“ Peace Hath Her Victories les; renowned than avar,”’ satd Milton, and now, in the Spring, i the time to get a peaceful victory over the impurities which have been accumulating in the blood during Winter's hearty eating. The Dban- ner of peace is borne aloft by Hood's Sarsaparilla, It brings rest and comfort to the weary hody racked by pains of all sorts and kinds. Its beneficial effects prove it to be the great specific to be relied upon for victory. Hood's never isagpoinis. sit Rhe no mother was serious. yo am salt rheum and painful ron- ping sores. Hood's Sarsaparilia was used, her entirely well" FEsss KE MAPLESTONE, 858 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Hl. Tired Feelin “I had that tired, feeling, dysp-paia, headaches and soking ap-lis but Hood's Sarsaparilla made me a new man. | never was better than now. Jury Mack, Oskaloosa, Iowa. JHood Sarsapaiill OATES Hoods Pills cure Hon trritating and ‘the only cathartic to take with Hood's Sarsaparilia tiver ils They Never Sleep There are several species of fish, reptiles and insects which never sleep during their in this world. Among fish it is now positively known that pike, salmon and goldfish never sleep at all. eral others of the fish family never sleep more than a few minutes during a month, There are dozens of stay cies of serpents have never yet been able to cateh nap- ping. ms ec ri ATI Professor (to his young wife as they come out of the church after the wed- ing)—S0, now we are each other's forever, Emma. Wife—Yes, Ferdl- nand, but you had better make a note of it or else you'll forget it. The pleasant method and effects of the well known Syrur of Fras, manufactured by tive principles of plants known to be medicinally laxative and presenting them in the form most refreshing tothe taste and acceptable to the system, 1b is the one perfect strengthening tive, cleansing the system effectually, dispelling colds, to overcome habitual constipation pore manentle. Its perfeet freedom from every objectionable quality and cub- stance, and its acting on the kidneys, liver and bowels, without weakeniug or irritating them, make it the idcg! laxative. In the process of manufacturing figs are used, as they are pleasant to the taste, but the medicinal qualities of the remedy are obtained from senna and other aromatic plants, by a method known to the CAriroryiA Fie Syrup Co. only. In order to get its beneficial effects and to avoid imitations, please remember the full name of the Company printed on the front of every package. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRIJP CO. BAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK, N.Y. For sale by all Druggists. — Price S0c. per bottle From Hend to Foor. For all aches, from head to foot, Bt, Jacobs Oil has curative qualities To reach the paius nnd aches of ths human fumily, snd to relieve and oure them promptly. PROPER TIME FOR A BATH. the General Roles Which Health Dictates. Regarding the proper time for a bath, a simple general rule may be given, says Woman's Life. Take cold baths on’ rising In the morning and warm ones just before retiring. In taking Turkish or Russian baths the hour need not be considered, except as in all baths, none of which should bs taken less than an hour or so before or after meals. Where it is possible, use fresh clean rainwater for the bath. This Is the nearest approach to distilled water, which Is too expensive for general use. Soft water is next best to rainwater, and a little borax Some of it. Brisk rubbing should always fol- low a bath; then the bath will do all for it in the way of the person, invigorating , increasing the fineness and and making one look and feel younger. Cleanliness of the skin has a great effect on the health, and it is well known renovating the system of tion precaution is to mediately, the best thing. to do by way take a hot bath im- it ia a mistake to remain too long in a tepid bath. Thirty min- utes should be the limit. Throughout winter and early spring it is best one is at all lable to chills, to take bath at night, just before going to bed. If taken in the daytime, brisk exercise of dumbbell practice is highly beneficial. TI A ——— COMFORTABLE TIP FOR MEN. it Why a New Orleans Bachelor Nails His Slippers Fast. “Up in my den,” sald a New Orleans bachelor who lives in a couple of quaintly furnished rooms in a busi- ness block downtown, according to the Times-Democrat, "be tween the fireplace and the first book- caze on the left, you will find two large slippers nailed to the wall, some four fest above the wainscoting. The heels ut the slippers are quite close together, the toes spread slightly out- and, being made of brightly flowered drugget, they look not unilke two enormous particolored beetles, clinging to the wall with folded wings not, however, Intended as but have a very homely down the nto a turn take ood, get Jacket, at night, suits my m ragged old my den that when [ have performed these pre- emonies 1 place a chair directly in front of the slippers, insert my feet in their depths and lean back with the blissful consciousness that | tip over and break my so 10 cer I am ahchored, wall, and the light is so arranged make position the best pos- one reading My friends claim that habit Is pulling out fers to an abnormal length, but I don't let that worry me. I'm thinkiog baving the scheme copyriphted.” mrs I 1 for $F a LE of n in Wooleas. nite States census of 1810 the existence of twenty-four and 1.682 ty of shese were any The U woolen factories 4 The major the balance in New York, ton of Vermont, negroes fired to half a dozen milla, aR ——n Senator Turpie Takes Fils Torn. Senator Turple of Indiana says he pever carries a watch, because people geed to bother him by asking the time. “1 thought I'd try my turn at bother- Ing somebody else about the time,” rave the senator, A physician who makes the ou that, in many cases, the of red corpuscles in the That this eons ood Rios but any lips, bright ppetite, absence g s. good pale and sallow girl lows with ve. Mothers whose daughters pass kinood nto womanhood ect the pill best s particular sil, Detroit, Mich. says: "At the 1 the Full name. Or ¥ 19ts, oF direct Srom the FARM AND GARDE NOTES. | NOTES OF INTEREST 0 ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. ——— —————— Yariation of Cultivated Plants-<Moles In the Garden--Tin Cans in Early Gardening Using Sprouting Grain For Seed, Etc. Variation of Cultivated Plants. Most of the forest trees have very little variation from thelr ovigioal stock when grown from seed, With trees that have been long in cultiva hiow, the variation ix so much greater that the only way to secure the lden aa variety desired is by budding and grafting. It is probable that cultiva- tion and better care ghien to trees and plants has much to do with making new and better varieties. It Is after seasons that are unusually favorable to fruit of all kinds that the va rieties have been originated. is al ways worth while to plant of extra choice fruit and see riety will come from it. host it the what va- weed Moles in the Garden it is sald that kerosene oil poured in- to a mole run and then covered up will drive the creatures away. Bisul phide of carbon will kill them if it reaches them; into run about a gill of and fmmediately cover it over; Hines will penetrate the tance and will kill ent. Small bits of meat very little strychnine will Kill mals if by them Or of corn sof strychnine and water, also sald to be Vick's Monthly pronur the mole carbon bisaiphide tiie dis pres conta. ning a aul Fis for sone the moles i the enten AiNN iked In placed in the rans, destructive if eaten are Tin Cans in Early Gardening. Early gardening by menns of start ing plants in a hotbed and transplant ing always attended with the greatest account of the growth of the plants being che ked This Is caused by dis Ad of soil, the hot is lot RNCOess On when replanted, turbing » (lil following plan tom from oid tin the solder fro Is or wire Fill with rich which have ter for and chiang culty can be eliminated by Melt the top and cans. Also remove ¢ seam, tying a cord Keep it and the roots mt t to shin pe. sedis wa in plant warm or so to lusure rapid ger in a warn, about | sail been soaked In a day mination, and place place or There for the before res sunny hat hed will plant tt: ow ering. depth of soil growth I® warm in the bok be ample make a good AR goon as it to » plant can be set garden. To this, the bed large enongh Heuove the gether Git do make a in to set the can in wire holding the it open and let the hole this and without chang in away tend in weeks cord or spread slip out oni the Pack your plant is replanted ing injuring the cans can be laid Plants star Iwo or New tog contents into the earth closely about the soil or roots way. The use next spring will have three start of this way the England athe rs Using Sproutcd (irasin for Seed. Reveral experiments gricultural College bis msprouted, slig were conducted » gt Gaeiph, winter whent hatls and ont the tie sowing which was ol wider ed, in tive value of each experiments clearly showed 1 was the poorest one i= as follows: | grains were planted in one grains which were slightls in box fifty grains considers sprouted in box three, and Gfty grains badly sprouted in box four. In two weeks after the grains were plant ed the crop in box one showed eighty cent. germinated, and the plants sprout Coll isly sprouted, badly sprout + to find compara order The results of these vers lt the The exact re fty were similar, and sound grain cord of soit fifty el slsly fest box: Sproul two. about per in box two, sixty-six per cent, of the plants germinated and the plants averaged two and three-quar ter inches in height: in box three, six feen per cent, of the seeds germinated and the plants averaged one and a quarter inches In height. The crop from the sprouted seed was uneven in’ growth, some of the plants being much stronger than others Growing Calves With Little Milk. There are so many uses of the skim milk on every farm that we do not wonder if it is often begrudged to the calf, which will take all the skimmilk that its dam gives, and If it have no other feed will only be moderately | thrifty. The truth is that while some | milk seems to be necessary to the calf’s well being. it can be made to grow with very little, provided its other food is properly proportioned, Milk alone is very hard to digest, es pecially If all the cream is out of if A tea made by boiling clover hay of | the second growth antil most of its nutrition is soaked out of it. mixed with one-third of its bulk of skimmilk | and thickened by boiling a handful of ontmenl, will be eaten with greater relish than the skimmilk alone, and | thus leave some of the skimmilk for pigs and poultry, either of which will | make better nse of It than the ealf, s0 far as profit is concerned, If it is desired to make too calls | cont shine, put a teaspoonful of lHnsend | meal in each mess of porridge or beef tes. This will also help to keep the bowels In the right condition, which is very important, ns on good digestion the whole aller value of the animal de pede. The only danger with such fowl for calves that are to be bred for cows is that they will become too fat. If this oecurs in calfhood, the thick neck and boavy head will show plainly that the animal ig spoiled for a ilker. All that should be expected i i be kopt Jifsity Towing. diy this cL sroives bao AA ble, to develop the mmmmary glands | early, and thus increase the tendency to put most of the nutriment digested fnto the ilk pail, instead of fat on oth. er parts of the body. This Is better kind of nutrition re- than it has when the calf is fed mainly with skim. niilk and other feed is given to supple ment its deficiencies, The calf should clover hay as early as possible, and after it is a few months old, oat moistened cut hay should be substi- tuted for the Hquid or semi-liguid por. ridge. If succulent food is required in the calf’s first winter it had much bet ter be given in the fora of roots or eu- silage. —~ American Cultivator, which Liss the To Get the Most Out of Sheep. Just at present breeding for mutton pays better than breeding for wool, but agshiere is always the possibility of the price of wool searing up higher figures, 10 It was not many wide issue. Naturally, with this change, the character of the breed of has also changed. The large take the country right through, pot as much in general favor as the medium and fact that they give the most return a oe 3 amount of food. 11 at than the large ment is better marbled, ing for mutton the fat brings the farmer in much return, butcher knows that 2ood lean meat only with layers of fat, an excessively fat discount the mutton The medium sized rule, ax fast sysiem of food, tendency they slieen breads, ie size, thix is due to the for have breeds, and In sell rarely The want Hii xXed when he g 51 ey on wn 1 theln sheep CORSNIners moderately and sheep BOs he is apt to will, breed with breeds nas ® on a aud along their good marbled mut- produce a better grow ax any to make a ton are wool apt to grade of also found on their ompact form gives to the medium sheep This wool is « in a end fi crop as that Dodd is Very « in the as large t obtained from the heavier and overgrown breeds A medlinm sized breed that fair and a good maker of fine mutton, is always a good Invest ment There may they will add a to the farmers worl gate they will yield sults. Pound for pound, of sheep w il make pigs the considered the best investment farm the good Lireed of sheep will i= both a wool producer when profit i le BERre- Le megasons fro very large but satisfact best Drosds than been of all man A ¢ a pound than will take at he nore aoney sithough swine hay : animals for (EC ax wit for food of mutton at less ox bireed of pigs § sy long oer the best the sie time 10 do this, in the end the cost will be in favor of the sheep. On the whole, mutton brings as much per pound in Mosi Markels as if the price the meat of the balanced, for th pork. and cost of raising Were still two animals the favor The unbalance in favor of at nally. the sheep of fined t evens wottid Foie wie pr wool item wonid the Bes amd ti then decidedly are and never fail raise 4 crop of saleable lambs §# ¥ % ¥ ¥ Hoperiy freq PH THs on ted oO Ket mnst consider the mut all af them we lamb Hens very profitable Noth Wis wool and the which are ant . P in Practical Dairy Rules. Never mix fresh milk with which bas been cooled wart fhaat Under Lis |OoHring po circumstances shonl any added to milk to prevent its and cold are the only proventives needed, All milk should be in good condition when delivered This may make it thing Cleauiiness thie hottest weather, When cans are hanled far they should be full and carried in a spring wagon. in hot weather, moved In a wagon, blanket or canvas box. cover fhe cans, when with a clean wel or covered milk should be made of metal and have all the joints smoothly soldered. inside. "Do not haul waste products back to the farm or dairy in the same cans used for delivering milk. When this is unavoidable Insist that the skim. milk or whey tank be kept clean, Cane used for the return of skimmilk or whey should be emptied and cleaned Clean all dairy utensils by thorough Iy rinsing them in warm water. Then clean jpside and out with a brush and in which a cleaning ma Then rinse and lastly sterilize by boiling water or Use pure water only. After cleaning keep utensils invert ed, in pure air, and sun if possible, until wanted for use, Force of Waves, n a high gale. mile long waves, 200 feet from trough to trough, and 40 feet high, roar along the sea at twenty miles an hour with a weight of GO.000 pounds for every foot of lis length. Upon these a G00-foot ship such as the New York or the Paris will rise like a flonting leaf, but if the ill-fated ship drifts upon a lee-shore, blows of 100. 000 tons, delivered with remorseless fury, crush it like an eggsiwil. The Mexican's Hat. The Mexican wears a hat coverad with gold ana silver braid, that is penally worth more than all the rest of hix family's wardrobe: and | together SOMETHING pout A Promising Field of Commercial Industry | fn Our New Island Possessions. “There are three stages of different conditions through which the milk of the cocoanut passes, in each of which it Is excellent,” sald Captain Nathan Truelove, sometime master of a trad. COCOANUTS. He had paused at a frulterer's stand { and was examining a pile of cocoanuts of Interest, “The first is when ment and milk In the green coconnit have not yet seperated nad are blend. ed together in a semi-finid pulp, about i Of the consistency un water ice, and Lay be scooped ont and eaten with a | spoon, The when the meat iis newly hardened against the luside | of the shell and the hollow within | filled with the fragrant, i one of the most beautiful ing draughts that a { the tropical lands. which few are initiated, sprouting and the embryo palm tree, formed from the milk, and the best of the meat les in the hollow that is left, a kernel! within a kernel, and one of the daintiest morsels that a man ever lifted mouth, 1 in hopes find a sprouting cocoanut these, but tliere Here the to for—in of second is is nud refresh- can find in The third stage, to the tropics is when the cocoannt man people outside is #0 to speak, oo Lis was among i% pone, is where green sprouts are be looked the monkey's face, as the boys say—the three which eyes in the small end of “What we call South Sea round depres. nnd sions they call 4 moulin the put. the cocoanut {0 HK in the people call water, with is the kernel and mixed with this fluid, be resulting compound milk then grated fine 1 i Connut is of the con in color wit vy Mimi b J and dell rich that one directly, nixed of ore ious to the taste, It is itt principally substances, in wo can eat but of it and used, with pre- paris dessert dishes and as a frost for ix ing ciake othef tropical Pa palm earth coral reefs to give it is the most all cropesian and 4 Land groups the where that found ® roots COO ETOWE vers enough above the a hold, and there food for useful tree natives for chief round tx nuts serve the and drink barter, ha lowers is amd are a resource juice drawn from the undevel oped of the before their budding | ant to the kiy lowed cocoa palm just is swet and pleas taste, and is often given to weaning children. When al ferment it toddy.’ the favorite tipple of South Sea Island and by distillation ‘the | Juice yields a potent liguor, resembling Fast India arrack and known by same name. Bolled down and su si or io boeconwes ers, fermented the the gared juice makes the jug geroee the Japanese bumboatmen bring out to sell to the pas ac w that put in at Batavia of Java. The cocoa palin the palm which EROS OTS sailors of shi wood and other parts of the ally able and house Known as poren wood, is valo the makin : , and 1 ie the Colt ope which (ft. and iti Hure . " ¢ itisks of the of copra tx chief com of be in varlier erated the Te] 1 neat port. two oil ne 448 ever Jens, 10 to the ith cruising liquor, and is ont ther traders for Now by un into pieces of and shape will enable it 1o the best advantage and i= mostly sent to regular ports of shipment, where the owners receive (pay in goods or money. The copra is shipped to Europe or America to fac tories where the oll is expressed to be applicd to a variety of uses, Cocoa | stearin iwuech used in candle mak- ing, and the oll enters largely into the {marine soap which can | toilet or laundry purposes In sea wa- Cter. When it is considered that 1.000 | nuts will make 500 pounds of copra, | which will yield twenty-five gallons of i oil, one of the most commercial possi- wilities of our new Philippine posses. , sions becomwer evident.” The Bun, trinkets such sige as them to pack iw hws Insitaments of The Cuban Bands. by musicians who know (them, Others are made up of instru. {ments of all kinds that will make {noises and are played by people hay- ing knowledge neither of {tune. Some gneerdooking pleces are {ween in some of these collections, {Among them is one shaped like a Jonah's gourd and looking very much Hike it being the result of the friction. {a timekeeper more thas a musical sounding discordant, even if not mu. sleal, The favorite selection of all the bands Is the Cuban national air, a sweetly sad and plaintive composi: tion, It is played in season and out of season, never lacking an opportunity for its production, since the people seem to have an endless stock of hell days and festive occasions. As one American put it, the Cuban week is made up of holidays and Sundays, with the latter the greatest of them all Chicago Record. A Trick of the Wood Duck, : There was some trouble among the wood ducks In one of the cages in the contre of the floor one day during the Sportemen’s Show In New York City. watched the fight trom outside the cage, it looked like a football game, Two of the aggressive party would cor | per the offender and then grab hile Uy | the feathers as he would vy to uh iret, ties little fellow tried to shake off his purspners oy jumping up against the petwork, but he invark ably fell down on his back and he finally gave this ap. Then he resorted to a new trick and the old huntsmen smiled as they saw how he outwitted Lis enemies just as others of hin spe cles had ontwitted them. Whenever he was close pressed he dived under the water and swam half the length of the little tank before he came ug gain, Sportsmen who have tried to cate a wonaded duck will appreciate the difficalty of the avenging com rades of this clever bird.—-New York Commercial Advertiser, AMERICAN WORKMEN BEST. A Candid English Trade Journal Makes # Gratilying Admission. Bays the Hugloeering Magazine: It has been uniform experience of American engineers with whom | have in act, who Lad oeca- to European workmen, the European is totally at a loss has to i for which he Las not bee pained. or that devintes to any ent from his rou tine work. The boasted superiority of thorough English workmanship is a myth. The thoroughness for which the German is phenomenal, in surely not hold good as wechani COW. the Colne cont hinyve sion that if he employ tackle any problem i ir ext #olne IeSpects, does far as al operatives are cerned, I have had co with all clas carpenters wience sex of European workmen foundryumen, and 1 must say that there ious lack of appreciation of good work among them, and that the use of primitive tools apd methods These deficiencies are siderable exg masons, machinists is a conspi is large want of Connon, iy due to bad supervision, and intelligent management of wor conditions Correspond- Len, under and better form a large America verified by stat of many machinery who introduced thelr 4 14 BE CiRsses favorable agement mechanics in it is a fact, tat wore man part of the best istics and American have suc machines at, under American labor. machinery turns Sens of he #t makers cessfully European countries, th European workmen, : iutomatic 30 10 50 by the jews than is in out from per cent produced same machinery America, Insects Lace Weavers. the workl-fa- the Azores or gauzy =tufl is woinen, there wing only twenty-five with the necessary kul on the islands. The wonderfully delicate lace is made from fibres in the leaves of the bitter alo, a near of the common century plant discover Have mous Paya} wWester you seen any of from islands? 71 manufactored by lace, 3 iis relation Xo dif ficult has it been to y make have Ame persons ace that anufy rimented i silk Oo utilize instinetis gift of spinning. So suceessial of these ®xperi man has caterpillars the lace, of fused ski Iifnl enough L« } the 1CTUurers 5 ex is 1 their have some hi mn 8 5 ‘ie that a 3unich way by which nents been found =a have been directed to He bitter ake mi posed which the ending this paste tone be carefully amel’s hair brush dipped in pattern which he wishes left open. The stone is then placed in an inclined position, and sev eral hungry caterpillars are placed at the bottom. Instantly they gin eat ing the paste and spinning out their silk as they progress toward the top. Finally the caterpillars have eaten all the paste but that covered by the dis tasteful ofl, and in its place they have left a delicate web of silk in a pretty lace pattern. Minneapolis Journal. Dog Drives Oxen. On the high road between Bordeaux amd Arcachon, France, 2 certain mon- grel collie is known to and much re pected by hundreds of people on ae mises a the aloe Alter on a flat with a « paste oo leaves, 8 fond of. we thinly marks olive oil the In it Invariably accompanies a couple of and returns locality where Bordeaux, the wom is burned. Although the cart is in charge of a man, the oxen are practically io The animal walks on abead, leading the builocks and al ways strictly observing the rales of the road. When the slow-moving beasts have to turn to the right the dog barks on that side of them. and when to the left he barks on the other side. the oxen having perfectly learned their part and being quite will ing to obey a quaddruped many times smaller than themselves. The dog learned his business by observing his day to find his companion so accom To lead a bullock cart amd to know exactly what to do on meeting other human reasoning as can be attained by the intelligence of the brote New York Commercial Advertiser, take care of himself on land, the er It is for him to keep afloat.
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