: Can't Afford It. '" A Spanish General has just been dis missed from the service for evading a «challenge to fight a duel. The action of the court martial shows that the standard | of conduct in the Spanish Army is not much above that in the German or Aus. trian Army, but Germany und Austria can afford to harbor such barbarisms, while Spain cannot. mm II ed Temperance and labor are ths two best physicians of men. mrs sa ss Beauty Is Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar. tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im. urities from the body, Begin to-day to nish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug. glats, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25¢, 50c. Stupid persons are seldom dissatisfied with themselves, De Your Feet Ache and Buran ? Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes Tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures Corns, Bun- fons, Swollen, Hot. Callous, Aching and Sweating Feet. Sold by all Druggists, Grocers and Shoe Stores, 25¢, Sample sent FREE. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Lelloy, NY : No man who has never been tempted is sure of his honesty, Don’t Tobacce Spit and Smoke Your Lifes Away, To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag: netic, full of life, nerve and viger, take No To Bag, the wonder-worler, that makes weal men strong. All druggists, dc or$l, Cure guaran. teed Dooklet and = lo free. Address Sterling Rewady Coa, Chicago or New York Use the fewest possible words when you have anything to say. It Cures All Skin Eruptions. Tetterine is the name B0¢. a box, or prepaid trine, Savannah, Ga Sold at drugeists for direct from J. T. Shup John H. Pahlen. of Lex ington, Mise . writes: “Enclosed find $1.00 {i 2boxes of Tetterine. My father's hand wascured by it, and | take pleasure In recommending it” You can nearly always judge a man’s char. acter by what he thinks laughable. A. M. Priest, Druggist, Shelbyville, Ind. says: “Hall's Catarrh Cure gives the best of satisfaction. Can get plenty of testimonials, as it cures every one who takes it.” Druggists sell it, T5c¢. ” Bargain sales have parted many a wife and her husband's money. “In Union There is Strength.” True strength consists in the union, the harmonious working together, of every | part of the human organism. This strength | cap never be obtained if the blood is im- | pure. Hood's Sarsaparila is the standard | The originators of the movement to give Dewey a house in Washington are pow in some doubt as to whether he would | like one. The Admiral is a widower and has no family. But there are precedents | enough to make a house seem appropri. | ate as a testimonial should he find one! convenient to live in. Admiral Farragut was given a house in New York and Ad miral Worden one in Washington. Gens Grant, Sherman, Meade Sheridan also had houses presented to them in var- ious cities. Grant had houses given to him in three places Galena, Philadel. phis and Washington. The English, too, have presented houses to their war heroes. Blenheim Palace, now the resi- dence of W. K. Vanderbilt's daaghter, the Duchess, was given to the first Duke of Marlborough for his great victory at Blenheim. The Duke of Wellington re- ceived Apsley House after Waterloo, and a relative of Nelson received Tra- faulgar House af.er the battle of Trafal- gar. Dewey's proposed residence in Washington seems the thing if he cares for such a gift. en —r Homes to Heroes. | { fy and Natural affection and Instinct are the most beautiful of the Almighty's works, Puerto Rico Washerwomen. Thrifty housekeepers may be inter. ested in the description of laundry work in Puerto Rico, as given by Fred A, Ober in his recent work ¢n that island and its resources. Heo says, In this survey of the West Indian household, we should not overlook an im- portant member, or adjunct, of it, the washerwoman. She is just as black as she is painted, and that is usually very black indeed. Her hand is againsi every man, and every man’s hand ought to be aguinst her, for she maltreats ma.u's be- longings —his shirts and his collars-—ina munner that is fearful to behold. She lives on the outskirts of civiliza- tion, and has no recognized status in so- ciety. No one knows whence she comes, but there she is waiting for thé steamer to land, and with an overgrown lad or stout boatman to assist her to seize and carry away your soiled linen. She has no wash-tub, no scrubbing board, and sometimes (no soup, some na. tive roots serving in lien of the last; but she carries the policeman’s weapon—a club—and wields it, too. It is early morning when, having se- cured a pile of linen entrusted to her care by some guileless and inoffensive man, she slowly wends her way to the nearest river or sea. She deposits her burden on the bank, and fills her pipe. Others of the same persuasion come along, and they enjoy a social confab. After a discussion on the wavs and means of defeating the aims of civilization, they begin to destroy the garments. Each one has near her a broad, smooth stone upon which she spreads her day's catch, and proceeds to reduce it to a pulpy indistinguishable mass, She souses itin the stream. slams it against the rock, and then falls at it with her club, Not a button escapes, not a hole in any unfortunate garment that is not made larger! No mortal made has ever wit. nessed the fray, and returned to tell the tule without emotion. After this mutila- tion the clothes are spread upon a thorny cactus to bleach. * Then she takes home her handiwork, throws it in a corner, where the picanin- nies sleep on it a few nights, and finally has the hardihood to present a claim to the owner of the linen. rs ———— Things to Remember, “What a new face courage puts on everything! * A determined man by his very attitude and the tone of puts a stop to defeat, and begins to con. ‘For they can conquer who believe they ean.” ’ “Trust thyself; every to the iron string.” “What I must do is all that me, not what the people think “T'o make our word or act sublime, we must make it real.” It is our system that counts, not the unsupported word or tion.” “Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? 1 am well assured that the questioner who brings me so many problems will bring the swers also in due time.” his voice heart vibrates Concerns fac- an “The face and eves reveal what the ] : When the eves say one thing and the tongue another, the practical man relies on the language of the Hirst.” “Work is victory done victory is obtained : blanks Wherever work is There is You want f you have your own fio but You “Manners are the happy way of doing things.’ ff you would not be known to doany- thing, never do it. “A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best: bot what he has said or otherwise shall give him no peace.” done mr ———————— Modern Mother's Diary. I was very much mortified today to have Gerald say to me before company, “Shut up, ma!’ How discournging! 1 have done my best to teach my boy to say, ‘Mamma, pray be quiet!” when he desires me to cense speaking; but it seems | have labored in vain. What am 1 to do. the blues! DESPONDENT | WOMEN ill-health, or some the A million women have been “Dear Mrs. Pinkuam—For years I suffered with painful I could not stand for a thing of the past. friends.” Square, Boston, Mass., writes: “Dear Mrs, helped me wonderfully. I good. my friends who suffer.” Despondency #8 a dis- ease. Nervousness and snappishness come with it. Will power won't overcome it. The femi. nine organs are con- nected by nerves with the brain and all parts Get advice in time. by neglect and - NOTES OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS, ol Poultry Manure, Etc. Nettles as Greens. The New York Times expresses sur- prise that nobody has learned to eat nettles, which analysis shows to be rich in nitrogenous nutrition, and which cows eat with great avidity, We can well understand that cows fed on net- tles give large of rich milk. But the Thmes Is mistaken in suppos- ing that the nettle is never used as hu- man food. When young and tender it makes very palatable and nutritious greens, amd ail this stage of growth there are fewer of the nettle which redden the skin which they have in contact with, As the nettle grows older its stalk becomes woody and worthless. MPSREeR Colne Water for the Horse. The farmer who Is going for a half day's work in a field where thee is no water handy will not forget to take a supply along with him, and he would the privilege and was obliged to walt uutil he returned to the house for his meals before he could quench his thirst. But how few ever think of taking out supply for the horses, though the sun may shine ever so hot and the dust fly enough to parch | and nostrils, To take along a winter and a pall, that have few their with driver found thirsty work, would be but a small task, and would be well repaid in the greater comfort of the animals And it wonld be greatly the advan of their health horses every summer induced drinking te water, ag a result Roing without it when at work Turn a horse in the yard or pasture in hot weather, and if here he will go to drink a half dozen times a day at least, unless the grass is very in iy ips five-gallon thie keg of horses might to rinse even a swallows mouths when the it to tage for bundreds of from colic, much cold foo long die by My as of water is 1 succulent, and when drawing the har- ina row or mower or harvester dusty field he needs it much more Preparing an Asparagus Bed. The r the Fhe soll for the first be asparagus bed must removed to the depth of at if the drainage Ianid on either of di The bottom of filled with a on top of whi h 1 nna least two feet or more svi Wi il permit and crrefulls the 3 the wide trench, Lo» foot of | § kt near “5 surface ito 1 the trench mnst now be foot of conrse ix ramp down or four nite un J tof w manure, inches of surface soll Next Inver throw in orde of well with salt and lime, on top © iI8 BR Liiroe inch ixedd rotten na- surface bund nl i level p dressing the the it in fe remainder of Far placed i to settle As soon + ®oil should lowed with aI nw the surface work ina t and set the { of salt, lime well rotten en manure this plants with FfOOts and throw der pulverize the through the g the rest of tempted to cut any of first season well spread out half the remai to SOON as yl, thoroughly. begin to round gradually throw on the But of the = it shoots taking AR peep care wil don't be If you do, you jeopardize the future of the hed. In the fall remove the dead tops and which strew the the plenty of salt. In spring work in the manure to depth of six inches and apply a top dressing of salt. Don’t forget the salt, for the natural habitat of asparagus is on the salt to its well being. If three-year-old plants are used, by the second season they will be firmly established in the soll, and the shoots may be cut with safety, if this is done in the right way, which Is to sever them some three or four inches below the ground as soon as they have at | tained a length of three inches above it. The method usually followed by segooast, =o is necessary the sprouts on a level with the surface when some eight or ten inches long not £8 a vegetable but is much harder on the plants, for table use the bed should be gone over daily and every sprout ready cnt plants will furnish a plentifal supply; allowed to feather out, the roots will at once cease to send up others, After the first frost the bed must be treated go Times Herald, Pastures for the Cows, Timothy and clover pastures should be far more frequent than they are, from the date of sowing. as the clover up they furnish much hamus to the crops that come after them for two or three seasons, Sow say five or six pounds of medium red clover per acre, gud four or five pounds of timothy. and make sure that the seed Is well covered when it is sown. When timo thy and clover pastures fall from any cause, pastures may be provided by sowing mixed grains, as for inuring should begin as soon as the animals will not pull up the plants when grag ing on them. This will be after it has made a growth of several Inches, Corn should only be grown as a pas. ture for cows on land that is belug summer-fallowed. When eaten down it does not grow again, hence it ought to be a foot or more high before it is pastured. It, of course, b h the pastoring and in conse. quence there is much waste; but since it is grown as a catch crop the waste Is not a serious item, more especially when it is borne in mind that when buried with the plow, as it ought to be, it furnishes vegetable matter to the soll, Frown one to two bushels of seed should be sown as soon as the ground Dwarf Essex rape may be grown as pasture for cows in precisely the same From } i may be gown upon fallow lands, and the rape will be ready for belug pas. tured in from six to eight weeks from the date of sowing. There will also the rape, but this also will be turned to good account when it is buried with the plow. This plant may also be grown by sowing the seed with any kind of spring crop and at the rate of one to one and one-half of seed per acre. The seed mixed in with the grain at intervals while the sowing progresses. The rape plants do not usually injure the grain, and pounds is been harvested: but the facet should be remembered that cows in milk should only be pastured on rape during the forenoon and after the morning milk- ing.—Farm, Field and Fireside, The Breeds That Pay. Sometimes fashion determines the profitable success of a breed of fowls fully as much as any inherent quall- of the birds. It does not pay to foree a particular breed on the market, If the breed is not in demand it is bet- ter to let it alone, breed that is fashionable. the public makes its aud the poultryman has nothing to do but fol low. It is true that the public often makes a mistake, and estimates a par ticular breed far above its merits. But liere that ties and raise In this selection, a case again the is not concern question the one does breeder be to make money than by following your own inclinations old breeders can remember when black Spanish fowls were very popu lar or Wyandotte could hardly chaser for his stock. can and more apt ind a pur Then the Amerd came all Dominiques the into fashion, rage was for this bread day, and they have passed out of popu iar notice, and Wyandottes and mand independent of the Plymouth Minoreas ¥ is LOCKER are in de These have great any fashi breeders would hate { vogue unless someth fos ROP oO developed, There Is more money mi raising broilers or r anything the best number of « of brings one to the question whether er be § i ' i CHSTere and 1 brollers and rer Kas than ela, sre s Iny erin make i are in ivy worthy our attention We will ey « 5 f itn wy prove He present ones, so will excel There 3 that he anything in ony are those who we have developed the sible as a lav! nen machine, and © faq fas iar [un ng that present atininments This hardly to be accepted ax a true interpretation is of present conditi feeding and Re will undoubtedly make progress pever yet dreamed of, MER high ul care we Otherwise we would we have attained which will hap Webster Ameri- to perfection, pan. Anne can Cultivator, Dever the in Renovating Orchards, Repair of the orchard is not neces sarily associated with old age and de cay. Apple trees ten or fifteen years much as do old and neglected ones, When the orchard to treated has been neglected for many years, the first operation, if the land not need draining, is to prune thoroughly. In this operation. which may be per formed at any time from late fall un- til the middle of May, care should be tse] that the trees are given an open head, This does not imply that all small Hmbs should be removed, leav. be does of the larger limbs as are parallel and close together, or those which cross to- gether, or those which cross, should letin 49, Maine experiment station. Half of the difficulty of proning is the tree its natural form. rather than attempt to shape it to some particular Many growers suppose that pruning that pruning is uonatural. Bat pron. ing is not unnatural. Man seldom prunes so heavily as does nature in re- moving superfluous limbs in the growth of young saplings in the forest, sons and in the rudest ways. By this chanical operation of pruning. On the portance that large limbs be removed with care and the wounds painted to prevent the entrance of fungi which will induce deeny. In training young trees, all erotelies should be avoided. 1f bad crotehes should be found to ex. ist In trees ten or more years old. they should be braced by means of an iron bolt. Much damage may be avoided if bolts are used in season. New Eng. land Homestead, Parle’ city council is going to give prizes yearly to the architects and the constructors of the six handsomest houses erected during the year. NOTES AND COMMENTS. | i | The Chicago Tribune finds that of | 162 presidents and professors in seven- | teen Western colleges and universities | 127 are in favor of expansion, 19 op posed and 16 non-conmumitial, A beautiful young woman is n mem. | ber of the police force of Honoluln, | The correspondent who described her | will be forgiven readily for speaking! of her as “one of the finest,” i iv excluding this country’s food pro- | ducts the German Emperor hopes to | convince America that L= is too friend. | ly to permit the possibility of its going without pork and apple sauce on his account, i Within eight more centuries leap year will have n relic of the pres ent time. that time the extra eleven lost tc wake up the changes from the old Julian calendar to that of the present day will all have been duly accounted for, and the world will run around in just 265 days, and no more, hecoe By days “T'm not the Gen “Remember the Maine” and a hero, I'm only a regular” epigrams of our war with Spain eral Fred, Funston, the gallant mander of the Kansas regiment in the Philippines, however, has just contrib af hold MacArthur, “1 nil are £01 uted the finest phrase the contest “How can tion?’ General Caloocan, Funston's repiy long you your posi asked ut Wiis my regiment is mustered ent” According to that expert observer, 1. Powers, late Labor of Minnesota, the afflict the incurred not He declared ths the Commissioner josses that most farmers of the coun rely but {ry fare in stock in farm of the Wall street they “stocks it the ers constitute « of “lam Lie estimates wrt pay : Ha jor flock he" shorn in and that furnish fourths f the “outside fuere, about three money” lost In speculation COTONOTS kiers for A box held at a owing to the railroad ial having lost the bill, though it wi consigned London raliroad on recently, way was 10 8 §% museum, and the body of a wo two skulls were woman 1 the coroner found inside * Young was skulls of an were 1 the d prehistor it sirict both insists Fre an FES SEAT an le have usenm peopl have a remarkable ican ies . eT wer In producer in iia the raw material pas failed rediucy of goods on the silk ceeded In very materially lessening put, while 31 Lie ufacturers of and wi ih 1 Fis Foyd siiken af woolen fabrics nll the ex nd fact is the n ‘ 1 wre remarkable & of American oot 3 handsome Ton ise je the Dry Goods Economist Legislature has that will WOolnan wearing a hat. It provides that shall Possession or who shall sell or for sale any feathers or skins or parts of birds for in millinery or similar purposes, shall kill for such purposes any in this State, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than £25 nor more than £50 for each bird skin or part of skin or parcel of feath. ers #0 sold or offered for male or killed for that purpose.” ER to a stuffed bird per The Arkansas ed a game law fine A 8 3 sib ieet “any son who have in xX pose lige or birds The Mercantile-Marine shipbuilding output for the whole world for 1868 snys United States Consul James Boyle, of Liverpool, is estimated at 1.830.000 tons, and Lloyd's returns that of this total 1.367.550 tons gross were launched in the United Kingdom. This English output ered 761 vessels, of which only 17 were sailing ships, and it does not include 41 warships launched in I1SOX and ag gregating 191.505 displacement. Not counting warships, at the end 1808 there were DRE vessels under con. struction in English yards, aggregat- ing 1.401087 gross tons, show Cov tons Li Cornell University has a new mu senm. an “educational masenm.” It is not historical in character but an American schools. There is a library of 418 text-book, practically all now used in the schools, which have been donated by the publishers. Then there are complete sets of drawings made by pupils in the high schools, sets of school modelings in clay. manual train. ing work In wood and iron, ete. The students in the pedagogical courses are cnabled hy these exhibits to judge what is practically done in the schools as well as what theoretically should be done, Spain also is trying to take a hand in the partition of China. She de mands a cession of land in China as in. demnity from the Chinese government for permitting the flihuster steamer Abbey to leave Canton last fall with arms for the Filipinos. The amusing thing about this claim is that Admiral Dewey captured the Abbey and that the American forces were in posses. sion of Manila at the time. Spain had consed to exercise any real authority in the Philippines. Still there is no harm in Spain trying to play the role England, Russia and Germany will take care of her chief interest 10 sive a PS 5 American rallmakers and locomotive bullders., The length of road mme- dintely projected is only some 250 miles in length, but with the exten. sions that are commercial and political necessities, there will be fully another thousand miles to be constructed. Of the whole estimated trade of Persia, amounting to about E55.000,000, about half is done by English and British India, of which portion four-fifths falls to Indin, The other half goes to Russia and the Black Sea through territory. A country doing that amount of trade is a market not to be despised, The plans of the new ten-story lying- in hospital in New York City, to be built with the money given by Mr, J. Plerpont Morgan, shows that the sky- scraper dea may be utilized for other than those of business, With modern improvements in hospital manage- ment and with modern systems of con- struction, and especially of elevator the hospital ne longer needs the ground area which formerly was indispensable, and in dim Fendt of acquisition large city at | the point where it is most needed, says the New York World, The adoption of the skyscraper for hospital purposes, of which York lHeve, the first tive ry 21 service, we Sed . wich wip in a N85 furnishes, we be. , is a distin ard in th ath of pro capacity of of its grow- step forw an evidence EH advanced civilization ing needs. i it sa some of English manufa red f lucifer Hac nes 1 ii 0 © rection Genial fig well as the Introduction re per- fect machinery, with a view to lessen to PLHOSDIOrUs, § x q wet 41 go $1 ng ie LIM © i ¥ MHiives Le deleterd and, irresg ivee of auy other consid. sonal interest is erations, shown establishments £ iis COs ions requisite TF employed in th Any on nite fils mediate the sufferer. In HH rR Td ¢ i Lhowever, appears that in Geer. } and Switzerland the manufactu it is pursued as a home industry, as ¢ of matches ul. of course, under $ ner I must aggravate the fo health, A curious iHHustration of homan proneness to mend sociological errors * ¢ Herat rat nt thesn, is illostrat ¥§ (Eh opological ex in ob ¥ has Hrdlicka ihe anthr i now being conducted York Juven Argonaut. Thi n by Dr. Ales 1 Is to ascertain fie lum, AS the 8 Work been undertake exact ad basis will of the is approach- its 4 . the Onl condition of dren tlie fitntion, as a ins atimment standard such developin aw to bring nu normal childhood normal physical ed, the that the cl with normal 1 Conversely 1 p nearer gtronger ar Lie probabilities ren able to Cope i143 11343 MLE yo ir opporitanit and happiness in the piace that th Lhe it is a dream Inboratory will some day of the farm and ranch in the produc- tion of food for human and the widespread and increasing pops- larity of prepared food and the con jnvention of new Kinds of ficial food indicate that dream may not be so impossible of realiza- tion after all. It certainly is shatter ing the gloomy predictions of Malthus and of prophets of more recent date, like Sir William Crookes. It does not follow that the human race must oon | tinue to use natural food because it bas done so in the past. It has out grown many former habits in this di rection. and it is perpetually escap ing from them as civilization ad- vances, The time may not come, as some enthusiasts have predicted, when a dinner will consist of a pellet, but it present tendencies are any indication the day is not distant when failure of crops may be a matter of small im- portance. What surprises science may have in «tore for the race beyond this | point may be jeft to the imagination. ane fie, ise stant art: this The theory that men are not so addict. ed to doing things for the sake of wear. ing appropriate clothes as women ap- parently necds revision. For example, we find thig in the Haberdasher: “In | thix age men must be at home in all arts likely to be called into play in a {game of golf or t "unis, on board a | yacht, while wheeling, driving or rid- ling. Ne matter which sport be foi fows, be must of necessity have a proper costume. For every there Is a well-defined code of dress A man desirous of living up to the | conventionalities must pay as close at. | tention to the details of his dress for the field as he does to that for even ling wear. It is improper 10 wear any old suit that may be handy or cheap when wheeling, playing golf, or while indulging in the pleasures afforded by auy sport for which a special costume has been designed. A well-equipped wardrobe of outing wearables is es. sentinl to that feeling of perfect com fort which accompanies good clothes, designed for the occasion.” The old jest about the woman who purchased her cycling clothes before she bought her wheel is apparently applicable
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