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Sheep and Wheat. We are satisfied that there are no two branches of grain and stock farming that can be so profitably combined as wheat and sheep farming. In growing wheat the ground in plowing turns up mew, fresh soil, giving a cleau, new seed bed for the grass to grow on; while the fermenting and decaying ac cumulations of an old pasture, or hay field, are turned down to enrich the soil and give the plant a more vigorous growth. We find in our domestio sheep two very admirable habits; one is quiet ness, the other industry. You can easi ly fence them in-they do not need a Jail-yard, like a wild colt, nor do they need a vigilance committee after them, as you dG in the care of the vicious hog. After your: wheat has been drawn from the fields, turn in your shep and they will clean it as carefuily and suo cessfully as did the gleaners in the days of Ruth. We find by experience that sheep can be well wintered by feeding in, and good, bright wheat straw, ereby returning to the soil that which has been taken from it. By carefully utilizing all our prod ucts our farms will grow richer and our pockets larger. It is very essential that every farmer keep a few sheep; first, as a source of profit; second, as renovators -they being very destructive to weeds, brush and such accumulations in fence rows and other obscure places, render ing the farmervaluable service in many ways. We have carefully noted the growing and marketing of the great crops, wool and wheat. We need to grow more wool, because we do not produce enough for home consumption; wh1le with wheat we have to look to foreign marketa very largely to make sales. Our farmers have been marketing these two farm products. The wool has been grown without any extra expense, the farmer and his family caring for them, while the washing and shearing has cost about five cents on each dollar received; they took their thirty-five cents per pound and went home happy. In the meantime, the wheat farmer has come to market with his grain. " Wbeat just one dollar to-day." "Is that all?" "Yes." He gets black in the face, for it has rained, I should remark that it .has poured down in torrents; hehas had a long, hard siege in the house as well as in the field, employin, a largo gang of hands at two dollars per day. MUIi has caused extra expense and extra work. He finds, after a careful estim ate, that he has left, after deducting harvest expenses, marketing, etc., a net prolit of about seventy-five cents on the dollar. He estimates that it costs alout 4s much to feed a wheat crop, includ ing seed, labor, manure, commercial fertilizers, and all that goes to make a good wheat crop, as it dles the same percentage of shleep, leaving a hand some balance on the wool side of the ledger. The amateur may ask what kind of sheep to keep. Well, if mutton is the object, take mutton sheep of the En glish breeds; if wool is the object, take the American Merino. Do not try and breed a sheep combining wool and mut ton, because each has a lixed type. TVhe coarse wool sheep have been b red for. hundreds of years on the Downs of En land, and are a fixed type; wvhile the fne wools were bred in Spain as long ago as the time wxhen the Moors in - vaded that country. So in trying tio build a breed in a few crosses you wvill make a serious failure, anti the wvorst kind of a mongrel. In 1881 these coarse and mixed wvools wvere3 boughit aLt Bissell Junction, Ohio, at from thirty eight to forty cents per p~oun~d, and sold in Boston, June 1, 1882, for thirt y-five cents per pound. The same class of wools were only bringing twenty-live cents per poundi in 1882, the 1ine. wools thirty-live cents. The future outlook for line wool sheep is very satisfactory; farmers are fast learning that it pays to grade up their flocks, and~ seome arle in troducing a few ewes to make a start. Michigqan F"armer. The length of a certain bean blower is one-third the length of a boy who is four feet hi h when he stands on aL block five inches thiick. What is the length of the lower?~ A huan body weighing 160 pounds falls fifty-live feet per second. llow long wviil it take ai hahy wveighiing t hirteeni pounds to fall downm a pair of stairs four teen feet high? Six men put in their c'alital to start aco-operative store. What was~ l'ft a tr h manager y t into) ('anadaI~ was valued at $250O, adi this~ represt'S'ied one-tifth of whaut *achi Imn put in. liow miuch did the( mnag~er gtaa wvith? t T he average cost of enuing a SOre throat is thirty-seven cents, andl the niumbecr of sore throats ini tis (ountry averagres 2'1,.0(000 p~er year. m' much Co1'ld Amuerien siemi for Eroinot to thle circus if our th roat s were brass"s hmed ? T1huere are t wenIt I'- fouri' newspaper re por ters in Loui% ilie, :aun each one kills an average of 150 (cockroachies per* day. llow mfany~ victims would they niumi-rei in 365 (lays? .A young~ man abhout. to he' marr'edl figures t hat $ per' week wvil lsppor the family in luxuryv and erect a fivet story b iing out of the savings of three years. Hlow mauny dhays after hms marria'ge before he will'tum'lie to bean It..costs a political candidate 825 pt r head to retain thirty lo1afers to sluw himi through a convention aund $150 for inci dental expenses. How much is he out altogether, and in case he is left how long will it take him to make himself good by hoeing corn at 81 per' dayP In a particular field are ninetyv-seven watermielons, and it is softly approached by five colored men in sea rch of a wood cnuck. How many timies does ninetv seven go into live? James and llenry go fish ing and agree to divide. James has two nibbles and1( a bite from a dog, and llenry gets two duckings and loses a twclve shilling hat. What is the share of each? One person out of every live in the United States hass one or more corns, and the cost of eflecting a cure is $1.80. What is the. number of corn victims, and what would be the cost of placing every person on a sound footine? Evey man who has arrived at the age of forty years has lost at least ten um brellas worth $1 each. Eatimating the number of losers at 11,000,000, andi granting that one-third of them have stolen seven umbrellas worth ten shil lings each, what do you make the total lse P--Detroig .Free Precss -A man demanded a free glass of r in a Nevada saloon and did not It. Than ha said he hnA navar trih1 DOe Brenehes Detrimental. I have been asked whether the state nont now going the rounds of the pa ers that " a dead~ branch on a tree mnakes almost as great a strain on the main plant for moisture as does a living Dne" is accurate or not. The statement is coupled with another referring to its practical application in tree culture, the conclusion being that every dead branch "should be at once cut away. Briefly it might be answered that2the first statement is true in the main, and that, without, any doubt at all, the con clusion is a wise one and ought to be followed in practice. To explain this matter will take considerable more space, and in order to understand it we must go to vegetable physiology and in quire into the nature of the evaporation of water from plants. It was long sup posed to be a physiological process, and was considered to be entirely diflerent from ordinary physical evaporation. As long as this view was held the process was called transpiration, to distinguish It from the p iyscal process. Tho breathing pores, the stomata, which oc cur in the epidermis of all leaves in great numbers, were supposed to be organs of transpiration, which was con sidered to be one of the most important functions of the leaf. Within a few years, however, our knowledge of these matters has been greatly increased and we now know that the estcape of water from the leaf does not difec in any way from the evalra tion of water from any other moist sur fate. A leaf is a mass of cells, every one of which isgorged with wateory mat ter, which in a dry atmosphlere, as a matter of course, tendt to escape. The epidermis, composed of dryish, impervi ous cells, which entirely surrounds the watery cells of the leaf, would prevent almost com letely the evaporation of. water from the latter were it not for the breathing pore before mentioned. These pores are for perinitting the free ingress and egress of gase3, particular ly oxygen, carbonic acid and probably, also, ammonia. Now, w%,hen the pores are open for their legit inate purpose it happens that more or less water es capes, if the air is dry. If the air hap pens to be very moist. the loss of water tirough the b reathing p res is very lit tle or Veon 110110 at. all. We may put, it in this way: the leaf loses water silnyj because it is a watery structure; it's epidermis is designed to prevent this loss, and the breathing pores with their power of opening :ind closing are for t he same purpose. A leaf instead of being an organ of evap oration is actually a -trictunre in which evaporation is quite su -Cessfully checked. Careful exipewimen ts inado under my supervision in the lova Agri cultural College in 1sso by Miss ida T'Iwtc hIell. AI graduate student, demon st rated t hat the evap)orationi fronm a moist piece of (lead wood was ex::etly like that fromcu a l iving leaf. Nowv wh'en aL deadl branch is large enough to keep continually moist in thle interior it wvill ini dry air constlant-ly loseO waiter by eval) oration from its surface. This water so lost is takeni fromj t he t ree, and1 mlust haue been supl)1iedl dIireet-ly or idirect ly by thle lis ing ortions. *Moreos er, it miiust be remnembed(red I hat a lii inig branch is well protectied ag ainist loss of wVater thirouigh e's ap'orationc, by the epi~ derm'ifs whliinc cvrs all its surf ace wvhen young, or t he imtpe r' ions corky hark which is alway.~s found on it, when older. Whna branch dies, t hcse pirot ectinig de, iees soon1 fall into decay and the wa ter, so eare fully gularil I llv the living parts of the plant, is wasted by evapo, rat ion - I';of. Bess. q, in N. V. Trib~mus American Incomes. There is no table of the average dura tion of fortunes ; but the statistica of busmness failures in the country since 1866 shiow that the average year/yv fail ures ranged from 1 in 163 in the year 1871 to 1 in 75 in 1876. How many busi ness m1e1 nm a thkousanld fail, once or more, dhu'ing their business lifetinme, I (cannlot learn. Thell propo c rtion used to be estimacted for New England at 97 perI cent. Tha~t is p)robably too high a tig uire for the bulsiness of to-day, conduet ed, as it is, upon01 much shorter c'redits thtan formerly. .But the proportion of, traders who fail is pirobabily not lower than 75 per cent, of the whole number. How many of our people live upon their inivested means ? Ini 1866 our in (come1-tax returns showved 771,000 in comers of $500 per year andl over, and 6,000,000 incomes oft less thanu $500. uit these were not incomes from capital they were mostly earnings or wages. Probably not One in a hundred of these smlallerimcomecs, and~ not over 10 pe. (Acent. of the incomes over $500, represented the interest upon investments. In Franc(e, tein years later, the0 cenisus re' turnedl no less than 2,000,000 pecople, rentiers, who live enitirey u110n thic livested1 means. In 1877 7,500,000 ot pceople, one-tifthi of the popultion, were enrolled as rentes-holdlers or savings hcanks dep~osito)rs ; but it must lbe added that the savmngs banks do not oftenu fail in France, and that sooner or later they are apjt to fail with us. Most of thes'e deposits are small ones. But no less thant 2,000,000 of the French can say~ with Petrarch, P~arva eed apta mihi: " It is little enough, but it will do for me." Thus, in spite of the resources o~f the country, im spite of the almost universal search for wealth, and in spite of the fact that we have a great many rich men at any given time, we still (10 not have a large class of permanently rich men ; we do not even have, like the French, a large class of persons who have a permanent though small com petence. The rich American's wealth is extremely volatile ; in nine eases out of ten it is " fairy gold." The old land-owners form the chief exception to the rule ; especially in our large cit ies, where the increase of values has been groat. But if our class of permanently wealthy people is small, so also is our class of destitute people. We are fortu nate in having no such immense and harmful inequaility of fortunes as we so'. in modern England. Oar ill fortune is this, that our class of moderate compe tences is also small, that so few of us, in spite of our opportunities and our la bore, have seize the good of even a small assured competence. The land is full of people who have not, on the other hand, and who are not likely to have, any assured competence, however' moderate, but who have nothing to (X t but labor to the end. This is, in. eed, .the, appointed human lot foir the majority in any community ; but need it be, in a country of resour.es like this, so nearly the universal lot? Might not many of us avoid it by a greater care for a moderate competence, a lessened am bition for fortunes P-T'. M. (Xoan, in arper'. Magasine, - --ome persons in .!sugfan~t Icep a cl rakn in the he,1.wmmr h iva... A mla arm. Leavlng the beach and the sand dunes upon which Atlantic City rests the eye greets the great salt nuarshes of the 1tIr soy cost, which stetidh badk dntil ti tev plain of coarse sed grass meets the horizon's edge. Dan and dark the slimy morass, home of the crawling reptiles and sueceeding billiens of nmPs& quitoes, which have reihianea undis. turbed through countless ages of time, until IQI hush! Some wide-awake Jer seymen have laid the hand of industry upon the muddy water, and a sq-called "terrapin farm'" is the result. Wille it has beek proved by actual Oxperinient that terrapin can be raised on a small scale, it remains for the tuture to disclose whether the Jorsey farms will be able to furnish our great dities With this most delectable dish, As profionitted by the highest order of epicurean talent. For many years terrapin have been found in abundance in this locality, but the in creasing demand of the New York and Philadelphia markets has drainbd the resources of the whole Jersoy coast, and it is only a question of time near at hand when terrapin in its native wilds will become nearly, if not quite, extinct. To overcome this fearful famine a limited number of Jerse3men have iade this ('licious reptile a study, and the knowl ed'e secured resIlted In the farmewhich bols fair to rank among Atlantic City's r re4t attractions. So far not miuch beauty has beon evolved1, but Cape May has beon beaten, and this alone is sulf cient to bring a profl able return for the outlay. When State Senator Gardiner began his searching explorations into terrapin lore, he found that scientists had sadly noglected to inform themelves about the domestic life of the .Jersey "diamond back."' Prof. Baird, of the Smithsonian sepulture at Washington, was ap proached on the subject, but he prouid ly pointed to his fossil remains oi the "diamond backs" of the saurian age, and proved that the turtles of that day were abundantly able to get along with out the aid of a prying Jerseynan. In order to overcome the lack of scientific information a small family of terrapins were collected a few years ago, and It has proved a most interesting study to learn the taste,. inclinations, length of life, as well as the time it takes to reach its greatest perfection. The "diamond back" terrapin never leaves its home by the sea, while nearly every moment of its life is spent burrowing In the salt water mud, where it lies torpid for more than six months of the year, losing noth ing, however, but apparently drawing sustenance from the mud where it is buried. As thousands of dollars have been already invested in this new in dustry, the importance of the subject Is readily brought to mind. After five years of existence a well-behaved terra pin leaves the bottom of the muddy salt poini, crawls to thne eage or tihe aaijOmf lng wvarm sand in the balmy month of June, and deposits from fourteen to twenty eggs, wvhich she carefully con ceals mn the warm sand. After this per fornmance Mmne. Terrapin goes back to her houdoir of mud with all the calm indlifferene of mod)(ern motherhood. But a foe of the most. relenitless kind is at hand in the shape of a bird called the crow, which sp)edily unearths the ter rapin eggs, andi they are dlispatched at one solitary banquet. Senator Gardiner believes that the crow has more to do with the extinction of the terrapin than the hunter who makes it his business to furnish the markets. It is known that the young terrapin sleeps during the first yeaur of existence, never leaving the sp)ot where the egg is deposited, freez ing andl thawing within the bosom of miother cart h and growing like the roots that surround t hem. It is believed by sonmc of the investigating Jerseymen that two years of terra~pini life are spent in this torpid state, without movement or scarce any changes. From the see 0ond to it~s fifth year the terrapin leads a kindl of vagrant life, and is lot alone be cause of no market value. It finds safet~y from voracious crabs and fish, because it continually burrows in tile soft mud, never venturing any distance out to) sea. Hence its name "terra," which means earth, aunt "pin," bec'ause it sticks so close to it. Sometimes the little roiutile burrows three feet down in the soft mud. During this period of youthful growvth it feeds on the refuse of clam, ovster, and other little shell-like creations with which salt water so abundlantly abounds; but when permit ted to choose its own food, as it is al lowed to do when undergoing educa tion att the hands of a Jersevinan, it Is known to pass by all its oldsea food and feast on dried beef--in other words, when Senator Gardiner placed a bill of rare before his terrapin, oyster, clam, and( other (delicacies were examined and rejected, while dried beef was found to be~ exactly what was wanted. The ex periment was tried so often there can e no doubt about a terrapin's taste. When the reptile is five years old it measures nearly six inches across its liamond armor. It Is now ready for he market, though it has not reached perfect maturity. WVhen it has attained Ls seventh year Its romantic flavor as uumes its highest perfection, and a morsel has been found fit for the palate of the gods. Senator Gardiner's terrapin farm be gins within a few feet of his garden and nya little way from the rear cottage dloor. Let the reader imagine a strip of narrow, dry earth joining to the ~reat salt marsh which stretches to the "In et," covering acres in extent. To the right a large shallow pond has been exca vated, which is filled afresh twice a daiy b~y the salt water pushed in by the tides. Winding here and there through the settgy plain are the narrow canals which lead to the pond and terminate at the Inlet. and only the wind-mills are neces sary to complete a Holland landscape. At intervals a rude construction of tim ber is noticed, which is placed to govern the inflowing waters as well as to ward off the deleterious consequences of frost and ice. A fence surrounds the pond, which has been sunk three feet in the mud, as this depth has been found necessary to keep the terrapin from crawling away. A brilliant panorama appears before the vision of Atlantic City's "terranin farmner." In his de clining years he sits in his oottage by the sea. At his feet spread ont his financial possessions which he has wrested from the savage morass. Be yond lie the placid waters of the Inlet, gemmed with the fishing yachts which aarry his diamond-back treasures be vond( t he sea.- Phiadeh,)/ia 7imes. -miyers' restaurant, in Brooklyn, it lear the City Hall, and Is muoh patron zed by swell politicians. Therefore bvhen the other day a coal-black negro 'ame in and wantedl breakfast he was sold that he could not be served. Hie sat patientiv fo te a hous. u-i- nnr A PROP1FEIA014L COiFESSI9N. The Vasoal E erteske er ? PrendIsesi ' ~m fsae PhmbIad. The follo*lng article fidi the bemocrat and Chronicle, of 11ochester, #. Y., is of so striking a nature, and emanates from so reliable a sourbe, ihat it is herewith re published entir. In additior to the val. uable r.ztter it containi, It *ill be fdWtid exceedinglY interesting: To th miter of heU De seoraf and Ohronice SIn:-My motives for the publication of the dst unusualstatements which follow are, first, grtittide f thb fact thiat h ave been iaved fiorti 4 rnoit hbrrible eath, and, sedondly, A desire tW wain il who read this stateinn i .gaihst samb of the muost deceptive ifinences by *hich they have bver beeil aurroujded. It is i fact that to-day thbusadd gif people are within a foot di th girav. end they do Hot know it. To tlt. how I *as baught dwdy from just this position and to *arn others against nearing it, are my objects in this cotnnitunication. On thb first day of June, 1881, I lay at m. resid ende I4 thib city sukrottnded by m friends And waiting for my death. Heaven only knows the agony I then en dured, for words can never describe it. A nd yet, if a few years previous, any one had , told me that I was to be brought so lo*, and by sti ierfiblo a disase I should have scoffed at the Idea. had IlWays been uncommonly sttong and hiealthy, had weighed over 200 pounds and hardly knew, in my own experiente, what paiti or sick ness were. Very many. Fbpbv6 who will read this statement realize at times that they are unusually tired and cannot account for it. They feel dull and indefl nite pains in *atoits pafte of the body,and do not understand it. Or they drie exceed ingly hungry one day and entirely without alpetite the next. This was just the way I felt when the rolentless malady which had fastened itself upon me first began. Still I thought it was nothing; that prob ably I had taken a cold which would soon pass away. Shortly aftr this I noticed a dull, and at times, a neuralgic, pain iti my head, but as it would come one day and he gone the next, I paid but little attention to it. However, my stomach was out of order and my food often failed to digest, causing at times great inconvenience. Yet I had no idea, even as a physician, that these things meant anything serious or that a monstrous disease was b.ecoming fixed upon me. Candidly, I thought I was suifering from Malaria,and so doctored my self accordingly. But I got no better. I next noticed a peculiar color and odor about the finids I was passing-also that there were large quantities one day and very little the next, and that a persistent froilh and scitin appeared tpofn the surfaice and a sedimuent settled in the bottom. And yet I did not realize iy danger, for, in deed, seeing these symptoms continually, I finally became accustomed to them, and mly suspicion was wholly disarmed by the fact that I had no pan in the affected organs or in their vicinity. Why I should have been so blind I cannot understand. The.re is a terrible future for all physical neglect, and imnpending danger always brings a person to) his senses even though it may then be too late. I realised, at last, may critical condition and aroused myself to overcome it. And, oh! how hard I t ried ! I consulted the best medical skill ini the land. I visitedl all the prominent iineral springs in America and traveled from Maine to California. Still I grew worse. No two physicians agreed as to my nuillady. One said I was troubled with spinal irritation; another, nervous pro rat ion; another, malaria; another dys pepsia; another, heart disease; another,. igenieral debility ; another, congestion of the base of the brain; and so on through a lon g list of common dilseases, the synmp tomts of all of wvhiich I reall hnd i c. -la this way several years passed, during all of whuiin timei I was steadily growing worse. NIy con,'ditioni had really becorwe pitiable. 'jjj1 h! sli t symiptoms I at first explericnen were decveloped inito terr'lle alnd const.. dlisorders--thle little twigs of pain had growni to be oaks of agony. AMy weight had been reducedl fromi 207 to 130 pounds. Air ie was a torture to miyself tand friends. I rotlt. retauin no0 foodi upon0 my stomach, ali Ihved wholl Iy by infj(ctins I)1M was ai hg mlaiss of pain. AMy puilse was uncom "liable. In liy agony 1frequientiv fell - 1on thle floor, 'onrilsiv~elyv cluitchll the -p--t. and prayed for deaithI. Morph ine a.:l little or no effect ini deadeniing the Fulor six days and1( nights I had '.he zu-peon itoiry hiiccoughus constantly. .~vann was tilled with tube casts andI a!lbumeun. I was si rug :linug with Bright's lsengse of the lKsidn.\s in its ls tgs Whie sl~eingthus I received a call froml my~ p.aItor, the lbev. Dr. Foote, re(ctor of St. .Paul's Churebi, of this eitv. I felt hat it was otur last interview, biut in the 'ouirse of coniversation he mnentionled a remiedy of which I had heard much hut had( niever us. d. Dr. Foote detailed to me lhe mia ny remarkable cures whiich had c ome iiunder his observation, by means of his reziiedy, and urged me to try it. As a Prterei nag phyvsiian~ and a gradu tate of the schlools, I cherished the prejutdice hothi mratural andl comuimon with all regular pract itioniers. anid derided the idea of any mledicinie outside the regtular channels being the least beneficial. So solicitous, Ilalwever, was Dr. Foote, that I finally promised I would waive my prejudice andl try the remedy lie so highly recommended. I began ias use on the 1st day of June and t ok it according to directions. At first it sliekenedl mie; but this I thought was a good sivn for rme ini my dlebifitated condi tion. I conitinuted to take it; the sicken mag .sensation departed and I was able to retain food upon miy stomach. In a few hiays I noticed a decided change for the bietter, as ailso did my wife and friends, M y hliccouighs ceased and I experienced e"s p.ain than formerly. I was so rejoiced at this improved condition that, upon what I had believed but a few days before was lmy dlying bed, I vowed, in the presence of my faurmily and friends, should I recover I wouuld both publicly and privately make k nown t~h is lemedy for the good of hutmian iry, wherever and whenever I had an opportunity. I also determined that I would give a course of lectures in the Corinthian Academy of Music In thisecity, stating in full the symptoms and almoet hiopelessness of my disease and the re viarkable meani by which I have been saved. My improvement was constant from that time, and in less than three months I had gained 20 pounds in flesh beenme entirely free from pain, and I believe I owe my life and p resent condi tioln wholly to Warner's Safe Kidney and flver Cure, the remedy which I used. Since my recovery I have t'horonghly re investigated the subjectof kidney diffi cul ties and Bright's disease, and the trutbh developed are astounding. I therefore state, deliberately, and as a physician, that I believe that more than one-half the dleathis w hiich occur in Amierica are caused by Bright's disease of the kidneys. This may sound like a r-aih atstma~nt, but I am prepared to fully verIfy it. BrIght's dIs ease has no distinctive symptoms of its own, (indeed, it often develops without any p'ain whatever in the kidneys or thei vicinity,) btut has the symptoms of nearly every other known complaint, Hundieds of people die daily, whose buirials are authorized by a hysician's certificate of "[Heart Disease,' ph Ap'ey""Paraly sis," ''Spinal f'omplaint,' "Rtheumatism," "Pneumonia," and other common comn olainta. when in reality it was Bright's' Disease a thie Kidneys. Few physicians, and fewer people, realize the extent of this disease or its dangerous and insid uous nature. It stealIs into the system like a thief, manifests its presenos by the commonest syom , -.-Jsen tsl assugered aind kno'e i odee*) .~tie-sg ever -onb' wbo readd these wordsno to neglect the Oightest symptoms of Kidney difficulty. Certain agony T 'oad~blesdesti 'will be' the sur6 result of such n@ ett and no dite bn iford to haard Sde b chancei. I dit aware that such AIn un itairfed statement as this, boming omin m, nown as I am throughout the enifffe lrnd as a practitioner and lecturer, will arouse th curprise and possible anitiosity of the medical fpofessidn and astonfilh all with whom, I an acqualited, Yut I make the aoregoing statements based ii ft facts which I am prepared to produce, and truths which I ca. substantiate to the letter. The welfare of those who may possibly be stiflerers such as I was, is piz Imple inducezdent lot tii i f he the Step f have, afd f It can sicestuli.y warn others from tie dangerolis batli inl whMic I once walked, I am willing to endure ; professional and personal consequenecs. J. B. HENION, M. D. Pasturing Stubble With Swine. The wisdom of turning stock into stubble fields to pasture is questioned by many faridfi's and their objections to the practice have coisiderable force, unless clover has been sown on or With the grain, and even then is not advisa ble unless the young plants have got a rdod start that is, obtained a strong hbld ii thl 9b.' The stock usumlly turned into stubble fields dotisists of. hogs, the object being to utilize the &rain that iay be left on the ground. here gaif hais been allowed to stand after it is ripe and muich Of it has been shattered in harvesting, it is not amiss tbturn swine on the stubble to utilize the shatteretl grain, but it is advisable to provide them :t the same time with green food sufficient to prevdiit afly in jurious effects that may arise from their eating too much hard, dry grain. There vill be little danger from this source if there is elover among the stubble, for the swihe will be certaint to eat enough clover to prevenlt engorgetnelit with rain. But in case of the presence of the greeft food, the benefit derived comes mainly frota the eldvetei not from the grain gleaned from the stubble. Another thing to be considered is that the amount of graia left in stubble will soon be exhadisttd, if afiy considerable number of swine is turned ifito a field where there is no clover, and it may happen that any advantage gained in utilizing the shattered grain is lost from Inck of food before the owner is aware of it. The profit in raising any kind of stock mlaitily depentis on keep ing it ill good growitig condition, and this can only be done by judicious man agement, which consists largely in prop er feeding. There is not touch force now in the argument hitherto presentedof utilizing the grain left in the field at harvest, as the self-binding machines leave very little behind. It may be convenient in 140te instances to turn swine on the stubble for a timne, but they should not be le~t to subsist alone on what they can find. When clover or grass hias not been sown, rag-weed and other noxious growths will soon make their appear. ance, and growv luxuriantly. Some of these weeds will be eaten by the swine, b~ut those that are not arc usually far the most numerous, and it is more. than probable that. the animals wvill los" in sien':d of gain in the operation, and this isa ss to the oIwner. -rairio Fatrmer. -In a recent lecture on the "Develop ment of Agriculture," Mr. Coffin, of Bo.. ton, stated that the improvements in the plow alone made a saving ou last year's crop in this country of $90,000, 000. He also traced the history of the reaping machine from 1844 to the self binding reaper of the present. -Since the -fire in the theater at Vienna, where there was a large loss oif life incidental to cutting off the gas, ladies who attend the theaters there carry small lanterns, which they keg lighted. _____ ONE paIr O! boots or oes saved everyv year by using Lyon'. Patent Heel Stiffenil era. -No more touching compliment could be paid than that of the child who had overheard a conversation at the table on the qualities of a wife. As lie stooped over to kiss his mother he remarked: "Mamma, when 1 get big I'm going to marry a lady jtist 'zactly like von. '-N.Y. Hferakd. "Buelau-Pal ba." Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney. BladderandA Urinary B'iseases. *1. Druggists. FOR thick heads, heavy stomachs, hi lion ness--Wells' May A pple Pills. 10 agd 25c Mvax.A' peptonised beef tonic the onh, .rearation of beef containing its entire nutri propertiu. It contains blood-making, foroe generating and life-ustaining propertier. invaluable for Indigestion, dyspepuia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility also, in all enfeebled oonditions, whether tb result of exhaustion, nervous rostration, over work or acute disease, partio arly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazare 400., pboprietos New York. Sold by druggistu TWBNTY-POURt IJOURtS TO IAvE. Froma John Kuhn, Lafaette, Ind., who annonne, " that he is now in ''perect health.'' we hav~e the tol. iowing: ''One yeair ago I wa, to all aPpearance, in' the Iasit stages of Con'iiumption. Ouar best p'hyss 'iansi gave mv casen up. I finally got Ro low that .mir doctor said I could not livo twenty-four hours. Ov fri n-ls then purchased a bottlo of DRU. WM. J(ALL's nzAIAM FOR THE LUNoS, which con ,iderahl /: benenited me. I continued luntii I tooki 'tine bottles. I am now in perfect health, haviny. used no other medicine. DR. DzwIT C. KELLINGER'R LINIMENTr is an infallible cure for Rheumatism. sprains. IiLonessi and Disoe o f the Scalp,-and for promoting the CLEBRATED jhioned Idea i read to 7e a s en fO aes~ ee ut epoe th fl seesste gea enoCaut, whiob tonee the SYUAUA hrea~uihiues the srw.f~, neutralises misiarla, depisras~e sad rishes the lood, rouse. the lie~ whea eumsa% ~d pnmee. a egular habit etbe4y~,~~,~ Few sale by sad Dealem gsas'alis. MASON & KAMLIN * 4 1-4 e6 ; =1 counpas itih, for popvlar Oacred and at W119 et . oe ON HNL a W 011. to 11164m N v opany v ened 6UM O manufd* _f rA4 I N 'GRAND'PAT% imtrodveg le- &aas so power dd4 beot y or WAt i mW n ralt emin ow- Ider a PI AN 0 41154 to ' 111 T IW ! 4 f fR__,___U____.. __ - UR RO R,' * Aomanism I NdiN by~ the mnc milet Divineg t e different Do mninmUons. ITARTL The Corruption of Bommnhnem. Tihe afesslonal. The oft. Barth o iii 6 . I, Frofusely Illus 6mted with Por raits of the Con Vbatorl. Death 0.. 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In ma'n eases of Nervons P'rortr loveished co)11 ndio oflhe blood. t hIs peerless remtedl iable remedy. I preslhei It In pref4*eece to aniy Iroun as DU. ilARtTERl'8 intoN TONJi( it nessity in mty~ ST. J.fiti. UIo.. Nov. U y Ivesa color* to thei~~ '''~~--' nsat ual heaslth~ful tone toi the <dlgentivye organs a nd nerrvousa systemn, maki ngf Deblit, Tossof AI11>e t~Prostration of /lfa Powers and Imnpotene. MANUFA(tURED BY THE DR. 1' ".TEJ. Mb) Sense Feelings, DiU -,Weak Sight, Soro - Bronchitis, Asthm+ .*anssa . "dt# aA*S r& w4. . ana e 4AtIs te,.s ...* ' A CATALOGUE .UST IdStD CONT'IAINNG 40 ILLUSTMATIONS AND PRICES OF D1AMDOS, WATCHES, JEWELRY AND SILVERWRAE Will be se't to any address uponl application to J. P. STEVENbS.& CO., JTEWELERS, ATLANTA, . . CGEORGIA. MVagfo ftAerns Outdone by the sefro books, yapora cards, et c t upon tie % .4t.:1.gd rkotawatch i rotIu Totot enlar0d to ue a n1r. We send f olyoption A conto 'e'ture 0 loat chrome, cards and portraft%, by Mail r $2.50. O o ircilard toll hol to obt ait it fred Agenta wantod. Murra(HiM Pub. Co.,_A29 E. 21tht, N. Y. tOR THE PERMANENT CURE OF CONSTOPA TION. N No other discaso 11 Lo prevalent in this 00=, try as ConstionL, nd. o rendy hos over quled the colo1bra~ted Kidney- cort an d Whateve the cauwo, lbowever obstinate the ct6d,- pvopor use of this rmody wM overcome . SE g TIDA ditresaing con. PILE, a piOis very apt to be t4 oompUcatedwithcostifYSbpgu. Kidney-Wo stren.t'iens tho wcakcid jets and quickly cur e allkinds or Rics even wiuu physicians 6nd medicines havo beforo failed. grIf you? heivo cither of theso trottbles PRICE s i. USE neumlstz Sell NAW M IL LSE aulaUr an wJmU T His A U'M Al A TAYLOR 00., dhi CONSUPTION Shave a )Ositlvo for the above (1lsase; b t ta -i entuwf; ,f cures , the worst hind and o Ion OtAndin~ tavu been cured. j:'W1 l,8Brofa fItgi is et iey, t hr I w)ill memi' . 4 oT10 . SpittB, to ucietr With aVALLAO 1 . TREAT.' Oil t'ls. dianaso,to 01. T. 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Boorspcaodt wand evelryhere.tu Circuarmled orm anareshd luaimortd reut- ok war boosford. Caoguea free b'a ion t boora Noebrnr erhn, t inrdceentDaogue (-.AVDC. COOK, 46 Adams street, Chicago. dicionr tale, mps et. or i cm ethe Co tcher Bibe a 14PLgsaiN bindkng giteeo ne Donthlr Did it en . $1,000be fron4vented pwa. DAver $0. pOOr St6 Adam ~rstet hcao In ooion or. ~ net Paub.e Unionere CAtlaa Ga,.. to..n .NO.46. McBRIDLFE & CO.'Sroer CH IAE AND VASS BA ACE, nthe otr y emNey.tus Ston Wuateilterer. l)AlI I C. ' ( ti , 1' Aoa ts stock Co. Pices furn Inn FAideR of lEn, PeOuvord" huu~u, ill ege for atane ~orm.n ThCet. (ithbaom 0n prd. aVon 0 CrOK 16 dam, sret thic,lis. hrcersi Pob.hnirn A on pra.. at..os4 ton mATe1LsANTs. GyseORh.Gndan& m Owaa n mhans mat Ci e na. iSvone er Flrer tiin Chaeyield tem' ruit arVeeal compar. re natinn e. n f int S m oun Vy eaknessDe fs Ioss of Vosith, Of ast an Sml, Ne palau Ft ThroatyCough , iv a o ,i igusting Odor's, Throat, Coughs, I.. a, and ~Ul Die. ~