——— A chronic bore sometimes hurts worse than a dentist, isi IAAP. 1. Congressman Charles 8. Hartman, ot Moutana, says that the new Swoator from tunt. State, W. A, Clark, concerulog whose wlection there were 80 many charges of 181 ory, Is easily worth more than $60,- 000,000, + Te Cure a (ld in One Pay. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money if 11 infls to cure, Be, John D. Roekefelisr | as offered to give $100,000 10 Den'son University, nt Granville, 0., vn condith n that the endowmuut com- mittee shail raise the sum of $156,000 within ih year, Pen't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic, full of lite, nerve and vigor, take No-To Bac, the wonder worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 80¢ or $1. Cure guaran teed Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York Of tv» 879 siudeuis in the Kansss Uni- versity 862 are self-supporting and 100 par- tially so, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing 8 my for children teething, softons the gums, reduc ng inflamma tion, allays pain, vures wind colle. 260. bottle, It has heen estimated that it would take A man 5.000 years to read all the standard works, Fo Cure Constipation Forever, Take Cuscarets Candy Cathartic 100 or 2Se. U C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money The growth of girls is greatest in thelr fifteenth yur; of boy« in their seventasutb. Pilso’s Cure is the madicine to break mp shildren's Coughs and Colds. Mrs, MM. 4. Brust, Sprague, Wash. March 8 1894 A British countess wishes to promos a grand woman's congress to meet in Paris in 1900. Bduaeats Your Bowels Witn wasearets. Candy Cathartle, cure constipation forever. Wo, 88¢. 1t C. C.C. fall, druggists refund money For every widower who marries a widow, there are eleven Who espouse maldens, “Trust Not to Appearances.” That which seems hard to bear may be a great blessing. Let us take a lesson from the rough weather of Spring. It is doing good despite appzar- ances. Cleanse the sysiem thoroughly; rout out all impurities from the blocd with that greatest specific, Hood's Sarsaparilla. Instead of sleepless nights, with conse. quent irritableness and an undone, tired fesiing, you will have a tone and a beacing air that will suable you to snler into every day's work with pleasure Remember Hood's never disappoinis, Chrltre- "Goitre was so expensive in med. ical attendance that | let mine go It made me & pefiect wreek, until | took Hood's Sar. saparilla, which entirely cured me.” Mus Toss Jos gs, 12: 50uth St, Utlea, N. ¥Y Puaning Sores “Five affliction came, a running canning me great anguish, ilia healed t ¢ sare, turned.” Mus. A.W Sireet, Lowell, Mass, Hoods Sarsapari SPAS ARO IY sare on my leg, Hownl's Sarsapar- which has never re Bagrerr, #8 Powell 4 Hood's Pills cure liver (iis. the non irritating and the oniy rathartie to take with Hood « Sarapariiis Prejudices, The prejudices of men are rooted for the most part in their personil charae- ter: and on account of this close con- nection with the roots of personal ex- istence, they cannot be removed. Neither evidence nor understanding, nor reason. has the least effect on them. — Goethe. Sisson III 5555 55 Chrysanthemums Gat of Fashios. Chrysanthemums are going out of fashion in England. One society for raising the flowers after having had ten prosperous years has been obliged to wind up its affairs, owing to the tad business of the last two yers, hood. THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, but also to the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the Carirorxia Fie Syrup Co. only, and we wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. As the genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured by the Carirorxia Fra Syrur Co. only, a knowledge of that fact will assist one in avoiding the worthless imitations manufactured by other par- ties. The high standing of the Carr rorN1A Fro Syrup Co. with the medi- cal profession, and the satisfaction which the genuine Syrup of Figs has given to millions of families, males the name of the Company a guaranty of the excellence of its remedy. It is far in advance of all other laxatives, as it acts on the kidneys, liver and bowels without irritating or weaken- ing them, and it does not gripe nor nauseate. Ip order to get its beneficial effects, please remember the name of the Company — CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal LOUISVILLE, Ky. NEW YORK. N.Y. A CROW CONGRESSY. An Eye Witness Describes One for Our Benefit. But the crows, what of them? Luck. ily, I gained an advantageous point of view, after a deal of painful crawiisg through the weeds; and briers’ thorns are sharper in January than at other times, or human flesh more sensitive. Adjusting the field glass, | saw-—not fancied I saw-—that one crow, from a commanding position, was haranguing the assembled multitude. What I heard was one crow's voice that varied or rung the changes on the basic sylia- ble kaw about as follows: Ka-ee, ka kaw! kaw ka: and then there was a babel of kaw-—ka-a-a, that clearly ex- pressed assent, an apparent “that's 80,” that was ludicrously like the chat- ter of congregated humanity when an orator stoops to their comprehension. After a momentary pause the orator, as we will call the speaking crow, re- sumed his speech, and the variations of kaw ka were repeated, but with many sounds ilke e-e and a trill, as ar-r-r-r. The latter were always, | thought, uttered in a more rapid man. ner th un what {| have called the basic syliable, kaw, and certainly were ac- companied with more gestures Ac- curate desc. iption is impossible, words and actions were rapid, but my impression would doubtiess not have varied had the crow been more delib- erate. The most striking feature of it all. however, was the dissent of the gathering on two occasions, which was as plainly marked as the previous as- gent had been. The utterance was wholly different, and the accompany ing gestures likewise ° varied The twisting and turning of the head and neck was most pronounced-—-a turning away, as it were, {rem the suggestion and there was also a decided wing movement that [ did not notice before, corresponding in some measure to ths hand and arm movement among our selves when excited to the point of be 80 Poeiry. What makes poetry? ful of one noble passion, A heart brim- young American women. start, THE MARKS OF SUFFERING «Dean Mrs, tem was almost a wreck. My nervous sys 1 had taken treatment froma no relief. In fact one eminent specialist said no medicine could help me, | must submit to an operation. At my mother’s request, wrote to Mrs. Pink. ham stating my case in every par- ticular and re ceived a prompt reply. ifollowed the advice given me and now I suffer no more during menses. \ If anyone cares to know more about my case, I will cheerfully answer all letters.” Miss Kate Cook, 16 Ad. while suf. er 1 hav NOTES OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS, ss The Value of a Ton of Clover—Hign Feed: Ing Lauses Garget--Heavy Oats Best for Seed+-Treatment of Foamy Cream, Etc. The Value of a Ton of Clover, At a farmers’ institute, held at Min col one recent evening, a Mr, Lewis, who is a noted farmer out in Wiscon- sin. sald that a ton of clover cut just before it 18 in blossom is worth just as much to him for his pigs, ton for ton, as wheat bran. Twice as much in guantity can be grown to the acre as of any other grass, and it seeds much more easily, High Feeding Causes Garget. As the cow or other breeding animal approaches the time of parturition high feeding, either to stimulate milk flow or to make it richer, should for the time be suspended. Of the two, the kinds that tend to make the milk rich er, in other words, to fatten the cow, fare worst. Bat we should not advise any farmer to feed heavily with grain which will cause fever and make the animal feverish, though this may be nature's effort io the milk flow so that the udder can hold it The food should be iaxative rather than constipating. Ensilgge and of all kinds are good if not given in too large minounts. The only grain given should three or four uubbins of corn daily until the calf is dropped The cow will eat these readily, aml they will cleanse the stomach prepara tory to the time when parturition bee- Or, lessen roots be glus, Heavy Oats Best for Seed. The fact that onts in our cli SOON i | i i i i tS A HSI se woos fall planting ix apt to be dirmstrous, because the tender roots will 2ot haar transplanting then from nu cries to open “soil. While. sixteen fect ench way is nccepted now as a proper dis. teen feet apart 1s Justified by the fact that peach trees are mighty uncertain, and may not fill out. Medinm-sized trees, three or four feet high, are best to plant, and they should be trees one in fact, no nursery ever de It is not es sentinl that the tree have many fibrous at planting, and a modest number will gerve, provided they are cut smoothly when put in the ground, Fine earth shonld pack the roots, and the only thing having any business in the or- The practice of mixing crops, of planting alternate rows of corn and expecting to get a peach orchard of any vigor is extreme folly. At the first year's growth cut off all but a few top sprouts, and the next year cut off the interfering side spurs. Twice ecun be removed, yet the tree will yield well, Do the pruning and shap- ing in the first two years, In pruning fruit the question “How are vour buds? If are nearly all killed, wait until spring, #nd when the buds are swelled, prune. Trim for then, Don’t trim for form; you may have one of the worst look- orchards in the country, but will get more peaches. As to winter bud killing, 75 per cent. of your peach buds nay be blight, but if the remain. ing 20 per cent. are evenly distributed among the you It is a popular fallacy when it announced that the buds have been killed the peach crop these for is, they peaches you need not worry that res iw 5 per cent, ol spun out.” as farmers say, is probably owing to the hot, dry weather which usunily the time the oat crop i= filling and ripening. That can not be helped, as climatic enanges are human tut the evil Jessened sowing oniy the comes about beyond control. he heaviest oats, and sowing these early in spring in fall-plowed ground. Then will probably before hottest and We knew always attributed of may by $ they ripw'n the dryest wenther cones, farmer dive 1 threshing of hand machine takes out or When finiled nany of the light oats do not fall out of thelr hulls, They are probably worth more to make the oat aftraw better feed heavier oats, to bent out onty so as to get wx than one-half of There be light in them. He found that with these heavy onts two bushels No it may be if who in by The every old the oie fie io weight ons machines instead hy threshing oat, light heavy they ont than to go with the This farmer used MH more iarger, these, would no oats of seed was sutliclent the oats are sown «arly, for then the will and send shoots from a single wean], oats sinrt up many But if the seeding Is delayed so that the oat can HOW shonld advise ing the usual amount, which is about pot stool much, we thiree bushels per acre, Treatment of Foamy Cream, A New Know erean. gets no butter Jersey dairyman wants to what matter with his It foams in the churn and he He has tried warming it and churning at 62 and 64 degrees, but the result is the same. He churns once a week and feeds good clean clo ver and timothy hay with bran menl., He asks if it is the fault of the cow or doe to the treatment Nome cows give milk that can be churned with difficulty after they have been long in milk. come smaller and the milk grows more viscous and churning makes it foam, After the becomes fresh again this trouble vanishes, Bat there also a kind of fermentation which catises ropy milk, This milk will pot The scientigis of the dairy division of the afrienmitural de. partment at Washington say this is fot the fault of the cow, but of her treatment. They hold that the fer mentation germs gain acess to the milk through earelesspess, amd that strict attention to all details will keep them out. Whatever may be the trouble in this case 1 recommend the following treat. ment: Heat the milk before setting it for the cream to rise. Let it nearly to the senlding point. To avoid scorching put the milk pan in a larger vessel with water in the larger vessel if once heating does pot cure trouble, repeat it after twelve hours, 3 in ine row place for the cream to rise. The offect will be a very thick cream with but little milk in it, and therefore but lit. foam. And if due to a ropy fermenta- tion, heating should also have a good effect as to that feature, Churn as often as twice a week, It may be nee- essary to thin the cream with water to keep it from adhering to the sides of the churn. BE. (. Bennett in New England Homestead, How to Raise Good Peaches. At the last meeting of the Massa. chusetts Horticultural Society, J. H. Hale of South Glastonbury, Conn, a farmgr who has spent years in special and intelligent cultivation of peach or- chards. pd Sho, consequently, is able to 8 with authority of their cul: ture, gaye his views on peach culture. The difference of preparation of land for peach orchards, sald Mr. Hale, is the differance in business methods, the fruit farge, thin spring only it is after it ins set In fine fruit can be there is a moderate It twelve davs to gather fo maturity. in sorting time enough to the raised your number of peaches on each tree takes from peaches which Don't Hire br are have cole tise A Hine ana them intelligent women: than men as a role always that there ing fifty or sixty bushel at 82 than el for 50 cents and "yw fess. but the will bave them taste and a love for the ig they And remember is more profit i peach % to the hal 100 to the half bush brie the There may less nu triment more water in large “ One must work to suc cecd in iL Fresh Water for Hogs «iff ey 5. from lack of io not remem Yer comes Hogs frequently Wailer 1 Try farn because that whats in form is not a substitute and neil, fresh water whieh all animals f'ut a little and it whieh no ope would think of taking as un Y+#t both reanet warmth to it the or heat it soon turns into a eund sirink the enough make are present in hog preferred to thai from enives Al Ways milk the first process urd constipating, Milk is re CRP inlly i= to rarn it into « NOTES AND COMMENTS. The worst thing about the Chinese | “open door” is its numerous hinges. One of Boston's most highly cultured | conchmen has died, leaving an estate worth more than $50,000, That wan | knew his business, i Now we are shown that our stom anche are not essential to health or happiness. A Swiss woman lived four teen months after the removal of her stomach, and her death was not enused by the absence of the organ, Hilinols to discourage sentiment among women. This quality is found among men chiefly, but is always as pleasant in on woman as a soft manners, A woman without sentiment is Hke a woman with a man's hat and short hair, volce and good The total inmates of jails in the vari ous counties in Indiana recently es orb my were 1.655 females, There were 8,100 in jail for intoxication, 40652 for misdemesn ors, 2.572 for assault and battery, 2,819 for grand and petit 196 for murder, 24 for manslaughicr and the remainder for various other crimes, larceny Irish larger were were and bank than more deposits last in any former than thirtr-*wo 18ST No year year, per for the In the ®avings banks larger than in much bnnks of deposits over INOT was he total de ever business thie increase more than $2.500,000, and before, day han shall posits For have to read “prosperous.” were larger t “distresefol’ we One The new University of Brussels, Bel giunm, has been compelled to close it ie itn was w tin inst Ti founded seven years ago, pearly to the curd thus it more and stomach ConaGit absorbs the water bad for drinking skim milk. It is largely the water used for the wash. ing of dishes or the freshening of salt pork. In this way the more salt into their stomachs than they re quire, and this glso makes the as bogs get hogs socialist allowance having suddenly been off the foros 10 URIVersily was This sybils 1 to be Secretary determined if ings to sustain themselves Wilson is find it is possible for human find out in the inhos and, if For that par Professor , CO 80, 10 them how to do it 3001 pose he hins sent native of Depmark, who is th a familiar w gardening in frozen snes, to establish an agricultural sta jon at Sitka, to with experiment Liles ETRRNOS, and vegein soils, 2 the raising of stock wonltry amd Erains roe ants for the benefit of the 2 The Bacl Michigan is | matrimonial for the States Wisconsin and New Y bothering iris’ Association of ranching out reaching « of Indiana, 1ilinois, Oh Missouri, The New it golopus 3s io, ork ih ith t 11 ie England, where pot the slightest difficulty in g the feminine " there i= population, har nnder or over thir 031 1 either ander or over thirty, from com The t4% : 2 381 this Ag matrithony posipone of avowed marriage s Is the oblect of wim bind 1 '% ior viel the federated girl themselves with This sometimes makes pork, which fattened in large droves, and gets little salt, bet ter than the pork made by the farmer who keeps but two or three pigs, and feeds them from the swill barrel filled with a mixture of skim milk and salt water, If fod as it should be, with pork s vy eRtern in fattening, and without of salt, the Eastern pork much the best. The water in which salt pork ix highly nutri tions, as a good deal of its strength out with the salt when it is feashenmd for cooking. an in CXUPER Pons hind enough fresh water, frais and vegetables to offset the excess of salt that most of their drink containg. American Coltivator. Palne’s Rainbow Flag But the world still waite for Paine’s rainbow flag, which to him meant the union, before which away forever, That rainbow he no doubt saw in the American flag which in his last Crisis he spoke of as war must pass plate ite rise and origin inspires a sen The rain bow Is in everyone of Paine's writings, whatever storms sweep through them, He was the typical enthusiast of lib erty. equality, fraternity: he was the passionate lover of Ametiea for the snke of its exalted virtues, its free. dom and justice: and it ix but sober historic truth to affirm that no man work were more transfused with sweet hamanity than Thomas Paine, ~Moncure DD, Conway in the Arena. The Way He Said It. The Cleveland Plain Dealer tells a story to show that there is sometimes a great deal in the way of putting any. sidest daughter was as homely as a mistaken, madam, that of a mixture of " ine.” “Oh, ix that all? According to consular reporis, we Italy somewhat more seriously factor in beet development. There Is now in progress, under the direction of the agricultural associs tions of Upper Polesine, Lendinara and fower Veronese legnago, afd exhibi of machinery and sugar beet —inclnding implements used joading and transportation and meth ods of storing, pressing and preserving As the exhibition Is to remain open un RRM A A HEAL and report. It shows that bribery and corruption are rampant in every de- partment of business and professional According to the report, commis are given to fivins or agents to secure Then the recipients demand similar bribes from other firms, and the stress of competition necessitates Thus a form of a system of disposing of Inferior arti The committee, in order to check the evil, recommends civil pro- ceedings under the present law and fresh legislation making the practice criminal, It may yet be that we shall be called upon to quote In our raw silk market reports prices on silk produced in Aus tralia, saye the Dry Goods Economist, According to the Textile Manufacturer, of Manchester, the mulberry thrives in New South Wales, and is particularly rich in the resinous on which silk of best marketable value 18 so dependent. We jearn {rom the same authority that a pumber of {talizns, who settled a few years ago in a part of New South Wales not par ticularly favorable to sericulture, have been agreeably surprised at the results, One of these settlers has set up a hand- loom and then a formed, Eydney, substances § the manufactures silks, Since ! has nt has the use silk-growing association been vith headquarters i. and the government thousands of intending sericulturists, raised of plants for That Lo the Philippines desire to remain there industry is many of the volunteers sent and he New engage in trade y credible, thinks 1 York Commercial Advertiser, that other countries, notably Great Britain, and entirely Soldiers have sent to foreign dependencies have settled. there at the expiration of their of nusisted civil west service and have the and The country in des of slates 3 lopment ization these territories er of our filled with men from the who retirement own are regular army efrom, went nto business of one kind or another in jon. Many of the volunteers the Philippines are from western states, and hence after ther % thint sect now in the they meer life 13i« are more or less inured to There is something in the undeveloped these islands and the half of the nn: that By remaining volunteers condition of condition io thelr savage appeals 1asies, nu the Philippines these a leaven for speedy Amen of and lead, perhaps, woukl be canization these dependencies to Anglo-Baxon ¢ HEH thom Lastiadi. tion to That the United States is gradually displac of LEUTes Te Times by The cor respondent states that the English and italian Imports of plain gray and white cotton fell from 11, 000,000 piculs, valued at $18 SAn000, in 1887. to 9.500.000 piculs, valued at $17. 1897, on the other China fron in the same period ing England in the trade China is clearly indicated by cently the London its Rhanghal correspondent. sent to goods into China So0,000, in while hand the America increased from 1.800.000 piculs, valued at 30.000, O00. to 4.000000, valved at $5.500.000 falling off in to China England is pot wholly due to American in part to the increased importation and weaving of yarns from India. It however, by the Times correspon fent imports into The imports from competition, bt is conceded, hat American manufacturers are now competing Manchester in lower class goods, which they did not touch formerly, and that TORTS they were content export the surplus of their manufac tures, they are now laying themselves out for direct competition with the Lancashire export trade with whereas io domestic ten MYSTERY OF THE MAGNETIC GIRL. lialian agriculturists look forward to a industry. —— A 3 as progressing as follows: The Sierra Town, requiring the erection of eleven gteel viaducts, and is pow being pushed on to Rotofunk. are at work beyond Abbeokonta to wards Ibacian, and the rails will be laid to the former place in a few weeks, Gold Coast Colony, Is progressing: a jetty has been built to facilitate land ing at the port: shops, stores and bar- racks have been constructed, and the about 10,000 men are at work. The British usurer is perhaps the most rapacious of modern Shylocks, and it is good to hear that a ill is curb him, if not to “regulate” him out of existence. Up th ten per cent the money lender will be allowed a free henud, but a higher rate entitles the debtor to invoke legal redress. Every me~ey lender will be compelled to tran- must not have even one business alias, nor will it be permissible for him to pose as a benevolent organization un der some specious title; hitherto a fa- vorits trick with the rascals that prey upon the needy and helpless. In a country where 400 per cent per annum for short loans is not uncommon, and 2.000 per cont per gunum not unknown, TAH MSR pointing to the preva: a widespread system of secret life, wh nme to tired Without Explaining. “There never has a scientific investigation "of the phenomena in volved in the varions phases of what remarked a “that is, scien though some frequently claim bw scientist, tific. pure and simple, very proved all thelr claims and sypposi- There have been a number of made in thiz country Europe by boards on which investigations and in investigations were made to approve rather than to investigate. In each in stance the scientific assistant was wore of a spiritualist than a scientist, amd that fact wax known before his assistance was asked, The nearest that has ever been reached to a scien tific investigation was the case of Lu- of Georgian, whe created such a sen clever perforiner raised more of a sen: gation In a few weeks than did the "ox sisters. the first public spiritual istic mediums, in as many years, She made the sensation and made the money, and then quietly retired from the scene. The scientific investigation in her case was just about being start. od when some one ralsed the question as to there being anything to investi gate, The girl was then asked if she teed Ehysical forces to accomplish her perfo noes, and she replied that if she did she was not conscious of if. it was then necessary to ascertain if was asked to perform her wonders while standing on a platform The moment she bogan her * efforts were indicated on the scale, and wan the last of the mystery of |