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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
new, fresh soil, giving a clean, new
seed bed for the grass to grow on;
while the fermenting and decaying ac
oumulations of an old pasture, or hay
field, am turned down to enrich the
soil and give the plant a more vigorous
growth. We find In our domestic 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 do in the care of the vicious
hog. After your wheat has been drawn
from the fields, turn in your sheep and
they will clean it as carefully and suc
cessfully as did the gleaners in the days
of Ruth. We find by experience that
sheen can'be well wintered by feeding
in, and good, bri ht wheat straw,
ereby returning to te 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 farner 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 marketin of the great crops, wool
and wheat. We need to grow more
wool, because we do not produce
enough for home consumption; whIle
with wheat we have to look to foreign
markets 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?"l
" Yes." IHe gets black in the face, for
it has rained, I should remark that it
has poured down in torrents; hels had
a long, hard siege in the house as well
as in die field, employing a large gang
of hands at two dollars per day. liain
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
profit of about seventy-five cents on the
dollar. He estimates that it costs about
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 dloes the same
percentage of shieep, leaving a handl
some balance on the wool side of the
ledger.
The amateur may ask what kind of
sheep to keep. Well, if mutton is ihe
object, take mutton shleep of the En
glish breeds; if wool is the object, take
the American Merino. Do not try andl
breed a sheep combining wool and mu t
ton, because each has a hixed type. TIhe
coarse wool sheep have been bred for
hundreds of years on the Dowvns of En
gland, and are a fixed type; while the
fmne wools were bred in Spain as long
ago as the time when the Moors in
vaded that country. So in trying to
build a breed in a few crosses you will
make a serious failure, amnt the worst
kind of a mongrel. In 1881 these
coarse and mixed wools wvere boughit at
Bissell Junction, Ohio, at from thirty
eight to forty cents per pound, and sold
in Boston, .June 1, 1882, for thirty-five
cents per~ pounld. The same class of
wools were only bringing twenty-five
cents per pound in 1882, the line wools
thirty-live cents. T1he future outlook
for line wool sheep is very satisfactory;
farmers are fast learning that it pays to
grade up their flocks, andl some are in
troducing a few ewes to make a start.
Michigan .Farmalr.
New Arithmetical Problemsa.
The length of a certain bean blower
Is one-third the length of a boy who isi
four feet high wi'hen he stands on a block
five inches thick. What is the length of
the bloweri'
A human body weighing 160 poiunds
falls fifty-live feet per second. llow long
will it take a baby weiginig thIiirt ci
pounds to fall down a pairof .stairs four
teeni feet high?
Six men put in their calpital1 to stairt
a co-operative store. What wa~s left
a'ter the mnager1 got inito ( an ada was
valued at $250o, atnd this represent ed
one-fifth of what. each man put in.
llow much did the mnanager geta y
with?aerg cotf
The curg os fering a sore
lroat is thrysvncents, andii t he
numbe ir of sore throats in this ioumri iv
averages 21, 000,000 per year. I lowv
much" could( Amerien sp endi for goIin g
t~o the circus if our thrioats were brias,
lined ?
There are t wveint V-rour iie wievpaper)'I re
pot ters ini Louiisvile, andl each one' kills
an average of I150 co ckroni~ee per day.
How manty victims wVould they numnber
in 3G5~ days?
.A young man about to he' marrled
figures that 88 per week wvill suippor
the family in luxury and erect a fi vet
story building out'of the savings of
thiree years. 11ow many days after his
marriage before lie w)l' tiumble to bean
soup1.?
Jt~costs a political candidate 825 p( r
head to retain t hirt y loafers to slug h im
through a convention and 8150 for inei
dental expenses. Hlow imuch is he out
altogether, and in case he is left how
long will it take him to make hinmself
good by hoeing corn at el per dlay?
In a particulatr fld( aire nuity-se ven
watermnelons, and it is softly approachedl
by five colored men in sea rchi of a wood
chuck. How many timies does ninety
seven go into five?
James and Ihenry go fishing and agree
to divide. James has two nibbles andl
a bite from a dlog, and llenry gets two
duckings and loses a twelve shilling hat.
What is the share of each?
One person out of every five in the
UieStates has one or more corns,
and the cost of el'ecting 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
footingP
Every man who has arrived at the age
of forty years has lost at least ten uim
brellas worth $1 each. Estimating the
number of losers at 11,000,000, and
granting that one-third of them have
stolen seven umbrelflas wvorth ten shil
Jings each, what do you make the total
loss P--DetroiS Free Press
u-A man demanded a free glass of
rum In a Nevada saloon and did not rest
Deal Branokes betrimental.
I have been asked whether the state
ment now going the rounds of the pa- 1
pers that "a dead branch on a tree
makes almost as great a strain on the
main plant for moisture as does a living
one" is accurate or not. The stateient
Is coupled with another referring to its
practical application in tree culture, the
conclusion being that every dead
branch "should be at once out awa."
Briefly it might be answered that the
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 different
from ordinary physical evaporation. As
long as this view was held the process
was called transpiration, to distinguish
it from the physical process. The
breathing pores, the stomata, which oc
cur in the epideimis 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 escape of water from the leaf does
not dif'ec in any way from the evapora
tion of water from any other moist stir
fate. A leaf is a mass of colbs, every
one of 'which isgorged with watery mat
ter, which in a dry atmosphere, as a
matter of course, tends 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 tihe latter were it not for the
breatihing pores before mentioned.
These pores are for permitting the free
ingress and egress of gases, particular
ly oxygen, carbonic acid and probably,
also, ammonia. Now, when the pores
are oe)n for their legit imate pirpso it
happens thit, more or less water es
capes, if the air is dry. If the air hap
pents to be very noist. tie loss of water
i thm rouli the b treathIiing pores is very lit
tle or een none atr all.
We may put, it in this way: the leaf
1oes water sim l because it is a watery
Stiucture; its epiderlis i; designed to
prevent this loss, and the bre:athing
pores with their power of ol)ening aind
closing are for the same purpose. A
leaf instead of heing an organ of evap
oration is actually a tricture in which
U\ aporation is quit e su -cessfully
checked. Careful experimen ts made
under my supervision in the Iowa Agri
cultural College in Is. by Miss ida
T1witchell. a gratluat e stimlemt, (lemon
strated t hat tihe evaporationl from a
moist piece of (lead wood was exnectly
like that from a living leaf. Now when
a dlead branch is large enough to keep)
cont iiually moist ini tihe inmterior it will
in dr'y air const ant ly lose wvater by evap
orat ion fromi i(s suirface. This water so
lost is takeni from the tree, and must
hiave been suppli1 ed diirectIly or indirect
Jy by t he lii ing portions. Morcou er, it
muist be remembleredl that a liv ing
branch is wvell protected aigainsit loss of
wvater through es ap~oration, by the epi
dlermis which co\ ers all its surface when
youn~g, or' thei imhperiou eOS(orky bark
whieb is amlways found on it when older.
Whnabranch dies, these pro)tectinlg
de, ices sooni fall into decay and t he wa
ter, so) carefutlly gumartilesl by the living
p)arts of thle plant, is wvasted by evapo4
rat ion J':-of. Besst , in A. F. Trilmuc
American Incomes.
Thire is no ta ble of the average (dura
tion oif fortunes ; but the statistics of
buslinless failures ini the country since
1866 show that the average yeiar/y, fail
uires ranged from 1 in 163 in the year
1871 to 1 in 75 in 1876. How many buwi
ness men in a thousand fail, once or
mlore, <hIu'ing their businiess lifetime, I
(canniot learn. The proportion used to
,be e'stimahtedl for Now England1 at 97 perI
cent. That is probab~ly too high a fig
lure for the business of to-day, conduct
ed, as it is, upon01 much horter ('redlits
than formerly. But the p~roportionI of
traders wvho fail is prob~aly not lower
than 75 per cent, of the whole number.
Howy many of our peOople live up)on
their mnvested meanus ? In 1866 our in
conme-tax returns showecd 771,000 in-.
cones of $500 per yrear and over, anmd
6,000,000 incomes of less than $500. But
these were not incomes from capital;
they were mostly earnings or wages.
Probably not 0one in a hiundred of these
smiallerincohmes, anid not over 10 per cent.
of the imcomes over $500, represented
the interest uplonl investments. Ini
Franmce, ten years later, the cenisusr
turned no less than 2,000,000pel,
r(enticrs, who live entire'ly uipon theiri
invested means. In 1877 7,500,000 ofI
ls('ole, one-tifth of the populationu, were1
enlrolledl as rentes-holdlers or sauvings-.
banks dlepositors ; but it must be ad(ded
that the savings banks (10 not often fail
mi France, and that sooner or later they
are apt to fail with us. Most of theset
deposits are small ones. But no less]
than 2,000,000 of thle French can say
with Petrarch, P'arva 8ed apta miLi:
" It is little enough, but it will do for1
me."
Thius, in spite of the resources rei the
country, ii spite of the almost unive'rsal
search for wealth, and in spite of tihe
fact that we have a great many riclh
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 extremnelyv volatile ; in nine cases 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 great.
But if our class of permanently
wealthy peopile is small, so also is our
class of destitute people. We are fortu
nate in .having no such immense andl
harmful inequality of fortunes as we see
mn modern England. Our ill fortune is
this, that our class of moderate compe
teces is also small, that so few of us,
in spite of our opportunities and our la
bors, have sei'e the good of even a
small assured competence. The land is
full of people who have not, Onl tihe other1
hand, and who are not likely to have,
any assured competence, however
moderate, but who have nothing to ex
pect but labor to the end. This is, in
deed, the, appointed human lot for the
maority in any community ; but need it
be, in a country of resources like this,
so nearly the universal lot ? Might not
many of us avoid it by a greater care for
a moderate competenco, a lessened am
bition for fortunes ?-T. M. 00oani in I'
Harper'. Magasina. I
. ~im pe-n nJagim e At
--nome versons m Enmana ure .
A TempTa Warm.
Leaving the beach and the sand dunes
upon which Atlantic City rests, the 61
greets the great salt marshes of the r
Bey coast, which stteWh baik dntl tho
kevel plain of coarse sedy grass meets
the horizon's edge. Dak and dark the
slimy morass, home of the crawling
reptiles and suceceeding billins of mos
quitoes, which have rehialned unler
turbed through countless ages of time,
until IQI hush! Some wide-awake Je'r
seymen have laid the hand of industry
upon the muddy water, and a sq-ealled
"terrapin farm" is the result. lilie it
has been ptoved by actual experiilent
that terrapin can be raised on a small
scale, It remains for the future to disclose
whether the Jersey farms will be able to
furnish our great dities *ith this most
delectable dish, as protiouheed by the
highest order of epicurean talent. For
many years terrapin have been found In
abundanco in this locality, but the in
creasin g demand of the New York and
Philadelphia market-s has drained the
resources of the whole Jersey coast, and
it is only a question of time near at. hand
when terrapin in its native wilds will
become nearly, If not rpuite, extinct. To
overcome this fearful famine a limited
nuimber of .Jerseymen have made this
(- liclous reptile a study, and the knowl
edtLe secured resulted in the farmwhich
hals fair to rank among Atlantic City's
r ret attractions. So far not much
beauity has been evolved, but Cape Mav
has been beaten, and this alone is sufi{
cient to bring a profltable return for the
outlay.
When State Senator Gardiner began
his searching explorations into terrapin
lore, he found that scientists had sadly
neglected to inform themelves about
the domestic life of the Jersey "diamond
back." Prof. Baird, of the Smithsonian
sepultitre at Washington, was ap
proached on the subject, but he proud
ly ppinted to his fossil remains oi the
"'diamon(l backs" of the saurian ago,
and proved that the turtles of that day
were abundantly able to got along with.
out the aid of a prying .Jerseyman. 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 vell as the time it takes to reach
its greatest perfection. The "diamond
back" terraipin 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
poni, crawls to the eage or tne aojoin
lng warm sandI in the balmy month of
June, and deposits from fourteen to
twenty eggs, which she carefully con
coals~ in the warm sand. After this per
formance Mmne. Terrapin goes back to
her boudoir of mud with all the calm
indiffercnce of modern motherhood.
liut a foe of the most, relentless kind is
at hand in the shape of a bird called the
crow, which speedily unearths the ter
rapin eggs, and they are dispatched 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 (luring the
first year of existence, never leaving the
sp~ot where the egg is deposited, freez
ing and thiwing within the bosom of
mo(t her Ofart h and growing like the roots
that surround t hem. It is believed by
sonme of the investigating Jerseymen
that two years of terrapin life are spent
in tii torpid state, without movement
or searce any changes. From the sco
0ond to its fifth year the terrapin loads a
kind of vagrant life, and is lot alone be
cause of no market value. It finds
safety from voracious crabs and fish,
because it continually burrows in the
soft mud, never venturing any distance
out to sea. Hence its name "terra,"~
which means earth, and "pin," bec'ause
it sticks so close to it. Sometimes the
little reIptile burrows three feet down in
tihe soft mud. Duing this period of
youthful growt h it feeds on the refuse of
clam, ovster, and other little shell-like
creations with which salt water so
ab~undantly abounds; but when permit,
ted t~o choose its own food, as it Is al
lowed to do when undergoing eduoa
tion at the hands of a Jerseyinan, it Is
known to pass by all its old sea food and
feast on dried beef-in other words,
wvhen Senator Gardiner placed a bill of
rare before his terrapin, oyster, clam,
1".d1 (tiher delicacies were examined and
'eJected, while dried beef was found to
>e~ exactly what was wanted. The ex
>eriment was tried so often there can.
>e no do~ubt about a terrapin's taste.
W~hen the reptile is five years old it
neasures nearly six inches across its
liamond armor. It Is now ready for
he market, though it has not reached
>erfect maturity. When it has attained
ts seventh year Its romantic flavor as
lmes its highest perfection, and a
norsel has been found fit for the palate
f the gods.
Senator Gardiner's terrapin farm be
tins within a few feet of his garden and
mnly a little way from the rear cottage
loor. 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,w which is filled afresh twice a day
by 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
miet. and only the wind-mills are necos
ayto complete a Holland landscape.
At intervals a rude construction of tim
ber is noticed, which is placed to goyern
the in flowing 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
D~itv's "terranin farmer." In his de
alining years he sits in his oottage by
he sea. At his feet spread ont his
rnancial possessions which he has
vrested from the savage morass. Be
'ond lie the placid waters of the Inlet,
emmod with the fishing yachts which
~arry his diamond-back treasures bo
pond t he sea. --Philadehphia Times.
--1Myers' restaurant, In Brooklyn, Is
mear the City Hall, and Is muoh patron
z.ed by swell politicians. Therefore
v'hen the other day a coal-black negro
tame in and wantedl breakfast he was
old tha t ho ounot beser-ed. [ .s
A PROFINSIOSA JONFESS19N,
The Uasuuw minei e er ? Proest
' lan aa4e Pubuie.
The fd1Io*inA iticle frdTih the bemocrat
and Chronicle, of Rtochester, #. Y., Is of so
striking a nature, And emanates from so
reliable a sourte, .at It is herewith re
publishd entirs. in gdditioi to the val
uable r-atter it containe, It *111 be fdftina
exceedingLy interesting:
To h Efitor qf eo Desoorat and Chronicle
Sin:-My motives for the publication of
the dst unusual statements which follow
are, first, gmtittide fI the fatt that Ihaye
been i aved fforti 4 floit horrible eath,
and, ieedondly, Ad dire tb wain oil who
read thi statement igaifist aUmb of the
most deteptivo'inliuences by *hich they
have bver be-en surrou ded. It is a fact
that to-day tbbusaidd ) 1eopl6 are within
a foot of thb g'av. ntin yhey do tot kow
it. To tel how I *as baught dwty from
just this Moition and to warn others
against nearing it, are my objects in this
cotumunication.
On the first day of June, 1881, I lay at
my. residende iA thit city an irotinded '4y
my 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 low, and by so ierfible a dispase, I should
have scoffed at thb Idea. had a ilways
been uncommonly strong and healthy, had
weighed over 200 pounds and hardly knew,
in my own txperiente, what paiti or sick
ness were. Very many, Pbbp% who will
read this statement realie at times that
they are unusually tired and cannot
account for it. They feel dull and indefl
nite pains in fatious paft6 of the body,and
do not understand it. Or they dre exceed
ingly hungry one day and entirely without
ap petite the next. This was just the way
I felt when the relentless malady which
had fastened itself upon me first begai.
Sti 11 I thought it was nothing; that prob
ably I had taken a cold which would soon
pass away. Shortly after this I noticed a
dull, and at times, a neuralgic, pain iti my
head, but as it would come one day and be
gone the next, I paid but littlc 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.coming
fi xed upon me. Candidly, I thought I was
suiffering from Malaria,and so doctored my
self accordingly. But I got no better. I
next noticed a peculiar color and odor
about the fluids I was passing-also that
there were large quantities one day and
very little the next, and that a persistent
froth and scilln appeared upon the surface
and a sedituent settled in the bottom. And
yet I did not realize my danger, for, in
deed, seeing these symptoms continually,
I finally became accustomed to them, and
my suspicion was wholly disarmed by the
fact that I had no paim in the affected
organs or in their vicinity. Why I should
have been so blind I cannot understand.
There is a terrible future for all physical
neglect, and impending danger always
brings a person to his senses even though
it may t hen be too late. I realised, at last,
iiny citical condition and aroused myself
to overcome it. And, oh! how hard I
riedl! I c'onisulted the best medicail skill
in the land. I visited all the prominent
ineiral springs in America and traveled
from Maine to California. Still I grew
worUse. No two physicians agreedi as to my
inialady. One said I was troubled with
spinal irritation ; another, nervous pros
t rat ion; another, malaria; another dys
pepsia; another, heart disease; another,.
LWeneral debility ; another, congestion of
lie base of the hrai n; andl so on through
Ia long list of common diseases, the symp
'tomts of all of which I really had. -In this
way several years passed, during all of
whiten time I was steadily growing worse.
NIy cond(itionI had reailly becorije pitiable.
- ihe lig tsymtom Ia. first expieri(cend
were de(veloped( inito terrale anid const$.e
dlisorders--thle lit!tle twigs of pain hand
grotwni to be1 Ufaks of agony. My weight had1(
beena reducedl fromi 207 to 130) pounds. Mv
Ii fe was a torture to myself and friends. I
ionlI retalin no food upon my stomach
.uii ni hved whiolly by inject ions. I was a
"iugnmass of pain. Mty 1,nlse was uncon
illable. Ini liy agony 1frequent iv fell
Ton thle floor, Corivuylsively clutehl the
:ip--t. and1( prayed for (leath I. Morph ine
* i li tte or no effect in deadening the
ii l-or six day13s and nightsa I had '.he
ietxh-pre 1noni itory hiieconghs constantly.
.y nrine was tilled wvithi tube costs and
albuunien. I wa sI trug :ling with Bright's
DI sease of the K idney.s in its last stage's.
Wile I su Tb-ringm~ thns1 I received a call
from my p.istior, the IRev. Dr. Foote, rector
of St. Pauitl's Chmureb, of this civ I felt
that it was our last interview, hiut in the
course of con versatiomn he menl)tioned a
reiiiedy of which I had heard much hut
had( neCver US' d. Dr'. Foote detailed to me
lie ma~ny remarkable cures which had
egnie nnd (er 1his observation, by means of
t his rermiedy, and urged me to try it. As a
p'r.uc'in'inmg phiysicin anid a graduate of tile
sichools, I chmerishedl the prejudice bo;h
niaturail and comimuon with all regular
practi tioniers, and derided the idea of aniy
medicine outside the regular channels
being the least beneficial. So solicitons,
Ihowever, was Dr. Foote, that I finally
promised I wonuld waive my prejui~e andl~
try the remedy he so highly recommended.
I began its uise on the 1st day of June and
t ok it according to directions. At first it
'.ickenedi iie; but this I thought was a
good sign for mec in my dlebili tated condi
tion. I conltinue-d to take it; the sicken.
in .sensaition departed and I was able to
retmnil 10od upon may stomach. In a few
diays I noticed a decided change for the
bietter, as also did my wife and friends.
My hicoughis ceased and I experienced
ess p.min than formerly. I was so rejoiced
at this imiproved condition that, upon what
1 had1( believed but a few days before was
niy (dying bed, I vowed, in the presence of
my fan~ily imd friends, should I recover I
would both publicly and privately make
kniowni this I emedly for the good of human
ily, 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 this ei ty,
stating in full the symptoms and almost
riopelessness of my disease and the re
varkable mneans by which I have been
saved. My improvement was constant
from that time, and in less than three
rmionths I had gained 26 pound1s in flesh
became entirely free from pain, and i
believe I owe my life and p resent condi
tion wholly to Warner's Safe Kidne~y and
fLIver Cure, the remedy which I used.
Since my recovery I have thoroughly re
investigated the su bjectof kidney diffcul
ties and Biright's disease, and the truth*
developed are astounding. I therefore
state, delIberately, and as a physician
that I believe that more than one-half the
deaths w hich occtur in America are caused
by Biright's disease of the kidneys. This
miay sound like a rash R*i*ment, 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 pain whatever in the kidneys or thel
vicinity,) but has the symptoms of nearly
every other known complaint. Hundsedu
of people die daily, whose burials are
au thorized by a hysician's certificate of
"Heart Disease,' "Apley""Paraly
sis," "Spinal (Complaint,' "Rheumatism,"
"Pneumonia," and other common comn
laints. when in reality it was Briaght's'
Disew athie Kidneys., Few physicians,
and fewer people, realize the extent of
this disease or its dangerous and insid
nlous natuire. It steals into the system "
like a thief, manifests its presence by the
U.
coni mones t symptoms, and fastens Uselt
assugfered ind knowe My~ted4 i.
Midce wIiit he.10- 8.,--Idnib d everr onb
*io reads these Words-not to ieglect the
el ghtest symptoms of Kidney difficulty.
Certair agony An '>os1blestdeath 'will be
the surb result of such nel! toe and no
dite tdn aftord to llaard saddi chanced.
I ath aware tiit such i i un tUifia
statement as thil, toming irom ni, known
as I am throughout the biifffe hind as a
practitioner and lecturer, will arouse fifb
cur prie and possible anituosity of the
medical phofessidn and. astonish all with
whom I am acquaiiited, but I make the
foregoing statements based i poft facts
which I am prepared to prod uce, and
truths which I car. substantiate to the
letter. The welfare of those who may
>o4sb1 be atifrerern such as I was, is !111
mile induceieient tot tiiUS t 41ke the step
I hdve, aiid it I can sicesfuiy warn
others from tiie dangerotis bath in wici
I once walked, I ani willing to endI IC
professional and personal consequences.
J. 1t. HENION, M. 1).
Pasturing Stubble With Swine.
The wisdom of turning stock into
stubble fields to pasture is questioned by
many faridi'B and their objections to
the practice have considerable 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
C od start that is, obtained a strong
hold in th dit , ' Th stack usually
turned into . stubble fields dotlsists of.
hogs, the object being to utilize the
Lrrain that Inay be left on the ground.
Where grifi has been allowed to stand
after it is ripe and much df it has been
shattered in harvesting, it is not amiss
ib turn swine on the stubble to utilize
the shatteretl grain, but it is advisablc
to provide them : thb samO time with
green food sufficient to preveiit any in
jurious effects that may arise from their
eating too much hard, dry grain. There
will be little danger from this source if
there Is elaver among the stubble, for
the swine will be certaift to eat enough
clover to preverit engorgetnctit with
grain. But in case of the presence of
the grbeen food, the benefit derived
comes mainly froht the eldvet, not from
the grain gleaned from the stUbble.
Another thing to be considered is that
the atlount of graih left in stubble will
soon be exhaistedi if aiy considerable
number of swine is turned itito a field
where there is no clover, and it may
happen that any advantage gained iii
utilizing the shattered grain is lost
from lack of food before the owner is
aware of it. The profit in raising anly
kind of stock mainly depends on keep
ing it in good growtig condition, and
this can only be done by judicious inan
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. ft may be convenient in
somne instances to turn swine on the
stubble for a time, but they sh1ould no't
be left to subsist alone on wvhat ther can
find.
When clover or grass hiau not been
sowvn, rag-weed and other noxious
growvths will soon make their appear
ance, andI growv luxuriantly. Some of
these weeds will be eaten by the swine,
but those that are not are usually far
the most nuinerous, and it is more. than
probable that the animals will los" in
stem:1( of gain in the operation, andl( this
ia ' ss to the ow~ner.-Pruiriv Farmer.
-In a recent lecture on the "Develop
ment of Agriculture," Mr. Coflin, of Bos.
ton, stated that the improvements in
the plow alone made a saving ou lasi
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 of
life incidental to cutting off the gas,
ladies who attend the theaters there
carry small lanterns, which they kqg
lighted. _____ ___
-ONE~ pair O1 boots or snoes saved every
year by using Lyon's Patent Heel 8tiffen
eru.
-No more touching compliment
could be paid than that of the child
who had overheard a conversation atI
the table on the qualities of a wife. As
he stooped over to kiss his mother lie
remarked: "Mamma, when 1 get big
I'm going to marry a lady just 'zactly
like you. -N. Y. Heral,
"Buclau-Pal ba."
Quick, cornplete cure, all annoying Kidney.
Bliadder andt Urinary Biseases. 41. D~ruggist s.
FOR thick heads, h eavy stomachs, bi liou
ness-Wells' May A pple Pills. 10 agd 25e
EMzanx's peptonised beef tonic the onh
.rearation of beet containing its enhire nutria
prep~rie. It contains blood-making
force generating and life-sustaining propertier.
invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
jprostr.ation, and all forms of general debility
also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether tb
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work or acute disese, particularly If resultin
from pulmonary oomplaints. Caswell, Hazar1
400o., proprietors, New York. Sold by druggist.
TWBNTY-.FOURL IOURtS TO LIVE.
From John Kuhn, Lafa'vAte, Ind., who anhnnne,'
that he Is now in "per-fect health." we have the foil
lowing: "One year ago I was, to all aIpearance, in,
hth last stages of Con'oiumption. Our best p'hyss
'Sans gave myv case up. I finally got so low that
'ur doctor said I could not live twenty-four hours.
\O fri' n-14 then purchased a bottlo of DRn. WM.
IALL'S nIAIsAM FORt TIIE LUNos9, which con
,ierabl~ .- benented me. I continued until I tools
gino bottles. I am now in perfect health, havling
150ed no other medicine.
DRI. DEwITr C. KELLINoEWR LINIlMENT is nan
nfallible cure for Rtheumnatism, A prainse, I~Lamoness
ud Dl oac of the Scalp,'and for promoting the
$OSTET
CELELBRATED
1ld fashione remeie are rail la rein be
hnedaisre garddv~ee to egetie.a aedeand ere
*~~oo **a in reg ardI delthe .as8. . enf cre1
*~ bee ,*it erplde yteisam e the ra
novant, which tomes the ~yusem, humjulihse the
'-rwee, neutralim malsaja, d.~rasesamd .-'-es the
bed, roises the iivew vhs. s.d Femetes a
'gala, habit ef bedy.
Per sale by all 3rulets sod geassalli.
MASON & RAMLIN
Iris W ;Y
p1 i t i. 1 - 4
N o,, IWO, 4 *at
, $7, -.1 to So*
u - el - re .
TRA MA O - e 9RA.Wl ----
PIN i 154 Wega.., : v ewed .4
I~ehNt. N. ~i I 14* 'iyX%0% AV*.dvfrus
N ma u 'ds Pm &
sia ais " k; addingt powet ad beauvf y 00
Roanlm. '1 hot e- wseoe de
-- Taastonan.erh
a" , "4-1y1ilium
.At 95 with fr ,
TIISO Aso I ANRtwt A IWO
dal of tbe moD
VN4 tre. Dt e
URSee. &To.ru
1 -d-iffebrent- Do
amaeintons.
8TARTLJ1
TATb *rTyR.
Te Corruptin of
e nc fosional. The
U I t io n.
of lt. a
Lartho No, ni Atl.. Oa
roensely 11lus- -
tested witLh Por- u
trats of the Con- -*
'tt foro. Death
0&s Zorures
Athe *Eartyra.
0116 Side and Bac i t2.00 Lather t&56
the next o dsyg_ we will send a Cloth
qp, prepaid to any andredb' an recetpt of 1.90
r $1.50 We wil sood the _EVE
STIMENT n cloth, price $2.00 ft $-.00
-thin)ce for Agents. Addres The Peop1eV
Ptubihintg Rouse, 4 Claric ft, Ch,, Y6
IlouM. Mae and A(14Die GA.
OPIUM HABIT
AND DRUNKENNESS.
THEoite pIdtNe ermanntly cured y.
014.K IEEY' GOL 1 M-EUEScontaininit
noa form of Opium. Truth invites Iffvestigation.
R eIerenICces beSt InI the State. For term.4, Iatt4p
.ets and prooti, address, .
W. C. BELLA MY, X. D.,
t 102 Broad( 51., Atlanta, Ga.
Ei~l8 tilWfeWifilisilLAN 5AW WLiS.
U Send for With tiversal Log
CIRCULAM DAmw., Doble Ec.
- Gentrtle Frict On
:3. Prices Txw. httrit ai -
ship First-Class
anufctu id t r SALEM MON Wot tf. MlUM V, 0.
CET BURN's
WANTED-ubcpn oosA
THE FINEST IN THE WOO* Lnno fli t-4
aet c1 ngam .wem a i- e w i .l n i oin l n ' :
pBloo, eand wsill cole te l hetigst il'uly 'is t h
ote sym thr~: e m h'. A l ewan p." ron- wlh.
TiIlitakew oeu' 111 eac it r i Ito .\ge woh-eaIse theyt el
fgstrth -opl onm hal'eth.! :'f eiih: u,r ine. it~t~
Sldeer T he o r b o lo ivering t lun ter t.
Th. S.e Jof thaN & '1,l~oJamets.
Theonl Gatyhto -,- ut f Isiunrtllg i infat ell.
is~i~a-'.N. ld.ii1. tfli. OpEuE.49.t
"PitoralFamy ies" e dir'i .in
The io-te au~at s. ; s edegrnin ay a"s~t-ye
i~s sa: f.;seea:M -: cet) u te-i' Nt.:a.rv:us.I. :44ra
alaisily b,.:nrre a-n
.I P Niii ortihoso
Blood, nd willcomple ely cg t i blood in the
nteVyste in~ three moibe Any tpesnwho
willtakeonepilleachng t t i ita i 12it w kSA :nas r
Sohl eery w ere o ent b eat evr tittie s the
bletouing Ep~ileti
OURE AND P Ol:1tts, SpaJsse~l, oe
,FAL KND. Lion, St.iu Dann
PAKIGOISPUPSALLm OpNiumI.
IUNPIP, FTTI GS, RSfta anOdal
-c ed o Pie Ls.s.TH. len,
Z1INHAT & 0., 13 at ot, LaryMen
VILLianE,,laner.
On.Ii.C. xs~e Nuv A. Beea ry employinenta
peciic (r Hstera, DrueCnusio Nervous ota
I eaiach, Mtata l . prtao i oe reurte ofMe ry rr -
nise ydecy ad deth Onhbo wl o.rnt sech
tox r sx boes or fv ollas; en ls reaidesor
see. Wit eac orer rcei en . for s ix oes, or
reauintdos ot fet cre Gannat. isAe olyl
ty I J.LU INClas~eTAn N NF. ONFeis in
nailhat ever7aattanded toe
AIL and FACTORY SUPLE
COLS AIND. RETIN ATHSMan
PAsCeKINlt, pOtIS, gUMPS tsALL reuaItyDe,
3TAnd riGAUE, neNvou E QyOadgVRNR
en. end.h toevr rie st. W. H . ~DILcgS
lINQamHleM & 0re.0.Bx80 N. Mai SttLO
Da. E. . s it N Isavin, Ann.. Bad.. Ta at sx ;
ecino ftiujor iystri Di zi ness~tJ~, Covsg ins, ervous
reOl ge-f card ove-ee tin, hch l(:eadsro e
ierO i ,C dec'ade. Ine by ill orerece nte.
(Rc oxcotaison moth's1wreatmet.1 5 )'i Oes dolr
'or o sixboxe forned doniars; oent 11(0yl ma: repaido
e c t o ioy. We ur antei e I x prbox.eslc to ue iry
not Wyivr ef,ch tore reeiedb a fr i b xe, o
basert ouri wrifttn i guarntee to reuntem ny) h
retm e ni t oes or no f ticr.Gurne sldndol
flf'-t'O - R~euN , Charlsin.OgOdrsb
.naiprom t o ene t
COLDS ANUR D - H DREUMATEISM.
ootin an bacig henevou Bstmondhiing Ati
Weak Sight, Son
/ Rormhim Aeth,
A CATALOGUE
.TUST IligmD CONTAIlNG
400 ILMSTATIONS
AND PRICES OF
DIMDNUS, WATCHES, JEWELRY
AND SILVERWRAE
Will be set' to any address upon application to
J. P. STEVENIS-& GO.,
JEWELERS,
ATLANTA, .. ., GEORGIA.
ag iftntern Outdone by the
'4
41
flflfl Pl9Ttre from books, pa per, iard, etc.
caff bhtoeT4 pon th0 wall greatly cularged;
chrom h all heir color er0
wo~rsoa waftch in mn ,ui, .s tw onlarg~ to lifos=ze
or too times larger;- useful fo rn apd ama.
. ttre. Wo uend tholyopt icon h comic icture.,
ogant chromo cards and portra tl, bay ntail or 12.59
OuT aircuilar toll how to obtain it fred, Apgenta wantoG
Murfa(Hti Pub. Co., ,129 E. 28ts St N. Y
9OR THE PERMANENT CURE OFI
CONSTOPATION.
A No other discaso to 60 prevalent in this oovai.
try as Consptilon, and nO renedy hm over
&(naned the c'lcbr..tcd Kidny-Wcrt s.
dose Whatever tho cauao, hiowever obstinate
the casd.- *voper uso of this remedy wn1
Nover-omne it,~
PUL 'e T=I distresing com
PILEg1. a pk ts very apt to be
tw oompUcated withoon Ls.ti6u. KldnOy-W
'4 strcngticns tho wcakencd 3; .ts and quick
cures allkinda of r1cs even wlwA physicians
and medicines havo beforo failed.
grIfUvou hcve cither of theso trodbl"e
PaC 1 USE Druggit s u '.l
SAW M ILLSEV*=e
THiL A UjLTKV MAl TAYLORS KO. KaMWAsnM Ohio,
CONSUMPTIO1
I have a positIvo Id for tho lbvo dIlsea by t
n1o(V tinoumatIdis ef ca:jes c' tho wortt hin( and of iong
taldiet twolw n cureti. : qe ec troU 1 ' f -it
III Its ot iw.tmt I .*Ii sIiu *"l117) itOT'T. Y 8 to -
gethnr with a VA 1.UA i .1 Tr Aia 2R on this dianaso, to
.. 1y Ji-ncr. ( to 1-:. p*.4 and . . 11. -tress.
.4 El U T. A. fLatO.U M. 1t1 .Peari .,. Ne wYork.
C1EIflVf1%TEM AND) MEW YEAR C.ARDS.
FJIrmgod and plain, choice, new ptterns, for Bun
daty-choois and home gafta, ic. to *1 each. Adu ese
DA ViD C. COOK, 46 Adams street, Chicago, Ill.
This NsYs Singer,520
- s itat 68 wt of A ttachiments Free.
.vt-arrhledi per fect.1l,brt running.
i1nt, ectve (: tt p a7,4knee sweli.
Ahso gent on test trial pO If de
si. Egn t e..4 - ,:gZflice
WittwN WA d WtbensiE AndoR. OUT.
e. . nr. with m tettMnaq ne. A
>y U.~l 0. Oa v. ns. .4meid a h en
ort~algandric L~stP.C Nm -hs ae.
$10LIRR for $6.75
atinday.schoolbssnt potp. Book al, 2 atalogrued
aI~nd T ninhere ; utup i pamp llr,ire stithd
liht arId f & 1ile w itas mfont expeniv. Bend
hunr jtet and Pry-ie books na hisu Caaoger.
-ta.apl bok an brary ox angues oen cetis. DIDt 35
C. COOK, 46 Adaits street, Ubicago.
A A0 ''0 * RAPID MONEY
MAEINTG
U 8 on Individual
deals or oni the
Popular and safe
new
Co-Operative PLAN
OF OONSERIVATIVE '
SPE CULATING
Weekly Statements, Monthly DividendsA
$1,000 Ivesteds'o*nver0pe
8maller Invensi proportion. Crepnet
wantetil everywhere. Circulars mailed to any :tddrosa
DIZO. F. WOLFFE & CO., Brokers,
.174 & 170 Common St. NEW OBLIM.'8
*Im ported re- ward books for H oliday re
wards. Su pe- ri or to anty- t h ing i n
this cotuntry for the money. Books in. quanitities for Sc.,
loc. antel upwar d. IBeatutiful Ibooks for 25~c. to fne., with -
big discount for Novernber ntder., to introduice ; catalogue
free~i. ).AViD) C. COOK, 46 Adams street, Chicago.
In EACNE ER'S BEBLEM. "Oxford "
$ Teacher's Bibles, concordance, encyclopedia,
buindumg, gilt, edge, for One JDoilar and ThIrty Cents.
(lift liibles from 40 cents upward. DAVID C. COOK,
16 Adams street. Chicago, Ilnols.
Pub, Union, A tlanta, Ga.,.. ... .No. 46.
McBRIDE & CO.'S
CHINA AND GLASS PALACE,
ATLANTA, GEORGT&A,
Own the Oate City Natm al Sttone WVater Filterer
and CTherry's~ Steam Fruit, andi Vegetable Dryer.
A 'ents for SethI 'l'homnas Clock Co. Prices furn
* .. x mbinatf~m of Pro-e
ttxide of I ron, PeruvIasa
Bur~k a nid P'hosphors usin
(a palautable forml. Tins
teethI,Mo chaaracteiristio|
other iron prejparations
TO~Nt(c in pra.tc. tl atmdi expefiee rA
iv hasu, In my handuis. nae. sot, wvonnuuo'len res.
rlelanst haveo yild..d te K.a g.cat ar,.l lncompar
ii preparation natade. .nl f:.-. aitelt a com ~pund
>ratice. Ilis. Rt()' 'citTl SA MUJEa,
.--tl,. iM-(. 31l0i1VW-shu Avenue.
DICINEE CO.. 91 'lN MAIN s r.. ST NT.Q 4
a Weakness, Deafness, Loss of Voi~e,
of Taste and Smoll, Neuralgia, Fang~
isgusting Odors,
Throat, Coughs, i~.*