The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, July 27, 1894, Image 4
94i:x AND GARDEN.
CBOr ROT ATI 02? •
Crop rotation shoald bo practiced il
you mean to improve the land. A orof
rotation of throe, ionr, or fivo years,
with clover for one of the years, oau
be so arranged that the land will be
continually strengthened by it Thfc
method, in connection with all the
manure which can be manufactured
and the turning under pf green crops
as often as may be possible, is the way
|by which many a poor farm has bees
changed into a good one, and lane
which barely paid its taxes has beer
made to yield an excellent living, but
this has been done only by good,
methodical farming and not by hap
hazard methods—Chicago Times.
BiriNINO CREAM.
In ripening cream, the temperature
should be kept as near sixty degrees
as possible. It will ripen in twelve,
.twenty-four, or thirty-six hours, ac
cording to circumstances. It should
be stirred thoroughly at least twice •
day, and every time fresh cream is
added. The cooler the temperature
the longer the time for ripening and
vice versa. If the oream is kept too
long it not only becomes excessively
sour, but decomposition sets in; that
is hurtful. When ready for the churn,
if cream is too thick, thin with water
or milk. If the oream is too cold you
may churn and churn and the buttei
will not come. If too warm, the bat
ter is spoiled.—Ohio Farmer.
• STACKING HAT.
Hay keeps best in a round stack. I)
the stacks are to go up by hand, plant
a pole about twenty-five feet high and
stack around it to the top, tramping
thoroughly near the pole. Then rake
the sides thoroughly after a few days'
settling, and there will be no percep
tible waste. It is cheaper to put hay
up in this way than to build barns and
haul it in. Cheaper because the hay
(roes up faster and lessens the danger
of loss by rain; cheaper because labor
is high and time is precious in hay
harvest; cheaper because it costs
money to build barns. Some may
scont the idea of having to use a pole
for a guide. Better use a pole and
have all your stacks perfect than to
serve your false pride and have part
of the stacks lose their tops in the
wind, or lean over and leak water. If
the stacking is to be doneby a machine,
still adhere to the round form, throw
ing each delivery on top of the former
and stack just enough to give the pile
good form. • Build the sack about
twenty-eight feet high and put about
fifteen tons in it. The hand-built
stack shoald have about five tons in
it. The small stack always cures best
and makes the finest hay.—Rural Life.
v DAIRY CALVES.
A transition stage from new to skim
milk may commence at one, two or
three weeks old, according to the
vi{£or of the calf and the strength of
its digestion. With very robust calves
the change may commence when they
are a week old, but generally speak
ing it would be better to begin latet
with the skim milk. Only a little of
that is given at first, then more with
every meal. The new milk ration is
gradually decreased until the whole
ration is skim milk. The whole transi
tion period nsed not cover more than
two weeks. As soon as the new milk
ration is withheld in any degree, some
substitute should be given in its stead,
to supply, in part at least, the butter
fat that is thus withheld. There is no
better substitute than flaxseed. It
may be prepared and given as follows:
Take a quart of flaxseed and im
merse it in six to eight quarts of
water; soak for six ours, then boil
for one hour. Oi the jelly thus made
feed the calf enough to answer the
purpose. Commence by giving half a
toaoupful and increase gradually. Two
indications will tell us when the calves
are getting too much; one is that they
will become too lax in their bowels,
and the second is that they will get
too fleshy. When either of these in
dications manifests itself, we can less
en the amount of flaxseed given in the
milk.
Tt is imperative that dairy calves be
not allowed to get loo fleshy. Just
as soon as they become too fleshy, a
bias of the syetom is given in that di
rection, an 1 this interferes with best
milking qualities. Inattention to this
matter has brought injury to many a
dairy cow, and has injured her per
manently ; that is to say, through the
whole of the period of milk giving.
Those habits of the system begotten
in early oalfhood become, as it were,
an inherent part of the animal, so
firmly do they cling to them.—New
York World.
' A VERKIN PROOF POULTRY HOUSE.
Some years since when removing to
a new place where there was a scarc
ity ol outbuildings, writes B. W.
Jones, of Virginia, in the Americna
Agriculturist, our poultry was put into
a cellar to roost. The house wag as
unused kitohen, and the basement
walls were of briek. The interior was
dry and with a temperature quite nai-
form the year round, being warm in
winter and cool in snmmer. Alto
gether the basement proved a very
good place for poultry, and after a few
months I concluded to fix it up per
manently. On removing the farmer
roosts and nests to provide better
ones, I was surprised to find that there
was no vermin upon any of the tim
bers, nor anywhere within the cellar.
The poultry must have had vermin
when they were first put into the base
ment, for the old house from which
they were taken showed it plainly
enough. I now pnt the basement in
thorough order, everything tidy, with
new nests and roosts. From that time
on I watched the cellar closely for
vermin, but none were ever observed
there. I kept poultry in that base
ment for about six years, a time long
enough certainly to test thoroughly
the matter, and from beginning to end
no vermin was ever seen therein. I
am sure of this fact for the discov
ery was so remarkable that 1 made re
peated examinations to see if any ver
min could bo found, and to discover,
it I could, the cause of its absence.
It certainly was new to me to have a
ponltry bouse without vermin, and I
never had poultrr in heathier condi
tion, or laying better, than during
thoae six years. I found the ponltry
business both pleasant and profitable.
Yeji I never could decide what it was
that kept the parasKes away from the
fowls and the house, except it maj
have been the brick walla, that wer«
always a litle cool and moist to the
touch of the hand, and probably not
suited to the life of the vermin. What
ever the true cause may be, the fact
remains that this basement ponltry
house, with walls of briok, surrounded
by earth nearly to the top on the out
side, with a good roof overhead, and
kept clean and dry, made a roosting
place where no vermin would come te
feed Upon and annoy the fowls.
WEEDS AND RASPBSRSTHS.
In a paper upon weeds and weeding
prepared for tho meeting of the
Pennsylvania State Board of Agricul
ture Mr. Cummings, of Sunbnry, said:
“The plantain was called by the
Indians ‘the wljite man’s footstep,' as
it was abundant in or near hard-
trodden paths, and not mnch else
where. It is especially abundant in
places where poultry is kept. Some
entomologists claim that an insect
parasite destroys it in the field, bat
the parasite is itself destroyed around
man’s dwelling by ponltry. A further
reason why plantain does not grow in
fields is that it is a plant hardy enough
when grown aloue, but easily
smothered whan grown surroundel
by clover or other plants, an 1 usually
does not infest clover fields unless its
seed was mixed svith that of the
clover.
“Soma years ago I put out 12,00’)
raspberry plants, anl the snmmer
following the spring of planting it
was a question whether berry plants
or weeds were baing grown. When
the plants wera put out they wore
pretty close to tho ground and pr.ipar
horse cultivation could not be given
them because tha rows of plants could
not ba seen for tha weeds and briars.
Fin illy men wore employed and weeds
an l briars were pulled' out by hand.
A number of ro vs waro discorded oa
account of their growth beingstuutel
and smothered by weeds. The first
year there were not enough berries to
make it an object to market them.
The second year fifty-five bushels.
The third year ninety-sevon bushels,
lud this year the prospects are bright
for over a hundred. The berry patoh
was located on a piece of ground that
was grown up with briars, burdock,
sumach and all kinds of weeds, and
the great mistake was in not cleaning
it out, and putting it in some summei
crop in the preceding year. This
hint is thrown ont for the benefit of
those intending to plant berries or
other small fruits, which need regular
cultivation to give a good return for
money and time expended."
Lessons From Trees,
The stndent of nature may loam
some useful and interesting lessons by
careful observation of the rings in the
trunks of trees. He will observe that
some rings are wide, others narrow;
some fall, clear-out and regular, ethers
jagged, ono-sidid and perhaps spotted
or stained or maybe deeply indented.
These accurately indicate the condition
of the tree during its various stages
of growth. As each ring is a year’s
progress, so each is a perfect record
of that year's development; so we may
know how it was nourished. A full,
wide, even ring shows that daring
that year the tree had abundant mois
ture and nourishment. A thin, irregu
lar lino is evidenced that tho tree was
not in a flourishing condition. Spots,
stains and breaks in tbo lines show
that the outside of the tree may have
been bruised or bent, or the bark and
wood injured in some way. In fruit
trees, imporfeetly developed rings
may be caused by an unusually large
crop of fruit, which so taxed the vital
powers of the plant that but little was
loft to be turned toward the forma
tion of new wood. By careful examin
ation nml counting, the skilled botan
ist is enubled to read the history of
the tree-trunk, and to tell in what
years it is best flourished, when there
was little for it to grow on, and when
it was too constantly oocnpiod with
fruit production to give any care to
its own growth other than tho abso
lutely necessary formation and solidi
fying of its outer coating. It would
bo of great advantage to tho student
if the habits and needs of trees could
bo explained by competent persons.
Someday, when tree-planting becomes
more important than most people
reern to believe, this knowledge would
bo Of great value.—New York Ledger.
Flight ol the Frigate Bird.
Mr. J. Lancaster, who has spent
five years upon the west coast of Flor
ida in the study of the habits of aqua
tic birds, of which he has made a
specialty, asserts that he has seen
frigate birds fly for seven consecutive
days, night and day, without ever
resting. According to his observa
tions the fatigue of these birds is not
excessive, even in such long continu-
snees in the air. In fact, the frigate
bird can easily, and almost without a
Hap of the wings, not only maintain
itself, but also fly with a speed of
nearly a hundred miles an hour. The
spread of the wings extended varies
between eleven and thirteen feet It
feeds, gathers materials for iU nest
here and there, and even sleeps on the
wing. This well proves that in this
bird the motion of tho wings is, in a
manner, independent of the will.
The albatross, which also has been
the subject of Mr. Lancaster’s obser
vation, is larger than the frigate bird,
its wing-spread reaching at least six
teen feet; but if it follows ships at
sea for a long time, it is always
obliged to take a rest upon a rock or
upon the ship itself at the end of
about four or fivo days. —Scientific
-American.
A Pathetic Incident.
It was a most pathetic apology that
I heard on my way down town in an
open car this morning. The car was
crowded, and ns it stopped I saw two
women get on. As they did so, one
of tho women accidentally stopped on
tho foot of one of the passengers. It
did seem awkward until the woman
turning to the passenger slid : “Par
don me, but I am totally blind.”—
Hartford Post.
The silver production in the United
States in IblKi was (10,000,000,001)
ounces.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
CARE OJ STRAW MATTING.
Where a really good article was
originally purchased, it is frequently
the case that coloia fade, and the
straw gets a'shabby look before ths
fibre is broken or the economical soul
can bring herself to replace it with
new.
When bronght face to face with
this new difficulty, remove the taoks
so that no broken edges will mar ths
matting, and then, roll after roll, let
it be thoroughly beaten. Oreat oars
is again needed to prevent crooking
the straw grown brittle with ago. It
is advisable to pin an old dust-oloth
over the brush of the broom, after
which that implement may bs nsed
with effect.
When the beating is done, lay the
strips down and sprinkle with fine
corntneal; and be not sparing of this
flour, for it needs to fill every craok
and crevioe. Now use a perfectly
clean broom, and brush with great
vigor, for every particle of rpeal must
come away.—New York Journal
HEALTHFUL COOKERY.
When we reflect upon the depend-
ance of the mind upon the bodily con
dition, writes Fanny L. Fanoher, we
cannot escape the oonviotion that a
good cook is a benefactor, and the
caterer who feeds his fellow men
wisely, is as groat as he who rules a
nation.
The numerous writers upon this
subject, and the cooking schools, or
clubs, springing up here and there
prove that it is gaining the interest
which its importance demands. From
this we opine that the twentieth oen
tury maiden may boast of her ability
to render Beethoven's sonatas; bat
her skill in the culinary art will be
her greater pride. Then, indeed,
will dyspepsia be routed, since im
proper diet will not be from infancy
the regimen. When the appetite is
not depraved, its cravings will often
bo a guide to proper diet. Sugar, so
often craved by children, was former
ly considered a luxury, but now it is
deemed a necessity since it furnishes
oalorio for those whose weak digestion
forbids much fat or oily foods.
The rigor of winter demands mest
and other heat-produoing material.
The economic housewife prepares her
moat by roasting or boiling; indeed,
tha frying pan is said to be the ourse
of American cuisine. Haste sorely
makes waste in the cooking of meats.
The writer's formula for roasting beet
will be found profitable.
Having secured a good Foast—ths
dealer soon learns where he can sand
poor cuts—proceed as follows: Rub
over tbo surface n scant handful of
salt to threa pounds of meat; place in
shallow kettle, the kind nsed by most
housewives for frying fried cakes;
cover with inverted pie-tin and place
in a piping hot oven. After baking
fast for tsu minutes to preserve the
juices, lower the temperature. When
partially done, turn over the meat.
In this process no basting is necessary
and the generated steam prevents
overcooking. This is the principle of
the patent baker which all cannot pro
cure.
When ready for the even do not add
water, as is the custom, ia open pan*.
When baked, however, and removed
from tho kettle, water and floor may
be added to the meat broth for the
desired gravy. Try this way, and yon
will never again roast meat in an open
dripping pan.—New York Observer.
RECIPES.
Sweet Potato Pie—One cup of sliced
cooked sweet potatoes, one-half cap
of rioh, sweet oream, a good-sized
lump of butter. Sweeten with pow
dered sugar, aid a half teaspoon of"
grated nutmeg, bake with two cruets
until slightly browned.
Economy Pudding—Lay thiok slices
of stale sunshine or sponge cake in
the oven until delicately browned, and
line a glass dish with them. Whip
half a tumbler of apple, quinoe or
strawberry jelly with an egg beater
until light; stir in tho beaten whites
of two eggs and pilo this over the
cake, decorating with fresh straw
berries or with frosh or candied cher
ries.
Salad Dressing -Beat yolks of two
eggs thoroughly, add one teaepoonful
of salt, two of white sugar, ous of
mustard, one tablespoonful of butter
and four of vinegar; mix together,
and pnt in double kettle over the fire,
stir constantly until it thickens; set
in ice box until very cold. Whec
ready to serve, pour over the cabbage
and mix lightly.
Peach Oroam—Put throu/h a sieve
enough soft peaches to make one
quart of pulp. Put into a freezer one
quart of cream and one ooffeeeupfnl
of sugar. When abont two-thirds
frozen add the peaches, and oontinue
to freeze until tirm. The amount of
sugar for this cream should be in
creased or diminished, according to
the acidity of the peaches.
Baked Hash—Pnt a pint of un
cooked chopped potatoes in a sauce
pan, with a half pint of boiling water,
sto/ five nruut-is, aid the meat and
stew ten minutes longer, add gravy, if
nuy is needed to moisten; take from
the fire and stir in two beaten eggs
and season to taste; half a cup of
stewed mushrooms is a great addition.
Turn into a buttered dish and bake
twenty minutes.
Crumpets—Scald a pint of milk in
the evening; when lukewarm, stir in
three cups of flour, a teaspoonfnl of
salt, four ounces of molted butter au.l
half a cake of eo npressed yeast dis
solved in lukewarm ' ater; beat well
and let stand over night. At break
fast time grease muffin rings anl
place i.u a hot griddle; till each ring
half fill' of batter, bake on ono side,
then turn and bake on the other.
After tha crumpets have become cold
they are very nice toasted.
Railroad Up the Jnagirau.
The project to build a railroad to
tho top of the Jungfrau, 13,778 feet
high, is likely t? be carried out if the
Swiss Government approves. This will
be tho most ambitious scheme in
nilroad building ever undertaken.
The promoters offer to spend $20,00')
to build nu observatory at the summit
and man it if tho Government will
grant the concession,—Chicago Her
ald.
RECBUIIB FOR THE ARMY.
HOW UNCLE SAM OBTAINS HIS
BOLDIXB BOYS.
All Mnst Undergo a Physical Exam
ination—The Term They Musi
Serve and the Pay They Receive.
I T happens oooaaionally that peo
ple see in their wandering* about
town a flag flying from the sec
ond-story window or a building
on the corner of Woodward avenue
and Congress street, and are curious
to know what mission of peace or war
it represents. Inquiry in the drag
store immediately beneath, or a close
inspection of some letters on the build
ing in the vicinity of the flag, ex
plains its presence The letters form
this sign:
; RECRUITING OFFICE, U. S. A. :
Further investivatiou reveals the
fact that this antt-room of glory open-*
on the Congress street side, where s
soldier in the uniform of the United
States srmy stands at attention in tha
doorway, his white-glovsd hands held
in military fashion at his side, but
holding neither gun nor sword. Ha
is a soldier of peace, the office orderly
who stands there, not to guard the
premises, but to say, “This way,
boye," to the would-be recruits who
are looking for the enlisting office.
The candidate for military honors
goes upstairs, dreading the ordeal at
every step, and finds himself in a large
room, where the recruiting officer sits
at a table attended by a sergeant an l
an orderly in the imposing uniform
which the candidate for eulistiucut
hopes to don.
“I want to ‘list,’ ” ho say', «p-
proaohing the table.
Captniu Noble looks up.
“Take off your hat.”
Tho hat is sheepishly rem >vo l.
“What is your age?”
“Twenty years old.”
“Are your people willing?”
“They are, sir.”
“Married?”
“.Vo, sir.”
“Ever been in jail?’
At this the candidate looks surprise d
and hurt, and answers in the negative
quite forcibly enough to be conviuo-
iug.
Then the sergeant takes the man in
hand, looks down his throat, examines
his teeth, weighs him, takes bight and
finds out his reason for wanting to en
list.
If he tips the beam at regulation
weight, not less than 123 nor more
than 190, measures not less than five
feet four inches, ho comes up to ths
requirements of an able-bodied soldier,
and is sent into another room to dis
robe. Then he is again weighed and
measured and pnt through a course of
physical exercise that brings ont any
disability that may exist in bold re
lief. If he is gymnastically correct,
can bend his body like a contortionist,
expand and contract his chest without
getting breathless, prove that every
toe aud finger is capable of active ser
vice, and that his back is limber
enough to enable him to stoop either
way, he is accepted aud registered and
taken to the captain’s office to be
sworn in. But first he must answer a
personal category of questions, aud
must make affidavit that he has neither
wife nor child. The law* that regulate
army life are then read to him. He is
shown the fate of the man who enlists
under a false oath, or who, once en
listed, deserts before his time is up.
He has now the gala dress on for which
his soul has hankered, he wears the
regimentals of a private soldier in tho
United States army. Ho dare not
walk out of that office without leave
from his superior officer. He ia au en
listed man for three or fire years, oa
the case may be, and tho recipient of
$13 a month in Uncle Sam's money.
The following is the rats of pay as
now established:
Fojr par Fsy per Pay for
Grade. m mlb. year dvr 7 ran
Privates — cavalry, artil
lery snl infantry . ...♦!) flftl
Field musicians—cavalry,
artillery and infantry... IS 150
Haddlors—Cavalry •• ..)^1® l*)
Farriers and blaultsailtlu
—Cavalry IS 159
Corporals—Cavalry, artil
lery and Infantry. 15 18)
Sergeants—Cavalry, artil
lery and Infantry. ... 17 20A
First sergeant of a com
pany—Cavalry, artillery
and infantry 22 281
Baddlar sergeant—Cavalry 22 264
Chief trumpeter ol cavalry 22 284
Principal musielan—Artil
lery and Infantry 22 264
Regimental nuartermaster-
sergeant —Cavalry, artil
lery and Infantry 23 276
Sergeant major — Cavalry,
artillery aud Infantry.. 23 275
Sergeants of post nou-com-
mlssionad staff 34 408
*781
18)
990
0k
Ok
1020
132(
132C
1320
1321
138C
138)
204C
The term of service for a soldier en
listing under tho present rules of
army life is five years, but in accor
dance with a law passed in 18)0 a sol
dier after serving one year can pur
chase au honorable discharge, $12)
being the maximum price.
Although the pay of a private sol
dier seems almost inadequate to meet
his living expenses, it must be remem
bered that in addition to the $13 a
month he receives his rations, cloth
ing, bedding, medical services anl
medicines free.
There are libraries, reading rooms
and post schools, where men who need
instruction can be taught a fair
knowledge of necessary English
branches, and where foreigners cau
improve in their use of the English
language. A large percentage of
Uncle Sam's soldier boys are American
only by adoption, but they must be
able to read and write before they take
the oath of allegiance and become sol
diers. —Detroit Free Press.
>. President* From the Farm*.'
Ten Presidents of the United States
were called from farms.
1. Washington, the land surveyor
and farmer, from Mount Vernon.
2. John Adams, of Quincy, who,
during the lost year of his Presidency,
said: “I am weary, worn and dia-
gusted to death. I had rather chop
wood, dig ditches, make fences upon
my poor little farm. Alas I poor
farm, and poorer family, what hava
you lost that your country might be
freej”
3. Jefferson, farmer, philosopher
and statesman, from Monticello, Va.
4. Madison, farmer and lawyer, of
Montpelier, Va.
6. Monroe, farmer, from Oak Hill,
Va.
6. John Quincy Adams, from tha
Quincy farm of 103 acres, near Bos
ton. (‘Tt is said that most of the
trees were raised by John Quincy
Adams from the seeds which ba was iu
the habit of picking up in his wander
ings. The most peculiar interest at
taches to a shell-bark hickory which
he planted more than fifty years
previous to his death. In this tree he
took a peculiar satisfaction, but he
was an enthusiast in regard to all ths
trees of the forest, differing in this re
spect from his father, who was an
agriculturist of tho Cato stamp—wss
more incliued to lay the ax to them
than to propagate them.”)
7. Andrew Jackson, of the “Her
mitage” in Tennessee, who as farmer,
soldier and lawyer, was a most ex
cellent typo of tho best Americanism.
8. Van Bnreu, of Kinderhook, N.
Y., was called to the Presidency from
his sheep and wool farm, although hs
was a lawyer of far above average Ac
quirement*) and ability.
9. WiDiam Henry Harrison, from
his farm at North Bend, Ohio.
10. Tyler, of Sherwood Forest
farm, Va., whore ho subsequently
died.
11. James K. Polk, of Duck River,
Tenn., also came from the farm to ths
Presidency.
This selection of Presidents from
rural homes, from among the farms of
the country, illustrates tho fact that
in those days there was no profession
or calling which held a more exalted
position iu public estimation than
that of agriculture. —The Forum.
The Prairie Dog Nuisance.
A Western Kansas genius claims to
have discovered a remedy for the
prairie dog nuisance. The remedy is
not very expensive, being merely an
empty tin can. The can, he Bays, is
to be driven, open end down, into
(heir holes, and tho soil tramped
solidly round about it. The dogs
come up into the can and work until
exhausted, and finally smother, at
least he says they do not trouble him
any more. Merchants are selling
cheap cans, made for this purpose, in
many towns of Western Kansas.—
Courier Journal.
Relief From Fatlgns.
A warm bath, with an ounce of set
salt, is almost as restful as a nap.
Paddle in the wa'er until it cools, and
if not too susceptible to oold, dry
without rubbing with a towel, resting
the feet r-u t sofa or ohair, so as to be
off the floor. Put on fresh stockings,
and the person who “was ready to
drop” will then be ready to stand up.
But the quickest relief from fatigue is
to plunge the foot in ixe-oold water,
and keep it immerse.I until there is a
sensation of warmth.—Philadelphia
Ledger,
A NO-TO-BAC MIRACLE.
PHYSIC) A I, PERFECTION PREVENTED
UY THE USE OP TOBACCO.
Aa Old Timer ot Ttventr-teree Years'To*
bacco Cliewlng and Hinnklns Cared, at d
UalaeTweatr Paunde In Tklrtv Dayt..
Lake Geneva, WIs., July 21—Specls!.—
The ladles of our beautiful little town are
making an interesting and exelting time lor
tobacco-nslng busbandp, since the Injurious
effects of tobacco and tho enso with which
it can be cured by a preparation called No-
To-Bnc, have been so plainly demonstrate)
by the care of Mr. F C. Watte. In n written
statement he says i “I smoko) and chewed
tobacco for twenty-three year*, and £ nm
sure that my case wits one ot the worst in
this port oftbe country. Even after I wont
to bod at night, 11 I woke up I wonld want
to chew or smoke. It was not only killing
me but ray wife was also ailing from tbo In
jurious effect*. Two boxes of No-To-Bso
cured me, and I have no more desire for to
bacco than I httvo to jump out of tho win
dow. I have gained twenty pounds In thirty
days, my wife Is well, and we are Indee)
both happy to sny that No-To-Bae Is truly
‘worth Its weight in gold’ to us."
The cure an) improvement la Mr. Waite’s
enso is looked upon as a miracle—In fact, It
Is the talk of tho town and connty, and It Is
estimated that over a thousand tobacco
users will be using No-To-Bae within a few
week*. The peculiarity abont No-To-Buc a*
n patent medicine la that tho maker*, the
Sterling Remedy Company, No. 45 Itandolpii
street, Chicago, absolutely guarantee the
use of throo boxes to euro or refund tho
money, nndthe cost, *2.59, Is so trifling ns
compared with tho expensive and unneces
sary use ot tobacco that tobacco-using hus
bands have no goo) exeuso to offer when
their wives insist upoij taking No-To-Bac
an) getting results in the way of pure, sweet
breath, wonderful improvement iu their
mental aud physical condition, with a prac
tical revitalization of tlieir nicolizod nerve*.
It Is probable that the corn paek will be
considerably reduced tbe present season.
If It Only Helped n l.lttle.
Il would he worth 50reel*. One hour'* free
tom tram the terrible irrilati-vj itch of teller
* worth more than a whole Imx of IVtierini*
osls. It will rllre-*ore and il's the only
hing that will cure. 50<enl*at dr ig tore-,
er by mail frum J. T. Sbuptrinc.Favai.nah, Ga
Tee population of Chattanooga, Ten.!., la
•423 leas than In 18*2.
A Damp Dctecler.
In England they have what is called
a “damp detector," a silver trinket,
not unliko a compass iu appearance.
At the back are small holes in the sil
ver, through which the damp passes
and moves the needle until it points to
the word “damp." By the aid of this
contrivance unaired sheets can be de
tected. —Hardware.
Intelligence ol a Stallion.
During a fire in a stable at Pan Sec,
Province of Quebec, Canada, a bay
stallion returned twioe to the burning
structure and drove out a horse that
was eo terroriaed as to be unable to
make any attempt to escape. —San
Francisco Chronicle,
If aflllctPd with noroey»>8 u^e Dr. lnaacThomp.
•on's Eye water,I)ru««ist8 soil at L*5c |>crhoUl«
In Hot Weather
Something Is needed to keep up tho nrj>eti|e,
assist digestion and give goo), healthful
sleep. For these purposes Hood’s Sarsapa
rilla is peculiarly adapted. As a blood pur-
Hood’s Sarsa -
S. Jl %%%%<%% parilla
Ifler It has no equal, a w w«*-vc-v
and Ills chiefly by Its ■ Ul Ct)
power to make pure
blood that It has wou
such fftrao H8 a euro for scrofula, salt rheum
aud other similar diseases. Get Hood’s.
Hood's rills cure liemlacho and iudlgostioQ,
I The Best Things |
I to Eat. I
d Arc made with ROYAL BAKING POWDER— fl
bread, biscuit, cake, rolls, muffins, crusts, and the va
rious pastries requiring a leavening or raising agent.
Risen with ROYAL BAKING POWDER, all these
things arc superlatively light, sweet, tender, delicious
and wholesome.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER is the greatest of
time and labor savers to the pastry cook. Besides, it
economizes flour, butter and eggs, and, best of all, makes
the food more digestible and healthful.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK.
;
&
The Uoree’* Original 'Home.
The original home of the horse has
been generally supposed to be the
country which forms the highlands
of Asia, abont the fortieth degree of
latitude, and recent authorities re
port that herds of wild horses are still
to be seen in certain parts of Western
Mongolia and Northern Thibet. From
time immemorial this country has
been favorable to the growth of
horse*. At a very early date, several
thousands of years before Christ, the
horse was taken westward. The Baby
lonians used horses in their expedi
tions.
The cuneiform characters which are
nsed to express the word horse mean
literally tho “animal of the Eist.” In
Egypt the horse is not found depicts i
on tho monuments until about B. C.
1600. In Nubia the horse was ap
preciated and loved. In a hieroglj phio
inscription the statement is male that
when Fiankhi, the Ethiopian invader
of Egypt, had captured the stores an l
treasury of his foe, Nimrod, ha wont
into the stables, and finding that the
horses hsd suffered from hunger, hs
burst into a rage and said: “I swear
by my life, and by my belove l Ra,
that to have kept my horses hungry
is more heinous iu my sight thau any
other offense which thou hast com
mitted against me.” The native land
of the Arab horse inoludes the Arab an
peninsula, the lands abont tho Tigris
and Euphrates, and tho Damascus
district. All Arab horses are asserted
to be descended from a fabulous mare
called "Kuhailat of tha old woman.”
—New York Suu.
Sun Dance ot the frees.
Chief Little Bear, who is recognized
as the chief ot the free Indians in tho
United States, yesterday called on
Judge Benton to ask a permit to have
a big sun dance ou tho west side. He
explained to the Judge thst the danos
would last three or four day*, during
which time the bravos eat nothing,
dance day and night aud give exhibi
tions of their endurance.
The sun dance is of Aztec origin and
was originally a religious festival de
signed to bo au act ot worship and
homage to the sun, which at this sea
son of the year commenced to give
life to vegetation. I.u old times it was
customary for the braves to havs
hooks inserted iu the muscle' o' their
backs with a chord attached to a sap
ling and then swing themselves ar mind
like a fish dangling at the end of s
Ashpole till they fainted away, the
man who could eudura torture the
longest being the greatest Indian
among them. While proceedings ol
this kind bare gone out of fashion the
suu dance is still an exhibition ol
physical endurance.—Great Falk
(Moutum Leader.
Good Character Important.
BcsideH tlio huppr satisfaction that a clc.v
conscience and good character brintf to every
heart, it has a commercial value that it Is well
to take into consideration. For instance, B. F.
Johnson & Co., of Richmond, Va., arc adver
tising in this jiai>er, and offer specially K«od
business opportunities to men of character and
•landing in their respective eonununitics.They
want parties to work all or part of their time
ae may suit tlieir convenience.
Valuable deposits of tin have been discov
ered in Montana.
The Ladles.
The pleasant effect and perfect safety with
Ahich ladies* may use the California liquid lax
ative, Syrup of Figs, under all condition*
makes It their favorite remedy To get the
true and genuine article, look for the name of
the California Fig Syrup Co., printed near the
bottom of the package.
Mokxoms have semired hind and money te
establish a oolltga at Lnmonl, Iowa.
Hair. Catarrh Cur.
Is taken Internally. Price 75c.
Tn total wheat area this yenr Is 35,480,000
acre*, against 38,501,000 last year.
Ka»T* Clover Hoot, the great bloo) purifier,
rives frr-lince* aud clearness to Hie complex
ion and cures constipation. 75 cti., 59 cts. »!.
St. Paul’s Catheobal, London, is Insured
for *475,000.
Walking Birth Cerltficatos.
It i* quite common In Fiji and Sa
moa for a man to bear upon his arm
or body a certificate of his birth which
is practically indelible. Tattooing is
harried on in these island* to an ab>
turd extent, and it is the practice to
tattoo on the hand of a mother the
date of herchildren’s births. Some
time*, also, an enthusiastic father will
tattoo the date of the birth on the
child itself, and no matter how long it
lives the certificate will remain easily
decipherable.
In some adjoining islands every
child is tattooed almost from head to
foot on its completing its twelfth
year. The result is very remarkable,
especially if the child is growing rapid
ly, so that the spaces between the tat
too marks increase in size year by
year. I remember one man whs
joined onr crew when we were short-
handed, who had every available
space on his anatomy tattooed year af
ter year, until he appeared to be
nothing but a walking colleotion of
grotesque signs and symbols. In J span
tattooing is now prohibited by law,
but it is still practiced by supersti
tious subjects of the Mikado very free
ly.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Lumber I’rurtuct of One Tree.
A tree was cut the other week neat
Shelton, Wash., which measured
eleven feet four incheK iu diameter at
the butt—thirty-four feet in circum
ference. It wa* clear timber to tbe
first limb, seventy feet from tha
ground. It is estimated that fully
30,000 feet of merchantable lumber
may bo cut from this one tree.—De
troit Free 1’ress.
ASSIST NATURE
a little now and tben,
with a gentle, cleans
ing laxative, thereby
removing offending
matter from the stom
ach and bowels, and
toning up and invigo
rating the liver and
quickening its tardy
action, and you there
by remove tho cause
of a multitude of dis
tressing diseases, such as headache*, indiges
tion, biliousness, skin d’seascs, boils, carbun
cles, piles, fistulas and maladies too numerous
to mention.
If people would pay more attention to
properly regulating the action of their bow
els, they would have less frequent occasion
to call for their doctor’s services to subdue
attacks of dangerous diseasee.
That, of all known agents to accomplish
this purpose. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellete
are unequalled, is proven by the fact that
once used, they aro always in favor. Their
secondary effect Is to keep the bowels open
and regular, not to further constipate, as is
tho case with other pills. Hence, their great
popularity with sufferers from habitual con
stipation, piles and indigestion.
W. L Douglas
1 IS THE BEST.
I NOSL. 'RKIN&
$5. CORDOVAN,
FP.ENCH&ENAMELLED CALF!
H’5. 5 - 0 FlNECALF&lftNSABl
*3.5° POLICE,3 Soles.
*2.*J. 7 .?BoysSchocil$hoe3.
•LADIES*
^ i, SEND FOR CATALOGUE
W*l»*DCUGI.ASt
BROCKTON, MASS.
Yon enn movo money by wearing tho
W# Id. Douglas S3.OO 8h jc*
Rccntifo, wo r.rr} tlia largest manufacturers of
this grade of shoes J a t io world, ami guarantee their
value by stamplsj the name and price ou tho
bottom, which protect you against high prices and
the middleman's profits. Our ahoes equal custom
work In style, easy fitting and wearing qualities.
We have them sold everywhere at lower prices for
the value given than any other make. Take no sub-
Itftuto. If your dealer cannot supply you, w© cau*
PISOiS CUBE TOP
3 N r J ?0
ON, LOOK!
F J. Hami ton Ayers, A. Bf., M. D.
. nis is .i most Valu ible Book for
Bi.e Household, teaching as it does
the easily-distinguished Symptoms
of different Diseases, the Causes,
and .Moans of Preventing such Dis
eases, and the Simplest Remedies
which will alleviate or cure.
598 PACES,
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED.
The Book is written in plain every
day English, and is free from the
technical terms which render most
Doctor Books so valueless to the
generality of ren l**rs. This Hook is
inteu led to be of .Service in the
Family, an I is so worlod us to bo
readily understoo l by all. Only
60CTS. POST-PAID.
* Before ami After Taking." (The low price only bein.3 made
possible by the immense edition printed). Not only doe* t his Book contain so
much Information Relative to Diseases, but v.try properly gives a Complete
Analysis of everything pertaining to Courtship, Marriage an I the Product ion
and Rearing of Healthy Families; together with Valuable Recipes anl Pro*
scriptions. Explanations of Botanical Practice, Corre *t use of Ordinary Herbs.
Now Edition, Revise i an 1 Enlarged with Complete Index. With this Book in
the house there is no excuse for not knowing wh tt to do in an emergency. Don’t
wait until you have illness in vour fnmilv before vou ord *r, hut sen i at once
y for this valuable volura*. ONLY OO CKNTS POST-PAID, bieud postal
# notes or postage stamps of any denomination not larger than 5 cents.
) BOOK PUBLISHING HOUSE, 134 Leonard Street, N. Y. City.
-