6 —Save Save M Sigsst*. —They don't want you > they want Battle Ax. Z Many of our wants are satisfied with substitutes Z Z —but there is no substitute for Z jt Jl Zl JjZ 1 PLUG I Z When a man wants Battle Ax there is a reason 9 Z for it —and when he is offered anything "just Z Z as good" there is a reason for his insisting on Z Z Battle Ax. Z O This reason is that Battle Ax is better than any w) X other chewing tobacco that money will buy. 9 z Pemember the name I | 1 v when you buy again. g It " If at first you don't succeed," try SAPOLIO — -{ Hy for Paatore. Bye may be sown for pasture elthel In the fall or in the early spring. Itf function as a forage plant is to replace or supplement the dry fall pasture grass, and to afford succulent forage In. the early spring before the grass it ready to be pastured. For this pur pose it Is best sown in the fall. II sown about September 1 it will afford good pasture in tilie late fall when most of the other forage plants have succumbed to frost. To obtain the best results with milch cows this pas ture should be supplemented with oth er feed. In tihe spring it affords more luxuriant forage and may be pastured as soon as the land is fit to turn the cattle on (T. 1.. Lyon, Bulletin 53, Ne braska Experiment Station). It it eaten with relish by stock up to the time of blossoming. After that the ■talks are too woody to be relished by atock. If It is desired to use It for pas tare luter than this, It should be sown In the spring. By sowing rye It is possi ble to use land for early pasture, plow . ' It up and use for a summer crop, 01 ILj fur summer pasture with another for age crop. Seed at the rate of 1V& to 2 bushels to the ncro, either with a press ) .• drill or broadcast. After the plants are up, keep the surface of the soli loose with the harrow. Do not pas ture in the fall until the plants have become well established. Many dairy men object to rye pasture on the grounds that It gives an unpleasant taste to the milk and butter. It seems possible to remove this objection by taking the cattle off the rye two or three hours before milking and by feeding something In addition to the rye.— American Agriculturist Thinning Fruit. The principal cause of so much small ■cabby and 111-shaped fruit being sent to market is that the fruit grows too thick on the trees. If a crop of corn, tnrnlps, or nny of our annual crops is planted too thick the damage Is only tor the present; but if a tree be nl lowed to bear too full, It may injure the next and perhaps the next two or three crops in the future. If a peach tree, for Instuuce, is quite full. It may ... he thinned to one-half at any time be fore the seed hardens and will be able to produce as many pounds of fruit as It would if not thinned and of course of better quality. It is the* maturing of the seed that exhausts the vitality. Some varieties of fruit are recog nized as alternate bearers, and the rea son Is obvious. Tbey are so busy ma turing their enormous crop this yeur i u.i*y luivtf no time ft) prepare fruit buds for the next; liesides, their vitality is so exhausted that they re quire a year or more of good care to prepare for another crop. By proper and judicious thinning, these same trees may oe brought to a habit of an nual bearing of good and profitable crops that will handle quickly, sell I' readily, ami for double or triple the • price of small, knotty fruit. Farmers could well afford to take a little time from the regular farm work and thin their fruit trees. Hitriiliig S|tintid. I The months of August and Septem ber are the best for the eradication of old stumps. Nothing connected with farming is more aggravating than those "thorns of the ground." There is no bettor way than to burn them out. and this may be done by a simple and cheap method. A sheet Iron cylinder large enougli to slip down over the large stumps Is used. Tills cylinder tapers Into a cone-shaped tig ; ure the size of a stovepipe. Several j Joints of stovepipe nre then added to I tills anil the whole apparatus is placed j over the stump. Previous to this the ] soil is away frqm around the ! stump and g fire is kindled; then the cylinder is added, the smoke evolves from the pipe and you have a good working stove, principle complete. The stump will be burned up as completely as if it were put in a stove manufac tured for the purpose. There is more profit derived from the destruction of I stumps thnn many suppose. More work enn be done in a day in a field free from stumps, and a larger yield will also be the result. Spare nothing to rid yourself of every stump on your farm.—American Agriculturist. To Orl Kill of Wood*. * [! A writer In Fnnn and Fireside says: "After the wheat and oats are cut up ! comes the rngweed, with other weeds I too numerous to mention, and in a ; short time the stubble fields look like they had been forgotten. On land 1 that was rich I have seen a perfect forest of ragweed spring up In an in credibly short time after the wheat and oats were cut. The only way to I prevent this Is to plough the land soon I j after the crop Is removed. And this i j can be done by every farmer who is ,! not trying to farm two or three times I , as much as he can. The ploughing 1 j need not be deep—three Inches are suf • , ficient to destroy all weeds that hnve ■ started. If the land Is to be seeded to • | wheat again, this early ploughing will i | be of the greatest benefit to It. preveut ' I Ing it from baking into rock-like clods • | which neither roller nor plank drug i can pulverlzdt Stubble land skimmed i over with the plow soon after harvest s can be reploughed deeper afterward, If desired, and It will crumble nicely ; and can be worked down fine without | difficulty. I would advise all farmers j to plough after harvest, whether the land Is to be reseeded to wheat or not-" I THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMSBURG. PA. A GIFTED POETESS. PORTO RICO'S "NIGHTINGALE OF THE HILLS." I An Interesting; hJketuli of the Career of Tola Rodrlqtioz de Tlo, Whose Song* Have Added Fuel to the Freedom Forg ing; Flume*. ' Loin Rodriguez de Tlo Is a woman with three reputations, each of them excellent and extraordinary. She ranks hl'li among the world's conch ologlsts. ns a poetess she Is read with keen emotion and delight wherever the Spanish lnnguage Is understood, and as a public speaker she Is one of the leaders of Porto R.'can thought. An exile from her native island of Porto Rico, and n refugee from Cubn. whence she fled from the wrath of Weyler with her husband, also an exile, some time before the butcher was recalled, she Is living now In New York city, with Signor Tlo nnd their daughter, n graduate In philosophy of the Uni versity of Havana. The Tlo home Is n charming center of the Intellectual life of the Porto Rlcnn colony and affords nn admirable Illustration of the hos pitality for which Porto Rico is so fa mous. There the poetess holds court, and with her husband, formerly the editor of those outspoken papers. La Rnzon and La Patrla, debates before lier friends upon the future of the Is land they love so fondly. Signora Tlo. "the nightingale of the hills," ns the Porto Rlcans call her. was born In the Villa de las Lomas. Ban Yerman, In September, 1851. Her grandmother had been a writer of dis tinction and an admirable linguist. Her father was n doctor of laws, a scholar nnd an eloquent advocate wlfli prac tice extending over the whole Island. Bis exnmple was her Inheritance. She learned unconsciously from blm to speak directly and ngreeably and to write gracefully. He was an autono mist. though at that time the govern ment of Porto Rico forbade the use of that word by any political party on the Island, saying It was only a syn onym for Separatist. The daughter took kindly to her father's Ideas, and when hardly In her 'teens was an out and out Separatist. She wrote many popular sougs and ballads full of the spirit of freedom. These had a wide circulation and were the lullatfjs of many a Porto Rtcau household: Dr. Nalverde, a political exile from Sau Domingo, and a frleud of Signor Rodriguez, Interested himself In the girl's education, being attracted by her gift of poesy, and instructed her in the Spnnlsh clusslcnl style. She was an apt scholar aud soon composed verse that attracted attention throughout the Spnnlsh West Indies aud even In Spnln. In 1873. the year that saw the end of slavery in Porto Rico, Lola Rod riguez, then just 22 year old. made an Address at the graduation exercises of the college In Mayaguez. She was the first woman In the Island to speak pub licly before an nudlcnce. It was a time of much political excitement. Porto Illcans were eager for reform. They wished Spain to separate the military and civil departments of the govern ment They were willing, they said, to have n captain general, but let him confine himself to military affnlra ex clusively nnd let another man bold the chief civil office. They wished also to elect their own provincial governors, lnstend of having them sent over by Spain, who appointed them not bo cause of their fitness, but because she wished them out of the 'way. These worthy Spanish appointees shed tears on leaving their beloved Spain, but swore upon their honor to return again as soon ns they had stolen enough to pay their debts. Another thing the na tive Porto Rlcans wished was freedom of the press. The captain general's regulations demanded thnt at least four hours before any pnper was Is sued the proof sheets should be sent to the censor for approval. Ills blue pen cil was a judgment against which there was no appeal. The slgnorfta spoke eloquently, though guardedly of all these things. She besought Spuin to glva a mother's love to her child, far from her, almost hidden In the bosom of the sea. nnd she prayed thnt the child should show herself worthy of such love nnd de serving of perfect trust. The grace of the speaker's manner, the beauty of her language, won all hearts, and the brave words she spoke wrought her audience to the highest pitch of enthu siasm. In a day she had added to her fame throughout the Island. She was poetess and prophetess In one. Her college address was the beginning of an no tlve propaganda In Porto Rico that ended only when shs and her hus band were offered their choice be tween jail and the wide, wide world. La Razon and La Patrla were sup pressed, but the words of the patriot editor remained In tire minds of the people. Even a captain general cannot imprison nn Idea. Nor could the bal- Inds nnd poems of the sweet singer of the hills be exiled. The first volume, "Xles Cantares," appeared In 1870. and noon was In every book stall In Mexico, Central America. Bouth America, the West Indies aud even In Spain. A second volume appeared In Carncns. Venezuela. In 1878, followed by "Mis Poeslas" in 1880, nnd "Ml Ll'bro de Cubn" In 1802. In Caracas a warm friendship, sprang up between the Tlos and Professor Hostos. who was then at the head of educational affairs In Venezuela. After two years in Caracus n new governor general came from Spain to Porto Itlco and the poetess re turned to her native Island, where she and her husband continued the work they had done so much to promote In earlier years. In the meantime Sig nora Tlo' poems-were gaining fame for the authoress. An Itnllan critic kuown as Amlcts, was adding to his reputa tion by translating them. Fasteurath was calling them to the attentlonof the Germans and several French critics, among them Pierre Loth were putting them Into copy for the Parisian pub lishers. In Spain Mendez Pelayo, a member of the academy, a distinguish ed critic, called a meeting of bw> con freres, among whom were Peuaranda, Balayuer, Camplllo nnd Lepolilo Alaz, who sent n testimonial of congratula tion to Slgnorn Tlo nnd a diamond brooch In the symbolic design of a harp. This Is the proudest of her pos sessions. In ISS7 Porto Itlco was again too uncomfortable, owing to official per secutions, nnd the Tios came to New York, whence they soon went to Cuba. Then the poetess, who for some years had been gathering and classify ing the shells of the Antilles as a rec reation and diversion from her politi cal nnd literary work, made the ac quaintance of several eminent natural ists, who brought her to the noUce of their friends in other parts of the world. She received many contribu tions from distant lands. One enthus iastic conchologist In the Philippines, no less n personage than the captain general himself, wrote that the Inter est her exquisite verse had awakened in him had been augmented Intensely now that he learned from his esteemed friend, Carlos de la Torre, that the queen of verse had rare knowledge of shells as well as rythm. He begged her to accept a few specimens from the Island of the Pacific. With the let ter came a complete collection of the shells of the Philippine Islands. While the Tlos were In Cuba Sig norlta Tlo entered the University of Havnna and In due course was grad uated from that famous seat of learn ing with the degree of doctor of phil osophy. Signor Tlo was busy with his editorial work and the poetess cur ried on her propaganda against Span ish oppression. In 185)2 her fourth vol ume of poems appeared nnd the Span ish speaking world accorded It a hear ty welcome. The outbreak of the revolution gave much encouragement to the cause for which the Tios had dedicated their lives, but with the coming of Weyler they soon suffered a persecution compared to which their troubles In Porto Rico were mild In deed, and they were glad,to escape with their lives. POP CORN FOR INSOMNIA. Next ure Thnt Kr Prat*.! Eflloicioai Wherever Tried. A northern business man living la the south has found an agreeable curt for Insomnia. It answered perfectlj in his case, and no longer needing ii ns medicine he continues it us food It is a most agreeable dish of pop corn. The corn Is popped In the us ual wire basket, and while hot it is put In a hot bowl. Scalding milk is poured over it, and In two minutes It is soft nnd ready to be sprinkled with sugar, unless salt and pepper are pre ferred. The addition of a little vanilla transforms the juvenile favorite Into a delicate hasty pudding. To keep the corn after gathering, put It (on the cob) In a cool place; If shelled It loses Its moisture sooner, nnd after a while will not pop. The place where other corn Is kept is best to preserve It in. Pop corn hot served In bowls of hot milk Is a southern refection at card parties.—Chicago Times-Herald. Ingrowing Toe Anil.. This Is a very common and trouble some affection, and most usually oc curs by the side of the big toe. The surrounding soft parts first become swelled and Inflamed by constant pres sure against the edge of the nail from the use of tight shoes. If this Is al lowed to continue, an ulcer Is formed tn which the edge of the nail Is imbed ded. The pain from this. In some In stances, Is sufficiently severe to pre vent walking. When this condition Is arrived at a doctor's treatment becomes necessary. The first object is to remove the cause, the tight shoe, then proceed to lessen the Irritation and reduce the swelling. After soaking in hot wa ter, the natl should be thinned by scraping, and, If very painful, a lin seed poultice will give relief. When the Irritation has thoroughly subsided, soft cotton should be pressed between the flesh and the nail, and then, ir the skin is not broken. It should be slightly saturated with tincture of iodine. Re peat the treatment for several days, after which the tenderness will disap pear. Note* of Interest. Among the queen ants captured In and around Buluwayo, for which a prize of half-a-crown Is paid by the sanitary board, have been some speci mens measuring four and a half In ches and as thick as a man's thumb. The curfew law obtains tn Seoul, Korea. When the huge bronze bell of the city proclaims the hour of sunset and the time for closing the gates, every man Is obliged to retire to his home, under pain of flogging. Germany and Austria have about ISO cooking schools. A four years' course is necessary before the student obtains a diploma. Most of the hotel chefs have diplomas from these schools. The time necessary for the conver sion of a forest tree, or a part of It, Into a printed paper. In a recent test made In Germany, was two hours and twenty-five minutes. A proposal has been made by a French chemist to obtain easily as similable iron tonics from vegetables by feeding the plants judiciously with Iron fertilisers. A Reason For Her Hope. First Fair American: "t do hope the Government will hold on to the Philippines." Second Ditto: "Why? In what way are you specially Interested In the Philippines?" "George says that If they are still In our possession next spring, we'll go 1 there on our wedding trip." 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The Body Petri dud A strange story comes from Haz leton to the effect that the remains of the well-known Joseph Keller, one ot the most prominent singers in Eastern Pennsylvania, who died some seven years ago and was interred in Laurel Hill cemetery, are still in a perfect state of preservation and turning into stone. It was while re-interring the remains to make room for a monu ment dedicated to the memory of the late John Arnold that the discovery was made. The casket was found to weigh over a thousand pounds, re quiring the combined efforts of six men to move it. Upon opening the casket it was discovered, much to the surprise of those in charge of the work that the body was of a deep stone color and undergoing a complete state of petrification. The face was full and the features well preserved and easily recognized, the only unnatural feature being the change of color due to the transforma tion. The face and hands were as hard as stone. The above is going the rounds of the papers again, this time with the stony corpse located in Laurel Hill. How we do love that good old story! We have heard it for many years, but we never saw a petrified corpse, nor we never saw any one who said he had seen one; in fact we never saw a man who said that he-had seen a man who said somebody had told him that lie had seen a petrified body. The only stone man that ever existed was the Cardiff Giant, on exhibition in this country some years ago, and the stuff ing was knocked out of that by posi tive proof that the petrified figure was a genuine fake. A STRONG NATION Consists of strong men and healthy women, and health and strength depend upon pure, rich blood, which is given by Hood's Sarsaparilla. A nation which takes millions of bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla every year is laying the foundation for health, the wisdom of which will surely show itself in years to come. HOOD'S PILLS are prompt, effic ient, always reliable, easj to take, easy to operate. - 25 c. The use of the power of the War Department to prevent a parade of troops in New York City, which Gen eral Miles was for some reason anx ious to have take place, and which he had positively said would take place, was in itself an insignificant matter, but it shows the bad feeling existing between Miles and the Department, and the intention of the Department to humble Miles whenever possible to do so. " Nell—" Yes, I got a lot of dresses and jewelry through without trouble." Belle—" You don't mean it ?" •' Yes; you see the customs inspector was sweet on me and I promised to marry him." " Ah, it was a question of love or duty." OASTORXA. Bean the J? The Kind You Have Always Buugfi '":r The hurricane that passed over the British West Indies on Sunday Sept. nth, was undoubtedly the worst visi tation of the kind experienced by the West Indies during the century, both in violence aud extent. The hurri cane swept along the island chain, from Barbadoes westward to St. Vin cent and thence northwest to St. Kitts, where it was last heard from. Barbadoes suffered mostly from the rain, which destroyed the crops and roads, as it did at St. Lucia and other islands, while the center of the storm swept St. Vincent and Guadaloupe, Details received from St. Vincent show that an unparallelled destruction of life and property has taken place there. Out of a population of 41,000 three hundred were killed and 20,000 were injured and rendered homeless. Besides this, owing to the complete destruction of the provisions, they are all starving. The island has been absolutely gutted by the wind and floods from the mountains, in addi tion to the waves along the coast. There has been great loss to ship-* ping along the track of the cyclone. WE GIVE NO REWARDS. —An offer of this kir.d is the meanest of decep tions. Our plan is to give everyone a chance to try the merit of Ely's Cream Balm—the original balm for the cure of catarrh, hay fever and cold in the head, by mailing for 10 cents a trial size to test its curative powers. We mail the 50-cent size also and the druggist keeps it. Test it and you are sure to continue the treatment. Relief is immediate atid a cure follows. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren street, New York. We have received the latest sample book of society address cards and are prepared to supply cards with beauti ful designs and in great variety to Masons ot all degrees, Odd Fellows, Knights of Malta, Knights of the Gol den Eagle, Junior O. U. A. M., G. A. R., Union Veteran League, Sons of Veterans, Royal Arcanum, P. O. S. of A. Also cards for Fire men, Christian Endeavors and many other organizations. Call and see samples. tf. A MAGICAL LIFE SAVER— Is Dr Agnew's Cure for the Heart. After years of pain and agony with distress ing heart disease, it gives relief in 30 minutes. Thos. Petry, of Aylmer, Que., writes : " I had suffered for five years with a severe form of heart dts- • ease. I was unable to attend to bus iness. The slightest exertion pro duced fatigue. Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart gave me instant relief four bottles entirely cured me." ir Sold by C. A. Kleim. " What have you been doing this year ?" asked the first chicken. " Well," said the other, as it proceed ed to dig up the neighbor's early tur nip seed, " raising vegetables, princi pally." OASTORIA. , Bnn the TllB Kind You Haw Always Bougfk
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