op is an Ill Wind
That Blows Nobody Good.’
That small ache or pain or weakness is
the “ll wind" that directs your attention
taking Hood's Sarsapardla. Then your
blood goes tingling to every organ. I is
the remedy for all ages and both sexes.
Hoods Sarsaparilla
Never Disappoints
Old Rulns to Be Sold.
The ruins of Chepstow Castle, in
England, in which Henry Marten, one
of the judges of Charles I., was con-
fined for upward of twenty years after
the restoration, are to be sold at pub-
lic auction, They cover an extensive
area near the mouth of the Wye, and
the walls on one side are nearly per-
hangs that river. The castle itself is
said to date from the time of William
the Conqueror, and it stood two sieges
duripg the revolution. It has been
successively in the hands of the Fitz
Herberts and the Somersets, and it is
the new Duke of Beaufort,
Up 'n a Balloon.
The occupants of a balloon
high command a
miles.
a mile
Cures a Cough or Cold at once.
Conquers Croup without fail,
Is the best for Hrouchitis, Grippe,
Hoarseness, Whooping-Cough, and
for the cure of Consumption,
others praise it. Doctors prescribe it,
Smail doses ; quick, sure results,
Augustin Daly's Big Bible
teresting one. Mr.
there were about 8,000,
forty-two volumes. Two copies of the
Douai version were used for the text.
Every page of the work was mounted
on special paper. Some of the mate-
rial for the pages was much soiled
and in order to get it clean Mr. Bla
'
holled the
3
well, who did th
sheets. Then
clothes line and sat
while he smoked his pipe.
well estimates that Mr
have spent 5,000 pounds on his Bible.
on a
them
Black-
must
Mr
Daly
DifMicultios,
#5
Lal
Teaching Under
Teacher—Who
never told a lie?
Teacher-—No, George Wash
tof. Schola ail right, den
going home and teil my dad you
he was a liar. —Judge.
Was that
man
Scholar—My dad
no! ™
Oh,
ing-
I'm
said
— nm
The Missouri hen is justified in
The shipments of poultry
and eggs from that State exceed the
wheat, corn, oats and hay, We may
Next to opium in power are certain kinds
which causes intoxication and anasthesia,
Prof. Walter Wilson,
Of the Savannah High School, says:
“1 feel it my'daty to testify to the won-
trouble,
number of reme-
benefit. * B50. at
Shup-
after having used =a
without any
An Unfalr Advantage.
Mrs. Blank found herself in a rather
she was dining for the first time at
Opposite her
gat the minister's little boy, a sharp-
eved little fellow of 4 years. While
somewhat
syelids slightly and caught thes eye of
The in-
shrilly,
Like Find ng Money.
The use of the Endless Chain Starch
it just like finding money. Why, for
of “Red Cross"
large 10c package of
““Hubinger's Best” starch, with the
premiums, two Shakespeare panels,
printed in twelve beautiful colors, or
one Twentieth Century Girl Calendar,
in gold. Ask your grocer
for this starch and obtain the beauti-
fal Christmas presents free,
10¢ package
one
Bweet Tones from Wood,
In Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia there
is a remarkably resonant wood called
bormaguilla. The Quichua and Amay-
ra Indians make a most excellent musi.
cal instrument out of this wood. It is
on the principle of the well-known
xylophone, only that underneath each
piece construct a sounding-box
out of the same wood, varying in size
to the note to augmented and
t ing evidences of the ol
A party cf
they
be “us
~rehistoric
civilizations.
lately traveled ga Mexico with
one of these large instruments and cre
ated quite a. sensation
\ fea
musgic-loving Mexicans,
ail
1 - *ruvians
thro
among ths
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
NOTES OF INTEREST ON AGRI-
CULTURAL TOPICS.
Raviges--How to Destroy Rats-~Care of
Calves, &c, &c.
The Crescent Curcullo Mark.
Wherever a fruit is stung by
ecurculio a crescent shaped mark
left that gradually deadens the
tion of fruit enclosed, so that the sap
will not flow so freely. This deaden-
ing of the fruit will extend to the
stem and loosen Its hold, Inside
mark the curcullo egg
It used to be supposed that
not Iay without
Crescent will
be found.
curculio
cold CRES
are entirely
the
in order to
but the two operations
separate, Instinct teaches
trick” to deaden the skin
stop the flow of julees, which might
to lay. This deadening of the skil
causes the fruit to ripen prematurely
that when the hatches hu
worm has ripened tead of green
fruit to feed upon.
eg
i
sO
Treatment of Ravines.
re ngo 1 was compelled
n dry
ngland
Some ten yon
build a
Yrifter in
to sidewalk run,
RAYS 3%
Aeros
New
I finally decided to make
the
run around
5 knoll in tig
2 (ny barrels of
and let the floods
the water
ground
of capillar
into the
COMES means «
atiraciion, : it pays 10
this Hood ater, if possible
township
thr
ul
yay
road
i
WwWOouia
we econld do av
fourths of the small
if the district
oie
verts authorities
accept this idea
Care of Calves,
Never put corn Kafir corn
fin in the ma
any other gr
The
wnvs
3 f
y Foye
for a
field
of
ig food
not to have a
pigs conld eat their 61 a
Pat
farm
raleed
bealihiful, streugthent
clover is equally
in particular 1
it to chickens with
The clover
mineral food that it
for laying bens, Clover is not fatten
ing at all; It is feed for that, and
one should not make a mistake in that
direction.
elements to the body which are essen:
tial to the proper growth of young ani
mals and birds, Clover is so good for
laying hens that I always feed them
with it green in summer, and
have sufficient cured to Keep then sup
plied in winter. For every ton
clover fod to the hens 1 believe [| get
§
goond for other
animale have
and fed
eR snNcveess,
the great
rich
of the best
f& =o in
in One
not
is much higher than can usually be ob
tained in the open market,
Clover sometimes must be fed in
the hens, and often the method thus
of the test. When the hens are
that we are entitled to expect from
them
bone, meat, shells and other
stances to help make up for the de
ficiency of the grain.
foods for laying hens aer so concen:
trated in form that they are hard of
digestion . Very often they pass
through the hens without having more
than half of their substances for
ogg forming absorbed. In clover,
however, we have a food in
wiileh mineral elements are not con
centrated but distributed over a wide
bulk, Consequently clover comes the
nearest to belong the ideal food for
laying hens,
When green the clover ean Iw
chopped up and fed to the chickens in
connection with grain. Mix the two
together, molstening the clover wo that
the grain will eling to it. There Is no
danger of the hens eating too much,
fot them have each day all they will
clean up, Int no more. The clover
cured for winter feeding must be
handled and stored very carefully, as
much of the aroma and favor of the
green plant should be preserved that
It should be ent when in
bloom to do this, and it should be
cured only just enough to keep it. It
should be eut Into small pieces in
tion with other food, especially with
chopped green things from the table,
sane as when green.—Anne C. Web.
Press Delils vs, Hoe Drills,
Some years ago many farmers got
wheat, They ar
af send
trashy soll
where It ought to be
amd put the
where there wis
fo cause it to germi
where frost could
plant, It
COUrse,
and
heave out the Wis an
amd it ran
of dollars out
ers pockets, then it died,
may be
drilis hidden among
the farmers’ junk
ax 1
HE
fad,
of the
in
find a
weeds
Re
this
tion one able to fow
the
but
press
in corner, Bone
so far
know
the
it be
If the for
sound as it should be and
ground is prepared
ax it mu
ir a crop is desired, the hoe drill will
in the 1 the
while it peer
send it
depth,
cuasier
put the spots at
right will run 50
and do very much better
r now sows win
hard or trashy
sort of busi
nl
ae Dod
such a
good
in fact
protect
fow ol
Feed Your Horses Properly.
sii HIfTor ft ood
HEEOT 1 2
i
izette, 8
of writes
a
breeders” (3g
Jere
water before the
all times, Others prefer
81 HOrses
fing
figs
the
fod at four
is given
at night the oats
feed For
up to ten
loose amd four pounds cut
mnters more hay
per day, =x pounds
! and mixed
hix sixteen to eighteen
ponnds per dag Any farmer can see
much this differs from his feed
ing, and yet these horses are required
work and sudden exer
tions, faxing all their powers in
Scotland a favorite winter food when
at moderate work
ty 1
pound
with
how
to do hard
horses are only in
cut ont sheaves
When horses are in the stable much
of the time the feeding needs be
carefully mapaged. In many parts of
Canada are a favorite winter
feed, Swede turnips (rutabagas) are
relished by horses ana seem better
food for them than the carrot. They
do well on roots when idle or at mod
work, Cooking food for horses
fo
roots
careful experi
showed that
Crush:
od or ground onlg are much used
Some horses have a tendency to holt
their food half chewed and some of
the ain is volded whole in these
Grinding helps any such ten
dency. In England some of the large
companies which work a great many
Elaborate and
made years ago
ble.
ments
siderable quantities of American corn,
What needs special attention by our
feeders is the quantity of hay fed and
the dedrability of using a small
quantity of straw in the ration. Brit
ish cavalry horses ard allowed ten
pounds of oats and twelve pounds of
hay on ordinary fesd If out on ace
tive service the oats are increased to
fifteen pounds, In private stables
and on the farm it Is better to glve
greater variety to the food and the
wise feeder wil be guided by the sea.
son and the price of foods in keeping
his animals in the best of health at
the least expense,
His Appearance Against Him.
“You wouldn't think from the looks
of that old fellow that he is one of
the ripest scholars in this town”
“It doesn’t surprise me. He's the
goadiest looking man I've seen too
day." = Chicago Tribune.
SMITH AND OTHERS.
Dig Fariles Recorded in the Pages of Fore
eign Directories.
The New Yorker who offers a timid
apology whenever anybody makes a
with. When it was quite hard they
went away, The traveller examined
{ thelr work, and was surprised to find
| that they had packed the earth solid
| with thelr noses, and had sealed the
snake inside,
for
York
ory ought to
directories,
take a peep at the
eign What if New
the various spellings, fourteen columns
of Johnsons, eight of Joneses and ten
of Whites? Is that
ashamed of? They are nice, honorable
and
them
anvthing to be
names,
10 pm
Take
isn't
boast
not worked
European cities are glad
on the list,
Rmith, for instance
a town in Europe big enough
There
to
directory where Smith has
to the front
fairly overflowing with Smiths,
but thou london of the
Smith family, and the seventeen ool
vmnus of
fnocity
ils wav L.on
don
is the home
the commercial directory, and
if
to mention the
the twelve « court direc not
tory,
irty columns of plain,
evers
on excite
.ondon also
len
hinw
and
Of
ii (3 Trees
Whites,
Ors
When you con
expect to find
but yon don't
quite proud
but
they
shows
of
the
I Poss ible
down
al
in a
“instinct,” and this
iw
Instinct, however it may be in the
of animals, here, no doubt,
hereditary experizace. The sun, the
wind, the streams, are mfiluences, but
only that. The Indian does not con
sciously observe them. Just as you,
using an experience gained in daylight,
in the dark
a winding staircase between the balus
is
his forest,
His “observation”
jective, an
is entirely sub.
unconscious impression,
retina to light pictures.
way 1 had not conscionsly marked the
lay of the snow on the trees, yet the
fact kept me from
Youths’ Companion,
Barying a Rattleasnake Alive
It would not seem a very easy thing
to bury a snake alive, but that is what
a traveler through Western Indian
The story is told in Forest and Stream.
The traveler was resting under a
tree when he
among some dogs near him. They
would run up 10 a certain spot. peep
ooking more closely, he saw fifteen
or twenty dogs about a rattlesnake,
which presently went into one of the
dog's holes,
No sooner had it disappeared than
the little fellows began to push in dirt,
evidently to fill up the hole. By the
time they had pretty well covered the
entrance the snake stuck his head up
through the dirt, and every dog scam.
pered off to a safe distance, all the
time barking.
The snake slowly emwled to another
hole about a rod distant and went in.
Then forward came the dogs Again,
And all went to work to push up earth
to the hole, This time they succeeded,
and completely covered the entrance,
This done they proceeded to beat the
earth down, using their noses to pound
Life Is Lovely ia Ch na,
All of us who know China, the lead-
ing and most populous country in Asia,
nil whose empire, leaving out Sibe.
rig, covers two-thirds of that vast con.
know that the life-breath of its
independ
in name a
little more
official appoint
hauds and
almost as di
Hke the
upon as
1 put hie has
czar of Russia, an army
de
tinent,
precisely its
Though
emperor
pros rity in
ence of autocracy.
despotism, the i
figurehead; all
than a
ments are pominally in his
his decrees are regarded
“Bon of Heaven.”
tome, being
vilie, the
Pope of looked
regent on earth;
God's vies
not, like the
of
crees carried out and to worry and op
AC
the rare in *% when
¢
docile Tehinovniks to see his
le unless
the po
i Linaman,
press
mn he Is en
sr caught as a
his life
in
tax
10
calls at
1
trap 8
whole
ial
Heense
nn offi
pal rate
rav
axl SG I1ER
ned
nt The
iif most
highest
» one, because the
and
A bride
recently example,
suits for nteh
of the her bousehold
In a dog's wardrolx found water
proofs for rainy days, dust cloaks for
journeys, a mantle for cold weather, a
gray-lined suit for seaside wear, and
night robes of various weights. And
this I= not wil. #is delicave little fost
must be Kept dry by boots, made to
measure, of leather of india rubber, to
suit his particular temperament. This
together with bracelets and ti-pins,
with ivory combs and brushes, and
| other important accessories. The mod-
ern French canine, indeed, leads a
“dog's life.”
Armor ia Cuba.
One of the young officers in a regi
ment that visited Santiago in the re
| cent skirmish with the Spaniards wore
a coat of mall that he borrowed from
| an actor in New York. It was made
| of innumerable brass rings, “I felt
| perfectly =afe in it” he said, the
other night, “and 1 do not think it
| showed cowardice to wear it. In the
| old days knights wore all sorts of ar
mor to protect themselves against
sword cuts and spear stabs, against
| battle axes and clubs. Now, a bullet
| i far more dangerous than a sword ot
pear, and 1 see no harm in guarding
[the body against itt I am not the
| only officer who wore armor-not hy
la Jong sight. In a few years I think
the military regulations will reguire
| officers to wear a cost of mall in all
battle. Why not”? But the young
man was foolish, as he would admit
if ever he saw a Mauser or a Krag
bullet pierce thick steel plates. — New
York ress.
A Tenacious Tenant.
“It was very careless!” exclaimed
the Parsian properly owner. ;
“Whats the matter?” |
“The agent has rented wy property
to 8 man named ‘Guerin’ ™
“What of it? :
“1 don't like the name. It sounds
mighty unpromiging In case we should
st much,
rode
gala
the liver
few lackeys of
are
ol called upon to-undertake an evie