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.