Jobn Winter, of Boll County, Ken
tucky, last week, vfliilo Oipring n cel
lar at his home, on Kikwoll Creek, ox
cftTnted a Rinnt mummy. The mummy
was tlint of a mm eigbi feet high, ft nil
wrapped iu a winding cloth of skins.
It was placed in a csaoo-liko colli n,
and crnmlileii awny upon bcirtR ex
posed to the Air. At the hend of the
giant were a stoue hatchet nnd a few
cooking utensils nml a largo hollow
stone, which presumably contained
food. At his foot was a skin shield,
which liAd also crumblod to dust.
Cincinnati Tribune.
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The Typical American Nose.
Ton rarely see a Etnb cose in the
United State;. The American organ
ts partly Roman and partly Bed In
dian. The noble savage has a fine
aquiline nose, and you will see Ameri
cans of no particular note with noses
that suggest the Last of the Mohicans,
and also the bridge that was defended
by Horatius. Englishmen, on the
other hand, are quite insignificant
about the nose. As a rule, it is no in
dex of character, and in lator lite it is
merely something to snore with. Hero
and there you meet a man whose nose
is a sign-post that points to glory, and
it is a National characterUtio to use
the nose as a musical instrument in a
manner which, in America, would be
considered ill-bred, lint I fear that
in the presence of the transatlantic
proboscis we must hide our diminished
.noses and get what comfort we may
out of the prominence of the Anglo
;Saion bald head. London Sketch,
THE BLUES.
A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE
DREADFUL FEELING.
What It Meant by This Form of Acnte
Misery Where Doctors Make Mistakes.
When a cheerful, brave, light-hearted
woman is suddenly plunged Into that
perfection of misery, the blues, it is a
ead picture.
It is usually this way :
'She has been feeling " out of sorts "
fur some time; head
has ached, and
back also; has
slept poorly;
been quite
nervous, and iV
nearly fainted JVV
once or fyT
twice; head
J ! J
neari nas
beat very
fast; then that bearing-down feeling.
Her doctor says, "cheer up, you have
dyspepsia; you'll be all right soon."
But she doesn't get " all right." bhe
grows worse day by day, till all at onee
she realizes that a distressing female
complaint is established.
Her doctor has made a mistake.
bhe has lost faith iu him ; hope van
ishes; then comes the brooding, mor
bid, melancholy, everlasting 111 i'es.
Her doctor, if he Unew, bhould have
told her and cured her, but he did not,
and she was allowed to suffer. Uy
chance tho came across one of Mrs.
I'inkhani's books, and in it she found
her very symptoms described and au
explanation of what they meant. Then
bhe wrote to Mrs. I'itikhain, at Lynn,
Mass., for advice, feeling that she was
telling her troubles to a woman
Hpeedy relief followed, and vigorous
health returned.
Lydia, E. Piukham's Vegetable Com
pouud instantly asserts its curative
powers in all those peculiar ailments
of women. It bus been the htandby
of intelligent Ameiicau women for
twenty years, and the btory recited
ulMjve is the true experience of hun
dreds of women, whoso letters of
frratitudd are to be found on tile in
Mrs. I'inkhaui s library.
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IiESTMOT LAST DROOP OF Arms.
As soon as fruit has been gathered
from applo trees which are infested
with the green aphis, the lico can be
destroyed with a solution of quassia
and soap or with the kerosene emul
sion. Destroy the last brood of these
pests in tho fall and the trees will gut
a clean start in the spring. Young
trees which Are infested should also be
similarly treated.
coxvALKsriNO noas.
flogs recovering from cholera may
tako a relapse if exposed to a rain or a
sudden change. Hogs are then in ft
condition to become affected with
puenmonia, but would escape if given
a little attention. Any shed which
will keep off tho rain and break the
wind is sufficient. The floor should
be dry, but little bedding is needed
and that tnnst be renewed frequently.
Burn all litter and bedding onee a
week. Keep tho herd divided so that
crowding is impossible, A straw stack
is tho ruott unfavorable place that can
be provided for sick hogs. The essen
tials in prevention are good food, pure
water and clean, dry quarters. New
England Ilotueetead.
THB COLT'S TEETH.
The teeth of a boree form tho sub
ject of a bulletin issued by the Agri
cultural Experiment Station of Vir
ginia. It concludes with the follow
ing practioal suggestion: "When
young colts are troubled with indiges
tion, or refuse to snckle, look into the
oondition ot their teeth and gnms. If
the gums are inflamed, swollen and
painful to the touch, have them prop
erly lanced. If at the ago of from
two to five years the colt refuses to
eat, wads his hay and lets it drop, or
oats with difficulty, have bis teeth ex
amined and properly treated by a com
petent veterinary surgeon. If the
eyes become weak and inflamed during
dentition, the teeth need the attention
of a veterinary surgeon.
"If tho jaws become enlarged, in
uine cafes out of ten the teeth need
attention.
"If the horse turns his head to one
side while eating aud attempts to chew
his food on one sidei his teeth need
attention. Wadding the hay and
dropping it are symptoms of a long
tooth, which needs the attention of a
Veterinary dentist. If the horse
gradually loses flesh without any ap
parent cause, although well cared for,
the tooth tre probably at fault.
"If the horse slobbers while driving.
and pulls viciously on the bit, look to
the teeth ; many "pullers" Are made
so for the want of proper dental atten
tion. Carrying the head to one side
while being driven is frequently symp
toms of a faulty condition of the
teeth, which is relieved by a few min
utes' work of the veterinary surgeon."
TIME TO MAKE C'DTTINOS.
During the winter months is the
ime to make cuttings of such trees
and shrubs a it is desirable to in
crease. Quinces, currants, goose
berries and .grapes are readily in
creased by .cuttings. In the case of
shade trees, willows and poplars are
easily grown from cuttings, but the
great majority of trees need to be
raised from seeds, layers or by bud
ding or grafting. But when it comes
to the flowering shrubs which adorn
our lawns, cuttings aro the chief re
liance of propagators. The time to
make them is while vegetation is
dormant, and it is better done at least
a month or more before spring oomes.
The beautiful Golden Bel), Woigela,
Mock Urange, ftpirea, Deutzia and
Althaea among many others are easily
raised in this way.
Ihe best shoots for the purpose are
those of last year's growth. The exact
length is not particular, so that two
or three joints are included in each
one. About nine inches is a good
length for mcit sorts, though grapes
having the joints far apart may be a
foot in length. It is believed that
when the lower part is cut just below
n eye, tuut rooting is easier accom
plished, so cuttings are usually made
u that way. -It is not so essential at
the upper end where the cut is made,
but as the buds push from the joints
all wodhbove the highest one is use-
ten.'-. 'Alter me cuttings are maJe
place them iu a cellar, buried np in
sund or earth, with but the tops pro
jecting, thete to remain until the
time arrives for setting them out in
the spring. When the work is done
about February, it will be found that
the cuttings are nicely healed over by
the time spring comes, which is in
favor of the success of the operation.
ben the winter is over and the
soil is in good oondition for working
the planting mav be done, setting
them so that two-thirds of their length
are iu thu ground and one-third out,
Iu ordinary seasons most of them will
be well rooted by fall. Practical
runner.
VilDi: Tir.ENJ FOR WACION.
The introduction of broad tires upon
all farm waguus nnd carts adapted for
heavy draught purposes alone would
do much to improve roads, says Im
plement A;.'e, binoe bait the trouble
teems to arise from heavy loads cutt
ing over country roads at seasons of
the your when the ground is soft. At
'J'uxedr, where all draught wagons are
prohibited au entry unless furnished
with, broad-tired wheels, the tremend
ous advantage over tho ordinary tires
has been pro.ed, for there, even when
the roads uic softest uud at their
Moist, they never flit np through the
constant curtiujj if heavy loads of
brick, stoue or lumber over theiu ; for
the tires, by beiu to broad that they
Ciiiiunt cut in, and hence track iu ihe
Mime place, net totuewhat like rollers
in keeping thu roads hard and smooth.
f-!o lunch might l iieeomplishe l iu
this way if i veryotio living in the:
country, when buying u bum wagon j
or curt, would not only make u point ;
tt-ttiug i n.- with broad the--, but
Uni'l i ut tho siiiue lime rtiri his lul'u-
iM-e to that i tleet with bis trie-mis and
ttjbhoiH. lVr could j'J merit of
these tiros as rond improvers onoo be
come known throughout the country,
public spirit alone would cause their
use to become general, and much ot
the prcEcnt trouble Arising from the
deep, rutty condition of tho roads
would ceAse as if by magio. Farmers
have more roason to agitate for good
roads than any other class, not even
excepting bioyclista. Oood roAda to
the farmer means economy in reach
ing markets, because they could be
reached at the right time; advantages
of social lifo in the winter and early
spring ; saving in time aud iu the wear
and breakage of wheeled vehicles and
a general advance in all that pertains
to a higher state of civilization.
Bicvcles Are doing much to promote
good roads. Now is the time for our
farmers to make a positive move in
co-operation with them.
One improvement must go along
with that of better construction And
drainage of tho roads. The wheels of
all vehicles should have wider tires.
In France tho width of tiro is from
three to ten inches, with the bulk of
four-wheelers six inches. In Germany
every wagon for heavy loads must have
at least a four-inch tire ; Austria re
quires a tire i inches wide; Switzer
land requires all draft wagons to have
a six-inch tire. If we were to build
good roads onr wagons, as now con
structed, would sp.eedily destroy them.
They are roAd destroyers as certainly
as if built for the purpose. Go on
and build the roads, and begin at
once to reform the wagon wheols.
HOVSISO APPLES FOR WINTER.
The Experiment Station at Lafayette,
lnd., has issued the following bulletin
regarding the care ot winter apples :
"In many localities in Indiana
there are often more Apples grown
than can be disposed of profitably at
the time of gathering, and so serious
loss to tho growers is the result ; much
ot this los could be prevented by
a proper handling ot tho fruit and by
providing a suitable place for storing
until the congested state of the mar
ket is relieved.
"In order to keep well apples must
be pioked at the proper time. Care
must be excroised in handling to pro
vent bruises, oarefully assorting the
ripe from the unripe, the perfeot
from the imperfect, and storing in a
oool, dry place, with plenty of pure
air free from all odors of decaying
vegetables or other substances.
"The average fruit grower does not
exercise enough caution in handling
and assorting his fruit,
"Ihe degree of maturity will have
much to do with the keeping quali
ties. 'A late fall or winter apple
should bo mature but not ripe when
picked, if it is expected to be kept
for any considerable time. The pro
cess of ripening is only the first stage
of decay, and if this is allowed to oon
tinne before picking till the apple is
ripe or mellow this breaking-down
process has prooecded so far that it is
a diflioult matter to arrest it. As
soon, therefore, as the stem will sep
arate freely from its union with- tae
branch the apple is sufficiently mature
for storing.
"The proper temperature for keep
ing apples is as nearly thirty-live de
grees Fahrenheit as it is possible to
keep it, and in order to maintain this
it will often be necessary in this
climate to provide a separate place
for storing tuo frnit, as the average
cellar under the dwelling house is
wholly unfit for this purpose. If the
cellar consists ot several compart
ments so that one can be shut off com
pletely from the others, and the tem
perature in this kept below forty de
grees, it will answer the purpose very
well. If this oannot be done a cheap
storage bouse may be built in connec
tion with the ice house by building a
room underneath, having it sur
rounded with ice on the sides and
overhead, with facilities for drainage
nnderueath, keeping the air dry by
means of chloride of calcium plnoed
on the floor iu au open water-tight
vessel, suoh as a large milk crook or
pan. In this way the temperature
may be kept very near the freezing
point the year round, and apples may
be kept almost indefinitely.
FAUM AND GARDEN NOTES.
For selling the farm a thrifty young
orchard will be found as good as areul
estate aent.
Save parings, cablage leaves and
potato scraps tor the hens. They
ought to have green food all winter.
Have you provided a dust-bath for
the hens this winter? It will help you
greatly in keeping yon Hook free ot
vermiu.
It will pay yon to try steamed cul
clover for an occasional feed when the
days get cold and the ground is snow
covered.
In preparing the nests for winter
put them in as seoluded a spot as pos
sible. A hen likes quiet before the
egg is laid.
A coat of whitewash will make the
hen house more cheery and very likely
sweeter, uo matter how clean you have
kept it thu past summer aud full.
Don't neglect to provide plenty of
grit the sharper the better for the
hens. Broken chiua aud earthenware
auswer the pin pose very well, as does
broken oyster ehell.
One dosen't have to become a fanci
er in order to have good fowls. A
flock of thoroughbreds cost uo more
io hatch and keep than do a lot of
tomb hens, aud the income trow them
ts double or more.
It is a mistake to sell off all the
adult fowls every fall, keeping only
the pullets, uultbs you intend to buy
e;.'gs iu tho spring for hutching pur
potef. A two 3 ear-old heu gives bet
ter egis for hutching.
' 1
The Great ltuilway, ot Kngland,
cluims to make thj longest daily run
in the world without atoppiusr. The
, rnu is l'.U toilet-', uud is Iroiu l'udding
1 ton to J x t . r , uud is made lit uu aver
age speed of 51, V miles aud hour.
TEMPERANCE.
TH TOUCH Or TKVTKRAMCC
TV'nllo we lt at home roJolclnR
Safo from evnry storm that blows,
On the at root our errliiR hrothor
Down th drunkard's pathway Roes.
Lot us reach our hand to save lit m,
Lot us be his guide and Htayi -Boraly
now he nwds our friendship
On his dark and dreary way.
Keep the torch of temporance burning,
Klnsh lis light upon our foej
Tfe may nve our tailing brother
From tho drunkard's llnal woe.
Whom the brilliant lights are flashing,
In the gay saloon mul grand
Blnnds a brother, husband, father,
Nooding now our helping hand.
Beo, the tnmptor now hnm-ta him
With his demon's glaas of rum.
IJaton oh, I pray you bastMi
Lost he fa I bolero we come.
Kcop Ihe torch of temperance burning.
Flash its light npnn onr foa;
Wn may save our tailing brother
From the drunkard's final woo,
SHUN THIS ROWINO.
It is nulte common to bearmensay: "Bovs
will be boys. Thy must sow their wild oats."
Tnat there is dangnr to be dreadod from hay
ing this old proverb repeated without protest
Is attested by the many human wrecks that
line the pathway of life, says the Church
News.
A man might as reasonably sow the s?ei
of weeds la his field nnd expect a crop of
corn as for a boy to "sow wild oats" for a
dosen or more yoars and hope some day to
wake up a good, trusted aud honorable man.
Hoys should bo taught that it Is a siu to
"sow wild onts." And that for each seed sown
a tearful account must be rendered, if not
here, at least horenfter. Iho soul is like a
snow-white cloth, aud is soiled by sin Just as
cloth is disfigured by dirt. No sensiblo man
or boy would throw a fine eont on the
ground and expect that it would wwape per
manent injury. Yot thousands "sow wild
oats" without realizing what they are doing.
Aside from the blemishes which sin Im-
Erlnts upon the soul the boy should consider
is worldly prospects, and remember that
every grain ot "wild oats" he sows dot rants
from his character, nnd tends to lessen his
ohancea in the business and professional
world.
A boy without experience may be persuad
ed that it is an easy thing for him to give up
tho bad habits ho acquires by "sowing wild
oats," but the man of mature years can give
testimony of tho struggle necessary to get
rid of a single bad habit acquired early iu
life, and which has been nourished for years.
Our passions will run away with us ualess,
11 ko good horsemen, we hold a tight rein on
them. When they have the mastery we be
come slaves ot tho meatiest kind. If men
would but remember this fact they would
never say a slnglo word whk h might be con
strued into au encouragemeut to the boy to
"sow wild oats." The sowing may be pleas
ant, but tbo reaping will be anything else,
either to the boy or to his parents. Boys
should never forget that before they can
"sow wild oats" they must cease to love
their parents, and that while they are cast
ing the seed into the ground they nre har
rowing tho uoarts ot mothers that bore them
and of fathers who havii lauoroi to feed,
olothe ana educnto them.
THE TKHtFERAMCE CALL.
The call Just sent out from tho interna
tional oftlces oi the World's Women's Chris
tian Tempernnco Union to the 10,000 looal
unions in tho United States Is as follows:
My Comrades: The cup of wrath Is full.
Iu these two terrible years when the massa
cre of the Innocent baa gone on under the
eyes of our paialyzed rulers la Christian
lands, we have thought that man alone oould
holp. But it is women who aro dying two
deaths in the bloody East, nnd we, their
sisters, cannot longer watt. You have nobly
responded to my earlier appeal, and In the
name of Christ aud humanity, of ihe home
against the harem, I earnestly and tenderly
call upon you to organize meetings in every
locality, urging our Government to oo-oper-ato
with England lu puttlug a stop to the
massacres nnd giving protection heucoforth
to Armenian homes. Let these meetings be
addressed by the pastors, the business men
and the most capable women, L'it money be
raised by systematto visitation as well as by
eolleetion, and forwarded to our National
Treasurer, Mrs. Ilulen 11 . Barker, the Wo
men's Temple, Chicago, Aud may God deal
wlih us at lust as we dual with our Armenian
brothers and sisters and their little ones In
this hour ot overwhelming oalnmlty.
Fbancbs E. W'il.HBD.
. AOAINST CI.UD DBINK1NO.
' One of the perils of young men, especially
at the present time, is elub drinking. Many
young men who would be ashamed to be
seen drinking in the ordinary saloon are
tempted to this indulgonoe in the more se
leot and aesthetic environment ot the club.
AA okl New York olub mnn is quoted as say
ing: "The Barroom makes drunkards. I wish I
could say that the purpose ol the elub was to
make men sober, but as I cannot do sd with
truth, ! mtght as well oonfess, among other
things, that the tendeucy of the modern olub
is to intensify the drink babit till It degen
erates, particularly with youug men, into
the disease of Inebriety. I know of scores ot
promising lives and so does every club man
of experience that have beeu wrecked by
the opportunities for conviviality afforded
by olut-s. If the stewards of the leading
oiuus in any oi our cities would eonress to
the number of members tbey know to Da
habitual drinkers, or rather habitual drunk
ards.t he report woul d st art lu t he uninitiated. "
Friends of temperance, while laboring for
the legal BUDtiresion of the saloon, should
also exert all posslblo moral power for the
restraint and abolition of club drinking,
a doctor's testimony.
Doctor Forel, of Zurich, teaches that alco
bollo intoxication, as atfeoting the nervous
system, is conspicuous from the first, often
alter small doses. The excitement following
the first class Is the effect ;of a parnlycation
of the complicated chocking apparatus
which usually controls instinols. Impulses
and thought. Mentally alcohol painlyzes, in
Ihe first Hue, tin highest, most complicated
and finest conceptions of reason aud dictates
of conscience. He status that ohi "nlo alcohol
poisoning produces mental para pets. I'sy
uhopaths, or nervous peoplu, nre extremely
susceptible to the narootio action of alcohol
iu disease as well as in health, even when the
disuaso is not ot nlcobolio origin. Very small
doses of aloohol will, iu such persons, give
rise to considerable phenomena of alcoholio
poisoning. He hns seen severe delirium
tremens niter such comparatively small
quantities as one uud one-hall to two quarts
of elder daily.
A rooa BULK.
Many people outside the total abstinence
ranks (aud good people, too) are apt to con
demn hastily those who are striving to curb
and control the powur of the liquor element
by legislation. Vet It Is a poor rule that
does not work both ways; un i if it Is well to
remove the drinking man from the saloon,
why not also remove the saloon, from the
drinking man?
BUM S WOBK IN TWO STATIS.
The report of the Connecticut State Prison
for the year ending bepteinbur 80, 1HD5,
shows that of 3j5 prisoner 20'J, or 52.9 per
cent., confess to the use of drink as the
cause of their crimes, and fifty-three mre.
or 13.4 percent., lunke the cause to be bad
ooiupauy, which iironnbly means drluk.
Oregon State l'eulti ntmry report tor 18'JS
states that "about eighty pur eeut. ackuowl-'
edge to have been more or loss addicted to
the use of iutoxlcauts," aud that "about
sixty per cent, attribute their downtall to the
use of intoxicants." Thu averagu number ot
oon riots was 31)0.
"L10.DOB TUB BOOT or ALL EVIL."
James t'unutiiKUain, a sailor, was before
Mauistrate Kudlleh yesterday ubargtd with
having been iutoxicatej. He pleudud to be
discharged, as lie was anxious to Joiu his
ship.
"I would rather discharge a man accused
of larceny tuau a man brought here (or iu
toxieutiou, replied the Magistrate. "Liquor
is the root of all evil, aud be lluu i Cunning
ham 83. New York World.
TLM1EB1NCB NfcS AND NOTES.
Even Mohamet is on record as saying that
"alcohol is the motnur oi sin.
No man has a right to destroy his reason
tiv drink, to become dlsimsuu uydrluk. to d
stroy bis moral sense and conception of right
aud wrong.
Tho ii'ca of copper-food shoes was
patented January 6, 1S58, by a Maine
gonins, who made $100,000 out of it.
Another similar invention which made
a Rreat deal of raonoy was the tnotnl
fastener for shoes, invented and in
troduced by Heaton, of Frovidonoo,
It. I. At the time it was considored a
fine invention, for the old sowed but
ton was continually coming off. It hns
gradually grown in popularity since
its introduction in 16G9, until now
Yery few shoes with buttons on aro
manufactured without the lleatou im
provements aud appliances,
A Student's Joke.
J. E. Dodson is an Englishman.
"When I was at school at Harrow," he
said to a reporter, "Oampanini, then
in tho height of hie fa re as a tenor,
sang for the first time in the oity in
Italian opera. If I mistake not, it was
I'Trovatore." At tho end of Campan
ini's great aria in the third act there
was a storm of applause. All tho front
scats in the balcony were occupied by
students, and it was notioed that an
almost invisible wire was strung from
the middle point in the gallery Lorso
shoo to the top of the prompter's box
at the middlo of the stage. What
caused moBt people to notice tho wire
was tbo sudden appearance on it ot a
floral car of huge dimoneious, over
whioh hovered on spirals several
stuffed doves. This oar rode gradually
down along tho wire until it 'was iu
full view of evorybody. Camponini's
face was wont hod in t-miles. lie bowed
now with his right, and again with his
left hand on his chest. As the car ap
proached the prompter's box the sing
er movedjorward to remove it from
the trolley. . Then was the koon zest
of the ocoasion. Not only was there
one wire, there were two. The second
was attached to the oar and also to the
hand of a particularly stalwart under
graduate. With marvelous rapidity
the car shot back to the balcony. The
smiles, I may add, did not tarry on
Campanini's face." Boston Trans
cript. GRANT AND WASHING TON.
two Wonderful Serials Whlrh "The Cen.
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One or the best frlen is that General Grant
over had was Horae.8 Torter. Their ilrst
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served with him constantly until Lee's sur
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Horace Porter was made his private secre
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friends. Nor did General Porter's love for
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the success of the movement to ra se the
half million ot dollars which the Grant
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