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- AGRICULTURAL j Topics of interest relative to pAhm and garden. 11 * : OROOMIKC. COWS IK THK STABLE. [ ! I j ; Much of the comfort and thrift eft a j cow tied up in the stable depend* nn j frequent brushing and rubbing to (dear . off the dirt that will otherwise accumulate. In the field, at pasture, cows mauage this matter themselves, rubbing against a post or tree; but in the stable ><> uuic Uivn ui uic rurrjnimn nn<i | ( brush, and they get less of it. The , diversion of blood to the skin keeps the , cow warm in cold weathci, and answers ^ many of the purporcs of exercise. Now that so large a proportion of cows are | v*" kept in stable the year through, their grooming becomes a matter of increasing importance. Try your cow with the brush, and see if she does not like it,and "-respond by better condition in every way. | *-American Cultivator. Hr APPLE TREE BORER. When an orchard has become badly infested with borers, it will require considerable labor to exterminate the pest, i The trees must be carefully examined i every year during the winter or spring i ' months, and every grub cut out or other- i wise destroyed. We prefer cutting i away the bnrk over each burrow, and y taU?iag ?nt\\ Vtrniii -Vw tWinA ' t - and killed, tbati to trust to the prob- < / ing with ii wire. The wounds made j in the stem in the operation may be tilled I with clay, wax, or the exposed wood i smeared with thick paint. Banking up the trees in the autumn will do uo good, ] for the female beetle will deposit her \ eggs above the mound of soil, no matter i | how high it may be. You might try I < wrapping the stems with tar-paper, which ,? we have used with success on peach trees J? in keep out the insect, known as the ( 1 peach tree borer, an insect quite distinct ; ? From the apple tree borer.?American \ Agriculturist. \ PANGEK IN SEEDING. ? The greatest danger threatening a new ; j leeding of grass and clover, ur either of i j them, is the drying of the soil by a cold i j wind or a dry, hot spell after the seed- ! \ ing. If the sowing has been superficial ?nd the seed has thrown out roots on the surface one hour's drying will be fatal. But if the seed has bccu covered j ?n incli, before the seed leaves or the ' 1 ?pirc appear nbove the surface, the root j has gone down three or four inches aud ' s side roots have spread as fnr on each I side. A dry surface does not injure such 11 plants. Two weeks of dry weather will | f not kill them, and if protected by the ; lhade of a growing crop they arc entirely ; j ?afc from auy ordinary drought. One )( nther point should not be ignored: This is the ndequate feeding of the young 1 grass, all the more requisite if another j * erop has been sown'with it. Imtnedi -j 1 ?tcly affer the grass seed has been oov- i tred in, 300 or 500 pouuds of complete : I irtili^iol moHiH./. J 1 - uauiliu 3I1WUKI I1C SIJWIl Oil me ; f, lurfacc, or it might be sown by aunther hand as the seed is sown iiud "both cov- f ered iu together.?Ncic York t ?? , i w * -\r~T a ORNAHKNTAI, O * HUKNIPQ.^ , ' Order and simplicity ai^Mi??^f?ffieift5 { plete muddies of grass, tr?es, walks,.' drives, arbors, etc." Ttr riolh 1 ng wilforder I ( uu aimplicity count"Tor mote than when 'j using garden mnkimj matttj^ls with A ; view to creating- heftitifntV fleet* rtbotfrf* our homes and grounds. Through a desire for display one is liable, to overdo by . bringing too many objects into the garden. 1 and scattering them unduly. Simplicity 1" implies neither poverty ib uinj^i-hifeior!ifif.'p dpsign. A garden or the parts of n gar- j den may be essentially sinipltyjv-xlesittnr jJ and elaborate in detait ? - i A unity of the objects of h garden for j * contributing to a complete whole,.n liar - , J monizing of these, one with another and I a balance of the different features #m*t.b sections arc important things to secure in ,: planning an ornamental garden. Where | i marked features and bold contrasts are 1 1 ought there should also be,agreeable, li;__ ... . vL,??r. ;,i. M fitsy irausmon jrom our to anrnnrr," wiin- ] nut abrupt brraks to intcrfore with the bnrruooy. ' (1 ? ' Let it br remembered that gardens art! use as well as orname.nf I1 oiIFr be accessible anct convenient, and this should always lie kept iu.tnind in I locating different objects, walks and drives. UUtuj-V. T??ng, the well-knowu'-? landscape architect, says there is no morel' ' conflict between-utility and beauty in the v ^ f(apde'i\;th^tli eflej^fiere, and' we may al ways aim. to-havc it vejy convenient and at the samc'tiinc very handsome.?Mary- 1 Utwd Firmer. 1 . , ( TOP FIHST?TIIKN Tt'BEU. ' To get the large yield of potatoes wo i, must have a strong, stocky toffegrowth, j' and this in as early, a stage of develop- j * meat ^i. e. as su^ou. a?tcr planting) .as ' possible. The.latter is one of the most 1 ,, impotent peints^-mnd if secured, the I plants will have tilne' to concentrate ' .j. ; Jtrcc t?M^l about, rri^npnrt invariably 'gives tlS^QHHSRhS^'*Wb. ?"(1 earlier in the "B^ifioii rwW^p'hu be secured by A ;;:*?njvf4)?fP method' Wf'planting: and it ? also usually^ giyey tjio jargpst ^?e!d of r . . fcubfTSrt Plenty ofaggreg*te top-growth, r but latey in the season,1 cam also be ob- \ gained by planting ejjt-sted,'.'e^ep, to v ' ainglc-eyc, very Chicly, .jiiakjitg.rtpiy-t ?>r n ; ' -.three times the number of pltuita on a r| given area th*ri whsir \Vhole's<?e<t ts-used. h The 1ndiviflual"sjMailt'"is Abialler at the is f ins at a disadvantage all through rthe season, and will yield less than* the stronger indivjdual plant from whole seed; but a?- there sire so many . .yore sp^t plinU-.they, inay? *rjiia1(.rpcr 1 haps fiV^yioW^je^Hrrwajr^'. p)i\0fced V otiier olua.. . Jtut ?di?se planting 11 ?t9t?*SfiiMW8sB and'*: good-deal j I f ai uhdo rawnr, nnn onner me'HOd re<pJ?rcH t '\be of .a. sufficient ipmpt\ty of r ,mjr,?7;al,. petfood* ? available t form, at th**^i*posM. ofUhe plnutA dnr- * ing tabor foratatitAfr-* Without'itiis re- < ^^utiimte. the use of whole need, or the * .owtfiod of close planting of cut-seed, will < '"^w^ly h waste of seed. ' Tt'ls not un- i ? * ^san secure the necessary large j * r j J/V^ariv reason, oven from f triflc <)f |litRlt0 of t jj *tlv ufter planting ] i the dose. fl -we would ! 3 b. M^<e?|? u. 4. ?MOW BITS. For sets, says Joseph Harris in th? American Agriculturist, the essential points are rich, clean land; the best of seed; sowing as soon as the frost is out of the surface of the ground, and drop ping from twenty to thirty seeds in each inch of row. Keep the ground well" hoed and absolutely free from weeds. Do not embark too extensively in the business at first. I have grown them fo? many years, and am perfectly willing tc tell all I know about the matter, but there are many little things absolutelj essential to success that can be learned only by experience. One year I lost u crop because the soil was too dry at the 11uic 111 oumog. owms nave 10 (tnsorv moisture from the soil before they car germinate. The land may bo moist enough to start two or three seeds in an inch of row, but not to furnish moisture for ten times that number. This is one reason why very early sowing, while the ground i3 moist and we are likely to have frequent rains, is so desirable. I sometimes obviate the difficulty by soaking the seeds for forty-eight hours before sowing?changing the water two or thrco times. 1 have kept the seed, after soaking in a warm room covered with moist sifted moss till they sprouted. If they sprout before the grotiud is ready for them, put the seed in a cold place so as to retard the growth. I have grown tine sets iu this way. Lust year I grew equally good sets bv drilling in the seed in TTVWl TJTTlEfh inches apart with a seed drill. In any case do not fail to put on seed enough, unless you want- more bushels of pickling onions than bushels of sets. Sandy land is considered best for sets. But they will do equally well, and somelimes better, on a well drained and well pulverized clay soil. The trouble is to ^et the seed into the soil early enough in spring. . It is here that good judgment ?nd previous preparation of the land arc required. The rrop is a profitable one, ind it is well worth while to learn how to grow it successfully. It is a great mistake to suppose that poor land is de urauie. un mo contrary, onion sets rcpiirc, in my experience, very rich land. \ ton of high grade fertilizer, or 500 rounds of superphosphate and 500 tounds nitrate of soda per acre, cau be lsed w;th great advantage. FARM ASI) HARDEN NOTES. There is as much in planning as in dong farm work. An early, healthy growth of a plant vards off many evils. Never mind about the color of the rows; it is the color of the milk that ells. If you have to buy some cow feed try insecd meal. Get some for the calves inyway. If you have sale for a regular quantity >f milk or butter ull the year breed ac:ordingly. Don't feed all of your best hay now, ?ut keep some till spring?just before jrass is a hard time ou the cows. Don't be afraid of washing out the lavor of your butter; you can wash out he buttermilk tuste, Intt not the true kftter flavor. i, 5"et*u two or mrcf times a nay, hut ced enough each time. "Not ouito ?meFX"day y ft i T tfy "It??? jtwuer let your calves get potbellied on Iry. feed thau on weak skimmed milk; ipsced ipcal will take the place of cream e yiilk fed to calve# Don't put off planting the garden unit every other bit of spring work is Hashed?it might be a good thing for the pring work, but "it's mighty hard liues" >n the garden. Every dairy farm ought to produce all ,he grain fed on it and grow more protective all the time. The help to care For the cows ean do the necessary work to grow the grain. If a hen lays soft-shelled eggs, give her plenty of gravel, oyster shells, sea shells ind crushed bones (which material she seeds to make hard eggs shells of), and this evil will oftentimes be corrected. If the sayiug be true that "the early bird catches the worm," it is no less true that early breeding operations bring early chicks, which, if tine, wiil catch the prir.es at fall shows, or exchange for a good price for that purpose. When a farmer knows the capacity and i|ualitics of each cow under his care, he i-ion the--road to. success. Caress Wbrk will T iw more pay in dairying tlfftn in w. ..St.. nftt. * ? 1,-iiin ^iuisiiii?. i ou mnncr ? gncMing habits is one reason- for farm depressiofa. To make a good, warm 'breakfast for forty fowls: iloil a heaping half-peek [>f potatoes; mash them; add, one quart snob of sliofts and bran, a teaspoonfnl aeli of salt and popper, and finished by idding hot wnter enough to mix into a it iff dough. It is not generally known among farmers thnt the same food that makes a mund of dressed beef would inake a j iouud butter. At the present price of attic, the farmer gets about five cents a >ouud for his dressed beef, while butter, ttopp is u mean disease and kills many ahntblc fowls every year. An ointment pade* of one tablespoonful each of lard md kerosene and twenty drops of carbolic icic.mejted together and applied twice i day with the finger on the part effected vill euro. If you have never tried this t is worth a trial. Fowls need far more care during damp, niny weather than during the clear, cold veathcr ,o'f winter, or the dry, warm roathrr of summer. Dampness engenders unierous disordors, many of which are lmcun ioTurt?. Tberelorc, it is better o use preventive measures than to admin>ter medicines when too late. Bonnd to Pot Thing* Through. Judge Peters tells the following story: 'Sheriff Brown had been elected in enobscot County, and had made his son lie page or messenger in court. Judge 'cter* "presided at the hrst term, and in he middle of the forenoon announced a "areas of fifteen minutes. He. retired to he libsary and soon became immersed in om? legal boohs, looking up some points >f law. When the time mentioned had txpircd the jury came in, but the Judge lid not. The Brown boy, who was mxious to have everything go off in good ihnpo under hi* father'* administration, (row nervous and At last made a bolt for he library. Walking in and pulling out lis watch, he tapped the Judge upon the boulder and said: "Come, Mr. Peters, rou've got to hurry. Your time is up md the folks are a-awaiting." The fudge "hurried."?Uteuto* (J/ir.) Jouru?L i . ' TEMPERANeE. ' | i|K TRCK tO JI*." * ]? A T?fw YwC htaio nnwiur, xiiwi nskeu at a social gathering why he wouM not tako anything stronger than wator, is said to have | responded with the following ver?es: j What makes ino refuse a social glass? Well, j I'll tell you the reason why ? Because a bonuic, blue- eyed lass is ever stand- j Ing br; I And I hear "her voioe above t tTo jest and merry gle.s, %,jZ As with baLy graee she kiak.. , Antrl nays "Fapa, be true to me." * What then can 1 do to my las* to bo true better than let it |>oss? by? I know you'll not think inr refusal to drink a broach of your courtesy; For I hear her repeat in acceota sweet, and her dear httlo form I see. As with loving embrace stao kisses tnv face, aud says, "Pajia, bo true to lue.' T<ct 1110 offer a tensi to the one I love moat, whoso dear little will I olmy. Whose influence sweet is giiildiiig my feet over life's toilsome way; May Hie sun ever shine on this lassie of mine, from sorrow may she ba free, For with Imby gr.ico she hath kissed my face, and said "Fapa, bo truo to me." INKORtATii ASYLUMS. oum inw mucii 01 inoorioiy ? una to | | moral obliquity an I just bow much to ?li?- , <m\?0 pt a physical c'jjujtctor may ttcver b> ( determined. In tho_ lfg'pt of sucoemlul experimentation in the cure of inebriety the 1 advocates of inebriate asylums liavo en- | courgement that is uot to be despised , by tho opponeuts of such institutions. Tha number of the latter, once considerable^" la now steadily diminishing. Tbo subject, is 1 Interesting i? view of the effort, to MtStHBIf * an inebriate asylum in Washington. From i Ulpian. tho Roman jurist qf tho second can- t tury who urged the necessity for troatin; inebriates as diseased persons, down to the 1 present, there has been a learned and philosophic circle romp iso, 1 of lawyers, physi- | cinns, scientists and literary men in favor of { a departure from the popular opinion that , drunkenness is entirely a vice. It is stated l?y the Secretary of tho American Associn- 1 t ion for the Cure of Inebriates that more than liftv inebriate asylums have been established in America, and 1hat more than thirty of . these are now in successful operation. 'lucre ore said to lie twenty asylums lor inobriates 1 in Knglan I and Scotland, two in Germany, 1 one in Switzerland, and a number have bee:i I projected in France, Norway and Sweden. | The results are declared to bo higbly grati- j fying in the face of much disconragomontduo . to the imperfect trinl which many persons 1 make of too asylums. Cut of a thousand let- ! tors from the friends of inmates of tho in- i stitution at Bing oton. New York, the ( percentage of total abstainers or tern- . jiorate among the inmates after five years was at Washington Homo, Boston, 1 after ten years, out of two thousand 1 /'(I coo Jiero ?? ? ? *?*"? " .in.1 n iiunraiagi) el apparent I cures of thirty-four. And bo iu other insti ] tulions. The legal control of inebriates he- > iug bo slight the wonder is that the success has been bo great as it appears by thoso tig- < ures. Most of tho inebriate asylums hare been private institutions receiving somo l State aid. Tho appropriation asked of Con | gross, if granted, would place the Washing- , ton institution on a solid foundation. Th? advocates of this method of treating inebri- i ates contend that their plan has passed tho < experimental stage, and that public benefits < front it arc assured. ? Washington Star. TDK. "MODERATE" DRINKER. At nu old-fAs'-ionod temperance meeting J in a Brooklyn church recently, Colonel R. ! 1. Chevis, of Kentucky, was the priucipal 1 speaker, lie was introduced as a native of a I whisky nianufaoturing tjtate, and said that < his fellow-natives wero too wise to drink i much of the stuff. "Wo make it," he added, "but wo refuse to b? poisonod by it. Statistics show that it is consumed mostly in the ! North." He denounced the moderate drinker I as a groater evil to Rociety than tho habitual r drunkard, bccauso tho former had access to circles whero his example caused more real : harm than a drunkard could bring about 1 nmong his class of associates. The speaker 1 recalled that Chaunooy Depew and othejbv t prominent men had attributedjbe presence "g pTiyJfclSnsTiow^fmHUWlilW1! alcohol injurious, instead of beneficial, for V medicinal purposes. 1 "FANATICISM." Edward Everett Halo says: "I am ready t to acknowledge that tho clergv arc not to be ft little fanatical in this matter of temper- < nnce. Why not. indeed? They see the skeletons in the closet, which other people ilo not see. They receive the confidence, and they know why this lad never kept the fond promise $\ith which he entered college. They know what is the hidden cause of the ruin I in this household, nnd the fond hopes of that 1 young married puir. If you want to make , an active temperance inouibor of any iudifferent friend, set him to work in prisons, in charity organisations, in education; you will soon find that ho says less about moderato 1 drinking, that ho looks loss doubtfully on ( strong legal measures for keeping men out of temptation." OREEt.EY AND DICKENS. Mur.it Hnlstead in the Contemporaru tells of llora?o Greeley, that presiding at the din- ; ?ier given Charles Dickens at Delmonieo's by '( the press in 1S*W. while "Dickens partook freely of the wines, Greeley did not turn his glasses down, hut ihrusc them out of his way. witti a sinelo exception, nnd 1n that plni-.vl n beautiful red rose, which had been furnished for his tioulonniere, and during the dinner lifted his glass to his nose as often as others raise I glasses to their mouths, and the fragrance of the rose was all the stimulant ho wanted.'* TEMPERANCE NKW8 AND NOTES. A drunken man seas everything double but 1 his money. It is oniy tlio man who saves who sees his money double. The Ohio State Grange declares that all legislation on the liquor question should he toward the immediate suppression of tho i liquor traffic. In Hungary the State has acquired ten thousand public-houses nud inns, a very large number of which are to bo closed, ana there- 1 if tor reopened as schools. It is found that forty-one per cent, of the < crimes for which prisoners are held, in ( thirty-two Herman jails, were committed j under the influence of alcohol. Tho Congress of tho United States eAn well afford to listen nud affirm tho pica from MaMaehusetU that "tho United Status shall The Catholic Total Abstinence Society is raising tho money toTeatablish a Father Mathew Professorship of'Temperance in connection with the great Cathedral University at Washington. ' The Tempo ranee Society of tho l'reo Church of Scotland has only been three years in existence; yet it already includes (183 personally pledged ministers and possesses a membership of 63,070. Tho He former, of Glasgow, notes tho fact of the proposed World's Temperance (Joncress, to lie held during tho progress of the World's Fair in 181)3, nnd adds: "Scotland should send a good contingent." Dr. It. II. Plunmer, of San Francisco, nv contly returned from a year's journey around the world, accompanied by his wife an I two sons, using water freely, and no alcoholic.1!, during tho entire journeying in distant countries. It it* intended to lay Imforc the Intornttional Anti- Alcoholic Congress to Ik> hold next year in Christiana, Norway, a proposal to form nn International European Temperance I'nion, with ill? object of promoting tii? consolidation of the movement iu other countries, tho headquarters being in London. It transpires that the loss of 10J lives in th) terrible llassayanini disaster iu Arisonn, when a dam burst away and let a huge mountain of water rush down the valley, sweeping everything before it, was due to tho drunkenness of the messenger who was sent in ample time to warn the peopM iq the valley below, but who exercised fiis "personal liborty" in stooping at a saloon and getting so drunk that he forgot to deliver his Dies* sage. Th > Rrookton Women's Prohibition League | compIaHf tnsVk despite their efforts to have the oompyUiry scientific temperance leeeons I taught in the public schools, the work is not * done thoroughly. Several of the members 1 ~ of this ieagus aro authority for the state- | | meat that the school number ot children who drink beer is increasing rapidly, and that , 1 th? after noon school work is hindered by the beer lunches which children ere accustomed g to take regularly. _ _.| ? id Iqrtoft and Flowers as Seen by V American Byes. A correspondent writing from Yokolaraa has much to tell of the curios of span. He says: "Out here there are ittle gods, big gods, good gods and bad :ods. They can be had from 80 cents to 110,OO^Mich. ifft'y made from every luaunss, ar they are called, are tho >ldcst and moat unique. Good old BudIhas can be had from $15 to $85 Mex. Phese arc prices hare. It is always the >est way to figure that an article costing, ay, $20 Mexican here will cost the pur- j shaker it-Ai gold landed in tne United Hates. i "I think Japan is the most beautiful wuntry in the world. The people are liiRtnt ?wd picturesque; the sowers are parveloual At present writing I see bepre me two plum trees about twenty-four aches high, in full bloom, each tree ihout tea years old. A few days ago we Ad a little snow, and it was a sight to , roses, geraniums, plum and cherry >li-soDis, all in full bloom, with snow on :h?n. Next month we will have the "aiLdhns, which are now in bud. They ire\)l\nitin the open air, and in April tho liaise cherry trees, ranging in size > from^ght feet to forty, though many , Japs aaure me that there are cherry trees ; eighty'gh I have never seen m? if it dencf c?5oiP anything with trees uul plants. 11suppose youngsters will come thujfway tbsie time in we future. ( In Aug?|it we save the lotue flowers; ? these nls&are woth traveling a thousand j uiilcs to see. October ana November ? the favorite flowr, chrysanthemum, for ( a month. This fc the flower show of the ( yenr. I "There is a little place called Dayo- j rnka, near Tokio. where they have the | chrysanthemum ihows, and tncy are, for < ill the world, the same as old English | fairs. Two criers at the door, clapping i together two pieces of hard wood?this i is to coll attention to the show within? | then you plank down two cents and get < rour ticket, which is a piece of wood i iboUt two inches wide, six inches long, i ind half an inch thick; they are mado < his size so as to la^t a few years. I never 1 ire visiting these rjiiaint places. I have 1 lad several invitations to visit the ?hi jiya (theatre) at Tokio when the great ' Dauturo acts. This roan is callea the Booth of Ja^atTttr&s pay is $10,000 for .wenty-ono nights. 1 "The costumes of the company are tho nost lovely things i ever saw; they arc beyond description. I really came out lerc to form another Japanese villngc, together with a Japanese opera company composed entirely of Japanese ladies and jentlemen, with brass and string band Combined. I am sure of all except the )pera pnrt; although there arc sixty graduates from the Conservatory of Music in our musio), they cannot sing. My ,dca was tydo 'The Mikado' with a Japincse company:and proper costumes; not )no of the hmapanics at home ever cosuracd the piece properly. "The brocades one sees out here are perfect dreams. particularly old priests' obes. VYc have paid as high as $160 for i full sutt. If J lia|l come out here ten >r fifteen yean ago, 1 coulii have attained he finest oolljctum in the world for my Rave been worth ISir colccnoAya^Solbc -north from $150,000 to f300,w^. jprieces ot gold lacquer work hut cost a lucre trifle ten to twenty years igo are- now worth hundreds of dollars Difference. "Father,* said a young son of Deacon Bquibbdy "what is the difference between a man that dyes woolen lambs ' and a New York editor?' " Well, now, really, my son," beaming l benignly on his oirspring, "I am not preparod to state. What is the differ- i Bnoe?" " Why, pa. one is a lamb dyer, and the other a " "Whatl what! mysonl" , "New York editor," continued the youth, rolling his tongue around in his ch- ek.?Exchange. Xb?m May'W {/,h*r Senses. The Prcsid *ut of the British Association, 1'rof. Flower, indorses Sir John Lubbock's idea tluit the field of inquiry is , limitless, and that there may be "fiftyother senses as different from ours as round is from sight ; and even within the boundaries of our own senses there may be endhss sounds which wo cannot hear, and conn as different as red from green of whi h we have no conception. 1 These and i thousand other questions remain for stiution. The familiar world I which s unbinds us may be*>i totally diffeicnt ptew to othe|-? animals. To them it may hp full of ilftmclhich we r-nnnot hear. $f color which we cannot bee, of sens^ohs which we cannot cou J-^4?jzu- L - ..J io * WJW U>* "SnprJn* writkn ' f, At no ithw AbMl* Urn hit tec tut* la Um mouth i n mar* rmmlirt the breath so offeualre, lh? a drowsy <ll/.r.ldkman frequeut, or that extreme tired feeling m pmlrgt. Hood'a KarsapartUa :? ju*t the me-Heine m build up the system, purify the p bkw. i"iire InuocM and headache, orercome f that llred fealUhg and "rate a (Cut appetite. The | peculiar inedttmal mrrit of Hood'* Baraaparflla la t ?ho>? n by 1 ha'many remarkable curat it aocom- a pllsbea where m&ert fall. t Hood's Sarsaparilla j "Kor a flrst-elaas Spring medicine my wife and I think very highly of Hood's Haranpertlla. We both | took It laai spring. It did us a great deal of good j and see felt better through the hot weather than I e?er tiefore. It cured my wife of alck headache, i from which ahe has suffered a great deal, and re- I llered me of s ditty, tired feeling. I Ihlrth erery I one o'lfrH^ to tyike *omethlii? to parity Uio tftoo<t he | ; ?? for * ?ny |' Bold toy All drn(s?4P^^Pl? *?? " c''' "<x"' * ""Hon? Dollar I MENU I Em IwI ^ l?W >*? Ooadt, I mnfi K i)?rn ?*. jp* ? ?? p it, / Mr? * I n?u btfr^sx. jv*",d? ,*?- i uinlt f **'" w*a,>^ 'l'Ttj . N> tMEm flMf><? KOBT mrtun , U&VSO book r.ubltebed. ''Afar JEflHH* wfc: >. !. ? ?t;fuii/ !ilu> J'1' T.*gJ?Jv. i Moiti wanted. OoSt?et9 ??S. ?p?tu?or?, *4. "Chip of the Old Block." At a recent banquet a bright young theologian told a very good story on his respected father, who is an old anil tried member of the cloth. As is well known, the theological students, before they begin the formal practice of theology, are required to preach a sermon before an assemblage of tho gray-beards of the church, who have pounded pulpit cush* Thi* i? ? most trying oracai lor the students, and they go through with palsied knees and quiver* ing lip. The young theologian in question was well known to the ministers of the denomination, as his father had been of their number for years, and, ns the old gentleman wna naturally proud of hi" boy, the young man's effort was listened to with interest by all present. To tell the truth, the old gentleman was a bit disappointed, but the young man was drcudfuiiy embarrassed in the presence of his elders, and did not do himself justice. As he walked slowly home with his father the old gentleman said, after a long pause: "Charlie, that was a regular 11 r tt n'L _ J m;iiuuiuuj iksuy ui yours. i ne young man was about to make some excuse when one of the dominies who had been present, walked up behind him, slapped Ihc boy on the back, and said: "Charlie, you're evidently a chip of the old block." rhc old gentleman made no further criticism of his son's first effort.?[Chicago ilcrald: . Waan't Pulriny Ohnncoi. The bootjack is one of the implements >f domestic welfare and warfare that has jone out of date along with the boot, but it is occasionally found on fanns and in unall towns, where the boot is still worn, >r noisily worn still. Once in a while i the bootjack is found in a great city in , the bedroom of some old gcntlemnn who is not too proud to allow a pair of l>oot- r legs to wriggle his pants up to his knees. a Over on the West Side there lives one of these old gentlemen. He is a club man \ ind somewhat convivial in his habits; c iccordin^ly the bootjack is often quite a help to him in retiring, tine night last week he returned home from the club ?nd was unable to find his bootjack. He c started to hunt it up, but as he noisily I encountered one chair four times he guvo c up the search and sat down to pull off j his boots unaided. As he tugged and 0 perspired his wife arose in bed, saw what j he was attempting, and 6nid severely: " Henry, why don't you uso. the bootjack?" He did not want to say that be could not find it, and like all men he ' was ready with an excuse. " Martha," c he said solemnly, as he paused and wiped i the sweat from his brow, ,41 was reading f in the paper to-day of a man who, whilo removing his boots with a bootjack, lost ! his balance, fell backward, and hroko , his collar bouc. Martha, I am taking no more chances." Then he resumed his t task.?[Chicago Herald. FitKtrMONiA and neuralgia, with ? noon oi Ano 1 /Iniiarf 11 i*a nf i lin pntl r?f a. noose in tlio VCost, constitute the bulk of the news ftt Ibis season. Th? Onlr Guaranteed Care For nil bleed tninfs nnd humors, pimples, blotches, eruptions unit skin diseafcs of cvcrv raino and nature, Is llr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, A certificate ot guarantee fiosn a responsible business house wm ianti it to benefit or cure, or money refunded. Chronic. N'msal t'ninrrii positively cured by Dr. tjage's ltcmedy. CO cents, by druggists. irJWn"iift?Trm"no if Si nttor nmr Win oArf* Proem*. It la very ispsrUut iu ihls age of vast matsrial progress that a remedy be pleasing to the t**te and to the eye, easily taken, acceptable to the stomach and healthy In Its nature and effects. Possessing these qualities, Syrup of Figs la the one perfect laxative and moat gentle diuretic known. "Poets n ust luflt-r before they can write," ^ says a phi o?op;u r. After that It is other people wl o suffer. Btatn or Onto, Citt or To lido, I ? LtroAB Couicrr, I Frank J. Chunky makes oath that ho la the | senior partner of the firm of F. J. Chknbt A Co., doing bualno a in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will par iho sum of oni hukdrkd do ixa ha j for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot P be oured by the use of Haix's Catarrh Curb. I Frank J. ChKnnt. " Sworn to before me and subscribed in mv presence, this Oth dav of u?r?mW. A. n irha. "4 ?*? > " A. W. GI.EASOH." , j sbai. V . NutaryPuUic. j Hall'n Catarrh Care In tAkm I n tern a'1? and acth dltaetiy a<wn pie Mood ?ad mucous nur- | faces o. the system. Bend for testimonials, -J free. F. J. Owenbt A Co., Toledo. Ok OT Sold by Druggists, 7 c. a Ilcttor be toed itinn great, You\l have less torn petition. Ti?e etler bu-ln?-s? I* overdone. ( Str NoveUFrtz. sent by Cragln A Co., Phils., Pa., to any one In U. H. or Canada, postpaid, J upon receipt of 25. Dobbins'* Klectrlcal Soap _ wrappers. 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The Spring Medicine 1 wish to earcfil my name as one of those who tare dertrsd health from the use of Hood's Bars*jarllla. Par many years I hare taken It, especially n the early spring, when I am troubled with le*. deltnem, nnplfwwuit t**te morning. It remote* ib .he |, Madache ?nd mok?* me fZ, Z?:. "'**" !?I i * JarCh a doi\<w dm*,'-Jobs Bum, Ml 4M Mmt . rown af Ukt, Chicago, III. , irsaparilla , Md br til draiiMt $1; tlx for fl. Prepared omly by C. L ROOD * CO., Lowell. Mm j IOO Doses One Dollsr I - mmm nbiim hmbbl* &fc THE BB01 Brown bas s houseful of a Rosy and healthy and full They aro sprightly at work And aro noted for smartne Brown is hoolthy, bis wife And their faces aro froc fri Thor spend no money for \ And nercr s dollar for do< The reason tho Brown's are so cxen >y~an occasional coune of Dr. Pierce's ccop their blood, which is the foontaii ich. In this way their systems are fort aid other dangerous diseases. 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