IIOTOOIS'GESARE CAUGHT.
ONE OF FLORIDA'S IMPORTANT IN
DUSTRIES. Iho Crent Coral Iloofh Along the
Const Sponiro FtahtnK Not Ka7
AVork IMfiVrpnt Varieties.
A Fort Meade (Fh.) letter to the Xcw
York Times says that spongo fishing is
confined to the southwestern mrt of the
coast, along the reefs, nml to the exteu
livo rocky shoals, thnt lie between Mark's
and Anclotc Keys. Accurately speaking,
tho spongo reef begins a few miles east of
Appnlachicolii, and hugs the coast to
within fifty miles of Cedar Keys. Then
there is a break of 100 miles, after which
it reappears and runs south without in
terruption to Key AVct and the Biilmtna
Islands. This reef, n rocky ridge, some
times of genuine limestone, but generally
af coral, begins some six or eight miles
from shore and continues out indefinitely.
Wherever there is a rocky bottom sponges
iro said to bo found, and the only reason
why the fisheries do not extend completely
around the gulf coast is that in places, as
off the coast of Texas or (."eilnr Keys, this
rocky bottom begins in water too deep to
permit of profitable sponging. The aver-
ige depth of water on the St. Mark's
reef at six miles froffi land is sixteen feet.
The sponges are in great abundance and
of good ipiulity. The supply is practi
cally incxhaustiable, as they grow almost
is fast as gathered, a sponge requiring
only nbout two years to reach maturity.
Nearly all of the sponges vised in the
United States were brought from the
Mediterranean until 1S52, when attention
was called to the immense numbers thai
were growing in Florida waters. As soon
as it was found that the quality of these
compared favorably with those of Europe
the merchants and fitters-out of vessels of
Key West engaged very actively in the
business of placing them on the market.
At first the best qualities were bough'
from the fishermen at the rate of ten cents
per pound. As Mediterranean sponges
became scarce and costly, tho Florida
sponges came into more demand, anil
their value increased proportionately.
After about eighteen years' fishing upon
tho known grouud tho supply began to
fail. Then, in 1870, a new area of
ground, larger than the old one, was dis
covered, and this gave a new impetus to
tho trade. In that year Appalachicola
sent out a small fleet of sponge vessels
which has since been largely increased.
During the past eighteen years the busi
ness has been energetically pursued with
good results.
The methods employed in the fishery
differ greatly from those employed iu the
Mediterranean, where divers go down and
bring up the sponges. Small vessels,
carrying crews of from five to fifteen
men, are fitted out at Key West and
Appalachicola, for trips of from four to
eight weeks on the sponge grounds. The
crews are paired off into snitdl rowboats,
or "dingies," to catch the sponges. One
man stands in tho stern, sculling the
boat, while the other kneels in the bot
tom amidships, with the upper half of
his body leaning over the side, and scans
the bottom of the sea. To aid the eye
an instrument called a "water glass,"
which is a common water bucket whose
wooden bottom has been replaced by one
of glass, is used by setting it in the watet
and thrusting the face as far into it as
convenient. When a sponge is sighted
the boat is stopped, and the kneeling man
uses a two-pronged hook, attached to a
slender pole thirty or forty feet iu
length, to secure it. Considerable dex
terity is required of both men. To cure
the sponges they are first spread about
the vessel's deck in their natural upright
position, so that they will die, and while
decomposing allow the gelatinous mutter
to run off freely. When they have been
levcral days in this position they are
taken to the shore and thrown into the
water in little pens, called ''crawls,"
where the remaining substance is soaked
ind squeezed out.
The spongers thus work on, day after
day, under a tropical sun that burns and
browns the skin until one cannot tell a
white man from a negro. It is a desper
ately hard life,more severe than any othei
that one can think of, and it requires men
of no ordinary constitution to stand up to
it. The spongers are therefore naturally
an exceedingly muscular set.
The principal season for this fishery is
the summer, from May to August, but tht
best conditions of the water are in winter
and a great deal of the fishing is then
carried on with success. During the
hurricane months of August, September
and Marc h the vessels are nearly all laid
up. The state of the weather greatly
affects the result of the fishery. When
the water is made rough and roily by
long-contiuued strong winds sponge catch
ing becomes impracticable. In some
years the fishery has been a complete
failure, while in others it has been very
profitable, always owing to the weather.
As the natural beds of sponges have be
come scarcer prices have advanced, mi that
even if a vessel does not secure as large
a quantity in a given time us formerly the
financial result is about the same.
There are several varieties of sponges
caught iu the Florida waters. There are
first, bheep's wool, which sell for $1 to
(5 a pound; second, yellow sponges,
which sell for 20 to b'O cents per pound,
and third, grata sponges, which are c oarse
in texture, and not durable, and sell for
10 to 20 cents per pound. When these
are marketed they are trimmed and cleaned
of sand and shells, aud then pressed into
lirrnll bales of 100 to 120 pounds each in
which form they go to the wholesale
dealers. Some uttcuipts have been made
during the past three years to cultivate
the mure valuable kinds of sponges, und
in some instances the experiment has met
with success. It seems probublo that the
future supply of the sheep's wool variety
n ill depend upon some suc h action as
this. Besides being scarcer along tho
sponge reef, this variety grows slower
than tho coarser kinds, uud the demand
for it is always greater than the supply.
An Indian Warrant.
Iu early times some of the mine intelli
gent Indians acted as niagUt rates, says
the l.ewistou (.Me.) Journal. The follow
ing is represented as the form of a war
rant issued by one of thene ulHeeio:
1 Llihoudi,
You I'eter Waterman,
Jeremy Wicket,
Quick you take him,
Fast you hold him,
Straight you bring him, ":i
Before me, llihoudi.
The cost of the l'aris Exposition will
be $10,000,000.
The total Iudiuu population fj the
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THE FARM AND GARDEN.
BH0 AD-TIRED WnEFXS.
"Many a time and oft" tho use of
oroad-tired wheels has been advocated iu
these columns. But few persons seem to
exercise any good judgment in regard to
this reform. The exceedingly narrow
iires one and one-half inches cven1
jsed for wagons which carry heavy loads,
.ipon earth roads are still adhered to, and
i three or four inch tier is looked at bjj
the rural trnvclcrs with something nkiii
Jo amazement. And yet such a tire not!
only does not damage a road, whether it
be hard or soft, but it actually improve!!
it, rolling it and making it hard, smooth
ind firm. And, moreover, the load is
Irawn with greater case. In field work!
the advantage is equally great. Thd
wheels do not sink through an ordinary
tod, and very little in a stubble, whilo
!wo horses will draw .'3000 pounds of
iinnnre upon freshly-plowed land with
four-inch tires to the wheels when they
would be stalled with 1500 pounds upon
me and one-half inch wheels. iWt York
Time.
A RAT-PKOOK CHIB.
11 A crib for ear corn, says a Pennsylj
ruuia farmer, should be so constructed a
to allow a free passage of air through it,
otherwise the grain is liable to moid be.
fore it is properly dried out. The best
way I know of to place a slatted or partly
open cnu is to set it on upright blocks
ten inches square and four feet high, with
the upper cuds trimmed down to six
inches square : on these ends nail sheets
of tin wide enough to project beyond tho
ulls, winch are to be laid on these tiu
:overcd blocks, so that w hen a rat climbs
up the foundation block he is met by the
proiecting tin, which he cannot get over,
fho crib may then be finished in any form
lesired, cither open work for car corn, or
entirely tight, according to the use it is
wanted for, and no mouse or rat can en
ter it, unless by some carelessness or
neglect on the owner's part. Nothing
must be left set tip against it to furnish a
ludder for the vermin, and the steps should
be moveable so they can be set aside or
suspended when not in use."
FLAX SEED AND OIL CAKE. '
The Live Stock Hecord is asked to state
the difference iu the value of flax seed
ind oil meal for feeding purposes. Thq
farmer who raises flax seed and cannot
j;et a satisfactory price concludes that it
ail meal is good. flax seed must be better.
It is true that flax seed has more fatten
ing qualities than oil meal, but taking
into account tho difficulty of grinding
ind other matters iu connection we re
gard oil meal as the full equivalent iu
feeding value of an equal weight of flax
seed. One hundred pounds of flax seed
contains nearly three times as much fat us
M meal and twenty per cent, less sugar
ind starch, or to be accurate, 31A5
pounds of the elements that form muscle
nd growth, whilst oil cake contains but
J3.95 pounds of fat und heat-formers and
thirty pounds of flesh-formers. The oil
;ake has more crude fiber, which is value
less, and nearly twice the amount of ash
or bone material. As the protein or
flesh-forming elements are the most val
uable, it will be seeu at a glance that foi
growing stock the oil cake is worth more,
pound for pound, than the oil meal,
whilst the difficulty of grinding the seed
and the waste and danger of feeding it
raw preclude its use in fatteuing except
in such small quantities as may be readily
boiled and greatly diluted for calves anil
pigs.
It need hardly be mentioned that both
these foods are very rich and should be
fed very carefully aud in small quantities
it first, but oil meal properly fed is oni
of the most voluable and in proper pro
portions one of tho cheapest foods, not.
witnstanding its high price. It is fed tc
greatest advantage to jugs and colts and
growing calves iu .-ombinntion with foods
which are lucking in the elements ol
which it has an excess.
THE LONG-CONTINUED CSE OF FERTILIZERS.
The following query with its rcplv ap
peared in a recent bulletin issued by th
Georgia State Agriculture Department:
Question It is a fact, as regards tint
section, that the unfertilized laud, agt
aud wear considered, will not produce as
it did before commercial fertilizers were
used. Why is it? 2. Or has the long
continued use of fertilizers made theii
use a necessity? This theory is true at
to the human system, is it also true as tc
the soil and plants.
Heply 1. It is because larirer crool
have been annually taken off the soil thai
if no fertilizers hud been used. The fer
tilizer added to the soil stimulates th
plant to appropriate and the soil to yield
to the plant more of the elements of plant
lnnA l ; i. . . . .. V.
iv7ou iuuiiueu in mu son naturally tlmu
if no fertilizer were applied. If tho fer
tilizer applied does not contain the ele
ments of plant food in the proportions de
manded by the invariable composition ol
the crops cultivated, esueciullv if the
lucking element is the one iu which the
soil is most deficient, the soil will soou
become destituteof the deficient element,
at least in un invariable form as jiluut
food. It will then no longer pro
duce as good crops us formerly,
unless the deficiency be made up. The
element most commonly applied which
exerts this so-called stimulating effect on
the soil is ammonia, which causes a vigor
ous growth of stem and foliage, and thus
demands an increased quantity of the ele
ments already iu the soil and returns a
larger crop. Of course, the soil will soon
exhibit signs of exhaustion under such
treatment, especially when it is iemeui
bercd that more of the elements of fer
tility iu the soil are annually washed awuyi
ly the rams than are removed in the
crops produced on the land.
2. There is no doubt of the fact that
the continued use of fertilizers becomes a
necessity when we contiuue to cultivate!
tne same land in clean crops, like com
ami cotton, t'recisely the same is truo
of the use of stable manure. It wiis it
necessity t hut first induced its use; it
does not become any more a necessity. If
an acre of soil contains tho necessary
plant food, mostly in unavailable form, to
produce 1000 bushels of corn before it
will have become entirely exhausted, and
ordinary continuous cultivation iu that
crop, without manure, would reach the
stage of exhaustion iu 100 years, would
it be bad policy to fertilize the laud and
cause it to yield the 1000 bushels of corn
in twenty-five veurs.
The soil cannot be likened to the hu
man body in a comparison of thu sort
suggested; it is the plant that sustains
that relation. The plant iu the one. case
aud the human liody iu the other are the
objects to be supplied with food. The
ineory nas no such application. r .
PARitrnta as a nnsiNKss.
Probably no occupation is carried on
with so little regard to business rule as
that of fanning. Tho farmer requires
more education and a knowlcdgo of a
greater variety of subjects than any of
the so-called learned professions. Tho
man who only knows how to turn a g 1
furrow, prepare tho soil for tho seed, stop
tho growth 'of weeds and promote tho
growth of tho plant, has not mastered tho
art of successful farming. Nor has tho
man who knows only how to rniso fino
horses, sleek cattle or fat. swine, or how
to fertilize his fields to the best advan
tage, raise the best corn or potatoes or tho
highest yield of oats or barley. The man
who to-day really makes a thorough suc
elements of knowledge and many more.
It used to be said that airy fool could
cess as a farmer must combine all these
be a farmer, but at the present day peo
ple begin to realize the fact that the
farmer needs the most education. The
time has gone by when the haphazard,
sliuhod, go-as-you-please methods of
farming can be made to pay. What would
be thought of the manufacturer w hotlid
not know to tho fraction of a cent tho
cost of the raw material aud labor put
Into a yard of cloth, or the manufacturer
'of leather who did not know the exact
cost of the material and labor required
to make a case of boots and shoes. And
yet how many farmers can tell the cost of
a pound of butter or pork, a bushel of
potatoes or corn, or a ton of hay f They
sell their products for what they can get
offered, not kuowiug whether they are
making or losing.
Tho remedy is this: When farmers
tome to realize that farming is a business
as well as manufacturing or banking or
buying and selling goods, aud by a care
ful keeping of accounts learn to figure
the cost of every article they produce,
then a successful beginning will have
been made. Let them keep debt and
credit with every acre of corn, potatoes
or grain. Charge each acre with the in
terest on its value, the probublo amount
of fertilizing material used by tho crop,
the cost of labor in its care. Credit it
with the market value of the crop pro
duced. The difference between tho two
will represent the profit or loss. A like
accouut should be kept with the herd of
cows. If any one of the number entails a
loss upon you dispose of her. Keep a strict
account with the orchard, if you have
one. Debit it with the labor employed
in its care and in tho harvesting of its
fruit. Credit it with the value of its
golden product and learn from the balance
on the right side of the ledger that it is
one of your best friends. The farmer's
book is one of reference, to which he can
at any timo refer for date or article
bought or sold, and price giveu or re
ceived for the same. Having learned to
calculate the costs of the products of the
farm, the next business is to know how
to sell them. Make a study of the mar
kets and learn for yourselves the prices of
those things you wish to sell. A'eu York
Ucrald.
ItAISINQ HOGS.
. As the hog seems to be indispensable
to the American people, the object of the
farmer should be to produce the greatest
amount of good pork nt tho least ex
pense. The question then is, how can
ihis bo done? I will endeavor to answer
this knotty question. First procure some
"pure bred sows of some well-established
black breed, and mate them with mules
not too closely connected, but of pure
stock. Have the sows furrow in Septem
ber or October. Feed them liberally on
jslop from the kitchen, with all tho milk
liu it you can spare; have your troughs
made shullow, so tho pigs con get a taste,
and they will soon learn to drink until
full. When cold weather comes, enrich
your slop by adding bran und boiled po
tatoes. The sniull and defective ones,
which you should sort out nt digging
time, will pay a good profit if fed iu this
way to your pigs. If you have apples to
ispare, or those which are beginning to
decay, put them into your slop, with tur
juip peelings, cabbage refuse, or anything
ia hog will relish; he likes a variety.
I As the cold increases, the slop should
ihave some scalded meal in it. If fed in
'this way until clover is ready to turn in
Ion, the shoats should be growing finely.
.Let them remain iu the clover until har
vest. If you have an orchard (the largot
(the better) sow it to oats, when the grain
is ripe turn your shoats in, and you will
see that this feed will develop their bone
and muscle. By the timo the oats
isposed of your early apples should be
ready; then your summer and full va
rieties will follow, and if you have plenty
of sweet apples (which you should) in
your orchard, you will bo astonished
,to see how your shoats will thrive ou
them.
I have come to the conclusion that ap
ples (especially sweet ones) with a little
corn meal and potato slop, is tho cheap
est and best feed for preparing a hog for
Hhc slaughter house. By the time your
pigs are a year or fourteen months old
they should be ready for tho market, and
their weights should be satisfactory.
The reason why I prefer to have tho
pigs to come iu the fall rather than in the
siinng, is, that during winter tne larmer
pias more leisure time to get his pigs up a
nrst class boarding House, wun extra in
expensive rations, uud ho has a longer
,iime 10 cnauge a sucaiug jug iniua tnree
hundred pound porker, und so is not
compelled to resort to the forcing system
at a busy time of the year, as hu is when
he makes un April pig weigh three hun
dred pounds by Thanksgiving. Another
advantage in having a hog a yeur old,
when called upon to "die for his coun
try" is, that duriug the last six weeks of
his life he takes ou fat more readily, and
when slaughtered his yield of lard is sat
isfactory. Whereas at six months old,
although fat, nature is still striving to pro
duce more bone uud muscle iustead of fut,
becuuse the pig has not yet come tc
maturity. The reason why I prefer a
black or dark spotted hog to u w hite one
is, that when pigs they seem to be less
liable to have the mango in winter. Pigs
ure very social creatures, and they will
pile up when colli, and so get dirty and
hot. Too much tilth aud heat is, 1
think, the cause of the mange, and whin
a white pig gets rusty und bis hair stands
erect, his progress toward development is
slow, uud his end is near at hand.
W'hereas, his more swarthy brother seems
to grow notwithstanding his uufuvorublt
surroundings.
Corn cob ashes mixed w ith suit, should
be given to hogs to keep them healthy.
1 To sum up, feed slop uud cooked po
tatoes in winter uud early spring, then
clover, oats und apples, the more sweel
upplcs thu better, giving thu tiiiifhinfj
touch to his hogship with a few busheh
of corn meal mixed with buttermilk. 11
he does not then make good pork Iw ii
agree to eat him if you will give ine timt
enough. farm, yield and Htuckiuati.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A machine to cut rubber soles for shoes
has just been perfected in Boston.
The electric lamp promises to aid in
exploring tho internal parts of living ani
mals. The fast est' of British cruisers, tho Shel
drake, twenty-ono knots, just launched,
is a steel twin screw.
Belfast, Ireland, is tho centre of real
linen making, as Dundee, in Scotland, is
of hempen fabrication.
An alloy that will solder either copper
or porcelain is made from lino copper
dust or granulated zinc.
The root of the garden poppy is now
largely used in France to bind the earth
of railway embankim nts.
A mountain of nearly pure iron has
just been discovered near Lewisburg, in
tireenbrier County, W. Ya.
Saxony wool, the very finest in the
world, comes from sheep that aro a cross
of the Spanish upon the Saxon merino.
By breathing hot air at about 212 de
grees for two hours daily it is said that
consumption can bo radically cured.
The new Swedish process of electrical
tanning promises to revolutionize the
leather trade in tho old world and tho
new.
Among very late inventions is tho
"pocket typewriter," which weighs less
than four ounces and is three by four
inches.
Iu an electric road the" power the en
gine dcvolops is directly in proportion to
the work being done, whether one or a
dozen cars are iu tho circuit.
Paper makers will shortly have all sub
stances for their own. A Frenchman has
just patented a process by which excel
ent pulp is made from forest leaves.
Osnaburgs were originally made of flax,
instead of, as now, coarsely spun cotton.
The name comes from tho Dutch town of
Osnaburg, where the fabric had its rise.
A novelty in the application of electricity
to musical instrumentshaslatelyappenrcd
in Germany by which a movement of
electro-magnets changes the timbre of the
tone.
Owners of the pine straw patent intend
to establish five mills, each guaranteed to
turn out 2,000,000 yards of bagging, in
time to wrap the bales of this year's cot
ton crop.
Lightning has already beeu known to
strike overhead electric Jight wires and
discharge itself through tho dynamo to
earth to the imminent danger of tho
machine.
Big beds of asphaltum sandstone, from
which can be made the best asphalt pave
ment in tho world, have just beeu dis
covered along the new railway lines of
Western Kentucky. "
It is staled that the only part of an
underground lino that will not maintain
a very high insulation duriug storms is
the part that is exposed for the purposo
of making connections.
Tho fashionable bent-wood furniture is
made of red beech timber, which is sawed
into two-iuch strips, then softened by
superheated steam till it can bo bent by
hand to the irou molds upon which it is
left for several days to dry.
The Calumet.and Hecla copper mine in
Michigan is to have an immense wheel
that will weigh, including water, 400,
000 pounds. It will lift 30,000,000 gal
lons and 2H0O tons of sand every twenty
four hours. It will be the largest in tho
world.
A Canadian (inmc Fish.
Iu appearance a fresh-rim salmon aud
a fresh-ruu winauishe do not differ much
more than salmon from different rivers.
The back of a w inanishe is greener blue,
r.ud iu a fish just out of water can be
seen to be marked with olive spots, some
thing like the vermiculations on a trout;
the silvery scales are more iridescent, the
X-marks are more numerous uud less
sharply defined; the patches of bronze,
purple and green ou the gill-covers are
larger uud more brilliant, uud with them
are several largo round black spots. As
the water grows warm the bright hues get
dull, and toward autumn the rusty red
color and hooked lower jaws of the spawn
ing salmon develop. As the winauishe,
unlike the salmon, feeds continuously,
and iu much heavier and swifter water
than salmon lie in, it has a slimmer body
and larger fins, bo that a five-pound win
auishe can leap higher und oftener than
a grilse and fight like a ten-pound salmon.
The variety of its habits, which ure a
compound of those of tho trout and those
of the salmon, with some peculiarities of
its own, gives great charm to wiunnishe
angling, und opportunity for every stylo
from the "floating fly" on tiny hooks
to tho "sink and draw" of the salmon
cast. It takes the 13y readily when in
the humor, though wury and cupri
cious like all its relations,, und rights
hurd, uniting the dash of the trout with
tho doggedness und ingenuity of the
salmon.
Iu railway and hotel prospectuses the
winauishe weighs from live to fourteen
pound. Iu Luke St. John uud the De-
charge the average is two aud a half;
four-pounders are large and not too
plentiful, while six-pounders are scarce.
Ocribner.
Au Odd Epitaph.
On a stone iu au old graveyard in
Martha's Vineyard is this epitaph :
liy tho force of veft.Hatlou
1 was brought to Ufa and motion;
When life and motion it shall cease,
I shall return to the same place.
The Chief Keufiuu fur the niiirilluit uc
eeat uf KihmT baruMriUa U found iu the fact
that tuts medictue actually accumplUhaa all
tbat U claimed fur It. It real merit hat wou
.. fur Huoa'i Saraiiarilla
merit wins, popularity and
gic&ief titan that of any other blood purifier.
It curt Kcrofula. all Humors, Priepa, to.
'replied ouly b U, i. Uuod C.. Lowell, Mam,
Abont Doctors' Dill.
Many a st.nitrnlinn family has all it can do
to keep the wolf from the door without bohiE
rnlled upon to pay frequent and exorbitant
hills for medical advice and attendance.
True, the doctor is often a necessary,
though exMnslve, visltnnt to the family
circlet nevertheless, pure and well-tented
it'inflies like Warner Safe Cure kept on
linml for use when required will ! found a
I mying investment for every household in the
aiiil.
(Sickness Is one of the legacies of life, ana
yet every ill that flesh is heir to has en anti
dote in the latioratory of mture. Hon. H.
H. Warner, of Kochester, N. Y., President of
the Chamber of Commerce of that city, was
a few years ngo stricken with kidney disease,
which "the physicians declared incurable. In
this extremity a friend recommended to him
a vegetable priaral ion now known through
out, the civilized world as Warner's Safe
Cure. He tried it and was quickly restored
to perfect health. The incident led him to
Ivjiin the manufacture of the wonderful pre
paration, and to make it. merits known ill all
tongues and among all peoples
He has now lalMU-atorie and warehouses iu
the United States not onlv, but ill Canada,
Knslainl, Mennany, Austria, Australia and
bin mall. His preparations iiipetthe renuire
iiifiits nnd etfect the cure of n variety of dis
eases, and are all compounded from medicinal
plnnts of the highest virtue.
Mr. Warner is a man of a flairs, of wealth,
culture and the highest standing in his own
rit valid throughout the .state, llis eharactet
is the liest gunranteo of the purity and excel
lence of his renowu'd Remedies, which may
be found ill every first-class drug store of
Euruo and Amerien
A Remnrknble Deposit of Salt.
The Independence (Cat.) Indqiendcnt
says: It is doubtful if thero is elscwhero
in tho world a more rcinarkablo deposit
of salt than is found near Silver l'cak.
The salt is almost perfectly pure, tho
grade by chemical test being niuety
eight per cent. It is shoveled into sac ks
where found, nnd is ready for use in that
state. It is as white as snow nnd of fino
grain. It has been proved to bo the finest
salt iu use for curing nient. When we
have a railroad to Los Angeles meat pack
ing will be one of the big items of Owens
valley business. There will then bo use
for this lino salt. In Saline valley, across
the Inyo mountains, is another vast do
posit of salt. Indians gather this salt,
pack it over iu Owens valley and ex
change it for goods.
The President" Father-in-Lair.
The licv. Dr. Scott. President Harri
son 'a father-in-law, keeps steadily at his
desk iu tho Pension Office, arcordiug to
the Xew York HViV, which nlso says
that 4 'his -daughters nnd tho President
himself have asked him to resign his po
sition, but ho refuses to live iu idleness.
Shortly after the election, .Mrs. Harrison
wrote to her father asking him to quit
work and live at tho "White House. Her
husbaud also wrote to Dr. Scott, cor
dially supporting his wife's request. Hut
tho old gentleman sturdily refused the
temptation, and said that lie had been so
long used to tho routine of his office that
he could not give it up. His compan
ions iu the Pension Bureau say that his
habits and manners have not changed at
all since last November.
100 ratlira Wanlr.l,
And 100 men to call daily on any drueclst for
a free trial package of band's Family Medi
cine, the threat root and herb rcme.ly, discov
ered by lr. Silas Lane while in the Kocky
Mountains. Fordiseasesof thobluod, liver ami
kidnevsit is a positive cure. Kor rnnsiii atloii
and cU'arinif up tho o:miii!esio:i it doe won
ders. I'luMreii like It. Everyone pruWe it.
ldiik't'-M.e iiaiKHs'i1, .u ten us. At au uru
tfiftuO. There are about 100.000 Americans in
Paris.
The man or woman who is profitably em
fuoyed is generally happy. If you are not
tappy it may Iw because you have not found
your proper work. We earnestly urije all such
pei-Mins to write to K. F. Johnson V l'o., liWI
Main St., ltirhmond. Va., and they ran show
you a work iu which you can be happily aud
promauiy cmpjoyeu.
A Hodlcal Cure for Ellrwlo Fit.
7o the fcditnr I 'lease iniorm your reader!
that 1 havea positive remedy for the abovt
named oicacc which 1 warrant to euro tht
worst cRfta. So KtronK is Ity faith in Its vir
tues tli at 1 w ill fend free t t-atnple bottle aud
valuable treatise to any sntlcrer whowill give
ne his 1. O. oral Kxpn-ss address. Kesp't,
II. U. BOOT. M. C. m Tear! St.. New Vork.
( ntnrrh Cured.
A clerjrvman, after years of Buffering from
that loathsome disease, t'atarrh, and vainly
trying every known remedy, at lust found a
prescription which completely cured und taved
niin from death. Any sufferer from thisdread
lul dUeae tending a self-addressed Mumped
envelope to Prof. J. A, Lawrence, HR Waneu
St., N. V., will receive therecipefreeof charge.
If afflicted with snre eyes use Dr. fsaaoThnmp
eu'sEye-water. Druggists sell at ic.ucr bottlr.
OACHSCJATIC
At DKraatffT. md Peai.xu.
THI CHARLES A. V09EUI CO., BtiUmtrt, m.
N V N U 0
Some four years ngo, at that bpiihou
of the yoar in wliiuh migratory fowls
make their trip north, a wild goose
flew down iu J. N. Young's field at
Vftlrfosta, da. As night approached it
came to tho (lock of domestio j;ocso
about tho premises, and by the aid of
hand torches was captured and its
wings cropped. It has remained with
tho flock bineo, eating the' tamo food
they At. At the season of tho year
w hen geese migrate it appears restless
and uneasy, and will riso aud fly a
mile or two away, but always returns
to the flock aguiu.
James Stokes, of Tenn's Manor,
Bucks County, IV, is thirteen years
old, weighs 280 l ounds, and is glow
ing heavier rapidly.
llnl Ml I IU IV Ll IsiillLT KIlltKi iltPART
Sal I aft W 1 laUW ..M ho ucuali'iilup
y.'hftri4t Accompany aHlirtioi! with l.in(i fur full in.
ai,.,,.,.!,.,!.. ild.cT., MOUaWX DETCTI SU
0 1110, Murtqmmri Wichita, K.H....
AXLE
GREASE
11K1 IV ITIIK WORLD
If UDl IA! UIUUIUA VI.I.ICU.KII,
ORTHERN PACIFIC
LOW PRICE RAILROAD LANDS &
FREE Government LANDS.
MILLION'S of AC KKS of sub lu Mil.iiei.oti. North
T'akou. Mouttiiia, Id aim, Wat him toil md Ore u
CCtfl COR ruLlw-tiuiiiwitkMai4eBcr.biD'Uia
LliU rUIa be I Ar ciiliiuai, Lirsziuc aud l ui
b--r Ludit liow n,.-ru t . S-ttleia. Seal irer ArtJreas
CHAS.B. LAMSORii.
DETECTIVES
WsbUS la rT Cstioty. Bsrtws bb to act usSar isiuctis'.
If SMisttWrtioc. ts(iariit sat : y. Tsi tu ktlat a Irca.
Uruiu beUclita Bareaa to-ii Arc4at.Cla:UuU.O.
WrrVI V f HrrHrutlves WANTKU
flttPtUI i (,UOIIS NbWsudMll uu
IK lit. HoUscUold Utt i-haliy. htt edUt minlUiJ.
till AllK. Co., BWg., CUlumi.
vfrA I Cures
PEERLESS DIES
HEALTHFUL EXERCISE.
Onlv a row months mm tlieso romping, rosy-chocked lasses Wf-ro puny, delt
CAtc, pale, sickly girl, lly tho uld of Dr. Tierce's w orld-l'umod Favorite I're
icrlptioii, they have blossomed out Into beautiful, plump, hale, hearty, .trong
young women.
"Favorito Prescription" Is nn liivlroratlnp, restoratlvo tonlo and as a
rejrulator and promoter of functional action at that critical period of change
from girlhood to womanhood, U is a perfectly safe remedial apent, and can.
produce only pood results. It is carefully compounded, by nn experienced nnd
skillful phvslciau, and adapted to woman's delicate organization. Jt Is purely
vegetable iu its composition and perfectly harmless in any condition of Uio
system. It Imparts strength to tho wholo svstem. For overworked, "worn
out," "run-down," debilituted teachers, milliners, dressmakers, scainstressea,
"nhop-glrls," housekeepers, nursing mothers, nnd feeble women generally. Dr.
Tierce's Favorito Prescription is the greatest earthly boon, being iincqualcd as
nn appetizing cordial aud restorative tonic. It Is the only niedlclno for women,
sold by drugsrlsts, under a pntitivt guarantee, from the manufacturers, that It will
give satisfaction In every case, or money will be refunded. This guarantee hat
been printed on tho bottle-wrappers, and faithfully carried out for many year.
Copyright, 1888, by Woklu's DisrSNSAitr Medical, Association, Proprietor.
1 Thd cleansing, antiseptic
"Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy
HY YOU SHOUX USE
con's Emulsion
Ood LEjii-vrox Oil
HYPOPHOSPHITES.
It is used and etulomed hy rhysi
cicrt because it is the bett.
ItisPahtaUeaaHilk.
It ia Hires times aa efEcaclous as plain
Cod Liver Oil.
It is far superior to all othsr co-called
Emulsions.
It is a psrfect Emulsion, does not sopa
rata cr change.
It is wonderful as a flesh producer.
It is tho best remedj for Consumption,
Scrofula, Bronchitis, Wasting Dis
eases. Chronic Coughs and Colds.
Sold hy all Druggists.
8COTT &. BOWNE, Chemists, N.Y,
SI60
FAHMEHS
SAW MILL
Alo UeoB'R ImprovM 1
i ircuiar ia w .um I
Willi I ntv-i4i
tfeam
linear
liocu
aad ikmbli
iTiiu iu ri il ium IV"
iw, iinnfuo iiV
bAUCM iron Work. Haltm, N. C.
Writ lorclrculrr.
PENSION!:
OKI W.MOKKIft,
ftte frinolital Kx&iuiuer,
i.fct. Petition Hurcau.Att'y 1
at l.nw. MavtituKiea.
II. sucronHfully pi-oftecutrs elUni!-yrUinil.
lucreaHS. re-ratline, willows', cliilureu m tiP"-
0nt relatives'. Experience : 3 years litlat war,
jean la. Peasloa Bureau, aud atwruey siuce lum.
CUPID'S SECRET.
Finest Ufiiietiy i xtunt for A 1,1, MvlN 1'l.sfcAKKM.
iniMtmparatiia Tr eoinpiexiuu, inivniii, t'Eeiua,
N'uUls, burns, cuti ant irtili.s. It wmiOu-m and lienln
ImmtHllHtcly. Kuvorlte jiremTlptlon of an emluriit'
till vk' Ian for years. I tipld bottle &0 cm.; iu
, postpaid. Circular live. A.Mrt's THE W. M
HOHNt: CO., Lock Drawer l'almyra, N. V
II. oi
JONES
mi -
PAYS THE FREIGHT.,
A T.-iii Hnkoi Ptrnlea,
Ini I.eirs totet-I I-warliiKs Hrav
'Sl ttea'ii ami Itfaut Uo fnr
GO.
Ept aire R-caie. t ut frv pr.t a list
inut untlia laprr mut Mil l r
JONfcS OF BINGHAMT0N.
11INH II AM TON, N. V.
Matrimonial Paper.
Pace. Kichly Hluat'a.
w, a.ahw CMUlaf aMrljr SB arinr
ftWsaciu .1 ihiim p.tl.n. utf I.
xrfi far fua r MtruUMf.
Hfi.lK.tillwl AtMrvu.
HtART AND HAND. CMeue. HI
T.ara-. Book. IUcti:raiiu(ba'd
J?,xa wlib avoi-y urii&r.
,RTHI?i.fl CU WEDS
m i m i.riia n Aillinia I urn ntfr full tlintf iirv-1
ndiitTitj in U.c worst fi,U) jrt ivuifurt-r
NAi'ia sieep; cnMiit arrt wuersau'-ji m i
E .lNhuLlnjnr.isor mii. nsmum r
- IPS iv ri mi ...i.i. .....
R!U.p' Dili Cp"t English tioutynd
U.Qll S rlSlSi Rheumatio Remedy.
OtsjI BM, U4( round 14 Fill.
A teuts wanted, 91 aa hour. &t) new articles. Catl'tru
iV kuU Htnoi'lMfire, C. V. MaithslJ. L rJipoit,N J
say Piso's Cure for Con
hULuptioii 11 HK HKHT
for aeepiuf liia vulc
clear. 'Jt uuU.
loney
if you
KNOW HOW
To kcMi thriii, but It ia
w roug to let ihf poor things
hutlrr auti Die ot the va
riutm Maladira U udlu t
tlitm wltfn iu a majority of
lahci a Cui conUl liuvu
titeu ettfictcU had thu oh lie r
i ioosus Hed u littlu knowl
t tlKe, anch aa tan hu pro
i ured iroiu the
ONE HUNDRED
PAGE BOCK
We oflrr, eDibracin th
I'l'lLTlCil. irbKlLNLKbuf
; ixti.vu, hmi run.
Ass iUWn
?vTAa
in
4dti H n ft V' ':v;.'"'r:''"";,,,'-v:;;':''"'"
: r- . -H
nnd healing qualities of
are unequaled. 50 centa.
I've Cot it!
CHEAPEST-:-FAMILY-:-ATLAS
KNOWN.
ojjjjY aa ohnts i
191 Paget, 91 Full-Page Maps.
O-lorril Mara of n ti Stato and TVrrltor In M
t mini M4t. . AIo M. uf rrry l ouutry lu 111'
tVorlfl. 'Itwlrttrr pro. rlvm llio riiu.ra mllr.r
-w h retain; lim. Of plt!enitt: ix'lmLatlnn; vhtfff
, ilip.: iTpr,,'. (pluiwrftlutr; n.larr if i.ftrlal. anl
llirl.rltu-irai l'tliia.lfrn IU Hi njinilw ft
f,iiii, Willi llirlr I'mlurtii ii.aml ih.Talu. irwrror;
diflpivnt miimfifturt-a and iiumtr pi .nii'i".
nr.. rtr. Alixilli. aiaa wh 'orlKn l oiinlrn
f. nn ol cnviTiiiiiMil; i-ol'iiUlifii: irtni-tial'rttii.'l
nd t lie t r mt'li.-v value: .nnmnl lrtili; rAlt)"n;
.larof .riny; ntllr. uf raUrv.il anil teleKT.l'h: nuiii-
l.r ,.f liofM-F. i-altle. .beep, .nil a va.l .nionni m ,
form. i .fii v.iu.i it 10 .11
Hi ii iK U K. HOI hK.l:
IKS I a tmr
IHiliaril
nl M.. N. V- l'r-
iNERAL
ills
FOR CATARRH
Kald br all llruKilala. JiUr. b.x.
HO l E.N ftl 1 NEK A I. K V K I N CO. (.LUnllwl),
Hole Agrnl.,
1 3 CEIMIt hT M!W YDHK.
CANCERS
riipprttciii i v ncunucn
Wtiboiicpnlu mr th up mi tli knife. Pa-
Itruia wilt rtvlve every hme cortfort. CUanjoa
reasonable. hvnd fvr vlrculnra.
Holland Medical and Surgical Institute,
04 DKliA WA HE A VE.1 HI FFALO. N. Y.
ulHiasr. 8aii.ls wirUt f'i.l 3 Frf.
S Llur not uiuler tors' fwl. Writ Brew
W .trr fiy tttfti. HMcr o., Holly,. .cu
IS YOUR FARM FOR SALE SfiymSJ
1 f ao atlilri-BnI'Llin. ft anmr. frruadwar. K. Y
Thomas Coleman, a colored boy of
fourteen, in Amu'otin, 1). C, thought
he would liuvo hoiiio fiiu throwing ittunos
at jiigs iu a pen. One of tho pigs be
came enraged, broke out and com
menced culing the boy, first attacking
the thigh. Iliu cries brought helj, but
Ids injuries vere serious.
Mks. Elliot? F. BuicrAiiD prorKjgos
to erect iu New York a large neveu
story flro-proof structure aud preaout
it to tho Young Women's Christian As
sociation, to be used as a lodging house
and a homo for 4i liingwomen.
Chickens,
a man who dvnind ill vra.a
ul hi. MtiMu CONDI Vf-INti
A I'OI'I.TKV Y A KD A8 A
lH'bl.NKM. not aa a paa
time. Ai tb liviuff of him.
arlf and faaullr dtxtrd
on it, h. .v lb tubjt
auch aiteniiuu aa onij a
urd ot birad Hill cum- -maud,
and th. rnault waa a
Kruud auureva, atler he bad
.pent tauch uiuuev and lunt
hundred, ol Valiiatile chirk
elunnrsperliiMiiliii);. What
he teamed iu all Ihcae veara
i emkudied in Uiia Ikkik,
hti b we Mnd uualuaid fuj
25 cents lu .uuiui. it
learlie. jou how tvlJetect
and Cure Jliseanea. bow lo
r eed lor lnt aud alao fur
Falteniiifr. ubirh Kuwla lo
aie tor Hreeduifi; Purpoaea
and evervlhiujr. uuleedvvoa
aliould know ou tlii. aubject.
HOOK fVB. HOl'SB,
134 Uouard Si,. . y. clle.
f TUB Best
Coat.
raf. Mil kra t.u f
a ia a s'iU. t nii c
iau( i