Over 400,000 bicyelee are in im in France. Each machine is taxed $2.25 an anally. The Wont at It. If the host ot life, as it ic said to be, is bat antioipntioD, the worst of it fa surely worry nnJ vexation. They are the plows and har rows that furrow the brow and out deeply into the nerves. It is constant plowing of (his kind that tears up the nerve tissues. The greater nerves, like the bigger roots, may resist for a time, but the ploughshare gets i!o*n to them. Worry brings all sorts of other ailments of a torn-up system and at last the viatic nerve is reacted, a disturb ance to which in the form of sciatica is at tended by excruciating pains. Ht. Jacobs Oil has cure,! the worst cases of men crip pled by it. Use it and makesureof a prompt and permanent cure. It is stated that butter contains forty times as many microbes as oleomargarine. Wtwn DotWns' Electric Soap wms first muls in I*s it cost 20 eenti a bar. It Is precisely tLe sua*, Lajrredteats noil quality now and does n't eft ka'f. Bay It of your Kroccr and rreser\d roar cloEbes. It lie iiasn'c it.he trill get it. India has now become, next to China, tho largest tea growing country. Dr. Kilmer's Swa:ip-Koot euros all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Jllnshamton. N. Y. Ltadworking is the most disastrous of all tiades to health. Tttßo.vr Titorci.Es. To allay the irritation that flidtices coushing, use "Brturn's BronehUtl Tmia; n A simple and safe remedy. In Boston venison is retailing at twenty live to forty cents a pound. A Pennsylvania Farmer. M. 31. Luther, East Troy, Pa., grew last season over 200 bushels of Salzor's Silver Slino Oats from oae raeaiurod acre! How U that for old Pennsylvania? Over 30,030 farm ers are going to try and beat this in 1893 and win £2OO in gold! Then think of 11G bus. barley from one acre an 11200 L»ig full bushels of potatoes and 239 bushels of Golden Tri umph Corn! What is teosinte, and sand vetch and spurry and 50 other rare things? Well, Salzer's cstalogue will tell you. Largest growers ol clovers, grasses and farm seeds in America. Freights cheap to Pennsylvania and the east. Ir rou will err this out and sixd It with XOv- postage to the Johu A. Salzor Seel Co., La CrossWis., you will receive their mammoth catalogue and ton packages grain und grasses, including above oats, free. (A.) Walteu Bakek Jc Co.. Limited, Don cmsTEK. JlAf-s., the well-known manufact urers of ltrrakfast Cocoa ami other Cocoa and Chocolate preparations, have an extraordin ary collection ot medals and diplomas award ed at the great international and other ex hibitions In Eurup* and America. The house has had uninterrupted prosperity for nearly a century and a quarter, and is now not only tho oldest I'Ut the largest establishment of the kind on this continent. The hlttli degree of i-erfection which the Company has attained in its manufactured products Is the result of lons experience combined with an Intelligent use of the new forces which aro constantly being intrmluced to increase tho power and improve the quality of production, and cheapen the cost to the consumer. Tiie full strength and tho oxquislte natural flavor of tho raw material are preserved unim paired in all of Walteu Bakek & Company's preparations so that their products may truly 1 be said to form the standard lor purity and | excellence. In view of the many imitations of tho name, labels and wrappers on their woods consumers should ask for and be sure that they get tho genuine articles made at Dorcuestku, Mass. State op Onio, Crrr or Toledo, 1 LccasCountt. ( * Frank J. Cheney makes oath that ha Is the senior partner of the Arm of F. J. Ciikney A Co., doing business In the City of Toledo, County and Statoaforesaid,and that said Arm will pay tho sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS tor each aud every case of Oatorrli that cimot be cured by tlia use of Hall's Catakkh CTBB. l-'KANK J. CnhNEY. worn to before mo and subscribed In my presence, thii Oih day of December, A. D. ISSO. , —>—, A. W. Uleason, i SEAL J « —v—' Notaru Publfe. Hall's Catarrh Cure istr.'ien internally aud acts directly on the blood and raucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. | F. J. Cheney <Sc Co., Toledo. O. . jy-Soid by Druggists, "So. TITS 'topped free by Dh. Kline's Grpat ! Nerve Restoher. No tits after first day's use. i Marvelous cure-. Treatise and £2.1*1 trial i ot tle free. Dr. Kline. KM Arch St.. Phila., Pa. After six years' suffering I was cured bv Pl an's Cure.— Many Thomsos. 29,v- Ohio Ave., Allegheny. Pa., March 19,1894. Pure Blood means sound health. With pure, rich, j liealtliy blood, tl.o stomach and dice-tiro ' organs will be vigorous, and there will be no | dyspepsia. Rheumatism and neuralgia will bo j unknown. Scrofula and salt rheum will dis- i appear. Your nerves will be strong, your sleep sound, sweet and refreshing. Hood's Sarsapa rilla makes pure blood. Th it Is why It cures so many diseases. That Is why thousands take it to cure disease, retain good health. Remember Sarsapariiia Is* the On Trm Blood Purifier. All druggist'. Si. U a #*#<*/> euro Liver Ills; easy to tli# Oil rj I iUS tulte.etsy to operate. #>c. N Y N 1-7 ASK YOUR DEALER FOR W. L. Douglas ®3. SHOE "Wo^dT" M you ray to Stf for shoes, ex- £» ,7 amine the \V. L. Douglas Shoe, and 9 see what a good shoe you can buy for ■ OVER 100 STYLES AND WIDTHS, >—X CONGRESS, BUTTON, \ ami LACE, made In all gf \ klnda o( the belt selected leal her by tkUUil work- OL \ j men. We * > and jm -J" V sell mora $3 Shoe® jHI jSi_ — • thHn dnj&M* ' jt-' other IU Hn U facta re r In the world. None tannine unless name and price is sta&iped on the bottom. S3. no. Si aud 91.7 A for boys. fJ&S » TAME HO SUBSTITUTE. If your dealer / Jf pbly ) u, sen I to Cat toiy, encluting price and y> cents to pay carriage, State kind, style I too (cap or plain), sue and I jU width. Our Custom Dept. will till you order. Send for n\v lilus tiated Catalogue to liox It. W, L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, HflMi. "t».* ••MWKNK" It* tho ami Most EconuuJ. r%l t'all«r« «nd Cutf* worn, they »r« ot«d« or i loth, I lh niiTan DitlHl.**! ulikf, iinl \ r«*\er»e tfir, tin tMil»r t» «V|H«I tu two u! »»ijr ottu-r km I lif v !•<//, u-eur u*ll an i h-oK usll. A U»* ol Trii «'ull«faor k'»>« l'»»r» wf t'ufl* fwr T Wtnl) >U o Ctntrt A >auit>U P.-lUr mi'l Pur of Tuffs hy mad tat Hit CtfUU. N«ittu Mtylo «i«a Ail lit b» IXVKR4IBLK COLLAR COMt'ANlf, 71 FrAitkiia Nl , N« w V #rk Kilby Ht , neNBiONU , iUA: I ,;r , iJ , r: CHESTNUT CULTURE. Chestnut cnltnro is receiving in creased attention. The possibilities of grafting improved varieties ofjohest nnt on seedling natives should bo em phasized. It is better to gralt the straight seedling chestnut than asprout from an old stump. The trees grow faster and better, and a larger pro portion of the grafts tlirivo. This may be dono when the buds aro swelling, whilo some prefer waiting until tho leaves aro out. —American Agricultur ist. USE POTASH IN TIIE FALL, It is important in manuring or chards., that tho potash fertilizers ap plied be mixed with tho soil and go down doeply enough to reach the roots. There is no danger that potash thus applied ia fall will bo wasted by leach ing. Fruit tree roots go down as deep ly as most nnderdrains as any one who has Jug undordrains in orchard 3 must know. Tho feeding roots somctimo in the course of tho fertilizer downward will seizo it and turn it to use. Potash is in especial demand for bearing trees, though it also has an excellent effect in promoting a strong and healthy growth of foilage. on whioh prolificacy largely depends.—Boston Cultivator. A BAD WEED. The burdock is a bad weed, from the multiplicity of its seeds and the readiness with which they are dis tributed by the wind and by passing animals or persons. Cutting the bur dock down when it is beginning to form blossoms will usually kill it, as at this stage of growth the root has but little vigor left. But when these large bur docks are piled for burning there should be plenty of dry wood in the heap, so as to make a hot fire. If the weeds aro burned alone somo of the seed will fall down to the bottom of the burning pile and escapo de struction. In a slow firo made from green weeds there is a stratum of car bonic acid gas at tho bottom of the heap in which nothing will burn.— American Farmer. SHOULD COWS BE CAHDED. Most certainly cows should be kept clean, and they cannot be without being frequently carded and brushed. One who Iries it tho first time will not need to think about the matter. The way tho cows will turn their heads and necks aud stop eating to enjoy the scratching of the skin and tho final brushing will tell an intelligible story of how they like it. As the skin is an excretory organ and throws off a large quautity of waste matter, aa may bo known bj r the odor of a closo stablo, if it is not kept in healthful action by this carding and brushing, this matter is retained in tho blood aud cannot help but get into the milk, whero it makos that strong oilor which has been called tho animal odor. It is, how ever, only tho odor of a dirty skiu, as is so well known to apply to human beings who are not cleanly in this di rection. Cows should be well carded and brushed beforo every milking. The udder and tents should not be neglected eithor, as theso may badly need washing at times.—New York Times. A CRUEL PRACTICE. No more cruel thing is thoughtlessly done, day after day, winter after win ter, than the putting of a frosty bit into a horse's mouth. At leust I try to think that only tho thoughtless could be guilty of sucli an inhuman practice. Yet what child does not learn at an enrly ago tho penalty of contact botween tender flesh and cold iron on a biting winter's day? It is possible that any man whoso baby fingers have clung to frozen iron until perhaps the skin was torn from them, can so-far forget tho sting as to forco the samo biting iron into tho moist, tender mouth of a brute, as sensitivo to suffering as ho himself? "Can't take time to warm bits "only hurts a minute "thoy don't mind it"do hold them against the horse's body Eometimes," aro some of the excuses and makeshifts wo hear, but they are poor ones at the best. Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well, and it really takes no extra tiino to thor oughly warm the horses' bits. If tho tenin is to be hornessed early in the morning, it iuu.st bo fed before breakfast, aud the bridles can be brought to tho kitchen fire to grow warm and comfortable for the horses while tho master is ministering to his own comfort. Thoughtlessness causes tho same suffering as heartless cruelty.—Now England Homestead. TREES ON TUB FARM. Do not allow tho fnrm to remain a waste of bare laud. Plant trees every year, few or many at a time; but plant eornu at all events, and make up yonr mind togo right into tho business in the spriug. Trees add to tho value, appep.vanco and liomelikeness of any farm. (Jive them only the caro the farmer expects to expend upon corn and potatoes, and they will do well. Strange it is that au otherwise good farmer who will tend his corn crop assiduously will set out a tree only to utterly neglect aud forsako there after. Tho tree to do woll must be fod aud cultivated like any other farm crop. Theu it will respond freely and generously both by growth atd by fruit. I'he pltiut aud pear, well grown, pay well. Sot them out in rioh toil at intervals of twonty feet iti eitlier direction. Never let thi'tu got hungry. Stir tho soil con stantly through th« summer, and yon will uover regret the >luy you under took fruit culture. Some of tho best aud moat profitable uiarkot pears aro Anjou, ltose, Sheldon, aud Jjawrcuce. For deiirublu plums plant Abundance, 11 irtxink, Heine Claude, Lombard and Merman l'rune, Fruit trios will ktaud lutn of stabl* manure, especially while they nre utakiug their gruwtb, but aftrr iruitlng bat Utguu tkijr Mid pvtMfc ««4 pbe«pktrU mU in far greater quantities than nitrogen. Henee the wisdom and utility of em* ploying unleached wood ashes and finely ground bone for their fertiliza tion. Mix them in proportion of one ton of ashes to live hundred weight of bone, scatter a liberal quantity broad cast over the entire area of ground covered by the tree roots, and expect good orops of fruit. Never allow any fruit tree to bear too heavily. When overloaded, thin out some of the surplus fruit. The remainder will grow enough larger to more than mako up the difference, while speci mens of fruit will bo far finer.—Colo man's Rural World. ASPARAGUS CULTURE IN A NUTSHELL. There are many who aro very fond of asparagus, but will not grow it be cause of the time which expires before the plants will furnish a crop. "Where land is plentiful—and on most farms there are many acres that yearly goto waste—this should not be, for in planting a small bed and taking oaro of it there would not be more than one or two whole days in a year spent upon it, and at tho er>d ot the third year the planter would be richly reworded for his labor. First of all have your land in good shape, and don't be afraid of tho ma nure or fertilizer. Purchase your seed from some good house, as the seed is tho foundation upon which your future bed will rest. Sow it thinly in rows one foot apart during the months of April or May, according to the weather, and keep down all weeds. To procure good strong healthy plants thin out tho seedlings to three or four finches in the rows, saving only the strong ones. One year can bo gained upon this system by buying from you seedsman year-old plants, which should bo set out in spring in a rich sand loam, which bas been plowed at least eight een inches deep and has bad a liberal amount of well rotted manure worked into it. If your soil is of stiff clay, add plenty of sand to it and also some sifted coal ashes, which will serve to loosen it up. You should also make somo preparation for under-drainage. Every fnll a good dressing! of coarso manure should be applied after tho tops liavo been out, und in tho spring this should bo forked in. In cutting tho crops never cut tho roots too closely, as they need tho ben efit of at least a little foliage, or olse they will weaken and dio during tho cold season.—New York Witness, FARM AND GARDEN NOTE 3. Feed regularly. Weed out tho culls. Season all soft food with a pinoh of salt. Feed ground bone and crushed oys ter shells. Givo your sheop a sunny southern exposure protected from tho north and northwest winds. If you put down a good supply of cabbage and other greon stuff, as wo advised you in the fall, yonr fowls ore getting tho benefit, and returning it to you in eggs. If your roosting place is inclinod to bo leaky, this cold weather has cov ered tho interior of tho plaoo with whito frost, which is not tho most comfortable wall paper for hen house. Tho man who got a nice lot of pullets last spring is gathering oggs now. They lay more readily in cold weather than the old hens. Thoy take a rest from laying oftencr than old hens, but do not rest so long. Who can find a winter sitter ! Her price is above roubles. Shcconsidereth a nest and layeth iu it; she ariseth early and gathereth tho grub, and when she has finished her laying she sitteth on tho eggs, and hntcheth a brood. And the breeders of exhibition fowls rieo up and bless her. Three meals a duy ia winter are too many for your fowls. Two is a plenty, if they are of tho right sort. A good warm mash at night, for them togo to roost on these cold nights, is a very good thing, and that gives them the grain in the morning, when thoy have all day beforo them in whioh to scratch about for it among tho litter. Tho run of tho market shows that tho big beeves aro not iu as active de mand as heretofore. Twelve hundred pounders brought as good prices per 100 pounds as the over-fat sixteen aud eighteen hundred pounders. This in dicates that consumers are no longer willing to pay five cents per pound ex tra for fancy over choice outs. Charcoal is one of the most essen tial articles of food to successful poul try farming. The best way to secure this is to place an ear of corn in tho fire until it is entirely charred and tben shell ofT to your fowls, You seo an eagerness developed and a healthy condition brought about. All pale combs will become bright red, and tho busy song which precedes laying will be hoard and the average yield of eggs greatly increased. It is possiblo to get three littors ol pigs from s sow in ono veor, but this is a littlo too hoggish. Some say it is best to keep a sow breeding all the time, as it will ohcck tho tendency to take on fat. It is our opinion that fat —a reasonable amount of it —is not poison, evon to a sow, aud does not call for heroio doses of anti-fat. Tho sow will bo better pleased in tho end with two families a year, aud what pleases the sow ought to pleaso tho owuer. Tiio mau should not be a hog. Tlio questiou of soiling eggs by weight is still being agitated,and thero aro many retisous lor favoring it, though the advantages would not be so great as many suppose. A small I egg like tho Leghorn'*, for instance, j has u thin shell, flue aud smooth, | while tho large oggs liks the Mocks, ! Cochins au<t iiraiuthi h«vo a thick ! coarse shell. If sold by weight the ' purchaser would pay extra price for i egg shells, but would he get any mure | weight of actual egg, that he eould «m) V«jf little if an/, VENEZUELA'S FAIR WOMEN THB ASTONISHINO SUDDKKITKSB WITH WHICH THEY AGE. Blooming Beauties Kilnblo to lie Transformed Into Wrinkled, Yel low Crones Within a Year, "fly O tbe American freshly landH I / in Venezuela women w. t I seem scarce. But they are "2|" not really so. Their pro portion iu tbo population is probably less thau New England boasts, but large enough. Tbe customs of the country are against the stranger's reaily realization of the fact. That is all tbe trouble. Nowhere there, even in Caracas, is there such a constant public beauty show as is to be seen Qn the fashionable thoroughfares of all American cities. Yet there is no lack of pretty women. When tbo student has learned tbo conventioi places and times for prosecuting liis obser vations be will liave no reason to la ment a scarcity of bubjeots. Primarily there are the churches. All Venezuelan women goto church, not on Sundays only, but upon any day of tbo week. Indeed, some of them go every day, but they are de votees, generally past middle age. Their clioeen time for church-going is early iu tho morning-, but that is tho loveliest part of tbo tropical day. One is impelled to wonder at first, what has become of all the middle aged Venezuelan women. A certain proportion in every gathering will seem to bo young, some of them beau tiful, and alt the others will appear to bo old. Can it bo that those in the intermediate stages seclude them selves? Not at all. But they age with astonishing Ruddenness. Tho blooming beauty of this year is liable to bo transformed into a crone, wrink led, yellow and bent, next year. They ripen and decay with rapiijjty. And at au ago when the women of Northern climes are at their best development these have lived their active lives as wives and mothers, and are either skinny and bony, or fat and flabby old women. It does not follow that they die soon. They seem simply to pass into a sort of grandmotherly condi tion and remain there a long time. One charm seems to be the common possession of Venezuelan women beautiful eyes. Intelligent Venezuelans say that there are few of tho present genera tion in whom at least two distinct strains are not blended, and in most three or four are commingled. There is, however, much uniformity of color among ladies in good society, as one sees them iu full street dress, either on the promenade or at special church services. They aro all coldly white, not the clerr light complexion that at least makes pretence of being natural, but such a dead and solid whito as ono sees elsewhero only on a new wall, or the face of u clown iu a pantomime. Thero is no false pretence about that sort of face. It 'proolaims itself starched with perfect honesty. Wo men do not whitewash themselves in such a stylo to hide defects, but sim ply because it is fashionable. Many of theui know they would bo much prettier without it, yet would as soon think of dispensing with gown or shoes when going abrood or dressing to receive company. Ono good thing is that they do Eot apply any injuri ous nostrum with a lend bfiso to pro dueo the desired effect, or swallow ar senic to clarify their complexions, but just daub on a thick paste of clean American cornstarch and lot it go at that. Their common headdress is tho man tilla of black silk lace. Drawn snugly around tho shapely head, with its deli cate scallops curls dropping over the brow, flying loose at the sides of the face, and perhaps just reveal ing a little of tho dainty ears, it is certainly tho most bewitching head dress invented for women, infinitely moro charming than any jumble of feathers, artificial flowers and lace ever devised by a French milliner. Thero is little promenading merely for tbo pleasure of going abroad to see and bo seen, except in the capital. No laiiy ever promenades unaccom panied with a gentleman not her hus band. Generally the promenadcrs are in trios—one lady nnd two gentlemen, or two ladies and one gentleman—or in larger groups. Iu the first named combination of three, ono of the gen tlemen seems interested, whilo the other is evidently bored. Of the sec ond trio, ono lady is qnite certain to be elderly, nnd sho walks in tho mid dlo. It is all simple when understood. Social custom forbids a girl or woman to hold conversation, at home or abroad, even on the open street or in a thronged (prblio pleasure ground, with a gentleman who is not a rela tive, unless in tho close presence of somo relative or a chaperon of ample ago and presumable discretion. A slight modification of this rule is ad missible—rather in practice than in principle—when the question is of en tertaining a declared suitor. A girl may sit iu her dark parlor, at the heavily barred window, and listen to love's whispers from a young man who stands in the street and whose nose barely comes up to tho window sill. Even then a guardian relative is sup posed to sit with her and superviso the proceedings, but, in proctice, the watcher is generally sympathetic, and if uot actually indulgent enough to withdraw, during at least part of the tender interview, is likely to afleot •Uep. Tho rattle, made of a calabash con tinuing beans, is one of tho queer crude instruments to which tho Venezuelan woman dances, if a woman of tho people. Another is n loug eowhom, with gashes sawn close together iu it, over which the baok of a knife is scraped. A third is a slen der bar of steel, whicb, suspended by u string, given out a musical note when struck. With these go guitars ad libitum. And it is surprising what an effective combination they make for dnuee music, iu which the marking of time is more essential thou melody or harmony, Tho accordion is rather popular among the peon, or laborer, clasr, and with it the calabash and the cowhoru lire Messed mitigations, pro portionately to the vigor with which they are operated. VtnfiiiiUn women do uot generally »iug much or well, uud it seems a lit tle Hrango that this should be so, for uiest of them hnve sweet speaking volet". And • trsst mauy of tb« men da stun wtlli Kfw Verb HOUSBHOLD AFFAIRS, RECIPE FOR HOREHOCND CANDY. A tested recipe for horehound can dies consists of pound of dried hore hound leaves boiled in one quart of water, oooled, and then boiled again to r five minntes. After that strain off the liquid through a cloth; put it back on the fire, and let it simmer nntil the quantity is reduced to four or Ave ounoes. Add an ounoe of gum arabic, and when dissolved enough fine sugar to make a dough or paste, as for lozenges. Roll oat, and out in small pieoes with a perfectly clean thimble or a little outter such as is used by]confectioners. —New York Post. BAKED RIOK. Thoroughly wash a cup of rice. Strain a cupful of rich brotb, and add to it twice as much boiling water, put it on the range and cook slowly until it has absorbed all the;water, and mis two raw eggs in a large cup *of hot milk, two tablespoonfuls of grated cheese, and a tablespoonful of butter, and pour to tho rice; stir well to gether, add a cupful of minced meat and bam, mix it all well, add salt suf ficient to seasoirtt, and then turn in to a butterod mould, cover and set the dish into a drippiug-pau of boiling water, and bake half an hour. When done, dip the mould in cold water, and turn upside down on a flat dish, and it will slip out of tho mould easily. NORMAN SOUP. This is one of tho best white soups that can be made, having also the merit of being economical. Put a knuckle of veal into four quarts of cold water with a quart of small but ton onions, and boil gently for two hours. Then cut up into it half a loaf of bread and cook for an hour and a half longer. Then take out the meat, scrape it all from tho bone and cut it fine, and press tho brotb, bread and onions through a sieve. Then rub to gether a tablespoonful of butter or oleomargarine, with two tablespoon fuls of flour until quite smooth, and stir this into a quart of milk placed on tho stove and brought to tho boiling point, but not allowed to boil. When the flour has been cooked in this, add it to the soup, put back tho pieoes of meat, add salt and pepper to taste and serve. Force-meat balls are very nice with thi3 soup.—New York World. CLEANING FURNITURE. One reason why people fail in clean ing furniture coverings is that they aro too economical in tho use of naphtha. It must bo literally poured onto be effective. Standing in tbe breeze it will evaporate very quickly, and will destroy every vestige of moths. If the articles are to be left iu the house they may be wrapped in sheets, tightly pinned around them. This keeps a certain amount of tho odor in the furniture for a long time, and renders it doubly safe. It cannot bo too strongly empha sized that no light of any kind must be taken into tbe rooms while tho naphtha-cleaned articles, recently cleaned, aro there. Tho inflammable nature of naphtha vapor makes it ex ceedingly dangerous when brought near a flame. Cushions, carpets and wool draperies may safely be cleaned in this way, and all that is necessary is to throw all draperies over a line in tho yard,open the windows, remove tho wrappings from tho furniture, and let the breozo have full sweep through the rooms for a day or two. Then there will be no offensive smell, and tho furniture may bo used with perfect safety so far as danger from tire is conoerned.— Carpet and Upholstery Trade Review, HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Use milk puddings and stowed fruit for bilious dyspepsia. After washing never wring worsted dress goods. Shake them. In cleaning japanned goods never use hot water. Wet a cloth slightly in warm water and rub the article to be cleaned. Should any smear appear, sprinkle with flour and wipo dry. * In making black laee dresses, when transparent sleeves are desired, if the sleeves are Hist lined with very fine white net, the arms will look much whiter. The lining does not show when the sleeves are worn. In roa ting, the time allowed in cook books, usually a quarter of an hour to a pound, must be reokoned from the moment the meat begins to cook, and not from the timo it is put into the oven, and even with this pre caution a little extra time should be allowed unless the meat is required underdone. Do not use jelly glasses with tin covers, for the jelly will bo almost sure to spoil, although occasionally some one uses them with success. Tho old-fashioned way of placing a piece of tissue paper over the jelly, cut tho sizo of the receptacle, then sealing with letter or wrapping paper, will prevent spoiling. When a bed is obliged to faco a win dow, as is sometimes necessary, a decoration and a relief in one is se cured by a valance above instead of bolow the footboard. Two small brass uprights are fastened in it, with a rod adjoining them, on which is hung a curtain of some light silk or stuff iu harmony with the general tone of the room. William Watson did not get the poet-laureateship, but be has revenged himself by writing a poem on the Ar menian massacres, beginning "Never, O craven England, never more prate thou of generous efforts, righteous kirn." FLORIDA FACTS. February anil March are two of the best months to visit Florida. The climate Is fine And the social features at their height of Interest. When you h»ve made up your mind togo, you naturally want to get there aa soon as possible and In the most comfortable man ner.lf TOU live In New York. Boston or HufTalo, you ran take one of the Magnificent Trains of the "Big four Route" from any one of these cities to Cincinnati, and with only one change of can continue your Journey to Jacksonville. Direct connection made In Cen tral Union Station. Cincinnati, with through trains of til lines to Florida. Address E« O. McCormick, I'assenger Traffic Manager, or D. B. Martin, General I'asoenger and Ticket Agent Big Four Houte. Cincinnati, Ohio. A (Jooil Dog la Worth Looking After. If you own a dog and think any thing of kiro, TOU should U* aide to treat hln» intelligently when 111 aucl understand hiui sufficiently to detect *ymptom* of Ulne»s. The dop doctor book written by H. Clay Glover, D. 8., so cialist in canine dUeaaee to the principal ken nel club*. wIU furnish thU information. It Is stealiwfe A WOMAN' 3 DESPAIR. COULD SKE NOTHING ARR ID BUT A A LIFE OF PAIN. She Telli a Renort.r How 8h« Suffered— Bow Sbe WAS Cured—Anil Row Hor Life H»» Been llrlghtenetl by the Sunshine of Health. From the Drych, Utfca, N. Y. Mrs. E. McLaughlin, who r091d03 at 83 Miller Street, Utloa, N. Y. t bat formerly lived at 110 Seymour Avenue, iu the same city, id a lady nearly seventy years old. Sho was born at Marcy, Oneida County, N. Y., and has resided in Onolda County all her lite and Is well-known iliero. It was reportedin Ctiaa that Mrs. McLaughlin had been won derfully cured of a severe attack of rheuma tism, as well as Indigestion, by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palo People, a reporter of Drych was seut to interview her on tho subject and get the true facts. Mrs. McLaughlin said she had beun afflict ed with rheumatism for about twenty years, and was at times unable to rlso from her chair. Her suffering was Intense, and sho was sometimes driven nearly wild with tho agonizing pain. Of late sho had also been troubled with indigestion nnd her health had become greatly undermined. Bhe was almost discouraged, being unable to get relief either from the doctors or through the numerous remeiies which she trie,l. Mrs. McLaughlin had often read of the cures effected by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palo People, but, af ter her many failures to obtain relief through other remedies sho hail but little confidence that anything would help her. She continued to grow worse from day today aud had given tip all hope of over boing restored to health. Ono day Mrs. McLaughlin spoke of Pink Pills to a friend who was calling upon her. It happened that this friend had had soma experience with Pink Pills nnd know tholr value. Sho urgently advised Mrs. McLaugh lin to give them n trial, which she consented to do. She procured ono box aud before its contents had been entirely used sho noticed quite an improvement In hor health. Sho watted some time boforo getting uuother. After awhile she decided to keep on with them, and when she had taken tlireo boxes was completely cured. Sho is no longer troubled with iudigestlon, nnd when seen by the representative of Drych was walking around as briskly as anyone of hor ngo could bo expected to do. Subscribed aud sworn to beforo mo this 4th day of July, 1895. O. H. IIUMPiinEY, Notary Public, Onolda County, N. Y. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, in a con densod form, all tho elements necessary to give new llfo and richness to tho blood aud restoro shattered nerves. Tho are an un failing specific for such diseases ns locomo tor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headaoho, tho after effect of la grippe, pal pitation of the heart, pale and sallow com plexion, all forms of weakness oltheriumalo or female, and nil diseases resulting from vitiated humors in tho blood, l'iuk Pills are sold by all dealers, or will bo sent post paid on receipt of price, (50 cents a box, or six boxos for £2.50) by addressing Dr. Will iams' Modicluo Company, Schenectady, N. Y. President ICruger, of tho Tiausvaal Itepub lic, has two cousins who live In ICausas. High t'rleo for Potatoes. Tho John A. SalzorSood Co., La Crosse, Wis., pay high prices for now things. They recently paid S3OO for a yellow rind water melon, SIOOO for 30 bu. new oats, S3OO for 100 lbs. of potatoes, etc., otc.! Well, prices for potatoes will bo high noxt fall. Plaut a plenty Mr. Wideawake! You'll make money. SaUer's Earliest an; lit to oat in 2S days after planting. His Champion of tbo World is the greatest yiolder on earth and wo challenge you to produce its equal. (A.) IF YOB WII.L SEND US 10C. in stamps to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., you will get, free, ton packages graius and grasses, including Toosinte, Spurry, Giant Incarnnto Clover, etc., and our mammoth cataloguo. Catalogue alone sc. for mailing. Mrs. Wlnslow's SooAliing S.vrup for children teething, softens the itums, reduces inllummu tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. Sic.a bottle DON'T Neglect a COUKII. Take some Halo's Honey of Horehound and Tar Plko's Toothache Drops Cure In ono minute. CH ANCE OF A LIFETIME SX^ papers?nt to your nddrrs* free. Do you \y«nt thr New York Mercury—bright, breezy and brl*tllnn— pent to you or your h.-lrs or assigns—forever 112 You cnu obtain the New York Dally ami Sunday Mercury free. For full particulars udclrr«s thy Snpt. .»f Circu lation, New York Mercury. .1 Pnrk Hon . New Y.irk. *ri ! Uy ,n 'j wo ehow you how to the busings fully, rentvni! cr wo ffour \7WTlr auteo a clear proiit ot s.l for errrv cuy'j work; absolutely sure; wrtlr »t «mte. P. T. ■OBUAS. ■»« > gcr. H->« LK. pfcTttUlT. —* Work flies 2yS J§ right along , CO- t/ S when you take Pearline 4/ to it. So does the / dirt. Every scrub / king brush seems 112 t° have wings. ( ou S et through your cleaning in half WW*' the time you used to, and without any commotion or fuss. Pearline saves rubbing. That means a good deal besides easy work, even in house-cleaning. Paint and wood-work and oil-cloth, etc., are worn out by rubbing. Pearline cleans, with the least labor, and without the least harm, anything in the world that water doesn't hurt. Qptirl Peddler;, and some unscrupulous grocers will tell you 11 this is as good as ,112 OCUU or "the same as Pearline." IT'S FALSK—Pearline is never peddled, • - * M and if your urocer sends you something in plate of Pearline, he *t Back honest-WV/ b:\tk. JAMES PVLK, New York. SALZER'S VEGETABLE SEEDS AM AT the bait for all coil* au«l whether Eait or W«jt, Sprout Quickly, Grow Vigorously, Product Enormous!)! |g§fsßM^L^ That is their record tho world ore •. Being Northern-grown, thoy are bre 1 to earliaeee. There la lore of mnaiv mavj la early vegetable.*, aud we are going to make a bnid etatemeut here that the sari tee i, ohoiecet vegetables in the world ara produced from Halrer'r Feeds. Our Catalogue tells *ou way, »o if you una tnmakc in»n«T-t -at i> bare vegetal'*! :'•» tlie market lo to ft) days ahead of your neighbor* --plat-1 8a nr'l B*»uv dead 4c. for market gar doners' wholesale lilt £9* hichtaing Cabbage u tho earliest Cabbage norelty •112 the worid.flt for market in 60 dars! Pkg . 14c ;ox . fioe ; *4 lb , |2UO. W* make a apecialiy of ch tice pedigree Onion Seed: 9<fr p.*r pound' Salter's Earliest Cucumber oanautoe beat. Pkg . 100 ;o; . 20c.; lb., ft. s. W ■ Our mammoth Plant a*4 Seed Catalogs, eostaining a mtgniftetc t array of M the elioicsat vegetables, with prices dirt ch«ap, is mailed to you upon rreslnt of Lo. #• postage, or Cstalogos aad Package «112 r.xrlf Bird Kadisb aron receipt of be. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO.. La Cfotso. Wis. " Well Bred, Soon Wed." Girls Who Use SAPOLIO Are Quickly Married. nON'T YQU OFTEnj expression* H ■ I*i ■ ■ rcfi faces tbo news papers aud books which you don't fully understand, and which you would like to look up If you had some re to part look which would tfivo tho In formation In a few line*?—not bo obliged lo tinndtn a twi nty-pound cncyclopro Hi costing i23 or J3O. jm •» stamps rent to BOOK PUB LISNINC MOUBE, 134 Leon- O t,rd Streot. H. Y. City, will furnish yju, postpaid, with just «uch n book, couinininff 520 p»K«*. " c 'l Illustrate!, with complete handy Index. U J you know wiio Cicc»u* wn«. and whero he lived? Who luiit the Pyramids, :ind when? Th.it souud travels 11*3 f«*ot per feoond? What is the longeM river in tho world? Tluit M ireo l'olo Invvate I the compact In 12G0, aud who Jlnico Polo was? What the Qordlan lint was? The book contains thousands 0/f f\ of cip'.au.itiens ol Just such mature «s you wonder gm &I| w« dtout. Ouy 41 m th» v*> y In iv jirfre •/ II WW h»!f • Seller AMS lAirHvi* XOVMfMt,* W W Gladness Comes With a better understanding ot tho transient nature of the many phys ical ills which vanish before proper ef forts—gee,tie efforts—pleasant efforts— rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge that so many forms of sickness are not due to apy actual dis ease, but simply to a constipated cpndi tion of the system, which the pleasant family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt ly removes. That is why it is the onl'* remedy with millions of inmilies, ant' everywhere esteemed so highly by who value good health. Its bene' effects are due to the fact, that it one remedy which promotes h. cleanliness, without debilitatir organs on which it acts. It is th. all important, in order to get it ileial effects, to note when v chase, that yon have the geuuin which is manufactured by the r Pig Syrup Co. only, and sol utable druggists. If in the enjoyment < and the system is re' tives or other remedi If afflicted with any ; may be commended tc , physicians, but if in r then one should have t the well-informed ever Figs stands highest and it used and gives most genera s Y x c—7 The Homo Bureau for Delicacies for' tboSlck, and Nurses' Registry, at 15 West Forty-second St., N. Y., under date or Oct. 20, 1894, writes: "Plcaso send ono dozen boxes Kipnns Tabules to tho Nurses' Club, 101 West Forty-first street, lteports of tho Tabules for troubles resulting from disordered digestion como very frequently to our attention hero. This Bureau docs not dispense medicines, but has opportunity io hear frequent discussions concerning the merits of remedies. It seems io be couccdod that tho Tabules nro a reliable auxiliary to tho physician. Some of our patrons uso them to a considerable extent, and physicians assure us that tho formula Is excellent." lupous Tahntrs nre FOM by drujrglste, or by moll fl ti e price On cents a liox) Is sent to Tho U'raos Chemical Compon.v, No. lu Spruco St., New \orlc. Sample vial, lu cent*. - THE AKRMOTOR CO. «»«« windmill business, because it has reduced wacca.. wind power to 1 .'O what It w;vs. a It h»3 many oranco m bousws, and supplies Its goods and repaira at four door. It can and does lurnlsh a _ better article for less money than others. It makes Pumping and cleared, Steel, Galvanized arter» completion Windmills, I'llUnff and e( l Steel Towers. Steel Bom Saw Frames, Steel Feed Cutters and feed Grinders. On application it will name ona 111 of these articles that if will furnish until January Ist at 1/3 tho usual price. It also make* Tanks aud Pumps of all kinds. Sonrt for Factory: 12tb. Rockwell and Fillmore Sprats. CblcafO» WE HAVE NO AGE , NTS • ■ » but aelhl to the consuni anywhere for examlnatioc "\ NX beforo tale. Everything war Sfrx vO>fßg> ranted. 100 styles of Ctr< riajjes, 90 styles of har« nc5S -4' styles RidlngSad* P " rito for cntologue. Carriage A Harness Mfj Cm W. It. I'BATT, Socy Elkboft, lod. fllllllU Morphine Habit Cured In 1Q iSHIISIf! day«. Nonay till cured# lUßffi DR. J.STEPHEN!, Lebanon, Ohio. flDlliai WHISKY habits cured. Ihmknent tfrlUlll KEF. t»r. It. M. UOOM.HV, ATLANTA, HA £?SE^A!LS' Lj Rest Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Uso E- in time. S«»!d by driißtfifts. f*# g^aBSEBEIBBKESE|pI
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