i .. .,.1 i : n t "i 6 Chicken Lore. Ordinarily chicks raised with hens are hardier, as it is so easy to neglect brooders. But give the chicks in the brooder as good care as the hen docs her brood, and there will be no differ ence. By the artificial methods, es pecially in raising broilers, c'.iicks are forced ahead at a much more rapid rate than when in charge of a hen. The average hen lays best in spring and the early part of summer. The practical poultryman, however, by good housing, good Iced and good management, has his hens divide up their product more, so that the results are more even throughout the fall and winter as well as the rest of the year up to molting time. A broiler is a chick of ij to a pounds in weight, and anything over that is classified as a spring chicken, according to Farm Poultry, At a meeting of the Luzerne Medi cal Society lecently, says the Wilkes Barre Jlecord, it was exemplified that hypnotic influence was capable of being used as a remedial agent. Dr. Long exhibited a patient from the hospital, who for a year or two has been developing a morbid growth in or around the gullet, and who has ex perienced great difficulty in swallow ing, so much so that he had to be fed with milk through a stomach tube. The resident physician at the hos pital had succeeded in hypnotising him, and during the influence he was able to swallow with little or no diffi culty. Dr. Mengel, senior resident physician at the hospital, gave a de monstration to the society. After a few passes the patient was easily ren dered hypnotic and was entirely under the control of the doctor. There was sight or absence of sight, feeling or absence of feeling, etc., just as the doctor willed. The patient was hyp notized completely and on being awakened had no recollection of any thing that had occurred. That he was not shamming was shown by the fact that the doctor could stick pin3 into his body and place burning matches against his llesh without mak ing him wince. The demonstration was most interesting and was follow ed by discussion. It was generally agreed that hypnotism had an element of danger and was not to be resorted to except with great caution. Dr. Taylor mentioned the fact that in Belgium a law had been passed mak ing it illegal to employ hypnotism. Under the House apportionment Allegheny and Philadelphia gain a Congressman each. Allegheny also gains a Senator and four Representa tives. The legislative apportionment bill gives Allegheny county four more Representatives. It makes no change in the representation from Phila delphia, although the geographical construction of nearly every district is changed. The legislative ratio is 6,ooo. Undr this ratio there will be only aoa members of the House, instead of 204 as at present. Blair, Cambria, Clearfield and Jefferson each gain a representative by the new ap portionment, and Bedford, Chester and Clarion, Columbia, Crawford, Huntingdon, Lawrence, Mercer, Somerset and Bradford each lose one. Men working in tanneries out in Sullivan and Lycoming counties have received a heavy cut in their wages. Some papers laid it to the tariff. Hides were put on the free list in the McKinley bill and were lclt the same in the Wilson bill. The price of leather keeps going up, and at a meet ing of shoe manufacturers held in Boston last week it was voted to raise the price on all shoes from 10 to 25 cents a pair. " This rise in prices is forced upon manufacturers by the ad vance in hides." Were the wages of the workmen in tanneries cut down for the same reason? Were either or both affected by the tariff? Will some political Ananias please stand up and explain matters ?Jiraintrim Mexacnger. The Evening Star estimates the extra cost of the Compulsory Educa tion bill, if it shall be enforced, in the city of Philadelphia at $250,000. This is probably an underestimate, But the Compulsory Education bill is one of that character of statutes that are never enforced. The city lias neither schoolhouses nor teachers for all its children, nor money to build the schoolhouses or to pay the teachers. But it is proposed forthwith to drive the army of untaught young sters into houses that are not, to have them taught by teachers who have not been employed, and to pay for all with money that has not been collect ed. This is cart-before the-horse leg islation based on the cart before the horse idea that education should be a matter of pains and penalties instead of a matter of grace and option. To Make Pure Blood, There is no meduine before the people equal to Hood's Sarsaparilla. It is the standard spring medicine and blood purifier and ic possesses peculiar merit which others try in vain to reach. It really makes the weak strong. Do not neglect to purifv your blood this spring. Take Hood's Sarsaparilla now. Hood's Pills become the favorite cathartic with every one who tries thein. 25c. per box. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. How tho State it Divided by tho Now Ap portionment Bill. The report of the Committee on Congressional Apportionment divides the state as follows : First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Districts Philadelphia. Seventh District Chester and Dela ware. Eighth Montgomery and Bucks. Ninth Northampton, Monroe, Pike, Carbon and Wayne. Tenth Berks and Lehigh. Eleventh Lancaster. Twelth Lackawanna and Susque hanna. Thirteenth Luzerne. Fourteenth Schuylkill and Colum bia. Fifteenth Dauphin, Perry and Lebanon. Sixteenth Bradford, Wyoming, Sul livan, Lycoming and Union. Seventeenth Tioga, Potter, Mc Kean, Cameron and Clinton. Eighteenth Northumberland, Mon tour, Snyder, Juniata, Mifflin ami Centre. Nineteenth Huntingdon, Franklin, Blair and Fulton. Twentieth Adams, York and Cum berland. Twenty-first Fayette, Somerset and Bedford, Twenty-second Fourth, Fifth, Sev enth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-first wards of Pittsburg ; city of McKeesport ; all the borough and townships of Allegheny county, between the Youghiogheny and Monongahela river from junction to eastern boundary line of Pittsburg and the Allegheny river. Twenty-third All of Allegheny county north of Allegheny and Ohio tivers. Twenty fourth District The First, Second, Third, Sixth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Twenty second, Twenty third, Twenty-fourth, Twenty fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty seventh, Twenty eighth, Twenty ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first, Thirty second, Thirty third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty fifth, Thirty-sixth wards, Pittsburg, and all the boroughs and townships of Alle gheny county lying south of the Youghiogheny river and the Mononga hela river, from its connection with the Youghiogheny to the eastern boundary line of Tittsburg and the Ohio river, and the township of Neville, in Allegheny county. Twenty fifth Armstrong and West moreland. Twenty-sixth Indiana, Clearfield and Cambria. Twenty seventh Washington and Greene. Twenty-eighth Lawrence, Butler, Venango and Mercer. Twenty ninth Erie and Crawford. Thirtieth Jefferson, Clarion, For rest, Warren and Elk. REOALLS LINCOLN'S DEATH. Capt. Silas Owen, of Cohoes, N. Y., owns a valuable bit of yellow pasteboard that reads: "Ford's Theatre, Friday, Orchestra, Section D, No. 173." It is the coupon for his reserved seat in the theatre the night Lincoln was shot, thirty years ago. Capt. Owen says : " I was Captain at that time of the Primrose, of the Potomac flotilla, and my execu tive officer was William H. Flood, whose home is in Washington. Flood and I went to the theatre that night together, and by the merest accident left our side arms on leaving the Navy yard. If we had brought them Booth might never have escaped from the scene of the assassination, as he was within easy pistol-shot of us in his hurried flight, and Flood especially was a quick and accurate shot. Our seats were on the right of the main aisle and just three rows back of the musicians." According to Capt. Owen's story Flood instantly climbed over the box parapet and was helped by Miss Harris, of Albany, N. Y., daughter of United States Senator Ira rlarris. He raised the President's head, which had dropped down upon his breast,' and was the first man in the audience to reach the scene. Miss Laura Keene, the star of the play, al so got there in a few seconds. The assassin rushed by her and made a jab at her with a dirk that slightly cut her sleeve. The story that Miss Keene's dress was all stained with Mr. Lincoln's blood is pure fiction, though it obtained wide circulation Col. Rathbone, who was also in the box with the President, met an un timely fate by falling from his horse in Albany a few years ago. A Minister's Experience With Heart Disease, Rev. L. W. Showers. Elderton. Pa 'For manv vears rov createst enemv has been organic heart disease. From uneasiness aoout the heart, with pal pitation, it had developed into thump ing, fluttering, and choking sensationr. Dr. Anew's Cure for the Heart gave instant relief. A few bottles have rid me of almost every symptom of heart disease. It is a wonder-worker." Sold by Win. K. Rishton. 6-15-jy. Children Cry for Pitcher's Caetcrla. THE COLUMBIAN, Ghcorine. Equal parts of bay rum and glycer ine applied to the face after shaving make a man rise up and call the woman who provided it blessed. Applied to the shoes, glycerine is a great preservative of the leather and effectually keeps out water and pre vents wet feet. A few drops of glycerine put in the fruit jars the last thing belore sealing them help to keep the preserves from moulding on top. For flatulency there is no better remedy than a teaspoonful of glycer ine after each meal. It will prevent and cure chapped hands. Two or three drops will often stop the baby's stomach ache. It will allay the thirst of a fever patient and soothe an irri table cough by moistening the dryness of the throat. How's This I We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transr.ctions and fin ancially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Wai.dino, Kinnan & Marvin, Whole sale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, acting directly upon the blooil and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. LippiucotVs Magazine for June. 1805. The complete novel in the June issue of JJppincoW a is "The Battle of Salamanca," a stirring tale of the Napoleonic wars, from the Spanish of Benito Perez Galdos, an author of high repute in his own country, but hitherto too little known in America. It is followed by a brief account of " Galdos and his Novels, by the translator, Rollo Ogden. niiam 1 homson, a pioneer of the days when the California trail was new, relates a wi'd Western adventure of long ago, "Beset in Aravaipa Canon." The other stories of the number are, " As a day in June," by May D. Hatch, and " Interwoven Strains," by J. Percival Pollard. Under the title, " William Shaks- peare : his Mark, William Cecil Elam shows how largely the speech of illiterate Virginians is that of the corresponding class in England near three centuries ago, as preserved by the great dramatist. In " The Tyranny of the rictonal," Sidney Fairfield exposes one of the most prominent fads of the day. He complains that pictures, especially of women, occupy too largely the place of reading matter ; and all who are familiar with our illustrated papers and magazines as who is not ? must admit that he hits the mark. John Gilmer Speed writes with full knowledge on a topic of great practi cal importance, " Improving the Com mon Roads." W. D. McCrackan furnishes a sharp essay on "The Referendum and the Senate, and Dr. Charles C. Abbott an interesting study of Thoreau. The poetry of the number is by Ella Gilbert Ives and Madison Cawein. Between frosts. bui;s. drouchts and - ' CT U ever so many other things the farmer has a hard lot. Weeds are among his deadliest enemies. The Depart ment fif Agriculture in Washington has been giving attention to this sub ject, and aside from the Russian thistle gives this list of nine species of weeds which have worried the farmers during the past year : " Prickly lptrnre " hraeted nlantain." " horse - - - 1 1 7 nettle," M buffalo bun," " spiny ama ranth, " dagger cocnie-ourr, wnci carrot,' " wild oat," and " false flax.'1 The seeds of many annuals retain their vitality for several years, so that, if iheu nnre lieeome abundant in th.- - soil, they are likely to germinate at 1 . 1 1 irregular intervals ana mus cause trouble for a long time, even though no Iresh seeds are introduced. In such cases the only thing to be done is in keen at it. nreventini seed nro -- l - ' 1 o I duction year after year by mowing or oy otner means, mus grauuauy re ducing the quantity of weeds and nreventinir further cureadincr. In ml 1 o -1 o tivated fields the land ought first to be burned over, in order to destroy as many as possible of the seeds that lie on the surface. Subsequent cultiva tion will kill the seedlings as they appear. v "Tiuld not to misfortune," I was afflicted with catarrh last ajtumn. During the month of Octo ber I could neither taste or smell and could hear but little. Ely's Creum Balm cured it. Marcus Geo. Shautz, Rahway, N. J. I suffered from catarrh of the worst kind ever since a uoy, and 1 never hoped for cure, but Ely's Cream Balm seems to t'o even that. Many ac quaintances have used it with excel lent results. Oscar Ostrum, 45 War ren Ave., Chicago. 111. Cream Balm is agreeable. Call and see the typewriter paper at tins liKice. tf. BLOOMSBURG, PA. USURY DENOUNCED. Judge McPherson Scores Outside Build ing Associations Doing Dusincss In Tills Slate. Last week there was tried before Judge McPherson at Harrisl.urg the case of the New York Building and Loan Association against David Slaughter. The plaintiff is a New York corporation doing a so called building association business in this State, The action was to recover from Slaughter the sum of $3,500, which had been loaned by the plain tiff to him on a mortgage, the dues, fines and interest on which amounted to a sum in excess of twelve per cent. per annum on the principal. The defense was that the foreign corporation has no right to do business as a building association in this State, and that all interest, etc., in excess of six per cent, per annum is usury. The defense was sustained by the court, and a verdict of $2 74044 in favor of the p'aintiff (being the amount of principal due by Slaughter with six per cent, interest) was rendered by the jury, subject, however, to the re served question of law whether there can be any recovery at all in the ac tion, which was a proceeding on the mortgai;e. In his charge to the jury Judge Mc Pherson said that associations like the plaintiffs are fcattered all over the country, and what their character is and by whom they ale managed no- body knows. " I hey send their agents to our State," he said, "and undertake and agree to do business with our citizens and lend them money. They undertake to violate our laws, and it is much to be feared that in some instances they have gone further than the violation o the usury laws and have become traps for the unwary, 1 hey have no right to come here and make contracts upon which they can collect more than six per cent, interest, and I think it it was definitely understood that they could not charge more than six per cent. interest they would soon change the field of their operations. In my judg ment, we would be the gainers by that. I, for one, would be heartily glad to see them all leave.'' TO TIITl WORLD OF WOMEN. Weak, nervous, delicate, overwork ed women need a strength builder, a tonic lor their nerves, and a cure for that awful internal trouble that is wearing out their lives. Thousands of women have found such in Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. Mrs. Christiana Beal, of Jonesport, Me., writes that her daughter had been a great sufltrer from female trouble, and after repeated trials of doctor's prescriptions and other so called cures, all of which gave no relief, she used Favorite Remedy and it permanently cured her. If you have headache, uterine ca tarrh, irregular menstruation, leucor rhcea or irregular monthly periods, sickness incidental to change of life, or any of the attending evils that are present in female complaints, use favorite Remedy : it will build up quickly the run down constitution, dispel those tired looks and feelings, restore the rervous system and per manently cure you. Our daughters grow up weak and delicate ; mothers can avoid such conditions by giving them Dr. Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. 2t. PENNSYLVANIA'S FRUIT CROP. A Largo Amount of Damage Said to Have Been Dono by the Cold Spell. The State Department of Agricult ure has received reports which indi cate that a large amount of damage has been done to the Pennsylvania Iruit crop by the recent cold spell, but it is too early to estimate the extent of the injury. Second reports, how ever, indicate that the damage is not so great as at first suggested. This is especially true in relation to the in terior portions of the State. Along the northern and western borders ihe crops of Niagara and other early grapes have probabiy Deen irreparably injured. Owing to high winds in the south western portion of the State during the two colder nights frost was prevent ed and slight damage is reported. l ew larm crops are hurt, not having been advanced enough to sustain injury. Healthy Children come from healthy mothers. And mothers will certainly be healthy if they'll take Jr, l'lcrce' favorite Prescription. Nothing can equal it in building up a woman's strength, in regulating and assisting all her natural functions. It lessens the pains and burden of child-bearing, supports and strengthens wean, nursing mothers, anil promotes an auunaaiu secretion 01 nourishment. It's an invitioratini;. restorutive tonic. soothing and bracing nervine, and a remedy iui wum.uis uig antt ailments, in every chronic "female complaint" or weakness, it acts so benifically that, once used, it is al ways in lavor. Delicate Diseases nfTectini male or female. however induced, speedily and permanently curwi. illustrated iook sent sealed for l cents in stamps. World's Disuensarv Medi cal Association, 663 Main Street, lluffalo, Children Ciyffcr Pitcher's Castorla. 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