Blood Is Life Pure Blood Is Health Without blood circulating through your jTeins you could not live. Without pure I blood you cannot be well. The healthy ! action of every organ depends upon the | purity and richness ot the blood by which lit is nourished and sustained. If you have |salt rheum, scrofula sores, pimples, bolls or any kind.of humor, your blood is not pure. If you take Hood's Sarsaparilla it ■wli' make your blood pure and promptly, relieve all these troubles. In the spring tho b!o id is loaded with impurities. Hence, all those unsightly eruptions, that languor and depression, and the danger of serious illness. Hood's Sarsaparilla is needed to purify, enrich and vitalize tho blood and protect and fortify the system. HOOd'S S parH*la Is America's Greatest Mediciue. Sold by all Urußßistß. $1; si* for 83. Gel only Hood's. Unnri'o Pille arc the only pills to take nOUQ S rlllS with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Strangers Ju<lffe(l by Dress. Giraril, the famous French painter, when very young, was the bearer of a letter of introduction to Lanjuinais, then of the connoil of Napoleon. The young painter was shabbily attired and his reception was extremely cold, but Lanjuinais discovered in him such striking proofs of talent, good sense and amiability, that, on Girard's ris ing to take leave, he rose, too, and ac companied his visitor to the ante chamber. The change was so strik ing that Girard could not avoid an ex pression of surprise. "My young friend," said Lanjuinais, anticipating the inquiry, "we receive an unknown person according to his dress—we (take leave of him according to his Inerit." —Anecdotes. Tho Mind as a Disease-Producer. We know that a congested liver pro duces gloom, perhaps leading to sui cide; another kind of gloom is per haps due to a congested spleen; a dis orderly heart produces apprehension of coming danger; certain intestinal conditions produce fear; mdrbid con ditions of other organs mar the sense of strength and manhood or womanli ness. We know also a few converse truths: That gloom or despair may in duce jaundice; that good news will make the heart beat vigorously; that cheerfulness will calm and regulate its beat; that fear and anxiety may paralyze digestion."—Dr. Herbert A. Coryn, in the National Review. Russian Bills of Fare. No restaurant in St. Petersburg is now allowed to have its bill of fare ex clusively in a foreign language. By a recent edict a Russian version must always be added.—Philadelphia In quirer. L,cft-Handed Lions. Nearly all lions are "left-handed." A famous explorer says that when one desires to strike a forcible blow the animal almost always uses the left paw.—Philadelphia Inquirer. AIDED BY MRS. PINKHAM. Mrs. W. E. PAXTON, Yoiingtown, North Dakota, writes about her strug gle to regain health after the birth of her little girl: " DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—It 5s with pleasure that I add my testimony to your list, hoping that it may induce others to avail themselves of your val uable medicine. "After the birth of my little girl, three years ago, my health was very poor. I had leucorrhcea badly, and a terribie bearing-down, pain which gradually grew worse, until I could do no work. Also had headache nearly all the time, and dizzy feelings. Men struations were very profuse, appear ing every two weeks. " I took medicine from a good doctor, but it seemed to do no good. I was becoming alarmed over my condition, when I read your advertisement in a paper. I sent at once for a bottle of Lydia E. I'inkliam's Vegetable Com ponnd, and after taking two-thirds of the bottle I felt so much better that I send for two more. After using three bottles I felt as strong and well as any one. " I think it is the best medicine for female weakness ever advertised, and recommend it to every lady I meet suf fering from this trouble." Maternity is a wonderful experience and many women approach it wholly unprepared. Childbirth under right conditions need not terrify women. The advice of Mrs. Pinkham is freely offered to all expectant mothers, and her advice is beyond question the most valuable to be obtained. If Mrs. Pax ton had written to Mrs. Pinkham be fore confinement she would have been saved much suffering. Mrs. Pinkhaxn's address is Lynn, Mass. /JM Goto your grocer to-day [ls and get a 15c. package of I Grain-0 It takes the place of cof fee at J the cost. **l? Made from pure grains it is nourishing and health- Ptra Insist that your erocer fires you GR AIN-O. Accept no Imitation. FARM Mixing Aahea With Manure. There are only two conditions under which ashes muy properly be mixed with stable or other nitrogen ous manures. One is when the ashes have already been saturated with ni trogen and their caustic jwoperties have thus been neutralized. The other is when stable manure is to be plowed under the soil. Caustic ashes will then greatly hasten its fermenta tion, and will thus increase its availa bility and effectiveness.—Boston Cul tivator. To Tell Kresli Kggs. There is no known method for tell iug with absolute certainty if an egg is fresh, but the following tests are all of them good, and will enable the farmer to know whether he ought to market his eggs or keep them at home. A fresh egg will nearly al ways sink in water. When held to a strong light a fresh egg is clear and no jarring of the contents will be felt when the egg is shaken in the hand. A hard boiled egg from which the shell readily peels is not strictly fresh for the contents of a fresh egg adhere closely to the shell. Advice About Manure. Don't buy stable manure unless you can get it at very low prices. It is of uncertain quality, especially that made in town or city stables, which is usually the only kind on the market. Professor Voorhees says that 20 tons of city stable manure at sl-50 would cost S3O, while 811 would buy an equivalent amount of actual plant food in chemical fertilizers. Freight and cartage are much less, and the question is whether one can afford to pay the extra price simply to get the vegetable matter or humus in the manure. Even it, can be more cheaply obtained by plowing under a green crop. Make all the manure and com post possible on the farm, but when it comes to buying it we have the im pression that farmers pay about twice what the stuff is worth. "In New Jersey commercial fertilizers are rela tively cheap and city manures com paratively dear."—American Agricul turist. Reserve Store of Honey. Frames of comb honey should al ways be provided during the honey season for the purpose of having a re serve store for the bees in winter and spring, if at any time they stand in need of it. It is an easy matter to thus save out frames of sealed honey, and they can be put to the most profit able use in thus furnishing the bees in time of need. It is equally as im portant during early spring, at the time the bees are breeding rapidly, to keep them well stocked up with frames of sealed honey, and all colonies that have a good reserve of stores will al ways come out in the best condition, and will have a good force of bees ready for the honey harvest when it comes. During the breeding season, in spring time, bees consume a large amount of stores, and, if at any time they get short, they will suddenly stop breeding and will not resume business again until a good honey How sets in. The careful apiarist al ways watches this and promptly sup plies the deficiency.—The Epitomist. Artichokes for HOSTS. For the past four or five years one of my neighbors has planted an acre or two of artichokes annually for his hogs and I have watched his success closely to learn, if possible, whether or not it was a practical veuture, and as a consequence I have come to the conclusion that they can not only be haudled with the utmost safety but are an excellent aud cheap food for hogs, says C. P. Reynolds of Michi gan. The tops are also valuable for cattle and sheep. Tho stover is cut and shocked very much as one cuts the corn crop. Stock eat the stalks quite as readily as, if not more so than, they do the corn stover. Where the ground is rich an immense amount of coarse fodder cau be grown on a single acre. Some writers in speakiug of the artichoke give the impression that they are difficult, in fact impossible, to exterminate. Such an idea is en tirely erroneous. If they are sown in a lot where hogs can be turned in on them there will be absolutely no diffi culty along this line,unless,of course, there are more tubers than the herd can use, in which case all that is nec essary is to turn in more hogs. If you put a lot into artichokes under the impression that once sown you will reap forever, the chances are you will find yourself very much mistaken. —-American Agriculturist. Flavor In Butter and Cheese. The question of flavor in butter is one that is continually uppermost in the minds of all manufacturers and dealers. Upon this one quality de pends practically the value of the product in the market and to the con sumer. There are varying theories and practices suggested by which the flavor can be mproved; can be made more uniforim and can be better adapted to the w nts of the great ina* jority of consumers. We notice in the Country Gentle man an article on that subject which we in part produce, and call the at tention of onr butterniakers to the statements made therein. These statements and the theories advanced are in accordance with our own belief that has been proven often by prac tice. We ha*e made statements here tofore on sundry and divers occasions, that butter properly made is better ten days or two weeks old than at any other period in its history, and it ought not togo beyond its best estate for four weeks. This statement has been contradicted and disputed fre quently, but the trend of sentiment is coming in that direction. Hear what the correspondent of the Country Gentleman says: "Mucli is said of the flavor of butter and cheese, but gen erally on one side, and that on the wrong side. The individuality of the cow aud feeding are the two main points as the cause of fine or bad flavor of this product. Little is said or thought about the curing of this product, although it is in curing that the best flavor is developed in tlieni. The best butter thirty years ago was made in the summer time and pickled for winter sale. The manner of business is now changed, doubtless for the reason that the methods of the dairies have changed. But what then. The purchaser puts it away in cold storage and keeps it until winter when fine butter is scarce, then brings it out for sale. There is too much fine butter made in the summer, and on this account the price is too low for satisfactory profit. But wo should understand that butter can be cured as well as cheese, and gain by age, during which an individual ripening goes on very slowly, producing the fine flavor desired by most consumers. The vapid fresh butter that goes to the market in warm weather ripens quickly, and by the time it gets to the consumer it is ready for the table. But this curing may be slowly effected by cold storage in the dairy, and much of the ripening goes on slowly until it is perfect, when the winter market is ripe too." The quality of goods taken out of cold storage the past fall and winter is good evidence of the fact that but ter is benefited by a curing process, and that it is a better product after being held for a considerable time for general use than when strictly fresh. —Elgin Dairy Report. Farm HIKI (iartlpn Nnlei. If your flock of hens is too largo to give each hen a sample of table scraps each day, make a hash of the same in gredients as compose table scraps and feed the flock. It will help wonder fully to help make the liens pay. Sometimes the most thrifty tree in the orchard fails to fruit, apparently too intent upon the production of wood and foliage to have time for the production of fruit. If this excessive wood production is checked the tree will usually fruit. Jonathan and Grimes' golden are perhaps the most similar in behavior of any two apples wo could name; the former a brilliant red, the latter quite as haudsonie in its coat of bright, rich yellow; each is possessed of a rich, spicy flavor and delicious when prop erly matured and ripeued. "Feeding back" extracted honey to replenish uutinished section has been tried with * ng success. Home bee-keepers succeeded in so do ing with a fair degree of remunera tion. It is well to observe this rule, that whenever a remunerative price can be obtained for extracted honey it will not pay to feed it back to the bees to finish sections. At a recent institute a northern or chardist denounced the practice of raising hay or oats in the orchard as especially bad,for it removes from the ground material necessary to the pro duction of fruit. He recommended planting plums, pearlies and small fruits between the rows as these would pass away before the apple trees came into bearing. The San Jose scale, so called, which is fast becoming a terror to the fruit growers of the East, was introduced into California from Chili. But it did not originate there. Entomologists are divided as to whether it is of Jap anese or South American origin. The parasite which has been found so de structive to the scale is following it up closely, and in California lias in creased to such an extent that the scale is held well in check. It is in creasing in numbers in the East also. I have made a special study of the farmer's method of raising ponltrj the past few years, and have also had considerable experience myself in car ing for tliem and watching their habits and susceptibility to various diseases, and have formed the opinion that up wards of 75 per cent, of all sickness which fowls are subject to originates with vermin. I have also recentlj read an article in a popular ponltrj journal on this subject which places the percentage still higher, to quote their own words, "Ninety per cent, ol all diseases found in fowls are directly or indirectly traceable to vermin."— L. A. Spalding. Length of World'* Telegraph. The total length of the world's tele graph system has now reached 4,908,- 921 miles. - w THE REALM OF FASHION. I^/^WWWWWWWWWWWfWWWv^v^w^^vjwvA.#^.. W»ut In Kicli Mixed Colors. Much as bayadere stripes are worn, May Manton declares that plaid silks share the honors for the various sep arate waists, whether they take the LADIES' WAIST. blouse form or are made in regulation shirt style. The model shown is in rich mixed colors, with lines of black, the vest, revers, collar and cuffs be ing of plaiu colored taffeta, which matches the prevailing tone. The foundation is a fitted lining LADIES' WATTEAU GOWN OR WBATPER. which closes at the centre front, but th« blouse itself includes shoulder and umder-arm seams only. The narrow vest is attached to the right side be neath the front of the blouse and hooks well into place beneath the left edge and rever. Tlie sleeves are one-seamed and in regulation shirt style and are finished at the wrists with turn-over cuffs fastened with sil ver links. At the neck is a collar of the plain silk finished with turn-over points and worn with a tie of the same. At the waist is a belt of black leather, with bucklo and ornaments of steel, and with the blouse is worn a hat of rough straw trimmed with rib bon, lace and aigrettes. To make this waist for ft lady of medium size four aud a half yards of material twenty-two inches wide will be required, with five-eighths of a yard for vest and revers. A Pretty Homo Gown. Fine wool ohalliein violet and cream is shown, in the large engraving, daintly trimmed with narrow lace and insertion. The comfort of a pretty home gown is unquestioned in these days of ease and elegance, aud the utility of this model will appeal to many women for the simplicity of its outline and grace ful effect. The full fronts are gathered at the top in four rows of shirring, which, when the standing collar is omitted, is finished with a frill of lace. A double box plait forms the watteau in back, which joins onto a square yoke under the sailor collar. Side, back and under arm gores give a smooth adjustment over the hips,and the sash of ribbon passing under the watteau is tied in graceful loops and ends in centre front. The attractive sailor collar forms square lapels in front, disclosing the shirring between its front edges in yoke effect. A laced edged frill headed by insertion decorates its outer edge. The two-seamed sleeves that flt the arm comfortably with fashionable ful ness at the top are surmounted by two gathered frills, whose lace edges flare stylishly. The wrists are completed with inser tion and a fall of lace. To cut this gown for a lady of med ium size five and one-half yards of ma terial forty-four inches wide, or eight and one-quarter thirty inches wide will be required. Jacket of Hmiar Bine: Hussar blue cloth shown in the ac companying engraving, writes May Manton, is stylishly united with black velvet and brocaded silk, braid passe menterie showing up well as decora tion on the edge of velvet collar and light toned vest. The vest fronts of brocaded silk are cut low at the neck and close in visibly in center front, the edges being included in the shoulder and under arm seams of the jacket. The fronts that fit closely with single bust darts flare apart, to dis close the handsome vest, and the in side facing is of silk to match. The flaring Medici collar is shaped in four sections, each one being inter lined with tailors' canvas, and the velvet facing with fancy braid edge adds a charming finish to this stylish collar. The conventional jacket-back fits smoothly, coat laps being finished be low the center back seam. It is a matter of choice whether the belt shall be worn over the back, and slipped through openings in the under arm seams, or worn under the jacket altogether, the former method being quite fashionable. The sleeves, shaped with under and upper portions, are of the size de- I;I r manded by fashion, and flaring cuffs of Velvet finish the wrists. Square pocket laps cover the openings to front anil breast pockets, either of which can be omitted, if not desired. » ... • Inflammatory RhenmatUm. jFrom Sl.Lawrence Plaindealer, Canton,lT. Y. 1 To Buffer for years with a prevailing pain ful ailment, which baffled skillful medical treatment, yet which was cured by a sim ple household remedy, is the lot which be fell Mrs. George L. Rogers, of West Main (Street, Canton, N. Y. "Thirteen years ago," said Mrs. Rogers to a reporter, "I was attacked with inflam matory rheumatism and a complication of diseases. You can judge somewhat of what Jendured, when you look at these bands, trhey were distorted, twisted and swollen. th K*. too ' ,s 80 m ucli out of shape that tne big too lays across the others, the end touching tho little toe. " Notwlth ;i sanding I am 1 llj[!|l s lxt y-f Ive E P*p»years old, / | have a pleas £ \ " ant home and h - I other com- T U 112 I forts, life to 111 ■7(l _\ I ** I 4me was fai /I I fr i° m en^oyß ' 4J 1 other things fUusidliiiP* * P al ° into in significance ' ■ when you are . ... (j Oes to Church. without good health. I tried different doctors and many proprietary remedies, but was not bene fited. "Last March I tried Dr. Williams" Pink fills for Pale People and before X had ttn ished the first box I began to feel that tbey were doing me good. I continued using them and steadily grew better. "I have used thirteen boxes of the pills and to-day feel better than for the past fif teen years. My appetite is good, I feel bright, cheerful and have a desire to live und enjoy society. "I have been a member of the Methodist church for many years, but for six years was unable to attond. lam able now to nttend tho church services regularly and certainly appreciate that privilege. I con sider Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo ple a wonderful medicine and am confident no other medicine could have effected the wonderful cure they have In my case." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are composed of vegotable remedies that exert a powerful influence in purifying and en riching the blood thus curing many dis eases. It is claimod that there aro over twelve hundred independent telephone exchanges in the United States. To Cure Constipation Forever. ».«HS Caacar° ts Candy Cathartic. 10c 0r250. Ki C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money. No person in Norway may spend more Itan nino pence at one visit to a public oouse. Why Suffer Like Job When St. Anthony's Ointment will heal all lores, new or old, or money refunded, 50 cents per box, all druggists or St. Anthony M'f'g L'o., Chicago, ni. In all the capitals of Europe, save Lon don. some theatres are kept up by the Gov ernment support. To Cure A Cold In One l»ay. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money if It fails to cure. 25c. Wooden shoes in France are produced to the extent of about 4,000,000 pairs yearly. Kdocate Your Bowels With Cascarets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 23c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. There are more than 'JOOO German waiters (n the hotels and restaurants of London, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for childrch teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pain, chres wind colic. £>c.abottle. Third-class railway fnrcs in India are less Chan half a cent a mile. Chew Star Tobacco—The Best. Smoke Sledge Clsarett.es. About forty tons of letters pass daily through tho gonorul postoffleo in London. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men strong, blood pure. 50c. 11. All uruggists. Holland Is the only country in Europe that admits coffee free of duty. Fits permanently cured. No iits or nervou?- aess after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Merve Restorer. S~'trial bottle and treatise free l)n. R. 11. KLINE, Ltd.,931 Arch St..Phila.,Pa. Art Works as War Spoils. Works of art, it has loiig been sup posed, have ceaseil to be considered legitimate spoils of war. Many will be surprised and pained to know that the custom has been revived by the conquering Turks in Greece. So long ago as last summer an order was sent by the director of museums at Con stantinople to the commander-in-chief of tho Turkish army in Thessaly to transport to the capital all antiquities which he came across during the oc cupation. This has been done, and, what is more, the European powers ill settling the treaty of peace appear to have ignored, if they did not actually assent to, the spoliation. All that could be done was done by the French school at Athens, whioh obtained permission, at the advice of the French Consul at Volo, to photo graph every piece and every inscrip tion before the deportation.—Literary Digest. •JHpitnese Children. "A joyous heart is always pure," say the Japauose, and they encourage and take part in the amusements of their little ones with a zest that shows their belief. The Japanese are nat urally a gentle and childlike race, fond of gaiety, while brave and chiv alrous in action and earnest in study. The boys and girls while at play romp, laugh and shout, and have a "royal good time," but travelers say they do not see among them quarrels nor augry words and gestures. Score this to the credit of our dark-eyed little cousins in the land of the "sun's source." They have the advantage of being loosely and warmly dressed, and of being out a great deal in thejopen air. In their homes there is but little fur niture to tumble over, and there aro few useless ornaments which they are told "not to touch.".—St. Nioholas. A Shouting Fish. The shooting fish is a native of the East Indies. It has a hollow cylin drical beak. When it spies a fly sit ting on the plants that grow in shal low water, with remarkable deterity it ejects out of a tabular mouth a single drop of water, which seldom misses its aim, and striking the fly into the water, the fish makes it its prey. The largest printing office in thi world is in Washington, D, C.; it for printing government documon*
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