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'American Agriculturist, is a preat wed;c
nt tbfi lower end of the vast peninsula of
Indo-China. It is bounded on the sides
and at the top by the French possessions
of Tonqnin anil tho English principality
of liurmali. Those two nations are rast
init their covetous eyes upon it. It is a
land of some mountains ami many val
leys. The eighty Munnm Hiver flows
from north to south through it, and the
valley of this is ono of the richest agri
cultural regions of tho world. Forty
miles from its mouth lies Hanglrok,
town of about 700,000 people, 000,000
of whom live in floating houses fastened
to piles along the banks of the rivers
These floating houses are found all along
the valley of the Jlcnain, and they lino
tho rivers of the interior. During the
rainy season a vast part of tho country is
Hooded, and the fanners go from one part
pf it to another in boats. Jinny farmers
live in floating-houses, and when their
estates lie along the banks of tho river
they can float from one end of their little
plantations to the other by simply loos
ing tho bands which bind their houses to
ho piles. The rountry has a system of
land laws, and though tho King really
owns ever y foot of it, and could confis
cate estates if ho would, the farmers have
a certain right of tenure to their lands,
and as long as they pay their taxes they
can buy and sell them and will them to
their children just as they do in other
countries. Tho taxes constitute the
Kiug's rents, and theso are very high.
All land is taxed at ten per cent, of its
value. The crops are taxed, and in fact
everything that tha farmers own must
pay a high rate of taxation. The biggest
tax, however, is that of labor. The big
Farmer-King has the rig'.it to call upon
every ono of his tenants for three mouths
of hard labor during the year, lie dele
gates this right to tho governors of his
provinces and the heads of villages, and
the result is that often when the farmers
should bo harvesting their own crops
they have to turn in and harvest those of
the King. The women, consequently,
havo to do tho greater part of the work,
and the men are littlo better than slaves.
This three months may be increased, as
the necessities of tho King demand.
The Siaineso farmers, like those of all
other Eastern countries, huddle together
ia little villages and they go out from
these to work their fields which surround
the towns. Tho fields are unfenced, and
cattle are herded all the year round. Cat
tlo thieves and crop thieves are numer
ous, and it is only by eternal vigilance
that the farmers are ablo to save their
crops. Tho principal Siamese crop is
rice, nud rice constitutes the food of the
people. There is no better country in
the world for raising it than Siam. The
lowlands are easily irrigated and tho
rainy season lasts from May until Octo
ber. The climate is tropical and the
winters arc like our summers. Every
thing grows almost spontaneously, and
two crops a year are not uncommon. The
rice fields are laid off in lots of about
one-third of an acre, each surrounded by
an embankment of earth about a foot and
a half high for the purpose of holding
water when the land is prepared for
planting. The rice is first sprouted in
littlo patches, aud when it is a foot high
it is pulled up, tied into bunches and
tanen to these little fields, which are then
covered with about six inches of wate;
It is there transplanted, the men, women
and children betiding over and thrusting
the stalks deep into the 6oft mud under
tho water. A good workman can set
out about a third of an acre a day, and
the planting season is any time between
June and October. The harvest time
comes along about Christmas, aud in
many parts of the country these rich
fields aro arti2cially irrigated.
' Tho irrigation of Siam increases every
year, and it is chiefly tho work of the
Chinese settlers. These Chineso have in
troduced their methods of irrigation, aud
there are others which have been in uso
from time immemorial. The ordinary
methods aro much the same as those of
Eastern countries. Two women or girls
dip up water in a basket, pitched within
and without to prevent its lcakiug. They
stand on tho higher bank above the canal
and give the basket a swing by four
strings which they have attached to it.
They pull these strings as it dips into the
water aud lift from six to eight gallons
to the higher level where it runs oil into
the fields. The system of having small
buckets around a great wheel, which is
turned by a man or a woman walking up
it like tho clog on tho churn, is also in
use and in some places the old-faahioned
well-sweep is used. Labor is very cheap.
Farm hands get from (1 to $1.50 a week
ana ooarn tueinsuives, ana tacre is a
great deal of debt labor.
. The farming implements of Siam are
of the rudest description. The cultiva
tion of the whole country is done with a
plow that an American farmer would not
use. It consists of a crooked stick with
ono handle, and it has a plowshare of
cast iron about as big as a man's hand.
Whs plowshare has a little hole in ouo
end of it in which ono end of the crooked
stick is put, aud the wholo outfit costs
about $1.23. It cuts a fuirow of about
two inches deep and five inches wide,
and it is drawn by an ox or bullalo which
is attached to it by a yoke and rope har
ness. AVhen two oxen aro used the plow
has a sort of tougue which is fastened to
the yoke on the necks of the team and in
both cases tho animals are driven not by
lines but by a sort of rope halter fastened
to a holo in the nose of the ox. The
harrow is equally rude. It consists of a
long rake with wooden teeth attached to
a bamboo tongue which is fastened to
the ox's yoke. It has an oval handle
which tho woman or man holds und
upon v. hich she bears down in order to
bniiU the clods aud drive the teeth iu
Uee j :cr.
lt:io of the most profitable crops is the
pepper crop, aud Siam cx porta about
$2ihi,000 worth of black pepper every
year. The pepper plaututious are large
ly managed by Chinese. The berries
grow iu racemes, like currants, from a
climbing vine trained like, a hop vine
Uh:i trues or tree stumps which have
bii u cut oil high up from the ground,
aud i,'i)ud-beaiiug vines will yield two
good crops a year. Very little cultiva
tion is needed. Cuttings of the vines
about eighteen inches long are buried at
the root ot the tree, aud us they grow
the tines are trained toward the trunk.
In i !ry soils it is uecesary to water the
phi: : every other day during the dry
i' us, fur the lirst three years, aud at
the age of four or fivs years the plant
begin to bear. They continue, to bear
from seven to fourteen years, and I am
told that the crop ia a most profitable
one. The principal crop is harvested in
December and January, and the other
becomes ripe about July or August. The
harvest commences as soon as tho berries
begin to turn red and they are collected
at this timo and dried for the market. A
good average yield for a plant is two
pounds of pepper per annum.
SELECT SITTINGS.
A Bowery museum advertises the
"biggest dwarf" iu the world.
To salute with the left hand is a deadly
insult to Mohammedans in tho East.
Until 1776 cotton spinning was pcr
foimcd by the hand spinning-wheel.
Germany manufactures over (10,000,
000 worth of children's toys every year.
Lewis Ledger, of New York city, on
a wager recently ate thirty hard-boiled
eggs in fifteen minutes.
The proportion of married couples who
live to celebate their golden wedding is
under one in a thousand.
Tho old Craddock fort on Ship street,
East Medford, Mass., is the oldest house
in America. It was begun in 1634.
A New York broker has just paid $15,
000 for a half interest in a salmon stream
that flows into the Hestigouche, in Canada.
The presence of a well developed
npplo growing on the grapevine at Ports
mouth, Ohio, is ascribed to skillful graft
ing. A sparrow at Colestown, Penn., built
a nest in the running gear of a farmer's
wagon, and makes a trip to market every
week.
In the tnaw of a cow killed near
Darien, Ga., a few davs ago, was found
a pouud of six penny nails and a five
cent piece.
With the present rate of increase as a
basis, it is estimated that a century hence
this countrv will have a population of
9C4,921,6S6.
Napoleou III. got his title, the third.
for tho second never reigned, by a com
positor mistaking the exclamation
points "1 1 I" for the Roman numerals
III.
A marine on duty at the Brooklvn
(X. Y.) navy yard, is unable to speak
above a whisper, in consequence of hav
ing habitually cateu gunpowder for
years.
The reason why fire crackers are al
ways covered with red paper is that red
is the festive color in China, and that
firecrackers aro used chiefly on festive
occasions.
The oldest man in Great Britain is
Hugh MacLeod, a Scotch crofter, who
was born on the 24th of November,
83. He lives in County Ross, and is
still healthy and vigorous.
Tho boundary lino between the
United States and Canada is distinctly
marked from Lake Michigan to tho Paci
fic by cairns, pillars of iron, earth
mounds and timber clearings.
Prince Herbert Bismarck cherishes
carefully the wreck of a watch which he
carried during the Franco-Prussian war
and which Btoppcd a bullet that other
wise might have ended his life,
The great exhibition held in London,
England, in 1S51, was attended by
6,039,105 persons and left a profit of
$1,066,525. It remained open from tho
1st of May to tho 11th of October.
The Pacific coast has not a complete
monoply of big trees. There is a cypress
tree at Enterprise, Fla., that is over ten
feet in diameter and has a trunk reach
ing up forty feet to the first branch.
Few people know of the origin of the
namo liismarck. The castle of the
Chancellor's aucestors received its name
from the "uiarca," or boundary lino.
formed by the River Biese, Bicse-Marca
becamo Bismarck.
A queer white and red robin aston
ishes the fishermon at Quonochoutaus?.
li. I. It has built its nest in a shaggy
reach of pasture near the thundering
ocean breakwater. The bird s body is
of a snowy white, even to the tip of its
tail, except its breast, which is of a rosy
red.
The food of a "Zoo" hippopotamus is
estimated to be about two hundred
pounds a day in weight, and consists
chiefly of bay, grass and roots. The
daily provender of a giraffo weighs about
bfty pounds. The lions and tigers ob
tain about eight or nine pouuds of meat
a day.
For fifteen years a Portland (Me.)
business man has received from the
florist's every other morning a fresh
bunch of flowers roses, heliotrope,
forget-me-nots and the like, and placed
it directly in front of him upon his desk.
By thus looking upon the bright side of
life he bos undoubtedly added to his
happiness.
Taper Car Wheels.
Paper car wheels are made from com
mon straw boards or "straw lumber," as
it is generally called. These boards are
square when they come from tho mill.
At the car wheel factory these are cut
into circular disks by a large knife
which swings on a radial arm over a ta
ble upon which the straw board sheets
aro spread. A small circular holo is cut
in the centre for the iron hub, for you
must understand that this paper wheel is
not all paper, by any means. Pressure
is next applied and in the following
manner: Sheets to the number of ten
or a dozen are pasted together; when
enough of these discs have been prepared
to fill a powerful hydraulic press and
subjected to a pressure of many thousand
pounds to tho square inch. When re
moved from the press these disc are huug
on poles iu a steam drying room for
about a week. Thicker disks are next
formed by pasting together two or threo
of thuse already finished and dried.
Placing these together in a press as be
fore the saino process is repeated until a
block four inches thick has been pro
duced. The blocks are next turned
upon a lathe in the same manner as iron
or wood, after which the steel tire is
fitted; this is also done by hydraulic
pressure, requiring about 250 tons.
The forcing of the hub into the hole in
the center requires a pressure of twenty
live foot tons. The wheel, which is now
so hard that it can only be scratched by
a diamond; is next painted und laid
away to season, after which it" is ready
for use. At last report they were woith
about $67 each, aud are said to lost three
times as long us the iron wheel of the
common pattern. The paper car wheel
us above described is known as the It M.
Allen patent, aud first came into the
market iu 1674. Aintrican Mural Uvim.
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
XKVMIKS OF Til POTATO.
One could almost say that man is ono
of the worst enemies of the potato, if
we may judge from the manner in which
he sometimes neglects ono of his best of
vegetable friends. Whilo it requires
warm, rich soil, he gives it a water
aoaked clay bed, and when the feeble
plants come to tho surfaco no encourage
mcnt is given them to struggle against
the weeds that threaten to choke out the
last spark of lifo.
Many insects prey upon tho narcotic
Jirrbago of the potato, tho most destruc
tive of which is tho Colorado beetle.
But with this well under subjection by
a fully understood plan of applying
London purple or Taris green, there re
mains now only to develop tho methods
of overcoming tho blight and rots, tho
worst of which is tho so-called well rot.
This is due to the growth of a low form
of vegetation closely related to tho mil
dew of the grape. It flint appears on
the leaves ns frosty patches, aud from
there it grows down the stems, and final
ly its slender threads reach the tubers,
causing them to rot.
From the fact that the leaves aro first
attacked, and the rot works down tho
stems to the potatoes, it is evident that
when tho leaves and stems are dying
prematurely tho "tubers should be dug at
once. Let the potatoes dry thoroughly
In the field after digging, and store only
the sound ones in a dry place with a
good circulation of air. Avoid a damp,
poorly ventilated room. Tho vines aud
all decayed tubers left in the field should
be burned.
As preventivo measures at planting
time it may be suggested that a second
crop should not be grown where tho pre
vious crop failed from the rot. The
seed should bo free from tho trouble, and
therefore only souud potatoes are suit
able for planting. Early varieties,
planted early, are most apt to escape,
for the rot does not get started usually un
til midsummer. Experience has demon
strated that it is best to hill the potatoes
somewhat at tho plowing, as many germs
of the disease fall from the leaves and
are washed down to the tubers -with the
rains. American Agriculturist.
BnBAKrSO A COLT TO TItK CARS.
One morning last spring a traveler ap
proaching a country railway station no
ticed a man holding a young horse some
twenty rods distant from the track, upon
which a train was then standing. The
man's left hand grasped a strong leather
halter at the point where it is fastened to
the leading line, while his right hand
held firm hold of a heavy strap buckled
loosely about the horse's throat. Tho
man, who was speaking to the horse in a
low voice, presently began moving with
him over tho open space toward the
locomotive, -which thus far was perfectly
lilcnt. The horse's open nostrils and
erect ears showed him to be somewhat
excited at the strange apparition, but he
evidently felt assurance in his keeper, by
whose side be had moved with short and
nervous step over perhaps half the dis
tance between himself and the train
when tho locomotive suddenly let oil
team.
The terrified creature turned like a
flash, and in so doing for an instant
swung the man's feet clean off the
ground 1 But before the horse made the
first spring in the opposite direction the
man's feet were again on solid earth and
he lost hold with neither hand, although
the horse dragged him beyond the place
of starting before he could be stopped.
Casting his eyes around at the still hiss
ing locomotive the horse, again sprung
forward, but could no more free himself
from the man's hold than a rat could es
cape from the teeth of a tcrrer. After
a few more futile attempts the horse again
turned around, and this time found him
self able to endure the sight of a locomo
tive. Thus he stood for perhaps two
minutes with staring eyes aud quivering
muscles. After a little the steam was
shut off, when the man loosed his hand
from the strap around the horse's throat
and with it began stroking his neck,
still speaking to him in the same low
toned voice.
Soon the horse became quite composed,
whereupon tho man, again grasping the
throat strap w ith his right hand, urged
him toward the train as before. With
many stops and snorts of inquiry the
horse permitted himself to be led again
toward the locomotive, which, when he was
about the samo direction from it as the
other time, burst forth into a second
hissing, quite as loud as was the first.
Again was repeated the scene already do
cribed, but the horse did not drag the
man so far as before, nor did he require
so long a time in which to be quieted.
The steam shut off again, and the man
and horse once more approached the
train, which now moved away from tho
station. Tho last glimpse of them showed
the horse watching the now accustomed
terror and the man by bis side still
grasping the head of tho leading line
and stroking the horse's neck a beauti
ful and expressive illustration of the
power over an intelligent animal of man's
courage, kinuuess and patience. Acta
England Farmer.
DOES FWT-GROWrNG FAVt
Fruit-growing ns a whole is. without
doubt, a profitable occupation; yet the
majority of farmers who engage in it are
probably disappointed because their ex
pectations have been placed so high that
the result must necessarily fall below
their hopes. Estimates for future profits
are often based upon prices received in
the home market for fiuits brought from
a distance. Especially is this true re
garding small fruits. The grower natu
rally reasons that his home grown fruit
will go into the market in so much bet
ter condition than that which is shipped
from a distance that it will bring quite
as good a price, even if somewhat later
in season. But by the time his plants
are grown and the fruit is ready for
market the condition may have changed
Some other grower, not so very far
away, may have found the excellent
opening offered by the samo market, and
is there as a competitor. His neighbors
have been inspired by the same idea at
about the same time, and are hardly a
season behind him with their products.
Or his first crops, owiug to imperfect
methods of cultivation uud handling
knowledge of which can only be obtained
by experience, have failed to come up to
the high standard of his hopes. These
drawbacks may lead him to the conclu
sion, if he is a man easily discouraged,
that fruit-growing is not ljrofitable. Yet
with all these discouragements, it
strongly probable, that his trial acre of
strawberries, or currants, or blackberries
has paid a better net profit than any pos
sible acre of wheat, or corn, or meadow,
If the acre of fmlt has not made a for.
tune, it has at least indicated tho road to
a better income. If tho crop was straw
berries, the experience gained will enable
one to duplicate It to better advantage,
with a better knowlcdgo of tho most de
sirable varieties for his locality. Then
another acre may be put in raspberries
and blackberries, which will follow the
strawberries in tho season of harvesting
and marketing. Ono each may be put in
currants and gooseberries, which among
small fruits best bear shipping, and will
cnablo tho cultivator to test tho value of
other markets after tho homo trade has
been supplied. Plums, cherries, poaches,
etc., will follow in their natural order,
until the fruit farm, large or small, be
comes an accomplished fact, and then, if
it is managed as a systematic business, it
will be strango indeed if it docs not yield
a handsomo return for the capital and
labor invested.
Fruit is every year becoming more
plentiful in our mnrkets, and the in
creased consumption keeps pace with tho
supply. If this condition forbids great
profits to tho individual specialist in
fruit culture, it improves the chances for
the best irtcrest of agriculture at large.
It is better that many should bo able to
acquire a competence than that one shall
make a fortune, and it is one of the be
nign influences of our progressive agri
culture that we can put within the reach
of all classes the most wholesome cf
foods. Fruits which were once known
only as delicacies by the masses are now
upou their tables daily iu their respec
tive seasons.
As our population increases, farmers
all through tho great eastern aud middle
sections of tho country cultivate mainly
tho smaller aud more delicate products
of tho soil. The orchard, tho garden,
and tho dairy will take the place of grain
fields; and the farmer who plans to
follow this line, content with moderate
returns, will not be tho one to exclaim
that fruit-crowinc is unprofitable.
American Agriculturist.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
The best fed fruit tree is the last ono
attacked by insects.
It is cheaper to haul than to drive the
fat hogs to the railway station.
Frost is blamed for killing many an
orchard tree that is starved to death.
It is economy to dispense with fences
as much as possible, and it is convenient.
The roads of a neighborhood are a strong
indication of the character of its inhabit
ants. There is nothing so easy to grow - in
this world as weeds, and nothing else is
so profitless.
The farm may not yield big profits, but
is there any other calling so suro to gain
a man a living!
The secrets of large yields always and
everywhere are rich soil, good seed and
thorough tillage.
Clover and oat straw fed together furn
ish more nutriment, pound for pound,
than timothy hay.
A trotting match between the cows
and the dog may be interesting, but it
does not make butter.
You are under no obligation to loan to
the person that does not promptly return
articles in good order.
Save up all tho manure you can and
spread it on your land next fall and
plow it under lightly.
Wo want to get rid of scrub land and
scrub farming, as well as of scrub stock.
Grado up all along the line!
Mr. W. n. Gilbert, a New York dairy
expert, says "tho man who takes care of
the cc?ws makes the butter."
A score of farmers fail because they
try to do something other than farming,
wbeie one fails by sticking to farming.
If your horses shrink from you, when
you enter their stall", do some detective
work on jour hired help, or yourself.
Shelter your wagons, plows and other
implements from tho sun as well as from
the rain. Ono is about as destructive as
the other.
Get a stencil and put your namo on
your larger farming implements, sacks,
etc. Get a die, and stamp your name on
smaller implements.
Reset and repair your fences during the
interval between laying by aud harvesting
the crops. Make the fence straighter,
build it up higher and be suro to stop all
tho big cracks.
It is a curious fact that some men
would rather make five dollars by trad
ing horses than twenty-five dollars by
housing farming implements.
A cow that has to get her living by
gnawing the parched pasture, under an
August sue, without other feed, is not
likely to make a great show at the pail.
It is said thatia mixture of two parts
by weight of cottonseed meal to one of
good hard wood ashes make almost a per
fect fertilizer' for general crops. Try it.
One of tho ,very finest fertilizers for
melons is old bones, gathered up and re
duced by placing them in alternate layers
with ashes the 'previous year to using
them.
Prepare your land for fall turnip
patches. Break it tup deep and thoroughly
and harrow well. Be sure the ground is
well manured. An old cow pen is one
of the best places about the farm for a
turnip patch.
The price of the cow does not indicate
her value as a producer. Gilt edged but
ter is something that depends on how it
is made. The cow gives the milk, but
upon the management of the milk, cream
aud butter depend the quality.
An Emblem Kecowrod AftcrXiOO Tears
Brosenose College, Oxford, England,
has just regained possession of the quaint
brouze knocker frotn which it derived its
name, after being! alienated from its
ancient home nearly six centuries.
AVhen Oxford . scholars migrated to
Stamford in UJli in consequence oi a
feud which then distracted tUe university,
they took this knocker with them, and it
has ever since remained on'the door of a
house there in which they settled, and
which was sold to the corporation ot
Stamford early iu'the seventeenth century.
This house, wliich several times changed
hands, was sold, again the other day, and
was purchased , by Brosenose College,
which thus recovered its original emblem
which probably was modeled dunog the
twelfth century.
It renreseats a lion's face with a rins
through the mouth, and it is very curi
ously tmbellifheu. it. Louti Btar-oay
Sarah Bepuardt, the great French
tragedijfl A .the owner of 120 birds,
and
er pets a large
black t
dogs.
R KYI'S AND NOTES FOB TT03EEH
Cigar" is new shade of brown.
Beach tan is now the fashionable color,
Archery Is again the most popular pas
time. The ends of velvet bows are now cut
square.
Flannel drtsses are the most worn by
young girls.
Women are eligible to school offices Id
sixteen States.
f Jenny Llnd's grave is covered with
resh flowers every day.
Princess Mary of Tock is one of the
prettiest girls in England.
Turkish women eat rose leaves with
butter to secure plumpness.
Queen Victoria, of England, is in favor
of Sunday musio for the people.
Nearly 15 J women are buying and soil.
Ing real estate in Superior, Wis.
Miss Grace McDonough, of California,
Is a pretty girl with $3,000,000.
The Archduchess Valerie's wedding
dress had a train fourteen feet long.
The ladies of Chicago will receive and
entertain the Federation of AVoraen's
Clubs in 1882.
The Misses Emily and Georgians Ilill
have started a school of journalism in
London, England.
Clara Morris, the emotional actress, is
t great lover of birds, and has a regular
aviary at her home.
The very English girls along the
Hudson and about the bay wear white
duck yachting suits.
Rosa Bonheur claims that she has
painted her best pictures since she at
tained the age of fifty.
Deep girdles, well boned after the
peasant bodice, are put on the new toil
ets of white and figured silk.
Sweet-pea blossoms, white and col
red, real and artificial, are the popular
iecorative flowers of tho momont.
Gold bracelets made of satin gold and
fastened with small padlocks are very
fashionable and equally expensive.
One of the prettiest dress patterns for
U round wear is a black India silk
flowered with pink aud green posies.
The "robe" dress is shown in hand
worked trimmings and baud-painted
velvet for the cuffs, collar and brelcttcs.
Mrs. Theodore Irving, tho founder of
tho order of King's Daughters, is the
widow of a nephew of Washington Irv
ing. A new impetus is given the cape,
which appears in all styles of creamy lace
ind net, and also ia ermine and lamb's
fur.
Tho favorite flower of tho Princess of
Wales is tho Alexandra orchid, which
was named for her soon after aha went to
England.
Miss Juliet Corson is obliged to sit in
in invalid chair whilo she directs and il
lustrates her methods of cookinrr hWfftrn
her classes.
The most stylish sleeve is tho full
bishop, made with a loose slip wristlet
ne inch wide and banded just above the
slbow with a two-inch ribbon.
A young woman in Florida has just
lied in untold agony from the results of
i bite of an insect which was concealed
in a bunch of flowers sho wose at her
cck.
Beautiful white toilets for receptions
ind dinners are made of the finest and
richest of China and India silk scattered
vcr with tiny white silk buds, leaves or
rose sprays.
A fancy is shown for velvet bands on
white mull and flannel dresses. Generally
i Grecian or scroll pattern is worked oa
;he black ribbon velvet with motal or
s hite cord.
A bill making women eligible to the
juice of notnry public has passed the
Dakota Legislature, and Mrs. C. S.
rhorp, of Britton, has received tho first
:ommission.
The board of education in Columbus,
Ohio, has decided that hereafter there
ihall be no difference in the salaries paid
to men and women who are teachers in
public schools.
Fine Irish point lace, in pure white
in I pale beige tints, is made use of for
xmuets, for evening drives, and is also
much used on sailor and garden-party
aats of Neapolitan braid.
As many as three or five rows of tiny
buttons are seen on bodices, and they
ire also plentifully on culls, collars and
:oat tails. Theso coat-tail basques will
tie the thing for all fall suits.
The first colored graduate from the
Department of Music of the University
f Pennsylvania is Miss Ida E. Power.
She is an accomplished violinist and has
written several shoit sonatas.
Pure
Blood
Is Essential to
Health. To Have
Pure Blood Take
Mood's
Sarsaparilla
N V M 0-34
BEECHAM'S PILLS
(THE 6REAT ENGLISH REMEDY.)
Cure BILIOUS and
Nervous ILUS.
25ctS. a BOX.
OK A 1. 1. DrtUOOIHTS.
PATENTS
P. A. I.KIIMANN,
WMklailta, !.'.
fcsND rum ciacuiua.
nnlllft II A "IT. Oulr Ortala a.a
liHIIIf'l t.r l I'll K lu Uu World. Ir.
Mi lUlll J, I.. nTfcrMlEliH, Luanon,q
EVERY I.I1N oTn DOCTOR.
Br J- UanlUa Aym, A. W. M. D.
Tula Is most vrubl book for th hou aabold,
tefcouiiig sa U dooj Ute tMAlir-dUUoa'uliLiea yqxi-
lOUUOf dUTorflUt dUftUtt, UlO 0SLUO4 ftfll inftAsU of
preveutiug such diMuei, tad the ilinpis remolief
wtiioa will 11atUL or our, tfrgfuel(
liluHtrtd. Ta kxk u frrlttwa 1 plua rerr-tUf
lagUskJv and is frwe f mm LA tssotinical bertua wUleli
reuUsr mbt dootur booths w aviuelas to tii f enoti
,Ltljr of nrmddra. Ouj Oo. fftoiptud. OIe ooui
piLeie twuvijsu of rr jrUiiBf perutiuiug to oottmUilt,
tnrrtMir aud ths prfs4cuti tvad rerug ot Utxiut
suniii,' fWrtelhar u Tftiati4 raoipo frM r
lUripisUrtuL. vxuUiiAUu. ot boUal&U prsofio, Jjf
root tut of OrduuM-y kerbtk WlUn Hits Ivuk la tb
rou) tafear Is o exouM fur sVt tiuoirii rh4 (
do U ma exargeAf. 9enl pottul uoku Or utaga
pWtap of uy UeuotmiiukVoa lrgu ya V oeu.
Servian Military Drums.
A curious thing connected with the
Servian army is the manner in which
nearly all . the regiments carry the big
dmm. Instead of being slung In front
of the man who plays it this instrument
is put upon a small two-wheeled cart
drawn by a large dog, the latter being so
trained that ho keeps his place even
through tho longest marches. Tho drum
mer walks behind tho cart and performs
on the instrument as it goes along. Each
regiment has two or threo drums, but
scarco'.y any of tho regiments havo a
band. London Tit-lUU.
Yon flon't have to lake mir ura for th sooil
quality of Ilnhuliia's Klectrlo 8op. Just got
on hiir of your urorer, let it toll yon l "m
frM ni-xt .M"i(l(iy, rikI be govornul by that,
piKiJor bail. Hrmembor )ii)iMru.' Klcftric
Par Pai.taoor Is tits m alien t of the Ave
Central Anierlt-nn Kcimbltca.
W. H. Orlffln, .larknon. Mich., wrltiw; "Snf
fem! with t'atarrh for fifteen yr-sra, Hall's Ca
tarrh Cure cured me." Hold by DrtiKKlHta, ita.
M A ir. Is hardly k nown I
In Franco.
i an article of f
II Maai He Hal
When an article has stood the test of puhllo
trial upward of forty years, like lr. ToblaVa
Venetian Liniment, tliero can be no doubt
about tin iHMnerwIiiif real merit. i;onvlne
Souraolvesofthefarttf you have not already
one eo. A eilitflo trial will lie eullirient to
render you the knowledge that it la a auiterior
art icle.aud t he bent in t he world for xlna and
arhrnof all description.
For internal m well as external line twins
warranted Mrfei't.ly hnrnilcn tonth to that ef
fect accompanying each bottle aa wull aadtrec
lions for unci.
Truly rellable.it Is no wonder then that thou
sands statu they would not be without this
preparation even were the prioe $1U per bottle.
Instead of only 'A or Ml eta.
bold by alWlruKglsta.
FITS stopped free by Da. Kr.iftt's OnsAT
Kkrvi Kehtohkh. No Fits after n rut day's
uae. Marvelous cures. Treatise and ! trial
bottle free. I r. Kline. Bill Arch St.. f hlla.. I'a.
The Indianapolis (Ind.) 7?im' Horn, a won
derful paper, on trial to Jan. It for 85 cents.
If afflicted with sore eyes nne Dr. laaae Thomp
son's Kve-aaler. ltriiKnieteBellato.perbotll9
The turning point
in woman's life brings peculiar
weaknesses and ailments. Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription
brings relief and cure. It is a
powerful, invigorating, restorative
tonio and nervine. It imparts
strength to the whole system in
general, and to tho utcrino organs
and appendages in particular,
"ltnn-down," debilitated and deli
cate women need it. It's a legiti
mate medicine purely vegetable,
perfectly harmless. It's guaranteed
to give satisfaction in every case, or
money refunded. Nothing else does
as much. You only pay for tho
good you get. Can you ask more ?
As a regulator and promoter of
functional action, at that critical
period of change from girlhood to
womanhood, " Favorite Prescrip
tion" is a perfectly safo remedial
agent, and can produce only good
results. It is equally efficacious and
valuable in its effects when taken
for those disorders and derange
ments incident to that later and
most critical period, known as " The
Change of Life."
Wall paper
BARGAINS!
Wa will guarantee au then clean Dew jrnorls Just
made, and full lengla S yardj to the roll.
AaH-rd. rati White back I'aper. 3 la Hi,
AiS-Tl. roll lillt I'aper. S la lOo.
AiM-rd, rail E miaoued (Jilt Paper, Htm 13s.
Ulll Bardera. 4 13 lacaea wide, IS aaa
3c. per yard.
Boraera wUeeut Ulli, tl ta Inches la. per
yard.
snd 4c. In ttamttt for samcles of the best aa4
greatest barsaius la the oouutrjr.
3". II. OADT,
305 liltill DTK EST,
Mention this paper. frarldsacs. R. I.
L
EWIS' 98 JKL LYE
Powdered and Perfumed.
ll'ATKNTED.I
The Mtronant and purest Lya
made. Will make tliebrsC per
fumed Hard hoap in & min
ute without bailing. Itlattio
Iient for disinfecting sinks,
closets, drains, washing bottlui,
tarrela, painlH, eXo.
PENNA. SALT MFO CO.
tirn. Agl... f alia.. Pa.
llfipVt "Till) V. Book-keeping, BulneM Form",
MUa V I'anmanaalp, Arithmetic auort-nand. sux ,
llocMEVuly lauaut by MAIL circulars Ires.
Hrrant'e olleie. 4.17 Main Kt Uurlalo, N. Y.
every WATERPROOF COLLAR or CUFF
BE UP
TO
THE MARK
NEEDS NO LAUNDERING. CAN BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT.
THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF
COLLAR IN THE MARKET.
teslburttens
i 3. cvS 61
'iused ror
What would you
FES
who would take half your hard work off your sliouldert
and do it without a murmur? What would yon give to
find am assistant in your housework that tvould keep your
floors and walla clean, and your kitchen bright, and yet
never grow ugly over the matter of hard work ? Sa polio
Ujusi euch a friend and can be bought at all grocr$.
OIVIS KNJOY8
.e
Both the method and result when
yrup of Figs is taken ; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and act
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem ell'eotually, dinpels cohls, head
aches and fever and cures habitual
constipation, rvrtip of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial In its
efl'eets, prepared only from the most
healthy and agrccaule substances,
its many excellent qualities com
mend it to all and have made it
the most popular remedy known.
Fvrup of Figs is for sale in 60o
ftpd 1 1 bottles by all leadingdnig.
gists. Any reliable druggMCwho
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept
any substitute. i
CALIFORNIA FIB SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO. CIL
M T N V 34
CANNABIS INDICA,
The UrcM Kant lntlla Itemexly.
Imported by nuncncK A Co., Ki Race Stress,
I'hlladrlphla, I'a. Is warranted to curs
Consumption, Bronchitis, Asthma
and Nasal Catarrh.
And will break up a rrenh cold In 34 hours. Kkeptlo,
ak your drug-glut for It. One bottls will satisfy ynv
of Us merlta 'J.!K iter pint bottle, ur Uu-es botUes,
Sh.5ii. Bend for circular.
6
JONES
TOM SCALES
OF
$60
BINGHAMTON
IBsim BoxTsrs Beam J
A N. Y. aJ
six suss
m rV M
WM. FITCH & CO.,
1 O t Corenraa RuUdlns. Washington, D. CU
PENSION ATTORNEYS
of or rr tsvj.iV ritwiew. Sure fully pro
rut ponttims nt rlavlms of all kmrti In ahotisurt
ltwnbw umN far Ino KK rwi wcyMffvu
ERAZER
UKfiT I TItK WOULD
AXLE
GREASE
I rjJ etUiatisnulna.
Bold Erairwbw.
PENSIONS
ThouMnda nlli-t
utvtrM- tb Sew At.
W rit immtHllaUly
for t.,!ft for
pltrftUon. Km piny tholJ rv I table Arm,
J, II. ( HAl.l.b All., .Vuhlutftoa, D. 0.
fENSIONJi?!UKK
Successfully Prosecutes Claims.
Lt Frltioipl Kiimlner U S. renalon BurMU.
3 T r lu Urtt war, U mIJ utlicaUux claim, ally luoa.
pensions;
i r; .i-.k kv law.
rVvkllora. Wklowa. rarruU. aearl
for blank appllfatlnu an t tnrirm4Un. f atkiu
0'I'ahnbij IVnMuii AkviiI, WaalilQaTt-in, IK C
rino'n UcntMlr for Oitarrh La tb
Boat, KaaiMl to Uh, ami CbrajvaaU
Hold by (.niCTrUta or arnt nr mall.
OUCb Jsk As UaMeVIIISIfJ) nMrs M.
MONKY INCMICKKNM.
t Kor W. a liAri4( iMMik, xiH)r1f)iKa
r a iractk'ai poultry raiaur during
ara. It uticta bow to uto
aud curetllara; to f mhI f nr isctra
Paudfor fatiruiiur; wotcb tow la 10
tvo for brwUiuA, Ac, Ac. Atlrv4
UooK itoUKK, IM nasi HU, S, V. City.
A $5 B001
a book In sits and style, but wsliavsnj ra"Ji
ausks It wret tb. .)i.u3r dtiusiid. Jo suit IUS 111
T'UlAook oout.lus H4 pos IHU taebeslnslra,
andonnsUtso! ln.a Sill fists '; C1,,1.n
elerstloiis, psric"lvs inVws. descriptions, c"U.r
country, suj co.im f roDi ' to S.j also st
ntsulss. R. heol Hou., Town UU, t'burebss anS
oilier pubQo buildings, toireth.r with ,B'",?int
form ot oouJrsct, ssd 1"S amount of tfonueUoe
oaths srscUon M buiUlnis. "lection of sits. sjj.
rJoyment of Architects. It Is worth M to snr jus.
but ws will snd II la psoer coysi b ulsJ. postpaid,
cm rs.-"lpr.ffytiOi bouudm ololn S'-O
AKCUITKCT crT. I 4 Vantlewatsr , r TOT
S"MsaUoo This I'smr..!
n
EH
M FOR $1.00. 1 UU!
a IT..S
Urnthtomot ti Idliif a bous.yonoBf
to luy ia. new booff, FalUser s Awerira-Arch.
I i.e. lire, or ST.rr nisa s c..iut.l.M Dutlder.irfirj4
it fsUWr. Wlllssr v-th"'llk,w.n,,i'1'tt!:
'fliers is not a Bull.r or vf oas lutndu ta
Iralldor otherwise uitrrestwl yisi osn sn.ira 10
Without It. It t s prsctirsl wort Slid srerbodr bur
It Thsbeit. rhespsst and most ropulsr work
Urardon Butldm. Ncsrlr I " hundred Arawltups,
ss
THAT CAN BE RELIED ON
3Tcyt to siriit!
3Tot to Pisooiori
BEARS THIS MARK.
' MARK. 1
-WTourc.&n lessen
URDEN
id cSkke-A'frecoaTi nfi soim
cle&nln pumps.es.
givo for a Friend