What Has Yonr Codflsli Eaten I Mc to peoplo know of the virtue of cod liver oil than know in what that virtue consists. It is not that there is any peculiar health-giving qualities about the vital tissues of the codfish nny more than in those of any other fish or of land animals. The virtue of cod liver oil, it ia de clared, depends wholly on the food which the codfish has eaten, and if the cod has not fod on the right food, his liver will not yield oil of any more benefit to the victim of consumption or anajmia than any other fish oil. The best cod liver oil is obtained from cod that have fed on kelp, ft sea weed that is not found on soft or muddy bottoms. Jt is a rock weed and does not grow near the shore on the American coast. Every one knows how much better milk is given by cows that have fed on rich pasturage than by those whose feed has been stale hay; and tho cod that has lived in deep water and feasted on the rich, juicy and aromatic kelp is altogether a different nth from the one that has lived near shore and eaten clams and mussels, a diet that no self-respecting fish will touch at all when it can have anything else. Thus the oil from cod caught near tho shoro is practically worthless, while that mado from deep sea cod is one of the most nourishing and health giving of foods. Tho best cod liver oil oomes from Norway, where all the cod are rockbottom fish and live ex clusively on kelp and similar seaweed. —New York Mail and Express. Dusseldorf and Maintz, in Ger rnanj-, have in turn refused a statue of Heine. Well Pur. "It makvs mo mournful to think,'' said aa old votoroA of tho G. A., "that this good, right arm ol mlno whioh carried a mu9ket In a hundred fights, should now bo all doubled up nud out of shnpe with rhoumatlsm." "Well look liore, whora havoyou been living nil this time, that you don't knowSt. Jacobs Oil will euro you." And straightway ho went for a bottle, nod lo : he was cured also. Tho straight way Is tho sure way /or tho ac complishment ot nny good In this life, and the seeking of tho great romody for the cure of pain is surely the best way. Ask thoso who havo been benefited and they will put you straight. A bed, supper and breakfast In Paris In 1452 cost about fifty cents. Dr. Kilmer's Stamp-Boot euros all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Tamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Blaghnmton. N. Y. Xlonry VIII. paid tho equivalent of sl7 In our money for a (log. How'n Thl* ! TVe offer One Hundre# Dollars Howard for Sny ease of Catarrh thai cannot be cured bj clan's Catarrh Cure. F. J.Chk.nev & C<*. Props., Toledo, 0. VTP, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che ney for Ihe lust 15 years, and bclievo him per fectly honorable in'oil business transactions and financially able to oarry out any obliga tion made by their firm. West , nciloiuil Washington, n. c; ■#Successfully Prosecutes Claims. I LatePrtnclp»l Examiner u.B.Pension Bureau. ■ lut war if tuliudiraliutrciainiH attv »iuo» M Be9t Syrup. Ta*ee Oood. Utc M Ik] In tlino. Sold by druggicta. 154 APPLES FOR STOCK. European authorities consider the money value of fodder constituents in ordinary varieties of apples and pears as somewhat higher than those con tained in an equal weight of turnips, and those of the apple pomaoe aj about one-third higher in feeding value than the wholo apple.—New York World. DEHORNING YOUNG CALVES. Prevention of horns is preferable to dehorning. If a stick of caustic potash is applied to the spots on the skull of a young ealf where the horns are about to break through, it will destroy the horn and cause only a slight sore, that will give the animal no serious in convenience. Sometimes, however, this application docs not reach the root of tho horn, and a new growth will spring up. Watch should be kept for this, and tho caustic or knife be applied as soon as the growing horn is seen. —Boston Cultivator. BEST TEMPERATURE OF WATER FOR STOCK. There is nothing better for all farm animals than puro well water. The temperature of it is the best possible. Warm water is nauseous to an ani mal, as to a person; the refreshing effeot of a cool draught of water we all know. Just the same we know how ice-cold water makes tho teeth ache and tho whole body shiver, as it takes the heat fi om tho blood to bo come warm itself. A temperature of fifty-five to sixty degrees is tho very best for the animals in tho winter, and water from any good well will be somewhere near enough to this. The water should be pumped into the troughs for use, and the troughs drained and immediately covered as soon as the stock have drunk, so that snow or ice will not gather in them, American Agriculturist. BLIND STAGGERS. Tho hog whon plethoric and well fed is liable to congestion of the brain, which may pass into actual effusion or apoplexy. In congestion only, which is properly termed "staggers," the nnimal is dull and stupid, the eyes are red, the bowels aro constipated, and the pulse hard and quick. These symptoms may passoff or may increase, leading to a period of excitement from increased pressure on the brain. The animal runs to and fro, often in a cir cle, hitting against objects as if blind ; tho breathing is laborious, and he may fall down in an unconscious condition. In other cases the effusion on the brain or tho apopletic stroke takes place with these premonitory symptoms: The hog suddenly drops as if struck 011 the head with a hammer, the limbs stiffen, the breathing is hard and snor ing, and a froth exudes from the mouth. In either caeo the treatment is by promptly dashing cold water over the animal and especially pouring it from a liight of eight or ten feet on the head. The bowels should bo stimulated by an active purgativo injection as follows: Sulphate of magnesia, four ounces; oil of turpentine, two drams; soap suds, one-half pint; mix for an injec tion.—American Farmer. CULTIVATION OF ORCHARDS. Cn no other part of the farm is so little attention bestowed as on the or chard. This is the more singular as BO much is required of it. The far mer knows he must fertilize and cul tivate his lields if ho wants a crop to harvest, but with the orohard he ex pects to gather where he has not fed or tilled. If he would only stop to consider he would realize that trees, like men, can die of starvation, and if only imperfectly nourished only in ferior fruit can bo produced. To be profitable orchards must re ceive as good care as other crops. To call attention to their requirements the Cornell Station, Ithaca, N. Y., has issued a bulletin on the cultivation of orchards. Some of the points insisted on are tho necessity for good drainage, natural or artificial, the value of good tillage in increasing tho available food supply and conserving moisture and tho general superiority of level cul ture. Sod is sometimes allowable in apple and standard pear orchards, but never in other fruit plantations, says the bulletin. Even then it should be pastured closely with sheop or hogs. If the stock is fod at the same time the land will faro better. Watch a sod or chard. It will begin to fail before J'ou know it. The remedy for these apple failures is to cut down many of the orchards. For tho remainder, the treatment is cultivation, fertilizing, spraying—tho trinity ol orthodox ap ple growing. .'Potash is tho chief fertilizer to bo applied to fruit trees, particularly af ter they como into bearing. An an nual application of from 509 to 700 pouuds of muriate of potash may be used to tho aero in mature orchards. Cultivation should begin early and be continued often. It maybe stopped late in the season and a crop oan then be sown upon the land to serve both as protection to the soil and as a green manure. Crimson clover would seem to bo tho best for this purpose. CARE OF BEES. In order to have any reasonable prospect of a good honey season, bees must be carefully attended to during the winter and so secured that they will not only have plenty of warmth but an abundance of food to carry them through in good condition. Thero are many theories on tho win tering of bees, each bee-koeper prob ably fancying his own bettor than any other; but thero are certain general rules that must be obeyed if one ex pects the best results. An expert bee keeper, before preparing the hivos for winter, cuts a hole through each frame to bo left in the hivo. Tho discoverer of this idea was a woman, and to it she claims to owe the fact that sho has never yet lost a colouy through ex cessive cold. Ordinarily tho bees have to pasa around the outside of the frames to get to the outlying honey supply. Sometimes they eat holes through the combs, and this led to the practiee of making free passageway entirely through the middle frames and a small aperture through whioh ono bee at a time could get to the outer ones. Besides leaving la all of the honey frames, there should be outside cush ions or board walls for warmth. It is a remarkable fact that bees keep th9ir hives as warm as the temperature of a living apartment. If any one ohooses to ascertain this fact, let him plaoe the hand over the chalf cushion or board that is usually laid over the frames. One of the most important items in preparing bees for winter is that they have a large surplus of honey and that it is disturbed as little as possible. Bee-keepers are fond of putting their colonies on short commons and feed ing in the spring. Sometimes this may work well, but as a rtilo the bees know quite as well what they want as the bee-keeper possibly oan. It is by some thought wise to disturb tho colonies very little after they have finished tho gathering of the honey in the autumn. It the hive is large, two frames may be taken out, one on each side, and the cushions be put in. If the hivo is small it is much bettor to have an outsido box with a padding of chaff and cover the hivo entirely with this, except the space for the door way.. There aro double hivos and patent hives of various sorts, but if an abun dance of honoy is left and a little pro tection is afforded, the colony is quito likely to come out in very good shape in spring, whatever tho stylo of the hivo may be. It is often asked whetlior bee-kcop ing in this climate is profitable. In answer to this it may bo said that there are too many uncertainties abont the weather to make it at all worth while togo into honey-making as a business. As a supplemental occupa tion it is a very good thing, but it is scarcely wise to invest money in it to the neglect of other things. As one among many, it is quite remunerative and a very pleasing and interesting pursuit in addition.—New York Led ger. FAHM AND GARDEN NOTES. Be sure your hens havo a tight roof over them. Injudicious feeding is the ruin oi many horses. Thero is a saving of ten per cent, in favor of cut rations. Blankets are as necessary for the horses as overcoats for tho men. It is neither economical nor neces sary to feed tho horse all tho hay he eon get. As a general rule it is the most prof itable to nso mature sires and dam* in breeding. Tests mado at the Michigan Experi mental Station were against flat-bot tom foundation. If from any causo surplus honey be comes unfit for table use it should be fed back to the bees. Bees should bo prepared for winter as soon as the honey flow ceases, whether late or early. The future value and usefulness of the horso depends largely upon the first winter of the colt. A bee-keeper, of Coloiado Springs, thinks alfalfa leaves are a better pack ing for winter than either chaff or other leaves. Horses that aro used for driving on the road do best when fed chiefly on oats, with sufficient hay to mako a proper ration. Help the poor ragged hens to get on their winter suits by the addition of a little oil meal or fresh meat to their daily ration. Keep the f.heep out of tho rain. A cool dry place is not objectionable, but a wet fleece is a brooder of dis comfort and disease. A V'ienneso npicnlturist has dicov ered a hive in whioh thero aro two queen boes, who live most affection ately together and rule their subjects jointly. If covers, frames, eto., are moved after it is too late for tho bees to ob tain propolis outside or to work it in side, many crevices will be left open, through which cold and win I will ou ter. A chaff quilt, or cushion, from three to four inches thick if the upper story, half-story, or super is left on, anil thinner if the cover only is used, should be placed over the frames to absJlb the moisture from the cluster. If nbont to start in the poultry bus iness there are so many breeds to choose from, you better, if you have no choioe in the matter, get a breed suitable to your place, surroundings and facilities for keeping and selling. In planting trees, whether it be spring or fall, mulch them. In winter it keeps frost out of the ground, and in summer the roots are eool and moist underneath it, and both of these things are great aids to the trees in re covering from a transplanting. Top-dressing pays the best on land well set with healthy, desirable grass plants. An old, wornout mowing, in which wild or inferior grasses pre dominate, offers little inducement to the top-dressing method of enriching tho soil; such land should be plowed. The closest study and the most careful thought cannot always insure succoss. But they will bring the far mer a great deal nearer to this result than any method, or want of method, whioh negleots to make careful and timely plans for the work that is to bo done. Where from any cause it is not prac ticable to use wire netting as a pro tection against the ravages of mioe the trees may be saved by raising a small mound of earth around each tree. Mioe usually work closo to the ground, so that a small mound pro tect* from them. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS*. WATERPROOF CELLAR*. A cellar can be so constructed as to be waterproof, if the bottom of the floor is first covered with cement, tha walls bnilt thereon laid in cement and tho exterior of the walls covered with cement. This makes practically a water-tight basin. The cement used must be the best Portland oement, one part; clean sharp sand, one part. After a cellar is built it is not so easy to make it waterproof. Still it can be done. Cover the exterior of the wall with the above cement, ditto the bottom, aud work the cement in nnfler the bottom of the wall, says the National Builder. If these directions are followed yo'u will sucoeed. But if cheap materials are used and the work bndly iloue you will be sure to fail. A drain put around tha outside of the wull, or even inside, below the cellar floor, may be efficient in carrying off tho water if you can give it a good deliv ery. THE OVE*. For sponge cake and ponnd cako have heat that will in five minutes turn a piece of white paper yellow. For all other kinds of cut cake use i»n oven that will in five mluutos tnrn a piece of white paper dark yel low. For bread and pastry have an oven that will in five minutes turn a pieco of white paper dark brown. When the oven is too hot at first a crust forms on the bread or cake, which prevents it rising. It is better when baking bread and cako to havo tho oven a little slow at first and in crease the heat gradually. When baking puff paste tho licat should be greatest first and decreaso later. This is to keep the pasto in shape. \Vhon the oven is too hot tho tem perature may be reduced by putting in it a pan of cold water. When baking in an oven that is too hot at the top, fill with cold water a dripping pan which is about an inch deep and place it on the top grate of the oven. Should the oven be too hot on the bottom, put a grato on the bot tom, put a grate under the articlo that is to be baked. IIOME OCT OF A HOt)3EHOI Pearline is never peddled, and if your qrocer sends you something in place of Pearline, doth« honest thin?— send it hock. C 3 JAMES I'YLE, N. Y. {Webster's International Dictionaryj I *toe Mew "I'nabrldeed" j/ 0A The Best Christmas Gift S 112 WEBSRffS U Dictionary of Bnglimh, Geography, Biography, Fiction, Etc. J i IIMHNJUINALI Btudtrd of lhott.B.Buprame Court, the U.S. Oo*«nnii«ntrrlnUnßOmo».*nd of ! : V mCTIOMWy na *r'r •» tt» Soboolbooks. Commended by every KUte Superintendent o 1 School*. . i V y O.A C. Merrlam Co., Pnbs., Hprlnsfleid, Mass. : • WSend for frw pamphlet oontalnlng epecuian pases. Uluairationn, etc. I fIMMMMMWMW—WMt» Do Yeu Know That Than It Scirnce in la Witt and Use SAPOLIO "A Second Niagara." Frank E. Snyder calls tho great dam over the Colorodo River at Aus tin, Texas, "a second Niagara." It is 1360 feet long and sixty-eight foet high, raising tho stream sixty feet above low-water mark. Not only will it furnish the city with electric light and power for the pumps of the water works, but there will be a large sur plus of power, for mills and factories. The lake formed by the clam is twenty five miles long and covers an area of 2000 aores.—New York World. Light narrow gauge railroads ara again being tried in England and France. PROGRESS. lrj r People who R-et the greatest degree of comfort and real en- OTmIWUM. i°y ment °«t of life, are those the most out ■ Quick perception and good judgment, lead such promptly to adopt and make use of those refined and improved products of / 'HSfl!?® modern inventive genius I . -jßWtjKjSa which best serve the l!i needs of their physical fUlli HfiSflwgv /.\\ being. Accordingly, " le roost intelligent \ \1 an d progressive people \\ v/ \\W) I are f° u "d to employ \ ivil l // the most refined ana V .perfect laxative to reg 'ulate and tone up the ■ liver, and bowels, when in need orsucli an agent—licnce the great popularity of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. These are made froiu the purest, most refined and concentrated vegetable extracts, and from forty -two to forty - four are contained in each vial, which is sold at the same price as the cheaper made and more ordinary pills found in the market. In curative vir tues, there is no comparison to be made be tween them and the ordinary pills, as any one may easily learn by sending for a free sample, (four to seven doses) of the Pel lets, which will be sent on receipt of name and address on a postal card. QNCB USEDTHEV ARE ALWAYS IN FAVOR. The Pellets cure biliousness, sick and bilious headache, dizziness, costiveness, or constipation, sour stomach, loss of appetite, coated tongue, indigestion, or dyspepsia, windy belcliings, "heart-burn," pain and distress after eating, and kindred derange ments of the liver, stomach and bowels. Put up in glass vials, therefore always fresh and reliable. One little "Pellet" is a laxative, two are mildly cathartic. As a "dinner pill," to promote digestion, take one each day after dinner. To relieve distress from over-eating, they are un equaled. They are tiny, sugar-coated granules; any child will readily take them. Accept no substitute that may be recom mended to be "just as good." It may be better for the dealer, because of paying him a better profit, but he is not the one who needs help. Address for free sample, WORLD'S DISPENSARY RIKDICAL ASSO CIATION, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 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