou
venir de Solferino," and pointed out
the urgent necessity of forming a corps
of surgeons and nurses who could
work in the cause of humanity, re
gardless of nationality, and who might
be protected by a flag of neutrality,
and be permitted to serve on tbe field
of battle and aid the wounded. This
little volume appealed to all who read
it, and the outcome was a convention
held at Geneva, Switzerland, in Au
gust, 1864, by representatives from
sixteen of the great nations of the
world, who then signed a compact of
stiict neutrality that assured, under
certain specified regulations, a com
plete protection to the members of the
association when caring for the
wounded on the field of battle. Tho
flag of Switzerland is heraldically de
scribed as "on Ti field gules, a cross
argent," and the society adopted it
out of compliment to its birthplace,
only reversing the colors. Today the
insignia of the International com
mittee is the red cross on a white
field, and is the only military hospital
flag iu the civilized world which pro
tects all persons from molestation who
work under it or rightfully wear the
emblem when performing their ser
vice. The insignia is jealously
guarded, and the brassards and arm
lets, that are sewed on the sleeve
when issued in time of war, are
marked with private devices, so that
both armies may be protected from
spies, and that none but those en
gaged in the work of helping tho
wounded shall be "immune."
M. Gustav Moyuier, president of
the Society of Public Utility, was
elected and still remains president of
the international committee of the
Bed Cross, the headquarters of which
are at Geneva. . Sixty-two nations
have signed the compact. In 1882,
Miss Clara Barton, who had already
distinguished herself by her services
as a nurse during the civil war, was
delegated by the president of the
United States to represent her country
at a congress of the Red Cross com
mittee, and she was made a member
of the international board of managers
when the United States government
signed the international treaty. It
was at Miss Barton's suggestion that
a line of work was adopted by the iq?
ter national committee, so that each
nation might pursue au occupation in
time of piece that would qualify it to
be of service in an emergency, there
by K . ;ng ;*? ~??tiop' *Vr
> iva* . -
t|Ljy vis-..?-..- .-..-.y, Ug?
m?ne, moro parwui-iarly without the
use of alcoholic stimulants, and tbo
education of doctors and nurses should
be pursued. In the formation of the
constitution of the American National
Red Cross association a still wider
range of activities was adopted. It
was hoped tbat we sbould bave no -
wars, but calamities and disasters
were always to be a2->prebended, and
the organization determined to pro
vide aid for such emergencies. Otber
natiuns, seeing the usefulness of wbat
has been called the "American amend
ment" are following our examplo und
adding the amendment to their con
stitutions. During the past seventeen
years the American Red Cross has
given aid to sufferers in fifteen dis
asters or famines, the Russians, Ar
menians aud Cubaus being those who
have received aid outside of our own
countrymen.
Notwithstanding the fact that Miss
Barton advocated starting hospitals
during peace, no such work has been
done in America, with tbe exception
of one institution which Miss Barton
installed and opened in the city of
New York in 1894. It was founded
by Miss Bettina Hofker-now the wife
of Dr. A.Monae Lesser-a graduate of
the Mount Sinai training school for
nurses, the daughter of a g?*ieral of
the Prussian army, and whose mother
and aunts had served as assistant
nurses during the Franco-Prussian
war.
The life of a professional nurse is
one of constant self-sucritice, but at
least she feels that she is being re
warded for her services, and that when
no longer able to continue bor work,
she has been able to lay aside a small
sum, which will be sufficient to sup
port ber for the rest of her life. But
while trained nurses in general receive
a fair compensation for their services,
the sisters of the Red Cross get noth
ing whatever. With the danger of a
war before us, noble professional
nurses have come forward by hundreds,
and offered their services for Red
Cross work. They fully comprehend
the magnitude and importance of the
work that they will be called upon to
perform, and undertake it quite aware
that they are giving gratuitous ser
vice.
But what shall be said of the un
professional women who, without
training or skill, offer themselves as
assistants to the Red Cross? It would
seem folly to accept their services,and
yet tbe officers of the society base
their opinion on the experience gained
in the Franco-Prussian war, when the
princesses of Prussia and women of all
degree offered their services to the
Red Cross; and proved of inestimable
assistance.
The trained nurses will have life
and death in their hands, but the un
trained assistants will have no less re
sponsibility, for while upon one will
the care of the sick devolve, on the
other the protection of the healthy
will full, and in a hostile country, with
unucclim.ited persons,the task will bo
neither easy nor light. A great bat
tle has been fought; the "Red Cross"
is called for; bearers begin to carry
in the wounded. The couutry is de
vastated, smoking ruins show where
thc homes of the inhabitants once
stood; there is no shelter, there are
no provisions; the wounded furnish for
a sip of water, which would poison
them if sorved from the polluted
streams about them; The surgeons
and nurses are bending over the
wounded, ?eudering professional aid.
The unprofessional worker is now
alert aud calls to her aid her house
wife's training, and looks after the
comforts and wants of an emergency
household. While the trained nurses
have been providing themselves with
bandages, lint, etc., the assistant has
been loading a small cart with bread,
boiled water, tea, coffee, etc., and she
hurriedly follows the ambulance corps.
A sheet thrown over the branch of a.
tree makes a shelter, fires are lighted,
food is prepared, and the assistant fol
lows the nurses and doctors, feeds the
wounded, and gives a woman's gentle
aid to the soldier. As nurses and
doctors turn exhausted from their
fatiguing tasks, the improvised tent
offers the shelter and food provided by
the assistant.
It is for this kind of work that the
unprofessional women are offering
themselves.
THE VANDALIA'S FLAG*
A Itellc of the Great Disaster al Apia Is
Now Preserved at Annapolis.
When the ships went down in the
hurricane which filled Apiu harbor with
wrecks a few years ago there was no
time to save anythiug, nor did any one
have any thought of Balvage, save of
winning his own way through the .
savage whirl of waters to the beach.
The souvenirs came later, when the
gale had blown itself out and the
bench began to be strewn with frag
ments of the stout fabrics which onco
had been fine ships. ' Go where ene
will on the north coast bf Upolu, it is
not difficult to find some bit of the
the Trenton or the Vandalia, a piece
of a mast or spar, a deck.grating, or a
cup aud plate of the crew's mess equip
ment.
The most treasured of all Buch
memorials was the 24-foot ensign
which the Vandalia flew. When the
divers brought it up from tho wreck,
Lieutenant Carlin, with tho consent
of Admiral Kimberley, deposited it at
the United Slates consulate as a sou
venir. ThiB was the old consulate,
cloBO by the mouth of the VuishjanH
river, and quite near the spot where
the Vandalia carno to destruction.
When tho new consulate around ihe
point in Vaiala waa occupied tho r;en
orous wall surface offered a placr on
which to drape tho historic onjign,
supported by rusted cutlasses which
were recovered from the wrecks. Here
it hung for several years, until .it was
time to paint the wall again. Then it
was found that the bunting had stuck
fast to the paint in places, aud the
painters, in stripping it loose, were
tearing it. This seemed a desecration
in the eyes of tho lady of thc consu
late, and she personally undertook its
removal with the aid of hot water.
Finally the flag was soaked free and
spread iu the bright sunlight to dry;
Its long soaking at the bottom ?f the
harbor had rotted tho bunting aud lb
could be handled only with the Utmost
cave. Even when it was laid awn ; ld
the flag locker it W?B still fast going
to piecos uuder the combined ravages
of mildew and insect's, the two great
enemies of overythlng ko those exces
sively humid islands. The flag was
carried on the property return of the
Apia consulate aud it took a year of
red tape aud corroBj?oiideuce to get it
transferred to the state department in
Washington. Finally the necessary
permission was received and the Van
da?ia's flag was boxed for shipment, i
As it was carefully laid in tb? ..
camphor was tl :^'-'v . k
every fold aud
gravely saperiute. . ;. I j
kitten. That irre .. '* .*'.?*
ished by wiw'injf
t. ?toe j -.?'n?. _ .
between two cocoanut tret./> at tue
picnic of the American children of
Apia. When the flag was received at
Washington it was turned over to the
navy department. Then it was prompt?
ly sent to the naval museum at An*
napolis, where it will be cherished
among the other objectB which recall
the great events of our nc - al history,
none of which will be longer remem
bered than the great Apia gale of
March, 1889.
WHERE NATURE SMILES.
Wonderful Vegetable Production - A
Land of Fat Things.
Peru is a land of fat things. There
are really so many wonderful prod
ucts here that I hesitate to describa
them for fear I may not bo believed.
What would you think of string beans
as long as your arm. We saw lots of
them at the vegetable stands. They
were tiod up in bunches aud hung
upou pples. We saw potatoes as yellow
as gold. These are the papas amaril
las of Peru, which are a bl ight yellow
wheu cooked. We saw sweet potatoes
of many kinda, some of which were
as big as the yama of America.
Then there were quantities of yucca,
a tuber which groWB about two feet
long, and which is as big around aB a
baseball club. It ls not unlike the
potato, but the flesh ie moro trans
parent, waxy and jelly-like. This is
one of the chief foods of Peru. We
saw roasting ears (it nearly every veg
etable stand, and in the grain mar
kets handled varieties of corn which
I have never Been flt home. Some ef
the corn was as black as ink, and an
other kind was of a light yellow, with
grains almost as bis us a Lima beau.
These two varieties are so nieally that
yon can make flour of them by pound
ing them with a stone. They come
from the mountain farms, and to a
great extent form the food of that part
of Peru. We" saw squashes and
melons of all kinds. Many of the
vegetables I could not understand,and
the fruits embraced those which are
grown in the tropics, as well as ap
ples, peaches and pears. The apples
were not good, however, and most of
the peaches we Baw were of the cling
stone kind. The best fruits are the
grapes, the chiremoya, which is as big
as a naval orange, and which tastes a
little like ice cream; the palta, which
ip eaten aa a salad or an appetizer,
with vinegar, salt and pepper, and
which has a flesh not unlike that of
of stiff butter; the blue and white
figs, which grow in all the coast vol
leys, and bananas of many kinds and
different varieties Of oranges, limes
and lemons. Then they have here
guavas, po'mgranates; tunas, the fruit
of the cactus, and olives, which are
pickled in such a way that when they
come to the table they are black aud
soft rather than green and solid, like
olives we eat.-Frank G. Carpenter
in Washington Star.
A Steel Building tn ah Earthquake.
A 19-story steel-cage construction
office building in San Francisco re
cently underwent a severe teat in being
shaken by the most violent earthquake
which has been experienced there for
many years. The building is said to
have swayed like a tree, but suffered
no material damage.
A Debtor's Fate in Slum.
As soon as a man falls into debt in
Siam, the creditor can seize his per
son and keep him ns a slave. Should
the debtor run away.liis wife and chil
dren, his father, or other relatives are
liable to be seized,
AAA'A??AAA'AA?A
FOR FARM AND GARDEN*
my un i t
The Benefits of Spraying.
Although spraying destroys fungus
growths, it seldom does so in time to
make a successful growth of fruit the
first year it is tried. The leaves are
more or less injured and this makes
them unable to perfect the fruit. If
the fungus growths have been at
work several years they have probably
to some extent impaired the vigor of
growth o? tho tree, and there will be
less blossoming or setting of fruit
from the blossoms until the injury has
been remedied.
Guinea Fowls on Farms.
Every farmer ought to have a few
guinea fowls to add to the variety of
feathered life on the farm. They are
also a good protection against such
depredators as hawks and other en
emies of young ch i ck eu s, their loud
cries on the approach of any Such in
truders giving signal tb the weaker
fowl to make its escape. Guineas are
a rather wild fowl and will not bear
confinement well. It is not best to
lteep them unless there is good range.
The henB are great layers, but will
moBtly steal their neBts and will brin*
off very large broods. The young
guinea fowl are very hardy and not so
subject to disease as are other fowl.
American Cultivator
Preparing the Soil for Fall WhoaU
Wheat following potatoes generally
results iu a heavy crop, and as the
price of wheat will probably remain at
a paying figure for some time the
ground now in potatoes maybe profit
ably used for wheat in the fall. If the
potatoes have been well cultivated no
additional preparation of the land
will be necessary for the wheat after
the potatoes are dug, with the possible
exception of going over the ground
once with a smoothing harrow?
Doubtless the best, preparation of
the soil fer a wheat crop is to turn
under ? clover ?old, grow potatoes on
it, and follow in the fall with wheat,
The cultivation of the potatoes will
put t#e Boil in good condition for the
wheat, which will receive the benefit
of th* pladt food in the clover fr?m the
momc.'.t the seed wheat is put in the
ground?
Washing Milk Vessels.
All through the warm weather, pari
ticulnr care is needed to cleanse ves1
eels that have contained milk-. If any
particle of milk i? left in the crevices'
br corn?r? of vessels^ it will sotir. and
affect any milk that is afterwards
added-. Many people ic cleaning milk
from Vessels wash them first with
scalding hot water; ibis is a mistak?;
The hot water only coagulates the al
bumen! Causing it td stick more close
ly io the sides of the vessel; If it
be of titi the Scouring; of the milk soon
Bats through the coating of tin, and .
causes rust on the iron beneath .ii?
What we call tin is merely iron with a
Very thiu tin coating* No such vessel
is fit for long Us?, ?s the tin will wear
through, aud all the more quickly if
f.h? -o?r...i..*rt/1 nlhtiTna? miifl? bv hot '
- ' : ' . ,rA:> :>P
, T.;-,' qJJIL '-"uV :.<. ?'ic'Olt
.. jtS russia M :.. rina* tb?n'i ^?? j
>v?; ? v?id rfr*.- ?...??J? it ;.... ?.?}
destroj tic; ga <mk th*) COld >Vf.???i
. -.gr?e wih
. -jy makii?^T
.if .-'ly t u, . U".: ? .?om a hive
should oe all that is necessary , for
each Benson. Swarms can best be
handled by ? homemade swarming
box, which is simply a light box of
convenient size with it handle running
through both end?; A cover should
be provided for fastening over the top
when necessary and a few holes made
in the box for ventilation. When the
beus swarm keep quiet until they alight
in a convenient place, then hold the
swarming box under the cluster,shake
off some of the bees into the box and
most of the remaining ones will fol
low. Take the box of bees to the hive,
which has beeu previously prepared
for them, shake out a few at the en
trance, and the rest will follow them
into the hive. Small portions of the
swarm may have clustered away from
the main body, and all these should
b' 'athered so as to make sure of the
queen bee, which must be in the hive
ol- the bees will not stay.-Atlanta
Journal.
-
Late Cultivation ot'Potatoes.
It used to be the rule with potato
growers never to cultivate after pota
toes are in blossom. It is then that
the earliest tubers begin to form and
the deep cultivation of potatoes at this
time so disturbs the roots as to stop
the growth of the first set of potatoes.
Hence the o?d way of growing pota
toes was to give a more thorough cul
tivation than ever the last time just
before the potatoes blossomed. In
doing this the soil was drawn from the
middle of the rows towards the pota
toes. This was called hilling up the
potatoes, aud voa almost always sup
plemented by drawing the loose soil
still closer to the hill with a hoe.
No matter how easily this WBB done,
the potato roots thus mutilated never
fully accommodated themselves to
their new conditions. The roots in
side the conical, hills would not admit
much water, the potato vines died
down before the potatoes became very
large. Worst of all, as the hills were
washed down by rains many of the
potatoes were exposed to the sunlight
and were turned green. This eutirely
destroys their value for cooking.
Green potatoes are not only bitter,
but are even poisonous. It is not
generally known that the potato be
longs to a plant family most of whose
members are poisonous. In the po
tato this poisonous principle is devel
oped by sunlight. Green potato tops
are poisonous to a certain extent, and
the tubers, when they are greened by
exposure to sunlight, are BO acrid and
bitter that it is impossible to eat
them.
But in modern growing of potato?s
the set is or should be planted from
three to five inches below the surface.
If it is hilled up at all the hilling
should be done before the potato is
up in the process of covering. The
ridge? thus made ought always to Tie
leveled before the potatoes are up.
After this is done the best way to
cultivate potatoes is to run the culti
vator through them twice a week, or
after every rain, but only td tho depth
of an inch, or if the weather is dry,
even less than this. Shallow cultiva
tion does not disturb the roots, and
and can bo continued even after the
vines are large enough to loj> over
and cover the ground between the
rows. While all the surface soil may
be dry, that beneath it will hold
enough moisture for tho growing po
tatoes.-American Cultivator.
Flower* of the Yard.
How much the beautiful flowers
brighten up a home. Even a small
bed of pinks or asters or garden po
ttmias will give a fnmhouse au air of
refinement and make it look, as one
little maiden said, "as though Home
body lived there. "
One of the prettiest screens that I
ever saw was a bed of old-fashioned
morning glories. There was a space
j about ten feet in length, between the
clothes-line post and the "big gate"
! post. This was spaded up, making a
long narrow bed, and planted with
j morning glory seed. Wires wore
stretched across from the tops of the
j posts, and carpet warp strung from
this wire to tlie ground made a suit
I able support for the vines, where they
ran riot, their dark green leaves
forming a beautiful screen, that every
morning was covered with the sweet,
bell-shaped blossoms in which the
red, white and blue of our nation's
colors were represented.
This bit of beauty cost but a small
amount of time and labor, but gave a
; large amount of pleasure not only to
those whose home it adorned but to
I all who passed that way, especially in
the morning.
Tho people who lived on the next
farm "did not have time to fuss with
flowers," but they spent time
? enough admiring these morning
glories to have cared for some
?oine of their very own. When fall
came they were presented with a gen
erous supply of seed of each color,
but whether they use thom or not re
mains to be seen. The plants were
protected fronl the ravages of the
hens by a network of brush laid over
the bed.
If one really wants some flowers
and must have the henB about, a few
light brush, if carefully laid, are a
good protection until the plants are
large enough to protect themselves.
Last summer I saw a large dry
goods box placed in a 3 ard, filled with
soil* and bright with beautiful blos
soms.
The hens "got a notion " of gimp
ing, or flying, on to the edge of the
box and then revelling in a dirt bath
when the plants were small. A piece
of lath was nailed at each corner of
the box and some fence wire was
fastened about five inches above the
top adge of the box, and this baffled
the hens. The plants grew and throve
and delighted the hearts of all who
saw them, -Lillian McIntosh in Farm,
Field and Fheside.
f ann and Garden Kotes.
Underfed or overfed hens are poor
layers.
It is well to feed ^jnash to the
chickens:
Beans make a very excellent food
for the hensi
When hot weather comes stop feed
ing corn t? the poultry.
A good cheese may be known by its
fiimj yet mellowj t?ueh.
It never pays to keep any farni
stock after it is past its prim J,
When ice is difficult to obtain, milk
and butter lowered into a well will be
much improved in keeping,
A'few hotirs Spent in draining a low
spot niay allow ? field to be worked
sooner than it could have been un
drained:
Where milking is done without ?
calf} ? little feeding every evening
will improve the coming-up qualities
bf milk cows.
Duriug dry, hot weather every foot
of plowed land should be kept well
stirred Oh the surface with any tool
which will keep it from baking.
Gooseberries do Well in part shade,
and are often grown between the rows
of trees in young orchards* In form,
they can be trained like a tree or a
bush, but the bush shape is prefera
ble.
Ev?rycropi if ii is Consumed on ttje
farm, has two values-its feeding
value and its manurial value. The
man who neglects the latter will find
in time that he has neglected the more
important of the two,
General Mlles's Wife.
The ranking general of Uncle Sam's
army leads a charming domestic life.
He and his wife; are said to be the
handsomest pair in the army. His
wife was Miss Sherman, niece of the
late General W. T, Sherman, and a
sister of Senator Don Cameron's wife.
She is tail, handsome and devoted to
the general and her family: She has
always been his constant companion:
It is even said iu the army that she
has been near enough to her husband
in some of his Indian fights to hear
the shots on both sides. She accom
panied him to Europe last year when
he was assigned to follow the Greeks
in their war with Turkey. When the
general received orders to go to Tampa
Mrs. Miles arranged to go along. She
is a thorough" horsewoman, dresses in
exquisite taste,and the fighter and his
wife make A very handsome and mar
tial looking pair as they canter side by
side. They have two children, a
daughter just budding into woman
hood, and a son, Sherman, a fine,
soldierly looking lad of thirteeu. The
mother's chief regret now is that the
boy is too young to follow his father
to the front. They say in army circles
that the general's dashing and de
voted wife is about as good a soldier
as he is, remarkably well stocked with
tactics and evolutions and war plans.
- New York Mail and Express.
Spout inc Blue Clay.
A strange account is given df the
performances of a government artesian
well at Lower Bruie Agency, in South
Dakota. When first driven, the well
threw up a column of water six inches
in diameter. After a while it began to
spout, alternately, sand and water. B?
cently blue clay has taken the place
of both sand and water. There seems
to be an endless supply of clay, and
the pressure upon it in the bowels of
the earth must be tremendous. It
completely fills the six-inch' pipe, and
issues at the top like a gigantio
sausage, rising to a height of five or
six feet before it topples over. It is
necessary to remove the deposit of
clay in order to save the well from
becoming buried under it. The clay
does not flow continuously, but, it is
said, usually commences a little before
the advent of windy and stormy
weather, indicating a change in the
pressure due to the state of the atmos
phere.
. ^ Tho Raw Recruit.
Shel was an old and obviously earn
est L-ish woman, and her boy was in
the arrhy. She had gone out to Camp
KamsiKf, in Minnesota, to see him,
and we couldn't soe anybody else.
Den^y was ? recruit, and he was
bei&g given a good deal of exercise
\iy way of getting him in line with
yliat was to, be expected of him. He
?yvas out with the awkward squad, and
iho sergeant was drilling them up
?nd down as though his life depended
c|n the result. He iormed them into
? double column, aud the old woman
watched with her heart in her eyes as
they started off. "Aw, wisha, look
at thim," said she, "iviry mother's
son of thim ont of step but me boy,
Dinny."-New York World. *
Told by the Sergeant.
From The Democrat, Grand Rapids, Mich,
At the Mlchlgor Soldiers' Home, in Grand
Rapids, lives Sergeant Riobard Dunn, hale
and hearty, although he carries the scars
of several wounds sustained In some of the
battles of the Civil War. In reoounting his
experience to a reporter, Mr. Dann said:
"About a year and a half ago I began to
have trouble with my flt omach. My suffer
ing was so intense that I tried different
medicines and doctored with several physi
cians, but without permanent relief. '
"I read an
acconnt of Dr.
Williams' Pink
Pills for Pale
People having
cured a case
much like
mine, andi de
cided to give
them a trial,
which 1 did.
"After tak
ing flvo boxes
I waa cured. I
never felt bet
tor than I do
now, even in
A Wounded Soldier. my younger
days. 7 am naturally a robust man, but
that stomach trouble, together with rheu
matism, which nftorward set in, were mak
ins inst Inroads upon my health and I am
satisfied that lt would have beon but a short
time before my comrades would have been
conducting tho regulation funeral cere
monies over my remains, had I not chanced
to read of and taken Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills for Pale People.
. "There are several others in the home
who aro taking these pills and nro receiving
great benefit." Ricnxnn DUNN.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this
1st doy of Nov., 1897.
HENny GIBSON, Notary rublio.
Sorgeuut Dunn ls porfectly willing that
anyono should write him in reference to his
case, provided stamp is enclosed for the
reply.
AJI the elements necessary, to give now
lifo and richness to the blood and restore
shattered nerves are contained in n con
densed form in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
Pule People. They are also a specific for
troubles peculiar to females, snob as sup
pressions, irregularities and all forms of
weakness. In men they cure cases'arising
from mentnl worry, overwork or excesses
of whatever nature.
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The Busy Bee Doesn't Go More than Five
Miles After Material.
The range of the honey bee ls but
little understood by the masses, many
supposing that bees go for miles in
search of nectar, while others think
that they go only a short distance. It
may be curious to many to understand
how any one can tell how far the bee
may fly, hut this ls simple when under
stood, i
Years ago, when the Italian bees
were ?rst Introduced Into the United
States, these bees, having marks dif
ferent from the common bees already
here, were easily distinguished, and
after any hee keeper had obtained the
Italian bees they could be observed
and their range easily noticed. Ii
bloom ls plentiful near where the bees
are located, they will not go very far,
perhaps a mlle in range, but if Lioom
is scarce they may go five miles. Usu
ally about three miles ls as far as they
may go profitably.
Bees have been known to go as far
as eight miles In a straight line, cross
ing a body of water that distance to
land. It is wonderful how the little
honey bee can go so far from Its
home and ever find its way back to its
own particular hive. If, while the
little bee ls out of Its home or hive, the
hive should be removed some ten or
twenty feet, according to the surroun
dings, when it came back to where its
home was first located it would be
hopelessly lost, if Its home was in an
open space, with no other objects close,
It might find Its way home, but, even
should the hive Se moved only a few
feet, many of the bees would get
lost.
So to move a hive, If done in the
winter time, it would be all right, but
If ill the summer time it should be
dode after dark, or when the bees are
not flying, and even then the bees
should be stirred up some, and smoke
blown In at the hive entrance and a
board or some object placed in front
of the hive so that the bees in coming
out may roark their new location. Bees
no doubt, are guided by sight and also
by sense of smell. They are attracted
by the color of bloom, as ,lf they are
at work on a certain kind of bloom,
they are not likely to leave that par
ticular kind of bloom for any other
as long as they can find that kind.
Again, bees are often attracted to
sweets by their sense of smell, for they
will go after sweets, even if in the
dark, if close. However, any kind of
sweets may be placed in glass in plain
sight, but if covered, so as not to emit
any smell, the bees will take no notice
of them.
His Prize.
Commodore Chauncey, during the
war of 1812, commanded for a time thc
fleet on Lake Ontario, and had the ex
treme ill fortune of never during that
period exchanging a hostile shot wltn
the enemy. There Were a great many
uncharitable enough to blame the
commodore for this, believing that he
was rather anxious that this should be
the case. Some time after the war,
he was placed In charge of the navy
yard, and one day caught a youngster
with a basket, gathering chips. Walk
ing up to him he snatched the basket
and roughly ordered him to leave the
premises, while he confiscated the bas
ket for the owner's presumption for
entering forbidden ground. The little
fellow backed away until assured
*tkat he was beyond danger, when he
called out: "Keep the basket If you
want It's the only prize you ever
took!"-Detroit Free Press.
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Nota Pleasant Neighbor.
Before he turned his attention to
navigation by steam, Robert Fulton
invented a marine torpedo, which ne
endeavored to dispose of to the Uni
ted States Government Succeedng in
Interesting James Madison, then sec
retary of state, In the matter, he ob
tained a small appropriation from the
Government for the purpose of con
ducting some public experiments. In
the summer of 1806 kc invited the high
dignitaries and a cumber of promi
nent citizens of New York to Gover
nor's Island to see the torpedoes and
machinery with which his experiments
were to be made. While he was lec
turing on his blank torpedoes, which
were large, empty copper cylinders,
his numerous auditors crowded
around him. After a while he turned
to a copper case of the same descrip,
tion, which was placed under the gate
way of Old Castle William, and to
which was attached a clockwork
lock.
Drawing out a peg, Fulton set the
clock in motion, and then 'be said in
solemn tones to his nttent'-e audience:
"Gentlemen, this is a charged torpedo,
with which, precisely in Its present
state, I mean to blow up a vessel; lt
contains 170 pounds of gunpowder, and
if I were to suffer the clockwork to
run fifteen minutes, I have no doubt
that It would blow this fortification to
atoms."
The circle of humanity which had
closed around the inventor began io
spread out and grow thinner, and be
fore five of the fifteen minutes had
passed there were but two or three
persons remaining under the gateway.
Some, indeed, lost no time in getting
at the greatest possible distance from
the torpedo, and they did not again
appear on the ground until they were
assured that the engine of destruction
was safely lodged In the magazine,
whence it had been taken.
"CHARLEY," said young Mrs. Tor
kins, "you have heard of castles in
Spain." "Yes." "Did you ever jee
one?" "No. Why do you ask?" "I
was just wondering whether they,
aren't built of those gold bricks you
read about so much."
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Guaranteed tobacco habit cure makes weak
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The finest shops in a Chinese city aro those
devoted to the salo of coffin?.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,
ns mercury will surely destroy the senso of
smell and completely derange the whole sys
tem when ent?rine it through the mucous sn r
facos. Such articles should never bo used ex
cept on prescriptions from reputable physi
cians. a?, thc damage they will do is ten fold to
the good you can possibly derive from thom.
Hall's Catarrh Cure manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co.. Tjledo. O.. contains no mer
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noon the blood and raucous surfaces of tho
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f?^Snld by Druggists; price 75c. per bottle.
Hall's Family Pills are the bts3t.
Hontucky claims to have more water power ?
than any other state in the union.
Educate Your Bowels With Cascarete.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
lOc.iOc. If C. C. C. foll, druggists rotund money.
Police court statistics show that Cornwall j
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What He Would Like.
Employer (meeting clerk ou grand
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me you would like to set off this after
noon and go to your mother-in-law's
I funeral.
Clerk-Y-yes, sir. I would like to
do that first rate; only she isn't .
dead.-Judge.
Ambiguous.
"He ' died without an operation?"
'Yes. The operation wasn't neces
sary."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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S ONT LET YOUR DAUGHTER A
J have a wrong merging into womanhood. 3f
The greatest crisis in every girl's life
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ire every provision obtainable for establish-^
; this period properly, without which she jr
i never become a perfect woman. Mothers,/J?
teach your daughters to confide in jt
you. Explain their condition toCy
them and watch over them as you 35
."v would the most delicate plant, and?r
as this most critical age draws
near commence giving her %y
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