——— we me. som— The Triumph of the Season. A crop of sprains and bruises is harvested from outdoor sports, The cure is the arop 8t. Jacobs Oil delights in as the triumph of the season, the one that beats the récord, 50,000 varieties of p ants, The Cood beyond estimation. rich, nourishing blood, strengthen tite, and make you feel better in every way, It is a wonderful Invigorator of the system and wards off colds, fevers, pneumonia and the grip. The best winter medicine is Hood’s a parilla Sold by all dealers in medicine. Price, $1 Hood's Pills cure biliousness, indigestion Res! Bloodthirety, Where is Tom today? He roaches. was He had set upon having but rather than be had ordered. a day of sport, killing cockroaches. When a man is in the humor for sport he must murder something, you know.—Boston Trans- cript. III rv Patriotism. Quester—" "What do you suppose it [a that drives so many of our urban cit- izens to the mountains and lakesides during the summer?’ Jester—'"Love of country, of course.”—Detroit Free Press. Hawall has 24.000 Japanese, TWO GRATEFUL WOMEN Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. “Can Do My Own Work.” Mrs. Patrick DANERTY, West Winsted, Conn., writes: “Dear Mgrs. Pinguasm:—It is with pleasure that I write to you of the benefit I have derived from using your wonderful Vegetable Compound. Iwas very ill, suffered with female weak- ness and displacement of the womb, the floor, I suffered so with pain in my side and small of my back. bled with bloating, and at times would faint away; had a terrible pain in my heart, a bad taste in my mouth all the time and would vomit; but now, thanks to Mrs. Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound, I feel well and sleep well, do not bloat or have any trouble whatever. “I sincerely thank yom for the good advice you gave me and for what your medicipe has done for me.” “Cannot Praise It Enoagh” Miss Gertie Dussy, } Franklin, Neb., writea: of the womb and pain in the back. 1 tied physicians, but found no relief. snd cannot praise it enough for what it has done for me. medicine. I have recommended it to several of my friends.” No Short-Halred Barbers. The Berlin Guild of Barbers has ls- sued a broadside against employes and apprentices wearing close-cropped hair. At a recent meeting of the gulld it wwas declared, upon the suggestion of the worthy Herr Obermelster Wohi- schlaeger, that a young halr-dresser “ought not to have his own hair dress- ed after the fashion of a rat ‘but to ex- hibit a tasteful, elegant and scrupu- lously careful appearance.” [ealthyappy Girls often, from no apparent Cause, become languid and despondent in the carly days of their womanhood They drag along always tived, never hungry, breathless and with a palpitating heart after slight exercise 80 that merely to walk up stairs is exhausting. Sometimes a short. dry cough leads to the fear that they are“gong inte consumption” They are anzmic, doc. tors tell them, which means that they have too little blood Are you like that? IRISH POLITICAL PRISONEKS. THey Complain of Warder's Hoeers al Thelr Religious Views. John Henry O'Connor, better known been released from prison, says the Irish Independent. On July 30, 1883, he was sentenced at Liverpool to im- prisonment for life, his offense being treason-felony. As life sentences are, according to the home secretary, to he treated as sentences for twenty years, a prisoner at the end of the fifteen years becomes entitled to a ticket of leave. His release under conditions may, however, be delayed by taking into account any falling off in the marks expected to be earned by him in each year, and for this reason Mr. O'Connor, instead of being freed at the end of last July, might have been de- tained until the 27th inst. The fact that he was liberated some days be- to medium height. He ls apparently of strong physique, and his fine develop- ment evidently results from his old He is some years over 50. but does not look it. An affection of the heart troubles him at times and interfere with his earning his livellhood. After consid- ering matters carefully, he is Inclined to leave for the state, where he has been before. There he would have a better chance of employment, and would be relieved from the duty of periodically reporting himself. It is not belleved that the authorities will make objection to his emigration. One of the matters of which Irish political prisoners complain bitterly is the man- ner in which English warders sneer at their religion. James McKevitt, who was released in "93, told him the other prisoners were encouraged to laugh at the Irishmen when the warder in charge sneeringly announced that “the Romans” could have their confessions heard. Mr, O'Connor, who is a Catho- ile, said he had no such experience himself, but he knows from prison “tips” that such scenes had occurred. On one occasion he was told by a fel- low Irishman that another man, an English Catholic, was being jeered at in this way. “I am very sensitive on these matters,” he sald, “and I com- plained to the chaplain on behalf of the poor fellow, who hadn't the cour- ped the practice.” ATI 055 WAS MAGQIE. The Former Name Too Mech for ihe 01d Man. Some one once sald that “the reason so many Persons have such fool names is because of a novel thelr mothers But it isn’t entirely the fault of the yellow-covered book, says Once upon a time there used to be a Claude or a for Perhaps it is I remember One case, Marguerite, she It was easy enough “Who shall 1 address it to?” said the express agent, taking up his pen, “Miss Marguerite Thompkins" answer- the father, promptly. “How do said Thompkins looked “M-a-r-g-a-— no: M-a-r-r-a-g—aw, I dunno; put It Maggie!” the express agent. III A031 A Haunted House. “1 don't know why you should say that empty oid hovse is haunted?” “Why, don't you see those ancient window curtains?’ “Yes, but." “Well, aren't they the shades of the departed?” a, — ee —— A Norwegian engineer bas invented » pro. cess for producing paper glue, dressing gum and soap from seaweed, Mise pany, Schenectady, ¥ all drug- the, Dr Williams Medicine . on receipt of price, fifty cures free on request. - FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. ITEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. Winter Protection for Orapevines—Steaw tor Fattening Animals Breeding Turkeys Cultivation for Pear Orchard —Etc., Ede. WINTER PROTECTION FOR GRAPEVINES, If the vines are trained to stakes, simply cut the strings which act as supports and allow the vines to fall to the ground at the base of the stake, Press down and hold in place by throwing a few spadefuls of soll upon the vines. No other covering Is neces- sary. Do not put on too much earth, as this will tend to make the vines tender, Let them remain on the ground until all danger from frost is past, then place a fork under the vies and shake them free of soll Vines on trellisses are treated in the same manner, It Is usually advisable to prune before putting down, as there is then a smaller amount to be cover- ed. FATTENING MALS. It may surprise farmers who know STRAW Fon ANI- straw every day, using it to make a greater variety in their ration, and to supply notrition that varies from that on which they are fattening. Stock that is fed much nitrogenous food, as, for example, or linseed men] or beans fed to fattening sheep, will eat much more of the grain straw than stock whose grain diet is corn. { If wheat or rye, which are rich in al bumenoid, conld ever be largely fed to stock, the latter would require con giderable grain straw to balance the ration, and to furnish bulk =o that the more concentrated grain conld be better digested. One of the advantages of oats as a feed is that the grain surrounded by a busk which prevents it from heating in the stomach, cotton-seed nlso is BREEDING TURKEYS. The old rule to kill off all the large early turkevs for the holiday trade, and save only for breeders those that are late and stunted tends to constant deterioration. The earliest and larg est hen turkeys ought to be saved for breeders, and should have vers little corn. These early birds fed with wheat or rve given whole will begin to lay In March, while some of the Inter may not lay until May or possibly June. Consequently each year the flock grows later and Iater until are small for market and good for nothing else, It is always best to mate the yearling hen with a gobbler not less than two Years old. The to grow until three years old, better for service until vears from the shell. Such a gobbler will mate with ten or possibly twelve hen turkeys and produce much strong er chicks than will a gobbler of last year's growth, We are always susp! cious of the largest in turkeys though where the feet are at- tached it is easy to decide whether the bird is one of the present growth or older than this, they chicks the majority too gobbler will continue and is he is four very weights year's CULTIVATION FOR PEAR ORCII- ARD. commonly practiced was that which was The |ome gysi.m years ago the destrrction caused by the pear Lilight, and owing to the fact that the pear blight flourished most in varie ties which made growth and produced a large quantity of seppy wood, it has been found to be not well sulted. Pears with a firm determinate growth than those of luxuriant growth. A study of these facts has brought about The most successful and profitable ent time are those which are ecultiva- ted by sowing clover under the trees, The clover is not removed from the ground at any time of the year. It is cut and allowed to lie and decay upon the ground. and In this way act as a fortilizer. When an orchard is being cultivated the practice is to sow the clover in July. By early autumn it has grown ten or twelve inches, and affords a covering for the ground dur. ing the winter. ‘It Is cut at blossom. ing time the following year. It re turns to the soil a sufficient amount of nitrogen, which is so material to the healthy growth of the tree. Potash must also be applied In some form of commercial fertilizer, or in wood ash- eq. The orchard Is kept in a clover sod so long as the trees are growing satisfactorily Prof, John Clark In Orange Judd Farmer. FOLIAGE AND FRUIT. Although the ory “Nothing but leaves” ls one which the fruit grower doed not eare to hear, he Is fast learn. ing to realize that no good fruit Is possible unless the folinge Is kept In healthful condition. The first attacks of disease on a tree are always shown on Its leaves, and the remedies which will make foliage healthful will generally the succeeding year insure the formation of fruit buds and a crop of fruit. In almost all cases lack of potash in the soll is the chief fungus diseases that attack the leaf. It is the most vuoinerabe part of the plant, the leaves corresponding to fungs in animals, with the difference that the leaves retain the small amount of carbon in the atmosphere by a and purify the blood, and what is! breathed out consists mainly of the carbonaceous matters which this oxy- | gen has consumed and converted into | carbonic acld gas. There 1s apparently a difference in | the capacity of different’ varieties of frult trees of the same species to find and appropriste the amount and kind | of mineral plant food that they re- | quire, Some kinds of apples, as, for! example, the Spitzenberg, and the | Pippin have long been noted for thin | and poor foliage, even on land where other trees grew luxuriantly, These | poor, weak growers, are almostalways | scant producers of frult. Yet In some experiments made a few years ago it was found that a Bpltzenberg tree fer. tilized abundantly with potash In avallable form not only grow luxurl ant foliage, but also produced frult unusually fair and high colored for | that variety. This is exactly what | might have been expected, All the substance of the apple comes through the leaves and if these last are in any | way defective, there will be a corre- sponding defect in the fruit, For many vears our fruits have been harder to grow free from fungus, A | better supply of avallable potash to | keep the leaves healthy seems to be | very clearly the remedy for this diffi HEALTHY COWS, So much has been sald about tuber | culosis in mileh cows during the past few years that a good many families have 80 prejudiced against the product, whether milk or butter, that they choose to deny become themselves | any chauce of bringing upon their families a disease that so far has been incurable, And rightly If there ig any one do 18 to remember prouounced may they do so. thing should that our bodies are susceptible germs, and a preventive is much bet Everybody who buys we 95% ter than a cure, his milk or butter should insist upon | knowing whether the herd that pro-: duced it was afflicted with this dis Hasse or not. A healthy person, like a healthy an imal, may drink milk taken from a tuberculosis cow all the days of his life and not affected by its 1s, be he milk Ope thing is If the is spilled on the floor, (barn or house), table or tablecloth, and evaporate or “dry up,” the the same, only It will true allowed to germ con tinues to live, just passes from the liquid form into dust, If the dust remained undisturbed no harm could come from The slight ¥ will set is wat bhfeeze, though them oir culating through the room, and the of cupants take them into the little cells of their lungs Is | wonder consumption is claimed to be hereditary? no when breathing any tis ¥ Rome I say [ot ne be eareful then about the milk ae that it is free from we gre ean guard the milk cows fo Any person disease by heating is fresh from fahrenheit, and temperature Some think it of the milk not J nist ean be made from such milk, If cooled at once, as can be made. During the | winter months we heat our milk when we bring into the house, not the letting for five minutes oc tliat more would impair the value to heat it. but that is 80 as good butler is i %0 as make the butler coms quick when churning. A herd of thirty-two head at this place had the test applied by the State Sanitary | Commission. All proved to be in a healthy condition, except a slight cold, which they had contracted from some lot us be careful about the! to cause, i cold If left in a Ellas | or horse will catch F. Brown in the Epitomist. THE APPLE TREE SILK MOTH. The attention of orchardists is fro quently called during the winter fo co- coons on apple and other twigs. The | of the apple tree silk moth, one of the | largest and handsomest of American ! In many of the middle and | western states these cocoons are very | common about the edges of the woods | and swamps. The larvae feed upon a | great variety of wild and cultivated | trees and shrubs, The moth comes forth from the cocoon in early sum- mer, often measuring six and one-half inches across the expanded wings, The ground color of the wings Is a grizzled dusky brown, with the him margins clay-colored; near the middle of each of the wings there is an opaque, kidpey-shaped, dull red spot, having a white center and a narrow black edging, and beyond the spot a wary reddish band bordered with white, The fore wings, next to the shoulders, are dull red with a curved white band, and near the tips of the same is an eye-like black spot within a bluish white crescent, The moths lay the eggs on the trees chosen, a single moth often depositing many hundred eggs, from which hateh, In about a week, minute spiny caterpillars that at once begin to de vour the surrounding foliage. From time to time they shed their skins, or molt. They are very voracious, nas would be expected from the great size they attain, being, when full grown, more than three inches long and thick. er than a man's thumb, The body ls covered with numerous spiny tuber. Two or three of these full grown lar vae will strip a young apple tree of fo- llage in a very short time. In Sep tember they spin cocoons and change to pupae, to emerge as moths the sea- New England Homestead. OUR BRITISH ALLY. How He Received the Surrender of 8 Porto Rican Towa, Padget, British the naval at. embassy, When Capt. of the in Washington recently, three fourths of the people who heard him in fact, everybody who does not en. tance mine and it the typleal stage was ready to adit very successfully. Like that he his Capt. military colleague, Padget's sympathies Capt unconcealed, Like his col the word “we and in his he used conversation official accepted the surrender of one of towns of Porto ico In the capacity of a United States soldier. 1 venture to repeat the story at the risk of Capt Padget's reputation as a neutral. A party of newspaper oorres- of one of the American columns of in. vasion. When they reached a where two ways met there was fs to which The general command. his scouts. stubborness Capt. Padget, with the that character. izes many Englishmen, took the road to the left, because, according to his map, it seemed the shorter and better one, and so turned out to be respondents, thinking have fun with The cor they would Paget than with accompanied and more i 3 him, tonished to find the aleade, or mayor, and the members of the common coun- cil in dress suits, with white and gloves and silk hats, standing in the middie of the road ready to surrender to the Yankee invaders. As Capt. Pad get was the only member of the party who wore a uniform. mayor mis took him for the commanding general and supposed that the correspondents composed his staff. Nobody enouzh Spanish explain take, and the newspaper men insisted ties the knew 5 to the mis. the opportunity render, He did with tance, and as ap officer of her mal eStyY's navy received the surrender of a& Spanish town. Fortunately the ad vance guard the army in few moments and Padget was his embarrassment, hough the boys still insisted that captured t and 8&0 the great accept sur- reduce. of arrived n very relieved of al he he town. That Telitale Tag. was a poor plain little woman, evidently just in from the country, and fhe she stood looking longingly at a line of gaudy purses which hung along in a row by the notion counter After a minute she stepped Into a little leather the money and marefully. purse counted over fhe evidently out conld afford it, as a great extravagance, and 80 at last walked shyly up to the coun found «he set In emerald the box vaD waiting ter, selected one with “pearls” along chain, flashing In the in which ished In the and a ton, up it was given her. and the direction of the room. Not more than five seconds later she appeared again—her old purse tucked out of sight and the new one hanging proudly round her neck. It was almost pitful to see her—she took so much pride in the fandy thing —and then, more pitifel, yet more laughable, there came Into view be. hig took from its litle partealar purse cents! bad cost just Nobaly who saw that sancy tag had she vanished down the street with it still In view. How do you suppose she felt when she found it out?— A Rainy Day. It Is not until we take the rainfall in the bulk (hat we can realize what a stupendous quantity of water show. ers down In Great Britain and Ireland in one year, and even when we have the figures before us it is difficult to realize their magnitude. To say, for instance, that 9.262.370,000,000 cubic feet of rain on an average fall annual Iy on the United Kingdom conveys lit tie or nothing. though it implies some. thing moist, and when we further learn that the weight of the same amounts to 206812.500.000 tons, ex cept for a feeling of thankfulness that it did not fall on our toes all at once, we are only consciomd that it makes a very pretty row of figures, With the faudable intention of making these lat. tor figures look small we will merely say that the total weight of the rain that falls in one year on the British Isles is only equal to 1-119 part of the weight of one paltry square mile of the earth's surface, from the surface to the center of the earth. When we consider that there are 121,000 square miles of such surface in the United Kingdom alone one can understand what an iofinitesimal fraction of the total welght of the British Isles the annual rainfall wonld amount to. Why 4,900,000 Forth bridges would almost equal t—Ludgate. Celestial View of the Whites. A Obinese living near Shanghal Is reported by the Sangapore Free concerning around and kick balls as 1f they were paid to do it. Again, you will {find them making long tramps into { the countrrs but that Is probably a i religious duty, for when they tramp | they wave sticks into the alr, nobody They have no sense of | dignity, for they may be found walk. | ing with women. They even sit down | at the same table with women and the | latter are served first” i knows why. A HERO OF THE HOSPITAL. Prank Martinez Performed Brave Deeds at i Siboney, Cuba. A war correspondent, Mr. J. O'Don- nell Bennett, who was sent to the | yellow fever hospital pear Siboney, Cuba, tells in his paper, the Chicago { Journal, the story of a brave boy he found there. “To him,” Mr. Bennett writes, “I am sure I owe it that I am at home, that I am alive and able to acknowledge my delt. He goes on: | I shall not forget that little, i swarthy., smiling Italian, who, spite his nativity, Is as good an Ameri can as ever lifted his hat to the flag. | Frank Martinez is bis name, and when he is not busy saving lives he the eymbals In the band of the Thir- teenth United States Infantry. When the yellow fever broke out Siboney, an isolation camp was estal lished some two or t} in the Thither the fever were taken, and thither went Frank Martinez. There fifty and of us was our only nurse, ido not know what done: and yet he was such a lit chap and he had never had fever, and he was playing sith his life in com ing near us. He was always awake, always near hand, the faintest There and no room for it in the tents had been one on tree, 1 _sOON de. plays at } Som 28s MOK had ree miles woods, we who were between and he Withoui hi should h seventy-five m I we ave +1 tie the always responsive to of a was no cot for his at fe whimper sick man to sleep on, 80 he passed the a box of hospital SHOTER, say he passed the nights could have sient, g by any I 40 not see how he ww of that sleepless, restless crowd, who every hour our wanted something He helped bodies, ‘he built the fires and prepared milk, and camp offal, and ditched the tents and and us ¥ fevered us to wash i the condensed buried the live coals to the smokers the thirsty He up with his merry laugk and his radi- Ant face, and he fetched and ran in. rain and shine, In darkness and dawn He wonld carried water to cheered and carried pever thought of himself: work for hours in arpping we begged him to a blanket ton busy: 8000 and when nn and wrap “ae clothes gtr up in he would sav. am 11 dry me.” build the sun will come and It wi Then fire or mise wonld rush away to 8 he 41 the walls of a tent so that of clear alr conld reach us yiild hear the in his shoes a hreath and we ging When 1 he threw his arms around me, and for an instant held me in his grasp. Th he blessed me in the beautiful Italia manner, and I went As the tran slippe the in front of a tent waving good-by 1 eould not see Lim the greatful tears the daye pass by 1 {clearly. He stands there on the green hillside, little bine circles of pain and weariness un wi water chug- was released from the camp no n awa; 1 down grade he stood plainly then, for Minded me; but as can behold him and swarthy and erect der his eyes. his face pinched and his, | hands shaking from That was my last night of Frank Mar tines I do not know whether he is Nring or dead. Int 1 know that if he { gtill lives he is doing good. jose of sleep, California and Spain. If we should take the entire popula | tion of Maine, New Hampshire, Ver | mont. Massachusetts, Rhode Island | New York. and New Jersey. and move [all of these people into California, we | wonld then have in that State an ag- | gregate population equivalent in num [ ber to the total population of Spain | [| (17.000.0000. The point of comparison, | however, fs the climate and the nat { ural resources of the two areas, These | have striking gimilarity. and if the old | country can support such a great pop. | ulation it ig to be inferred that with | ax fertile a soil, as favorable a climate, | and as great mineral resources, the State of California may ultimately have not only a population numerically as great, but, due to better institutions, far higher intellectually. in both countries the rainfall of the greater part of the area ranges from ten to fifteen inches per year, in some portions amounting to twenty inches ¢ or even more. The more southern val leys have a semitropic climate favor: able for the production of citrus fruits, The water supply is relatively small and sparsely distributed, and the riv- ers have less value for navigation than for use in Alling the irrigation canals and ditches of the farmers. Both countries, though depending largely for their agriculture upon a continuous water supply, have suffered severely from the lack of suitable laws govern ing the distribution and use of water, and future developments are being crippled by the uncertainty regarding this form of property.—Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. The Kaiser's Flying Trip. Never again let foreigners laugh at
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