V
ITpst Material For a Roof.
it no better Diatciial for roof
Ine, cypres?, or cedar shingles,
roofs nrc not nearly so durable as
f shingles, ami theso, if painted,
i doubly durable. Tho only metal
really desirable for a roof is cop
hich is practically imperishable,
o cos t nt present is too great as
red with thinlcs. In laying a,
e roof it is best to put tho roofing
under the boards, as thero is then
nger of the gathering of moisturo
onsequtnt decay of the shingles,
vind is kept nut iiito as well in
way. 1 he shingles nro better pre
d. by dipping in crude petroleum
ft being laid, bv which they are
t water proof, and the durability is
increased. The frame of a wood-
luse may be fillci in w ith concrete
ft biirk, but this tilling is no better
1 'concerns tho warmth of the
than a lining of tarr.nl building
'r under tiio outer covering of tho
ils and the inner lining. New York
lepcndent.
i successful stvino breeder ia Kansai
it once a week puts a quart of oal
d two pounds of. sulphur into each
,swill.
jiong drought of last fall and the
fiy weather Jiavo made terrible in
i upon the f.hcej which have been
vt on the ranges in Texas.
Willie Tillbrooh
Ron of
Klayor Tillbrook
of McKecaport, Ta.. Cured of
Scrofula in the Neck
Hood's Samaparilla
AU parents whose childr.u suffer from
Bcrofula, Halt Rhmim, or other diseases
caupe'l by impure blooi, should read the fol
lowing Irom Mrs. J. XV. Tillbrook, wife of
Tie Mayor of McKeesport, 1'enn.i
X, Rood ft Co., I-owell, Mass. I
little boy Willie, now six yoar. old, two y.an
ad
Bunch Under One Ear
"Srhic
hich the doctor laid wa Scrofuli. At it con tin
tied to grow be finally lanced It and It discharged
for some time. We then began giving him Hood's
Baraaparllla and be Improved very rapidly until It
healed up. Last winter It broke out again and was
followed by
Erysipelas
We again gave him Hood'i SaraaparQla with meat
xeellcnt reanlta and m bat had no further
trouble, till cure It due to the use of Hood'i Saraa
parlUa. He hat never been very robuit, but now
wn healthy aud dally (rawing stronger
.The doctor teemed quite pleased at hit appearance
and said bt feared at one time that we ah an 1 4
late hitu. I have alto taken
Hood's Sarsaparilla
myself and am tatltflrd that I have been helped by
If Mrs. J. W. Tiixbrook, Fifth Ave., McKeesport.
Uosil,i Ptlla are purely vegetable, perfectly
harm leas, do not gripe.
"German
Syrup
5
William McKeekan, Druggist at
Bloomingdale, Mich. "I have had
the Asthma badly ever since I came
out of the army and though I have
. been in the drug business for fifteen
years, and have tried nearly every
thing on the market, nothing has
given me the slightest relief until a
few months ago, when I used Bo
schee's German. Syrup. I am now
glad to acknowledge the great good
it has done me. I am greatly reliev
ed during the day and at nightgoto
sleep without the least trouble." 4)
There is ease for those far
gone in consumption not
! recovery ease.
There is cure for those not
far gone.
There is prevention bet
ter than cure for those who
are threatened.
Let us send you a book on
careful living and Scott's
Emulsion of cod-liver oil,
even if you are only a little
thin.
Free.
Scott ft Bowks, Che mist t, 1 33 South sth Avenue,
Nrw York.
Vour driRisi keeps Scott'a Emulsion of cod-liver
oil ell drug guts everywhere do. $1.
OR. KILMER'S
Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure.
lHicimin.iftiii,
Lumifrn, pain In joint or tutck, f.rick duat In
Urine, 1 1 1- 1 11 m t 1 nils, ,irifHti'n, ii.t.anmtUia,
trruvt-l, iilf ititiou or t'ttim ill ol liUtiUer,
Disordered Liver,
Im-mlr-M 'liction. jrmit. hillioup-h.-ftriachet.
l4 l H-HUO f run knliivy ilitli. ultit,
latrtw urtua.y trout.l-, tiny Ll d.Mu!.
Iiiipure lllootl,
Scrofula, tuularia, jien'l wettkness ordHnJltf,
tttriiIee-rM' tv-nn, of ( -ne h-Hfle. If not rDr
LWU, bj um1 ill ie' -1 U))Wi ILi- pru ai-la
At aJruygteta, ' fel.OO Mze.
uivjh.i ouide to ,tion free,
KiLW.a v.
'U J if
BER KSCArRS.
No little invention ha done no much
to lighten the labors unci facilitate the
operations of the bee-keeper as the de
vice known in this county as a "bee
escape." In England they call it a
"super-clearer." No matter what name
is given it, the device is a good one. It
is put between the brood chamber and tho
surplus case above, and will usually clear
the upper bees in a few hours. The
best ones are made ou the piinciple of
a catch-'cm-aliverat trap. The bees can
get down, but not up. It is a pleasure
to remove cases of honey without smoke
and without being anuoyed by flying
bees. Western Rural.
LET IT RVST OUT.
The quickest way to get rid of a costly
mowing machine, hay rake, or even corn
cultivator, is to store it in the corner of
the fence, with rain-clouds for a cover
ing. Farmers who cannot properly house
their implements should not have any,
and nature takes the shortest method of
depriving them of their aids to crop
growing. If too lazy to build a shed,
the next best thing is to let some one
else run the farm, and, as a hired man,
one can be forced to do ior others what
might have been done for one's self.
Too many farmers rust out, along with
the machinery that stood like scarecrows
through tho long winters. American
Agriculturist.
FOWLS EATING FEATIIERS.
Every case of depraved appctito in an
animal is due to some craving induced
by a want of sufficient variety of food.
Fowls must necessarily bo supplied with
a large quantity of nitrogenous matter
and some sulphur to provide the mate
rials for their feathers aud eggs, which
contain a large proportion of these sub
stances. If this nutriment is not sup
plied the birds aru uneasy and the health
will fail, until they cannot produce the
plumage or the eggs. Both of these
necessary elements of nutrition are sup
pled by flesh meat, and hence fowls are
instinctively consumers of small animals
and insects. When they cannot pro
cure a supply of theso tney must be
furnished with a substitute. In practice
it is found that fowls that have a regular
supply of animal matter do not exhibit
this habit of eating feathers or eggs. If
a regular feeding of fresh bones with
meat on them and finely broken is given
from the beginning of winter there will
be no trouble in this direction. The
hubit is more cosily prevented than
cured. New York Times.
"PrLEKDID GARDEN."
My garden is ten rods long and eight
wide, writes a correspondent. I plow
assoon in spring as it gets dry enough to
work well. While plowing I call all my
hens in, say 150, to pick up tho worms;
they have a feast. The next day I harrow
flue, and plant and do all I can to keep
the hens at work to get rid of worms. I
then sow all small seeds in rows the
whole length of garden, as straight as a
line can be drawn, twenty-eight inches
apart, raking wide enough for one row,
and draw line and mark with end of hoe
handle close to line about an inch deep.
Then I sow the seeds, such as beets, let
tuce, onions, cabbage, carrcts, spinach,
parsnips, tomatoes, etc. ; remove the
line and pat the dirt on tho seeds with
the back of the rake, so as to cover
the seeds about half an inch
deep, and they always grow.
Next, I ruke enough for another row and
sow, and so on until all the small seed
are sown. I plant two rows of English
multiplier onions one row of large and
one of small in the same way, only I use
the corner of the hoe for a marker, for
they must be planted deeper, and a
couple of rows of peas a foot apart ; cover
us before with back of rake, and pat the
soil firm; they are sure to grow. Treat
cucumbers, squash, beans, etc., the same,
only farther apart; potatoes, three fjet;
corn 2J feet. The whole garden is
planted in rows lengthwise. It is a great
pleasure to run a good cultivator up and
down between the rows and see the weeds
turn up their toes and die. Try this plan,
dear reader. I let hens roam over my
garden all they wish, and somehow they
don't scratch up anything, perhaps be
cause I feed them every day and have no
dog. It may be they don't know where
the seeds are. One thing I know, all
passers-by look with admiration, aud
often shv, "Ob, see what a splendid gar
den ; I never saw the like of it." Oer
mautowu Telegraph.
HOW TO SUPPLY PLANT FOOD.
It is of great advantage to farmers and
horticulturists, to understand the me
thods by which plants take up their
food from the soil, thinks A. B. Barrett,
for it will enable one to understand the
special needs of his soil much better.
Tbeie must be an economy in feeding
plants, as well as in feeding animals, and
u the needs of plants are better under
stood tho more we are enabled to prac
tice this. A great part of the manure
that has been applied to plants has been
lost simply owing to ignorance on this
subject. The true economy in feeding
plants is to know the value of a rotation
of crops. Special functions are per
formed by different crops, aud they live
on diflereut substances in the soil and
air. Tho corn crop, for instance, has
the great power of growing almost con
tinuously upon the same soil, or at least
until tho nitrates of the soil are ex
hausted. In time they carry away a
great deal of nitrogen, which weakens
the soil for certain other plants.
While the corn crop can grow for a
long period upon the native soil which
ban nut been manured, the root crop ou
tho other baud depends largely upon
manures well supplied with phosphates.
They also exhaust the soil of nitrates,
but not quite so rapidly as the corn.
The leguminous plants, clover especially,
are said to return nitrogen to the soil,
and are great crops to follow the corn.
It is somewhat doubtful abou. the clover
plants gathering ibeir nitrogen from the
air, as some claim, but if not from the
atmosphere the long roots bring it up
from the sub soil. By the 'ng roots
tbey stir up the soil and colletit nutriti
ous mateiial which the -
... - V rri. .
ent upon soil and climate than upon
manures for their growth.
The true theory of cultivating tha
soil then is to economize in manure con
sistently, and to use the other simple
methods which nature gives us. Nutri
ficiition of the soil has to take place in
the spring before tho plants enn grow,
aud this is forwarded by good plowing
and stirring, s) that the sun and air can
work upon it. Thorough cultivation is
thus often more essential than manure.
A judicious rotation of crops, including
the three different kinds of plants, corn
or wheat, roots and clovers, should also
be adopted, to get the most benefit from
the soil. In this way less manure will
be required, aud the soil will always be
kept supplied with all the plant food
required. This is intensive farming on
an intelligent plan. Boston Cultivator.
MISTAKES IN CHEKSB MAKING.
The usual method of the chee3e
maker is to rush the process of making,
and in far too mmy cases, attempt a
big yield at the expense of quality. In
many factories, tho night's milk is held
over until morning, and tho morning's
milk then added. The night's milk is
usually warmed up in advance, the new
milk added as it arrives, and when tho
lost can goes in, the milk is ready to sot.
The rennet is quickly introduced, and
then the curd is heated up to ninety-sis
degrees or ninety-eight degrees as soon
as possible. The haste to cook, salt and
get to press is observed as in the first
process, and the result is cheese of all
grades of texture, quality and "be
havior," and often final disaster. Is
there no remedy?
If our cheese makers, to begin with,
will insist upon taking in no milk that
is not up to standard, and then go slower
themselves, a great gain would be made.
Let this heating up wait until all the
milk is received and then gradually heat
up the mixed milk, keeping it well
stirred until ripened. It will then work
evenly and uniformly, and give a sound
curd at the end. Milk is not worked
down smooth enough, as a rule, before
the rennet is introduced. The method of
adding the rennet needs a little reform.
It should be made more dilute. The
small amount is not sufficient to be thor
oughly mixed with the milk. If the
same amount of rennet is diluted with at
least three volumes of warm water and
then added, better coagulation will re
sult. The cooking or scalding is often
done too hastily. The heat should bs
raised very slowly, and at inter
vals it should be held steady
for a short time, and then steam
again turned on. What is the object of
cooking curd? to scald it, or is it a
method of promoting rennet action? It
is questionable whether, taking one day
with another, milk is not set too warm,
and later on scalded at least ten degrees
too high. Some late developments seem
to indicate that eighty degrees is warm
enough for milk when set, and eighty
six degrees to scald, rather than ninety
six degrees or ninety-eight degrees, the
usual temperature. The operation of
cheese making should be to make a good
cheese and retain all of the butter fats
possible. But the moment milk or curd
is warmed up to eighty-eight degrees,
the oil in them tends to liquify, and es
capes with the fluids, being lost as food.
Of course it will take longer to cook a
curd twice as long but some Cana
dian experimenters are finding that they
thus get as fine cheese as they ever did,
with a pound less of milk for a pound
of cheese.
The acid needs to be developed in our
curds in a dryer way, after they have
been taken out of the whey, and the
curds kept warm for this development
to take place. The sink or drainers of
our factories should be made double,
so that a little live steam can be intro
duced under the jacket, and the curds
kept uniformly warm, until thoy will
pull the threads of the requisite length.
Then it should be broken up, cooled
and salted by some curd mill process,
or otherwise. This should be a pains
taking operation, so that the curd shall
not be lacerated, allowing the fats, ia
part, to escape on the least provocation.
Much good curd is injured by allow
ing it to remain too long in the whey
after the acid is developed. On the other
band, some curds are put to press before
they have taken on acid enough, or been
properly worked and aerated, and then
dumped into thj hoops too warm.
Definite rules should be observed on the
point, when, and at what temperature
the salt should be added, and at what
stage of acidity and temperature the curd
shall be put to press. Many curds are
hooped too warm, and the after per
formance of the cheese is largely due to
this cause. American Agriculturist.
FAIiil AND GARDEN NOTES.
Feathers are good fertilizers.
Keep the poultry quarters dry.
The seed ot cannas ought to be planteo
early.
Arrange to have the nests dark, espe
cially for sitting hens.
Qeese, turkeys, ducks and guineas
thrive best with a good range.
Keep the goose feathers separate from
lue duck and chicken feathers.
re kin ducks can readily bo kept on
farms where there are- no ponds.
To make young ducks profitable their
giowth must bu pushed from the start.
When the young chickens are afflicted
with leg weakness, feed them bone
meal. The secret of success ia the poultry
yard is not in the hatching but in the
feeding.
Generally it is not a good plan to at
tempt to keep more than fifty fowls in
one house.
The Kansas black-cap raspberry is a
new variety from the Stute for which it
is named.
Set out your new currant plantation
as soon as the condition of the ground
will permit.
The Lucretia dewbeny is from Texas,
and it is claimed for it that it is hardy,
productive aud of good qualify.
If any green lice appear fumigate yf ith
tobacco (nt rirot sign of this pest,! A
u)ti win prtvem tuein
TEMPERANCE.
STROKO DAntK FILLS OC FBMORR.
"11 is wtimtted tbst the coat of maintaining
th rat 100,000 inmst of the vsrinns pentl
institntions in this conntrv txoeeds $10,000,000
annually." Chicago Tribune.
St Is safe to urami that threo-fonrths of the
100,000 of tbsse inmstm of Ampricau prisons
are nob, either directly or indirectly, on ao
oonnt of strong drink. In an economic point
of view the burden of maintaining them Is
heavy and the millions paid out an unavoid
able ontlay. Yet the Tribune is an adrocate
of lioenied liquor-selling, one of the inevitable
results of which is a large and continually in
creasing crop of expenoirs criminals. Aoiton
ai Temperance Advtmitt.
ivils or CIDER DMKKnm.
The last Tear. In most parts of the conntry,
yielded an abundance of apples. One result
of a large apple-orop is the increase in cider
making, and it Is to bo feared cider-drinking.
A reoent number of the Farm Jim-nal gives a
caution concerning cider aa follows! "if the
groat abnndance of fruit has caused barrels of
cider to be stored in the farm cellars for win
ter drinking. It will pvove more a ourse than
a blessing. Empty every barrel of it into the
road that you may not regret the ruin of jonr
sons. A oor respondent of that journal, Jo
eiah W. Leeds, of Philadelphia, oiies several
illustrations of suffering and ruin which owed
their origin to hard-cider drinking. The ap.
Ties themnelves are a great blessing, but the
fermented, alcoholic apple-juice is repleto with
danger when indulged in as a beverage. Let
there be total abstinence from cider, as well
as beer, wine, and the stronger liquor.
LH1COR OR BBEAO.
In connection with the temperance agita
tion, now making a serlom impression on
Germany, some curious statistics have been
compiled, as follows: The production of ma
terial manufactured Into beer, wine and
suirlU In Germany occupied in 18HII-90 just
about one-fifteenth of the cultivated land of
the whole country, a territory somewhat
'arser than the kingdom of Baxony or the
grand duchy of Baden, and somewhat smaller
than the kingdom of Wurtcmberg. If this
Immense field, thus devoted to the liquor
traffic, were diverted lo the production of
food, there might be raised on it in a year 1637
millions of kilogrammes of rye, a quantity
mfficient to make &!73 millions of pounds of
the bread on which the poorer elans chiefly
live. The fifty millions of people of Germany
would bo able to have of this bread 65))'
pounds piece, or a family ot eight persons,
d'24 pounds, enongh to give thorn their entire
food for six or seven weeks. In the direct
service of the liquor traffic agriculture, man
ufacture and retailing about one and a half
millions of men are engaged, ont of the
twenty and one-half millions occupied in all
tha industries of the land. In other words,
about one-qnter of the productive energy of
the country is devoted to this business.
f'icoyune.
THE DRINK ETM. IS SCOTLAND.
A wilter in the Chicago Advance who is
traveling in Bcotland, writes:
"Edinburgh is the mojt religious citv, one
of the most drunken, in the world. When a
Scotchnnn sins, he sins against greater light
than the Frenchman does. He must pnt more
will-power into it to go to the bad. and so the
intensity of his evil is in direct ratio to tho re
istanoa of conscience which he must overcome.
The fact is, when he is bad he i very ba I, but
t good Bcothman is one of the best men in the
a-orld.
"This is Saturday afternoon. All Edinburgh
A enjoying its half-holiday. Along toward
ivemng picnio parties are returning in all
torts ot vehicles in all degrees of hilarity.
The streets are full of people. The drara
ihops are doing a roaring business, and in tho
back streets, far into the night are rough
Drawls and drunken rows. Twice to-day on
tha open streets I have seon women qnarrel.
ling. The crowd gathtred about and niad a
ring as they would at a dog fight. There was
10 more stir about it than if it were aa every
loliday occurrence, wnioh it probably wa.
and yet somebody is making a brave fight
igainst this disgraceful slate of things. Within
t block of where I am atayiug I can count at
least a dozen temperance hotels."
CARDINAL MANN7KO AND THE LIQCOR QVFSTIOW.
The host efforts and the last few years of
Cardinal Manning's life wero soent in the in
terests of the poor of London, aud it was while
working for them and endeavoring to rescue
them from the extrome poverty which sur
rounded them that he saw that the first great
evil be had to overcome was the drink habit.
Among all the sqnalid dens of vice and misery
of iiatohffe highway, down among the vile
haunts of crime and dissipation of decayed
old stairs, in the rank and fetid atmosphere
of St. Giles, where the rays of the sua scarce
penetrate, and where the nights were made
hideous with blasphemy and cursing, and the
gin palace loomed with a brilliance and lustra
that made the miserable surroundings all the
more pitiable by the contrast, he was not
afraid to penetrate. Sido by aide with the
gin palace hang the three brass balls, the
pawnbroker's sign, the symbol of penury and
want, the trade mark of the human vulture
that deals in the lite blood of hi fellow beings.
It was in these dark, vile haunts of sin and
shame that Cardinal Manning firatoommenced
bis temperance cnnaiiu. It was here that
the League of the Cross, the strongest and
grandest timperauce organization the world
has ever seen, and of which he was the foun
tain head, waged a pitiless warfare on the
liquor traffic, and although thousands have
been rescued from the dread embrace of that
modern Moloch of iniquity that was grinding
them in the dust, and have sought servico
under the banner which rtscuea them, the
dread fight still goes on aud will continue un
til the authorities destroy forever these cess
pools of iuiquity and vica.
Writing or his temperauce work reminds me
ot how he came to take the pledge, for al
though preicbiug total abstinence he was uot
a total abstainer uimself until some time aftar
he had identified himself with the Utmptranoe
movemeut. It was at a meeting of some school
children whom he was going to enroll under
the temperance banner, and after speaking to
them of the evils of the drink hab.t, aud tin
force of good example, he saiOj ".Sow, let us
all kneel down and take the pledge." The
children knelt down, the cardinal among them,
and repeated the pledge after him, aud -when
they got up a liille girl who wai nearest the
carJiual, iu that precocious manner peculiar to
children, said to him: "Now we ate all temper
ance, just like yon." His Eminence often used
to speak of this, how he bad 0-11119 to taks the
pledge unintentionally, and ho aald having
takeu it anrronnded by children wh ne souls
were nnstaiued by sin, it made his pledge
doubly binding, aud he would keep it until the
day of his death. 6'ocifd JJrai t JU view.
TEOTERAycE NEWS AND NOTES.
The man who is willing for the saloon to
stay, is iu no hurry for the devil t go.
You can tell by hit traikt which way the
man is going. If they point toward the n.loou
his baik is towaids heaven.
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union has
grown from a few siat,i red members to 151
societies with 20,000 member.
Thirteen million child re u are being taught
scientific temperance instruction in the schools
of forty-four btatos of the Union at present.
The Yale faculty hereafter require the exclu
sion of all re-tamant, hotel and other adver
tisemrnta which indole the sale of iutoxioat
iug beverages from the college publications.
German military papcra puoliiih alarming
statistic as to tLe sprta of drunkenness iu
the (io m m army. I 1 l-mouy the consump
tion of spirits has somen hut diminished, but
the diminution is more than made up by the
drinking of beer
Mr. Keenan, president of the International
Trees Club, ia a strong advocate of temper,
auoe, aud at the lunches and banquets given
while en runle au1 while on Ilia California
coaat during the recent excuraiou, kept his
glans turned down.
The committee of the Band of Hops Union
have, through their president, George Wil
liams, adilreHsed a letter to thu school board of
Lomliiii, yuiliug attention to the importance
or K'H",l the children iu elementary schools
Iu ier and more specific teaching as to the na
ture and physiological effect of alcohol than
has hitherto beeu provided.
The tleruted Kallwoys.
Ou the Sixth Avenue line in New
York City, there are 500 trains daily
each way; on the Third Avenue line, ft04
trains; oc the Second Avenuu line, 272
traius; on the Ninth Avenue line, 205
trains each way daily. The trains are,
run from one minute to eight minutes
apart, depending upon the hour of the
day. From midniobt to 5 A. x., tiftttu
minutes apart, fans live cents. Scisru
tide AjHBTjCttO, . . . V.
A Skeleton In the Crystal.
The aged t)f. Collier folates the fol
lowing! In 1843 an old and wofth)
friend, of whose sttidt veracity I bateil't
the least possible doubt, came from Ililrn
bam, England, with a relative to trans
set some business in London. During
the time of my absence from home with
this relative, my friend, through sheet
curiosity, took up a small oval-mounted
crystal which stood near him on a table,
and began to examine it. After looking
at it intently for a few minutes and try
ing to guess, as ho afterwards told me,
what on earth such a novelty could be
used for, he noticed that the surface of
the instrument became clouded. This
ho at first attributed to his having blown
his breath upon it. Ho tried to remove
the dew-like cloud with his handkerchief,
but his efforts seemed to increase the
cloudiness. Trescntly the cloud took
upon itself the form of the legs of an
ostrich, the toes and knee-joints being
clearly outline . For a second they
seemed to opon and close at the joints
like a pair of calipers. While gating in
awe-stricken wonder and amazement at
this uncanny exhibition of the supernat
ural, my friend noticed that the figure
was slowly but surely changing its form.
The ostrich legs had become those of a
ghastly human skeleton, and almost in
stantly the final change came, which
converted the cloudiness of tho upper
part of the glass into ribs, vertebras, long,
bony arms, the whole surmounted by a
hideous, grinning skull. At this junct
ure, according to my friend's story, he
began to feel a great oppression in the
region of the chest and a numbness and
giddiness iu the head. He lost no timo
in replacing the crystal upon the tablo,
and says that it was some hours before
ho was able to throw off the unpleasant
seusation which his curious experience
produced.
It was not until nearly two years after
this that he ventured to tell me of the
circumstance; even then I could not in
duce him to iuspeet the crystal again.
Iu conclusion I may remark that the
dear friend, who was absent with me at
the time, died at about the time Mr.
B saw tho skeleton dancing in the
crystal. St. Louis Republic.
Canary birds sing their best in rooms
filled with tobneco smoke.
A Promising Situation.
(New York Dally Investigator.)
Good judges say that one ot the next lo
calities to achieve distinction by jumping
from a substantial town to a thriving me
tropolis in a few years will be the city ot
Superior, Wisconsin, and this, too, with
out the effort and struggle through which
inferior towns have passe 1 while ef
fecting the same result. Until a year
or two ago the average man did not stop to
think that Superior as a monopolist of tha
water and rail termini at one end of the
lakes is in the same position as Buffalo at
the other end. Figures are uninteresting
unless given briefly, but comparisons
are always important. This little Su
perior, credited by its last census with
only 32,000 people, handled more
coal last year than did Chicago; of grain
it shipped nineteen million bushels, of flour
sixteen hundred thousand barrels, of wool
four million pounds, and of merchandise
to the value of thirteen million dollars.
Of all lake cities this business was
second only to Chicago in magnitude.
There is an economical reason for this
condition of things. It Ib that the rail
rate on freight sent west of Lake Mfchi
gau is one cent per ton per mile, while
the water rate is one-tenth of oue cent per
ton per mile. This position at the ex
treme western end of Lake Superior is
what gives the city of Superior its prestige,
and is making it grow faster than
Chicago ever did. Besides one hundred and
one smaller industrial concerns, Superior has
located twenty-eight largo manufacturing
enterprises in the past eighteen months, in
cluding the American Steel Barge Com
pany, the builders of the famous
"whaleback" vessel, which is revo
lutionizing the lake and ocean freight
carrying trade. The twentv-eieht institu
tions alxive mentioned include iron aud steel
plants, Hour nulls, stove foundries, wagon
factories, pump makers, ship builders aud
saw and shingle mills. The most conser
vative business men in the Northwest
believe that Superior will grow faster
in iue next teu years than any
other city in that prosperous section of the
country, and many of them claim that
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Mil
waukee have never seen the rapid growth
that will come to the bead of the great cbuiu
of lakes and the city of Superior.
The League of American Wheelmen
will move for good roads in Illiuois.
A Lorn I.nkr.
"Whether I cxiiect to like lien Huron read
ing it or not I intend to read it through." In
the foreguing sentence is hidden the name of a
well known lake, the lettei-H not nil in oue word
but following each other coiiHcctitively, and the
finder may make money. Kor the flint correct
answer 'I'll K Kiiir.HiiiK Wkkki.y offers (KlUcaxh,
for the second, ?'; third, f.'si; fourth, ta; next
five, $10 each; n.-xt ten. each, next iiundred
prizeM aggregating Siieclui prize of $as
and S10 will be given for the first and secoud
from each atiiteand jmivince. No dut y or carri
age on ckmIi prizes, i ine dollar for six months'
subscript ion to Tin: Fihksidk must accoruitany
each solution. Twenty-Mix numbers of the beat
family iiaier in ( 'amuiafor $1. Address Fihk
kidb weekly. Adelaide W.. Toronto, Ont.
Firet notice. .Mention this pajien
FITS stoi'i'd frvo by D11. K link's Great
Nkkvk lth.vroKKH. Ko fits after flrt day's use.
Marvelous runt. Treatiae and fei trial bottle
free. llr. Kline. Kll Arch Ht.. Phlla., I'a.
Mr. M. A. Murry, Wilmington, Del., writes:
"1 had une of my severe headachoa aud was
DerMiH'led to try your valuable (Hradycrutinu)
meilieine. 1 never had anything to do me so
niucii good for headache."
The good health of every woman depends
greatly upon herself; delays, through false
modesty, are dang'",- i Lydla K. Hukham's
Vegetable Compouuu will cure nine cases out
of ton. ;
Reecham's I'll. ii will cure wind and pain
In the Htomach. Kiddlnesa. fullneas, dizzinuaa,
drowi-iuesa, chills and Joaof aiqmtlte.
Coughs, Hoahhnkis, Soke Throat, etc.,
?uickly relieved b,' Bhown's Hhonchial
'hoches. They urpaiw all other prepara-tion-t
in removiug hoarbenesa. and as a cowjh
remedy are pre-eminemly Oic liait,
The worst cases of female weakness readily
field to lr. Swan's I'aatile-k tutuiplea free.
r. Swan. Beaver Ham. Wis.
AFTER 22 YEARS.
Newton, 111., May 23, 1888.
From 1S63 to 1885 about
22 years I suffered with
rheumatism of the hip. I
was cured by the use of St.
Jacobs Oil. T. C. DODD.
OOOOOOOOOO
It you lafsvv no appetite IndljcnaUon,
A fr ltviuUiiiiw, hitrk-llruxltM'hsa, U1 ruoA
w do wo" or ItMiug tleoU, Utite V
Tuft's Tiny Pills?
9 Thy tone up thu wtt stonmcb and Q
build up the HaKKinK nr$ivtL. itrto,
OOOOOOOOOO
Successfully Prosecutes Claims.
Ltttti Principal tsijilutr U B. t'euaiuu Burou.
D jrlU Jl HIM', 1 UdiUtWlAfl OieUUi, sUlMMk
It it estimated that there ere to-day
12,947 Jesuit. In the United States
there are 064 in Maryland, 403 in Mis
souri and 1U9 in New Orleans,
O. Is A1ftbat.rieexttt!ritf?
A. No, It Is the cheaiieat arMcfle for the pnr
poee on the market.
W. How in tht? Cnnnnt T purchtuM kftW
mine nt a few cent per pound
A. Yon, knlftomlnes etui -lie purchased at
almost any prie.
(J. Why then in Alnbont.ne om expermtVe?
A. In tn tltt pi tire ft pnekmm of AlnJwiMinft,
enMftitf a fw omit more, will cover double the
Surftw'fi 1ht a iMw-ktufd ot kalwomlne will.
P. What other fulvAntiure has Alabfwtine
tlmt kAltvrniinefl do not poHmwt?
As AlnhAfltlne in entirely diffomnt from All
knlnon.lnr. It In manufactured from a base In
1 1' If a cement, and wliun applied to a wall acts
hard.
O, ITow do knlaomincfi differ from thin
A Knlsmninefl are made from whiting, clay,
rhalk or notde Inert powder for a Imw and are
entirely dependent on animal glue to bold thein
on lite wan.
J. What rtre the resultH?
A. In
one ease the Aliibnstlne fodn'Tltf'uaMenft
harden with aire, and the kalMolniiierf Ha noon
an thu nine, which constitute ln binding
quality, decays, rulw and walea off. aa it has
nothing to hold it on the wall.
Q, loe AlahaKtlne require washing and
srrapinfl off before recoat InKr"
A. No, AlahaNtine when once Applied to a
clean surface can Iw reeoaled for any length of
timo without having to wash or scrape the
walls.
U. Does this feature rottnt for much.'
A. Ak any practical housekeeper, who has
been driven from home to have walls washed
and serapods whether it will be desirable to
have all of this overcome, and walla impnvju
Inn tend of "jMtied by coat ine theui
O. How can I get AlaboMine?
A. From your local paint deitlor. If btdoe
not keen It In stock, and tries to sell you wnne
thing else, tell him you are determined to try
Alahastine, and if ho will not keep it you will
get it elsewhere.
The canyons of Southern California
are alivo with wild pigeons.
llew'ft Thin
We offer One Hundred PMUrs reward fnt
any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by
taking Hairs Catarrh Cur 3.
F. J. Chknky A Co., Props., Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known r J.
Cheney for the Inwt 1ft years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac
tions, and financially able to carry out any ob
ligutions made by their firm.
N E8T 6c Tkuaj,, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
Saldino, Kinmaw A Makyin, Wholesale
DniKkfiMn. Toledo, O.
Hall's ( Hlarrh Cure is taken Internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucoua sur
faces of the system. Testimonial sent free.
trice 7oc. per bottle. Hold by all druggists.
A physician recently said, "probably Lydla
K. IMnkhaiu has done more for womankind
than all tho doctors combined; a woman un
derstands those matters better than we do,
OIViTTj ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs ia taken ; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and act
gentlyyet promptly on theKidney
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sy
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
nchs and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of lta kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the 'aste and ao
. ceptable to tho stomaia, prorjpt in
its action and truly iK'nelicialuixto
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable fubstancea,
its many excellent qualities com
mend it to tJh and have made it
the most pornlar remedy known
Syrup oFigs is for sale in 60o
and $1 boiflee hj all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept
any substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
, fHAMOISCO. CAU
VMKtmu, r. Htm tOKK
EvEBYffoTHER
Should Jlare tt mu The iloaeo.
JJropptU on 8u(rart t'9ilaren Xroee
totake Johnson's Anodtnk I-jnimimt tor Cronp.Olds.
Sore Thmat, 'JVmsllltl, folic, truini anil Pain. Kit
llcvesall Hummer Complaint, Ciiuanri Prut set like
magic Sold everywhere. Frlne Jtte. by mail; 6 bottlrt
Kx ureas paid. 11 1. a. JOHNSON A CO., IKwtox. Mass,
Kennedy's
MedicalDiscovery
Takes hold in this order:
Bowels,
Liver,
Kidnevs,
Inside Skin,
Outside Skin,
DltTtng rr jrUilaf baton II thai outfit to b. OWL
You know whether
you need it or not.
Sold by .very druggist, and manufaoturad bj
DONALD KENNEDY.
ROXBIKY. MASS.
Ely's Cream Balm
MIL I. t'lUK
CATARRH
Apply atttiu luuieaou iiojtrl'.
KLY UKom.. m Warren Sl N. 1.
WELL DRILLING
Vachlnarr far W of any depth, from 40 to 3,000 f-t.
(or Wnusr, Oil or (laa. Our Mount d hlru.111 Drilling ami
Portable Murtw I'tiwer Ma.'hiueiettow.i k in'iOiiiinutfM.
iuruile-d to dilll fMtr aud with lca nower than any
other. Hosfliiiiy adapted to drilling VWils in aarth r
rock l U1.imi IWt. Farniaraand ot uarsara maklnv ).
to $40 per da; with our nuu'hiuarv and txla. blndut
buftiifte for Wintr or Hummer. W ra th ohWxt mt
larfi-ewt Miuiufut-tiimm in thu biiitnuaa. Hend 4 ctmla in
fiUiiiuaforilUiatrateti Caulotfua H, Ai'ti(a,
'Fierce Well Eicavatur Co.. New York.
KEYSTONE
HAY
LOADER
l.wuls s too lo 6 minute
Bats, time, work, mm,
hay. ritronif durabl., light
draft, ben J for description.
KEYSTONE M'F'GCO.,
Sterling, III.
A fiCMTC maka l(WprU. and win MaClNM IK1M
1 UlBIJun my cor. fb,ttfll. hruiruvMUd inJiLuit
W amploa trrm. TrmluryUr. ttriagattva, 37J It way. N. Y.
LAniPQ " you wl"h to MW armi
w beauty 'a falrf-m fa1 and rinure
hfiid one ftullar for ltaamy'ft fctx-reta lof.fttOUUK
TWA N 11 HOOK, Hamilton, Ontario, l auaUit,
T1J p grpateat Cui-e on Ka
n Im Vrirriuury fun
Carih. lr. Ilawlry'a
ire will iHisiiivelv cure
ill nkin illM'Uf- i ii Hi rfct-te aud futile: .lift rcniM.
THE feMlTH, Itl'KhrXL (U,W I'ark Kow, New Vork.
PATENTS
KlsltlllUlOll. I,
PHue book tree.
W. .nt Nam. and
Ad.rM w tverr
A6THMATIO
I a u iu m n
Mill
COPYRIGHT IB9I
A nefi woman f
the one who's overwork eJ, nerr- A
out1, and debilitated. Wha8 h
needs ia Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription. It's made exactly to fit -
her case an Invigorating, restora-
tive tonlo, and n soothing and
strengthening nervine, giving tone
and vigor to tho whole system. But
it isn't a more stimulant. It's a i
legitimate medicine, that an expe ,.
rienccd physician has carefully pre
pared, for woman's ailrat..ts. All
the functional derangements, chronio
weaknesses, and painful disorder
peculiar to tho sex, are corrected
tt' . cured by it.
'., And beeauso it's n certain remedy,
It can be rnado a tiiaranteed one.
If it fails to give satisfaction, in any
case, you have your money back,
The best pill costs less than any
other. Costs less, but docs more.
They're smaller, too, and easier to
take. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
are the best pills. They regulate
perfectly tho liver, stomach, and
bowels.
IS Y N 0 13
UNEXCELLED.'
Al'fl.lfcii
Rhenmatism, Mralfia, Paiai in t!u
Unite, Baci or Chest, Mm Mi
Throat, Colds, Sprains, firoiss!
Stiu&sof tets, Mojito Bit
A.lfcN I Vi'r.HNAIst.Y
It net, like n cli'irtn lor L'nolora ilcrbi.
Ulnrrlitrn. iynlry, Cittlo. CrMjt, Jin
am. n It; u ileatlitclii. tve
V nrrantnl perfectly hftrmlr. (Kfifitl
rroMimi) Inn rncH bottle. nlwa ttlrectteat
lor liar. Ha MtllllllM. ana fc li V tt A
Tl SU qualltita are lull liUiMOtllulelr.
ll a u it be con viuued.
Prlcv Ji wu.ji diiit. oU J aII tlrar'
rlia.
DKl'OT, 40 MI'KltAY HT NEW VORK
W.BAKEii&CO.'S
Breakfast Cocoa
'jroir ffDicMlw azoewot Osl
aa teen removed, ,
abaolutettt pvr CTWcf
44 is fOtNMtk t
No C2icmical8
are jaec in ts preparaUon. at
hat mort lAan Uirf ttme$ 04
Ux o Cocoa mixed wttft
i, An-owroov or UngaaV
i cher tore xat mora aot
ai, oottinf et ttUm oa
cup. 1 i i& neAckm. ooo '
' ytrengtaeiilDS. mArLY '
EIuestbd, urn) aorui'-BDiy aaapwc mt tovaisila
a weu ac Jo Doners -o he-lh
bold by Grocer a everywhere.
JW.BAKER & CO. Dorchester. Mat
rout, Rit::.a!!i..Uli n.ii..Bllli;irlii: .H:n. !. aiti..aVlliMUiia
I masmoom msliion 1
3 There r 410007 'D fraw.
(, MusbiDajrua. lOimaat
drsiftuu at seed umcm.
Au uh vita s otU&r or
ttki can d n. Owr
frlmtr tod PrlM Uct Ulla
bow u Uin. yrcr.
dend lor li. A trial pries
of hio o irnouth for a
S 4eirlntrot). b? fJtstL
"Tfije 1 Tax ntr"". for i oo; is
A v- 2 aoiai roito totn .
poupotd. tor Sba S, f
At A firowrrr. Impanrf
ana noiMor. faiiaaeipitio. Yo.- O.rdln.r's 6da
Now CatoiOtftM lot isn sc. sd rwo Bind &M IS.
!iiaj tssj tasj ma at rm nm m BaTfnssj.iistiiysaii
nn unT RF DFHFIVFn
wTib lMt . KnameTs, and faints Thlct stats
Uif hnn-ls. Intirc III. Iron, and burn otT.
The Itisma Sun Slova Fullnh Is Brilliant, Odt
Ilurnlilf. and I ho consumer pay. (of Be UO
or glass iiackiiK. "Ilu .very purclwt.
Sim Rsssv TaoainoK, Uss
most noted pbv.actan at Kffi
laixl. say. Uias mor. Uats
aall ot aU lueu.1 oofna nroa
erron in lies.
tieml toi re 8ampU si '
iarteia Tea to IU Wttt
tttb Street N.w York CUjt,
RARFIELD TEA B:i
wl 0flfta.1l tatlnKCurfli Kick lleada.catf
ravioraatomvlailotticvraiOoaitlaatloiu
woodbury's facial soaf.
t aullol riUyrtaxa'a&irttju.-a iforaale
ai urutftfifia 01 oy truui mbb. rampie
Ckv aud IM p. book, on lrrriatoUwy
lid Heauty.lllhia.li oo bkia, KcalfV
Nervotia aud lliond dlaeaar and Cahlf
.iti.tn.fr.t. isnT aralftd for !Os. aJ0
UHrlUI illUKMH MkrHlHTH BAHta,
Uuls-tw Marls. ladU tmk and rww
Mark, Hrara, Pl(tlkia, HraaaM wf Nasa, ea
.rausisL Hair Plstiulpsv a.. n tnnTrd
JOHN tt. wood it i m, ifcaamuuirjLa
4MU1T1UTK, I&m Was- 4liirt, U. I. I U7. UooaultaUoa
'res- r: - ' ' '"ft- .rei wanted ID eauii j
CONSUSVIPTIOIM
IS 1 I K A li I.K. AImi AHihnta, Rroucb ltd, Catarrh.
The IiiIiiiIhiIoii Mellioit. HO yer oent, cMrad
(JurliiK b yettra' iirui'lk-e. 1 Vntlmoulula furulsbed on
applkutlou. HciiiiMllea for litipuru lllootl, Couatip
iloii, IrVuptniia. Write for iwrtlrulara. Aaeaia
wauted. The f'li. Her-niau Medlrlae Ca.
OAk-tt, (jilTorJ HulldliiK. Jaiiit tituwn, N. Y.
JONESES
o FUUUY WARRANTED'
5Ton Scales $60FwtiCHTrVm
3oNESfBlNGHAMT0N.NY
ACDECnV enre fur Files, old runn ntt sores and
OrCCUI surrlwt. It(. HI raraKl.l.'H UK
1.1 A Hl.K HO II K i I'H E bus uo equal; '24 rla.
.-.MII H, Kl h.-.tl.L to., ru J urk How, New York
PCT P 1 Oil ""'""H "in Mn ks or sj;ht sksiko.'
ULI unuil rllelt.r it
Menus. H.lkiyuum.Augu&ui.hl.
Piso'a lU'iuedy for C'atarrb U the
BvBt. V'jsie;-it lo I'w, and Cheapest.
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ixjid by diutM'-i or M.ut by aual.
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