A Misting Ulne Slnry. It would be (lifllnilt to f!n«t fn th« pages of Action nnytliifig to equal the following prosaic fact, wliitili li«h jn«t happened in Scotland: A Captain JYiitheote rents a moor from year to ▼ear. Last yonr wliilo ont shooting lio lout a dininond ring. This year lie vraa reminded of it l>y the anniversary of his loss, and sitting by the firo and taking up a piece of pent to put on, be had scarcely uttered the words "It is a year to-day sinco I lost my diamond ring," than his companion was surprised to hear the words quick ly followed by "and here it is. - ' The peat had been cut from the very moot where the loss had occurred, and hence its recovery. No other account of extraordinary recovery of dia monds could equal that, unless, por baps, that of a lady who dropped o diamond into a pond and found it some months after on the leaf of a water lily which had borne it upward in its growth.—Leeds (England) Mer cury. About $4,200,000 has already beer spent o i the great church of tho Sa cred Heart of Montmarte, Paris, and the building is far from complete. The money has been raised entirely by voluntary contributions. The Princess of Wales has the most beautiful set of furs extant, which she wears occasionally nt Stato ceremo nies. Somebody'** Oootl. To mnko our own troubles the moans ol helping the troublns of others Is a noble ef fort for good. A well Illustrate 1 Instancoot this kindly sympathy Is shown In a letter from Mr. Enoch L. Hnnseom, School Agent, Marshflfld, Me., an old Union Soldier. Ho ■ays : "It may do somebody so.no goo 1 to state, lam a man of GO and when 40 had a bad kneo and rheumatism set In. I was Inme three years and very bad moat of tho time. I got St. Jacobs Oil and put It on three times and It made a euro. I am now In good health." Tho Thames pours 40,000,000 cubic foot ol water Into thosoa every hour. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Koot euros all Kidney and Blndder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Rlnghamton, N. V. Tho wealth of the United States Is csti mated at ©60,475,000,000. Deafness Cannot be Cnrod by local applications, as they cannot reach tb< diseased portion of Ihe ear. There is only oiu way to euro Deafness, and that is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in flamod condition of tlio mucous lining of th< Eustachian Tube. When tills tubo gets in flamed you havoarum'iling sound or imper fect hearinir, anif when it is entirely closoil Deafness is the result, and unless tho inflam mation can b> taken out and this tube re stored to its normal condition, hearing will bi destroyed forever; nine cases out ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in llained condition of tho mucous surfaces. We will dive One Hundrod Dollars for anv case of Deafness (oauscd by catarrh) that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Curo. Send for circulars, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. C2T"Sold by Druggists, 76c. When Nntnro Kceds assistance it may bo best to render it promptly, should remember to uso oven the most perfect remedies only when needed The best and most simplo and gentle remedy Is tho Syrup of Ficjs manufactured by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma tion, allays pain, rures wind c-olie. ~Qc. a bottle CHECK Colds and Hronehitis with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike's Tootli.-ii-he C'lire in one minute. Karl's Clover Koot, the xreat blood purlllcr, pives freshness and clearness to the complex ion and cures constipation. 2"> cts.. .Wets., SI. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle Excelled by None * " For some years 1 112 irinlism. So much so I that J could not at / tend to my business yjfc an( * waa confined to rsj v, C 4 l,j t j 1(1 hoiibC for weeks at I / y a time. 1 was advised Xjyr) hjf to try Hood's Snra.ipa *7 lilla and have con f. L-kS. stantly improved since * commenced to take A tlio medicine. I am now anc * B * ron ß a^a^n ' Hood's Sarsa 1® truly 'excell cd by none.' " C. F. W-SuTTnvy Kiso, Veroaa, N. J. Keniembei Hood's Sarsa -1 parilla Be Sure to get |j |*gc Hood's Hood'M PIIIh curo nil liver Ills. 23 cents. N Y X U~i'» CAMAY'S n PILLS, For tho curo of all disorders of tho Stomach, Liver Bowels, KKlneys, Blalder, Nervous Diseases, L gi of Appetite, Headache, Constipation, Costlveuess. Biliousness, Fever, Inflammation of th« Bowels, Pll»g, nnd all derangement* of tho Internal Viscera. Purely vegetable, containing no mercury, minerals or deleterious drugs. 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WALTER BAKER & GO. * - Tho Largest Manufacturers of }'Qm pure, high grade COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES 112 a> On this Continent, hare received jPgjF* SPECIAL AND HIGHEST mBeST awards l on <*" their Coods at the g CALIFORNIA ffl /'lift miowinter EXPOSITION. ffi , f'rftV'"' BREAKFASTCOCOA, I KfflfJ Which, unlike the Dutch Procma, KIM ■•'■ } r Hi*made without the u«e of Alkall«-» or other Chemlcnla or Dye». iaabao luteiy pure aud soluble, and coata leaa than one cent a cup. BOLD BY QROCER3 EVERYWHERE. WALTER BAKER ft GO. DORCHESTER, MASS. CULTURE OF THE GOOSEBERRY, This shrub needs coolness nnd shado. Tho bright, hot sun produces mildew, which stents tho growth. The bushes arc, therofore, best grown in tho shel ter of somo building and in cool, moist soil. Somo native varieties aro mod erately freo from thi3 mildew, but Amerioan-grown berries will probably equal tho fino ones grown in tho cool English climate.—New York Timcs. A DROUGHT* PROOF CROP. Lucky is tho farmer who in thisyear of droughts has planted some sorghum as a fodder crop. It is much botter to resist protracted drought on ac count of roots striking deeply into the soil, while corn is shallow rooted, and suffers whenever dry weather comes. At tho West, whero droughts aro much more severo than here, sor ghum is commonly planted for feed ing. Its early growth is slow, but so soon as its roots strike down tho stalks shoot upward, and two months after planting the sorghum will bo larger and yield more tons per acre than will any kind of corn.—Boston Cultivator. IIOG CHOLERA. Feeding hogs green cornfoddcr will not produce cholera, as an inquirer in timates, says Professor J. H. Shep pord of tho North Dakota Agricultural Collogo. That disoaso is caused by spocifio germs or micro-organisms which aro in this caso small plants. Thero are a great many kinds of dis ease germs, as well as germs that aro benoticial in many ways. Most per sons not acquainted with hog cholera call almost ahy swine diseaso by that narno, and I feel sure that hops are in many cases thought to havo cholera when in reality they do not. I havo known of no serious results from judiciously foeding green corn fodder. Many tons are annuully made uso of in this manner. It is a succulent food, and a sudden change to an exclusivo diet after feeding dry food might cause serious scouring of pigs. Tho change should bo gradual. lu caseu of re ported deaths from using this feed I would be inclined to think that a do raugement of tho digestivo system was tho cause and not cholera. It would not be advisable to confino pigs to this diet exclusively, but given with a small quantity of dry corn or with bran and shorts I would not expect serious trouble. BAD TEMPER IN TITS DAIRY. Has any ono ever figured up the cost of bad temper in tlio dairy? If allowed a rough guess at it, I would say that bad temper was tho causo of more loss in tho dairy than all other sources of loss put together. A man may havo lino cows, u good stable, tho best dairy implements and a good ninrket, yat he is losing money all the timo simply because he loses his tom por when a cow gets contrary or acts in some way to irritate him. " Ho then begins to swear and yell and act like a general idiot. Now, a cow is a good deal like a woman in one respect. You yell at her nnd she instantly losos her head. Her judgment is all gone and lier nerves aro on top. Now look out for a squall. Nature never meant that man should abuse the softer sex, oither woman or cow, without being made to pay for it. Just how the woman gets tlio better of a man when ho acts the fool we all know. All men do not know, though, just how the cow gets in her lino work under the same circumstances. Slio takes her revenge in a nogativo shape by not giviug as much milk as sho would have given had sho been better troated. Not scoing hi; loss, the man does not appreciato how heavy it is until ho comes to sum it up at tho end of the season when ho good naturodly to himself attributes his losses all to bad luck when it should be to fool temper.—Homo and Farm. SMALL FLOCKS OF POULTRY. Farmers often keep too many liens in ono place. Fifty is all that should bo kept in ono llock as tho food will costless, and more eggs will bo laid in winter than if 100 are kept. The right way to do, whero luoro than fifty fowk are to bo kept, is to have another in some out-of-the-way place. If tho housesaro two or threo hundred yards apart, fences will not be re quired. Tho houses need not be expensive, and most farmers havo old lumber lying around, or an old shod that ought to be tern down, and all this can bo worked into the poultry houses. The houses should, at loast, be twenty-fivo by fifteen feet for fifty fowls. Havo the roof firm and tight, and then lino tho house inside with good, stout building paper. Little cracks in tho sides of a house or damp ness is the causo of sick fowls during tho winter season. The front and south side of tho houso should be seven or eight feet high and have two ordinary sized house windows therein, while the back or north side should be four or five feet high. Tho roasou why tho house should be largo, light and dry, is becauso during the cold or stormy days of winter thefowlsshould be confined therein; and if plenty of litter is kept on the floor, and small grains aro buried under this, tho fowls will bo kept busy and happy all day. This means plenty of eggs, and plenty of eggs in winter means plenty o? monoy just -■when money is most needed. Do not be afraid of shutting tho houso up as tight as possible at night, but during tho day, when the hens are confined, open the windows and givo plenty of air, using wire net ting to keep tho fowls from flying out. It Hust bo remombered that hens are dressed just as heavily in tho daytime as at night, and if kept too warm dur ing tho day they will feel tho cold of night more, an 1 sickness will bo the result. The droppings should be kept by thomselves aud not. bo aliowed to bo scratched al) over tho floor, and the roosts should be a-'l on a level and not more than eightocn inch.es or two feet up frqni the floor. Tho roosts vhould bo three or four inches wide, a two by fivo-iucli joist making an ex oellcnt roost.—Americen Agricultur ist. POTATOES FOB COWS. The Veterinary School of Lyons, France, has been making sonioexperi ment!! in the uso of potatoes for feed ing dairy cows. Tho results oro sum marized as follows: Dairy cows, when deprived of all other nourishment than potatoes (which should be given raw and cut) will causume per day an average of soven per cent, of their live weight. Under tho influence of this exclusive regimen there was an increase in tho quantity of milk and a notablo loss in live weight; this result was very dear and remarkable. Cooked potatoes wero more readily taken by tho cat tle, but when they wero given alone, and every other form of nourishment was excluded, rumination was affected or stopped, and digestion was hin dered. The uso of cooked potatoes could not, therefore, be persisted in. Whether they aro raw or cooked, potatoes should bo mixod with somo other food to constituto a convenient ration, both from tho double point of viow of milk production and for fat tening purposes. This mixture of ra tions is also favorable to tho mechan ical and chemical acts of digestion. From observations on a lot of dairy cows fed with a ration of which pota toes formed the half of the total dry matter, and on another lot where thoy only formed twenty-two per cent., it was fully recognized that tho first or larger quantity was clearly preferable to tho second or smaller. From othor experiments it appeared that raw po tatoes favored tho production of milk, while an equal quantity which had been cooked fattened and increased the weight of tho animals. Under tho influenco of a ration of which cooked potatoes foruiod tho basis, tho amount of sugar in the milk was found to rise, but tho increase did not continuo when tho ration was changed. An analysis was made weekly during nearly four months of (1) the milk of eight cows whose ration containod about, forty-four pounds of potatoes and (2) of another lot to which twenty two pounds had been given. In tho first case there was a decrease of den sity of the projiortion of dry extract and caseiue, and in the second an in crease of butter nnd mineral matters. Tho practical use of theso experiments on tho introduction of the potato into tho ration of dairy cattle will bo regu lated by the fact of tho milk being sold off the farm or usod for butter or cheese making. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Are you mowing around the same bushes that you were twenty years ago? Remember shade trees in too groat profusion injuro tho quality of tho grass. Aro you plowing about tho sarno littlo swale that you wore twenty yoars ago? Do not mako the horse carry a heavy halter in addition to the bridlo when at work on a hot day. Time put into farm improvements is a better patrimony than money in tho bank for your children. That pasture needs drainago for oither sheep or for cows if health and bes.t results are to be expected. Aro you not wasting timo that, if applied, would in a few yoars fit your farm for all modern machinery? Tho demand for good riding horsos will increase in proportion to tho im provement in tho horses produced. Tho friends of tho busy boo main tain that it would pay to keep a few colonies to pollenizo tho blossoms of fruit trees. Aro you plowing around that same rock, that an hour's timo would re move, that you havo plowed around for twenty years? Tho most vigorous and healthy foli age of the strawberry plant is not an indication of tho best fruiting plants, according to Professor Lazonby. Cross, unrestrained dogs in the country prevent tho froo movement of tho country boys and girls; let those bo first and dogs last in full liberty. Tho wealthy people of our groat cities aro getting to appreciato tho pleasures of a horseback lido. They aro tho ones who pay goo.l pricos for horses when thoy find what they want. A practical dairyman suggests that two or three doses of saltpetre, one tabiespoonful for a dose, is a romody for ropy milk. Ropy milk, however, seldom results uulessthe cow is milked too soon aftor calving; it disappears later on. Sometimes egga aro laid at night whilo tho hens are on tho roost. The cause is a weakened state of tho egg producing organs; tho result of over feeding and lack of exercise. Hens which aro unable to hold their eggs aro usually too fat. A practical berry grower says that a quarter acre garden, well arranged, sot to best varieties and properly cared for, should yield at least twenty-live bushols of berries. In no othor way oil) a farmer produce so much of valm with so little labor as in a garden of small fruits. A writer says that many fail to un derstand whilo yet it is tho fact, that when cows aro on good pasturage is whon thoy need salt the most. The better plan is to keep tho supply in a convenient placo whero they can help thomsclves. One advantage with rock salt is that it doeg, not waste to any great extent if left exposed. Tho owner of a small farm -who keeps only one or ..two cows is more interested, or should be, in having choico animals than those who own large flocks. Ono goo■ /%#%■ ■ W W ants, situationsfurnlshedcompetent students. I H V I Hfl H II II II I I Lll C VINE'S. °Prr»l"len tf S \vnih lugton tA U I IYS AN UULL EL U t i»treet. l'ollghlteepnie, New York. ... JS W It Was Before the Day of SAPOLSO They Used to Sav "Woman's Work is Never Pone." ENGINES i AND BOILERS \ For nil purposes requiring r power. Automatic, Corliss \ •tltnte. If your dealer Munot aupply you we can, t HALMSfsfea^-GhewingGßin ••Cure* Hii'l Prevents Rheumatism, luducestiou, •* A Dyspepsia, Heartburn, Catarrn ant Asthma. M T iu Malaria and Fever*. Cioause* the T J Teeth ant Promote* the Appetite. Sweetens A T the Breath. Cures tlte Tobacco H*t»it. Endorsed T ••by the Medical Faculty. Send for If, 15 or 215 •• A rent package. 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