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MAKING CRANBERRY BOGS How Swamps are Turned into Sources of Profit. The Process of Preparation tie Pioking and the Prices Received. A farmer who has not the ready money, and who has the other essen tials for a cranberry bog. will mortgage his farm to put in this source of revenue. The first essential is a swamp with a peat bottom. During the winter the available wood is cut off, and the smaller stumps are removed, the larger ones being left for the frost to throw out. During the milder days the work goes on of removing stumps, levelling, and filling in with turf. After the larger stumps have been removed, and the bog made comparatively level, the dikes are built. These are built at such distances apart as to inclose three or four acres of bog, so that the inclosed space can be readily overllowed by shutting the sluiceways in the dike. The bet ter to carry off the water, ditches are dug leading to a .principal ditch parallel with the dike. Then the bog must be sanded to a depth of three or four inches, being drained of water as much as possible before sanding. The frost usually throws the bog. In anticipation of this, the ice over the bog is covered with sand during the winter, ;e i i i ?t ? i?i copci/iaitj u lug uug litis uuuu piilllltfU with vines the previous fall, so that in the spring the ice melting distributes the sand on the bog, thus saving cartage. The second essential to a bog is a sand bank or hill near the swamp, supplying sand that must be free loam, since loam brings in weeds. In the spring or fall, when the bog is sanded, it may be planted, the intention being to save as much time as possible. The first year there is little trouble from weeds, but the second and third summer after planting the vines it is necAQanrv f a wroo/1 f VMJUMA J wv II UllV/l | QUU tu keep the water in the trenches low, so as not to encourage the growth of weeds. After the third year the vinea are strong enough and cover the bog sufficiently to take care of themselves. The vines are cut with scythes from an existing bog, three or four inches , deep, just below the sand. The third year the bog is expected to bear and to pay all expenses of construction. During the second year it may possibly pay interest on the money spent in making it. The year after the third is usually the best bearing year;- after that the yield is about equal. The greatest danger is from frost. A continual watcli has to be kept after the first year, and the bog has to be "flowed" immediately. Some. times a frost in June or. last of May will injure the budding vines, thus destroying a year's crop. The next visitation most feared Is that of insects, which ruin the berry and leave their eggs for the next year. The remedy is to burn and thus destroy the bog, or the infected part of it, or to flood it. Drought and forest fires are other dangers. When the bog is "flowed" to avert frost, there is a danger, if the succeeding day is very warm and the vines are bearing berries, that the heat may ruin the fruit while it is exposed wet to the sun. It is desirable to keep the berries as long on the vines as possible, as they turn dark when ripening, and the darker the beriV the higher the price, other qualities being equaL The picking is a picteresque sight, the common costume for the women being a calico dress and a sun-bonnet (in shape the same as the Shakers wear). They pick with their backs to the sun, in rows divided by strings, to insure "clean picking," each one being kept in the prescribed place till the vines are well picked. A cranberry barrel is smaller than ordinary, 100 quarts to the barrel being the rule, but they are tightly pressed and forced in, so that after shipping they are found to be solid in the barrel. A dealer will have nothing to do with a barrel in which the berries shake. A good price is $10 per barrel. Sometimes it is ilfi. $17. or mow. Tt. "naw" of ? T- ' f J " . "" per barrel, bat good berries never sell as low as that. The cost of making a bog apart from the cost of the swamp, Is about $350 per acre. A very good yield of berries would be 100 barrels to the acre, t'his, at $10 per barrel (the average price Jn good years), is $1000, after an expenditure of, say, $450 per acre for the making the bog; picking, and in running expenses for- three 1 years from the breaking of the swamp. After the fourth year the average A , yield is perhaps\from sixty to eighty barrels per acre. \Some farmers store I their berries until the next spring, I hoping for better ) prices, but it has r been usually f on ml that the shrinkage ' more than equals the advance In price. ?Harper's WeeklyJ Last year nearly one thousand cehoolhouses were erected in Dakota. SIEW' d&Illisl tr<V'v'' THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN. A Tonic for (he Weak. The best tonic in wasting diseases is meat extract, made as follows: Chop fine a half pound of lean beef, immerse this in a pint of water, first having mixed with the water five drops of hydrochloric acid. Allow the meat to soak in this for three hours, then strain. The liquid will be a beautiful cherry color, and should be taken in wineglass doses every two or three hours. Should you desire to nave it navorea, aaa a lew grains ot salt or essence of celery. Rapid Blister. It Is sometimes desirable to produce a small blister quickly. For this purpose nothing is better than concentrated water of ammonia (Aqua Ammonia fortior). Put a few drops of it in a watch crystal or any receptacle of the sort, cover it with a piedget of absorbent cotton, invert on the spot to be blistered and press closety. In half a minute or so a red circle will appear on the skin around the edge of the confining vessel. It is an evidence t Vl 11 f vocl pq t \ nn f nl-nn nluno v?tMW t vutvuvtuii 1IUO Vtinwii Ji7AUW| cvuu the blistering material can be removed. The blister should be treated in the same manner as one obtained from cantharides. A Smallpox "llemedy." A correspondent of Le Caiiatlien recommends as an unfailing remedy for smallpox the application, when the first symptons appear, of two small Spanish fly blisters to the arm of thd patient between the elbow and tho shoulder. These, he contends, will draw all the virus of the disease to that part of the body, and it may be let out by opening the vesicles from time to time with a penknife or pair of scissors. The blisters should be allowed to remain till they fall off, and nw uiuic pus ruus irum me wouna, when it will dry up on the application of a little lard, and the patient will be fully recovered in less than a week, lie claims that he has seen this remedy i used in France and Brazil, and always with success. At the same time he advises every one to get vaccinated to reduce the chances of catching disease. The Treatment of Scars. Dr. Ward, of New York, asserts that scars may be removed by manipulation. His method of employing it id as follows: Place the ends of two or three lingers on a scar if it be a small one, and on the margin if it be large, and vibrate the surface on the tissued beneath. The surface itself is not to be subjected to any friction; all the motion must be between the integument and the deeper parts. The location of the vibratile motion should be fihanflffld Pvftrv tan nr Hffonn aonnndd ? J ?-vw*. WVWUUH until the whole scar has been treated* if it be of moderate size. If the scar be the result of a large scald or burn, the margin only should be treated at first; the advances toward the center should be deferred until the nutrition of the margin has been decidedly improved. Only a little treatment should be applied to any one spot at the same time, but the vibrations should be re* peated as many as twenty times a day, but never with sufficient frequency or severity to cause pain. If the scar becomes irritable, suspend treatment until it subsides. In the course of two or mree weeits or iaunrui treatment the surfaces of the scars of moderate size become more movable and will begin to form wrinkles like true skin when pressed from side to side. All these changes are due to improved nutrition, consequent on better blood circulation?the development of entirely new sets of blood vessels in the cicatrical tissue. Lincoln's Scotch Cap. Hon. E. B. Washburne In the North American Revieio, recalls most vividly the exciting days of '61, and corrects some popular myths that have been so generally received as to become almost a part 01 niaiory. According to Mr. Washburne, the famous "Scotch Cap" which Lineoln is supposed to have worn when he went to Washington, must go into fiction. He says : "There has been a great deal printed in the newspapers about Mr. Lincoln's arrival in Washington, and about the 'Scotch Gap' and 'Big Shawl' he wore through Baltimore, most of which is mere stuff. * * * He had on a soft low-crowned hat, a muffler around his neck, and a short "bob-tailed overcoat. * * I must confess he looked more like a well-to-farmer than the President of the United States." A Great Invention. "Say, Darringer, have you heard of Bromley's last invention?'* "No. I didn't know he had any genius in that way. What has he invented ?" "It is just wonderful! It is destined to make a complete revolution " "Sakes alive, man, what is it?" MA circular saw."?CaXL >?. -f4' ' .V.' .*3, \ iw.,7* V .' i-.W1" ^ > j ,' ? f ' ' ' V HUMOR OF THK DAY. i A coat of paiat has uo buttons ou it. ?Carl Pretzel. A telephone ofticc should be located I in a "noller" square. ? Boston Bulletin. I 1 The man who said he was out on o J ] lark was really out on a swallow.?Sam. ! < The cup that doesn't cheer or inebriate, but sometimes rouses suspiclan?the hic-cuD. ' * i ! ; Subterranean Planters designate ere- j motion as a burning shame.?Merchant- j Traveler. j Some people are willing to be good il j they are well paid for it. Others are j good for nothing.?San Francisco Examiner. A petriGed mule has been found in Pennsylvania. This surprises us. We had no idea a mule coula keep its hoofr still long enough for that.? Graphic. The Concord Monitor has an article on The Pear Blight." The C. M. is be hind time. The pair blight dates back to the fail of man.?Boston Transcript. The king of the Sandwich islands is said to be inordinately fond of mince pies. "What can you expect of a max] whose ancestors were brought up on mis sionary 1?Travelers' Guide. A swarm of bees invaded a Maryland church on a recent sunday, and the pastor had to admit, with tears in his eyes, no congregation was ever so moved by p his very best sermon.?Boston IVanscript c When a woman goes horseback riding J she wears a silk plug hat. She docs that c so the horse will believe she's a man and won't become frightened at her. She couldn't fool a Kentucky mule that way. 11 ?Kentucky State Journal. "Why is an apple pie," said Fogg, eyeing the remarkably flat specimen be- n fore him, "like a spring?" Nobody ven- t tured an answer, and Fogg was forced 0 to break the painful silence by explain- ' ing that it could not rise above its sauce. ?Boston 2 ran scr ipt. h "I was never exactly buried alive,* P said an old clerk, recounting his ex peri- t] ence, "but I once worked a week in a t store that did not advertise. When 1 f came out my head was almost as white >' as you now see it. Solitary confinement " did it."?Boston Deacon. v A CHURCH BEl,I,E. 5 She wears a sweet smile * As she glides up the aisle ^ With the grace of a rythmical sonnet; And oh! sho looks cute ^ In hor nobby new suit a And that dear little duck of a bonnet. ?New York Journal. A writer in the Scientific American says a cyclone can be diverted from its t< course by exploding a keg of gunpowdei a under it. This solves the problem neatly. Of course when a man' is blown into 4 pieces by a powder explosion he haa tl nothing to fear from a cyclone.?Neit a York Graphic. THE DISCONSOLATE MERCHANT. * A merchant alone in desolate store Sang 'Willow, tit-willow, tit-willow!" [ I said to him, "Why are you pacing the a floor, p Singing 'Willow, tit-willow, tit-willow'*" ? "Alasl" he replied as he smothered his cries, J' "I thought it was nonsense to advertise, j And now I've no custom at all buc the flies. Oh, willow, tit-willow, tit-willow 1" ?New York World, J Cauae For Rejoicing. \ Cincinnati.?The Times-Star says: "A y remarkable discovery made last winter, is [ attracting wide spread interest. As it involves a most important question,?that of public health, it is being discussed by b eminent physicians and public men. It D is shown conclusively that throat and b lun^ troubles can be cured without resorting to the use of morphia or opium,? especially dangerous in the case of children as arresting development, and pois- i oning the system. Tne Governor of i Maryland and all the officials of that state t endorse the remedy; the state chemist of nplmpnrfi Tvrnnnnnrptj if fhn nnrnst. nnrl most effective, and hospitals and cliarita- f ble institutions in Philadelphia and other = cities use it with remarkable results. The s remedy which is only twenty-five cents a [ bottle, is Red Star Cough Cure. It is a purely vegetable; it contains no poison ? or narcotics, and is a positive cure. a ' s Will CaTleton is middle-aged, slender 1 and spare-face. I ii i Side by Side in the Druo Stoub 1 stand Vinegar Bitters and the health- e blasting preparations fired up with bad | rum. Take your choice between tha : ..'^7 ,1 J 77.. f mv_ uiuuv oiM/W auu iuc tocuuLi,y yvtauius. x uu J one cures evory disease of the stomach, , bowels, liver and nerves, the others ag- < gravate all human ailments. Vineoaii i Bitters strengthens, the others weaken. ' A Crank is the man whose ideas differ t from your own. Can consumption be cored? Yea. Ona t man only, discovered the laws of gravitation, i One jqiuj only, discovered the virtue of vac- c cinatijn. And one man after year* i of study and reflection, has discovered the ' cure for consumption. Dr. Pierce's "Golden e Medical Discovery" is its specific. Send twa t letter stamps ana get Dr. Pierce's pamphlet c treatise on consumption. Address. World's t Dispensary Medical Association. Buffalo, N.Y. t ] "Water, you say?" said the pump to the milk-c^. "I'll get chalk-full to-nigh!" ^ Young or middle-aged men, suffering from premature decline of power, however induced, speedily and radically cured. Illus- 1 trated book for 10 cents in stamps. W orld'a I Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. i | A wise man will never shut his eyes before ' hcopens his mouth. . 1 The Chtlobbx'b Health must not be neglected Colds in the head and snuffles bring on Catarrh and throat and lung affections. Ely's Cream Balm cures at onoe. It is perfectly safe and is easily applied wity the linger. It also cures Catarrh and Hay Fever, \the worst cases yielding to it in a short time. a Sold by druggists. 60 cents. Ely Bros., ^ Owego, N. Y. , The bottle of Ely's Cream Balm that Iobtained of you last summer has entirely cured my little boy ot a severe attack of catarrh.? f -mr t\- i- n ? u?? t - ottiiiu i/avio. urcou j:ubwiuu?, 4UH. { One of my children, a girl abor.t nine years old, had a very bad discharge from her hend and nose of a thick, yellowish matter, and ( was growing worse. We had two different physician* prescribe for her, bnt without benefit. We tried Ely's Cream Balm, and , mnch to onrsurprise in three days there was i a marked improvement. We continued lining the Balm and in a short time the dis- , charjj^was apparently cured?O. A, Gary, A deep sen fisher thinks he is.a philanthro pist,when he searches for the 'errihg. j . '2)' /" ' * ' * p*" TRICKS ON TD^TRACKS! j OaDgers from which Krislne *rn Save the Public nod The.unci vc?. The Railway Reciew. One who is accustomed to railway travelnp can scarcely realize how mucb. he is dependent for safety upon the ongineer. Added ;o the responsibility of their station, engineers ire also in constant danger of accidents xiused by the tricks of jealuuu rivals. This rivalry, it is said, sometimes prompts ;o the doing of utterly mean tricks. A Nickle Plato engineer after" his very first trip was aid off because he had "cut out" all the bearngs of his engine. He was re-instated, howsver, after he proved that some rival had 'illcrf his oiling can with emery. Another new engineer was suspended for burning out the lues of his boiler. Through grief at the loss >f his position ho died, and then a conscienceitricken rival confessed that he had jiut oil n the tank so that it foamed and showed vator at ihotop guage, when in reality there was scarcely a quart in the boilerl These intense jealousies, together with the ;errible anxiety Incident to their work, has a erribly straining effect on the nerve, and itatistics tell us that, though Locomotive En;ineers may look strong and vigorous, thoy ire not all a hearty class. Ex-Chiof Engineer S. Hampton, Indianapolis, IiuL, (Div. 143) was one of those apparently hearty men. but le says: "The anxiety, strain and jolting ame near finishing me." His sufferings localized in catarrh of the bladder, but lio used IVarner's safe euro fnitlifnllv- for veoks and now exclaims, "I am a woii nun." T. S. Ingrahnm, of Cleveland, Ohio, issistant Chief engineer, and othor prominent nembers are aLso emphatic in its praise. The Locomotive Engineers' brotherhood ins 17,000 members and ii40 divisions. Its icadquurters is in Cleveland, Ohio, where 2nief Engineer Arthur for twenty years has Kxercifed almost dictatorial sway. It was irganized in August. 1JS0:}, by the employees >f the Michigan Central. It has given nearly wo million dollars to the widows and orphans 1 if deceased members. Sober thoughts?the kind that come next aorning, you know. A BltACli OF EDITORS*. (From Cltiraiju Seicti.) The Chicaao Journal of Commerce, has lade its mark as one of the leading indusrial and scientific papers. It is published nee a week at 70 State street, and discusses ho resources of the country and the moss Tactical methods of developing them. A recent article in this paper takes a very lopeful view of the coming increase of the opulation of Chicago. It shows that Chiago is now increasing in a far greater ratio lian New York is. The calculations show hat in 15)20 Chicago will have overtaken lew York, the estimated population for that ear being about I J,500,000. by l'.MO Chicago kill have somewhat ovor 7,5'j0,0.)0 populainn, while New York will be plodding along nth the comparatively scanty crowd of ,500,0JO. The conclusion is that Chicago rill in fifty years be a larger city than New fork, as she is now a more progressive city. < Ascending to the editorial rooms of the 1 Ihicaqo Journal of Commerce, wo find Mr. ' ml Mrs. J. A. Coan, the assistant editors, heerfully at work in their cozy quarters. It > not often that we see a gentleman and his rife thus co-operating in editorial work, but i is the case here, and it works well. Ediors, like other people, are sometimes anoved with malarial rami on if. I ad happened to Mrs. Coan. On asking her ! bout it, she replied : "Yes, I was the subject of malarial atacks. I hardly know h-jw malaria got into ay system, but it did; and that was enough or me; it had to be got out in some way or ther. At our boarding house were Some ailroad men who had spent much of their ime in the malarial regions of Illinois and 1 ndiana, and had been quite thoroughly satrated with malaria. They told their exerience, the most satisfactory part of which pas that they hod used brown's Iron Bitters, j rhich had driven the malaria out. Why hould not I try the same means of cure* So ' , too, took Brown's Iron Bitters, and found hat it did for me just what it had done for hern. It took away my chills and fever, nd that was all I could ask of it." "Was that long enough ago, Mrs. Coan. to ;ive you reason to hope that the relief is omplete and permanent J" "Quite so; I think I have had no'return or he trouble for more than a year. I am perectly satisfied with the result." "And as to your chills and fever, Mr. Coanr" Rni/1 Atv Pnon "T liajl nl.ill. 1 * tut I had tin ugly cough which threatened qo with pneumonia.1' Here Mrs. Coan said?something about "left lis overcoat of when he ought to have it on." 1 "Well that is the way almost all men do." ! 'I was threatened with pneumonia," coninued he, "and the cough stuck to ine for i while I will say for Brown's Iron Bitters hat after I had taken a bottle or so of it, it J Irove the cough away and restored my sys- i em to its former strength. So, yes. sir, we >oth believe in Brown's Iron Bitters." That, by the way, seems to be the conclnion of all the people who try Brown's Iron Jitters. They believe in the medicino beause it does what it claims to. it does not ilaim to do everything, but its claims are >retty broad, covering indigestion, malaria, leuralgia, liver complaint, kidney troubles ind many other diseases to which both soxes Lre subject. If you want to be sick, and insist on bem^ Ick, and are determined that you will and hall and must be sick, don't get Brown's ron Bitters. But if you want to be well, buy this favotte and popular medicine of your druggist. What it has done for others it will surely do tor you. Mr. R. H. Brown, Oakland Mills, Md., iays: Last spring my condition was really >itiful, as I was suffering from extreme deDility and a cough that racKud my whole lystem. Brown's Iron Bitters restored my ieaitn, ana to an sunerers i reconimeua it. Mr. E. Fisher, 1018 Main St., Lynchburg, a., says: My wife used Brown's Iron Hitlers with so much benefit that I take pleasure n recommending it to all ladies whosa health s impaired. Spirits are quoted at $1.02. Now is the ime to hold seance*. "Sneet MruI Mnller." Whittier's beautiful ballad contains a ouching illusion to the many cares and sor ows which wear upon the "heart and brain" >f a wife and mother. Thousands of weary luffering women have (found Dr. Pierce's 'Favorite Prescription" "a marvelous recuptrator of wasted strength, aud of sovereign iflicacy in all those derangements and malalies peculiar to their sex, by reason of which he vitality is gradually sapped, and the :heek robbed prematurely of its bloom. Price reduced to one dollar. By druggists. A boy in Unionville, O., died of eating six ?atermellon8. The purest, sweetest and best Ood Liver Oil in the world, manufactured from fresh, healthy livers, upon the sooshore. It is absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians have decided it superior to any of the other oils in market. Made by Caswell, Hazard <fc Co., Now York. 1 Chapped iiantjs, face, pimples and rough skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made Kw PuqitaII Hn7iirn Ar. f!n Maw "Bkjmon'r Abomatic Axxjm Sulphur Soap," i icantirtes and softens Face and hands, heals uid euros ail skin diseases for sure. 25cents >y "Dru fir prists" or by mail. Wm. Dreydop>el, Philadelphia, Pa. Get Lyon's Patent Heel Stiffeners applied o your new boots and shpea before you wear hem out. If a cough disturbs your sleep, take Piso's 3urc for Consumption and rest well. Whan yon tMI cltjr, mm (MftU* I xpr**aac? and & carriage hire, and stop at the Qrud Union Hotel, nppoelto Grand Central Dnpot W"0 ?lnK*nt roomp, Attedupata cost of om million iollara. ft and upward oer day. European plan. Eleralor Ite?tmirni *. supplied with the beat. Horse ears, rt*R?ta aBd elevated railroad to all depots. Families an live better for leea money at the Grand Union Hotel than at any ether firat-claaa hotel in the cltr. 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B??m tod Bflnm Box* ?60JON'CSb* ptjri th? fr#!|bt-fof frH PHM r. u. awareI Lorlllard'o Clfinax Ting b*?rlJif ? red fin tag ; that I^orHlard'i R?m L?nf fine out; that Lorlllardl N**t Cllraligc, and that LortlLard's Haaflii, art Uw beat and cheapcat, quality concldcfd I HPIro'r Remedy for Catarrh Is the QM Best, Easiest to Use, nnd Cheapest. U MS Also Rood for Cold In the Head, |M Headache. Hay Fever. Ac. 50 cents. HM [ASTHMA CURED! (icrman Anthma urenever/ail* topi vo tnv-H mediate relief in the wowt cast*.Insures comfort- I I able Bleep; effects careswhere all other*ifoiL AM trial convinces Uiamott skeptical. Price 60c. and? S1.00,olDrngJ?lBtJ?orbymall. SamnloFIIEEB AGENTS WANTED We want a reliable Lady or Oent In encli town and township to sell our good*; nl?> Ki'tieral a#* Ufa. Parbcalaru free. Add reus J kkfkhhon HVd Co.. ToIedo.O. 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