Make It a Point To Cet the Best Evary Time, When You Buy Medicine. Health is too valuable to be trifled with, Do not experiment. Get Hood's Sarsapa- rilla and you will have the best medicine money can buy — the medicine that cures when all others fail, You haveavery reason to expect it will do for you what it has done for others, Remember Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is America’s Greatest Maedicine. Price 81. Hood's Pills are the favorito cathartic. The Duck That Walked. New Zealand is justly proud of a wonderful duck, whose exploits are told in a letter to the London Specta- tor by J. M. Ritchie, Esq., of Balvraid, Dunedin. This duck was of the Para- dise variety. It lived at a sheep sta- tion twenty-one miles from Timaru, Canterbury, where its owner, a house- keeper, had clipped its wings so that it should not fly. When the house- keeper changed to a new place she took the duck with her in a basket by train to Timaru, by another train for ninety-five miles, and in a coach ten miles to her new home. Soon the ducék which had been liberated from {ts basket, was missed and mourned for as lost, Some time after the house- keeper visited her old home, and was astonished to see the duck swimming on its familiar pond. That it had glowly and painfully waddled 120 miles was obvious, But how did it find the way through a rough and hilly country? ce — ¥ilt It the First Time. Mrs. Matchman-—Look how earnestly Rose and Mr. Beach are bidding each other good night at the gate. I am Mr. Matchman Guided in Barly Womanhood. properly instruct her daughter! and young women are So taught. of exaggeration in this. woman suffers severely she that she gets it. tion; but mo mother need hesitate to write freely about her daughter or the most efficient advice without charge. Mrs. Lynn, Mass. ¥. Joussox, Centralia, Pa., shows what neglect will do, and tells how Mrs. Pinkham helped her: “My health became so poor that I had to leave school. I was tired all the time, and had dreadful pins in my side and back. 1 was also troubled with irregularity of menses. I was very weak, and lost so much flesh that my friends became alarmed. My mother, who is a firm believer in your remedies from experience, thought per- haps they might benefit me, and wrote you for advice. I followed the advice you gave, and used Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills as you directed, and am now as well as 1 ever was. I have gained flesh and have a good color. 1 am completely cured of jrregularity.” If aficted with } Sere eyes, ues DRILLING MACHINES ot uy all kinds and sizes, {or drilling wells for house, farm, we aad Village Water orks, Facto ries, lee Plants, Brew erics, Irrigation, Coal and Mineral Prospecting, Ol and Gas, ete Latestand Best 30 Foam experience. WRITE US THAT YOU WANT. 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A MARX, Albany, N. Y. CANDY CATHARTIC TRADE MARK REGISTERED ras Pleasant. Palatable, Potent, Taste Good, Do CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Sterllog Remedy Company, Ohlesgo, Nontresl, New York, 371 H0-TO-BA Sold and gnaranteed by all druge gists to CURE Tobaoco Habit, POPULAR SCIENCE. Some cast-iron cannon balls Were recently recovered from the sea near Brest. They had been under water for over a hundred years. They could be iron having disappeared. Exposed to the air, the interior became quite hot, of course losing the heat in a short time, after the oxygen of the air had ceased to act upon it. the time which nature utilizes for the growth of plants and animals; children, too, Erow more night. kept busy disposing of the waste con- sequent on activity, but while asleep the system worn-out particles, hence the much rest and sleep. A very pretty line of experiments 3 carried out by floating bicycle balls in mercury and bringing a strong mag- net near them. gelves symmetrically under the influ- It is a variation of an old experi- which needles were floated A strange instance of like curing ences by M. J. Hauser, in which The earth is first of all cal- temperature, matter, cined at a high creamy consistence with water, The as asbestos cloth or glass wool, and is then ready to act as a filter, Ir. Rising. Mrs. Spriggins? world?" “Rising? Why, last year as a chiropodist, and now he's a barber.”-—Harper's Bazar, NATION free from disorders that will build vp Such a remed Williams & Clark, sud he says: helped temporarily, cured. 1 know these FARM AND GARDEN NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. Banking Celery —Feeding For Eggs When to Cut Clover—Pasturage for the Flock Girooming the Horse-—Etc., Ele. BANKING CELERY. Do not bank your celery so high nas to cover the chit. If this part of the plant 18 covered with dirt the whole plant soon decays and you will los the money you spent for plants, your labor in growing them as well as the most delicious of garden products. careful about this and do not thor oughly bank until the plant is grown. SAVING SEED CORN. The best way to save seed corn is to go through the fields carly in the sea son and select the large perfect ears which mature first, This, however, is seldom done and the next best plan is to pick out the best developed ears while husking. This is possibly beast done at the crib when unloading. ears intended for seed should be laid room of the granary or barn so that they will dry thoroughly before frees fng weather sets in. kitchen the best, the dries the quickly than in the barn or other oul building. The matter of this of very importance fields Every effort should be made to obtain the very best as the heat from ears is stove out seed year is fow Urs great as Bo will produce FEEDING FOR EGGS. Corn is a prime heating and fatten ing food, and should be fed warn, hot enough to burn the but enough to little COT. fowl done in cold weather not crops of the fowls, warm There 1s in feeding & a good deal of extra warm it, ean be farme: be comfortable, advantage frosts It require heat and it the 1 £4] more cheaply than the For a morning fowls. a mash is an excellent made of crushed, neal and Ik. Just enough to Wheat i= and I for a share o by feed for laying thing. A good Ons and all wet up in corn all, ont and bran with m be erumybly but not sloppy. a fine food for feeding act in hens, f all grains come { iden being Hens are almost a change in diet as human beings are, and do better to make it pay. it more to fees] a variety than It 1 the tin to have 1 fond o the iat change, as r the hens certainly enouEn Costs n does 10 thing ¢ Rome a week the first egg the ond one av is range (AEE WHEN TO CUT The best time CLOVER to cut clover for b is at full bloom, wh #4 iv menced to turn : are ai at leaves are ripest green, The of greatest After flowering the per ash, fat. and protein and that of fiber and nitrogen-free extract in creases until the seed is ripe and the plant full The yield i« also heaviest at the period of full bloom logs of the lower leaves ag the stems ripen. Th uutritive cut claver at time of full bloom is about 1 to 5.35 otein is this period. crude centages of crude decrease erode reaches maturity. because of the ratio of freshly while that of the hay ranges between 1to4.3 and 1 to 5.9. The average according to a compilation from all avallabic American analysis, Is, In 100 pounds, 15.3 pounds water, 6.2 pounds 12.8 pounds crude protein 24.5 pounds fiber , 3.3 pounds fat, 38.1 pounds nitrogen-free extract. Of the crude protein, 6.08 pounds are diges tible. At the Massachusetts Experi ment Station a ton of clover hay con tained 46.8 pounds of nitrogen, B.5 pounds of phosphoric acid, and 40.3 pounds of potash, the manurial value of which was $10.64, estimated at the game prices as were paid for substances when purchased in mercial fertilizers, these coin PASTURAGE FOR THE FLOCK. If any one doubts that fowls need fét Bim turn a flock from confinement even though there may atmndance in plain view, tumble over that and each their haste and eagerness to get a nip of the grass, of range can be had, be corn they in wili grass they ‘wish, ten geese require as much pasture as a cow, and two hundred hens will consume or destroy the grass on an acre of ground. At any rate, it is a fact that where poultry Is kept in large numbers green staff must be furnished them, or the buildings will be so far apart as to add so much 10 the labor of caring for them that the profits will be reduced, or else the poultry will not do their best. sina GROOMING THE HORRE, As to grooming. a horse should be well groomed at least twice daily, not merely the dirt and sweat brushed off the surface, but the whole surface of the mir thoroughly agitated with a brush or dull curry-comb right into the skin. The collar and ali harness should fit well and be kept thoroughly clean, the stable well ventilated and clean. and of course the fond ity. The feet well cared for; if stiod, | the horse's shoes should removed at least every five weeks, and If not shod the feet should kept In as natural shape as possible by the use of the rasp and knife, If the weather be dry his feet should be soaked ja water two or three hours daily, else they will become very dry and hard and lable to disease, Horses that are turned out to pasture at night will not require the soaking For horses kept in the stable regular exer and when an idle unless they get exercise grain allowance should be mater fally reduced or else disease is very likely to follow.~Farm, Field and Fireside, be be cise is thne the necessary, Comes DIGGING AND STORING SWEET POTATOES, As soon as the frost bas kllled the vines, cut them off near the of the ground. If the full Is moder ately dry, do not disturb the roots un til they are well ripened, for they will keep better In the ground than when stored in bulk, If the potatoes grown in ridges, plow the soll surface are or With a potato fork the digging can then be bruise cut the tubers, easily completed by inserting behind Will and gently pry ing it out of the ground. If grown in hills, as is often case where only a few are wanted, probably the the sweet potato the Insert the fork so that it will pass un der the bunch of potatoes, then by handle, the of the pressing down on the bere will come owt a bruise or a ecrateh and will | best { be in further Sweet Tin possible condition handling. ch more diffi Allow off thoroughly in the io potatoes are mu cult to keep than Irish them to dry { sin before | making any attempt store them then choose a dry, well-ventilated | room or cellar where the temperatu kept between fifty Fahrenheit 1] Kes I Irish potat easily be On the F CRougn in boxes or barrels whent chaff perfectly packing, U It separate § irrounded ial and kept from contact several this old pewspapers is also a good pack and place, way ‘eo If this work is carefully done | narrels or boxes put in a dry such as a through which Troon himpey or stovepipe Woe cap bw then 38 TRAVEL IN PORTO RICO. PRIMITIVE TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES IN THE QUAINT LITTLE ISLE. Pack Animals Although Porto possessor of three distinet lines of rall Ban Juan and the third penetrating the 'u island, still the bulk Spain's past greatness, by oXen and natives, It is true that some of the larger sa which to haul the ripe cut cane, but in the old primitive style, and th Spaniards content to let well enough nlons is satisfied to walt for manana (to-morrow) before they make any im provements, As a result a incongruous, yet highly panorama of moving vehicles is to be the first thing that attracts and draws the attention of a visitor to the far famed pearl of the Antilles by side the ancient of transportation in vogue ti turies ago competing with the modern methods. First, in appreciate the comparison, it pry to know of burden which pleturesgue One sees oT order is neces what manper of beast It most ny are used. are the BOTONS branchos, scarcely t. with their hug if not Yiew, or ut, § fRimost them from 1 the gion “hurry name is reach ther if x t Week, i 1 Hot these a donkey 10 View, him and and fro, but * carriages draw his 3 ine 8 I= 10 o. and last, ot itive horses two or usual assorty : ‘ Americans roduced upon army 5* the native horses. It mas we huge * 5 4 irom the Porto BID that and little ne of yet wiry 1 Juan and Ponce that nly rov ide » room wil expensive potatoes are i ralsedd, and where they shou the north Weed until wanted in Always handle prota ; han and them A never be careful should very potato aed, for n skilifully it is handled, American Agri occu ulturist, from twelve Ore Of JOTses re out the and, besides The rail RAUge raur {f existence for the past two decad of the engine and cars FEEDING Riraw VALUE OF ranks hi STRAW. gher in feeding os inclined feed much of “ave plenty siraw Good taige than most {arn to ndmit are They seldom they usuaily of hay. and only tines ott of necessity, it, becan ny feeq some An oceasional feed of straw furnisis es a variety, will be eaten with relish and do farm animals as much good as if the feed had been hay Animals eat siraw readily and be much benefited by It 1 have seen fattening sheep that had been fed large quantities of corn, eat the straw placed under them for bed ding week In preference to good clover hay in their mangers Comparatively idle horses can be kept on straw largely without any increase twice a musty hay of ao) kind, Where straw made a regular part of the ration 1 prefer putting it under the mangers and allowing them is the chaff to anything else. Some farm. era have the chaff separated from the gtraw when threshing and store it in the barn, using it for feed during the winter, while the straw Is stacked outside. It Is wel! to remember that straw fed in a good, warm stable will produce aearly or quite as good re sults as hay fed In the yard, where a good part Is wasted, Considerable more feed is required to support an animal out of doors in winter than in a warm stable. Propagating Forests in Europe. france during the last twenty years has spent $40,600,000 toward the reforesting of her dunes and de nuded mountain slopes. Prussia has spent $6,000,000 in the same period, and now owns 6,000,000 acres of for est. In Saxony, with an expenditure of $2.20 an acre, the government for ests yield a net profit of $4.20 per acre. In Austria thirtysix years ago the government commenced thé reforest. ing of the Karst region, on the Adri atle, whose vast oakwoods had been jald waste by fire and the plunder ings of the Venitian shipwrights. Mil eround.- Chicago Times thoroughly with a of the im portance of the railroad. In vivid contrast methods are the more primitive styles, In this cowitry, as in no other on the Ameri can continent, men are used as pack animals for conveying goods a short distance, and to see a crowd of na- tives laboring in this sort of work with their overseers in charge reminds one of the task masters of more than avcything else. In addition to thig the old-fashioned ox carts used in the country districts, not only for the transportation of goods sense 10 these remind the onlooker of the old death carts used in the dread royalists and finally the Queer to the guillotine and their last resting place, the carts these old open than anything else. It is almost a pity that the days of the old regime in Porto Rico are al ready numbered. for in a short time, with the Injection of a little American will be a memory of the past. Already plans are being executed for the construction of electric lines, and with the completion the unfinished rallway does all wiil be changed. The land of ayes (yester- day) will become the country of to day, and the quaint, picturesque scenes of Porto Rico as it is and was, with the exception of the solid and substantial Spanish residences, will be an evanescent day dream, May the introduction of the modern innovations allow the spirits of the departed dons to “requiescat in pace.” The Mine Mule to Go. fiver since the first conl hole was gunk the mule has been the favorite, though at times expensive, means of locomotion la moving coal. He turaed the gin at the top of the slope; he pulled the cars of dirt and rock out cute the dump and be felt his way along the narrow gangway at the head of a string of cars. And outside of hiz dally ration of oats and hay his only recreation was an occasional roll in the dust of the barnyard. But there is to be a change. In fact, It — a but the mine free alr of caverns of the earth, mule will breathe the heaven snd feed on the green pas- tures of the picturesque hillside. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal the alr-compressing locomo- City colliery. It was ago that the company to make preparations for Alaska colliery, near was selected the year began change. Monnt Caramel, first as machinery procured, The air com- pressor engine has been working there for some months and bas been The new metnod of havlage Is used part of this mine. The dis. tance ix one mile and the new engipe And thrown not only gave in nien draws twenty-five cars each trip. mules been is seventeen ave It that the company expects to of and their but the cost of feed other expenses game time the adding the cost niles mal the smith- work and are also the moved with are greater speed, in that way to the capacity of The Reading \ 5 Company havi ro ined « used wT underground Lung Gymnastics aed z riser FaOWILY bowering Raise the arms in front carry in as 1: back then IMOIRR Ie i anf elo as non the toes, breath- carry * Arms while apacity vit suf Women. nterfered nen Remarkable Swimming Feal markabie feat of miming was when Jam i A re accomplished inney, champion world, from ihe Black- 10 the St. Anne's Pier, a distance In pursuance of wager of $1000, Finney North Pier shortly be in the presence sWiliiner £ swam North ier, pood of niles terns of a dived from the fore a quarter to two of a The sea and the 1 task a match five the large body of speclators. was no mwesns smooth. being at ebb rendered the dithicult The rather en- durance the establishment of a speed record. Finney started al a pace, but after the first Gfty yards sel- tied into a steady stroke He was peaded Ly a small boat carrying a white flag. and he kept a yard or two beliind all the way, passing the Cen- tral Pier about three o'clock and the Victoria Pier fifty minutes later. At by de somewhat one. was question of than but could not reach the pier, the tide being out. As the conditions of the wager re that be should approach the pler by water, a tedious wail of two hours followed, during which Finney until the tide came in, when he swam to the pler and went ashore at {ive minutes to eight, having spent five hours eleven minutes in the water. Sl Ws A 5 MA Political Uses of Tin. “An ordinary political campaign” an unmitigated evil to ail branches of trade. Among those that profit by it are the tin can manufacturers. Most of the campaign buttons are made of tin: and when a big political st .gule is expected the makers send out agents through the tin fac’ ories of the South to buy up all the waste tin and useless cans they can find to make thelr buttons with, Most of the cam: paign buttons are made in Newark, and the amount paid by the makers to the can factories, particularly those of Baltimore, Ig considerable, even though the tin is waste, if anything can be called waste nowadays. Nor is the tin waste vseless, even when no political excitement ie on. I know a man who visits Baltimore at regelar intervals and buys all the serap tin he can find and sails it to the bution makers, It is need for the backlog of ordinary buttons, Any day, in paris of Brooklyn, you can see wagons miner and the mine boy will still
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