The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, March 04, 1891, Image 4

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The Oatmeal Superstition. Shirley Dare is credited with the fol lowing opinions in regard to a very pop ular article of food: The oatmeal super- etition is a hard one to uproot in the minds of housekeepers who have made it a part of their routine and hate to take up anything else. Farmers do not feed oats to their horses unless they are hard at work, because the grain is too heating for them, and breeds disease in animals unless thrown off by vigorous muscular effort daily. Oatmeal, especially of the finer sorts in which the housekeeper de lights, often passes digestion in n crude shape as masses of starch, which clog the body without nourishing it. Dry, crisp oatcake is much better taken than dry oatmeal, and is far more palatable, its oil and starch being arranged in baking. Clean cracked wheat is the food for the nervous, studious or housekeeping women and children, containing as it does the phosphates needed and the coarse character which aids the organs in their work. The tine flours and foods of the day are one great cause of the early deterioration of the race. If we wished artfully to eliminate every par ticle of nutrition from the food, it would be only necessary to carry the process of grinding, bolting and refining a -little further. In my experience, and that of the most intelligent literary people met, it is not possible to change from sound, coarse food, containing all the wheat, for one day, without loss of strength and nervous tone.—Brooklyn Citizen. CliaiiQe Location of a City. \ccording to a Seattle (Washington) nan, it was a case of necessity when the :ity of Tacoma was located on Puget Sound. “The Northern Pacific,” he lays, “was obliged to reach tide water with its western line by a certain date. The financial flurry came on, and it was difficult to raise funds necessary for the eomplction of the road. Yet large Isnd grants and heavy subsidies were depend- ►nt upon reaching of salt water by a certain date. It was the intention to place the western terminus of the North ern Pacific far to the north and west of the present location, but in spite of the untiring efforts of financiers in the East and engineers in the 'West it was seen that the point selected could never be teached in time to save the lands and funds dependent upon reaching salt water. The management of the road ordered the engineers to press toward the nearest point on the sound without re gard to the terminus.”—Botton Tran- icript. , -- ■ Bignoic Jessada, the great lace fabri- rant of Genoa, Italy, carries back the manufacture of Italian lace as early as the year 1400, and has in his possession specimens which he declares to be of that date. — ' OIVE? JSIVJOY® Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels celdi, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is thi only remedy of its kind ever p duced, pleasing to the taste and j *ro- x © a.uvi ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, Its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made es by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may nob have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for tiny one who wishes to try it Do accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. MS FRANCISCO, CAL, '• UmVtLLE. K1. *[W YORK. N.Y. ; Bermuda Bottled I “You limit SU la llcrimula. li ! )on ilo not ( will mil he reiponil- blr fur Hie cunieiiiieiieei.'’ “ But, doctor, I can iifrurd iieltlier the i tlinc nor the nioiiey.'' •• Well, If that la inipoMiltilc, try SCOTT’S Fmulsiow OF PURE NORWEGIAN COD LIVER OIL. I oonirtimes call It BerinmU But tled, and iiiany canes uf CONSUMPTION, Bronchitis, Cough or Severe Cold I have crRI-:i» wllh It; and the advantitwe In that the most semi- ' live stomach ran take It. Another ! thin* which eoiniiieiids It Is the stimulating tu-op'-rHrs ol the lly- ' t ophnsphlles whlrli It contains on will Hud it lor Mile tit your if Vf.it nr) find _ but M*c >mi ffpf ’ original aroTT s CNVLSIOX.” the j \ F.I,Y»* CREAM ItAIiM Applied Into Nofitrils Is Quickly Absorbed, Cleanses the Head, HealH the Bores and Cures Kestores Taste and Smell, quick ly Relieves Cold In Head and Headache. 50c. at Druggists. ELY imog., 56 Warren st., N. V. T iO: lei KING OF ALL COUGH CURES; DOCTOR ACKER’S ENGLISH mm SOLD hN | ENGLAND I for la. IHi., and In AMERICA I for SB cents a bottle. JT TASTES GOOD.! LiEV. DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn Diwints’s Stmdav Sermon! < TrXT-. T.'t Myp.nple qn that thry nut) ser ce Ae; for f will at this time send all A/i p/apues.”—Ex. ix., 13, 14. : Lust winter, in the museum at Cairn I saw the mummy or embalmec body of Pharaoh, the oppressor of the an cient Israelites. Visible are the very teett that he gnashed against the Israelitish bneltmakers. the sockets of thi merciln-' eyes with which he looked upon the overbur dened people of God, the heir that floated in the breeze off the Red Sea,the very Ups with which he commanded them to make bricks without straw. Thousands of yean after, when the wrappings of the mummy were unrolled, ofcl Pharaoh lifted up his arm as if in impioratlon, but his skinny bones cannot again clutch his shat tered scepter. It was to compel that tyrant to let the oppressed go free that the memora ble ten plagues were sent. Hailing the Nile and walking amid the ruins of Egyptian cities, I saw no remains of those plagues that smote the water or the air. None of the frogs croaked in the one, none of the lo custs sounder! their rattle m the other, and the cattle bore no sign of the murrain, and through the starry nights hovering about the pyramids no destroying angel swept his wing. But there are ten plagues still sting ing and befouling and cursing our cities, and like angels of wrath smiting not only the first born but the last born. Brooklyn, New York and Jersey City, though called three, are practically one. The bridge already fastening two of them together will be followed by other bridges ami by tunnels from both New Jersey and Long Island shores, until what is true now will, as the years go by, become more em phatically true. The average condition of publio morals in this cluster of cities is as good if not better than in any other part of the world. Pride of city is natural to men in all times, if they live or have lived in a metropolis noted for dignity or prowess. Csesar boasted of his native Rome, Lycurgus of Sparta, Virgil of Andos, Demosthenes of Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse, and Paul of Tarsus. I should suspect a man of base heartedness who carried about with him no feeling of complacency in regard to the place of his residence; who gloried not in its arts or arms or behavior; who looked with no exultation upon its evidences of pros- perity, its artistic embellishments and scien tific attainments. I have noticed that men never like a place where they have not behaved well. Men who have free rides in prison vans never likes the city that furnishes the vehicle. When I see in history Argos, Rhodes, Smyr na, Chios, Colophon and several other cities claiming Homer, I conclude that Homer be haved well. Let us not war against this prideof city, nor expect to build uponrselves by pulling others down. Let Boston have its commons, its Faneuil Hall and its magni ficent scientitic and educational institutions. Let Philadelphia talk about its mint, and In dependence Hal), and Girard College, and its old families, as virtuous as venerable. When I find a man living in one of those places who has nothing to say in favor of them, I feel like asking him, - What mean thing did yon do that you do not like your native city?” New York is a goodly city, and when I say that I mean the region between Spuyten Duy vil Creek and Jamaica in one direction and Newark flats in the other direction. That which tends to elevate a part elevates all. That which blasts part blasts all. Bin is a giant, and he comes te the Hudson or Connecticut River and passes it as easily as wc step across a figure In the carpet. The blessing of God is on angel, ana when it stretches out its two wings one of them hovers over that and the other over this. In infancy the great metropolis was laid down by the banks of the Hudson. Its in fancy was as feeble as that of Moses sleep ing in the bulrushes by the Nile; and, like Miriam, there our fathers stood and watched | it. The royal spirit of American commerce :ame down to tne water te bathe, and there she found it. She took it in her arms, and ! the child grew and waxed strong, and the ships of foreign lands brought gold and spices to its feet, and stretching itself up , into the proportions of a metropolis it has looked up to the mountains and off upon the sea—the mightiest of the energies of Ameri can civilization. The character of the founder of a city will be seen for many years in its inhabitants. Romulus impressed his life upon Rome. The Pilgrims relaxed not tlieir hold upon the cities of New England. William Penn has left Philadelphia an in heritance of integrity and fair dealing, and on any day in that city you may see in the manners,customs and principles of its people bis tastes, his coat, his hat, his wife’s bonnet and his plain meeting house. The Holland ers still wield an influence over New York. Grand old New York! What southern thoroughfare was ever smitten by pestilence, n ben our physicians did not throw them selves upon the sacrifice I What distant land lias cried out in the agony of famine, and our ships have not put out with breadstuffs! What street of Damascus or Beyront or Madras that has not heard the step of our missionaries! What struggle for national life in which our citizens have not poured their blood into thetrenches! What gallery of exquisite art in which our painters have not hung their pictures! What department of literature or sc ience to which our scholars have not contributed! I need not speak of our public schools, where the children of the cordwainer and milkman and giassblower stand bv the side of the flattered sons of merchant princes; or of the insane asylums on all these islands where they who went cutting themselves, among the tombs, now sit, clothed and in their right minds; or of the Magdalen asylums, where the lost one of the street comes to bathe the Saviour’s feet with her tears, and wipe them with the hairs of her head-confiding in the pardon of Him who said: “Let him who is without sin cast the (lest stone at her.” I need not speak of the institutions for the blind, the lame, the deaf and the dumb, for the incur ables, the widow, the orphan, and the out cast; or of the thousand armed machinery that sends streaming down from the reser voirs the clear, bright, sparkling, God given water that rushes through our aqueducts, and dashes out of the hydrants, and tosses up in our fountains, and hisses in our steam engines, and showers out the conflagration, and sprinkles from the baptismal font of our churches; and with silver note, and golden sparkle, and crystalline chime, says to hun dreds of thousands of our (copulation, iu the authentic words of Him who said: "I will; be thou clean!” All this I promise in opening this course of sermons on the ten plagues of these three cities, le»t some stupid man miglit say I am deprecating the place of my residence. 1 speak to you to-day concerning the plague of gambling. Every man nu I woman iu this house ought to ba interested in this theme. Some years ago, when an association _ for the suppression of gambling was organized, an agent of the association came to a prom inent citizen and asked him to patronize th< society. He said, “No. I can leave no inter est in such an organization. I am in no wise affected by that evil.” At that very time his son, who was Bis partner in business, was one of the heaviest players in Hearne’s fa mous gambling establishment. Another re fused liis patronage ou the same ground, not knowing that bis first bookkeeper, though re ceiving a salary of only a thousand dollars, wes losing from iifty to one hundred dollars per night. The president of a railroad com pany refuseil to patronize the institution, saying, “That society is good for the defense of merchants, but the railroad people are not injured by this evil;” not knowing that, at that very time, two of his conductors ware spending three nights of each wee; at faro tables in New York. Directly or indirectly, this evil strikes at the whole world. Gambling is the risking of something more or less valuable in the hope of winning more than yon hazard. The instrument of gaoling may differ but the principle is tho same. The slniftliug ami dealing cants, however full of temptation, is not gambling, unless stakes are put up; while, on tho other hand, gam bling may be carried on without cards or dice, or billiards or a ten pin alley. The man who bets on horses, on elections, on bat tles—the man who ilea’s in “fancy'’ stocks, or conducts a business which hazards extra capital, or goes into transactions without foundation, nut dependent upon what men call “iuck,” is a gambler. Whatever you ex pect to get from yonr neighbor without of fering an equivalent in money or time or ikiil is eit her the product of theft or gaming. Lottery tickets and lottery policies come into l he some category. Fairs for the founding of hospitals, schools anil churches, conducted on tho raffling system, come under the same denoiuiuation Do not, therefore, nssociato gambling necessarily with any instrument, or game, or time, or place, or think the prin ciple depends upon whether you play lor a glass of wine or one hundred share* of rail road stock. Whether you patronizj "auction pools.” “French mutuals” or "book-making,” whether you employ faro or billiards, rondo and fc-'no, cards or bagatelle, tho very idea of tile thing is diahouest, for it professes to be stow upon you a goo-1 for which you give no equivalent It is eaihlisted that ©very day in Chris- endon eighty million dollar* pass from ‘•and to hand through gambling practices, and every year in Christendom one hun dred and twenty-three billion on« hundred million dollars rlifluge hands in that wav. There are in this cluster of cities about ight hundred confessed gambling estab- Isskmeutf. There are aboyt three thoqeaad. live hundred professional gamblers. Out of the eight hundred gambling establish ments, bow many of them do you suppose profess to be honest? Ten. These ten pro- teas to be honest because they are merely the ante-chamber to the seven hundred ■-nd ninety that are acknowledged fraud ulent, There are first class gambling estab lishment©. You go up the marble stairs. You ring the bell. The liveried servant in troduces you. Tho walls are lavender tinted. The mantels are of Vermont marble. The pictures are “Jephthah’s Daughter” and Dore’s “Dante’s and Virgil’s Frozen Region of Hell”—* most appropriate selection, this last, for tho place. There is the roulette table, the finest, the costliest, most exquisite piece of furniture in the Unitod States. Thera is the banqueting room, where, free of charge to the guests, you may find the plate and viands and wines and cigars sumptuous ba- yond parallel. Then you come to the second class gam bling establishment. To it you are intro duced by a card through some “roper-in.” Having entered, you must either gamble or tight. San led ear is, dice loaded with quick silver, poor drinks, will soon help you to get rid of all your money to a tune in short meter with staccato passages. You wanted to see. You saw. The low villains of that place watch you as you come in. Does not the panther, squat in the grass, know a calf when ho sees it? Wrangle not for your rights in that place, or your body will be thrown bloody into the street, or dead into the East River. You go along a little further and find thepolicyestablishment. In that place you bet onnumbers. Betting on two numbers is called a "saddle,” betting on three numbers is called a “gig,” betting on four numbers is called a •’horse,” and there are thousands of our young men leaping into that "saddle” and mounting the "gig," and behind that "horse" riding to perdition. There is always one kind of sign on the door— Exchange,” a most appropriate title for the door, for there, in that room, a man exchanges health, and heaven for loss of health, loss of loss of family, loss of immortal soul. Exchange sure enough and infinite enough. Men wishing to gamble will And places just suited to their capacity, not only in the underground oyster cellar, or at the table back of the curtain, covered with greasy cards, or in tile steamboat smoking cabin, where the bloated wretch with rings in his ears instead of his nose, deals tho pack, and winks in the unsuspecting traveler- providing free drinks all arouu i—but in gilded parlors and ami 1 gorgeous surround ings. Again, this sin works ruin by killing indus try. ■ A man used to reaping scores or hun dreds or thousands of dollars from the gaming table will not be content with slow work. He will say: “What is the use of trying to make these fifty dollars in my store when I can get five times that in half an hour down at ‘Billy’s?’ ” You never knew a confirmed gambler who was industrious. The men given to this vice spend thuir time, not ac tively engaged in the game, in idleness or intoxication or sleep, or in corrupting new victims. This sin has dulled the carpenter’s saw and cut the band of the factory wheel, sunk the cargo, broken the teeth of the farmer’s harrow and sent a strange light ning to shatter the battery of the philoso pher. The very first idea in gaming is at war with all the industries of spoietv. This crime is getting its lover under many a mercantile house in our great cities, and before long down will come the groat estab lishment, crushing reputation, home, com fort and immortal souls. How it diverts and sinks capital way bo inferred from some authentic statement before us. The ten gam ing houses that once were authorized iu Paris passed through banks, yearly, three hundred and twenty-five millions of francs. Where does all the money come from? The whole world is robbe 1! What is most sad, there are no consolations for tho loss and suffering entailed by gaming. If men fail in lawful business, God pities and society commiser ates; but where in the Bible or in society is there any consolation for tho gambler? From what tree of the forest oozes there a balm that can soothe tho gamester's heart? In that bottle where God keeps the tears of Hischil- dren are there any tcai s of the gambler? Do the winds that come to kiss the faded cheek of sickness, and to cool tho heated brow of the laborer, whisper hope and cheer to the emaciated victim of the game of hazard? When an honest nun is in trouble ho has sympathy. “Poor fellow!” they say. But do gamblers come to weep at the agonies of the gambler? In Northumberland was one of tho finest estates in England. Mr. Porter owned it, and in a year gambled it all away. Having lost the last acre of the estate, he came down from the saloon a id got into his car riage; went back, pul up his horses aud car riage and town bouseaiid pl iye I. He threw and lost. He startel h air, and in a sido alley met a friend fr-jiu who .i he borrowed ten guineas; went h ick I > ihe saloon and be fore a great vh !e h i I -v n vw -nty thousand pounds. 11. ;v. » ! i •• a beggar in 8t. Giles. How ninu: t felt vurry for Mr. Porter? Who consoled him on the biss of his estate? What gambler subscribed to put a stone over tho poor man’s grave? Not one! Futherm re, this sin is tho source of un counted dishonesties. The game of hazard itsc’f is often a game of cheat. How many tricks and deceptions in tho dealing of the cards! The opponents hand is ofttimes found out by fraud. Cards are marked so that they may be designated from tho back. Expert gamesters have tlieir accomplices, and one wink may decide thegamo. The dice have been found loaded with p atina, so that "doublets” come up every time. These dice are introduced by the gamblers, unobserved by honest men who have come into play; and this accounts for the fact that ninety-nine out of a hundred who gamble, however wealthy they began, at the end are found to be poor, miserable, ragged wretches, that would not now be allowed to sit on the door step of the house that they once owned. In a gambling house in Han Francisco a young man having just come from tho mines de posited a large sum upon tho ace, and won twenty-two thousand dollars. But the tide turns. Intense excitement conies upon the countenances of ail. Slowly the cards went forth. Every eye is fixed. Not a sound is heard until the nco is revealed favorable to the bank. There are shouts of “Foul!” “Foul f’ but the keepers of the table produce their pistols, and the uproar is silenced and the bank has non ninety-five thousand dollars. Do youcallthis ngaiue of chance? There is no chance almut it. But,these dishonesties in carrying on of the game are nothing when compared with the Irauds which are committed in order to get money tngoon with tho nefarious work. Gambling with its greedy hand has snatched iway the widow's mile and the portion of . lie orphans; has sold tho daughters virtue to get the means to continue the game; has written tlie counterfeit signature, emptied the banker's money vault and wielded tho assassin’s dagger. There is uo depth of mean ness to which it will not stoop. There is no .tuelty at which it is appalled. There is no warning of God that it will not dare. Merci- ess, unappeasable, fiercer and wilder it olinds, it hardens, it rends, it blasts, it .-rushes, it damus. It has peopled our pris ons and lunatic asyiums. How many rail road agents and cashiers mid trustees of funds ft has driven to dis grace, incarceration and suicide! Wit ness years ago a cashier of a railroad who stole one hundred and three thousand dol lars to carry on his gaining practices. Wit ness forty thousand dollars stolen from a Brooklyn bank within the memory of many 1 f you, and the one hundred mid eighty ihousaii-1 dollars taken from a Wall street insurance company for the same purpose! These are only illustrations on a large scale of the robberies every day committed for tlie purpose of carrying out the designs of f [amblers. Hundreds of thousands of dol- ars every year leak out without obssrva- t'on from the in-.-icbant's till into the gambling hell, A inau in London keeping one of these gambling bouses boasted that he had ruined a nobleman a day; but if all the saloons of this land were to speak out they might utter a more infamous boast, for they have destroyed a thousand noble men a year. Notice also the effect of the crime upon domestic happiness. It has sent its ruthless plowshare through hundreds of families, un til the wife sat in rags, and the daughters were disgraced, and the sons grew up to the same infamous practices or took a short cut to destruction across the lumderer’s scaffold. Home has lost all charms for tho gambler. How tame are the children’s caresses and a wife’s devotion to the gambler! Howdrearlly the fire burns on the domestic hearth! There must be louder laughter, and something to win aud something to lose; an excitement to drive the heart faster and fillip the Mood and fire the Imagination. No home, however oright, can keep back the gamester. The sweet call of love bounds back from his iron soul, and all the endearments are consumed in the flames of his passion. The family Bible will go after all other treasures are lost, and if his crown in heaven were put into his -•and he would cry: “Hero goes oue more ;ame, my boys! On this one throw I »uko my crown in heaven.” A young ■nan in London, on coming of age, received a fortune of ouo hundred aud twenty thousand dollars, and, through gam bling, in three years was thrown on his nother for support. An only son went to a wuthern city; he was rich, intellectual and ■legant in manners. His parents gave him on his departure from homo their last bless ing. Tho sharpers got bol t of him. They lattercd him. They lured him to tho galli ng table, and let him win almost every time or a good while, and patted him on the I*ack and said, "First rat i player.” But ful- ’yin their grasp they floec -d him, and his thirty thousand dollars were lost. Last of til lie put up his watch and lost that. Then he began to think of his home and his old uther and mother, and wrote thus; “My Beloved Parents—You will doubtless feel a momentary joy at the reception of this letter from the child of your bosom, on whom you have lavished all the favors of your declining years. But should a feeling of joy for a moment spring up in your hearts when you should have received this frohi me, cherish it not. I have fallen deep-- never to rise? Those gray hairs that I should have honored and protected I shall bring down with sorrow to the grave. I will not curse my destroyer, but oh! may God avenge the wrongs and impositions practised upon the unwary in a way that shall best please him. This, my dear parents, is the last letter you will ever receive from me. I humbly pray your forgiveness. It is my dying prayer. Long before you have re ceived this letter from me the cold grave will have closed upon me forever. Life to me is insupportable. I cannot, nay, I will not, suffer tne shame of having ruined you. Forget and forgive is the dying prayer of your unfortunate son." The old father came to the postofflee, got the letter and fell to the floor. They thought he was dead at first; but they brushed back the white hair from his brow and fanned him. He had only fainted. I wish be had been dead, for what is life worth to a father after his son is destroyel? When things go wrong at a gaming table they shout: “Foul! Foul”’ Overall the gaining tables of the world I cry out: “Foul! foul! Infinitely foul.” Hlia’l I sketch the history of the gambler? Lured by bad company he finds his way into a place where honest men ought never to go. He sits down to his first game, but only for pastinu and the desire of being thought sociable. Tlie players deal out the cards. They unconsciously play into Batan’s hands, who takes all the tricks and both the players' souls for trumps—he being a sharper at any game. A slight stake is put up just to add interest to the play. Game after game is played. Larger stakes and still larger. They begin to move nervously -ju their chars. Their brows lower and eyes tasb, until now they who win and they who lose, fired alike with passion, sit with set jaws, and compressed lips, and clinched fists, and eyes like fire balls that seem starting from their sockets, to ses the final turn be fore it conies; if losing, pale with envy aud tremulous with unuttere 1 oaths cast back red hot upon the heart—or, winning, with hysteric laugh—“Ha, ha! I have It! I have it!” A few years have passed and he is only the wreck of a man. Honthij himself at the game ere he throws the first c n-.l, he stakes the iast relic of his wife, and the mui riage ring which sealed the solemn vows between them. The game Is lost, and staggering hack in ex haustion He dreams. Tho bright hours of tiie past mock his agony, and in his dreams fiends with eyes of fire and tongue of flame circleabout him with joined hands to dance and sing their orgies with hellish chorus, chanting “Hail! brother!’’ kissing bis clanun v forehead until their loathsome locks, flowing with serpents, crawl into his bosom and sink their sharp fangs and suck up hi.- life’s blood, and coiling around his heart pinch it with chills and shudders unutterable. Take warning! You are no stronger than tens of thousands who have by this practice been overthrown. No young man in our cities can escape being tempted. Beware of the first beginnings! This road is a down grade, and every instant increases the mo mentum. Launch not upon this treacherous sea. Split hulks strew th» beach. Everlast ing storms howl up and down, tossing un wary crafts into the Hollgntc. 1 speak of what I have seen with my own eyes. I have looked off into tho abyss, and I have seen the foaming, and tho hissing, and the whirl ing of the horrid deep in which the maugled victims writhed, one upon another, and struggled, strangled, blasphemed and died— the death stare of eternal despair upon tbeh countenances as the water gurgled over them. To a gambler’s deathbed there comes no hope. He will probably die alone. His for mer associates come not nigh his dwelling. When the hour comes his miserable soul will go out of a miserable life into a miserable eternity. Ashispoor remains pass the bouse where he was ruined, old companions may look out a moment and say, “There goes the old carcass—dead at last,’ 1 but they will no: f ;et up from the tabic. Let him down now nto his grave. Plant no tree to cast its shade there, for the long, deep, eternal gloom that settles there is shadow enough. Plant no “forget-me-not” or eglantines around the spot, for flowers were not made to grow on such a blasted heath. Visit it not in the sun shine, for that would bo mockery, but in the dismal night, when no stars are out and the spirits of darkness come down hors3d on the wind, then visit the crave of the tramhler! SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Gas is made from petroleum. The cutting of Tracers is now done by electricity. California is the only State in the Union which at present produces quick silver in commercial quantities. A mechanical expert of Cincinnati, Ohio, Bradford McGregor by name, has succeeded, it is stated, in uniting alumi num with glass. Silk from paper pulp is made smooth and brilliant, lias about the same elasticity as ordinary silk, and i» •bout two-thirds as strong. - Geologists have proved that the dia mond mines of South Africa are situate/ In vents or chimneys varying from sev enty to 15,000 feet in diameter. There is a growing interest if. clectrio lighting plants owned and operated by cities in England. Tho City of Cam bridge is about to build a plant which will cost $175,000. The bobbin aud shuttle manufacturers of this country arc about to consolidate their interests and business, probably by the organization of a new corporation in which all will be stockholders. An electric street railway car can be heated by tho expenditure of one horse power of electrical energy. There is no dust, no cinders aud no room is taken from the seating accommodations. By the application of chloride cf anti mony a beautiful violet c.>.or is imparted to brasswork. The brass should be first made perfectly clean and healed until water will steam off it with hissing. Jacob Kahn, a Cleveland (Ohio) shoe maker, claims that he has invented and will have in operation in sixty days a compressed air motor that will propel a street car twenty miles an hour at a cost of three cents. It is proposed to build an electric rail way from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Archangel, a port on tho AVhite Sea, a distance of over 500 miles. The current is to be supplied by a series of generating stations distributed along the lino. A new insulating material has been in troduced, consisting of a mixture ot gelatine, rosin oil, oxidized linseed oil, rosin and paraffin. The compound is known as voltite, and B cheap aud ■erviceabie, and in addition contains no sulphur. Seaweed is now utilized in the manu facture of tough paper which can be used in place of window glass. Very pretty and effective decorative effects can be gained by coloring tho paper and using it in the same way as stained or painted glass. A firm of stone cutters in Berlin, Ger many, have introduced a pneumatic chisel into their establishment. The workman holds the syringe like appar atus with both hands, and, as he slides it over the surface of the stone or metal, the chisel making 10,000 or 12,000 rev olutions a minute, chips off splinters and particles. In a recent lecture, II. W. Henshaw, of the National Museum, at Washington, declared, concerning the antiquity of the Indian, “that whether the Indian originated on this continent, where ho was found, or elsewhere, it was in by gone ages—ages so far removed from our own time that the interval is to be reck oned, not by years of chronology, but by the epochs of geologic time." Of South Carolina’s phosphate pro duct, 376,000 tous uro rained on the land near Charleston, aud 225,000 are taken from tho rivers within ten or twelve miles of Port Royal. All this river phosphate goes to Europe through tho harbor of Port Royal, and is usually loaded at tho works iu trump steumers or school era. ~ Atlanta Conttituthn. re HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. KILLING THIS ODOR OF CAULIFLOWERS. A half feispoonful of cooking soda, itirred in with the salt water will prevent cauliflower from sending out the un pleasant odor when boiling. Brussels- iprouts and cabbage, treated in the same way, can be cooked with open kitchen doors, and without fear of the odor. The soda does not in any way destroy the delicacy of the vegetables’ flavor. No remedy is offered for counteracting the ungrateful omon-sinel! except don’t have them. Their flavoring is not worth the unhappiness a sensitive person suffers after cooking and eating them.—Bet York World. TO AERATE MILK. Unaerated milk is said to be a great enemy of infants and one special cause of cholera infantum. The procese of aerat ing milk is very simple, and consists in allowing the milk to flow from one re ceptacle to another in fine streams, sc that it may come in contact with cool, pure air. If nothing better is at hand let it run through a nice clean colander two or three times. A better arrangement is perforated milk pans, one above the other, through which the milk may run in fine streams. It is held that tyrotoxi- con poison is generated in cream for the want of proper aeration, sad that this causes cholera infantum. Aerated milk is better to use than milk cooled upon ice.—Nett York Voice. THE BEST OF COOKIES. If these cookies are properly, made no other cookie recipe will ever be used, says the Houiekeeper't Weekly. Cream one cup of butter and two cups of sugar. To this add one toaspoonful of rose water and one pinch of salt. Then silt in sufficient flour to make a very soft dough, in which one teaspoonful of bak ing powder has been mixed. Be sure that the dough is not stiff, and use neither milk nor water. Flour the bake- board well, take a piece of dough, and, after sprinkling the rolling pin with flour, roll out very quickly as thin as the blade of a knife. Cut some out round and some long shape. Grease a baking pan and fill it with cakes. The oven must be moderate and the cakes must be watched closely. They must be taken from the oven before they are colored. They will harden as soon as they leave the pan, and if they are colored tho ap pearance will be spoiled. A SPLENDID WASHING FLUID. ' To the tired housekeeper who must do her own washing, every real aid is a thing invaluable. Many washing fluids are sold that, after repeated using, rot the clothes aud render them useless long be fore they should be put aside. To make a good, reliable fluid take five pounds of washing soda, one-half pound of fresh, unslaked lime, one pound of borax and four ounces of liquid ammonia. Upon the soda and borax pour one gal lon of boiling water; when it has thor oughly dissolved add the ammonia. Slake the lime in one gallon of hot water and let stand open until entirely settled; pour the clear liquid carefully off upon the soda and borax water, and add to the mixture eight spoonfuls of this fluid in a tub of water aud soak the clothes in it over night. i Another method of washing clothes Is to put them to soak over night in cold, soft water, then next day put into warm suds in which coal oil has been placed— one tablespoonful to each pail of water— washed and boiled in water in which the same quantity of coal oil has been placed, then rinsed in clear water, blued and hung up. It is said by those who use coal oil in this way that it saves much rubbing, and is an altogether satisfactory method of washing clothes.—Detroit Free Frets. SOME SEASONABLE DESSERTS. Merioguo Pudding—Line a deep dish with slices of sponge cake, put a layer of jelly or jam over it, pour a rich cus tard on top, aud bake; ice like cake and set in oven to dry. Servo with sauce. Cream Pudding—Mix half a cup of white sugar and one grated lemon, beat six eggs to a froth, mix in n pint of flour and a pint of milk, stir in a pint of r icb cream ana a pinch of salt. Pour in a buttered dish and bake. Kentucky Pudding- Beat three eggs with half a cupful of sugar, and two tablespoonfuls of butter, aud half a cup ful oi sweet milk, a teacup of seeded raisius, and flour to make a stiff batter, aud a teaspoonful of baking powder. Flavor with lemon. Boil four hours. Lemon Pudding—Stir tho yolks of six eggs, one cup of sugar, half a cup of water and the grated lemons together. Soak half a dozen crackers in warm water, lay in the bottom of a pan, pour the mixture over and bake, cover the top with meringue made of sugar and the whites of the eggs. Serve with sauce. Amber Pudding—Beat a quarter of a pound of butter to a cream, and gradu ally add the same of sugar and rice flour, beat until smooth. Butter a plain pudding dish. Flavor the mixture with the juice and grated rind of one lemon, pour in the dish, stand in a pot of boil ing water and boil for two hours. Serva hot with rich saucu. Quicksilver. Quicksilver is tho popular name for the metal, mercury, named after the Roman god, Mercurius. It is of the color and luster of silver, and is fluid at ordinary temperatures. It is commonly obtained by melting cinnabar, an ore composed of mercury ana sulphur. The moat important deposit known is near Qardova, Spain. At one period the Romans took annually 700,000 pounds of cinnabar ore from it. Mercury is also obtained in large quantities in the province of Illyria, Austria; Modena, Italy; Montpellier, France; New Ab maden, California and the Peruvian mines oi Huancavelica.—The Ledger. A high school teacher in a Kennebec (Me.) town sits young ladies of seventeen on the floor as a punishment, and aids them by tripping when reluctant to take the assigned uosition. Are You Ready For tbf* change of rraann now bo near, when Imptirl- tie* In the* Wood arc liable to manifest themselves In moft unexpected ways, reduce your general health, rr bring on that tired feeling ? Hood’s RarRaparllla will do you an enormous amount of good just now hy purifying your blood snd building up your sys tem so that you will “tide over” the depressing effects of milder weather. Try it. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggist*. $1: six for $». Prepared only by C. I. HOOD k CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, »Un. too Doses One Dollar Story of • Whale’s PInek. We have received the following letter from Adelaide from Dr. Mannington Caffyn: “I send you an instance of r luck on the part of a whale. As far as can learn it is the rarest thing for a whale not to fear a steamer. Captain Hepworth, British Naval Reserve, of the steamship Port Adelaide, was taking hit sights one morning when he noticed a large sperm whale alongside, so close that his spouting wetted the deck. The creature had evidently lost his ‘school’ and mistaken us for one of his own species. He remained with us for foui days and nights and traveled 890 nauti cal or 1025 statute miles without a rest, and, as far as one could gather, without food. He was never more than seventy yards away, and for the most part close against the ship, under her quarter where the draught made swimming easier for him. The length of the ani mal was about forty-seven feet. The first day he was very lively, diving fre quently beneath the ship's bottom, on one occasion scratching himself severely. After that he kept close alongside like a tired Newfoundland dog. When he did come up the children amused themselves by throwing potatoes into his ‘blow holes,’ which were ejected with great force. If this monstrous mammal has ary capacity for sorrow it must have been a pathetic moment with him when at last after his gallant struggle to stay with us he had to throw up the sponge and re main alono in the center of the Indian Ocean.”—Fall Mail (Enalatid\ GateUe. Live leisurely unless you are anxious to die in a hurry. Brows’* Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia, M*. larta, BlIiotiBnesa and General Debility. Give* Strength, aides Digestion, tones the nervee— creates appetite. The best tonic for Nursing Mothers, weak women and children. To change the name and not the letter i- change for worse and not for better. LeeWa's Chinese Headache Cure. Harm- less in effecL quick and positive in actiqu. Bent prepaid on receipt of *1 per bottle. Adeler & Go..W Wysndottest., Kansas City,Mo Do You Ever Bpecalato t Any person sending us their name and ad dress will receive Information that will le.il to a fortune. Bon). Lewis Ot Co, Security Building. Kansas city. Mo, Sunday is tin favorite vreddl >g day m old England. Malaria cured and eradicated from the system bv Brown’s Iron bitters, which en riches the blood, tones the nerves, aids diges tion. Acts like a charm on persons in general ill health, giving new energy and strengih. Bridle the o| petite nith reason and ravt ■ he stomach. FITS stopped free by Da. Kline’s Gbeat Nzrvz Kestoheh. No FHs after first day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise anl $J trial bottle free. Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St., PhUa.. Pa. Timber, Mineral, Farm Lands and Ranch*i In Missouri, Kan-n-, Texas ami Arkansas, bought and sold. Tyler A-Co,. Kansas City. Mo. Oklahoma Guide Hn-ik and Map sent any whers on receipt of 50cts.Tyt©r & Co., Kansns City, Mo. A Memory Tost. In a Western court, a witness had been detailing, with great minuteness, certain conversations which hid occurred several years before. Again and again the witness testiflo i to names and dates and precise words, and it became neces sary for his cross-cxamincr to break him up. This was done by a very simple device. AVhilo tho witness was glibly rattling off bis testimony, the cross- cxamincr banded him a law-book and said: “Read aloud a paragraph from that book.” “What fori” inquired the witness. “I will tell you after you have read it,” said tho lawyer, aud the wit ness accordingly read aloud a paragraph of most uninteresting material about lands, appurtenances, and hereditaments. Then the lawyer went up and asked him a few more questions noout his memory, and the witness was positive that his memory was very good. Suddenly the lawyer said: “By the way, will you please repeat that paragraph you just read about lands, appurtenances aud hereditments?” “Why, of course 1 could not do that,” replied tho witness. “You must have a queer memory,” re torted the lawyer, “since you can repeat things that you say occurred years ago, and you can not repeat what you read a moment ago.” The witness was non plused.”—Argonaut. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, I _ Locab COUNTT, f Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Chknet & Co., doing business In the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm wiU pay tho snm of One Hundre i Dollars for each and every ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’sCatarrhCure. Frank J. Chenkt. Sworn to before me and subscribed iu my presence, this 6th day of December. A. D., 168o. , —. A. W. Glkason, \ seal r > —r— ’ Notary PxMic. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally aud acts directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Chenet <St Co., Toledo, O. |y Sold by Druggists, 75c. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Thom son’s Eye water. Druggist sell at. liV per bottle There’s a good deal of f uarantee business in the store eeping of to-day. It’s too excessive. Or too reluctant. Half the time it means noth ing. Words — only words. This offer to refund the money, or to pay a reward, is made under the nope that you won’t want your money back, and that you won’t claim the reward. Of course. So, whoever is honest in making it, and works—not on his own reputation alone, but through the local dealer whom you know, must have some thing he has faith in back of the guarantee. The business wouldn’t stand a year with out it. What is lacking is confi dence. Back of that, what is lacking is that clear honesty 1 which is above the “ average practice.” Dr. Pierce’s medicines arc guaranteed to accomplish what they are intended to do, and their makers give the money back if the result isn’t ap parent. Doesn't it strike you that a medicine which the makers have so much confidence in, is the medicine for you ? TRINITY COLLEGE. A High trade Oollcffo for Young M<»n. Itest lust ruction, lendln* t.. F|vp Dcgrtec. Bras oun hi© Y ximnspR -fro to $3. on yenr. on ® kuM'lMiES 1° he crt-cted tills year. *8 m utrleulatt s and graduates Iu recent Stata Lea Mature. ^nd for Oa’Alogoe, Bulletin, Degree Book. Rte John F. Orowxt.l. a. B., Dn. Lirr, Prca.. Trinity College, Ksndulph r;©. *. 0 , s’ Friend WORTEM "Lessees tending \ felhiB-Epf* r g tr? c ST ’ £ » it C <£ = J ^ 1 :: = S V S HI £ 0* g.~" aj h £ ^ f. £ fcrlM ag c-|! I - E.i3 ft*- p ' WORTH ITS WEIGHT If a price can be placed on pain, “ Mother's Friend " Is worth Its wf 1 ir gold. My wife suffered more In ten minutes with either of her other tw ’ children than she did altogether with her last, having previously used four bottles of "Mother's Friend.” It Is a blessing to any one expecting to be come a mother. Quo. F. Lockwood. Carmi, III. Write The DradfWd Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga., for particulars. Bent b.v expire*, charges paid, on receipt of price, ♦1.50 per bottle. Bold bv druggists. GOLD. This Picture, Panel size, mailed for 4 cents. J. F. SMITH & CO., Makers of “ Dlls Beans,” 255 4 257 fimnwiob St., N. Y. City. CURE Biliousness, Sick Headache, Malaria. BILE BEANS. EECHAMs PAINLESS. f^JHatl^EFFECTUAL^ ■•“WORTH A GUINEA A BOX.-« For BILIOUS & NERVOUS DISORDERS Such as Wind and Pmn in the Stomach, Fullness and Swelling after Meals, Diziincss, and Drowsiness, Cold Chills, Flushings ot Heat, Loss ot Appetite, Shortness of Breath, Costireness. Scurry, Blotches on the Skin, Disturbed Sleep, Frightful Orcam* r and all Nervous and Trembling Sensations, Sc. THE FIRST DOSE WILL GIVE RELIEF IN TWENTY MINUTE*. BLECH Ah! S PILLS TAKEN AS DH1ECTED RESTORE FEN ALES TO CONPIETE HEALTH. For Sick Headache, Weak Stomach, Impaired Digestion. Constipation, Disordered Liver, etc., ^ nii|pcular gy Sfeni ' restoring long-lost Com- nfug in w i edge of appetite, and arousing with the RQSCBUD OF iu of tl - - they ACT LI HE MA0IC, Strengthenfn pfex/off, bringing back the/reen ed HEALTH tho whole physical energu oi tlie human frame. One of the best g«a to the Ncrvott* and Debilitated Is Hint BEECH AMS PILLS HAVE THE LARGEST SALE OF ANY PROPRIETARY MEDICINE IN TIIE WORLD. Preptired only by TRIOS. SIKKl H A M. St. Helen*, 1*anen*hlre. England. SoUl hff lYrvyffittA ffruertilhj. B. F. ALLEN CO.. 3S6 and 367 Canal St.. New York, drucg»*tdoe* not keep them) WILL MAIL S pjLLb on RKOKII’T of PRICK,25cte. A BOX. (Mention thik PaferT Have You a Cough? Have You a Cold? Or Consumption? aylor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and “ WILL CURE YOU! Ask your Druggist or Merchant for it. Take nothing else All pliu to pMteboard boiM, ptok vrsopers, i •e. to aurapa for pmtooUri, ‘-r’lntltm - 16,000 TaatlisoolivU. Name I\mm . TNC ORIGINAL AMO QENUINC. Tke only (Uftw f LftAlee, uk Drucdat tor CMckatttrN M*ftUk Mmntnd Mrmn ***}*?'’ ••N***k|«d. Ja/kiaa l _ •'.''■'•terftit*. "iTriroMWu’Jr a*«« m tad “KcTIff for LoUe*,” in Utter b* as.iT S.,CH..T.n iv,w«r» loauiaooiaii Jhame /Tipar, •old hr nil Local I »— Best Cough Medicine. Recommended by Physicians. Curea where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to tho taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists. “German Syrup’s G. Gloger, Druggist, Watertown, Wis. This is the opinion of a man who keeps a drug store, sells all medicines, comes in direct contact with the patients and their families,- and knows better than anyone else how remedies sell, and what true merit they have. He hears of all the failures and successes, and car therefore judge: “I know of no medicine lor Coughs, Sore Throat, or Hoarseness that had done such ef fective work in my Coughs, family as Boschee’s Sore Throat, Hoarseness, et my store, who was suffering from a very severe cold. She could hardly talk, and I told her about German Syrup and that a few doses would give re lief; but she had no confidence in patent medicines. I told her to take a bottle, and if the results were not satisfactory I would make no charge for it. A few days after she called and paid for it, saying that she Would never be without it in future as • few doses had given her relief. ’ ’ ® BFZVTU Piano, (nowi 8743. Organ.***. DCS I I I in NIKI, F. BEATTY, AVABliIngton. F I •MS TiPAMi $tfm..r|imy>r,r*fnny I AvUm A brlns AI.I.V from TWJWTV U Teat u*- TAUONA I WESTBUNT <«>., TAUOJIA. fUH.VA’AWIiliriSO wwtvi hwunttfnl FTT* 4 ImlirAniffllnWKfi- enooxh tocy>Y»»r 5CA Kk'.; best, 25c. J .emaRir/9 Sn.x Mn.u Little Fen▼ N. J. ■ fur Toliiicco habit. One Hollo r* lives p.o. Box 121. Oln'lptonc. NJ. IB Plants mailed for81.00* Book cm Cactus, 10c. Catalogue! free. A. Blanc & Co., Phlta. POSITIVE' CACTUS 18 f|||C BT17D Y. Fook-kwplng, Bnstnws Forma. MUmC Penmanship, Arithmetic, Short-hand, eta I • B thoroughly taught by MAIL* Circulars fre* Bryant'H Collage, 4*57 Main Sf- Hu Halo, N. Y. Our finproTpd PioTflly Ri*« itlnrhinr. Nerdlee by mall. Send lor Price MM. F. If OSS tV CO., Toledo, f/bio. PUPPY IfNEXC POMTTYffV*'JIKUBDIBI*. DAUUI IMiLLO Oreely Pan* Ntretcher Adopted hy students at IlHrrard, Amhersf. and other Colli'L'.’p, nlso, by professional and business men every where. 11 imt lor sale in your town send 25e- t* 1 B J. GRIiKLY. 715 Wasblnxtun Street. Boston. I made happy for SI * year. Fub- i wribeto the No Name Maoazihk. u ft rae i - - - r S Sa5 a Always bright and Interesting 8 w n™3 E-flt SHinple copy, on** dime, fliofrte copies. AMEBIC AN PRESS CO.. Baltimore. Md. - T - PENSIOH Bill! . CalHtm.. 1 Great !s Pssssdi wu«w*,**tw fr* and Fathers are ei PENSIONS — Hied !•> $12 fl mo. Fee 8!" vrfcen you get yom money. I •tankh fi ea. JOSEPH II. HUNTER. Atty. WasktostOD. P. F- ' I prescribe and fullt an- dorso Big O as the only specific for the certain cur» of this disease. G. 11. INORAUAM.M. D-, Amsterdam, N. Y. Y*’e have sold Big Otot many years, and It has given the nest of sail®* Faction. . _ D. R. PYCHF. ft CO , -jr q Chicago. 111. 5*rV™9i.00a Bold by Druggist*. 8 JN U.--0 PROF. LOISETTE’S NEW MEMORY BOOKS. Criticisms on two recent Memory Systems. Ready shout April 1st. Full Tables of Contents forwarded onlj to those who send stamped directed envelope. A lso Prospectus POST FREE of the Lolaettkm Art of Never Forgettlncr. Address Prof. IGISETTK, 2S7 Fifth Are., New York. ^ The iinivrrnnl fa Tor ac corded Tlf.LGWHAST** Prorr Sound Cnbbnce Seeds Icada me lo offer .» P. K CROWN <>n\nn,lhe finest Veliow GUJbe in existence. To Introduce it and show Its capabilities I will pav $100 for the heft yield obtained from 1 ounce of need which I will moll for 30 off*. Catalogue free, limne F. TillingiiRsf, l.u Finnic, Fn. ROOFING KVRKY MAN HIS OWN ROOFER. Two and Throe Ply Roofing, suitable for all roof* hcopre than nnu other material aud twice as dur- itile. Fire, W inn and Water Proof, Oltablo D* climates, and c.m bo applied by any one. Df scriptir# •Tatalocuo with samples of Roofing. Lining r-hcaildng Pai>er, Faints, &c., eent on requeat. B VlT WIT.I, PAV YOU TO WRITE US. JOHN ARMITAGE, Ilichmond, A.B.C a OF AGRICULTURE A ne»v book free telling in tlie oimgleet way. hour crops grow, wliut plant Food they got from the Air, Rain and Boll. —Thu way to improve lands and imikt larce crops of Grain, Vegetables. Fruit** Flowers and Tobacco.—How Fertilhers ar® made and when to u.<e them for profit. laaiicd freu on receipt of t hree two-cent stumps to pay p^blage. W. S. POWELL & CO., *>Chentlcal Fcrtlliirr Mnnwlactuxcr**— BALTIMORE. MD. "WELINE- FOR A ONK-DOI.LAR RILL sent ns hy mall we will dtdlvir, free ot all charges, to any neison in ' of the following article*, care- IOcUi W ** 15 a 10 * 4 10“ the Unit d States, all fully packe.: One two-ounce bottle of Pure Vaseline. • One two-out.ee bottle of Vaseline Pomade, One Jar of Vast line Cold Cream, .... One c? kc of Vaseline Camphor Ice, - One Cake of Vasrthue goap, unsoented, - 10 One fake of Vaseline Soap, oxquisltoly scented,35 Oue two-ounce bott e of White Vaseline, - - 25 $1.10 Or for pasta-]- ttamw any single article at the prioi tamed. On no account br persuaded to accept from 'jcurdruggM any Vaseline or preparation therefrom •Anise* labelled tcith our name, because you will eer- • ainly rcceivean imitation which hat Utile or no value ChesHirouah Hit*. ‘J4 Stale Bl., N. V. DR. SCHENCK'S SEAWEED a TONIC In a Positive Cure for DYSPEPSIA And nil IMsorders of the Digest ive Organs. It is likewise a £ t ,‘iiol'rtrnttve, or strengthen* “ ing M‘*i'inc, nnd nisy be Ink on villi gt'Mat benefit iu all C.*se«of Debility. For Sale bf Price,SI.'Wper bottle. Pr.Srhenck’s . Lung-' l .ivei and Stomach mailed free. Mdieet. Or. I H. SrttlNCK L SON, Philadelphia. The Leading Southern Seed House. SEEDS E E D S Vegetable Seeds, Flower Seeds, Grass Seed, Clover Seed, Seed Brain, Potatoes, &c. &c. Prirce quoted on application. Des criptive Catalogue mailed FREES. Contains valuable information for every Southern Farmer X- Gardener* T. W. WOOD & SONS, SEEDSMEN, 8 & 10 South 14th St.. RICHMOND, VA. •Be. HUNKY IN CJHICKKNN, lor 25c. a luopago book, experience of a practical poultry ralaer during 2years. It touches how to detect and cure diseases; to feed for eggs rStO uutl for fattening; which fowls v» ior urccuuiK, Ac., &C. Addres* BOOK PUB. ifOUSK, 134 Leonard SL, N. Y. City. JLsiiaiNri} YOITM. BMt Uw-Prle«4 CKKItAM DICTIONARY publuhed, at the remarkably low price of only tl.txk postpaid Thin Book c<m- UdnM C1I4 finely printed padres of olear type on excellent paper amt is baud- soniely yet stiwlceanly bound In cloth. It gives Gnglixh w ords with tlie Germaa equivalents and pronunciation, and German words with Kuijlish definitions, It is Invaluable to Oei mans who are not thoroughly familiar with KiiRllsh. or to American'* who whh to luarn Gimnaa AtldiTwa, with |HA», _ IIOOD rl W, UOU% 411 Ueu?* •*, few lerkOHj.