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FARM NOTES,
CuorTing Fopper BY HAND —A
shrewd writer observes that the farmer
who continues to chop up cornstalks
and other'coarse feed by hand needn’t
wonder if his sons take a dislike to
farming and quit it for fome pleasanter
employment the first opportunity.
Many a young man leaves the farm be-
cause he has a liking for machinery,
and desire to work where he will direct
forces of steam or horse power rather
than do all with muscles. Such a
youngster is just now especially needed
on the farm. More and more is skill
with complicated mechanism needed in
the ordinary operations of the farm.
Probably in a few years a majority of
farmers will find it profitable to keep a
steam engine, to saw wood, cut fodder
and furnish power for many operations
now performed by hand, More than a
few boys have acquired a distaste for
farming by bLeing required hour after
hour to turn grindstones or swing the
revolving churn,
I'oor FARMING AND POOR HORSES,
—Some one who is evidently a shrewd
“Lids of a feather,” they ‘flock to-
gether.”
raised by a lot of broken down plugs, o
be impossible to raise 4 poor
crop.
CREAM OANDY.--Pluce a large cup-
ful of white sugar. and three table-
spoonfuls of water 1m \ porcelain kettle
and let it boll until a drop dropped in-
to a cup of cold water will harden.
The moment it will do this add a tea-
spoonful of vanilla and one-half tea-
spoonful of eream tartar; pour into a
buttered aish, and when cool work un-
til perfectly white; cut in squares and
set away to cool,
IROWN JOE. —2 cups of indian meal,
2 cups of flour, 1 cup of molasses, 1
pint of milk, 1 teaspoonful of soda, 1
teaspoonful of salt. Steam 6 hours; to
be eaten warm as bread. Delicious
with baked beans,
I
The Old, Old Story.
A little cough: a feeling 111;
A headache oft; a dally chills
A slower walk ; a gquickened breathy
A frequent talk of coming death.
No strength to rise from day to day;
From loving eves he fades away.
Now lifts no more the weary head,
The struggle's o'er; mat is dead
Such is the fatal progress of consumption
How often is ho the old, old story.
not half so often as it was before the knowled
i ¢ was a discovery in
dread d
the
et
Ke
i by hieh ths fase
{ in its early stages and the pa
\ h. This wonderful rem
| Discovery
science
of
stored to
Piex
dy, is In
Thousandzof «
me A —————
Generally, he who sells hay trom his
!
- - '
Never Surpassed.
farming crops in the best possible
ner. If deep ploughing is best, it can-
nit well be done, or done at all, with
inferior horses. The preparation of
the ground for planting is a laborio 8
task,
not be well done,
work on the farm
In short, there is no
that a
poor one, and for that reason, ir nothing
else, a farmer stands In his own
when he tries to get along with
ferior class of hoses,
an
Orr READERS will do well to examine
carefully the rem offers made
by “I'he Pureclu f 614 Chest-
nut St.. Phila. Salinger, Man-
ager Fhe rare in rich new
jewelry are very tractive,
i) ¢
¥
resbie
nny
Dargnins
at
8:
‘. 3
these ure a ladies
Brazilian Pebble
1ntag
stone,
ax cluster
}
110
design stone,
1d SCH
8i
gold front lace
with Rhinestone,
in Cameo,
81.25; &e
’
beautiful
! for 70 cents. a 8
y of new design,
- a 82.50 sohd gold ring,
aglio, or Tiger Cameo
2. AE
f a 825 piece of jewelry cannot be
distinguished trom one that sells for 84,
and ean here be bought for 82, this
“Purchasing Co.” should
praise for assisting people of taste to
exercise a most commendable economy.
And the cheaper article is the pest,
for it locks up less capital!
ee —————
Tae Prorit DERIVED.—The lar-
gest profit derived 18 from the manure,
as but 3) per cent. of the food eaten
ligested and assimilated, the cattle car-
away from the farm
CAT
' ’
receive all
IB
r to the kind of food provided.
ie cattle gave no profit, when sold,
over the cost of the food, the manure
would still remain as a large item in
their favor, The fattening steers,
however, as at present practiced, is for
the farmer to go on the market and
buy a lot for that purpose. If he be-
comes interested in the improvement of
his stock he will learn that it is cheaper
to raise his steers and fatten them for
be can secure more beef from a well
of
steers bought from dealers, as there is
classes of animals
the young animals forced In
from the start, will not only
larger profit but allow more land to be
cultivated by a more enonomical system
of feeding.
the floor and shelves of a large closet
ventilation,
yellow, were soft, sweet and of delicious
flavor,
Statem- nt of The Penn Mutual Life Insurance
Co. of Philadelphia, This exhibit shows total
ass 18 of over fifteen million dollars, and a sur-
pius o/er all liabilities to policy holders of over
two million and a half doliars ; these figures are
new Basiness written during the past year is
simpy marvelous, showing as it does a grand
tota: of assets of $15,174.075.38 and a surplus of
$1804 658.39. It is very evident that the Penn
Mutual means to ne its ition at the head
of the solumn, and theres it deserves Lo stay, as
there is not in the country A more carefully
managed and honestly conducted Company.
The watchwords of the officers of the Penn
Mutual seems to be Enterprise, Integrity and
Liberality to Poliey-holders.
cc son
Excessive growth or fattening is at a
great expense of food, Betler a con-
tinuous good growth and no cramming
stages,
Rupture cureguaranteed by
Dr. J. B. Mayer, 831 Arch St, U'hil’a,
Pa. Kase at once, no operation or de-
lay from business, attested by thou.
eands of eures after others tall, advice
free, send for circular.
ss IO OLB
The man who buys good animals and
gives them scrub feed ought, to be con-
sistent, not to hoist his umbrella in a
rain-storm.
Cann’s Kidney Cure for
Dropsy, Gravel, Diabetes, Bright's,
Heart, Urinary or Liver Diseases, Nerv-
ousness, &o. Cure guarsnteed. 831
Arch Street, Philad'a. $1 a bottle, 8
for $5, or druggist. 1000 certificates of
cures, Try it.
Roman gold buckets with cul glass
interiors are a new idea iu inkstands,
Mss I ——
ITS ris free ny Dr. Kilne's Gross
Ris dA No Fits atoer day's use, Mar.
veious cures, ‘Treatise and $100 trial bolls (ree Lo
¥icases, Bend to Dr Kline 981 Arcs st. Pile,
A AI SSR 5
Menu for Afternoon Tea. Rolled
chicken sandwiches, olives, gherkins,
wafers, tea,
11afioted with sore eyes use Dr. lmao’
Without clean!
produce
cheese are valn.
For the nutrition
the conservation of
is the world’s royal crop.
Hhing
Dol
is |
Ligar
A ———
bedding cost
ing
the expense of gathering
The Standard |
y 1 #g
Forest leaves for
“I regard Hood's
passed above the grade f wha
ed
call pa‘en
awe
TI
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold byalldrugygists § % ford ! sred
by C. 1. HOOD & CO. Lows M
100 Doses One Dollar
3 ¥
i
TH#
Insurance Co. of Philadelphia.
Neat Assets, January 1. 18%
Receipts daring the year
For Premiums CLR NT 18
For interest.ete,., SILAS
DISBURSEMENTS.
Claims by Death $0 842 00
os 0
tants ; 0 12
Surrendered Polloies 218.43 60
19
Total Paid Policy.
holders... S1L790.047 35
Added to Reserve,
81.210081 00
nass
Salaries, Medleal
Fees and Office
Expenses
Commins
fog and Supplies
OfMce Furniture
Net Assets, Jan. 1, 180
t Being sums allowed in redue.
tion of collectible premiums,
SKET=, i
City Loans, Raliroad and Water !
mids. Bank and other stocks $4,900,181 15
Mortga es and Ground Hents |
(first flens) 4.400,
Fremium Notes secured Vg 24
JIen, 888, .;0uiciiias convsn MAT 8
Loans on Collaterals. ete . 1.974.085 75 |
Home Ofce and Real Estate |
bought to secure loans 812.008 88 |
Cash in Trust Companies and !
on hand ad
§2.551.060 09
914,208,%7 14 |
by pei
Net Ledger Assetans above, 814,208,307 14
Net Deferred and Unreported |
Premiums cues suns $400 200 02 |
Interest Due and Averued, ote, 110.488 32
Market Value of Stooks, Bonds, i
ete, over cost y 381,080 AY
Gross Assets, January 1, 1800,815,174,078 23
LIABILITIES,
Death Claims Re.
Jrorsed, but await
ng proof
Reserve at p
(ent. to rednsure
Risks. ............. i 8718608 00
Surplus on Life Rate
Endowments and
Unreported Poll
cles, eta... ..
td
SS SASL AD
815,174,078 98
SH ————
Surplos at 4) roent., Pann.
pod, fo aatard . $2,076,196 39
(Estiinated.)
New Business of the
6,788 policies, tor
Fowanp M. NegpLes, President.
HORATIO SN, STHPHENS, Nee resident
HEXRY C, BROWN, societal Be LEaL.
SEER J, DARKEN, ary ang | reds uver
Both the method and results when
Byrup of Figsis taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Jver and Bowels, cleanses the sys.
tem effectually, dispels colds, head-
aehes and fevers and cures habitual
censtipation. Byrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste Ho
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances,
its many excellent qualities com-
mend it to all and have made it
the most popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50e
and $1 bottles by all leading drug-
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept
any substitute,
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP C&
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL,
SOUIBYILLE, KY. SEW YORK, RV.
THE PURCHASING C0,
No. 614 Chestnut Street,
OFFERS THE FOLLON
BARGAL
No. 907.
A Ladies Glove Ring,
This is rolled id, rieh
No. 914,
A
taglio
gf hands E34 head
stone
Gentleman's Heal
Ring.
None wit]
Carved on
edges 5
sides eng top,
This } ely finished,
equal to any Gold R
Retail price 3:0
No. PAZ,
Thislan
Ring of
has a
with aix
glones
this a= a special
fail price 8 [ou
Neo. 3428.
» mialch
ng.
ar fr
Pri
Six Cluste
£1
hu
Solid Gold Gent's Soar! Pin, wi! beantiful
sefling, and a real Rb The entire arti
gin is solid gold, and we Must be seen
od be reciated. price, $8.30; our
jeslane
made,
Retad
Neo. 3224,
new gold wire Swing Far Ring.
e top Ia gold front, perforated and
3. It basa new six.
faweett Rhine
itifully engrave
and x
jetting ax
e, $2. Our price, 15a.
Ne. 3207.
A
fits ¢lose to the ear and has a patent
new six pp
point setting Faring,
push bask, set with a very brilliant
eicar stone,
Retall price, 81.50; our price, 70a
No. 773.
Gold Front Lace Pin, with Rhinestone een
tre. Has a patent safety pin attached. Is well
made and entirely new Retail pries, #4; our
price, 82,
No. 133614.
A Solid Gold Ring ean be had Jin
' either Cameo, Intaglie, er Tiger
Cameo
full figure om WH: sides are nicely
| engraved. The general construction
of this ring is very fine, Jewelers ro
tail it for 82.00 ; our price, $1.85,
please mention sumber of ar
mistakes.
In ardening
Bele to unveil
The above articles will he sent by Regis.
tered Mall free, on receipt of the money
which has te accompany the order,
to our ves ty, ask the publisher
of this papes,
Purchasing Co
614 CHESTNUT STREET.
FRILADELPHIA.
PENNY SALINGER, Manager,
$76 TOSIS0 A MONTH can be made workin
for us. Persons preferred who ean fural
a horse and give their whole time 10 the business,
Spare pgroments May be profubiy employed allen,
A few Spcanciesin towns and cities. BF, JOMN.
SON & CO. 1009 Main St. Richmond. Ve
ERMAN & MONEY W sakbugion. D. C
AIREY x atu ABD LAND A TIORNEES,
o. D. Reger, 1 yours Member of ¢
A. A Freeman, B yours Ass's U 0 A
Td
gb ,
e457 Wain wn, Buble, X F.
A CANVASSER for this town
and yieinity. Something stre
to take. Write for fu.l particulars to MES. W.
D. ARMBRUSTER, Phifladeiphia, Woman's Ex.
change, 19 8, 13th Street, Ch
NENS|O Non monum
PENA DEES
OPIUM 3 Enis rime, wg
JODERS PASTILLES..
WANTED
HOUSEHOLD,
IT 18 OFTEN a trouble to housckeep-
ers to find sufficient variety for break-
fast, but where strict economy has not
to be studied there are a number of
dishes from which to make selections,
and 1t is well if possible for the house-
keeper to have in her mind, or better
still on a placard placed in the kitchen
for the purpose, a number of bills of
fare for some ten days or two weeks in
advance,
Some cookery books give special
chapters on breakfast and supper
dishes; 10 others hints may be got from
the list of entries. Presuming that
nitrogenous and *‘relishy” articles are
chiefly meant, there is a wide choice in
bacon, fried or broiled; bam, ditto and
cold; chops and steaks; sausages, hot
and cold (the latter not distressing bill-
ous people); pickled pork; cold tongue;
pates or potted meats (which are quite
wholesome if turned out at once on
opening the tins); sardives; kidneys and
sweetbreads; fish fried, or smoked fish
| poached; various Kinds of seasoned meat
pies. Any of the above may of
course be wholesome or unwhole-
some for different people, The
well-known ‘“‘excellent substitute for
butter at breakfast’® put on butter,
| may get down arother and
| most wholesome; dry toast, allowed Lo
slice,
i
}
i
i
| everything else, If more bulky farin-
{ aceous food is desired,
| fails for porridge, hominy, or bread-
{ and-milk (which should be attacked
i
|
and done with
{ryingpap, will
We,
ones roughly mashed
perper and salt in the
{ often be eaten with some of the ab
| and will tomatoes nicely
I stewed, And, finally, it helps along
to drink coffee made with-three-fourths
{of boiling ; the coffee
{)
he
milk,
ther strong, of course,
making
OLp Vincixia Recires.—To pice
beet (Virginia fashion) —duppose your
weight, Take
two table
si
round to be 25-pounds
’
If ounce of =a tpetre,
heaplug) of brown
e former and mix well with
hen rub thoroug! iy into Lhe
Lay
Have y
of ground black
ground allspice,
and foi
salt: mix these well
in rub thoroughly into
it to the cask or tub
uns of the mixture, and
gas daily fora fortnigh
when the veef is ready to be used,
will keep a long time,
Rar,
x +}
La
t
itin a tub
reac
i directions
{of 8 cask 48 hours,
and one-half
ia
pepper, two ounces of
ie
ane
OU LOCeE
of d cloves,
tific eront
OLA KiIOWL
rig f r
ADGIUS OF
fine
repeat 1
t
"
It
-
Lemons Pickled. —Two dozen lemons
—pare the yellow rind from therm as
thin as possible; slit them across
ends and pack them in dry salt fe
days; then ay wm to dry in tl 3
allowing some of the salt adhere
them: two days’ hot sun wil be sufl
ent, Put them a porcelain-ii
two 8 of vinegar, fot
and whi
and one grated
boil thoroughly
er five minutes, Always see Lhal
they are well with vinegar.
Ths is a superb pickie and beautiful in
Apprarance,
as
$3 t
I
wie ie
t
i
in
yuart
white
mixed,
nutmeg: let them all
kettle with
QunCes of
mustard seed
is
pepper
togetl
covered
a
A PANCAER MACHINE. —A machine
interest to housewives has been iu-
vented by a man in Ilion, which thieal-
ens to revolutionize the present way of
making pancakes, The batter is plac-
ed in what may be terined a hopper on
top of the small machine, wheh is
placed on the breakfast table. When
| cakes are wanted the machine, which
| works by a spring, is set in motion, and
[the batter passes belween 1wo very
| highly-polished rollers, healed very hot
‘by a spirit amp, the cakes are thus
rolled off and cut in the required shape
by a sharp knife and thtown upon the
plate which is ready to receive them.
2 Dainty DessuRT.~ Nicely made
| cranberry jelly which has been thot-
| oughly strained, and made a litte
sweeter than when served with turkey
| or as a sauce, makes a beautiful dish in
| connection with blanc-mange. Put
1 to the mould frst a layer of cranberry
of
then blanc-mange, and so on until the
sugar aud cream. It will add a great
| deal to the appearance of the dish if a
| whieh the jelly is served.
GripoLE MUrriNe —Meilt
quart of warm milk two ounces of
| the best butter, and set aside
| co'd; beat four eggs ontll very |
and make a batter by adding
| batter is of proper consstency (it must
| be rather thin); stir in two even tea
| spo nfuls of baking powder. Bake in
| buttered muffin rings on & hot griddle
| that has been buttered or rubbed over
with suet. They must be torn open to
butter them when ealen, as culling
them open makes them heavy.
Card of Thanks,
If the proprietor of Kemp's Balsam
should publish a cand of thanks, containing
expressions of gratitude which come to bin
daily, from those who have been cured of
of Kem
book,
bottle that you may test for
power. Larges bottles 300 and
C—O ——— PLL
According to the Herald, thers are
upwards of 10,000 professional beggars
im New York.
I
Pe sure toget Hood's Sarsaparilia if you want
an honest, reliable medicine, Do not take any
other which is alleged to be “about the same”
or “Just as good.” Insist apon having Hood's
Sarsaparilla, which is peculiar to itself. Sold
by all druggists, Try it
Leo X11 will be BR) rs old on
March 2, should he live till then.
Fraser Axle Grease.
The Frazer Axle G lasts four times
and save
ita
Stanley writes that his head is snow-
ihe ew du ¥
heartily as
ered that mother
peculiar Lo er
she felt
her mother.
BX ind been
like hugging Hittic Garin
Thousands of women bless the day when
Dr rite Prescription was first
trourht tt tior
Pierce's Fav
the
ion is the on
by dr
‘ Favorite Pre
{ WOMAN § §
jonte ailments, sold 1%
a positive guaranice from the n
rere. that it will give satisfaction
Cernif
iY rem
wonknesses and
ws riets
refunded
ted mits
ut Ly
wrai
raed the pt
rating tonic
tise whole system
ried worn - oul r
debilitated tea
pou FL een
pursing "
erally, Dr. Pl
Yarw !
hers, milliners, Gress
Lint
& $s | ne Ts
&h Ine w
are, Al
ye
by Dr. Pierce's 1
whose answer thus gp
qualed ss an appetizing
storstive tonic
As a soothing and strenglbening perv
Prescription” is and
allaying subduing
exha prostra
Aber distressing
ily stlencant
It
ine
JUB0
wi
? Tine
juces refreshing sleep and relieve
nxely GORY ODEs
ook of 10 pRges, OF
onsen and Lhe Reif-cu
plain envelope) OB recent
stamps
Add ross
re
Wonip's Disrexsany MyEpi
{ asia TION, No 668 Main Street, Bulfaio
Spun less,
Cures Sick Heads
all derasn’ MM of 1
Cheapest, Fasiest io
it ue Heads
ach apd Dow
{
emo
Best Cough Medicine,
Cares where all else fails.
PURELY VEGETABLE ane
* PERFECTLY HARMLESS
IVER PILL
Pelist a dose
Attacks, aos
URE
Unequaled as a L
tiny, Bugnr $4acd
sn. Indigestior 0s
ents B YIGAL DY ¢
wo
By druggists,
Money,
Time,
Pain,
Trouble,
ATARR
By Using »
ELY'S
Cream Balm
A paride 1 lied into seach poetry an
alue, Price #6 contest] sgts tw pall
deta ELLY DROTHER<, ¥ Warren “4
. le ag
y=
Y Children
always
Enjoy IL.
EMULSION
of pure Cod Liver Oll with Hypo~
phoaphites of Lime and Soda ls
simost as palatable as milk.
Children enjoy It rather than
otherwise. A MARVELLOUS FLESH
PRODUCER It Is Indeed, and the
Hittie lade and iaasies who take cold
easily, may be fortified against a
cough that might prove serious, by
teking Scott's Emulsion after their
meals during the winter season,
Beware of substitutions and imitations,
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