CROP XHAT PATS WELL. Win Faarlr CtUtlTattoi a raw Aarea stloato Will GIto bMl Mat Homier Kilini, When a food yield and quantity can b secired, there are few orope that girt) a better return than onion. One adTantafe with them Is that they can be nurketed as toon aa matured, or ; they can be stored and kept to be marketed whene'er desired. J In growing onions successfully, it is essettial to hare good seed, to sow arly, to have a rich soil, preps red in a flnt tilth and to give thorough cultlra tick in good season. A failure in any one of these will often so affect the jrfcld or quality of the crop as to deter nine the question of profit or loss. It is an exceptional esse to find a toll that is naturally rich enough to take a good crop of onions without the addition of some manure or fer tilizer; on the other hand, it is an ex ception to find a soil too rich. The onion is a gross feeder. A very heavy dressing of coarse, fresh manure could be given and incorporated with the soil with profit, were it not that in most cases this kind of fertilizer con tains so many weed seed as greatly to increase the labor of clean cultivation. On this account, so far as is possible, well-rotted manure should be used, taking care to thoroughly incorporate it with the soil on the surface. Wood ashes are one of the best fertilizers for this crop, and if there is not enough of well-rotted stable manure uvailable, commercial fertilizers can often be used to a good advantage. Onions grow so near the surface that the manure should be applied and worked in the surface, and for that rea son top dressing after plowing will generally be the best plan. One advantage with onions is that they may be grown on the same land for several years without change if liberal manuring is done, and if clean cultivation is given the first year this will be found quite an item. The very first favorable opportunity in the spring should be taken advan tage of to prepare the ground and sow the seed as earliness is an Important item. The soil should be prepured in a fine tilth. , A better germination of the seed and a more vigorous start to grow will be secured while the cultivation can be commenced' carrier and clean cultiva tion be given with less labor if care is taken to have the soil thoroughly pre pared in a good tilth befbre the seed is sown. Mark out the rows ten or twelve inches apart. If the drill is used it will mark them out, sow the seed and cover all at once. One advantage in using the drill is that the seed will be dis tributed in the drill rows more evenly and be covered at a more uniform depth. It is best to use plenty of seed so as to secure a good stand of plants. It is better to thin out than to replant. llve clenn cultivation from the start, keeping the soil in good tilth until the -crop ib matured. St. Louis Republic. SUPPORTS FOR PLANTS Although Very Easily Made, Nothing Better Has Yet Been Discovered for Tomatoea. These should be made in winter, that they may be ready when needed Knock out the bottom from grocery SUPPORTS FOR PLANTS. boxes, and saw them through again and again, as suggested in, the dotted lines. All that remains is to nail in the corners the pointed stakes that hold up the rails. Nothing better can be de vised for tomatoes thuu supports made in this way. The same kind of supports are also exceedingly useful for putting about rose bushes or small shrubs that one may be starting upon the lawn. Such small growths need this protec tion until they are big enough to look out for themselves. X. V. Tribune. Mlxlasr Keroaene lOiualelon. Many speak of the emulsion as troublesome to make. 1 find it very easy by the following method: A bar of common washing soap is dissolved in a quart of water and allowed to boil, then two quarts of kerosene arc added to the boiling soap. This is churned, uhile hot, with a revolving egg beater; a force pump would be better, but I do out own one, and a beater answers very well. When the emulsion is properly made it will come like butter, so thick that the beater will not work. A pint of the thick emulsion is diluted with eight quarts of water, making a liquid resembling skim milk in color but closely related to kerosene in odor. Vick'a Magazine. Valne of Orchard Grass. Unquestionably it is a good grass, and if it can have plenty of water it is a luxuriant grower. But it will bunch "in spite of fate." At least that is my experience. Thick sowing will prevent that to some degree, but it is sometimes Recommended in a mixture for a per manent pasture. In that case it could tot be sown thickly enough to prevent it from bunching, and I had about as on tow ten-pin balls and let them re main on the land. Stock would not t them as readily as it would orchard trass, it must be admitted, but in time tfeey would sot be more unsightly or wore inconvenient in the care of the Pies ton, in Arricol- ral Kfitomlst. , Though 1900 la divisible by four It li bo leap year. The ladies of the pres ent generation may Cooselatlea far , , , , feel aggrieved over the Ladles. the fact that they are deprived of the precious privileges of leap year for an interval of eight years. The fortunate persons born on February M may be glad or sorry, ac cording as they happen to deaire birth days or not. All may be comforted, however, by the assurance that this state of affairs shall not be allowed to happen again for two centuries. It has occurred only twice before since Pope Gregory XHL instituted the new style calendar in 1582. The necessity for dropping three leap years in every fout centuries led to the decree that all years ending with 00 except those di visible by 400 should be common years. Thus 1600 was a leap year, while 1700, 1800 and 1900 were made common years. The year 2000 will again be a leap year. The ambitious maidens who feel ag grieved because this year had no Feb ruary 29 should look at the matter philosophically. While the fact may deprive them of a year in which to make matrimonial proposals, comfort ingly observes the Chicago Tribune, they should also remember that it may save them from the chance of being re jected, which fate any young man oi experience can tell them is most pain ful. It also makes the present year one day shorter than a leap year, leav ing one less day to meet misfortune or to die in and bringing so much nearer the beginning of the new century, in which woman is confidently expected to complete her supremacy over the tyrant man. By the year 200O it will not matter whether there are any leap years or not unless the meek ami down-trodden mnn of those future days be allowed the leap year privilege as a remnant of his former glories. An Ohio soldier, Private Kt ider, of light battery K, Third United States artillery, now serving in the Philip pines, holds the record for being wounded more times at once than any other mail who lived through it. In un engagement in which Krider's bat tery took part a shrapnel shell explod ed uear the gun he was working, and 25 leaden bullets from it were lodged in his body. In the tame engagement a bullet from a msuser ri fie struck him, making a total of 20 wounds in flicted upon him in this one action. Many a soldier has been killed with one bullet, but this man with 20 recovered sufficiently to return to bis home in Ohio; and he even wanted to go back to the Philippines and fight again. Rut he was declared disabled, and is now pensioned for life. Society Is rather put to it to find nov elties In the way of ontertainmcnt oc casionally. Perhaps the latest venture in thnt line was an aftcr-the-opera luncheon given the other night in one of the lunch wagons that stands near Herald Square. The hostess was a live ly young woman, who had seen the lunch wagons near- the Yale campus when she was at .New Haven for the junior promenade a week or two ago. All the men of this young ladies' party were Yale men. There was a supper for them at the lunch Wagon, with frankfurters, sauerkraut, schmierkase. pretzels, rye bread, and such other rather unusual opera-supper delicacies as the menu afforded, winding up with a revel in pie and doughnuts. A few years ago a landowner made his neighbor tear down and rebuild a four-story block because it overreached six inches into the next lot. A still more selfish contention concerns th proprietorship of live inches of space 300 feet above the sidewalk. The bring er of the suit declares that a neighbor ing cornice projects five inches over his own modest roof, and he claims large damages therefor. For once Dr. Hale's "look up and not down" seems at fault. Thackeray's irony is more apt: "II your neighbor's foot obstructs you. stamp on it; and do you suppose he won't take it away?" This queer little twist comes from the west: Call a girl a chick and sin smiles; call a woman a hen and she howls. Call a young woman a witch, und she is pleased; call an old woman a witch and she is indignant. Call a young girl a kitten and she rathe: likes it; call a woman u cat and she'll hate you. Women are queer. A New Jersey paper reports that a terrifying snake-like monster with n scaly body and four claws has been seen In the woods near Perryville, that state. Ever Blnce the discovery of ap plejack such things have been occasion ally seen by Jersey it es. During the solar eclipse on May 2n next, Harvard astronomers will con duct observations at a station In Ala bama, and make a special effort to And the planet supposed to be nearest the sun, and named Vulcan, though its ex istence is in doubt. A bill before the New York legisla ture makes a woman's hatpin over three inches long a dangerous weapon, sad the carrying of one a disdemeanor. This Is taking away woman's only means of self protection. A jackrabbit sausage factory Is to be started in Kansas, In order to util ise the heavy and yearly increasing crop of this creature. Everyone who carries stamps knows what a nuisance it is to do so. The Cavealeat "'P8 wiU ,tJck together. Special s cases to hold them and oiled paper to keep them apart, with other devices, may be tried, but they are inconvenient and unsatisfac tory. The Washington Star says that the third assistant postmaster general is considering a plan to save the an noyance of stuck-together stamps. The plan is to bind the stamps in lit tle books, with alternating leaves of stamps and paraffin paper, the books resembling somewhat the telegraph frank books that are so common In Washington and which may have sug gested the Idea. The books will be of pocket size and will contain stamps to the value of 24 cents, 48 cents and 96 cents. The government will pay two dollars a thousand for making these books, and will charge an ud vance of one cent each, w hich will yield a handsome profit on the enormous sales. The book containing 12 two cent stamps and costing cents would probably be the most popular. The iileu is a sensible one, and it is strange that it had not been thought of be fore. The discouraging thing about carrying one of these books, though, is that the man who carries stamps is always the victim of the man who doesn't have any but wants to borrow. Investigation of the causes, effects and means of prevention of forest tires in the west, will be Govrrnanrnt carried on by the Foreetry Work. . . , government d i v i- sion of forestry next summer in Wash ington, Oregon, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Wyom ing, Montana, Idaho, South Dakota. Besides lieil itudy, designed chiefly to discover means of preventing the evil, the division in making a histotie rec ord of all Important fires which have occurred in tliu United States since 17."t. Although yet. incomplete, says the official bulletin, this indicates that the annual recorded loss by forest burnings in the United States is, at the very lowest. $20,000,000. It will prob ably run far above this sum, ns the Pa cific coast states have been only par tially examined, Accounts of over 5,500 disnst rous fires have been ob tained in the 17 stales already ex amined. Michigan, Minnesota anil Wisconsin have suffered the most se verely. These records are taken chiefly from newspapers, and where It has been possible to compare them with the figures of practical lumbermen, il has been found that the tendency of the press is to underestimate the dam age. To-day we have common workmen who approach the wise men of 200 y ears ago. t)ur Cdacatlna the Modern Muara. public schools have sreated an enthusi asm for education 'that II pathetic, writes Newell Dwight Hillis, in Wom an's Home Companion. Recently a for eigner exclaimed: "It is too late for me to learn I But my children, they shall not be ignorant!" Our working people understand that so long as they remain ignorant the ecclesiastical des pot will oppress them, the political des pot will spoil them of their treasures, the industrial tlespot will tyrannize over them. To escape oppression the toiler becomes informed. Education is making the poor man's muscle so powerful that despots connot afford iron enough to reach around his wrist. To-day for the first time in history knowledge is becoming universal. Agi tators are being succeeded by edu cators. People see that intellect and ability are thfl real creators of wealth. Education is the modern Moses leading the people out of the wilderness into the promised hind of happiness and plenty. At LakeWOOd, N. J., there is a golt club that plays at all seasons. One day, say s an eastern exchange, there came to Lakewood from New York two dignified politicians, who knew nothing about golf. That afternoon they were walking across a field when they came suddenly upon a small red flag stuck In the ground. It was a golf flag, but before they could investigate, some small boys cried out: "Blast 1 blast! Look out for the blast !" The two statesmen dropped their dignity and took to their heels, and never stopped running until they reached the other side of a stone wall. When they returned to their hotel the story had preceded them, and they left for home next day, An ingenious Philadelphia is mak ing un income out of a very novel source. He is the ngent for n number of foreign steamship lines and in a po sition to get hold of any number of different kinds of labels, such as are attached to trunks and other baggage of passengers going abroad or coming from foreign tours. These he sells to individuals who wish to create the im pression when they carry their dress suit cases in public that they have been abroad. Numbers of young men who have never been out of the country are said to be posing in this way as foreign travelers of considerable experience. That Omaha burglar who was iden tified by the mark of bis broken tooth, left in a piece of cheese that he stopped to eat while blowing open a safe after midnight, has reason to forswear late lunches as unhealthf ul. BLOOD POISON. In some esses the external signs af Contagious Blood Poison are to slight that the victim is firmly within the grasp of the maaster before the true nature of the disease is knows. In other cases the bleed is quickly filled with this poisonous virus aad the swollen elands, mucus patches in the mouth, sores on scale, ulcers on tonrue. sore i mv. a IT throat, eruptions on 1 . v . - .. leave no room i or uouoi, as uiese are au t-wewra sun proaense mercury ana pousn ss tne only cure tor Blood Poison. These poisonous min erals never yet made a complete and permanent cure of Contasious Blood Poison. Thev drive the disease back into the system, cover it up for a while, but it breaks out again in worse form. These powerful minerals produce mercurial rheumatism and the meet offensive sores and ulcers, causing the joints to stiffen end finger nails to drop off. Mercury and potash make wrooka, net cures, and those who have beta dosed with these drug ere never after free from aches end pain. S. S. 6. acts in aa entirely different mauTBu u Ktnur otwi, euuos up anu therefore the only curt for Contagious though pronounced incurable by the doctors, S. S. S. can be lelied upon to make a rapid, permanent cure. S. 6. S. is not a new, untried remedy ; an experience of nearly fifty years has proven it a sure end unfsiling cure for this disease. It is the only purely vegetable blood medicine known. Mr. H. X. Myara, lorn Mutasrry St., Newark, H. J., eaya : " I was afflicted wtlh a terrible blond dlarase. which was In apota at firm, hut afterward, spread all ovtr my body. Thee eoea broke oat Into aora, aad It Is easy to imagine the auBrring I tadured, nrfert I Imimr convinced thai the - .asssssssaw ever for this. 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INVESTORS! $ i o for S i . Thcro's plenty of mold tn Cnlorailn'a mining caiitpa. Sndua$l for a year's aubacription t-. OQf nitf il lustrhtni minimi and real estate weekly (founded 1H98) and we will aend you a block of 'en aliare (110 par value) tn a new minion cotuiiany, paid up and iion-aaaenHahle. ('lobs of it $2.70. or ten and 100 aharen for gx ou Hend toitay and don't get left nothing ruAr, rwthing gained. .Our paper has fine illuatratlona, latent mining newn and will keep you fully puated. Kefer to the editor of this paper. Stumpa taken. Hem It by money order. Addreaa I.AVDftANDHINIM, Ofnyrr. Col. COIiORADO INFOBMATION BIJRRAI! turoiabea relialile Information on nny aub ject pertainlna; to Coloradn'a Mtnea. Fruit Oar den and (Iraalna; I.anl, Live Stock. Poultry, Ileea, IrrlKatlon. Railroada, Hot nery, IitHli Keaorta, anltariuina, ( nun try Bomea for Inva Hda, ate., etc. Pee fl fit. Special reporta on mining propertlaa at reaaonable ratea. Send 28 centa and get three finely illustrated books on Colorado resources. Address : We. J. Blakely, Denver, Cello. .BatSaatw .aasssmi mm mm mm 555 The PennsylyaBia Stale College SAWMILL AND ENGINES it. i Yri skin, copper colored splotches, and fallinr unmtstaasMe signs of Contagious Hlood Poison. . . . .8. . . " a, manner, being a purely vegetable remedy ; it invigorates me general nsaiui. s. s. b. is tne i the Blood Poison. No matter in what stare or doctors could do ane oo good I had spent a huedred tried varioua patent tnediclnea, bet they did not reach the disease When 1 hu! tntikhrd mv fimt bottle of S. 8 8 I waa greatly Improved, and waa delighted ,vm, n,r rraut The luigr. red tplotehei on my cheat began to grow paler and amaller, and before long diaappesred entlirlv I icgaiped my loet weight, became stronger, and my appetite improved. I waa aoou entirely writ, and uiy itkiu aa clear aa a piece of glaaa." Send for our Home Treatment Book, which contains valuable information about this disease, with complete directions for self treatment. Our medical department is in charge of physicians who have made a life-time study of blood diseases, Don't hesitate to write for any information or advice wanted We tnnke no charce what' in the most sacred confidence. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY. ATLANTA. GA. Read This! Read This! MY PRESENT STOCK OF CARPETS Ir larger than ever before; my PRIC s LOWED than OTH ERS fin 1 1 e NAME GOODS. My prices on 40 rolls of cm pet I wish to close out will suit llio pocket book of ninny ami save others money. 1) not think of buying your fall carpets until you give my stock of carpets your attention and gel ihe prices of some of my baagains 1 am offering. Prices just right One Word About let urea. l am ottering my present stock of pictures at cost, LESS X THAN COUT and some for the price of the glasB in the frames. O Don't miss this sale. I have some pretty tliinc to offer in Furniture, all new. q Later will surprise yon in Styles and Prices. UNDERTAKING ! UK DERTAKING ! Jntliis branch of my business I am prepared to give the public the best serbioe that can be sec u roil bv money limn mid personal attention. My equippiiKe in tbis branch of Ihikhiphh is one of the finest in the state. HEARSES, CARRIAGES and UNDERTAKING PARLORS are op to date. One word about import that my attention has be called to lnflv In , .mi to my prices, I (.UARANTtCKIonirnlslitlicminiciioonsiil i I : -s MONK.Y limn .r , house in the count) . I UUAHAKTKB to give you easier I'AYMKNT iimn a 11 licrs, First-Class Livery Connected with Undertaking Department. W. H. FELIX, (fi Telephone ( 'onnection, o !OOQOOOOOOOOOOC Liberal Adjustments Prompt Payments. REMEMBER"" H. HBRVEYSCHDCH, GENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY ElilNSGHOTE, FA. Only Hit) Oldest, Strongest Casb Companies, Fire, Lite, Accident and Tornado. No Assessments. No Premium Notes. 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CC0O90O00OO0000OOOO00Q00 t .-..l - J . . . i -r'. .; 1 ' M SEND ONE DOLLAR ad. mi aadavad u am aUUt wbcthtr ou wiU taKJIls' UB iiuiM un ui, aino coior ana Rear wan tea, jagS&JEg 6RADE 1900 MODEL ACBE JEWEL BICYCLE, fei. wuIm. You can examine at y'Ur rxpre.. oflloe, snd If found s.rfertlr Milif.etry, ri "tl? ..r.pr.T,lKl. IhrBOTSOMIHIH H HI K jo. fw Mw.r h..rd of. equal to bli'TcIi. (list reUUaa bU'h a.. 40.00, If yon think you can Mil It at SIO.OO smSt aaj. pay the eipn.-ja.:eiil0US IPIEMl PIKI, SI3.7S. the MM lent with order, or Sis. U and exprcsarharres. While eer Sptelal llleyels .ruloeur.:!i..!nl f ree fdr tbo aafclns. allows all blcrle. brlaw all other bssjaea. .tripped isoo0..i...i.--r'.. .. an :t. Jul SCstf S. 111. COT I I I I K I W v