AGRICULTURAL. OLD SCYTHES MADE USEFUL - -A. J. F. Howard writes: "Having, like almost every other farmer, a number of old rcytht s, some of which are not much worn, and having last winter a little leisure, I made some very useful and handy tools, and without any outlay. To make a bill hook I cut off 20 inches of the point of an old scythe, leaving 15 inches for the blade. The handle is made by cutting away the edge or blade part of the scythe, leaving the back, around which cloth was wound, until it was of sufficient size, when it was covered with leather. For a drawing knife, which I tlnd useful in making haudies to tools, etc., I use 24 inches of an old scythe, 12 inches for the blade, and 6 inches at each end for the handles. With a cold chisel I cut away the blade portion of the ecythe at the ends, and bent the back which can be done without heating. The handles may be made of cloth aud leather, as tor the bill hook, or of wood. A huife for paring apples, cutting turnip tops, aud many other uses. This is made from the end of a scythe, 4 inches for the blade. 1 cut the back of the scythe entirely away, ming only the thin part, then took a piece of wood —an old broom handle will do — and with a liue saw 1 made a cut in the end to admit the end of the blade, whick was fastened on by rivets. A chopping kuife for cutting meat, apples, etc. For this kuife 1 used 12 inches of the middle of a scythe, leaving 4 inches for the cutting surface in the centre of the piece. The 4 inches on each end had the blade removed, and were turned at right angles to the cen tral portion, with the ends passing iuto a wooden haudle." But very few tools are required in making the articles above de scribed, and any farmer, during a raiuy day or two, may construct tbern from an old scythe, and at no outlay of money. THE AGE OF FOWLS. —If a hen's spur is hard and Hie scales on the legs rough, sue is old whether you see her head or not, but her head will corroborate your observatiou. If the under bill is so stiff that you cauuot bend it down, aud the comb thick and rough, no matter how fat aud plump, leave her for some one less particular. A vouug hen has the rudiments of spurs; the scales ou the legs are smooth, glossy and fresh colored, whatever the color may be; the claws tender and short, the nails sharp, the under bill soft and the comb thiu and smooth. An old hen turkey has rough scales on the legs, callosities on the soles of the feet, and long strong claws; a youug one the reverse ot all those marks. When the on the old turkey cock has a long tuft or beard; a young one but a sprouting one; ai d when they are ofl the smooth scales on the legs decide the point, besides the difference in the size of the wattles of the neck and in the elastic shoot upon the Dose. An old goose, when alive, is known by the roufh legs, the strength of the wings, particularly at the pinions, the thickness and strength of the bill, and the fineness of the feathers ; and when plucked by the legs, the tenderness of the skin under the wings, by the pinions and bill, and the coarseness of the skin. Ducks are distinguished by the same means, but there is the difference that a duckling's bill is much longer in proportion to the breadth of its head than the old duck's. WHAT SIZE TREES TO BUY. —Purchasers of trees oiten make the mistake of suppos ing that the larger the tree bought the greater the gain. Nurserymen, who of all men should know as to this, say that there is absolutely nothing gained by buying large trees. This applies of course in a general sense. If a tree could be removed every few years, so as to have an abundance of fibrous, or small roots, there would be no check on removal, and such a tree would become to* large to move profitably. J&egeaer&l run of trees are not treated thus, and so, the larger the trees the less likely is it to have many roots, and as a consequence the tree must either be pruned back severely, or let alone to make a weak growth, and perhaps die. The best way is to get a medium tree, treat it well, and it will give far more satisfaction than a large one would have without much doubt. A GOOD garden is one of the best invest ments a farmer can make, paying both in pleasure and in profit. Not a stingy little garden, to furnish greens for the chickens, but a broad well kept garden, with every thing planted in long rows that may be kept clean by the frequent use of a cultiva tor. Let this garden be filled with all the improved varieties of garden sauce that shall add to the relish and digestibility, and force-giving value of the tanner's table. Plant sweet corn every two weeks for a succession. A TEASPOGNFUL of powdered charcoal, a quart of bran, and refuse from the table, mixed and moistened with water, are the ingredients of a capital egg-producing food for hens. ONE good farmer says that he purchases in the summer his mill feed for his stock, when it is cheaper than it is in the winter. A Japanese Bronze Worker. —The most skilful bronze worker in Japan, and one of the most skilful of workers in metal that Japan has ever possessed, is said to be a Kiyoto artisan named Zoroku. His spe cialty is inlaying with silver and gold, an art which he carries to such perfection that h s pieces are scarcely distinguishable from the che/8-d'cem re of the Min period. What one sees on going into his atelier is a very old man—some 65 or 70—petrmg through a pair of huge horn spectacles at a tiny in cense-burner or still tinier flower vase, from whose frets and diapers lie is paring away with marvelous patience, an almost imperceptible roughness or excrescence. Beside him winter and summer alike, stands a brazier with a slow charcoal fire, over which an iron netting supports one or two bronze vessels similar to that he holds in his hand. Plainly these bronzes are being subjected to a slow process of baking, and if you watch for a moment, marveling at the purpose of a proceeding which s ems only calculated to mar the fair surface of the metal, you shall presently see the old man dip a feather into a vessel filled with greenish liquor, and touch ihe heated bronze here and there with the most delicate and dexterous care. This liquid is acetate of copper, and this patent process, which you see repeated perhaps twenty or thirty times during a visit of twice as many minutes, will be continued in the same untiring fashion for a half a year to come, after which a month's rub bing and polishing will turn out a bronze rich in green and russet tints that might, and indeed must, you would fancy, have been producd by centuries of slowly toiling time. From a telegraphic dispatch it appears that a Favre secondary battery was sent charged to Glasgow, Scotland, aDd tested with astonishing results by Sir. Wm. Thompson and others. Before saying any thing about the actual or prospective merits of this apparatus here and now, it is thought best to await the arrival of printed accounts of what the Glasgow physicists have done with it and what they observed. The moon , though apparently as large as the sun, is in reality the smallest heaven ly body visible to the unaided eye. Her diameter is 2164 miles. DOMESTIC. MOTH KILLERS. —The aromatic preserva tives which have been used from time im memorial are of a character not at all de stined to kill, but merely to annoy the pests. Camphor, pepper, naphtha, car bolic acid, etc., are efficacious in prevent ing the moth laying its eggs within scent ing distance of the odois, but none of 'liese will destroy the eggs already laid or the larva; developed from them. On the other hand, arsenic, alum, soaps, shaving pow der, potash and common salt will usually kill the eggs m the incipient or primeval condition of transformation, and the larvie are also invariably exterminated by them. There are many Kinds of mixtures used, but their practical effect is not satisfactory. The substauces which hinder the laying ot eggs are preferable, perhaps, to those which will kill the larviu, ou the principle that 44 au ouuee of prevention is worth a pound of cure." It is the odorous sub stances, solely, which take effect upon the moth; coal tar, for instauce. The most successful moth-destroying compouud is naphtha, a constituent of coal tar of a pun gent, disagreeable odor. It evaporates slowly, ami. used in ordinary quantities,is not injurious to the health. Neither is it injurious to the fabric to which it is ap plied. Nupluha, in its unvarnished oou dition, is one of the best extirpator kaowu to entomological scieuce, aud can be suc cessfully used where oilier expedients fail. How TO BOIL AND STEW. —To do either the food must be immersed at the begin ning in actually boiiiug water, and the water must be allowed to reach the boiling point again immediately, aud to boil for live minutes. Tue action of the boiling water upon the surface of either meat or vegetables is to harden it slightly, enough to prevent the escape of either juice oi mineral salts. After the pot containing the food has begun to boil the second time, it should be removed to the side of the fire and allowed to siu.mer until it is done. This simmering or stewing extracts all the uutricious qualities of either meat or vege tables. The pot should be kept closely covered uulesa for a moment wheu it is necessary to remove the scum. The steam will condense upon the inside of the cover, and fall back into the pot m drops of mois ture. If the boiling is alow, do not think that rapid boiling cooks faster than the gentle process recommended. After the pot once boils you cau not make its con tents cook any faster if you have fire enough under it to run a steam engine. Remember if you boil meat hard and fast it will be tough and lastless, and most of its goodness w ill go up the rhiuiney or out the Window with the steam. To MAKE CREAM SAUCE FOR PUDDING.— To make a bowlful of cream sauce take a piece of butter the size of a small egg and beat it up with powdered sugar until it is a light ci earn. Then set it aside. Then into a snail tin saucepan put a coffee cupful of water, and add to it a teaspoouful ot flour mixed io a little wa ter. Cook this thoroughly until it is like thin starch. Then take up the butter and sugar mixture, and, wnile you are beating it energeticaly, let some one pour into It slowly and gradually the hot flour-3auce. If the beatrng is no: stopped for a moment the whole sauce will rise and be foamy as sea-froth. Flavor with wine, brandy or vanilla, as preferred. This is the best sauce made. Potato flour is sometimes ust-d instead of wheat flour. To GIVE PINE AN OAK COLOR —Wash the wood caretully in a solution of cop peras dissolved in strong lye, in the pro portion of a pound of copperas to a gallon of lye ; when the wood is dry after having been thus thoroughly saturated with this wash, oil it, and it will look fresh and nice for a year or two, when it cau lie restrained and again oiled. Often, when not subject ed to hard usage, the color will remam uu dinimed for several years, only requiring to be oiled occasionally. The color may be put on with a short bristled brush, or, the hands being protected with thiu buck skin gloves, the wash may be applied with a cloth, which will saturate the wood more evenly. It will blister the hands if they are not protected. CLAM SOUP. —Boil three minutes a quart of clams with their liquor and a pint of water. Strain them, take off the beards and return to the fire the hard portions aud the liquor. Add two or three spi igs of parsley, a small piece of onion, a blade of mace and a little thyme. Let it cook slowly for half an hour. Cook together in a saucepan a piece of butter the size of sn egg and a large tablespoon of flour. Add to this when done a pint of hot rich milk, then the clam liquor strained, then the soft parts of the clams which you have reserv ed. Season with salt and cayenne pepper, let the whole become well mixed ami serve. HICKORY-NUT cookies which will delight the souls or stomachs of children are easily made. Take two cups of sugar, two eggs, half a cupful of melted butter, six table spoonfuls of milk, or a little more than a third of a cup, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, half a teaspoonful of soda, one cup of chopped meats stirred into the dough. WHEN cooking asparagus be sure to put salt in the water; put in almost enough to season it with. The asparagus will cook quicker and be more tender. A solution of salt and water bwils at a higher tempera ture than water alone ; consequently a lit tle salt should be added to the water in which any vegetable is cooked. THE little boxes of thin wood which are used to carry butter or lard in, when cov ered with cambric or silk, make pretty work boxes, Small peach baskets, paint ed and lined with a bnght color, are orna mental and convenient, beside affording the satisfaction which comes from making something from nothing. A TEASPOONFUL of black pepper will pre vent gray or buff linen from spotting, if stirred into the water in which they are washed. It will also prevent the colors running, when washing black or colored cambrics, or muslins, and the water is not injured by it, but just as soft as before the pepper was put in. BY omitting shortening -that is, both butter and lard—from any good fried cake recipe, and using in place of it a cup of sweet milk, the cakes will be light and al most entirely free from grease. Take care to have the lard in which they are fried very hot. A LUMP of bread about the size of a billiard ball, tied up in a linen bag and placed m the pot in which greens are boil ing, will absorb the gases which often times send such an unpleasant odor to the regions above. To keep your knives and forks from rusting, make a flannel bag, stitch from top to bottom, an inch and a half apart, a dozen times, making a receptacle for each. Boil and keep in a dry place. WIT AND HUMOR. A CERTAIN Galvestot iah was not expected to live. He had a neighbor with whom he hail been on bad terms for many years, and after whose condition he made inquiry of a mutual friend when he heard of the ill ness. "I'm glad to see you feel" a kindly in terest in him, but 1 am afraid he is sinking fast," responded the mutual friend. "He is. Is lief Well, i am not sur prised, 1 always thought that was about the direction lie would go when he died." THERE is a certain Galveston family that does not attend church as regularly as they should, but they send the oldest boy every Sunday to keep up appearances. Last Sun day the head of the family said : "Go dress yourself boy; it's time for you to go to church." "I would like to know," re spouded the boy, sulkily, "why 1 am the only one iu this family who lias got to be religious ?" "Because you need it most, you scoundrel—that's why !" thundred the stern parent, feeling for the young mar tyr's hair. (IndmnaiioiiH, itiihaim. Farmer.) Evrrvlioily Kltflit. When every one says a "tiling is so, it must be so." On this point Mr. A. 11. Lyman, Druggist, Manistee, Mich., writee: Every one who tries St. Jacob's Oil, says that it is the best .remedy ever used for rheumatism. Mr. White, a customer, after having employed every known spec ific for rheumatism was cured by St. Jacob's Oil. A CONTEMPORARY lias been asked: "Can a man belong to a brass band and be a Christian?" It replies : "We see no im pediment in the way. But if he is a member of a brass band, and is given to practising on a cornet or trombone at home it is a very diffi :uit tiling for the nun liv ing next door to be a Christian. A STORY is told of an old gentleman who always took uotes of his mini iter's sermons, and ou one occasion read them to the minister himself. "Stop, stop!" said he, at the occurrence of a certain sentence ; "1 didn't say that." '1 know you didn't," was the reply; "I put that iu myself to make sense." DAUGHTER —"WeII, mother, when 1 grow up, 1 shall have my boots as 1 want them." Mother—"Tea, my dear, I sus pect when you get older you will walk yourself iuto the grave." Daughter— "Perhaps I may, but, anyway, 1 shall look well while I'm walking there." 4 TM always disgusted at these round dances," remarked the elderly Miss Wall flower at the ball. "I thiuk it not only very stupid, this hugging and twirling around, but a wicked waste of time." Said Fogg, sot to voce , "Ncbody to hug her poor thing. Anybody who attempted it would And it a waist of time, I guess." [Fall River, (Mass.) Daily Herald.] Barnard !iinuUctarm{ Company. Mr. Isaac L. llart. Superintendent, No. 8 Ashton street, says : 1 l ave used that superior remedy, SL Jacob's Oil in a se vere case of rheumatism in my arm, aud its effect was wonderful, having banished, after a thorough trial, all paiu leaving uiy arm as well as ever. M. FEBRE, a French naturalist, says that the wasp is endowed with more cunning than any other insect on wings We dou't see anything so very cunning in a wasp lifting a mauoff a bench in a park. An earthquake does the same thing, and makes no pretensions to fun. LAST evening a Whitehall chap, dressed in his liest clothes aud lavender pants, was on his way to see his sweetheart, when an old bell wether went for him and butted him head over heels iuto a mud puddle. His visit was postponed on account of the wether. ELECTRICITY, it is now claimed, can be condensed and bottled the same as beer. Ttie next great discovery will be that one drop of it will blow the worst case of colic to pieces in Ave seconds. Before giviug it to a baby place the infant in a strong iron box so that the fragments can be saved for burial. MAJOR, I see two cocktails carried to your room every morning, as if you had some one to drink with." 44 Yes, sir ; one cocktail makes me feel like another man, and of course I'm bound to treat the other man. A. Loliitr Joke. A prominent physician of Pitt9burg said jokingly to a lady patient who wasjcomplain ing of her continued ill health, and of his inability to cure her, "try Hop Bitters! ' The lady took it in earnest and n ed the Bitters, from which she obtained perma nent health. She now laughs at the doc tor for his joke, but he is not so well pleased with it as it cost, him a good pa tient. SOME people are very hard to convince, "Why, I thought you were dead," said a gentleman to a neighbor. "Well, you see the report was false," was the rejoinder. "I don't know about that," continued the man of obstinacy. "The person who told me never yet deceived me, and I can't say as much for you." "DON'T give your arm to a man—take his. If you let him take yours he will give your arm many a loving squeeze and twist that he should have no opportunity of doing." "Ob, yes, just because you're married and settled down you don't wj*it the other girls to have auy fun. That's always the way. "SHALL I read you a pretty story, Ef fie?" "Has it got a moral in it 9" "Yes, darling." "Then, Mumsey, I'd rather not. A story with a moral is like jam with a powder in it 1" A POOR copving-clerk at the French Min ister of the Interior was lately asked what place he occupied there. "Oh, a very good place," he replied—"between the stove and the window 1" Ilabitual CofttlvciU'H* is the bane of nearly every Amer can woman. From it unuailv arsei those disoid r < that so surely undermine their health aud strength. Every woman owei it to herself and to her family to use that c -lebrated medicine Kidnev- Wort. It is tne cure r< rnedy for c intipation, and for all disorders of ttie kidneys and liver, lry it in liquid or drv form Equally efficient in either. Boston Sunday Budget. You can tell a merciful farmer as soon as he stops his team at a post. He takes the blanket off his wife's lap and spreads it over the poor horses. PUT a rich man on mule -back and tbe mule will throw him just as quickly as he would a beggar. LIKE the dog in the manger, the nose is above kissing and is always ready to in terfere with the kissing ot others. A SLIVER in your hand is worse than two thousand in the hand of your friend. Vegetlne Cured Iler. HKLLRVOTC, Kv. DR. H. It. STEVENS —Peak Sik: I must stats that your Vegetlne iieseW to be called a valuable blood purlfler, renovator ami Invigorator of the whole ay at cm. My wife Buffered for a length of time with a scrofula sore ou the leg. She took several bottles of Vegetlu®. 'I he reaulta were surprising; It cured ner, while all the former remedies failed to give satisfaction. Respectfully, T. F. 1 HICK. 1 know the above to be true. 11KN It Y W KKTIIM EI Kit, Druggist and Apothecary, 13 Monmouth St Vegetlne For eradicating all linpurittea of the blood from the avsteiu, It has no equal. It has never failed to effect a cure, giving lone and strength to the system debilitated by disease. Vegetine. Purifies the lllootl. BOSTON, Mass., .lan. 18,1877. MR. n. R. STF.VENS—Dear Kir: I have been using Vegetlne for some tune with the grealest satisfaction, and can highly recommend it as a great cleanser and purifier of the blood. * J. L. HANAFORD. Pastor of Kgleston Square M. K. t'liureh. Nervousness, and all derangement® of the nerv ous system, are usually connected with a diseased condition of the blood. Debility is a frequent ac companiment. The tirst thing to be done Is to Im prove the coudttlon of the blood. This is accom plished by taking Vegetlne. It is a nerve medicine, and possesses a controlling power over the nerv ous system. Thousands Speak—Vegetlne is acknowledged and recommended by physicians and apothecaries to he the bet purifier and cleanser of the blood yet discovered, and thousands -peak In its praise who hase been lestored to health. Vegetine* Prepared by Hi R. STEVENS, ROSTOV, MARS. Vegetine is S< Id by All Draughta. MBS. LfDU L PINKHIM, OF LYNR. MISS, if LYDIA E. PINKHAM'B VESETABLE COMPOUND. ißaPoßltlT^nr® tortll |RM Painful Oanplalnta ui WMRIIMM ■oruunon UiirbMtfrail* population. Tt win rur* entirety the worrt form of Female OM plain ta, all oTirUn trouble#, Inflammation awl Uloarw. Hon, Falling and Die placeman ta, and tha oonaaquaat Spinal Weakneaa, and U particularly adapted to Jbe Chang* of Life. It win dUaolr* and expel tumor* from tha utarua In an early stag* of development. Tha tendency to cam aarou* humor* there is checked rery speedily by Ita uaa It remoTM falntneae, flatulency, deatroyaall or* ring for etitnulanta, and reiiaroa waaknwaa of the stomach. It ctirea Bloating, Boadachea, Nerrooa Proatratloo, General DabUlty, Blaepleaaneaa, Daptwartoa and IndA (cation. That feallng of hearing down, conrtng pain, weight and backache, is always permanently cured by lta uaa. It wUI at all Umee and under all clreumttancaa act la harmony with the law* that gorarn the female y stein. For the cure of kidney Complaint* of ottbar eex this Oompound 1* unsurpaaeed. LY 1)1 A L PIHKBAin VECETABLf COM POUND la prepared at 3J and tS6 Wertern Avenue, Lyaa, Stem. Price |U 81* bottle# for $4. Sent by mall in tha form of pfll*. alao In tha form of loseng*#, oa receipt of price, |1 par bo* for either. lira. Plnkhaa freely anwer an letter* of Inquiry, herd for pamph lot. Addrea* aa above. Mention this l\ipsr. He family ahould be without LVPIA k PIItIHAMt LJVkR PILLS. They cure couatlpatlon, bUiouw*m wad ton® Uty of the llrer. tt cent* per bo*. IT Hold by all Drugglata. "d (idsTlirEfts MitTERS Th© Traveler wlio Wisely Provide® Against the contingency or Illness by tak Hg with lilm MostettPr's Bioina3h Bitters, has oc casion to congratulate himself on his foresight, when he sees others who have neglected l>>do s S'HTeilng trom some one Of the maladl< 8 for which It Is a remedy and p even ve. Among these are fever and ague, biliousness, constipa tion and rheumatism dl-ca-.es often ait. ndant upon a change of climate or unwonted diet* For sale by all druggists and dealers generally. IHOP BITTERS?! (A .Medicine, not a Drink.) . CONTAINS BOPS, Brrlie, MANDRAKE, DANDELION, I ANDTUR PrREST AND BLCST MEPICALQF ALT- I TIES OF ALL OTUEB BITTKRS. THEY CURE I All Diseases of theStomnch, Bowel*. Blood. I Liver, Kidneys, and Urinary Orglins, Ner vousness, SloenleHHiiessntid especially Female Complaints. SIOOO IN COLD. -^1 I Will be pnld for a case they will not cure help, or for anything impure or injurious found in them. I Ask your drnpglst for Hop BJtters and try I I them before you sleep. Take vo other. I I D I. C. Is an absolute and Irresistible cure for I Drunkenness, use of opium, tobacco and narcotics. SEND FOR CIHCTLAR. HHHBBMMI All *l->v. .old by drucclsU. | Ibp Blttor. M ft?. Co., RorVimtor, N. i., A 1 -ronto, On I. I [■■■hhpiihbhhhhmb 217 XOUNtt M KH Learn Telegraphy 1 Kara ftO ta floOsmoeth. Graduates aaaraßtaed paying es. Aftdr.aa VALENTIN JS JBBOS., JaaesTllls, W laoonsln. ALLEY'S Brain Food cores Nervous Da oiiity ana Vv.-aknes 01 Organ*, Si tu druugists. Send for circular to Allsu'a Phar macy, 313 First Avenna, N, Y. ONLY 26 Cents for a W. hi ta Handled Two-Bladed Knife. Miniature Battery 00., f'hilad'a, Pa. MIRTHFUL MORSELS, a splendid Hnmoroo* J *P'T ou trial 3 month* for Bc. Miniature Bat- Co., Philud'a. Pa. Those nnswerutg an Aaverctsement wil confer * favor apon the Advertiser and tbi Publisher bp eta ting that they aa w the sdve Iff *-*raai (a*aeople to give them one trial, as no one who knows their value will ever use anything else. A YOUNG lady to an orthodox old lady— "l declaie, you are a dreadful fanatic, Mrs. McCizzen. Ido believe you think that nobody will be saved but you and your minister ! Old lady—"Aweel, my dear, ah whiler hac my doots about the meenister." Tiikonly hope of bald heads— CAKBOI.INE, a deodorized extract of petroleum. Every objection removed by recent improvement. It is now faultless. The only enre for baldness and the moat delicate hair dressing known. A G BOKO i A negro twisted * mule's tail to urge it over the fence. The small at tendance at the funeral the next day show ed that the people didti t care if he did twist the mule's tail. A YOUNG lady wrote some veises for a country pajier about her birthday, and headed them "May 80th.'' it almost made her hair turn gray when it appeared in print, "My 30th." VKGETINB. —This preparation is scien tifically aud chemically combined, and so strongly concentrated Irom roots, herbs and harks, that its good effects are realized iin uisdiatcly alter commencing to take it. To avoid beiug cheated in a horse trade, be sure that your horse is absolutely worth less. Tliis si in pie rule never tails. Dforoits and lawyers fee-males. Children are cured of bed-wetting by taking Lydia E. Pinkhaw's Vegetable Compound. 11 is stated that the Palestine Explora tion Fund's expedition has recently received u gift of SSOO toward the expenses of work east of the Jordan, from the Council of the British Geographical Society. Those subject to costiveness should at once try "Sellers' Liver Pills." 25c. per box. Sold by all druggists. From the nodule of chromite in the in terior of the meteorite iron of Cobahuila, Mexico, Dr J. Lawrence Smith of Louis ville, Ky., has obtained on ana'ysis of it, 62 61 of oxide oi chromium and 33 82 of ferrous oxide. "Female complaints" are the result of impure blood. Use "Lindsey's Blood i Searcher." Entomological specimens maybe instaot ! ly and easily killed by dropping a bit of j chloroform on the insect's head. No flut ; tering or relaxation of the muscles is per- I eeptible. Files Hint Mn-qultnes. 15c. box ' Rough on lists" Let-pw a house free from flies, bed-bugs, roaches, ra s mice, Ac. MKSPKS. MOHUAN SL NBADLY. Mutual Life Building, Teniu uiid Chestnut .-tree s, hive on hand a superb sun k oi extra Que quahty Dla muuus, which they offer at as low prlct-eas etones or tUe tlrst qual.ty, p riect alike In color and shape, can be aolu lor. Don't (jt Tlie Chills."' If you are subject to Ague you must be sure to keep your liver, bowels and kidne>a iu good free condition. 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