NC. —-——— i Crense and Increase, An OMphant wears more creases to his drousers than any other animal, They seem 1¢ bs soit of a kilt pleat with a bias slope, Ble {a not very fashionable, but is up to date 4x taking care of himself. Boma sudden, violent pains crease, twist or contract the museios or tendons, and this is the nutuce of a bad sprain, If negiscted, the cresses iu arease, aud so does the pain, antl sowet mes ® very diMoult to straighten them ou, wut by the prompt ase of 81, Juoobs Ol, th fesetion oF runbing | hts applioation and th enrat.ve qualities of the ol will smooth on the worst twist or crease and got the muss #n natural shape, where it will remain, re- stored, strengthened, cured, Prompousss Gi wring {t insures prom pt ours, sprain is cure |, it is cured tor good. te New South Wales, ———————————————— Deafness Cannot be Cured Ly Jooal applications, as they cannot reach the - jortl on of the sar, There is only oie way ta «are deafuves, and that is by constitu Sewn! readies Dea ness is cats y an in famed condition of the macous Hoing of the Eustachian ‘tuve, When this tube gels L 2 snd you have a rumbling sound or 1mper fect hearing. and waco ft is entirely closed 1iom “ress 18 the reat, and unless the inflam- mi one nun be tak 0 out and this tubes re » wiiod 10’ 8 nor nal pond. tion, hearing will be do daroved forever. Nine cases out of ten are eaused by ertarrh, which is nothing but an in- fanned c adition of the mucous surfaces, We will give Uns Hundred Do'lors for any vue of De «fness (cansed by eaturrh) thet on wk ba eured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for « renlars, fres, ¥. J. Cureey & Co. Toledo, O. Fold by Dre gyi ts, The, tiall's Family Pilis are the beat, he Ralvatinn Army holds over 2,000,000 # reloes during the year, CARCARITY stimninte ver, kidneys and bowels, Never mcken, weaken or gripe; be Regan should direct and appetite covey, Almost Blind jrtle girl, owine ‘sn acrafn'a fromble She war ‘rested hoop Rosita without eing cared, Hood's Ssr apuritia, and in a week we conld We contion+d giving her this lier eyes are perfectly W my yeician: and sent to We resorted 4 wen 8 chan e, seed icine, and today wal; there is not a blemish on her skir, sho i= the picture of health.” B. (% ALLes 2% West 81st Street, New York, N. ¥ Hood’s Sarsaparilla ¥= s0!d by all druggists. Price $1. siz f r $5. Hood's Pils are prompt, efMcinat aml easy in effect i cella and HF xperience has better grapes and peaches, und more of them, are produced h ap- nroven conclusively when ota is liberally plied. To insure a full choicest quality containing not less than 10%; Actual Potash. 1 ine val rds tr use a fertili Orchards and cat ed with Potash are compara- tiv ely free plant disease, ATI a) tash-t periment toned ix from insect Fo « Gold. amalgam has A new which Is a wonderful Ts It gold. of copper tu Ane] BOL inost exactly resemble Even i HON wlien exposes seal sais or ni The cost vind avoirdo its color “td Oentia n mans i III A County's Criminal Record. Mingo County. Vest Virginia, bas a remarkable record. It is a young coun tv. and but fews terms of court have been held, There are not quite 1.800 yotes iu the county. are over 3 000 criminal cases to be tried. most of them on indictments returned by fast two grand juries. ii i= about 25 but there RAM'S HORN DLASTS, 0 HAVE a bad habit is to have a bard master, Trust in God is the truest prayer that can be made. (God judges no man either by his worst or bis best, The man whose cause is wrong Is sure to be the los er If he gains It. God prepares us for great things by drilling ws well Iu little ones. Every true Christian Is 8 magnet drawing somebody toward Christ. Putting little thoughts in big words don't make them welgh any more. There Is a fluw In the plety that looks Clsmal ay a prayer meeting and bappy tt a circus, One point In the devil's favor Is, that tl:eaters are generally better ventilated than churches. What a strain It would be on both for the spirit of a llon to have to lve lu the frame of a donkey. For every false pleasure the devil promises, God Is trylog 0 give us a thousand real ones, Elijah had to learn how to get his bread from heaven before he was trus! ed to call down fire. One difference tween a fool and a wise man that the fool talks most when he has least to say. Is, that Jesus sald, “lo, 1 should make the ‘To remember am with you always.” weakest Christian strong The Christian's idea of prosperity in by not something that ean be measured flour barrel fh the state of the When heating a furnace for your foe, forget that there is some danger r being thrown into it Christian whose life is full of conflicts for which he Is not to blame is a man whom God can rust. church member is content a nickel-in-the-slot machine, be an electric motor. tell a child that fire will R cannot understand what util it Sods out for itself Many a with being who might You burn, but you mean u ean to use grand language often It did with the mao it off There is too mueh talking to the bun ry aboot t Bread of Life, without telling them where and how to get it. When the Christian lives as close to the Lord as he should, the mere world ling will have no use for his company. Trying turns out about as who sat ou a limb and sawed he here is a vast difference between be ing able to say prayers that sound fine and bhaviug a broken apd contrite heart Ir Live to a Good Ola Age. Last year an bid peasant named Ivan wouzmin was reported to have traveled weow to Klef at the age of 140 be In good heglth. He been coachman to Count i840 was sent t + he'spent fifty-four years 1834. His is not the only ch a Siberian exile Las reine old age Two years ve died in Ba off, who had . ACE to iris of him famous Pugatche! aiberine Gils iW formerly ix sald to Wt In hie took ign of thie spare in tthreak sMiberia ing that brief spent thirty Recently ity the vH fnmen 1d ancestor of whom lis name 11 Another Artnen Ter-Mikaellaniz, ported not long ago fo be living the Caucasus at the age of He was still able to walk to and once a year performed the If recent Listory In the Turkish continues to fepeat itself such a priest named wae re 10% rhurch, "THY t fpr ian= seem likely to become rare. lon lon Lz i noel, Stop! Women, 8 Woman You can talk freely to ao woman when it is revolting to relate your private trotbles to 8 man- besides aman does not understand— simply because he is a man, Many women suffer in silence and drift along from bad to worse, know- ing full well that they ought to have immediate assistance, but a natoral modesty impels them to shrink from exposing themselves to the questions and probably examinctions of even their family physician, It is unneces. sary. Without money or price you can consult 8 woman, whose ~—w knowledge from actual experi. © ence is greater than any local physicianin the world. The fol- lowing invitation is freely offered; MRS. PINKEHAM'S i Out of the vast volume of mot Co, Lyon, Mags. — SPRING CLEANING, Valuable Hints for Renovating Old and | Solied Articles, An efficient and economical house- wife will always welcome suggestions in matters of cleanliness and renova tion, To begin with the best cleanser and warm water, of ammonia to a quart of water, the bristles up and down in the but without wetting the back brush, and ringe in clean warm water, then shake well and dry in the air, but not in the sun. Seap and soda soften the bristles and will turn lvory-backed brush yellow, so in ment is recommended: flour well in, wrap up in paper leave all night, give a good shaking and remove the remaining blowing the brush. All brushes combs should be kept case, or in 4 bag go as to keep them as much as possible from the dust, Ivory that has become yellow from age usage bing with fine sand paper or moist pow dered pumice stone, Tortoise shell combs ornaments that lost thelr polish may be renovated by rubbing them with finely powdered rotten stone mixed with = The rotten shou. ed through a plece of fine musli. mixing it with the When all marks are removed polish again with a piece. of soft leather eweler's or have little olive oll be sif before glone oil, very chamois and a little be thoro rouge ‘ may removed from nore ighly rubbing leaned with requirss no bled dire 2 the if whi for stained I remain it off Hy of mix it hours with then KSOAp and each itt the oream two Th € vers indows with a paste of whiting When his poi chamois skin remove A littl 0 gives a brilliant should never be When grease has matting, apply powered and benzine, Co the chalk and spris When Ins orated, brush off the spot also vanish is apilt on wooden flooring, iid immediately be poured over it This hardens it 20 that 't can easily be ‘aped away, otherwise it ited scrubbing will not get rid of ish the in cold waters polish de and i alcohol Soap=u Hse bee O spilt French upon chalk grease with kle lightly with the latter has evap chalk, and the When grease cold water ver the Fenzine will gh rene: it Young Could’s Soda Water Fad. all the fads that out among the chappiea is that of Edwin Gould, who was known in Wall street, in the dare of his adolescence, as “Had Boy Eddie.” This sobriguet waa bestowed upon him because his dabbling in st was wont to cause much distress to hia father, the ale lamented Gould. Certain corrective influences Of his soda fountain and refresh himself, { When people come to visit him the first thing done to entertain them is the mechanism of his fay- When time hangs heavily on his hands he invents syrups, and when his children are nervous and irritable he soothes them with the song of the syphon. #o fond Is Mri Gould of his fad that he will not permit any one else to operate the machine when he is at home, His greatest joy Is to range | { of a soda-watler is 80 sweet to him as the fizz of the fountain, no sight as satisfactory as the foam on the no gratification so keen as the that he has filled each visitor to overflowing.-—8an Francisco Examiner and play the part No music A SHREWD DEVICE. kansas Was Exciting, Banking in the southern part of Ar- kansas was a hazardous business in the days, in some of the towns, where the no raiiway connections, it is so still. “When bank,” said a tive of the and re are borrowed money for banker to a representa- Free Press with whom mes, “1 we our he old t used to gold Then I had to carry it by over the mouniains place took mighty care should know, if I could he was to make i a8 secret stage Of that ip it trips 10 our course, | good nobody st when | these le what as possil the other ¢ were for going to king about mortgages i hat howl g long in ner Rabbits That Climb don rabbits found rabbits willow trees whic of a mili pond not An unu months rabbits which | Har Some other Tracoonns England. In recent years cases of ra hits in have been increasing frequency From Australia has remarkable story of rabbits as « The only in which rani could be kept out of certain tracig of land in Australia was by building of wire fences about them, the having meshes so small that the could not crawl through, high that they could not The rabbits F ve claved at ago OF opossums trees reported wi come the mos! iim? ers way he fences beos jump over the wire Some of the rabbits to scale the fences, and then great ad- ditional expense was necessary, for the top of the fence had to be bent over i that speculative period, which cured him of the itch to rival | hie progenitor in the wizard business, and turned his attention to matches and soda water. It is the latter that his fad has to do with, and that concerns us now. In his handsome residence at Ardsley, Edwin Gould has had constructed one of the finest soda water fountaine that money could buy. It is fully equipped with all the necousaries for the busi- pess of irrigating the Sahara of schoolgirl thirst, and I am credibly informed, writes Cholly Knickerbock- er, that only cut glass and silver are tolerated in the equipment. It is such a fountain as would fli with eavy the proprietor of the most pretentious drug store. When Mr. Gould comes from ia daily toil his firet act i» to rush to £0 that the rodents could not get ove: the top of it. Australian rabbits are the leaves, Rare Forest Trees Brought tc America Among the plants which are tov b# gent out by we Carifornia experiment station next year will be a few seedling in the warmer district of that stale. The lustrous light fiber known as “silk. cotton” and used in upholstery i= a prodfict of this tree, and If it can be grown in that state it would be a valu. able addition to the economic plants, Since the tree is a native of the south: ern part of India, however, it canbol be expected to flourish except in place: which are entiredy frostiess. The carol tree, Ceratonia siligqua, has been rajued from seea in Alameda county and has already borne fruit. This tree is about as hardy as the orange, and valuable, owing to its drought resisting qualities for planting on dry hillsides as well as on richer lands, where it produces ex. cellent food for cows and swine. It is or St. John's bread of the Meditor- FARM AND GARDEN oe ITEMS OF TIMELY INTEREST TO THE | much out of them, but what can we make any profit out of at this time? I also feel pretty sure that sheep rals- ing will grow more remunerative with FARMER. How to Estimate the Weight of Cattle— | Feeding Breeding Sows Raise More | Sheep. FEEDING BREEDING SOWS The kind of feeds that faiwens, which | in this country is chiefly corn, ought never to be given to sow bearing pigs. | Oats or fine wheat, mill feed, will furn ish the same nutrition, but these must be given only moderately. The larger bulk of food should be given in the form that will best promote digestion, | which in our experience is either beets | or turnips. The former the sows are | very fond of, hut as all beets contain some sugar, it is better to feed the turnips early, reserving the beets and nange!l wurtzels until the pigs are far rowed and it is desired foroe extra large flow of milk There nothing better for this than beets rOMLe more nutrit ww an TT with jous diet added. HOW TO ES i he THE oF I'TLE. weight of cattle by measurement behind the shoulder length from the fore part of (he er blade along the back to the the which is a vertical the buttock, should be measure ’ square ol WEIGH I The “ nd BRBOCT - girth the The tained close can tail, five ti ‘OB CHARCOAL FOR FOR NG YOu are grading up Never from cockoprels npder any cir leaving out the ma lune and unless you brown eggs. a Minorea- would be belier than h Rock and Mino layers breed bl * the han Ply- wan! very Langs Cross whit mout be great of large eggs an White Wyandot, the are Lest keep and poultry if Lrown eggs horne are CoTiea old rea cross brown egg for 5 32 your marke: he large White Leg than Minorcas when it dressed to pure al Cais betiar the broilers Cushman to endl Samuel Agriculturist fowls American RAISE MORE SHEEP Unfortunately for our own inleres sheep were made the handmaidens © political managors, and through the in. | fluence of the pewspapers the farmers were led to believe that tariff tinkering | had ruined the sheep business. But it fz a fact thet we should all fully under. | stand that the failing off in price of | wool and mutton has not been any more | marked than that of wheat or any | other of our farm products, and we | can make as much clear cash from | sheep to-day as we can from anything | we may raise and some of our best writers on the subject, such as Prof. | Shaw, feel safe in advising the farmers | to imcrease thelr flocks at once. The almost incurable injury that thought lose men can inflict on the people by misrepresentation can be seen in this cage, Of one thing we may be quite sure, there are millions of people who would be glad to eat mutton every day who do not now ever taste it, because they have not the wherewith to buy it, and they do nol wear warm all-woo! clothes and big overcoats for the same reagzon. In the changes that are to be made on the northwesiern farms aR important part. & 4 Bix Cheba Ea COMBINED POULTRY A? ING, sor John A. Meyers, director West Virginia Experimenting writes: ‘If we combine the dairy and poultry iD DAIRY. Profe: the and | have often wondered that our “The poultry business requires no large amount of capital, and labor upon the farm that would otherwise be idie can very largely be utilized in caring for it. The same families that take the dalry products will be only oo glad to get the poultry supplies, so that thers is no additional expense in mar- supplies Every hen pres- aired for can be expected to pay least one dollar net per ver in eggs, and corsiderable addition~ ther in form of egr: or of chick~ Cons. derable poul- be kept large upon what would otherwise be waste of the dairy Buuwer-milk im-milk will pay betler than uss way with which 1 am ae- There are waste about Lhe which eannot be utilized sffectively as by pouitry, : whelher and erly the owner at try c