Maryland's Melon Territory. t Of the entire melon-prodneing ter ritory Maryland heads the lilt. The adaptability of the soil and the fact tluit the art of geoponioa is un derstood is attested by the myr iads which are raised. When the ar rivals begin to pour in freely, Light street wharf is a packed mass of green. Tho balk of the consignments are received at the foot of Light street. Thoy are brought on sloops, schooners, pungies and bngeyes. Wagon trains from Anne Arundel County are constantly coming in with large quantities. The boats, as a rule, make two trips a week. The con sumption hero is enormous. Prioes, as a rifle, range from S4O to $5 per 100 in_ a wholesale way, according to condition, these figures representing the extreme highest and lowest during the season. —Baltimore News. THANK THE LOT ELLS! To Tliem More Than to Othera Is Due (ho Fair Play Accorded to Wheelmen. From tho beginning of cycling in this country tho makers have been its strongest bulwarks, and to them is duo the orodit for the proud position riders of tho blcyole hold. To tho members of tho trado, therefore, we owe much, as it was thoir pluck and their money that iiave made for us our position. COT.. BESJ. S. LOVELI* Among tho men who early felt tho benefits of cycling, and did not hesitate to expend money, is Colonel Bon. 8. Lovoll, of Boston, Treasurer of tho John P. Lovoll Arms Com pany, of that city. Thoir Arm namo has been a familiar one for over II fly years, hav ing been established in 1840. doing a sport ing goods and gun business. Belnir in a kindred trade, it was but natural that thoy should engage in the making and selling of bloycles. Their success has been unbounded, as they have made a name for the Lovell Diamond Cycles that is a familiar house hold one in every hamlet in tho land. It is not possible to have dono that without cost, and a considerable one, too, as readers of current literature will admit, for have not all of us encountered the symbolic words "Lovell Diamonds?" To ostimate the gross amount that has been expended for advertis ing would boadiillcult task, but it is said that considerably over *IOI.OOO was spent by them during 1894. All tho big Eastern dailies had entire pages, which cost lots of money, and the magazines filled many pages exploit ing Lovell Diamond Cycles. Can it be wondered at, then, that cycling has become popular, when men like Colonel Lovell spend Such sitlns to make it so? Colonel Lovell is Treasurer of the John I'. Lovell Arms Company, and is a man of r.iro business attainments, acquired by long ex feriene'e and an aptitude possessed by fow. n private life bo has won the respoct and es teem of every one ho has been brought in contact with, while his public record is equally good, on live different occasions rep resenting his town in the Legislature, sorvlng in both branches, lie sorvod on the staff of Governor Long for three consecutive years, and Is now a member of Governor Qreenhalge s staff. lie lias been a delegate to four Nutional conventions, and there is not an office in tho gift of his townsmen which would not bo at his disposal were it not for his great business responsibilities. Thoro Is no man In tho bleyclo business more respected than Colonel Benj. 8. Lovell, and no better bicycle is made in the world than the Lovoll Diamond. Miss Jessie Ciray, a young Scotch woman, has boon appointed sanitary yjspeetor of women's workshops in Islington, London. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp- li oot cures nil Kidney and Bladder troubles, Pamphlet and Consultation froo. Laboratory Bingliatnton. N. Y. Japanese workmen wear on thoir backs an inscription describing their businoss. Tobacco Stinking Breath. Not pleasant to always carry around, but it don't compare with the nerve-destroying powor that tobacco keeps at work night and day to make you weak and impotent. Dull eyes, loss of interest in sweet words and looks tell tho story. Brace up—quit. No To-Bae is a sure quick cure. Guaranteed by Druggistseverywliere. Book, titled"Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away,' free. Ad. Sterling Iteinedy Co., New York City or Chicago. Tlie I.adieu. The pleasant effect and perfect safety with which ladies may use tho California liquid lax ative, Syrup of Figs, under all condition! makes it thoir favorite remedy. To got tho truoand genuino article, loo'-i for the name of tho California Fig Syrup Co., printed near tha bottom of the package. You Think It In Soitirtlilng Else. The "why" of the bad feeling H what puz- : zles you. It is easy to imagine so many onuses, when the re:il one is Indigestion. You think it's something else. Tho cure is Klpain Tab ule->. A Magic tabu'.o gives relief. Ask ihe ' druggist. E. A. Rood, Toledo, Oliio, says : " Hall's Ca tarrh Cure curod my wife of catarrh fifteen years ago and she has had no return of it. It'.- a sure cure." Sol Iby Druggists, 7c. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for childrer teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamina Hon, allays pain, cures wind colic. 26c. a bottl' I believe I'lso's Cure for Consumption Baved my boy's life last summer.—.Mrs. Ai.MB Douu lass, Leltoy, Mich., Oct. 1894. If afflicted with soreeyts me Or. IsaacThomi» son's Eye-water. Uru^uistssellataSoperbottlo Always Tired Describes a dangerous condition, because it means that tho vitality is becoming exhaust ed by roifon of impoverished blool. Give new life to tho vital fluid and the nerves and muscles will grow stronger. Hood's Sarsa parillu gives strength, because it mukes pure, rich blood, llemembiv Hood's Sarsaparilla Is tho only truo blood purifier prominently in the public eyo today. $1; six for $5. Unnrl'e Dalle the itfter-dinnpr i 111 and nUUU b r*Jllo family cathartic. *5 . DAVIsIiREAM zf /112 A SEPARATORS 112 fmLS Mfißt \ A I'errlMs Lender. [ii-J in* jßflßl ISuccmful. Merilorioui iX Vmh USB |r»miihirt Malted Freo ly trAonnWinii). v DAVIS * RANKIN \ MKJH / BLDO. & MFC. 00. \AM nMBH/ Sole Manufacturer,, W. Lake ■« SITUATION* When ity between neigh bors *lio '.honl.l bi friendf. 'l'he Connecticut Legislature has made an effort to avoid difficulties of this k'nii by citJclfng a law to the ef j'eut that, in ai--h disputes, tho party who suppose" h.m>-elf to be aggrieved may tall on tho Selectmen (any other ofhser iaigb'. do where this particular kind do not txi. t) to investigate tho Ktd to order tho one in fault to make the foj.ee good, under certain msomible peiinliijs. This may do, bat it would be better than to invoke the law for the one who feels himself to be aggrieved to ask permission of his neighbor to fix the fence himself, a much less expensive way of settlement than to refer to any legal proceedings. This way of settling disputes aosords with one of the golden rales —if thine enemy smite thee on one cheek, tarn to him the other also. It may be a hard thing to do, but it is only resist ing the devil, whioh, to some extent, still abides in human nature. There never has been a resort to the law by neighbors but it has been a costly and exasperating blunder.—New York Times. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. See that the fowls are provided with shade. Turkeys should be carefully watched and kept in very dry, sunny coops. Don't trust the hired man or boy to look after the chickens. They will neglect them. If you want the poultry attended to properly, do it yourself. Only a careful account will tell how maDy groceries the egg supply pur chases on the farm. Keep an aocoant for a while, and then the hens will be more appreciated. Do not let the chioks roost on small roosts while they are young. If they roost before their breasts become firm and hardened they will be sure to have crooked breast bones. It is a good sign to see so many women interested in raising poultry. They arc generally more successful than the men, because they are more careful and thorough in feeding and making the flocks comfortable. Each month brings its special work in poultry raising, samo as other crops on the farm. The work of the present month is supplementary to the coming one. Success hiuges on getting tho flock in readiness for the season to come. Experience is a great school in poultry raising, and the mistakes are guide posts to keep every ono in lino. Got all the experience yon can and avoid making the same mistake twice, and then you will be on the road to a profitable success. Tho success of many a man in the poultry business, both commercially and from a fancier's standpoint in show records, is duo to women, who get no credit. They hnvo been the power behind the throne many a time when inen havo received the honors. Nothing is more delicate than a young turkey and more ready to give up its life, so that if you attompt to raise them make up your mind to properly attend to them. The Bronze are the best,though the White Holland are considered excellent, and pretty fowls to havo about. The question of when a hen lays daily has been often discussed. Some lay in tho forenoon and others as late as 3 p. m. I think, as a rule, you will find more lay between 10 and 1 o'clook than later hours of tho day. A close observer of his flock will notico more closely tho habits of his favorite layers and in this way answer the question to his own satisfaction. Bread that is stale is cxoellent if soalded with hot water, mixing it with middlings and chopped feed, in the morning. It can be bought at any bakery, at fifty cents per barrel, and is good for young chicks as well as old fowls when not fed too much and only as a mixture with other soft feeds. Some crumble it up aud throw it on the floor; this is all right in moderate quantities. What poultry require to do well is variety of food and moder ation in kinds of grain or mesa that you give to them. A Curiosity in Canes. E. R. Waito has recently become the owner of a cane that is a gem in its way, and a veritable curiosity. It is made from the stock of a young orango tree, and tho portion of the root which forms tho handlo is carved to represent a shoe, and so perfect is it in every detail that one's first im pression is that a miniature piece of footgear ha 3 been slipped over the head of the cane. On a closer inspection, howover, it is seen that the whole thing is made from a single pieco of wood, and so carefully has every line been drawn, and the parts of tho shoe stained to represent tho real article, that tho de ception is almost perfect. The heel is worn off at a corner, a heavy patch is pegged over one side of tho sole, while two "invisible" patches decorate the sides of the shoe, where it would naturally be worn. Even the eyelets are perfect, while the tongue looks wrinkled euough to have seen service for at least six months. Tho shoe shines like a piece of patent leather, while tho inside and the soles look to havo stolen their tints from tho real material. All in all it is a very ingeniously wrought piece of work. Mr. Waito does not know by whom the oauo was made, it having passed through several bauds before it became his property. —San Bernard iuoJCal.) Sun. Auimals That Commit Suicide. Intelligent observers havo testified to facts whioh appear to show that in certain cirouiastances the snake, scorpion, and oven somo quadrupeds, commit suicide. M. Henry, a clock manufacturer of Londguyon, Franoe, has recently desoribed an experiment of the kind which he made with a wasp. The wasp was imprisoned under a glass, and, knowing that benzine as phyxiates insoots, he put some paper eoaked in it beside the captive. The wasp became unoomfortible, then an grily attacked tho paper, bnt, finding all its efforts unavailing, it finally lay down on its back, aud, folding up its abdomen, plantoit its sting thrioe into its body. M. Henry was so ourions. to contirm tho fact that, in spite of liis humane feelings, ho repeated the experiment on three wasps with the like result.—London Globe. [ HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS* 800 9HUU CLEAN BORW Powdered egg shells are recom mended for cleaning water bottle* and removing the lime that gather* on the inside. Mix the sheila with a little of the white of the egg with strong soap suds and shake thoroughly. Rinse in clear water, and if possible dry the in side with a linen oloth. Fine shot mixed with the shells and water will some times be necessary in order to reaoh every spot on the inside of the bottle. —New York Post TO HOLD SCRAPS. A scrap bag is an aotual necessity in every room, but not at all an addi tion to its furniture. Yet. one must have some plase in which to deposit spent matches, bits of paper, etc., near at hand. A large waste-paper basket may have have a yard of silk set inside the top, which is gathered up with a shoestring. Or a large rase, that is never used for flowers, and that stands too high for the inside to show, may be thus utilized.—St. Louis Star-Sayings. TO BEMOVE STAINS. To Remove Stains From Marble- Mix well together an equal quantity of lemon juioe and oil of vitriol; wet the stains with the mixture, and after a few minutes rub with a soft oloth. .Be careful not to let the vitriol come in contact with any article of your dress, or it will burn it. To Bleach Ivory—Wash in water, thoroughly rinse and dry, then rub peroxide of hydrogen over the article, and stand in the dry. To Remove Grease from Boards or Kitchen Furniture—Buy some fullers' earth; you can get a good deal for a penny; make a paste of it with cold water, spread it thickly on the grease spots. Wash off after a few hours, and repeat il any grease remains. ] Washing oiloloth with soap and soda and leaving the surface wet is ruinous to it. Another simple and useful mode is to rub the oilcloth with a rag dipped in paraffin.—Now York Dispatch. RUST ON COTTON AND LINEN. To remove iron mould or rust from auy white cotton, linen or vegetable fibre, the following process is the best, and it does not injure the fabric: The spots are stretched over an earthen pinto and moistened; salts of lemon ' are then strewed over the marks, and rubbed in with a bone or wooden spatula 'until the stain is re moved, afterward thoroughly rinsing in warm water to remove the acid. Nearly all stains and dyes will be dis charged by oxalic acid, therefore care ful usage is necessary. Salts of lemon, salts or sorrel, oxalic acid, etc., are very dangerous poisons, and should be used with duo caution. Mildew is removed by first brushing off any loose mildew; thon a little common salt should be rubbed in, afterward liberally sprinkling with powdered chalk, and thoroughly moistening with clean cold water. After this the articles should be Blowly dried in tho open air, and then rinsed; and if tho marks are not removed, the treatment should be repeated, possibly several times, bnt m the end tho mildew will be removed.—New York Telograin. RECIPES. Turkish Pilaf—Boil one cup of rice, drain, add tomatoes left from the soup, three-quarters of a can. Add salt, a pinch of cayenne, onion mincod fine—Bermuda preferred. Cook twen ty minutes. Cheese Pudding—Ono pound of grated cheese, four eggs well beaten, four tablespoonfuls of cream, four ounces of butter melted. Beat all to gether, put into a butter dish and bake fifteen minutes. Turn out and serve. Broiled Sardines on Toast—Select fine, firm sardines; arrange them in a double broiler and broil for two min utes on each side over a very brisk tire. Place on fresh toast, pour ovor a little maitre d'hotel sauce, garnish with lemon and parsloy. Lettuce Salad—One hard-boiled egg, half a cup of viuegar, salt and pepper. Chop the lettuce the last thing be fore dinner. Chop the white and yolk of egg separately. Mix tho let tuce, viuegar, salt, pepper and white of egg together and sprinkle the yolk over the top. Breakfast Rolls—Small, light Vienna rolls may be procured at the baker's. Dip them quickly in water, place them in a pau so that they do not touch ono another. Put the pan in a hot oven for a few moments and they will come out light and fresh, as though just made. , Chicken-Tomato Soup—Clean and cut up the chicken, place onto cook in a deep kettlo with a gallon of water. Stew slowly till the meat will readily separate from the bones. Take out the chicken and put away to cool. To the stock add a third of a can of tomatoes, an onion sliced tine, pepper and salt; thickeuwith a tablespoonful of cornstarch mixed with a little cold water; let it boil slowly an hour and a half. Spanish Cream—Ono quarter of a box of gelatine, one-quarter of a cup of oold water, the yolks of four eggs, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, one-half a ealtspoonful of salt, one pint of milk, the whites of three eggs, one teaspoon ful of vanilla. Soak the gelatine in cold water until soft, then dissolve it in boiling water. Make a custard with the yolks of the eggs beaten and mixed with the sugar and salt. Pour on the hot milk and oook in the dou ble boiler until it thickens. Add the strained gelatine, water, vanilla and tho whites of the eggs beaten stiff. Mix all well aud turn into molds wet in cold water. Place in ice chest. When hard serve. Tho Cocoanut Pearls. Among the curiosities of tropioal plant life are the pearls found occa sionally in the oocoanut palm of the Philippine Islands pearls which, like those of the ooean, are composed of oaronate of lime. The bamboo, too, yields another preoious product in the shape of true opals, which are found in its joints. In eaoh case this mineral matter is, of course, obtained from the soil. The natives of the Celebes nse these vegetable opals as amulets and charms against disease. New York Dispatch. nftfflMßl Another victim from tight laeing is reported from Liverpool. The Qneen of the Belgians keeps a stud of 150 thoroughbred horses. There nre 8,586,000 grown women in France, while Austria has 9,680,- 000. A lady athlete is preparing to make an attempt to swim across the English Channel. Queen Victoria's continental trip last spring only cost 952,000, as against $70,000 last year. Bine serge suits are made with box plaited bodices, the plaits edged with detachable needlework frills. Lady Wilde is said to be dying of a broken heart, and her friends say that she see will never see her son again. Senator Brice's daughters, are plan ning a tour through France mounted on bicycles and provided with kodaks. The best bicyclo shoo for women is a broad-soled, low-heoled affair having a seam along the middle of the front. A woman's column writer advises the girls to pick ont a husband by the condition of his linen and his finger nails. Rev. Anna Shaw, of Boston, is out with a declaration in favor of the ap pointment of women as Polios Com missioners. The Woman's Club as an organ of womanhood, nonpartisan, nonpoli tical, nonproscriptive in civil affairs, is a Chicago idea. W. C. Stivers, of Lancaster, Ky., is sning Miss Catherine West, a hand some school teacher, for SSOO for breach of promiso. Lady Mary Wortly Montague was large and masculine, both in appear ance and demeanor. She could not be termed a beauty. Mrs. Nancy Rider, of Albion, Mo., recently calcbrated nor ninety-fifth birthday by spining two knots of yarn and piocing some patchwork. It is estimated that of the total sum raised for tho support of the Protest ant churches of this country over one third is now procured by the efforts or labors of women. Miss Myra Reynolds and Miss W. C. France received tho degree of Ph. D. at the commencement of Chicago Uni versity. They are the first ladies to take tho dcgrcee there. Miss Mary Cary Thomas was nomi nated for one of the alumnae trus tees of Cornell University. She is the first woman to be so honored in any of tho great universities. Dr. Mary Harris Thompson, who died suddenly in Chicago a few days since, was a surgeon of remarkable ability, and was the founder of the Chicago hospital for women and chil dren. A Brooklyn woman fell out of a fourth-story window the other day. She was not much hurt, and her first .question when she rocovered her breath was whether her bonnot was on straight. Mrs. Harlan is said to be almost as large physically as her husband, the Supreme Court Justice, who is six feet two inches tall, and whentogother in public they naturally attraot a great deal of attention. Miss Nellie Temple, who graduated at Vassar in 1892, has been engaged by the University of Leipsig to assist Dr. Raize!, its American professor of history, in tho preparation of a his tory of tho United States. A memorial to the late Christin a Rossett is to be sot up in Christ Church, Woburn Square, London, which she attended for nearly twenty years. Tho form of the memorial has not been determined on. Mrs. Sarah Stephan, an aged widow, of Kingston, N. Y., has fallen heir to by tho death of her brother Michael Haven, in England. He ran away from home at the ago of sixteen, wont to Australia and amassed this im mense fortune. Girls omployed in the crepe manu facture aro under a curious contraot not to engago in auy housework after their hourß of labor. The reason is least their hands become coarso and unfitted for tho deliogte nature of their employment. Julia Ward Howa thinks the woman's club is tho distinctive feature of con temporary intellectual development. She says: "Onco it was tho oooentric woman who belonged to a club, now it is the eccontric woman who does not belong to a club." Frau Marie Harder, a Danish lady, has published a volume called "Yule Star-" In this thero is nothing won derful, but the publication becomes somewhat interesting when one hears that it is her debut, and that Fru Harder is seventy years old. Mme. Rowstowskn, of Lille, Franee, is 112 yeurs old. She served as the cantiniero of a Polish rogiment dur ing the Russiau campaign, was twelve times under fire, reoeived three wounds aud was deoorated with the silver cross. She has survived her fif teen ohildren. General Spinner, when Treasurer of the United States, was the first to nomiuato women to positions in a Government Department. He ap pointed seven women to olerkships iu 1862. It is proposed to ereet a monu ment to him with the contributions of the women clerks in the departments at Washington. On her way back from Cape Martin to Farnborough the ex-Empress Eugene, of France, stayed for a time in Paris and drove through the Tul leries Gardens. No one recognized the pale-faced lady dressing in mourn ing as she drove by the site of what was once the royal abode where she entertained nearly overy sovereign in Europe. Miss Francis Willard's example in learning to ride the bieyole bids fair 'to be imitated by many other women of mature years. The Rev. Phoebe A. 'Hanaford, of New York, who has left pier first youth some distance behind pier, is practicing with the wheel, and iMme. Hanna Korany, of Syria, has become so far infected with Occiden tal ideas that she, too, is taking bi cycle lessons. A DUeaie That la Ualaiay Groan d. One terrible form of brain dlaeaae, with mental »ymptom«, ia certainly increasing, write* Dr. O. 8. Cloaaton, of the Moringside Asylum. That malady may be described as a break down of the great oentre of mind and motion in the brain; it always goes on from bad to worse till it renders its viotim utterly helpless in mind and body, and kills him in a few years. No cure, and scaroely any mitigation of this later-day curse, has yet been devised. It is a disease of cities, of restless lives, of aotive brains in their primes; sometimes of dissipation, of life at high pressure commonly. Daring the past year the asylums of Scotland received 150 new oases; those of England 1400, and those in Ireland fifty-two. The asylum sta tistics of this country show an even greater number. In a single asylum of New York State, for example, that at Ogdens burg, there were among the 659 ad missions thirty-one cases of general paresis. This would make the pro portion of general paresis over four per cent. Among seven State asylums, to which 1942 patients were admitted in 1890, there were sixty-six oases of general paresis, or a little over three per cent. If four per cent be the general ratio for this disease in the State of New York, then the total number of paretics among the 16,000 insane would bo about 640. As a matter of fact the number is much greater, because the proportion of this diseaso is largor in the New York and Kings County Asylums than in those of the State at large. But even if there were but 4000 cases of general paresis among the 100,000 insane of this country, it would bo an extraor dinary evidence of the development of the disease which in the last cen tury was certainly not known, ovon if it did exist. Tho South Park Commissioners of Chicago have decided not to removo the row of trees along Grand boule vard to make room for a bridle path until tho growth of the other trees along the grass plot requiroa their re moval. This docision is a viotory for the citizens of tho district against equestrians. A parrot only costs ten cents in some pprts of South America. Absolutely pure Old Heads in Urcat Britain. The great age of ninety-seven at tained by Sir James Bacon reminds us that in the present century two Lord Chancellors of England, Lords Lynd hurst null Brougham, and ono Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Lord Plunkett, have been nonagenarians. Lord Lynd hurst attained his ninety-third year, and Lords Brougham and Plnnket were ninety. A Lord Chief Justico of Ireland, the late Hon. Thomas Lcfoy, who died in 1869, aged ninety-three, pro sided in the Queen's Bonch in Ireland in 18GG, when ho was over ninety years of ago. It is somewhat remark able that the late Sir Jaraos Bacon was raised to the judicial Dench in the same year (1870) as Dr. Durnford, the nonagenarian Bishop of Chichester, who was born in 1802, WBS raised to the Episcopal bonch.—Westminster Gazette. An Untortunato Similarity. Harry Hipwel), a bellboy in a St. Louis hotel, has had tronblo through the fellow that looked like hiin. The other fellow was named Powers. He is so mueh like liipwell, even to a bad tooth in his mouth, that the two were often mistaken for each other while they were both employed in the same place. Powers went to Chicago, where he took Hipwell's name, and got employment in a hotel. Pretty soon a guest was robbed, and Poweis disappeared. The smart Chicago do teotives learned that "Hipwell" was in St. Louis, and they gathered him in and took him to Chicago, where he was put to no little trouble in pioving that he was not the person wanted.— New Orleans Picayune. One Snake Kills the Other. The oft-told tale that the bite of ono snake doos not inconvenience another snake may now be] relegated where it belongs. At the aquarium in Berlin, Germany—perhaps the most wonder ful collection of live reptiles, fishes and saurians in the world—a splendid specimen of American rattle-snake was bitten last week by an Australian sis ter—or brother; I don't know which. The result was the sudden death of the rattler. —Chicago Record. f>N THE ROAD .to recovery, the young woman who is taking Doctor Pierce's Pavorite Pre scription. In maidenhood, wo manhood. wife hood ana moth erhood the " Pre scription " is a supporting tonic ana nervine that's peculiarly adapted to her needs, regulat ing, and strength / ufj enlng the systeni 112 I and curing the derangements of the sex. Why is it so many women owe their beauty to Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription? Because beauty of form and nee radiate from the common center —health. The best bodily condition results from good food, fresh air and exercise coupled with the judicious use of the "Prescription." It reaches the origin of the trouble and corrects it "I Fair Fact lay Pma a Fanl Bargain." Barry a Plata tlrl H Ska Uaaa SAPOLIO Throat Paralysis. (#Vom the Courier- Her all, Saginaw, Mich.) It watt publioly talked nil over Clara County, Michigan, tor some time iiefore tho Courier-Herald sent a repoiter to Dover te fully investigate tho Coulter matter. Ho Anally went, an