Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Sulphur us n Di?iiilec'ant. Sulphur burnt ic the poultry house will dispel ioul odors, and thoroughly disinfect the disease breeding germs. It is no: difficult to do, and requires only a few minutes' time once every month. One of tho simplest ways is to heat an old shovel until red and sprinkle a few tablespoonfuls of pow dered sulphur on lt. Close the doors of the house at once, and be careful that no fowls arc concealed therein, as tho fumes mean certain death for them. . Let tho door remain closed for an hour, then open and let the house have ventilation. Carbolic acH is also one of the best disinfectants, and may be tmrnt like sulphur, but if sprayed over the roosts and walls, it answers the purpose equally well. Green, Corn for Tabla U?e. Near some of the summer hotels there ivre farmers who grow sweet corn fer them and they plant corn almost every wee kfrcm May 1 to Au gust 1. that they may ?ell it every week whiie the guests are there. But many farm'-s and gardeners not hav ing this spacial trade to cater for, make but one or two plants, and though it may be a favorite food with the iamiiy, there is but a short season that it is available. We can see why the market gardener may desire to have his corn crop harvested and out of the way that he may grow another crop upon the same land, but where land is so abundant that one docs not want to produce double crops on it, we see no reason why this succession of crops shottld not bc kept up. We have had it on our table nearly every day from July until November, and liked it as well at the last picking as at the first, and we know it to be wholesome and nutritious, and know that its use reduced both meat and bread bills. The late plantings might have to be picked before the first severe frost and kept in a cool place until we were ready to use the corn, but even then? they should oe as fresh as much that is sold in our markets. The Cultivator. Soil Feo<Unsr. The soil is like a bank deposit. One can check out until the deposit is ex hausted, thereafter checks are not honored. He who would always be in a position to draw on the bank muse continue making deposits. It is said that many Pennsylvania farmers have quite ruined their land by the use of lime. Lime is merely a solvent, quick ly making the plant food in the soil available. Of course, if no attention was paid tc raising clover, and no in crease made in the stock fed, and the freed plant food thus returned in the shape of manure, the improvement ot the soil must have gone on at a rapid rate. But where the soil was fe?'., lime was a great and permanent advantage. It will often be good policy to feed with a view to making larger quanti ties of stable manure. If the gain in flesh of the stock fed just equals in market value the cost of the feed stuffs consumed, then the manure pro duced is acquired at the cost 'of the labor invloved in caring for the stock. It is often possible* to feed on this basic, and ia most cases the fertilizing .matter will be better and cheaper than if- bought in the form of commercial fertilizers. Some times the cost of feeds used may even exceed the pnafket value of the increase in weight and value of the animal fed, and still bc profitable from our point of view. A feeder of teers recently reported a gain in weight of 80 pounds per month for two months on a ration of hay, silage, seven pounds corn meal, two pounds oil meal and- three pounds bran, the animals being kept in box stalls and never exposed. Now in this case, at present prices of feed, there may have been no margin of profit or a very small one. Yet where the entire ma nure was saved. I have no doubt that the "feeder was well reimbursed. For fully 50 percent of the fertilizing mat ter in the feed was lett on the place. When stock is fed for manure in win ter'plenty of absorbent bedding being supplied and Clover or stock peas grown, the manufacture of soil food ib""c?rried on the entire year, and the results will soon appear In abundant harvests. Feed the soil, and the ti>ll will.more than feed you.-Cincinnatus in the Epitomist. .Leaner I'ork In Demand. Real bacon has been so little grown in this country that the public are only now getting familiar with it. Until recently it was not far different with our mutton, but in that line of meat production the change has beep marked during recent years. The trend of change in the public taste vith other classes of meat is al together in the direction of leaner meat. Because of this change, the large, heavy-weight steer of eighteen hundred pounds has been set away back in the marKets of today. The handy weight early maturing steer of 1200 to 1500 pounds has taken his place, and old fat wethers weighing 120 to 180 pounds alive are now be ing superseded by the lamb under 12 months and weighing from 70 to 100 pounds. It would seem incredible to the writer that public taste should change so much in the direction of leaner beef and leaner mutton, and tbat there should not follow a corre sponuing change in the same, in the line of leaner pork-that is to say, in the line of pork that ls more of the bacon type. . A certain Iowa packer of pork pur chased last autumn at least three car loads of large improved Yorkshire swine. These were taken down into Central Iowa-that is to say, into the very hea-t of the corn belt. They were not taken there for purposes of slaughter, but for breeding uses. The males were chiefly intended for being crossed upon the types of sows al ready in that country. The purchaser told the writer that his object was to indude the farmer from whom his sup plies were obtained to grow swine that were more of the bacon type. He wished such animals, he said, because, all in.ail, tLey suited his trade better than, toe other types of swine, such as he had been purchasing. When the- average farmer of today kills'swine for ms own use, which type of ?? mal does he prefer? Does he not 'pass by the large, heavily laden hog and choose such as are lighter and not so highly finished? If the taste of the farmer himself ls veering in the direction of meat more nearly resem bling the bacon types, why should not the taste of the customer for whom he grows lt veer in the same direction?-Professor Thomas Shaw, in Twentieth Century Farmer. Dipping Sheep nt !. hearing Time. One gallon of dip costing $1.50 will make 100 gallons of dip when properly diluted for dipping. The best time for dipping is at shearing time just after the wool has been removed. The ticks usually leave the old shjeep, going to the lambs, before or at the time of shearing, so it becomes necessary to dip the entire flock in order to get rid of them. Where one man has a sufficient number of sheep, he should own a dipping tank, but where several neighbors own sheep, one tank may serve the neighborhood. The most successful hog men arc dipping their hogs nowadays. kso the tank may serve a double purpose. Galvanized hon tanks made especially for this work are so cheap and durable that any other sort of tank is expensive. There are several sheep dips in the market which can be bought. They come in a concentrated form and should be used according to nie manufacturer's directions. Avoid dips Waich contain limo and sulphur, as they are injurious to the wool. A convenient method of dipping is to have thc tank set at the end of a nar row lane or shu Le, leading out from thc sheep pen or barn. Thc lane may bc temporary where hurdles are avail able. Thc tank fer convenience should be sunk a foot or more in thc ground. After the sheep have been sheared, they (Iambs included) are driven through thc ianc, which should be narrow enough to cause the sheep to go single file, to the tank. As they are iorced into the tank, a man, or two if available, catches thc sheep to see that it becomes thoroughly soaked, forces the head r.nder for a sec ond and then assists it in getting out of the tank. Tho sheep should re main in the dip long enough to thor oughly saturate the wool to the skin. If a low-wheeled wagon with bed and sideboards on is at hand, it is a good plan to back it up to thc tar.K, allow ing the sheep to come out of the tank Into the wagon, where they should remain until the wagon is full. This keeps them from shaking the dip off for a little time, and is also about thc height of the top of the tank, making a good platform upon which to land. Where sheep are regularly and thor oughly dipped once a year there is usually no need of a second dipping; but in case ticks are found on them they should bc dipped again in the fall just before cool weataer. Dipping is not only a remedy for ticks and lice, but is practiced as a cure and preven tive of scab.-J. H. Skinner, in Orange Judd Farmer. tweaking Up Broody Hen?. Ask an old farmer the best way to break up a broody hen, and ten to one he will tell you: "Shut them up and starve them, or duck them in cold water: throw them as far as you pos sibly can every time you come near the nest; tie a rag on their tails, or build a frame wuere they must always stand on a roost, with no chance of settling down." A short time ago I heard a new way, and I tried it and found it worked well. Remove your u?n from the nest carefully-and here is a point which R is well to follow at all times: Al ways handle a hen as you would a child, with care and consideration, as they arc tender things, and jerking af fects their nervous system just as much as it would affect your child to grab it by the anns or legs and swing it over your head once in a while. That is something w"hich many people, and even men ard women who have rnado a study bf the poultry business for many years, do not know, or else they do not care to know. But, to return to my subject: Take the hen carefully from thc nest, place her in a comfort able place, but in altogether new sur roundings, where there are ro nests, and do not starve her by any means. On the contrary, feed her on all the rich, concentrated foods she will eat, and especially see that she has some kind of animal food-green cut bone is ab- ut the best for this. Be sure she has plenty of grit, some green food and water. Do not forgot thc last, as what we wish to do is to get this hen in laying condition again, and in or der to do this she must have plenty of good food and water. Before long we find our setting, hen has renewed her entire constitution; that old broody feeling passes away, and she feels like getting out and enjoying the air, and will soon by laying again. The reason this process acts so well and so quickly is that a hen after lay ing a large number of eggs becomes worn out; her constitution has stood a heavy drain for all winter, perhaps, and she feels a desire, a very natural desire, to sit, because it is thc nature of the hen to sit and raise a brood ol chicks at least once a year. By rais ing this brood she rests herself, and that is why sho is usually in such gooc condition when winter comes. I hav? heard showmen say that they like tc have their hens sit, as by doing this they rest up, and in the winter whet, the show season comes on, instead o? having an old fagged out hen who has been forced to lay most all the year around, they have a hen that has had her np .ural rest, and she is in good condition to show. About this latter I am not much of an authority, but I do know that a hen c?n be broken fruin being broody by feeding care fully and changing her quarters. She will begin laying quicker under this treatment than any other, and, in my mind at least, it is the best I have ever tried, and I have tried several other humane ways.-Correspondence in New York Tribune Farmer. Farm Noten. The stables should give shelter, warmth and ventilation. Do not feed lambs on rape alone, but accustom them to lt gradually when fed with other fodder. The barn and all the outbuildings should be reached with dry feet even in bad weather.. Good paths are needed. It takes a horse over an hour to mas ticate four pounds of hay, half an hour for whole oats, and only 15 minutes lo masticate ground feed. Some cows give more milk and milk that is richer if they are fed a little while milking. It will pay to humor the whims of such cows. Never give sour milk to the brood sow with a young litter of pigs. To do so is to invite scouring and ruin the prospects of the litter. The state veterinarian of Nebraska says it ls unwise to ring the noses ?f hogs. If tney have plenty of salt and ashes they will root very little. An excess of corn in the diet of the sow and also of the young pigs ls apt to produce scours. The pigs should have no corn until six weeks old. Frequent change of pasture i? of great benefit to sheep, and is to be recommended even though they have to be removed from a field where the grass is good into one where lt is poer. A Little Mother. Dolly, you've been very naughty ! Do you seo thal broken cup? I must puiilsh you i-ovorely In tho dark I'll shut you up. Do not answer huck, DOW, Dolly. I'm your mother, do you hour? You've been very, very careless ! You did do lt, it'H quito clear. No one else wns near tho table I won't listen to you-no! U? r i's the big, dark storeroom closet You've been naughty; in you go I I supposo the cat did break lt, Hut no one was bore to sue; And I hnvo tu do to ?lolly Ae my mamma docs to in". -New York Tribune. "Don Quixote" Kyee lo.??. If you look at a candle f?ame through a piece ot" very fine silk gauze stretched over a frame of cardboard the flame will appear drawn out in four direc tions, at right, angles to each other, forming a luminous cross, thc arma of which are fringed with rainbow colors. This is an example of what physicians call diffractions, and is of thc same nature as the | colored halos seen around lights in a fog. Now, this little experiment may be made very amusing by constructing of stout paper a windmill, or tho facade of one, with a small hole where tho arms should cross, and placing within or behind it a lighted candle, with the flame just behind the hole. Then darken the room and call in your friends to admire your windmill, which glows dimly by transmitted light. If any one asks where the arms are, hand him your "Don Quixote eyeglass" that, is, the frame with . the gauze. Looking through this, he will see the arms resplendent with all tho. colors bf the rainbow, and the mill will turn just as fast as he rotates the eye glass. A C?t. That Cried, "Do animals ever shed tears?" is a question frequently asked, but never satisfactorily answered. Some one tells us of a cow that wept freely when separated from her calf. In one ot the largo buildings of the city the other day many people were witnesses of a weeping kitten. The wee mite had strayed into the building, and there had encountered a fierce, barking dog of the fox terrier variety. She had run to escape him into a room in which was the roar of much machinery, had been shouted at, had had a piece of coal thrown at her, had been caught by the napo of the neck and flung by a giant, had been taken up in a lift, and had had the tip of her tail pinched by some laughing men. When she finally reached her desti nation, a quiet spot at the top of the tall building, she was a palpitating mass of fur more dead than alive, with no fight left in her and with tears streaming from her eyes. Indeed, a more lachrymose sight was never seen. It took a good fifteen minutes of pet ting and cajolery to induce her to stop crying, too, and to lift her head. But finally, like the cow in the story, she became consoled.-New York News. Hill nnd Joe. Ray likes best to have me tell him stones about Bill and "Joe, two great black dogs. They are owned by two boys, .vbo live near a village by the sea. In the summer many people como there to board, 'in cottages and at the big hotel. Thc boys have a wagon for the dogs, and when Bill and Joe are harnessed and the boys are in the wagon driving this turn-out is looked at by everybody. All think the boys have thc best dogs they ever saw. The boy? sell newspapers during the summer and twice a day, when li trains conic in, thc boys arc there with the dogs and the wagon and they drive around, leaving the papers at. the cot tages and the houses. All the boys ai the shore are on t .e watch for Bill and Joe, and when they come along some of the boys and girls get a ride, and this pleases them very much, and they are made extra happy when the boys let them drive thc dogs awhile. One summer a little sick girl came lo the hotel with bur father and mother. They thought the sea air would do the child good. She was a sweet girl, but looked so weak and so thin everybody was sorry for her. She did not -seem to get any belter and the only thing she seemed to care for was to see handsome Bill and Joe come trotting along. Then she would brighten up a little and seem to take great notice. So one day her father asked the boys to drive right up near to where little Etta was sitting, and how pleased she was! The boys spoke to her and the dogs kissed her hands. Then the boys said to her father: '"Don't you want, sir, to have us give Etta a ride?" The father looked at the girl and she whispered to him, "Yes," so he took her up carefully lu -is arms and put ?UT on the seal beside one of the Loys and she had a nice little ride. It seemed to do her good, for that evening she ate a little more and seemed a little hungry. The boys gave her a ride again the next day andt hen her father asked the boys to come for a few moments twice a day. So every day Etta watched for Bill and Joe morning and afternoon, and she acted as if that gave her some thing to live for. She kept getting better and belter, and after a time walked down to thc wagon instead of being carried. In a few weeks she was called well and her mother and father and thc doctor all thought that Bill and Joe had cvtred her. How she loved those dogs! When it was time to go home It seemed as if she could nol bear to part with them. The father tried to buy Bill and Joe and told the boys he would give them ?200 for the dogs, but they would not sell them for any price. So the father comforted Ella by telling her he would bring her back the next, sum mer to play again with Bill and Joe. He also gave the boys $20 and told them to buy new harness fpr the dogs and do what they liked with the rest of the money. They bought the harness and put the balance of the money In the bank, for they hoped to go to coll?g? gome day, and began when they were tiny lads to save for that good end.-Brooklyn Eagle. Archie ?ti I the Crow. There ire few things that pleased Archie better than to bc taken to visit his grandfather, who owned a large dalry farm in Orange county. New York. The little felolw was h;ri grand father's namesake, thc old man was fond of the boy, and never got out of patience at the lad's questions or his playful humor. One day when Archie was out in the woods with one of his grandfather s hired men the man caught and gav? to Archie for a pei. a young crow. A crow, sven in the wildest state, is a sort of half-domestlcated animal. It is no trouble at all to tame them, and, a,side from their Insatiable desire tb get into all sorta of mischief, they make nirti pets. Archie and his crow were pretty- good friends by the time they got to the house, and this wag of the feathered tribe opened up a rich run of the funniest, drollest thingB for his. young master during all that summer's vacation. The birtl never lost an op portunity to play a practical joke on anybody and everybody; but he seemed especially delighted when his victim was the old man. Archie's grandfather, all of which was accepted in good part by the old gentleman, until one day the crow carried his jokes a little too far, and -came perilously near being a dead crow afterward. Although the old man was rich, be yond the necessity of labor, he believed in plenty of outdoor exorcise, and was especially fond of working in his own garden and orchard. In the kitchen garden there was a beaut ifni big pear tree, in which the crow used to perch himself and watch Ihe old man sow seeds, set out young tomatoes and cab bage plants; while Archie enjoyed tho same sight from his hammock on the back porch; One day grandpa stretched a line some fifty feet long, by the aid of which he intended to set o-.it a straight row of young cabbage plants. There are few more back-breaking jolts ahout a farm than this setting out of young cabbage or tomato plants. On this day all thc old gentleman's attention was on the job in hand. He was not thinking o'f Archie or the crow, or anything else except those cabbage plants, which were in a pan by his side, as he worked slowly and patient ly along toward the end of the long line. Every twelve or fourteen Inches he would punch a hole in the soft, rich loam with a sharp stick, slip the root of a young cabbage plant down in this hole, press the earth compactly around it, and then make another hole at the proper distance off, into which he inserted the root of another plant. The old man never took his eyes off his work until he got to the end of his line, by which time his back and legs were so nearly broken that he was in sore need of the satisfaction of survey ing a hard task, well done Alas! alas! When he did turn around to view with pride his work, what was his disgust to see that Archie's crew had followed along behind him and quietly pulled up every solitary cabbage plant, aftef which the wicked imp of a bird had flown into the pear tree, where he lok ed as innocent and solemn as If there were not a cabbage plant within a thousand miles. Archie was asleep in bis hammock-that's what the old man said lo himself. He was sure of it. It was the wind and not the little rascal's laughing that shook the hammock so. -San Francisco Chronicle. Fpnrrnw Rou?rkeft|tlng. Have you ever watched a pair of sparrows when lirst thc house hunting and building mania comes upon them? How stupendously busy they are, es pecially thc cock, and what a tremen dous lot he has to say! As a matter of fact, his missus docs all tho real work,- and he supplies all the theory, which she consistently disregards. Not that Mrs. Sparorw works im petuously, as though time permitted of no deliberation. On thc contrary, she uses the greatest deliberation in the performance of every action, however trivial. Watch her when she' tn con-"" sidering the eligibility of, let ua say, a bit of string which she has found in the garden path, as material to be used in the building of a nest over which she is busy. First she will sit upon a gooseberry twig a yard or two : away, and inspect that morsel of string from thc southeast. Then she will flit over the apple tree close by and study it from the northwest. Then she will examine it from other points of the compass. At last she will hop up to it and pull lt about-apparently accepting it, but re jecting il again, still uncertain as-to its suitability for some purpose exactly defined in lier foolish little mind. At last she will decide to use it, and, seiz ing it. she will fly up to her nest with the treasure; but, vacillating once again, she drops it at the very -thres hold, and sits upon the roof a little while, eying it and chattering; explain ing to her lord, perhaps, that it would have done well enough if it had been longer or shorter, or thicker or thin ner, or heaven knows what. Finally she will flt down and carry lt away to use, and behold! tomorrow she has turned it out once more, and it Hes upon thc garden path a rejected thing. Not for long, however, for either her self or some other bird has removed lt next time one looks for the much considered scrap. That conceited and self-assertive lit tle person, her lord and master, is far less deliberate in his actions. He Is more certain of himself, being con vinced that he knows everything, and that to consider and weigh and delib erate is a waste of time. He is anxious to help with the nest making, and holds forth without ceas ing while bis lady builds. Occasionally he lends a hand. He catches sight of a straw, it may be, or a small piece of stick, and it occurs to him that here is the very thing his foolish wife has sought for days and failed to find. What does not occur to him ls that he is a garrulous old incompetent, and knows no more about nestbuilding than be docs about the laying of eggs. His wife knows all about him, how ever, and the straw is turned out of the nest again as soon as his back is turn ed. He has probably placed lt in some impossible position and-after explain ing what a marvellous fellow he is, and what a treasure he has brought up in the way of building material departed, forgetting all about the mat ter in a moment or two. Even when he sees that straw lying upon the gar den path, so conceited is he that he does not recognize it, because he can not contemplate the possibility of its rejection by the missus. "There," says he. dumping it down by her side as she sits resting, perhaps laying a Ie egg, in the semi-completed nest; "there's another splendid straw; how is it you don't come across them? I can lind them whenever I like!" Longman's Magazine. Ihn Kefct of tlio A ix it ni ont. Look at the birds in the trees." said the man who wants to keep house; "they wouldn't think of living in a crowded tenement." "Yes," answered his wife, "but look at tho ants. They always live in an apartment house. And every one knows that ants are smarter than birds."-Washington Star. Of late there has developed among ! the nal ive Hawaiians, especially 1 among the younger men, the desire to engage in a sea-faring life. FASHION NOTES. The black and white craze is still on. Continental ia the natue given one Of the most popular hat shapes of the season-. The new Puritan stock collar with st?ie ends ls a great favorite. Magpie combinations in very deli cate effects pr?vaii in veilings. ?tarain? and mercerized effects, closely resembling silk, are noticeable among the new shirt-waist stuffs. Tan and sage green are to be the only permissible colors for tub gowns, with white, of course, favored before these. Stiff collars are quite passe for separate waists. Soft effects are far and away In the lead. Walrus and llzzard, are the fad of the year for belts, wrist bags, pocket? books, etc. Irish crocket and tating hold full sway In? the lace world. Grapes and cherries are among the smartest hat trimmings of the hour. Decidedly the elbow sleeve is the predominating one for slimmer, both for high and opeh-neck gowns. Row after row bf machine stitch ing ls omitted from the silk bands U6?d for trimming this spring; Just Oh? row top and bottom is preferred. Flowers made from ribbon are novelties of the millinery work that are unique and quite attractive. Summer gowns of wash blonde are among thc very newest and most 3wagger kinds exhibited for exclusive women. These are exceedingly at tractive besides being very nove!. They arc in aitlstic colored printed designs of delicate bouquets after the Pompadour fashion. FEEDING A DAIRY HERD. I tare a silo I have filled for two years with a pea vine ensilage for which I have paid $2 per ton for what I have bought. All it has cost me is hauling the overplus from tho factory. I commence feeding twice a day. After milking I feed eight or ten pounds per' cow. After they eat this I give them coarse fodder, what they will clean up. I gradually in crease the mesa of ensilage to twenty or twenty-five pounds per feeding. I give thom all they will clean up after they get used to it, with hay or stalks at noon. My experience has been two years' feeding with good results. When I change from ensilage to hay or corn stalks, I find the flow of milk de creases to some extent. To get the best results In feeding pea ensilage, the grain rations should be two thirds wheat bran, one-third gluten meal. I find my cows stay in good health and fine condition, with largo flow of milk.-Frank Lawyer, in Or ange Judd Farmer. Quite Too Heavenly. "Girls, don't place too much, faith In flattery," warns the Manayunk Philosopher. "Just because some fel low calls you an angel It isn't neces sary to begin taking lessons on the harp."-Philadelphia Record. KlTerti of Change of Weather. At this season when pro-pie aro traveling for pleasuro. they wonder ;it the disordered condition ol the stomach and bowels; In the majority of those eases it is duo to chango of water. Take Dr. Diggers' Huckleberry Cordial. Never ells to ''-ure. Sold by all Druggists, 25 and 50c. bottle. In the interest of manufacturers the Ca nndian .Government admits coke free of . du tv. _j. , J', inc Wo nu Kottted. "Send box ot Tetterlne. It's tho only thing that makes any Impress! >u on a stubborn Illing Worm. '-Mrs. Kntlo Oldham, 51on talbn, Anderson County, Texas. 50<\ by mail from J. T. Shuptrine. Savannah. Ga., If your druggist don't keep it. In the English Army now in South Africa there are said to be about 20,000 Methodist soldiers. Ladle* Can AV rai- Mime? One size smaller nftor using Allen's Foot Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoe* easy. Curesswollen, hot, sweat ing, aching feet., ingrowing nulls, corns and bunions. At nil druggists and shoo stores, 2oo. Trial package Fnsx by mail. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Poy, N. Y. A German report shows that the num ber of cases of cancer has greatly increased during the last decade. FITS permnn ently cured.No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Grent NerVnlteotorer. ????triol bottle and treatLsefreo Dr. It.H. Kuy E. Ltd., 931 ArchiSt.,Phlla.,Pa. Nebraska was one of the first States to recognize the importance of keeping reli able records of thc flow of its streams. S. K. Coburn, Mgr. Clarie Scott, writes,: "I And Dall's Catarrh Cure a valuable remedy." Druggists sell lt. 75c. The. increused importation in France of American cornmeal is due chiefly to its use for fattening geese. Mr-i. Winslow's Sc othing Syrup for children teething, soften thc gums, reduces Inflamma tion,allays pnin,cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle The mortality from accidents in railway employes was reduced thirty-live per cent, last year by improved coupling devices. rjso's Cure ls tho best modlolne we ever used tor all affections of throat and lungs.-WK. O. EXDSLBT, Vauburon, Ind., Fob. 10, 1900. The mortality in smallpox epidemics usu ally ranges from twenty to thirty-five pel een t. of ti:e cases. "About a year ago my hair was coming out ver; fast, so I bought a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor. It stopped the falling and made my hair grow very rapidly, until now it is 45 inches in length."-Mrs. A. Boydston, Atchi60n, Kans. There's another hunger than that of the stomach. Hair hunger, for instance. Hungry hairneeds food, needs hair vigor-Ayers, This is why we say that Ayer's Hair Vigor always restores color, and makes the hair grow long and heavy. $1.00 ? bottle. All dmirlBU. If your druggist cannot supply you, send us one dollar and wo will express you a bottle. Bo snro and gire thc namo of TOUT nearest exposs office. Address, J. C. AV RR CO.. Lowell, MOM. Liver Pills That's what you need : some thing to cure your bilious ness. You need Ayer's Pills. Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich black? Use Buckingham's Dy 50ctiof drugeiitiorR P Hall & Co., Nashua. N. H VBO? for Cold Coffre. If the coffee has not been allowed to stand on the grounds until the flavor is spoiled you can use it in many des serts such as white or yellow custard preparations using less milk, accord ing to thc quantity of coffee you have, or you can use it in frozen cream, or for any dark cakos instead Of milk or water. In fact, Its being a liquid you can use lt wherever the flavor of coiTee will be agreeable ih the com bination. A S'ow Salud DrtfMlHffi A most delicious dressing for green salads is made by ildttlng one table iT-oonfill of lime jiiice Ih ? bowl, add ing A teaspoonful bf celery s?lt, ? salt sp?ouful or white pepper anti a dash of cayenne: Mix in, a little at a time, al ternately, three tablespoonsfuls of oil and two of lime juice. Stir all the time, or the ingredients will separate. Add a tablespoonful of finely cut chives, or an equal amount of chervil or fresh tarragon leaves.-Ladies' Home Journal. Cream of Strrtttltorrlerti Steam a pound fthil a half bi ripOi sweet strawberries; rub them through ? fine sieve into a boWl and three table spoonfuls of powdered sugar and stir until the sugar ls dissolved. Heat one quart of creamer rich milk, mix two tabiespoontuls of arrowroot in a lit tle cold milk to dissolve it and stir it into the hot m?k; stir and let cook for a few minutes to thicken. Put the puree of strawberries into a d'.&h and when the cream is cooled pour it over them and stand it in a cold place for the cream to set. Heap whipped cream or the whites of six eggs beaten to a stiff froth over the top. The cream or eggs may bc colored with a little vegetable coloring paste.pink or green, if desired. Decorate with a few whole large berries. RnMHt?d Puddin of I.atnl). Have your bulcher cut off two loins before the carcass Is split down the back. If the lion la medium-sized it will take one and one-half hours to cook; if large allow two hours. If you cannot cook it boter an open lire, cook it in a very hot oven; first ex pose it to an intense heat until it is well browned; then season with salt and pepper and baste it every 15 minutes with the dripping which falls into the pan. Serve with cucumber sauce. Cucumber Sauce-Peel two large cumoers and cut them in slices and soak in cold water for an hour; drain them and put them in a sauce-pan with ono medium-sized sliced onion and enough white broth to cover, and stew gently for quarter o? an hour; season well with salt and pep per and a tablespoonful of lemon juice or vinegar. Sin ki n Grtipl* Tor Invalid.. Preparing food for an invalid or for a convalescent is a thankless task at best. There is nothing very inspiring to the cook in gruels and teas of the various sorts, but since there will al ways be a somewhat steady demand for these uninteresting foods, lt is well lo know how they should 'be cooked and why one way is bettor than another. Gruels which are mix tures of grain or flour and water or water and milk need more careful at tention than do many French dishes. To be easy of digestion, gruels must be thoroughly cooked, and therefore the milk, when it is auded at all, should be added only when the grain has been well cooked in water first. If the water has evaporated in cook ing, the original quantity must be re cored before putting in thc milk and the milk be hot boiling and loses much of its agreeable taste. Another point about gruels is that they should be drunk slowly. Tho action of the sa liva upon the starch is considerable, and therefore the more slowly the gruel is taken thc more easily will it digest. Thc skill in gruel making comes in when one knows how to vary the flavor so as to render the food appe tizing. Sweet gruel is far from pleas ant, yet it is well often to add a very little sugar. Cinnamon, grated lemon peel, vanilla, nutmeg and almond are flavorings that may be used at dis crc.'*on. Flour gruel is one in which any of these flavorings is used, al though when it Is intended for a fever ish patient a little lemon juice is rec ommended. To make it with cinna mon, for instance, mix one tablespoon ful of flour, one te?spoonsful of sugar and one saltspoonful of salt together and moisten with two tablespoonful of cold water, working to a smooth paste. Now add one cupful of boiling water and a bit of stick cinnamon. Poll gently for 20 minutes, taking especial care that it does not burn. Now add one cupful of hot milk and let the mixture just reach the boiling point. This is to be served very hot and should be strained to insure perfect freedom from lumpiness. Hoineliold Ilinla. Windows should be cleaned with chamois skin. A pinch of salt added when eggs are being beaten up makes them froth faster. Coarse brown paper, such as is used by butchers, is best for draining fried things upon. A lamp wick should never be allowed to crowd the tube. If tight, pull out two or three threads lengthwise. Did you ever try brickdust to clean agatcwear? It is less expensive Wfan other articles sold tor such purposes, and far more effectual. In frying with a frying basket al ways heat the basket before putting it in thc fat, as when put in cold it takes too much heat from the fat. Strange as it may seem, a clear day i is much better for making fruit jellies than a cloudy one, as the atmosphere affects the bolling point of sugar. Varnish for floors, woodwork or fur niture is no longer considered desira ble. A soft finish produced by rub bing is the accepted thing these days. Do not have a cast-iron rule that things in your home fitments must match. Often monotony is the result. Sometimes varying materials of har monious coloring are to be preferred to those that match. Few people realize how infinitely superior to the fine white turnip la the common yellow one. Try boiling this vegetable with a bit of garlic, add black pepper and a good lump of but ter, and you will never use the white sort again. c e?us Palpitation of the Heart, Col feelings-Pe-ru-n? Cures Cs Mrs. X. Schneider, 2409 Thirty-seventh Place, Chicago, 111., writes: "After taking several remedies Without result, I b?ganin Janu?ry. ?90i? to (dice your vaUlable remedy, PcrtMa. ? was a complete wreck. Had palpitation of (lie heart, cold handsand feet, female weakness, nu appetite, trembling, sinking feeling nearly all Vie time. You sa id I was sn ffertng with systemic catarrh, and J believe that I received your help in the nick of time. I followed your directions carefully And can say to day that 1 am well agatn* 2 cannot thank you enough fot my cure. J wlllalxoayS be your debtor. ? have already recomn?end?d Periina to my fr mids and neighbors and they all prdlse it. I wish that all suffer ing women would try it. J testify this according to the truth."-Mrs. X. Schneider. Over half the women have catarrh in If you are interested, in obtaining a der of full instruction. Addret^H^c. w. J"< 'York, Shafting Pulleys, Geftrin?, Boxes. Haupt paclty, 800 hail B. J.om bard Foundry, Math 0 i AJ?IMUJJLLB GTOJ_HIC_LC?AJJ KIRINIWIYIEIO Wo will (fivo tlie iibovo -ewnrUMo nay person who v names o three American cities. Use each lotter hut ol ?nd .voil may I o tho fortunate rerson. Should there'1 will be divided equally, For Instance, should live | en Hlitiuid len peroon* send In correct answers each ?rill i Introduce o r lirin und good* we handle ii" ipiickly : M K free eonlest. A post card will do. Those who have un NATIONAL SUPPLY CO. Immense Hotel Opened. On July 3d the Crescent Hotel, at Eureka Springs, Ark., was opened as an al'.-year-'round resort, under tile management of the Frisco System. Extensive renovations and improve ments have been effected which will make the Crescent Hotel the equal of any hostelry to be found In the South west. This hotel is on the main line of thc Frisco System; is on top of a mountain, and has springs of wonder ful medicinal qualities. Round trip tickets, good for three months, now on j sale. Spades Made From Horseshoes. Chinese spade-, from British horse shoes, sounds like an absurd state ment, but the fact is that shiploads of old horseshoes leave London for China. All these come back to Lon don In the form of spades, having been so transformed by the ingenious natives. GENUINE SURPRISE. Tess-I told that old beau of yours that you were married. Jess-Did you? Did he seem sur prised? Tess-Yes, indeed! He said: "How on earth did that happen?"-Philadel phia Press. Summer Tours By Land and Sea-Ex cursion Tickets at Very Low Kates. Central of Georgia Raliway and connnc tims are now soling Summer Tourist Tickets from all coupon stations to New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore via Savannah and Steamship Hues. Tickets Include moals and statoroom I ertb. aboard ship; much less than all rail. For full par ticulars, berth reservations, otc. apply to jour nearest railroad agent. F. J. Robinson, Asst. Gen'l. Pass. Agont, Savannah, Gu.: J. C. Ilulle, Gen'l. Pass. Agent, Savannah, Ga. The present law in Germany limita wom en's labor to eleven hours, with a midday rest of an hour and a half. lt.. St*. 'mW?irPUI1 I li??*-' DmprUU Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold lo bulk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something jost as good." HEADACHE " BY Cured SAlso FejerishnaM, Sick ijeadaoa? ^eryouj Headache etc. 15, US an? ?Oc. At ?ruc Storeo. /^VHAM Ll N'S WIZARD OI L BRUISES SiA-^'VAul' OHu'fcGlSTS SEI f.'IT : QR. jp?s "? W0 tME HO Mt nc M COY CO.,i ' 2S??lfc X-i Dr...!*?., . ?(I SAMPLE. ?il REMEDY CO.. AUiTmDLDO., ATLANTA, QA. "Cat-Hfert" "Queen Bess" $2.50 shoes for women, HOE CC 1 ?ES ? d H?nds ?nd Fe?t, Sinkjrirj ?tarrh Wherever Located. wine form or another. And yet, probably, not a tenth of the women know that their .lisease is baturro. To distinguish catarrh r>f various organs it lias been named very liffercntly. . One woman hns dyspepsia, another bron shitiff, another Brigid's disease, another liver complaint, another consumption, an Dther female complaint. These women trould be very mindi surprised to hear that they are all suffering with chronic catarrh. But it is so, nevertheless. Each one of these troubles and a great many more are simply entarrh-that is, chronic inflammation of themucouslining or which ever organ is affected. Any internal remedy t!?:it will cure catarrh in one loe?l dori will cure it in any other. This is WoJr Penina has become so justly famous in the cure or female diseases, lt ciires catarrh wherever located. Its cures remain. P? rima does not palliate-it cures. Hon. Joseph B. Crowley, Congressman from Illinois, writes from Piobinnon, III., the following praise for the great catarrhal tonic Peruna. Congressman Crowley 6ays: ".T/rx. Crowley has taken a number of bottles of VerUna on account of nervous troubles, lt has jjfoVt?jt tt strong tonic dud lasting cure. ?ctttt cheerfully recommend it. "-et. Bt Croibley. A catarrh boole sent free by The Pehiha Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. If you do not derive prompt and satis faetory results from thc use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and lie will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, ?. ? Woman Men Admire thc correctly dressed one. The undation - her figure. '?flu . ?ORSETS STRAIGHT FRONT ike a stylish, correct beginning, id thc rest is easy. Ask your aler to show them. 31 Worcester Corset Go. WORCESTER. MASS. Atilinta, iL COLLEGE, Ga. ital education write for froo catalogue Jttor.Dean, 61 Inman Hldg.. Atlanta, Ga. AND ENGINES ?fl, Kt lj?B un Tunks, Stacks? Stand pipes and ?rhflerdron a. 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