The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, October 05, 1894, Image 4
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HOUSEHOLD AFFAIBS.
ONIONS GOOD FOB NXBVia
Onions are a kind of all arpond
good medicine, and every housewife
knows this without exactly knowing
the reason why. She knows that a
whole onion eaten at bedtime will by
the nett morning break the severest
cold. She also knows that onions
make a good plaster to remove inflam
mation and hoarseness. If any one
wonld take an onion and mash it so
as to secure all the juioe in it, he
would have a most remarkable smelling
substance that would quiet the most
nervous person in no time. The
strength of it inhaled for a few mo
ments will dull the sense of smell and
weaken the nerves until sleep is pro
duced from sheer exhaustion. It all
comes from one property possessed by
the onion, and that is a form of opium.
—St. Louis Star-Sayings.
ABOUT CHEESE.
No wonder people complain of in
digestion after eating cheese, while so
many persist in buying in hard and
yellow, which means that there is lit
tle or no cream left in the milk while
making, and it is full of poisonous
and smelling annotto. The natural
color of cheese is that of its cream,
and if it has a proper proportion of
this in it, it will be soft and probably
slightly moldy, and will melt in the
mouth, and not require a lot of masti
cation.
Some people like cheese toasted with
piooes of bread, sandwich fashion, in
which case the bread is cut into good
forms, sufficient for each person, the
slice of cheese being seasoned, placed
between two, and then put into the
oyen for a few moments until cooked
through.
A. very useful little recipe is the fol
lowing, which lends itself to various
forms: Boil two eggs very hard, grate
four ounces of bread, also three ounces
of good cheese, add three ounces of
butter, and then mash up ths eggs
with these altogether. Add a little
salt and pepper, or mixed mustard.
Having resdy some pieces of toasted
bread spread this mixture on them,
and warm well through in the oven.
This paste can also be served as sand
wiches to eat cold, which, cut into
pretty shapes, make a nice addition to
a luncheon,—New York Recorder.
TOMATO COOKERY.
The best way to eat tomatoes is to
arm one’s self with the salt cruet, go
forth to the tomato patch, pluck
sound, ripe tomatoes, salt them and
eat them on the spot. But it is not
vouchsafed to do all this. Those to
whom stern fate denies them the to
mato patch must try to content them
selves with tomatoes sliced, tomato
salad, broiled, baked, escalloped,
boiled and stewed tomatoes, to say
nothing of tomato jelly.
Tomato jelly is the cook’s last, best
gift to man. The tomatoes should be
scalded, skinned, strained and seas
oned with pepper and salt. As much
gelatine, properly soaked and pre
pared, should be added to the strained
tometoes as would be to coffee or any
other substanoe of which it was pro
posed to make jelly. The mixture
should be poured into ring moulds
and placed on ice. When quite hard
the centers should be filled with hard
boiled eggs, chopped with olives and
mixed with mayonnaise.
Broiled tomatoes are good. Select
Urge, firm ones and cut a slice from
the stem end of each and take out the
hard core from the center. Place
them dose together on the broiler,
with the cut side up. Sprinkle with
pepper and salt; place over the coals
and let them cook until they are thor
oughly done, which will be in about
twenty minutea When they are cooked
they should be removed from the
broiler without pricking or breaking.
Baked tomatoes are prepared in the
same way, and are plaoed, cut side up
permost, in a baking pain and cooked
in a steady oven for a half hour. Es-
ealloped tomatoes have the centers
scooped out, mixed with bread crumbs,
pepper, salt, a little parsley and a lit
tle butter. This mixture is put into
the hollows and the tomatoes axe
baked.—New York World.
HOrSEHOU) HINTS.
Nor ivy poison, apply sweet oil.
A cement made from sand and white
lead paint will stop roofs leaking.
To remove a Anger ring, hold hand
In very cold water for a few mihutes.
When a coal fire gets low, throw on
some salt. It will help it very mnoh.
Oil door latches and hinges to make
them more qniet when opened and
dosed.
THE CUISINE IN KOREA,
ok, paper
The fnn^s of burning ma|cbes
remove berry stains (roma book, pi
or engrlying. 'y
WhAn cooking onions, set a tin oup
of vinegar on the stove and let boil,
and no disagreeable odor will be in the
room.
To dean black kid gloves, add a few
drops of blaok ink to a teaspoon of
salad oil; rub on with a feather and
dry in the sun.
Powdered chalk added to glue
strengthens it Boil one pound of
glue end two quarts skimmed milk, and
it will resist the action of water.
For a very bad burn melt beeswax
and into this pour sweet oil until it
makes a salve which can be readily
spread with a soft brush. Keep every
part covered with the salvb. , .»■ '
To make bootfi an^-shoes durable,
apply to the soles four or five succes
sive coats of gum-copal varnish, and
to the uppers, a mixture of four parts
of lard to one part resin. Apply while
warm.
Powdered starch will take the stain
out cf linen if applied immediately.
Tea stains may be removed from a ta
blecloth by immersing it in a strong
solution of sugar for a few minutes,
and then rinsing it in soft water.
To keep seeds from the depredation.
of mice, mix soma pieces of camphor
gum with them. Camphor gum plaoed
in tranks or drawers will prevent mica
from doing them any injury. Air well
when garments are needed to be used.
A recent English invention for the
nursery is a “.patent veiled sheet.” It
is au orflfnary sheet, iu which a square
of gauze net is inserted. This is in
tended to be thrown over the faca o-
a sleeping infant, protecting it from-
flies without impeding the respira
tjoa
THE DIET OPTOA.T.QEAprr ffHfCE-
| BUi^/A^cEstAafTAirxs. r.-i
Sice the Staple Nourishment—Fish
Katen Bavfe-SOK.VFlesh fhe fu-
preme Tld-blt. ■’ ij J
/-VOLONEL 'LOira, the* * Veil-
I / known traveler, litterateur
y ,qnd former United States CopI
siil in Korea, famishes the fol
lowing interesting details .anemt the
diet of the inhabitants t of that quaint
peninsular, to a French paper.
The Korean goes to bed at the set
ting of the sun and gets up ere it rises
again. An immense public bell,
called In-Klung, gives the Signal for
closing the shops; the streets, which
during the day are swarming with
people, become in an instant silent
and deserted. Before extending him
self upon his mat the good .Korean
gorges himself with."pap” (rice); after
which, while playing a game resem
bling backgammon, he imbibes a for
midable quantity of “sul” ■ (a Very in
toxicating rice spirit). The Korean
is a heavy drinker, and it is a by no
means rare spectacle to see his wife
drinking as hard .\s he.
“Pap,” which constitutes the staple
nourishment^' is rice washed in salt
water and then boiled. This prepar
ation, which is also customary in
Japan, imparts a snowy whiteness to
it whioh renders it exceedingly pala
table. It is then emptied into a large
pail, around which the family aquats.
They eat as in China, with spoon
and chopsticks; plates, knives and
forks they wot not of. All their uten
sils are of copper, though a few Man
darins use pale gray porcelain bowls,
imitating ancient porcelain.
The Korean has also his stew, called
"kimtchi”—beef boiled with turnips,
onions, radishes and various roots,
strongly seasoned with salt and pep
per, and accompanied by a kind of
naurkrout, with a sickening smell. 1
Every coolie who indulges in this lux
ury exhales an odor stronger than that
of the American polecat. Should h«
be iu the service of au European he is
only permitted to eat of it when he
gets a twenty-four hours’ holiday.
Fish also oecupies a large .plaoe in
the cuisine of the country. It is onteh
very high, aud even rotten. More
over, the native does not iisdajn to
eat it raw; and he frequently sees the !
fishermen squatted ou the banks of
the river, with rod and line, plunge j
the Ash they have just caught in a jar I
of “soy" (a very highly seasoned i
sauce) and then munch it alive. “Ho- j
ho,” a salad of fish bones, is regarded
as a great delicacy.
But the supremo tid-bit, as muoh
appreciated by the coolie when he can
alford the luxury as by King Li-Hi, is
dog’s flesh. A dog soup is the ne plus
ultra of every Korean. It is, more
over, regarded as au infallible uni
versal remedy, which the - King fre
quently administers to himself, in
spite of the American doctor and
Protestant missionary attached to his
person. The Korean dogs of average
size recall those of Constantinople
and Cairo; their price averages fifty
cents. On high days and holidays the
King distributes gifts to the Manda
rins and foreigners resident in the
capital; the present of a few dogs is
the highest favor the sovereign can
aecord.
“Kimtchi” and dog soup figure every
day on the table of the Mandarins.
One sees besides a quantity of poultry
and game of all kinds, whioh are very
abundant and of superior quality—
ohiokeus, quails, geese, wild ducks,
bustards, swans, Tension, Inar, etc.,
sometimes even tiger and leopard. But
it is all badly cooked, and seasoned
with peppery or sweet sauces, revolt
ing to a European. Shall I give you
an idea of the prices? During my
sojourn in the land of “Matntinal
Calm" a chicken fetched ton cents; a
pheasant from ten to twelve cents; a
wild duck, eight cents; a wild goose,
fourteen cents; a bustard, eighteen
cants; eggs from three to four cents
a dozen, etc.
There is fruit of tbe ebony tree; and
to drink, a horrible decoction of gin
ger and other roots, seasoned with
pepper and sugar. I tasted it onee,
but never tried it again. There is no
tea.
The Korean is too dirty and too lazy-
to be- placed at tha head of a kitchen,
and the Europeans employ him only
as a scullery haufL.
$1.50 to $3 per mon
home and keeps
The bn tba
'othof Servants;
th^.cost flom $l(bt> $15 par month
Th^y are of ren^r£able oleSjjlintssV
la cleanliness whioh opr •Euro'jjoan do
mestics, so little inclined to wash their
hands, wonld do well to emulate.
Each day the Japanese’ asks his master
for an hour’s leave of absence, whioh
he passes in taking a bath; whioh costs
him one cent. He keeps the house as
oright as a new pin; the cooking uten
sils are as carefully polished as if they
were of gold. Tbe Japanese are ideal
domestics.
FARM AND HARDEN,
MUSTARD FOB WpBMS, .
In Englandybfe soU in ilo^erjxjts
cleared'of’'^Srm? In The fottob-ing
manner: . Put one-quarter of. a. pound <
of commercial ground mustard into a
largs-pized. wdteringoan,, SB- up-.witl,
watw andletTt stand in sbak for ono’
hour. Then add come hot water* stir
ring thoroughly,, tmd apply the water
to the pots. The worms soon come to
the surface and no harm results to
the plantf
keeping hillsides seeded.
As the country grows older the
gullying of hillsides by heavy tyins
increases, kn.d- it top* ’becomes a ne
cessity to keep then^in soil most of
the time) only, rehteding . when the
grass grows thih. The reasons why
hillsidesgully worse now than form
erly is the lack of nnderdraining . to
replace that whioh decaying roots of
.trees made in soil when the country
wad new. It is news to many that
hillsides need underdraining. They
are often very springy, and if deep
nnderdrains are sunk these hillside
springs will furnish a supply of pure
water all the' year round. —Boston
Cultivator.
An Old Maple Tree,
One of the most carious trees^jp.
Germany stands ou tho left.bs'.'k ol
the river Oder, in jiatiWr, Silesia. It
is a raaple^telAsl TOO years old, which
*>s been twisted and out into, a sort ol
•ireulsr two-stoned house. A flight
of steps leads up to' the. first level,
where branches bavq~ been gradually
woven together so that they make a
1) rm leafy floor; above this is a second,
floor ot smaller diameter, formed in
tho same way, and the eucs of tbe
branches have been woven into solid
walls, and cut so that eight windows
light each of the apartments. Below
the first floor, at the level of the
second, and at the top of the tree the
boughs have been allowed to grow out
naturally, while the intermediate walls
snd the edges of the window-like open
ings are kept closely clipped. —Detroit
Free Frese.
“Cheeshahteauinuck.” ... -
Caleb Cheeshahteauiauok was tbe
only Indian who ever graduated from
Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.
He was born in 1616,"graduated iu
1665, withont especial distinct ion, and
died in Charlestown, Mass., in 1666.—
Trenton (N. J.) Ameycfin, .
^Qbbat Barr Am has eighty proflt-shariag
water fob scalding hogs.
The exact temperature for loosening
tho hair from the skin of a pig 'is ISO
degrees. . The pig should Vein Sin a
full minute iu the water at this tem
perature to givq time for the hair to
be loosened, bat the water may be
boiling hot if the barrel of scald
ing' vat is cold when it is poured
iu it, as it will cool tbe water down to
the right heat. The carcass being
cooler than the water, should be kept
moving about while it is in the water,
not to air it, but to bring the skin
into contact with fresh water not
cooled by contact with tbe carcass.
Where there are as many as twenty
hogs to be dressed, it will pay to have
a vat largo enough to take in the
whole carcass, aud turn it; the car
cass may then be rolle 1 out onto the
table by two ropos under it in the Vat.
—New York Times.
TRANSPLANTING.
Raising vegetables in boxes and
frames and afterwards transplanting
them is every year becoming more
general, as we find better results can
be obtained in this way with many of
our plants. Success iu transplanting
depends largely upon keeping tho
plants moist and protecting them from
the rays of the hot sun, which may
diminish their vitality to such an ex
tent that they may never recover.
For this reason a cloudy day is gen
erally chosjn for transplanting. But
it is often very inconvenient to wait
for such weather, besides a cloudy
morning is olten the precursor of a
particularly sunny day. Under these
conditions it becomes necessary to
shade the plants by placing over each
one a cover, a proceeding involving no
little labor. In hot weather, too, it
is often desirable to repeat the work
for several successive days in order to
afford the plants a chance to send oat
new roots and get a foothold in the
new soil.
A practical method of simplifying
the work has been evolved by Ameri
can Gardening. The device is both
simple and inexpensive. The cheap
est kind of stout cotton oloth is bought
in a strip, longer or shorter, accord
ing to one’s needs. Btrips of pine an
inch and a half square are taoked to
either end of the oloth. To either
end of the pine crosspieces are hinged
sharpened pieoes.
CASING FOR CORN FODDBB.
I have dong been an advocate of get
ting more oat of our earn fodder,
writes E. S. HaUet. Even in. this
Ohio valley a large majority ot the
farmers get nothing bat the - grain
from the crop. They hold that it in
jures the grain and requires too muoh
labor. This claim is not sustained by
modern practice, at least.
First, I pat into the silo all the
corn necessary for my miloh cows. It
is' by all means the most economical
and labor-saving method. It is ta
much better than any other that I use
ns muoh ensilage as I can. However,
we must have dry corn for horses and
the grain for market must, of course,
be harvested dry. For this purpqsai
begin cutting when tho inuryT
Do not w*»t are df'f,
lor then, the lo.dder is lost. Go
, through^And make small'shocks of,
,*ay, six rows wide and twelve long,
ekipping six rows so that in a few days
when the small shock is dry the re
mainder can be cut aud placed. I use
binding twine for tying. No ono will
c have moldy corn who follows those di-
1 rections. /
When thoroughly cured I begin to
draw in. If tho weather is good I
husk into bnshel boxes and draw these
■in when full, or if many hands are
used have a wagon along all the time.
Never throw in piles on the ground.
The fodder is bound up with the twine
and drawn in as soon as possible. If
dry it should be run through tne cut
ter and elevated to the mows. It oc
cupies only one-half tho space when
Zlt) but for (his treatment it mast
, be very dry to keep. It unable to get
it dry enough I simply stow away in
bundles. It it an easy matter to stack
the fodder on tho earns principle os
wheat sheaves. Make a riok and feed
off ono end. In hauling the shocks I
use u low-wheeled wagon. . Secure a
broad board at the rear to walk up ou
aud then let each man carry' his load
up and deposit it. We now out corn
by hand, although I mean to improve
upon, this method. Those who have
not fed properly cured corn fodder do
not know its value. Horses will eat
it as readily as hay. Fed with clover
hay it makes a well-balanced ration,
and young stock will grow and do well
on it if fed in a warm stable. —Orange
Judd Farmer.
FARM'AND GARDEN NOTBS.
Keep the flies out of the stable.
Grasshoppers make a good eggfood.
As a rule spinach is a very profitable
crop.
In butter color and flavor have no
relation to each other.
TbenShe's of the oorn-cob contain a
large amount of potash. . .
Do not make tho horses carry extra,
weight in unnecessary harness during
the hot season - -
ling u t
cause of a failure to lay.
1 ’ Take extairgobd oire of the hones
during the working season. U (j* u ,
-TheteaikteirJMMhGMiTBi influenaa that,,
the mare on tho aotion and conforma
tion of the «©*% * r?T
It is said that fowls that lay white
Aggs aro more prolific than those
whioh lay .. v> ,-..
‘ . Care fh hemdlhigi^oung hones .wilt
be well repaid in the inoreased faith
fulness and docility .o{ the pupil.
A. great ieal.of vffet lend $ong the
banks of streams and ponds can be
used for growing tho basket willow.
, Ah eight-fraw« hive for fyees.isrmw •
prefAre^to the \en-frame Lanstroln.
hive, which has been so long in use.
A solution of silicate of soda is said
to .be a .perfect pppservative of eggs,
and doesihot injure them in any way..
If necessary to cultivate the potatoes
after the plants have' blossomed iu
order to keep the weeds down, run the
cultivator very shallow.
There is no better grain for ponltry
any time of the year than wheat, ex
cept when fattening. When ready to
fatten corn should be used.
Breed for quality as well as size.
There is many .a sound sixteen-hand
horse that nobody wants at any fair
price, simply because he is a coarse
brnte.
It is thw-rushing -wn l worrying of
horses that Hurts worst in hot weather.
A steady gait and gentle treatment
will accomplish the most at least ex
haustion. • ”
Soft food does not tax the digestive
organs sufficiently to insure their
vigor. It is the cause of more deaths
of young chicks than anything else,
excepting lice. .
The idea that corn cobs are of no
value is a mistaken ou‘o. They should
be carefully saved, and either con
verted into oob charcoal or burned
and the ashes given to the pigs.
The most expensive fertilizer to
the farmer is nitrogen, and this cost
he can reduce on his farm by growing
olover, oow peas and green crops for
turning under, for the purpose of
renovating his soil.
After the flies begin to bother the
horses in the pasture it will be found
to be a good idea, whenever oircum-
stances will admit, to put the horses
in darkened stables during the day
and turn them oat at night.
Don’t give . your horses too muoh
oold wqter when hot or after a hearty
meal, especially when they are tired.
If yop will rpmeqibef this advice it
will save much uneasiness in your
horse and much loss to yourself.
When animals are stabled at night
a minipium of 1200,.cubic feet should
be allowed for each of them. In Eng
land, the newer cavalry barracks give
a minimum of 1500 feet with a ground
area of fully ninety square feet per
horqe.
It ooste no more to grow a pound
of mutton than it does to grow a
pound of beef, while the former pos
sesses the additional advantage that
the wool produced will pay for the
animal’i keep. This leaves a good
profit'for the meat.
A French agrioultural writer recom
mend; the use of powdertd camphor
to dry up oowa which continue to'sup
ply milk too close to time of oalviug.
Oows giying about six quarts a day,
three weeks before due, were given
three doses of thirty grammes each
dose, and the oows became dry in two
weeks. . , ■.
Apples do' not sweat. Cool apples
if placed in a warm room will con
dense the moisture of the atmosphere
whioh comes in oontaot with them,
just as it is condensed on the outside
of a pitcher of cold water on a warm
day. And this moisture contains gerins
pi decay. The remedy is to keep theip
surrounded with a uniformly cool at'
mosphere.
Never allow a draft of oold air to
pass through the hen house for venti
lation or {or any other purpose. Cold
drafts on uhiokons are hot needed; and
work injury to them bj! increasing the
demand for food and decreasing the
egg snppiy. If a hen house is too
close leave the.;o nth side door open,
whioh will give ventilation sufficient
for all purposes. ,* '■ ...^
The Cow pea is a species of bean ol
&<lmffl£kdtt’th, and bearing roundish
pods, having seeds. of various cdlors.
ft'is a nutritious plant, boltr as re
gards the grain-qad the-stent and leaf,
and is readily eaten by all kinds pi
farm animals, especially pigs, which
may be wholly fattened on this crop,,
grown for the purpose. IEsQ,wn thick
ly on the ground it., may be plowed
under in the fall with much benefit to
the land.
The first thing, to remember about
scarlet clover is that it u an t anh'ual.
That is, when it onoe produces seed
there is an end of that plant. It is
like oorn or wheat in this respect, not
like timothy, which will yield prop
after crop of seed and still grow.
Scarlet clover may, however, >8 sowed
in’ the spring, and clipped or pastured
in the fall before the heads form. If
then kept through the winter it will
yield a crop of seed the next year.
That really moans two crops from it.
When a Horse is Unsound.
* It has been-determined by au Eng
lish judge, as a definition of the mean'
ing of “unsoundness,” that, .“if at the
time of sale the horse ha; any diaease
which either does diminish the natural
usefulness of the animal so as to make
him less capable of work of my.kind,
or whiob, in its, ordinary* progress,
will diminish tho natural usefulness
of tho animal, or if the horse has,
either from disease or accident; un
dergone any alteration of structure
that either actually does at tl}e time,
or in its ordinary effects will, diminish
the natural usefulness • of tl>e. horse,
such horse is unsound.’”—Now York
Worid. <
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The rrolessiou'ot Wiudow.tinzlng.
“Window-gazing” is a profession in
Loudon. A couple of stylishly
dressed ladies pause before the win
dow of a merchant, remain about five
minutes and audibly praise the goods
displayed inside. Then they pass on
to another store on thair long list ol
patrons.—Chicago Herald,
uovernor Carr opened the Cabarrus
County lair atConcord.N. ^Wednes
day.
^eught-B <{ueer Fish.
A carious fish is on exhibition iu
this city.. Its body measures only s
few inches around, but is five feet
long, with' a decided tapering at the
tail, ' It was Caught at Oyster Bay and
is supposed to be ' an oyster-crushing
eel. The formation of its mouth would
eeem to imply the name, for the irooj
of tho upper jaw'is a solid'mass' o'
hard bone, with a similar surface ii
the lower portion’of tho ihouth.—
Washington Olympian.
A MAN WITH A HISTORY,
THE TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE TIIA7
BEFELL JOHN W. THOMAS, OF
THETA, TENNESSEE.
AffilcleS Willi a Prcsllar Disease—HIi
Body Covered With Lumps—Coold Noe
Eat and Thought He was dolus to. ,
Dry Up—Hi* Recovery the Mar
vel ol Teunesoee.
(From the tfashville, Tenn., Banner.’)
Mr. John W.Thomas, Jr.,oI Thet8,Tenn.,
Is a man with a most Interesting history
At present he Is Interested in blooded horses
tor which Maury County is^nmous.
“Few people, I take It,” said. Mr. Thomal
to a reporter who had asked him lor th«
story of his life, "have passed through ai
remarkable a chain of events as I have ant
remained alive to tell the story.
“It was along in 1884. when I was wcrklni
In the silver mines of New Mexico, that mj
troubles began ; at first I suffered with la
digestion, and so acute did the pains bs
come that I went to California for my bealth,
but the trip did me little good, and fully lop
pressed with-lhe Idea that my last day ha<
nearly dawned upon me, I hurried back h«0
to my old home to die.
"From simple indigestion tny malady do
velopej Into a chronic Inability to take an]
substantial food, I was barely able to creo;
about, and at times 1 was prostrated bj
•pells of heart palpitation This conditlof
continued until one yearagoi
"Oil the 11th ot April, 1893, I suddenly
collapsed, and for days I was unconscious,
In Fact I was uot fully myself until July. My
condition on September 1st was simply bor
riblo;I weighed but seventy pounds,whereni
my normal wclgfit Is 165 pounds. All ovei
my body there were lumps from the size of ■
grape to the size of a walnut, my flngen
were cramped so that I could not moro that
half straighten them. I had entirely los
control of my lower limbs nnd my nan<
trembled so that l could not drink without
•pilling the liquid. Nothing would remain
un my Momach, and it seemed that I must
dry up before many more days had passed.
“I made another round of the physicians
calling in one after the other, and by tbe aid
of morphine and other medicines they gav<
me, I managed to llvethougb barely througl
the tall."
Here Mr. Thomas displayed his arms, ant)
Just above the elbow of each there was,
largo irregular stalu ns large as the palm ol
the hand ami ol a purple color; the spac,
covered by the mark was sunken nearly tc
the hone. “That," said Mr. Thomas, "ii
whnl the doctors did by putting morphia,
iuto me.
"On the Uth of December, 1893, just eigfc
months after I took permanently to- bed—I 1
shall never forget the date—my cousin, Joe
Foster, of Carters’ Creek, called oh me nnd
gave me a box ot Dr. Williams' Pink Pill,
for Pale People, saying they had cured him
of partial paralysis, with which I knew h«
had all but died. I followed his direction,
uuil began taking the medicine ; ns a result 1
stand before you to-day the most surprised
man on earth. Look at my hand, it is ns
steady ns yours; my lace has a healthy loot I
about It; 1 have been attending to my dutie, '
lorn month. Bincol began taking thopiilg 1
have gained thirty pounds, and I am still!
gaining. All the knots have disappeared;
from my body except this little kernel hers ;
In my palm. I have a good appetite and ] j
•m almost ns strong us I over was.
"Yesterday I rodo thirty-seven miles ot 1
horseback ; I feel tired to-day but not sick. I
I used to have from two to four spells o''
heart palpitation every night; since I began
the use of the pills.I have had but four spelli
altogether. I
"I know positively that I was cured bj
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and I believe firm
ly that it Is tho most wonderful remedy In
existence to-day, and every fact I have pre
sented lo you is known to my neighbors iu
well ns to myself, nnd they will certify to th«
truth of my remarkable cure."
’ Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale Peopl, 1
aro not a pstent medicine In the sense that
inturie Implies. They were flrst compounded
as a prescription and used as such in general
practice by an eminent physician. So greol
. was tholr efficacy that ft was deemed wise t,
jriace them within th i reach of all. They an
mow manufacture! by the Dr. Wllliabts’
Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y.,und
are sold In boxes (never in loose form by th,
dozen or hundred, and tbe public are ca a
tioned against numerous Imitations sold in
this shape) at fifty cents a box. or six boxe,
Tor <2.50, and may be had of all druggists o,
direct by mall from Dr. Williams’ Mediclnt
Company. t
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report'
PUfcE
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
* The female fly has 16,000 eyes.
People who are troubled with sleep
lessness should' drink cocoa, instead
of tea or coffee, at the evening 1 meal.
’ The sense of taste is most aocute iu,
the base, tip and edges of the tongue,
and is almost wholly lacking on its in
ferior surface.
The chemical composition of the
epidermis of the heel "is nearly the
same as that of tho matter of nails,
horns and hoofs.
Mr. Maxim says that he is not try
ing to make a flying maohine for
freight or passengers, but purely for
military purposes.'
The sanitary improvements intro
duced in Berlin within the last few,
years have bronght the annual death
rate down to 18.3 per 1000.
It is now believed that ohemioal and
medical scienee will soon make the
vegetable foods—notably grass—di
gestible by man without first passing
through animAl intermediates.
A new scrubbing machine is whirled
over the floor like a lawn mower. It
soaps, wets, mbs and dries the floor,
and two or three movements of the
machine make the boards shine.
Science tells us that the body oi
every human being weighing 150
pounds contains one pound of salt.
Also that every one of us needs in a
year about fifteen pounds of salt.
The aerial space within the limit
of oar vision is calculated to have a
diameter of 240,000,000 miles and a
circumference of 1,329,742,000,000
miles. And this is only a fragment of
the immensity of space.
An ingenious Pittsburger has de
vised a clothes wringer whioh is ope
rated by electricity. It works auto
matically, and when the last piece is
squeezed out a bell rings and the wash-
tub is tarried over and etanptied. '■
Doctor Schaff, of Vientta, has ap*’
plied, photography to the .study of the
human skin. A bright light is pro
jected 1 on the part of the skin'to be ex-'
amiuod, and by direct exposure many
small details of the skin, including
markings not usually discernible, are
photographed. ;
A mass of 1000 pounds’ weight'will
lose exactly two pounds between tide
water and the top of a mountain fouf,
miles high. This, it is plain to be seen,
is because the force of the earth’s at
traction is much less on the mountain
top than it is at the sea level.
In the constellation of Orion therri
is a star, known as Theta Orionis,
whioh, when viewed through a power
ful telescope, appears a septuple star,
thus preseuting the magnificent pan
orama of- ‘seven suns revolving about
each other. It is to be supposed that
each of these suns is encircled by
planets, and these again by. moons.
The photographers of the Paris Ob
servatory have just finished for the
Academy of Sciences the clearest view
ewer secured for the moon. They have
photographed her surface in seotions,
which fit, making a great image five
feet in diameter. The work is so per
fect that towns, forests-and rivers
would be perceptible if they existed.
Do "riot use water in case of fire
from kerosene. It will spread the
flames. Dirt, sand or flour is the,best
extinguisher. Smother .with woolen
rug, tablecloth or carpet.
Tfo Province of Buenos Ayres is in
solvent pit is being sued for a debt of
$20,000, which has bocti ’bwing for
four years-■ The budget of 1893 has
been put iu force., for 189L
A Simple Optical Aid.
The introduction of the simple pho
tometer, brought forth by a Russian
inventor recently, is claimed to meet
au important desideratum as a. means
for testing the pbwer of the It
is described as consisting of a. pamph
let of twenty-four pages, the flrst page
being of a clear gray tint, the next of
a double intensity, and so on to the
twenty-fourth, the tint of which is
nearly black, being twenty-four times
more intense than that of page ono.
On each page are printed a few phrases
in black letters of as many difte»ent-
sizes; with such an arrangement, it is
stated, tho degree of ease or facility
with which the words aro read ou dif
ferent pages, when held at a certain
distance from the eyes, will indicate
tho precise illumiuatiug power of light
prevailing in the loom, or, ou the other
hand, tho power of tho eyes them
selves,—Detroit Free Press.
•10« Reward. *100.
The readers of this paper will be pleased'to
learn that there is at least oue dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
stages, and that Is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con
stitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de
stroying the foundation of the disease, and
ngthe
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proprietors
Its curative powers thet they offer One Hun-
■'Vi.-d Duilnrs i.ir —. ;L.Jl it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials. Address
F. J. Cheney &Cq., Toledo, 0.
IF - Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Th« revolution In Nicaragua is gaining
•trength.
,11
Birds and bees frequently fight
pitched battles over hbney . stored in
trees. Sometimes one side and some
times the other comes oat victorious.
^wearing Won’t Help It.
Swearing may make a lire buru, of
-4 may make a duck hand hustle, but it
won’t help Tetter, or Ringworm. If
you use■ Tcttcrine, it will make jot.
eomfortal-Ie nnd gave swear words, u )
eciior-at drug stores or post paid from
.J. T; Kbiiptririu, fisvanimli, On.
Raw You Urrr is overrun with bujars,
mostly from tha South.
«
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing S' nip for children
icethtng, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind eo)ir. ate. a bottle
Sicilian unrest is spreading to the main
land of Italy and Naples Is threatened with
street riots.
. T*e volcano Calbuoo, la Chile, after being
at rest tor 202 yean, has become active
again.
When Nature
Needa assistance it may be best to render It
promptly.butone should remember louse even
the most perfect remedies only when needed.
The beet and most simple and gentle remedy la
-the Syrup of Figs manufactured by the Cali-
fornla Fig Syrup Co.
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vr AH OPPORTUNITY la off.ted one .person
..each town everywhere, to open an exhibition
UPre. and represent the TrlparUte Agrrement Brok
sra sample Agency. Pamphlet over it,ml worda,
pvln* purtleulara, ten centa. Alao of tntereit - j
dealers dcttlrlng to place goods-on exhibition ami
ale by sample at stationary Agencies.
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DO YOU We offer employment to 3 men o»
„ ■ 7” women In each emuty ibat will
WANT P ftv 41 ’’ a month. Fo <■ ipltal re
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LEARN TELEGRAPHY
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MUTCH Sc LUUBNHKfiL, ttendln, tia.
TAKE STEPS
in time, if you are a suf
ferer from that scourge ^
of humanity known as *
consumption, hud you
can be cured. There is
the -evidence of
hundreds of liv
ing witnesses to
the fact that, in<
afl . its earlyj
stages, -consump
tion is a curable
disease. Not
•every case, but a
large percentage of
cases, and we believe, \ % /H'/'/ftA
fully 9S per cent, are \ \ M
cur^d by Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Dis
covery, even after the disease has pro-
agressed so far as lo induce repeated bleed
ings from the lungs, severe lingering cough
with copious expectoration (including tu
bercular matter), great loss of flesh and ex?
treme emaciation and weakness.
Do you doubt that hundreds of such cases
reported to us as cured by “ Golden Med
ical Discovery ” were genuine cases of that
dread and fatal disease You need not take
our word for it. They have, in nearly every
instance, been so pronounced by the best
and most experienced home physicians,,
who have no interest whatever in mis
representing them, and who were often
strongly prejudice'l aud advised against
a trial of “Golden Medical Discovery,”
but who have been fpreed to confess that
ft surpasses, in curative power over this
fatal malady, all PtliCr medicines with
which they are acquainted. Nasty cod-
liver oil and its filthy '‘emulsions” and
mixtures,-had been tried in nearly all these
cases and had either utterly failed to bene
fit, or badjonly seemed to benefit a little for
a short time. Kxtraet of malt, whiskey,:
and various preparations of the hypo-
phosphites had also been faithfully tried
in vain.
The . photographs of a large number of
those cured of consumption, bronchitis,
•lingering coughs, asthma, chronic nasal
catarrh and kindred maladies, have been
skillfully reproduced in a book.,of- 160
pages which will be mailed to ydu, on
receipt of address and six cents in
stamps. You can then write to those who
have been cured aud profit by their ex
perience.
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Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
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By J. Hamilton Ayers, A. X., MLD.
This Is a * ~
FALL MEDICINE
d# fully rts important and as beneficial .is
spring Medicine, for *it »Me se.i-ou there it
'feat daagnr to health in the varying tem
perature, cold storms, malar'al jporms, and
tho prevab nee of fevers aod other serious
diseases. All those maybe avoided if th«
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tho bodily health vigorous, by taking flood's
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o'fl bad a terriaie
•arofuln hunch on bis
reek. A frlei'd of mine said Ho urs Sarsa
parilla <airssi '-is Hit to boy, so I procured n
holt lo of tM* mHdic'no, ai«d tn* result lias
’been that «he buaoli haa left bis nook. If
was so near tho throat, that ho cprtld not
have stood it mu-h loDfcnr without relief."
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PISO'S CURE FOR
Consumptives and people I
I who have weak lungs or Asth- [
ma, should use Piso’s Cure for I
Consumption. It has cared I
thousands. It has not injur-1
ed one. It is not bad to take, f
It Is tbe best cough syrup.
Bold everywhere. Sac.
CONSUMPTION.
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:hls ah exceptional opportunity for profitable en*
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