AGRICULTUB.fi.
YOUNG CHJGKKNS AND INSECTS. —The
practice of excluding chickens from
the garden, especially in mid-summer,
is bad both for the chickens and for
the vegetables. The young chicks
will not thrive in confinement, as in
freedom, and the growing plants are
in a good measure protected from in
sects by the chickens. We have never
succeeded better with young broods
than by putting them, with the moth
er, in the vegetable garden. The
mother is kept confined in a coop, and
the chickens have free access to her
through the slats. She follows her in
stinct in scratching over the ground
under the coop for worms and grubs,
and after a lew days the coop is pushed
along to new soil. The chickens are
regularly fed with scalded meal, or
boiled screenings; they supply them
selves with animal food from the gar
den. The chickens are too small to do
any harm to plants that are .well star
ted, and yet they pick up an immense
number of Insects. The more highly
tlie garden is manured, the more ra
pidly do insects multiply, and the
greater is the need of birds and fowls
10 keep them in check. The chickens
can go beneath cucumbers, squashes,
beans, tomatoes, etc., and pick the eggs
and worms from the uuderside of the
leaves, where they are generally found.
They eagerly chase every moth and bug
that files, and if one alights wltliiu
striking distance, it is sure to be de
voured. When the chickens are large
enough to do injury to Ihe plants,
they are easily removed to other quar
ters.
DISTORTING VEGETABLE GROWTH.—
The practice of distorting trees, shrubs
and climbers into various stiff and
grotesque forms, instead of allowing
them to grow in their natural and
gracelul beauty, cannot well be re
garded as much ot an improvement,
both kinds ot distortion are to be ob
jected to, namely, by artificial means
purposely, and by allowing the trees
or shrubs to became distorted by unna
tural and one sided crowding. James
Vickgives an illustration in his Month
ly, expressive of his opinion of at
tempts at "improvements" of the kind.
He states that at the time, many years
ago, that several eminent English offi
cials were present to witness the ope
ration of Perkiu's famous steam-gun,
opinions were freely expressed of its
merits, but Wellington said nothing.
When urged to give his oplnieu, he
rnerel}' replied that he had beeu think
ing "that this steam-gun had been the
first invented, what a grand iinprov
ment on it gunpowder would have
been !" And if a tree or shrub origi
nally grew in the form of a stiff cone,
or a peacock, or a statue, what a grand
Improvement a handsome,graceful out
line would be considered by cultiva
tors!
THE CULTIVATION OF THE CRANBER
RY. —Wherever the cranberry has been
successfully introduced it has proved
itself one ot the most valuable of our
small fruits, having the advantage
over all others in its adaptability of
beiug kept for so much greater length
of time. It is most profitably cultiva
ted ou low, moist, level lauds, where
drainage as well as overflowing can be
applied, as circumstances may require.
Yet, like many other plants, it may be
gi-vwn |sucoesstully under conditions
very different Irom those in which it
is found in its wild state. Any loamy
naturally moist garden soil will grow
cranberries. The plants are set out
and cultivated exactly like strawber
ries, until the vines have covered the
entire ground, when no other care is
necessary than to pull out the tall
weeds. An occassional light dressing
of fine swamp muck or sawdust is
very beneficial and keeps the ground
moist. A small beginning in cranber
ry culture may even be made in a fiow
er pot. Plants grown in this way are
not only highly ornamental, the ir.ults
hanging on the vines until the blos
soms appear for the next crop, but also
astonishingly productive.
How TO TEST DAIRY Cows. —There
is no difficulty in establishing the cha
racter and value of each cow in a dai-.
ry. The method usually followed is
to weigh each cow's milk upon a spring
scale as soon as it is drawn and before
it is poured out of the pail into the
general receptacle. The weight is no
ted down on a slate or board under the
cow's name and against the date. One
week's trial is sufficient for each month
so as to get a fair average through the
year. For a butter test each cow's
milk may be set seperately in pans of
different size or form from the others
and churned by itself; this will give
the yield of butter for a certain quanti
ty of milk. Generally when one
gins a habit of keeping accounts in the'
dairy in this way it is continued and is
found a valuable help in making a
dairy prcfiatbie, for it is a check on
feeding, watering and otherwise car
ing for the cows and when a falling off
or increase is noticed Immediately be
comes anxious to find the cause of it,
and thus much valuable information is
gathered.
PLOWING.— There are two kinds of
soil on every man's farm—the agricul
tural soil and the subsoil. The agri
cultural soil may be two Inches deep
or it may be nine, but it Is not twenty
feet. It is not deeper than the air can
penetrate. *lf the agricultural soil is
too shallow it may be gradually deep
ened by lifting an inch of the eubsoil
at each plowing, bringing it up to the
air and enriching it with manure.
Says Professor Stockbridge: Our agri
cultural society committees, by their
premiums for smooth, shiny fiat fur
rows have done the community great
harm. Such as often takes the premi
ums is the very poorest kind ol plow
ing. The soil is best plowed when it
is most the roughly crushed, twisted
and broken with the sod .well covered.
On some kind of lands I would have
furrows lapped an inch, as the Cana
dian farmers plow. Let the air and
water have a chance to circulate un
derneath the surface. Light lands,
however, should have a flat furrow if
we wish to make such lands more com
pact.
COLD, cutting weather causes the
cows to curl up in some cozy corner.
A LITTLE girl being asked on the
first day of school, how she liked her
new teacher, replied: "I do not like
her; she is just as saucy to me as my
mother."
PAPA: "Where has yesterday gone
to, and where is to-morrew comiug
from?"
I MOTHER (teaching a little girl of four
her letters): "say W." Little girl:
"Double me."
WE desire to be underrated only by
the tax-collector.
OVA and under—The eggs when the
hen sets*
N "JMOROUS.
HE had a mournful look about him,
and he advauced with measured steps
to the table.
"I'm a useful member of society,"
said he in a sepulchral voice.
"Indeed, no one would suspect It. A
faoe like yours—"
"Is a blessing to its owner. I can
manufacture more melancholy In ten
minutes than any other man can in a
week. That's my business. Igo about
touching up the tender feelings of peo
ple and reducing them to palpable
tears —"
"A regular brine drawer?"
"To be short, yes. One look at me
will make the strongest eye weep. I'm
very useful at funerals."
"This is 110 funeral, but It will be,
and there will be joy instead of mourn
ing if you don't take your melancholy
mug out of here in a hurry," and just
as he was going to ask tor a quarter a
paste pot went whizzing by his head
and he retreated, leaving a streak of
blue behind him that will last a week.
A WELL-KNOWN lady artist, resident
in Home, rel tes that while standing
one day near the statue of the Apollo
Belvidere, she suddenly became aware
of Ihe presence of a oouutry woman.
The new-comer was a well-to-do-look
ing American woman, and introduced
herself as Mrs. Haggles, of , Mis
souri, and then asked :
"Is this the Apollo Belvidere?"
Miss H testified to the tourist then
said:
"Considered a great statue?"
The interrogated lady replied that
it was generally thought to be one of
the master-pieces of the world.
"Mauly beauty, and all that sort of
thing?" said the lady from the land of
the setting sun.
"Yes," responded the now amazed
artist. "It is said to be one of the no
blest representations of the human
frame."
"Well, exclaimed Mrs. Haggles,
closing her Badeker, and with arms
akimbo, taking a last and earnest look
at the marble, "I've seen the Apollo
Belvidere and I've seen Raggles, and
giye me Higgles."
"THERE are seventeen and a half
men to every female iu the territory
ol Dakota." "Well, said Miss Jones,
spinster, when she read the above
item "if girls knew what I know,
they'd take that half man rather than
none at all."
"WAL, there's a row over to our
house."
"What on alrths the matter, you lit
tle sarpeut?"
"Why, dad's got drunk, mother's
dead, the old cow has got a calf, Sal's
got married and run away with all the
spoons, Pete has swallowed a pin, and
Luke's looked at the Aurora Borax till
he's got the triangles. That ain't all
nuther."
"What else upon airth?"
"Rose split the butter pot and broke
the pancakes, and one of the Maltese
kittens got her head into the molasses
cup and couldn't get it out, and o,how
hungry 1 am!"
"A YOUNG woman recently went to
an English fancy ball as a powder
puff." It must bave been a puff-ball.
Aud ibis reminds us that a young
man once went to an American ball as
a ride. No one guessed what charac
ter he represented until he went off
"hall-cocked" and staggered against
a man who called him a 'son of a gun.'
Two ladies meet. Says No, 1; "Why
do you know what I heard about you ?"
"I've no idea." "I heard that when
your husband was sick and not
expected to live you went to a picnic."
"It's a vile slander; it was only an
excursion."
WE'LL bet a cent that not a man who
has blojgn out the gas aud beeu suffo
cated aWing the past ten years, ever
took and read his country paper. Now
is the time to subscribe,
THE angel of midnight: The woman
who opens the street door for her hus
band when be is trying to unlock the
bell-knob, and then lets him sleep on
the hall lloor.
A FELLOW who married a poor girl
said he married her to take care of her
but now when he staid out late at
night she took hair ol him.
A LITTLE girl, noticing the glittering
gold tilling in her aunt's front tooth,
exclaimed : "Aunt Mary, I wish I had
copper-toed teeth like yours."
THERE IS a fortune in store for the
genius who shall produce a boiler-iron
shoe for the small boy. Something
warranted to last two weeks is what is
wanted.
A FELLOW in New Orleans is said to
have eaten a box of Ca&tile soap to get
rid of freckles. He still has a few on
his face, but inside he isn't freckled a
bit.
A SOUTHERN paper, in delault of an
ice-gorge to chronicle, tells oi a clam
bake where two young men ate of this
delicious fruit until it protruded from
their ears."
#* •
THE family that makes the longest
and loudest prayers is not always the
one that pays the highest prlcess to its
washerwoman, by any means.
"I SEE the villain in your face,"said
a Western judge to a prisoner. "May
It please your honor," said the prison
er, "that is a personal reflection."
A GIRL hearing her mistress sk her
husband to bring, "Dombey and Son"
with him when he came home to
dinner, set two extra plates for the
expected guests.
SiMALLboy: The 2,000 raw hides
purchased by Vernon firm are not in
tended tor use in the public schools.
THE present weather permits many
young men who bought ulsters early
in the season to come out in full pod.
A PIG in the Virginia penitentiary
plays cards having been taught by a
man who was locked up for playing
three-card monte.
THE beehive is the poorest thing in
the world to fall back on.
THERE is some good left in the world
after all. The man who invented
spotted stockings lost money on them.
"AUNTY, vat makes tie little baby
cry so? Do it want iz mudder ?" "Yes,
dear, and its fodder too."
IT costs Massachusetts about $4,000
each tor the farmers graduated at Its
Agricultural College.
"A PLAIN cook" is advertised tor In
a Boston paper. Comment Is neces
sary.
THREE of akind—the Albany, Sprin
gfield and Washington base balls clubs.
DOMESTIC.
A ROUT * BRKAD-MAKINJ. —To raske
bread, pare and rinse very clean five
or six large potatoes, or what will
make a quart when mashed ; boll un
til tender; pour off Ihe water in which
they are boiled and save It; mash them
very fine and put them into the potato
wator, and to this, while not, add a
pint of flour, or enough to make a very
thin batter—and thinner the better the
bread—and add enough cold water to
make about three quarts of the whole.
When it is cool—not as warm us new
milk—add It to half a cupful of yeast
and set jt in a warm place to rise. By
making this sponge at night, it will ho
light enough in the morning to mix.
Get your Hour into your bread-pau,aud
strain the sponge into it, having pre
viously stirred into the sponge a tea
spoonful of soda, and mix it up into
dough. Be careful not to get it too
hard. Knead OP a board for about ten
minutes; then place in the pun again
and set it to rise. In about two hours
or a little less, it will be ready to
mould Into loaves. It should rise until
it cracks OH top. lu forming into
leave',uork as little ns possible in order
to get it into shape,and let it rise again.
When it is light, place in the oven and
bake an hour aud a quarter. After re
moving from the oven, wrap up well
in a cloth, bread closely while Dating,
as much depends on that. Add a little
salt to the Hour before pouring in the
sponge. 1 think by having good flour,
and lollowlng these directions closely,
one cannot fail to have good bread. It
a person has poor bread, nothing on
the table appears good; but with good
bread, one can dispense with some
other things, and still feel that she has
a nice dinner or tea. In cold weather,
one can keep the sponge two or three
days and the bread will be just as
good. By using some of the potatoes
and the water they were boiled in at
dinner time, the sponge will be light
enough to mix into dough at night,
and will be ready for moulding into
loaves early in the morning.
A fool ouce more.
"For ten years my wife was confined
to her bed with such a complication of
ailments that no doctor could tell w hat
was the matter or cure her, and 1 used
up a small fortune in humbug stuff.
Six months ago 1 saw a U- S. flag with
Hop Bitters on it, and I thought 1
would be a fool once more. 1 tried it,
but -my folly proved to be wisdom.
Two bottles cured her, she is now as
well and strong as any man's wife,
and it cost uie only two dollars. Such
folly pays.—ll. W., Detroit, Mich.—
Free Press.
LIME IN THE TEA KETTLE. —Every
good housewife kuows chat an iron ket
tle used for heating water that holds
lime in solution, will in a short time
become coated with that substance.
This being a poor conductor of heat,it
will of course take a longer time to
heat the water tl.au when the kettle is
new. Copper or tin vessels do not be
come coated with lime. The reason is
that Iron has an affinity for lime which
the other metals have not. But this
affinity can be overcome by coating the
inner surface of the vessel with a com
pound ol tauicaciu and iron, which is
soluble in water and will not 'precipi
tate lime. This is easily done. Take
a new tea kettle and put a handful of
oak bark into it, fill with water, and
keep it boiling for throe or four hours,
till it up from time to time as the wa
ter boils away. The iron will get a Jet
black coat of tannite of iron and will
be proof against lime. Care must be
taken that the kettle does not boil dry
and become heated to redness. A heat
a little below that point will destroy
the coating. If the lime can be fully
removed from an old tea kettle, it can
be coated in the same manner as a new
one, but will require a longer time,
and perhaps it will be necessary to re
peat the boiling two or three times.
OATMEAL.— Give trie children oat
meat at least once a day. It is genuine
bone and muscle food, and they must
thrive. Could our girls make the
morning and night meals on real
nourishment—not pastry —take more
to nourish the brain and nerves, we
should have less of the "neuralgia
among our women. Indeed, this oat
meal mush would afford ample food for
the last meal, which should ordinarily
be the lightest, simple, and easy of,
digestion, securing good sleep, while
It may well form a part of the morning
meal. Its extensive use would do
much to promote health among us.
BROILED SHAD. One shad, two
ounces of buttermilk, one half tea
spoonful of pepper, one-half teaspoon
ful of salt. Split the shad, when
cleaned, directly throjgh the back
bone with a strong sharp knife.
Grease the broiler slightly, place the
fish between its leaves, and broil over
a quick fire for ten minutes. When
done, remove quickly from the broiler
dress with the butter, pepper and salt,
and send it to the table as hot as pas
sible. The dish may be garnished
with lemon quarters and a sprig of
parsley at either end.
THE only natural hair renewer is
Carboline, a deodorized extract of pe
troleum, prepared without distillation
or rectification with acids or alkalies,
containing no mineral or other poisons,
delightfully periumed and as clear and
pure as spring water.
A SOLUTION of one and one quarlers
of a pound of white soap and three
eighths of an ounce of spirits of am
monia, dissolved in twelve gallons or
soft water will impart a beautiful and
lasting whiteness to any flannels
dipped in it, no matter how yellow
they have been previous to their im
mersion. After being well stirred
round for a short time, the articles
should be taken out, and well washed in
clean cold water.
How TO STARCH AND IRON COLLARS
Ere.—Mix very gradually one table
spoonful of white starch with half a
pint of cold water, dissolve a small
piece of lump borax about the size ol
the tip of the finger ia hot water;
when cold stir it into the starch. Put,
the collars into the starch, rub them
up and down in it, smooth them well
out with a piece of linen, and iron
immediately, first with a fiat iron,then
with a polishing iron.
Card collectors please buy seven bars
Dobbins' Electric Soap of any grocer
and write Cragin & Co.; Philadelphia
Pa., for seven cards gratis, six colors
and gold, Shakespeare's "aeyen Ages
of Man." Ordinary price 25 cents.
WHEN water has once been made to
boil the fire may be very much lesson
ed, as but little heat Is required to
keep it at a boiling point. There is no
advantage what ever in making, water
boil furiously; the heat will escape in
steam, without raising the heat of the
water.
The public are cautioned to ask tor
Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, and take no
other. Price 25 cents.
I'lemtnj Prospects Respecting the "Dol
lars of our Daddies."
A Boston journal contains the following,
taken from one of the New York dailies:
"In noting the departure for Europe of
Mr. John W. Mack ay, the California mil
lionaire, our New York contemporary pre
sents the following interesting particulars
relating to the famous Comstock Lode, the
camping ground, as it were, of more thau
one of the I'acflc coast millionaires. There
has been, no doubt, considerable of the
'wild cat' business in mining iu one way or
another, but with the following results ar.d
figures, which are unquestionably true,
staring one in the face, it will readily he
seen why the most fur-sighted and knowing
ones continue to pin their faith to and pan
their profits trom the above celebrated
section. The north end of the ledge is now
attracting especial attention, and from
latest developments, those made in the
Original Keystone mine—the latter running
1,800 feet on the main ledge, and accord
ing to the recent investigation and report
of the English expert, John D. Barry, A.
1. C. E., one of the most promising mines
on the entire ledge—are particularly inter
esting and all the indications point to
highly gratifying results.
"The celebrated Comstock vein or lode
is situated iu Story County, in the State of
Nevada, on a chain of mountains called
the Washoe Kauge, east of the Sierra
Nevada, having a mean elevation of 0,000
feet above the level of the sea, Mount
Davidson, the highest peak, reaching au
elevation of 7,000 feet.
"The range begins near Carson City,run
ning with a general direction of 22 deg.
west of north for 150 miles.
"The whole region represents a great
barren wilderness, where nature has denied
all agricultural prospertv, hut in her equity
has stored probably the greatest amount of
mineral wealth to he found in one locality
in the world.
"During the last twenty years the Com
stock vein has given sixteen bonanzas,
from which 0,500,000 tons of ore have beer
extracted.
"The average assay value of this large
mass was SSO per ton; it yielded in tile
mill s4l*Bo, and from the treatment ol
sluices, $5 —total S4O. 80 per ton.
"Thus the total value of the ore ex
tracted was $000,071.005, yielding a net
sum from mills and sluices of $023,071,-
005. The average proportion of precious
metals in value is 45 per perceut gold and
55 per cent .silver." Chicago "Inter
Ocean •"
Ckoustadks ok Chicken.—Cut the
crumb of a loaf of bread into slices two
inches thick, ami then with a round
paste cutter, about two inches In dia
meter, cut out ot each slice as many
pieces as possible. With another paste
cutter, about one and a half inches In
diameter, make a mark on one side of
each cylinder of bread crumb. When
all are ready, try them a golden color
in very hot 1 ird. A deep frying pan
should he used, and plenty of lard, so
that the croustades fairly swim in the
fat. When done, lay them on a sieve
t/i front ol the fire to dram, and after
ward remove the cover (marke I with
the smaller paste cutter), and with the
handle of a teas oou scoop out all the
Inside of each eroustade. Mince finely
some remnants of roast or boiled chick
en, fite from skin, etc., add an equas
quantity ofham or tongue, as well al
a smal> quantity of mushroom, also
tinelly minced. Toss the whole In a
saucepan with a piece of butter, mixed
with a pinch of llour; add white pep
per, salt and powdered spice to taste ;
moisten, it necessary, with all.tie
white stock. Stir iu off the fire, the
yolk of au egg, beaten up with the
juice of halt a lemon; fill thecroustades
with this mince, put a button mush
room ou the top of each, cover them
with a sheet of oiled paper, put them
into the oven to get thoroughly hot,
and serve.
Honored and Blest.
When a hoard of eminent physicians
and chemists announced the discovery
that by combining some well known
valuable remedies, ttie most wonder
ful medicine was produced, which
would cure such a wide range of dis
ease that most all other remedies could
be dispensed with, many were .skepti
cal; hut proof of its merits by actual
trial has dispelled all doubt, and to-day
the discoverers of that great medicine,
Hop Bitters, are honored and blessed
by all as benefactors, — Democrat.
Dr. James 1). Dana in recently pub
lished papers has advanced sufficient
facts to enable hiin deduce scientifi
cally that the limestone of Westchester
county and New York island, and the
conformably associat d metamorphic
rocks, are of the lower tilurian age ;and
further, that the limestone and con
formably associated rocks of the Green
Mountain region, from Vermont to
New York island, are also of lower
Silurian rge.
Thousands will bear testimony (and
do it voluntarily) that Vkgktine" is the
best medical compound yet placed be
fore the public for renovating and
purifying the blood, eradicating all
liumors, impurities or poisonous secre
tions from the system, invigorating and
strengthening the system debilitated
by disease; In fact, it is, as many have
called it, "The Great Health Kestor
er."
An English mechanic has invented a
horseshoe composed of three thick
nesses of cowhide, cdmpressed into a
steel mould and subjected to a chemi
cal preparation. It will last longer
than the common shoe?, weighs only
one-fourth as much, does not split the
hoof, requires 110 calks and is very
elastic.
—ln four days' shooting of Lord
Sefton's preserves at Ooxteth, Lanca
shire, six guns killed 0,344 head of
game, of which 4,832 were pheasants,
197 ducks and 999 hares, a performance
unparalleled in "sport."
KIDNEY-WOKT is a remedy which removes
foul humors from the blood, and creates
healthy action in every organ. Torpid kid
neys and liver lead to gravel, diabetes, con
stpiatiou, piles and rheumatism. Kidney-
Wort is the surest and safest remedy to use.
Courant.
THE members of the Penn Mutual Life In
surance Company, of Philadelphia, cannot
fail to derive satisfaction from a perusal of
the Annual Statement published in another
column. The business of the year has been
most prosperous, being conducted, as all prior
ones, with the sole object of providing relia
ble life insurance at the lowest possible cost,
and achieving this result with the highest
measure of success.
There is Nothing t'ertttlu
except death, and that is now rendered ex
tremely uncertain by the discovery of an abso
lutely certain cure for the most painful of all
bodily ailments, Piles. For 3 000 years, quacks
and medical men have rivalled each other in
torturing the miserable sufferers by that ter
rible disease with all manner of barbarous, ig
norant and useless nostrums and devices, and
might still have gone on for a thousand more
years but for the discovery of Anakesis by Dr.
Silsbee. We seldom puff such things, but any
man or woman who has ever suffered the
agony of Piles, will thank us for oalling at
tention to an almost infallible remedy for this
dreadful dlseasa 500,000 afflicted sufferers
testify to its unparalleled virtues. Doctors of
all me lical schools endorse and use it It is
at once the triumph and admiration of the
age; simple, safe, prompt and permanent it
relieves pain at once, supports and com
presses the tumors and ultimately curea the
worst cases of Piles, no matter of how long
standing. Absolute infallibility is not possi
ble, but medical soieuoe has nothing more
nearly so than "Anakesis." It is the discovery
of Dr. 8. Hilsbee,an accomplished chemist and
practicing physician, after 40 years' study and
experience. Samples of • Anakesis" are sent
free to all sufferers by P. Neustaedter & CO.,
box 8946, New York. Sold by druggists every
where. Price SI.OO per box. '
Vegetine
WILL CURE SCROFULA,
Scrofulous Humor.
Vegetine will eradicate from the system every
laltil or Berofu!a iud Scrofulous Humor. It ha->
peruutnenily curod thou amis In Boston and
vMuity who had been long and painful suffer
ers.
Pimples and Humors on the
Face.
Reason should teach us that a blotchy, rough,
or pimpled skin depends entirely up m an In
ternal cause, ami no outward application can
over cure the de:ect. Vegetine Is the great
blood purlrter.
Catarrh.
For this complaint the only substantial bene
llt can ne otKnined througn the blood. Vege
tine is the great blood purifier.
Dyspepsia.
If Vegetine Is taken regularly, according to
directions, certain and speedy cure will lollow
Its use.
Falntness at the Stomach.
Vegetine Is not a stimulating bitters which
creates a fictitious appetite, but a gentle tonic,
which assists nature to restore the stomach to
a healthy action.
Female Weakness.
Vegetine acts directly upon the causes of
tho-e complaints. It Invigorates and strength
ens the whole system, acts upon the secretive
organs and allays lnilammatlon.
General Debility.
In th's complaint the good effects of the Vege
tine are realized immediately after commenc
ing to take it: as debility denotes deficiency of
the blood, and Vegetine acta directly upon the
blood.
Veg-etine,
rKXPAKKD BY
11. JR. ttTEYfift'tt, Boston, Hau.
Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists.
SITTERS
•loop. Appetite, Rtrenffth
Return when Hostetter's stomach Bitters la
systematically used by a bilious dyspeptic suf
ferer. Moreover, since the brain sympathises
closely with the stomach and its associate or
gans, the liver and the bowels, as their de
rangement is rectified by the action of the Bit
ters, mental despondency produced by that
derangement disappears.
For sale by all Druggists and Dealers
v - generally.
I The Onlyßemedy 8£
That Arts at the Same Time qn
■The Liver, The Bowels and The Kidneys®
LJ This combined action gives U wonderful M
mower to cure al I diseases. W
□Why Are We Btck?U
we alloto these great organs to fc-H
mueome clogged or torpid, and poisonous Au-11
Via tors are therefore forced into the bloodLA
UtAal should be expcUed naturally. ■
Uiuiionsness, Piles, Constipation, KldaeyH
Complaints and IHseaaes, Weak- al
nesses and Nervous Disorders.
iflgty causing free action of these organs ansl
Y%restoring their power to Vurow off disease, y
M Why Sufferßlliouspains and aches!
M Why tormented with Plies, Const I pat ion in
\ a Why frightened over disordered Kidneys tgj
II Why endure nervoos or sick headaches! ■
Why hare sleepless nlglits I
VI Use KIDNEY WORT and rejoice InlG
■ ■ health. It is a dry, vegetable corngpundam/y
tj One packs*? will make six qteof Medlefae.H
H Oct it of your Prugqist, he will order
for you. Price, SI.OO. k#
mM WELLS, BICHABDSON L CO., Proprietor!, W
| | (Willwndjxntpaid.) Burlington, Vt. af
inOR BALK OR KXCHANGE FOR STOCK OF
JT GOODS—Eighty-acre improve! Farm. 2 miles
from City of Rochester, Minnesota. Will sell cheap.
Address PHILIP LOEWK, Rochester,
Olmstead county, Minn.
SEND 10 CENTS to C. W. PERLEV for a Reoipe
to Kindle Fires Without Kindling Wood.
WILLIMANTIC, CONN.
s"■ T T A YEAR and expenses to agents'
Iff Outfit Free. Address
Iff P. O YIOKERY. Augusta. Me
T qJioc Don't read this, but enclose a 3 cent
Jj&UlCo stamp for "Important Information" to
Dr. W M.C. HATCH, Box 20, West's Mills, Maiue.
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196
It pays Agent* to Sell thu StauJard Atuacultural Bowk
Farming for Profit
New. Accurate. Comprehensive. A Complete Farm
Library in itself. A sure guide to successful farming.
TCI I C UfIUU TTtf* Cultivate all Farm Crops.
I tLLd HUff | 11 Breed & Care for Livestock.
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140 Illustrations.' ?Send for Circulars and terms to
J. C. McCUHDY & CO., Philadelphia, Pa.
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confer a favor upon the advertiser and the
publisher by stating that they saw the adver
tisement in this Journal (naming the paper,
THIRTY-THIRD ANNEAL REPORT
Of THK
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
OF PIfILADEL PUI A.
Net Assets, January 1, 1880 96,642,433 34
RECEIPTS.
Premium receipt* 81,070.972 67
In to rout receipt*,etc .W3,59i1.6() 1,464,572.25
Total - 98,107,034.49
DISBURSEMENTS.
Losses and oiidowmeuts 9511,870.62
Dividends to policy-holders.... 256,299.97
Lapsed and surrendered poli
cies, etc -.. 128,926.29
Commissions, salaries, medi
cal fees, agency exp's, etc.. 186,621.13
Taxes, legal expeuses, adver
tising, etc 64.981.74 1,148,679.74
Net asseis, January 1,1881.... 86,958464.76
ASSETS.
U.S. 5 per cent, bonds, Philadelphia
and city loans, K. K. bonds, bank and
other stocks, worth 92.941,783.60 92,636,075.07
Mortgages, first liens on properties
worth 96.217.760 2342,436 47
Premium notes, secured by policies.... 062.176.88
Loans on collaterals, etc 322.119.40
Home Office, and KeaJ estate bought to
secure loans 716,796.97
Caah ou baud and iu Trust Companies... 289.730 02
Net ledger assets, as ab0ve........ 96,968,364.76
Net deferred ami unreported
premium* 9101,444.13
Interest due and accrued.... 91,674.04
Market value of stocks,etc.,
over coet 315,708.43 608.826.60
Orose assets, January 1, 1881 97,467.181.36
LIABILITIES.
Losses reported, but not due.® 161,342.76
Reserve, at 4 per ceut., to re- •
insure risks 5.967,135.00
Dividends ou Life Bate End 'ts
and unreported policies.... 76448.89
Surplus! per ceut. basis .... 1,262464.71 ®7,*67,181J
Surplus at 4)6 per cent., Pennsylvania
standard- - 81,669,379.71
No. of policies in force 12.234
Amount at riak 931.606464.UU
SAMUEL 0. IIUKY. President.
KbWAKD M. NEEDLES, Vice-President.
li.B. STEPHENS, 3d Vtce-Preaideat.
J. J. BARKEB, Actuary.
IIENRV AUSTIN, Secretary.
HENRY C. BROWN, Ass't Secretary.
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6REAT WESTERN.jqstENr, BUM WORKS,
Send atamp for Catalogue.
Rifles, Shot Gun#. Revolver*. en t a a d. Par wiamlnatioe
HOP BITTERCT
(A Medicine, not a Drink,)
CONTAINS
BOPS, BUCHU, MAN DRAKE.
DANDELION.
AND THE PT KE#T AND BEST MEDICAL QTJALI-H
T TIE# OF ALL OTHER BITTERS.
THEY CURE
All Diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, Blood,|
Liver, Kidneys, and Urinary Organs, Ner- I
voußueaa Sleenleasnesßand especially
Female Complaints.
SIOOO IN COLD.
Will be paid for a case they will not cure orfl
help, or for anything impure or injurious I
found in them.
Ask your druggist for Hop Bitters and tryl
them before you sleep. Take uo Other.l
D.l. C Is an absolute and fori
Drunkeueaa, use of opium, tobacco and ■
narcotics.
■■■■■ SEND FOB CIROULAB. ■■HAL
All .hove sold by drugnrlsU.
Hop Bitter. Mfg. Co., Hoc-he.tw, N. V., A Toronto, Out.|
KIDNEY DISEASES,
KZXmr.WOmX. lU , —■ Ti!T?,, 11 mitr-*•%
■■'"• jwmf li4ln*w ha wwd, also Ktaa. Oontpatlo&, Bknutat
whtehhsTedieteeeed thaviettieeloe ywee. W>lw Tttt— <iTSS
ratfggsar- tzs?*- fy. y
DR. RADWAY'S
Sarsajarilliai Bisilrsit,
THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER,
OR THE CURB OP CHRONIC DISKASB,
SCROFULA OR SYPHILITIC, HEREDI
TARY OR CONTAGIOUS,
Be It Seated I 9 Tha Lungs or Stomach, Ski a
•r Hones. Flesh or Nerves,
CORRUPTING THE SOLIDS AND VITIATING
THE FLUIDS.
Chrpnt® Rheumatism, Scrofula, Glandular
Swelling. Hacking Dry Cough, Cancerous A ffeo
tions, syphilitic Complaints, Bleeding of the
Langs. Dynpep-da. Water Braah, Tlo Doloreux,
White swellings. Tumors, Ulcera, Skin and Hip
Diseases. Mercurial Diseases, Female Com
plaints, Gout, Drop y, BaK Rheum. Bronchitis,
Consumption,
Liver Complaint. Ac.
Not only does the sareaparllliaa Resolvent
excel all remedial agents In the cure of Chroiilo,
Scrofulous, Constitutional and Skin Diseases,
' but It la tha only positive cure for
EI D NET AID BLADDER COMPLAINTS,
m
Urinary and Womb Dip ases. Gravel, Diabetes.
Dropsy, Stoppage of Water, Incontinence of
Urius. Brtghtn Disc a e, Albuminuria, and in
ease* nhsrs there are brick-dust depodts, <>t
the water la thiok, cloudy, mixed with sub
stances like the white of an egg. c r threads 11
white silk, or there la a morbid, dark, bilious
appearance and white bone-dust deposits, and
when there la a pricking, burning • naatiou
when passing water, a .d pain in toe small of
the back and a ong the lorns. Bold by Drug
flats- PRICE ONE DOLLAR.
OVARIAN TUMOR OF TEN TEARS' GROWTH
CURED BY DR. RADWAY'S REMEDIES.
One battle contains more of the active prin<>t-
Uaa of Medicines than any other Preparation.
Taken In Teaspoonful doses, while others re
fulrt Ave er six times aa much.
r! R!
RADWAY'S
Beady Belief,
CURBS AND PREVENTS
DYSENTfcRY, DIARRHOEA,
CHOLERA MORBUS,
FEVER AND AGUE.
RHEUMATISM,
NEURALGIA,
DIKTHER*A,
NFLUENZA,
SORE THROAT,
DIFFICULT BREATHING.
BOWEL COMPLAINTS*
Loose new, Diarrhea*, Cholera Morbus, or pain
ful discharges from the bowels are stopped in
16 or to minutes by taking Radway's Ready Re
lief. No congestion or inflammation, no weak
ness or lassitude will follow the dse of the R. R.
Ballet
IT WAB THE FIRST AND IS
The Only Pain Remedy
chat Instantly stops the most excruciating
oalna, allays inflammations, and cures Oontres
dona, whether of the Lungs, Stomach, Bowels
or other glands or ortrana, by one application.
!■ Irons one to twonty minute*, no mat
ter how violent or excruciating the pain the
iheum ttic. Bed-ridden, InnrmTCrlppied, Nerv
ous, Neuralgic or prostrated with disease may
suffer. RADWAY* READY RELIEF will afford
instant ease.
In liana mot lon of the Kidneys.
Inflammation of (he Bladder,
■ anamination of the Bowels.
Congestion of the Lnsgs,
•or# Throat, Difficult Breatblntr.
_ . . , PslylUUen or the Honrt,
Mysteries, Croup, Diphtheria
„ . _ Catarrh, laflaeasa
Headache. Toothache,
. . M®splsssis4s,
.ton rale la, Rhenmatlsm
Cold Chills, Asrno Chills,
Chllhlolas and Frost Bites.
The application of the Ready Relief to the part
or parts where the pain or difficulty exists will
afford ease and comfort.
Thirty to sixty drops In a half tumbler of
water will in a few minutes cure Cramps,
Sprains. Sour Stomach, Heartburn, Sick Head
ache, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Colic, Wind In the
Bowels, and all internal puns.
Travelers should always carry a bottle of R id
way's Ready Relief with them. A few drops In
water will prevent sickness or pains From
Changs of water. It is better than French
Brandy or Blttere as a stimulant. Prios Fifty
Cents per bottle.
Radway's Regulating Pills.
fmhM Pat-gwStTOS, Boethlat Aperient*,
ASS Without Pain. Always Reliable
and Natural In their Operation.
A VEGETABLE SUBSTITUTE FOR CALOMEL
Perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with
tweet gum, purge, regulate, purify, means* and
itreuguLSh,
fUbwsyu PILLS, for the curs of all Disorders
s the >tdniacb, Liver, Bowels. Kidneys, Blad
der, Nervous Diseases, Headache, Constipation,
indigestion. Dyspepsia, Bl! oua
seas Fever. Inflammation of the Boweis, PUea,
and all derangements of the Internal viscera.
Warranted to effect a perfect oun # Purely
vegetable, containing ho mercury, mineral* er
deleterious drugs.
KWObeerve the following symptoms resultant
from Diseases of the Digestive Org as: Consu-
Eitioa, Inward Piles, Fullness of the Blood is
sad. Acidity of the Stomach, Nausea. Heart
burn, Disgust ef Food, Fullness or Weight ta
the Stomach, Sour Eructations, Sinking or Flut
tering at the Heart, Choking or Buffering Sen
sations when in a tying posture. Dimness of
Vision, Pots or Webs Before the sight, Fever a d
Dull pain In the Bead, Dcflclencv of Perspira
tion, Yellowness or the Bkln and Eyes. Pain In
the Bide. Chest, Limbs, and Buddsn Flumes ef
Heat, Burning In the Flesh.
A few doees of RAWAY*b FILLS will owe the
system from all the above-named disorder*.
Fries, as Omta per lex.
We repeat that the reader must consult u
hooka and papers en the subject of diseases and
their cure, among which may he named t
"Fulas sad True ,"
"lad* yes Irritable Urethra,**
M k*dwajr aa Earafala,**
andothers relating todlffarant olsmss sf Mb
•OLD BY BRUGGISYBI
BEAD "FALfIB AMD TBCI."
•end a letter stamp to BADWiT dk CO.,
M Warrwm, Car. Cbarub St.. Hew
Ysrlu
■Finformatlen wwrth theuaands will be sen
tw yea.
TO THE PUBLIO.
There can be no better guarantee of the var
of Dm. RASWATW eld established R. R. K. Rxn
bias than the base and worthless imitations
them, as there are False Resolvents, Hells
and ruim Be sure and ask for Radway's, an
sea that the name -Radway- M m whsi yot
buy.
BMPUjyMtNT-fcas'yj.si' lass*
mm A Co. SOU U*orx S4. VlDciaaatl. .
SEWING MACHINE N !TEDLES—Six for 16 cts.J
27 cents * doze t, post-paid. Address
JAMES W. O NKILL, Florence, Mass.
A LJLSWB Brulu Food cmrss Nerrens Debility
j* and Weaknssi of Generative Organs, 91 — 4U
•rnxrlsts. Send for Clrcalar to Ansa's Pharmacy
ni find 4 va M M. T.
SKELETON on the WALL.
The greatest hit of the axe. A ghastly, grinning
skeleton, six feet high, will appear or disappear at
the will of the operator. Its appearance is simply
horrible. Anyone that enjoys a joke at an evening
party or among their frlenis should not fail to send
for tne SKELETON ON THK WALL. One by mail, 26c.:
five for f 1.00; no itamrs taken. Address
W. H. BIGFORD. Toledo. Ohio.
"OUSINEns uoLLKCrE, Chambersburg, Pa. ta-
I> pert fret. •' Most perfect possible."—U. 8.
Oom'rs Report.