To get rid of Malaria easily and_. forever, be healthy, full of life and vigor, take John son's Happy Pills, a liver lever. Chills and fever cured with six pills. All druggists, ."5 cents. Sample free. Happy Medicine Co..West New Brighton, Staten Island, N.Y. There are more than forty thousand mud cabins in Ireland which contain only a sin gle toom. Try «rain-OI Try Grain-O! Ask your grocer to-dav to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink thnt takes the place of coffee. Children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. GBAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but Is made from pure grains; the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. % the price of coffee. 15c. and 25c. per package. Bold by all grocers. Thursdav Island, In the Torres Straits, exports $500,000 worth of mother-of-pearl nnuually. Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your I.llte Away. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists, 80c or 11. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. Nearly all skin diseases are supposed to be caused by microscopic insects. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0., Props, of Hall's Catarrh Cure, offer SIOO reward for any :ase of catarrh thatcannot be cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for testimonials, free. Sold by Druggists. 75c. The annual export of codfish from New foundland is about 1,350,000 hundred weight. Fits permanently cured. No flts or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $3 trial bottle and treatise free DR. R. H. KLINE. Ltd.. 931 Arch St..Phlla..Pa. The muskrat Industry in Dorchester County, Maryland, paid $50,000 last season. Lane'a Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day, In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head ache. Price 25 and 50c. The average life of a ship is about twenty-one years. Wo-To-Bae for Fifty Cant*. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak Den strong, blood pure. 60c, 11. All druggists. Apia, the capital of Samoa, has a popu lation of about 1250. " To Err is Human." 'But to err all the time is criminal or idiotic. Don't continue the mistake of neglecting your blood. Take Hood's Sarsaparilla now. It 'will make pure, live blood, and put you in good health. All Cone-" Had no appetite or strength, could not sleep or get rested, was com pletely run down. Two bottles Hood's Sar saparilla cured the tired feeling and I do my own work." MRS. A. DICK, Millville, N.J. Hood'* Fill. pure liver ilia ; the non trritatin K and only cathartic to taka with Hood'» Sariaparllla- AdENTS.— Another SHOO given to parties in tn.during our Endless Chain System. Write for particulars. 8. M. HAMILTON, Pres.. Alma.Colorado. A Taste of the White Man's Burden. "Some months ago," says the Kan sas City Journal, "Professor L. T. Weeks, of Southwest College, wrote a poem which he thought wiw all right, and which he offered the Century Magazine for publication. His wife, Ida Aheborn Weeks, made fun of his literary aspirations, and kept telling him about the fall wliich lay in wait for his vanity. Indue time, however, an acceptance came from the maga zine, accompanied by a check for $lO, and then that man began to lord it over the woman. Finally she got mad, and declared that she could write better poetry than he with one hand tied behind her, and to prove it she indited a piece and sent it to the Cen tury. Almost at once she got back an acceptance, accompanied by a check for S2O, and now she is making life such a burden for her ten-dollar hus band that he doesn't know what to do." A CHARMING grandmother! What a pleasant influence in the house is a delight ful old lady in good health! MRS. MOLLIE BARBER, St. James, Mo., writes: "I toelc Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound during change of life, and have passed through that critical period safely. I suffered for mm m wiw mm years with falling of the womb and female weakness. At times could *%m mm m hardly stand on my feet, also had OLD MHC leucorrhcea. I tried several good doctors, but instead of getting better, grew worse all the time. A friend advised me to try Mrs. Pinlcham's Compound. I did so and after taking six bottles, was cured of both leucorrhoea and falling of womb. lam now enjoying good St he good your medicine has done me. I would recommend worse thaa ever. I and I am now sound and well. It helped me through the change of life period. I am fifty-five years old." The women of advanced years who are healthy and happy are invariably those who have known how to secure help when they needed it. Mrs. Pinkham will advise any woman free of charge who writes about her health. Her address is Lynn, Mass. Realty la Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im purities from the body. Begin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. There were about 35,000 Japanese in Ha waii in 1898. Ask Yatar Dealer for Allea'n PaauEase, A powder to shake into your shoes; rests the feet. Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating Feet' and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. At all shoa stores and druggists, 25 cts. Sample mailed FREE. Adr's Allen S.Olmsted, Leßoy, N.Y. Primrose Day was generally celebrated in London and in many parts of England. Mrs. Winslow'sSoothing Syrup tor children teething, softens the gums, reduces inHammn tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 2Sc.a bottle. The combined population of Europe and America is about 300,000,000. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Broino Quinine Tablets. AH Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. Three pints of liquid a day is sufficient for the average adult. Kdoeata Your Bowels With Caiearata. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 29c. If C. C. C. fall, druggists refund money. At present Germany dominates the Swiss iron trade. I can recommend Piso's Cure for Consump tion to sufferers from Asthma.—E. D. TOWN SEND, Ft. Howard, Wis.. May 4.18 W. Fifteen thousand people are employed in making violins in Germany. To Cora Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money. Education in Russia. Much progress is being made in these days in educational matters in Russia. A university, which is open to all olasses, was recently established in Odessa, and a report, just issued, shows that it is a pronounced success. Popular lectures have been delivered OD history, geography, chemistry, geology, physics, literature and other subjects, and they have been attended by 4750 students. The lectures on literature proved most attractive, the number of stU' dents attending them being 814, while those on geology attracted only 413 students. Most of the students come from the State schools, and the others received their early education at home. Of the entire number more than a thousand belong to the labor ing class. A similar university has been opened in Moscow, but has not proved as and apparently for the reason that certain unpopular restrictions «re imposed on the stu dents. A third university of the same kind will be established in St. Petersburg at an early date. In taking this step the Russian authorities are following the example of England, which has had popular schools and colleges for several years.—New York Herald. France to AbolUli the Lance. It is the determination of the French war office to disband the regiments of lancers, because it has been discov ered that the lance is a very dangerous weapon—to the lancer. According to the statistics of the Prussian army, which are cited as well as those of Saxony and Wurtemberg, it appears that 667 soldiers have been accident ally wounded by the obnoxious weap on since 1888. Of the 667, divided among eighty-three regiments, 126 men were wounded by their own lances and 330 by lances iu the hands of comrades. The other men were wounded through accidents happening to the horses they were riding. Out of the 667 wounded men, the injuries to four proved fatal, and twenty-eight had to be retired because of their wounds. After the Franco-German war the use of the lance was discon tinued in the French army until about five years ago, when it was re instated in the dragoons. [FOR FARM AND GARDEN.] Trench Ins; Land for Crops. Years ago English farm papers had much to say about the advantage of trenching land, especially in gardens, instead of plowing it. Labor on the farm has always been BO cheap that trenching or hand digging of land is aften resorted to give employment to labor at low rates. It is a waste of labor mostly, for the hand digging of trenches does not fit the soil any bet ter for crops than will the subsoil plow which merely follows the surface plow pulverizing the subsoil without bring ing it up. In fact, the subsoil plow, except on the very richest land, does better work than can be done by trenching. In hand digging much of the subsoil is pretty sure to be mixed with surface soil. Only very rich soil ,ian bear such mixture without injury lo the first crop after it has been lone. Teaching Calven to I>rlnk. Nature teaches the calf to turn its mouth upward to get its food. The uuwilliuguess of the calf to put its head down into a pail is the result of instinct. Some have thought to offset this by never allowing the calf to suck its dam even once. But we think this injures the calf. It needs stimulation when first born,and should be allowed to get it iu the way most natural to it. Iu sucking the teat the milk comes slowly, aud a good deal of saliva is mixed with it. But after ouce suck ing its dam the calf should be taught to drink out of a pail, aud to put its head down when eatiug. It will need to be pretty hungry to do this readily, and the finger should be used, placing it first iu the calf's mouth, and theu [mtting it into the milk. So soon as the calf gets fairly to drinking the linger should be withdrawn. Pnrtnlpft far Lntv Use. The parsnip root aud also the salisfy or vegetable oyster are so hardy that they arc usually left on the soil where they grow,instead of being pulled and out in cellar or pit to escape freezing. Une freezing does not injure them at all if they are left where they grew without disturbing them. Repeated Freezing and thawing undoubtedly injure them. But the damage is done by warmth rather than by the cold. The parsnip being hardv starts to grow for a seed crop with the first warm weather. Home winters it be gins to put out green leaves in mid winter. But the lack of sunlight pre vents it from growing much, even though the air be mild. It is uot gen erally known that when green shoots put out from last year's parsnips left in the ground the root be :omes tough and even poisonous. So if parsnips are wanted for late use they should be taken up now and ex posed to air long enough to dry up the leading roots. Then lay the parsnips in a trench deep enough so that light raunot get to the crowns, and the roots may be kept in good condition For eating until June, by which time they will be superseded by young parsnips spring sown in hotbeds. These young parsnips are much more tender and sweet, and they entirely lupersede those grown the previous year for table use at least. The win ter parsnips thus kept will be greedily eaten by cows and horses that do not have a run at fresh grass. Variety In Fruit Culture. Every commercial fruit grower should maintain a small plot contain ing several generally commended sorts and determine which varieties he should make his leaders and plant most largely of. In conducting these experiments there are several things to be con sidered. There is a vast difference in plants of the same variety. When plants fruit they are breeding or lay ing their eggs, and the fruit flesh de velops as a substance for seeds to grow on, and the quantity of fruit as well as size depends on the stamina of the seeds. Seed bearing is the most devitaliz ing process the plant is ever called upon to undergo, and if its intense passion in this direction is not re strained by removing a part of the blossoms in the propagating bed, it will fruit itself into impoteucy, and after that will multiply itself through Its runners and fruit very sparingly. The more you manure and cultivate the more runners you will get without a corresponding increase in fruit either in quantity or quality. Therefore the test of varieties with out the pedigree or history of the plant which shall determine its physi cal conditions in this respect must al ways be unsatisfactory if not entirely misleading. In all this work we want to know the capacity of the variety,or, iu other words, what it will do under favorable conditions. The success of a variety often more largely depeuds on the man than the soil or location. He is often harsh with the plant, does things at the wrong time and in the wrong way; does bis work grudgingly and growls about everything and finds no pleasure in any part of the work. The report of behavior of a variety from such a mau would have no value whatever. The only valuable report comes from a man who loves the work, studies plant life and meets requiiaments which shall enable the plant to show its qualities definitely. The fruit grower of the opening or the nineteenth century must be a stu dent and know all the laws which govern fruit development. The variety to plant most largely is the one most generally commended aver the widest area until your own experiments determine what sort is t>est adapted to your soil. The "war" between intensive fruit growing and the system of broad acres with sloveuly' culture is ended, and the man who grows many bushels of the finest fruit on the fewest acres is the wiuuer.—Farm, Field and Fire side. Favored Method* of Culture. After trying various systems of cni tuie, I prefer this: Flow around as soon after haying as possible. Home times this work is done in the spiing, but if the land is plowed early iu the fall, the sod decays and I generally prefer to finish in spring with a thorough harrowing at intervals of a few days a| art. I desire here to em phasize this point, vi?., frequent har rowing. A field upon which late cul ture was impossible, because of heavy rains last season, was harrowed first in sugar weather, simply because the ground happened to be iu good condi tion and it would be so much nearer ready at planting time. A splendid crop was harvested. These frequent liarrowings killed the young weeds, so during the entire season scarcely a weed could be seen. I make a shallow furrow with the shovel plow, and if the ground is quite level, drop aero ts the furrows by stakes, which brings them rowed both ways. This will not do on sidling grouud, for the s >il, be ng made so fine, will wash badly if rowed up and down. I use a special phosphate for pota toes about 500 pounds per acre, not thrown iu a lump in the hill, but scattered. With proper tillage before planting, and early aud frequent culti vation I have little use for a hoe. I have my own ideas in regard to seed selection. Long after the fa mous Early Rose had besn displaced by other varieties on most farms, I grew them in perfection and obtained high prices for see 1 . I take great pains in selecting seed. An ill shaped or rough tuber is always rejected. No doubt it is well to try new varieties occasionally, but careful selection of seed is after all the main thing. A word as to marketing. When selecting for sale, reject all rough, un couth looking ones (these can be use:? in your own family) and in measuring, it is well to hang a bushel on the scales occasionally, and see if the.) hold out weight. Better put two 01 three good tubers in excess of t>(l pounds than do as a certain man onca did. A bushel of seed was bought to change seedj the man putting them in a bag. After reaching home the bag seemed so light the purchaser con cluded to weigh it, and found bag and all weighed only 49 pounds. It al ways pays to deal so we can deal with the same person again.—New Englaud Homestead. Neri-Mltyof Pure Stork Water. Few farmers and stockmen are as careful to supply the various wants of their stock as they should be. They think if they furnish their auimals enough to eat at all seasons of the year they are doing their whole duty,! little thinking that a regular and generous supply of pure water is fully as necessary as feed itself. Water forms from 85 to 63 per cent, of the total weight of the body, and euters into the composition of every bone, muscle an I tissue. Food can only be assimilated when in a soluble state, hence water is an indispensable aid tc digestion. Where it is available, running water, either springs or creeks, is preferable to any other for stock, as it is pure and needs no pumping. Un less contaminated by surface washings or sewerage, creek water is of good quality, as it is being continually aerated and purified by exposure to the sunshine. For domestic use a spring or deep well is the best source of pure water. The deeper the well the le*s danger of its being contamin ated. The soil acts as a filter and the more soil the water must pass through in reaching the subterranean streams the more thorough the filtration. A tubular well is much and a more reliable source of supply than a dug) well, since no water can enter a tubular well except at the bottom. In a dug well there is always danger oi surface drainage finding its way into it. A dug well may be pure when first dug, even though shallow, and latet be contaminated from surface drainage or other causes. No cesspool or vault should be allowed near a well, eithei deep or shallow, unless every precau tion is takeu to make the basin of such pools or vaults perfectly water tight, to prevent the surrounding sur face from becoming foul. The water from different sources has frequently been tested and tha number of germs contained in each cubic centimeter (about half a thimble ful) has been found to vary from foui in a hundred foot tubular well, tc nearly three hundred thousand in a clean-looking pond, and four hundred thousand in a dug well receiving sur face drainago. A dug well might be very much improved by cementing tha inside of the wall down to the watei line. This would keep the surface water from seeping in. In a dug well every precaution should be used to prevent any vermin from entering at the top. It is well to lay the uppet foot or two of he wall in cement. If wooden sills are used as a foundation for the floor let the top be just even with the top of the wall, then fill the space between the walls and sills with cement, and if the floor is tight, not even an earth worm can find its way through. Every well shoald be ven tilated. Even water in a well will be come more or less stagnant without it. A couple of tubes should extend from the top of the pump downward a few inches under the floor. The top of these tubes should be closed with fine wire setting to exclude flies and in sects. The air will descend in one tube and ascend in the other, pre venting the accumulation of foul gases. —O. J. Vine, in American Agriculturist* S THE REALM OF FASHION. 1 NEW YORK CITY (Special).—For those who favor mannish effects in Jress this smart shirt waist has un doubted attractions. Pink and white WOMAN'S SNIKT WAIST. striped French percale is the material selected, a regulation collar of white linen being worn, with a string tie of pink satin. The white leather belt is 3losed with old silver clasps. A new feature in connection with this style of waist is the gathers that collect »t the shoulder edges each side of the stiff bosom. The bosom, which has an interlining of heavy linen or cot ton, is applied over the fronts and jloses in centre with studs and but tonholes. The back has gathers at the SERVICEABLE OUTING COSTUME. apper edge, which are joined to a straight yoke, the front edges of which support the fulness of the fronts. At the waist the fuluess is gathered or may be regulated with a tape cas ing and draw strings, if so preferred. The shirt sleeves are in accordance with the prevailing style, laps finish ing the slashes and straight link cuffs completing the wrists. Checked, plain or polka-dotted pique, linen, ma dras, figured or striped percale, duck or galatea is usually chosen for waists in this style. To make this shirt waist for a wom in of medium size will require three yards of material thirty-sis inches wide. For General Outing: Wear* A smart costume for cycling, golf, mountain-climbing, rainy-day or gen eral outing wear is shown in the large 9ngraving. It is illustrated in mixad gray double-faced cheviot, that shows green and gray check on the under side. The jaunty jacket is worn over a shirt waist of dotted Wedgwood blue percale, the tie and belt being of black satin. The gray straw English walk ing hat is trimmed with soft black satin folds and raven quills. Single bust darts, under-arm and side-back gores render a close-fitting adjustment, the entire back seam being omitted or not, as preferred. No lining is used, the edges being turned under aud firmly held with several rows of machine stitching. The flaring sectional collar or a rolling coat collar may be used to complete the neck and the fronts may be worn open or closed to neck, with small rever across bust, or closed diagonally to the shoulder, if so pre ferred. The lower edge is gracefully shaped in scalloped outline. The coat sleeves may be gathered at the top or have the fulness taken up in four small darts, the wrists being simply finished with rows of stitching. The stylish skirt, out in sheath fash ion, with a spring from the knees, in cludes four gores in the perfect shap ing. The front gore is of narrow width at the top, and joins to wide circular side gores shaped with underlaps, ovei which the front gore closes with double buttons and loops, as shown, ot with buttons and buttonholes, if so pre ferred. The centre back gore is gath ered closely at the top, the fulness be ing invisible under the deeply laid pleats that meet closely in back. This arrangement gives necessary saddle room when mounted, and a becoming flare when o£f the wheel. A deep un derfacing of the material, held in place with rows of stitching about an inch apart, finishes the lower edge of the skirt. A smooth interlining of hair cloth is recommended to insure both safety and style. Styliah Costume For a Mis.*. Fawn-colored serge is here united with a full vest and standing collar of white taft'eta, embioidered with polka dots in black silk, mixed black and white braid forming the simple but effective decoration. The full fronts are arranged over dart-fitted linings aud close invisibly in centre. A stand ing collar finishes the neck. The Eton fronts are slashed at the lower edges, silk buttons with loops crossing the openings, which may be omitted it not desired. The fronts are deeply underfaced and reversed to form pointed lapels, the smooth whole backs being connected by under-ariu gores. A leather belt, clasped with a fancy buckle stylishly completes the waist. The fashionable two-seamed sleeves have the fulness disposed i:i gathers at the top, the llaring wrists being slashed and decorated with but tons to match the jacket fronts. The skirt has a gored upper portion iu tablier shape at the front, to which is joined a circular flounce this is graduated from a narrow width iu front to correctly lengthen the skirt all around. Stylish combinations eau be developed by the mode, whioli is suitable for wool, silk or cotton fabrics, and braid, ribbon, insertion or gimp may be tastefully employed for trim ming. To make this Eton waist for a miss of fourteen years will require one and ETON one-quarter yards of material forty four inches wide. To make the skirt will require three and one-half yards of same width material.
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