FREEHAND TRIBUNE. PrBMSniTP EVERY r MONDAY AND THURSDAY. Tims. A. HI (-K LKY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. I OFFICE: MAIN STREET ABOVE CENTRE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year $1 50 Six Months 75 Four .Months 50 Two .Months 25 Biibscrilx?rß are requested to observe the dab' following the name on the labels of their paper*. By referring to this they can tell at a glance how they stand on the books In this office. For Instance: G rover Cleveland 28Junefl5 that Grover Is paid up to June 28,1806. Keep the flgures In advance of the present date. ' Report promptly to this office when your pai>er Is not received. All arrearages must bo paid when paper Is discontinued, or collection will be made in the manner provided by law. According to the Presbyterian Jour nal, "In Mongolia the missionary is j often asked to perform impossible and I ridiculous cures. One man asked to be made fat, another to be made clever, another wished to be cured of hunger, another to have his taste for tobacco or whiskey taken away, while almost everybody would like to have his skin made white, like the for eigner. " Returns for 18R3 in tho controller's oflice show to the New York Tribune that it is a good thing t<> be sherilt* of New York county. Resides his salary of $12,01)0 a year, Sheriff* John J. Gorman received as his share of the fees collected the neat sum of $52,- 610.00. Added to the $12,000 salary, Mr. Gorman therefore received the fortablo remuneration of $01,010.00 for his services last year. Fog is to most people depressing, but if it is not too thick it affords one beauty that is unique. This ap pears only at night and in places that are well furnished with arc lights. These lamps spread a white radiance through the moisture-laden air abovo and around them, and, as they sputter and flicker, the nebuhe seen over Iho roofs, am! awnings appear liko the re flection of a great fire, except that the light is white instead of red and yel low. When forms are blurred in tlio mist, and distance is obliterated, this playing and flashing of pallid lights is magical and uncanny as well as beau ful. What will the Frenchmen, who think there is no life outside of Paris, say when they hear that our Embassador to France is anxious to return to the United States because he finds life in the French capital too quiet for him, asks the San Francisco Chronicle. Air. Eustis will achieve great distinction if he succeeds in dispelling the insane idea of many Americans that Paris is a particularly desirably place of resi dence for a person born and bred in the United States. He will not need to exert himself greatly to prove that there are many cities in this country where life can be enjoyed more ration ally and pleasantly and with a greater degree of that excitement which Saroey oalls the wine of life, than in Paris. It is curious to calculate how a man has spent the time of his life and how largo a portion of it is taken tip with occupations thnt seem to bo of small moment,observes the Atlanta Constitu tion. A man of fifty years of age, for instance, if lie takes th • pains to esti mate his time, will find that he lies slept about 6,000 days; has worked about 6,500; has walked for 800; has amused himself for about -1,000; has spent 1,500 in eating ; bus been sick f>i About 500 nud so on. A gentleman who has lived in tho suburbs of lliis city for thirty years, recently calcu lated that he had spent in that time two years on cars; another, who shaves hynself regularly three times a week, estimates that since lie was tv; nty he has spent nine mouths in scraping his face. Says the Boston Cultivator: "There was a reduction of seven per cent, in tho acreage of winter wheat sown lust fall in this country. That was din mainly to the low prices of wheat at that time, though these prices were from twelve to fifteen cents a bushel higher than wheat prices now. What will naturally lie the result if wheat continues at present prices until the time for seeding the spring crop in tiio great Northwest? At present prices for wheat, almost any other grain yields larger return-;. L,ud which will produce good spring wheat will surely bring large crops of oais aud barley, either one of which is worth more per pound than wheat. There will also be a large substitution of corn and potatoes for wheat. These causes will tend materially t<, reduce this year's wheat crop, unless there i, i a very material advance in wbo.it prices before spring seeding time," PATIENCF. Be patient ! Easy words to speak While plenty nils the cup ot life, While health brings roses to the cheek, An I far removed are care and strife. Fulling so glibly from the tongu j Of those I often think of this Whom suffering has never wrung, Who scarcely know what patlenco Is. Be patient! when the sufTerer lies Prostrate beneath some fell disease, And longs, through torturing agonies, Only for one short hour of ease. Be patient ! when the weary brain Is racked with thought and anxious care, Au l troubles in an endless train Seem almost more than it can bear. To feel the torture of delay, The agony of hope deferred ; To labor still from day to day, The prize unwon, the prayer unheard. And still to hope and strive and wait The due reward of fortune's kiss— This is to almost conquer fate, This is to learn what patience is. Despair not! though the clouds are dark, And storm and danger veil the sky ; L't fate and courage guide thy bark, The storm will pass -. the port is nig a. Be patient ! and the tide will turn, Shadows will floe before the sun. Those are fho hopes that live and burn To light us till our work Is done. All the Year Round. LILLIAN'S LOVER. IIY HELEN FORREST ORAVES. / 1 am! 0 /V / feffl afraid," said I /Cjiljf (Tlv\ Jessie Mor- I WmJr S,"U.I'M have missed ][*pMjsJp| "'kown i, j £ )T jhe j '" snow -man tled land scape a red glow of sunset yet lingered ; j while the black pines an I cedars ! quivered in the wind. "I wish," added Jessie, "tint I ! hud asked that man below which was j the right turning to take. But 1 was afraid of him; he looked so cross." She was a tall, slim slip of a thing, with blue, wistful eyes, hair of the real Scotch gold, and red lips, that trembled partly with cold, partly with a certain vague terror at tho position in which she found herself. In her hand she carried n heavy bag, for Jessie had no money to pay omnibus hire, or to engage a sleigh at the railway station. "►Suppose, she said to herself, "this lonely road should lead no where, except into tho woods? Sup pose it should conduct mo straight into a gypsy camp? For it seems more and more desolate the further I go. Suppose I should be frozen to , death, all alone here, with no helping hand to sax#me?" "Take care, child," cried n lon 1, I clear voice. "Do you want to be run j over?" | It was no gypsy, nor vet n black brown tramp, simply a plump, com- j fortablo woman, driving herself in a trim little red cutter. She eyed Jes j sie curiously through her spectacles. Jessie returned the gaze with interest. "Please, madam," said Jessie, "can you tell me if I nm near Bucknor Hall ?" "Bless me," said the woman, "don't you know? Bucknor Hull was burned i down last night, aud the old lady was 5 suffocated in the smoke. Friends of j ! yours?" 1 Jessie put her bag down in tho . i snowy road; she trembled violently. ' 1 —not exactly friends," she said, j j "But T was engaged to go there as j I companion and reader, and—and— Uli, what shall Ido now?" j The old lady looked meditatively at j the lash of her whip. "Conic from New York?" said she, j after a pause. "Yes—from the Wilberforce Protec- I tive Agency. And I spent all my money i for the ticket here." 'One or two bright round tears de tached themselves from the long lashes and rolled slowly down her cheeks. j Mrs. Parkliurst, who prided herself! on her knowledge of physiognomy, mado up her mind on the spot. "One thing is very certain," said ' ' she. "Mrs. Bucknor will never rc . quire a companion and reader now. ! And if you're puzzled what to do next, you had better jump in and go with inc." "Where?" said Jessie. "Home," said Mrs. Parkhnrst. Now, Jessie Morton herself was not a bad judge of the human face divine, 1 and in the indescribable solitude of this moment, she caught at the wel- ' come idea of shelter nud company. | She got into the red cutter, drew the buffalo r<>!> around her shivering form, and nestled close to Mrs. Parkliurst, before she ventured to ask, timidly : "Where ih home?" Mrs. Park hurst shook the reins. The pony darted merrily over the smooth road into the purpling dusk. "It's the Bassett Military Institute," | said she, with a very visible pride, j "I'm housekeeper there." "What!" "Oh, take care!" scolded Mrs. Park- ! hurst. "You should hold on tight when we turn those sharp curves. You had very nearly fallen out. Yes, the j Bassett Institute. And a tine place it is! I was thinking—if your references turn out what they should be—we might make room for you there. We need a smart young woman in the linen room. I suppose you can do something else besides companioning and reading —eh?" "Oh, yes 1" "You'd like a place?" "I must have one." "Then," said Mrs. Parkliurst, "we'll think of it. Fourteen professors and one hundred and ten boys—that's a family to take care of, isn't it? For the colonel's wife is an invalid, and \ don't trouble herself about the house- ! keeping. T and my widowed daughter | run the whole establishment, audi there are nine of us sit dowu to din ner iu the housekeeper's room. There!" as they drove in between two massive stone gate-posts, into an avenue of rustling tamaracks. "Do you see that pretty young lady gathering holly berries? It's the colonel's daughter, Miss Lillian Bassett." "You've come back, liftvo yu# Turkey?" cried a sweet, girlish young voice. "Did you bring my chocolate caramels?" "The candy store was shut up, Miss Lilly." "Oh, how perfectly shameful!" And a cluster of glaring red ber ries, aided by u not unskillful hand, hustled through the air, and hit the housekeeper exactly on her nose. But, instead of evincing offense, Mrs. Park liurst only laughed. "Isn't klic pretty?" said she, "and such a mad-cup. Well—perhaps mar riage will sober her dowu." "Is she to be married soon?" asked Jessie. "We don't quite know," said Mrs. Parkliurst. "But one of the young professors admires her very much, and we think she don't quite dislike him." Jessie looked wistfully back to where Lillian Rassett's scnrlefc mantle lighted up the snowy terrace. Why I were some girls so happy, while others 1 toiled ceaselessly on in life's shad own? Why was life such a problem? ( For awhile, however, the wheels ro [ vol ved smoothly. Jessie's references, | forwarded from the Wilberforce Pro , I t-octirc Agency, proved all that could I he desired, and she was engaged to j take char go of the linen-room. I During an outbreak of scarlet fever she found herself particularly efficient , ms a nurse, and Mrs. Parkliurst soon ' began to wonder how it was that she i had ever got along without her. j "Married, Lilly! Really married! And to that handsome young pro fessor of mathematics!'* cried Adelu i Maurice, Lillian's ex-schoolmate. | "Well, J never expected to see you | caged! And he's quite 11 self -mado man, they tell me." I "I tell dour Lillian," said Miss Bella : Bassett, the sharp-nosed maiden sister ! of the genial colonel, "that she should ! not make too sure of anything in this 1 world. The captain is very hkud some, and all that sort of thing, but —Pm afraid lie's inclined to be a j flirt." j "Nonsense!" cric.l Lillian, coloring wrathfully. i "Oh, but indeed, T'vo met him twice at the shrubberies, walking with that pretty yellow-haired girl that takes care of the linen-room," per : siste 1 Miss Bella. j "What!" exclaimed Miss Maurice, j "One oi the servants?' | "Now, Aunt Bella, why Can't you , hold your tongue," Hushed out Lillian, j "when you know very well that old Parkliurst says she is a reduced lady?" I "Reduced Indies have no business wnu lering about the laurel hedges I with handsome young engaged men, " i viciously retorted Miss Bassett. "And 1 really think my brother ought to inquire into it. There she goes, flouncing out of the room. Well, I'm really afraid, Adelu, that our Lillian's temper isn't altogether perfect." "I don't think mine would be," said A del a Maurice, "if I were bad gered like that." j "It is a dreadful trial, isn't it, to 1 see your lover drifliug off into nn . other woman's snares?" said Miss Bella, wilfully misunderstanding things. ( While Lillian, running up stairs, j paused to catch her breath at one of j the big mullionod windows on the staircase. j "Mow I should like to cram a big I lmth sponge into Aunt Bella's con j sorious old mouth!" said she. "Onlv j to think of—" | Suddenly she paused. Down on the I lower pine walk, where the west winds I I had swe it the path dry of snow, Cap tain Moreton was pacing up and down with the gold-haired young girl at his side. " Well, why shouldn't thej ?" said bravo Lillian, swallowing the rebel lious lump in her throat. "I sup pose. lie happened to meet her, and—" At this precise moment, however, the couple paused beside a group of dark spruces. She could distinctly perceive her lover bend his tall head to kiss —ves, to kiss the yellow-tressed lassie. And then they passed on into the tamarack thickets and were lost to view. Lillian stood still, her bright eyes brimming ovit with tears, a pang transfixing her heart as if some poi : soiled arrow weiv buried there. "And I loved him !" she said, aloud, j "Ob, how I loved him! Rut this is an end oi it all. To-night, when becomes ' i to talk to me— to-night there must be i !an end of ; t al!!" The young professor wns certainly a very handsome man, with his brill iant blue eyes, his brown hair, shot j with golden gleams, and those straight, clear-cut features of his; and when he | came cheerily in that evening, Lil lian's heart failed within her. "How can he bear himself so bravely?" she thought. "Where is his conscience—his manly truth?" j "I nm glad, Lilly, to find you alone," said Captain Moreton, tenderly, tak ing her hand in his. She jerked it away. "I hate sitting hand-in-hand," said j she, in answer to his surprised glance. "It's so -so spoony!" "Well, just as you like, darling," lie j acquiesced, seating himself beside her. "To find you alone, for I wanted to I talk with you very particularly. I have a secret to tell you." 44 There may be more secrets than one in the world," said Lilly, in a low voice. "A secret that is not entirely my own —a secret that may, perhaps,alter all our existing arrangements—" "It undoubtedly will," said Lilly, rising to her feet in her excitement. | "You need not go on, Captain Moreton. j I know all, and I give your betrothal riug back to you !" "Lilly, I would scarcrly have thought this of you!" he said, gravely. "No? For what did you take me, Am I not a woman, with a wo man's'spirit? Do you think T can con tinue to love a man who is false to me?" "False to you, Lillian? But I am not that. Sweet, whether you marry mo or not, I shall go on loving you loyally to my life's end !" "How many girls do you love at once?" bitterly asked Lillian. 4 'l ? Why do you ask that question ?' "Because I saw you this very al tor noon in the pine walk with anothei woman. I saw your arm around het waist. J. saw you stoop to kiss her!" 4 'Ob, you saw me, did you? Then my story is half told already. It is but a short time, Lilly, since I kuew it myself." Bhe stood looking at him with large, surprised eyes. How dared he speak so lightly—and to her? "Lilly, tlmt sweet young girl whom Mrs. Parkhurst lias employed in the linen-room Miss Moreton, she calls herself is my own sister, and she has concealed herself from me, fearing that the knowledge that i-lie was in the instiiuto in such a capacity would ; prejudice my future unfavorably. ! She was a governess in New York she wfts coming hero as companion to I poor old Mrs. Bucknor, who was killed lin the fire—and Mrs. Parkhurst, ignorant of any relation between us, brought her here. And, noble heroine that she is, she would have gone away without betraying herself, had 1 not ! chanced to meet her by accident. She thought I would be mortified, but in stead I am proud of licr beyond the power of word" to express. 44 'But Miss Bassett?" said she. "And tlion 1 told her that this even ing yen should know all. I have kept my word. Now I await your verdict. Have I not reason to triumph in such a noble sister as this?" Lillian burst into tears; she hid her face ou Moret oil's breast. "Oh, Will," she cried, "wliat a dreadful goose I have been to doubt your love! Go and bring her here at once. Tell her I want to see my dear new sister. Tell her that, hereafter, her home must bo with me. There's plenty of room in the new house for your sister. But first, Will, kiss mo and tell me tliut you forgive me, quite." And RO the brave young girl, who had subordinated her wholo life to her brother's success, was promoted to her proper place on life's ladder. "I could have been happy anywhere had I known that Will's future was assured," said she. I And Lillian laughingly told her that ! she could bo as happy in the new col lege as anywhere else. "And we," said she, "will be a deal happier!" Miss Adela Maurice and Jessie were the bridesmaids. Aunt Bella put her disappointment in her pocket, and the wedding came off at Easter, greatly to Mrs. Park [ hurst's delight. "I knew," said that worthy dame, "that she was something out of tho common the lirst look I hud in her face. Physiognomy never yet failed me!"— Saturday Night. At Sea on an lee Floe. Recently the lifeboat society at Cronstadt received news that toward the south shore of the Gulf of Finland, about thirty miles from Cronstadt, some 200 fishermen and peasants, and their horses and sleighs, had been I suddenly carried out to sea 011 a large I ice floe, which had been detached ap parently by a recent storm. The ice cutting boat* at Cronstadt were laid up for the winter and could not bo : used. Twenty sailors, however, with ; two officers and assistant surgeons, | were dispatched over the ice with two I lifeboats on runners, and a similar party started to the rescue from Oren'enbaum, on the other side of tho mouth of tho Neva. Tho latest tele grams from Cronstadt state that the fishermen and others have been found and all rescued by means of a bridgo made of poles and planks, which wero thrown out from tho firm ice. They had been cut oft* from tho mainland for at least forty-eight hours, during the latter part of which provisions were passed over to them by the in habitants of the nearest shore. Scien tific American. A Dog ol Destiny. Phoenix, Arizona, has a bobtailed dog which is destined to make a place for himself in history. Recently lie broke up a race between hose teams, lie acts as chief mourner at all funerals held in tho city. But now one more has been added to his accomplishments. On several occasions recently he has stopped runaway horses by seizing the lines in his teeth and holding on till the animals stopped.—San Frauciscc Chronicle. Caerphilly Without Care. Apropos of the prevailing inability ' of trainmen on our elevated and other railroads to call out tho names of sta* ! tions with distinctness, a gentleman who hus lived for several years in Wales Hays that there is nt least one station in that country which tho rail* way guards are bouud to pronounce carefully. It ia Caerphilly.—New York Tribune. MARKING SHEEP. Tho best ear marks for sheep are the metal nickel plated loops, upon which are stamped the owner's name and the numbers of tho sheep. To distinguish the ewes from tho other sheep they may be marked in the right ear, the others in the left. An easy way to further distinguish any special sheep is to put tho marks in perpendicularly in the ears, the others beiug put in horizontally. Tho numbers are used in the record book of those sheep that are so desired to bo distinguished.— New York Times. THE PERFECT FARM HORSE. Tho perfect farm horse has not been developed yet, and it is prob able that there may not bo entire con currence in the ideal drawn. This summary of its accomplishments, how ever, is not beyond attainment. It must have tho size and strength to draw a plow with case ; tho stylo and action necessary to make a trip to market and back in tho least possible time; of a docile disposition, but not to tho detraction of nerve, a most necessary qualification of a good farm horse; and, lastly, it must be such a horse as can successfully meet compe tition in the sale riug.—Now York World. TREE PLANTING. Mr. N. Ohmor, the well known lior -1 iculturist of Dayton, Ohio, recently made tlie following statement with re gard to tree planting before the stu louts of the School of Agriculture) of the Ohio State University: "I give special attention to plant ing. I consider this matter of plant ing a very important one. It is roally very much neglected. I set my trees a little deeper in the orchard than they stand in the nursery. I dig holes for setting twelve or iifteen niches deep, and when I come to the cultivation of my trees I throw the earth toward them. In preparing the trees for planting, I cut off all bruised or muti lated roots, tn the peach tree, I cut the top also, in order to give the tree proper shape, otherwise you will have long branches that will break beneath the weight of the fruit. If your tree has good roots, you need have no fear that the cutting of the to]) will injure it." "Have you a plan for keeping your trees in line in planting?" "1 have always exorcised great care in setting my trees to huvo them well arranged. I use a very simple device of my own. Under proper arrange ment the orchards look better, and I think do better, when arranged in regular order." POULTRY FOR RUN-DOWN FARMS. New England bus always used the raw material of other States and man- i ufactured goods of all kinds in which I her people have excelled. With fewer advantages as an agricultural country, | yet she excels in yield, in proportion j to area cultivated, in many crops that j are grown extensively elsewhere. : Massachusetts produces more corn per j acre than any other State, but it pays * her people better to grow articles that I bring the highest prices in market. ' So far as pure breeds of poultry are i concerned, New England leads all other j sections, and she derives an enormous j sum from that source alone, while her j farmers also get the best prices for dressed carcasses nud eggs. Ol late years it has been largely ad vertised that many farms in some sec tions of Now England no longer pay, and that their owners have ceased to take an interest in them, oven going so far ns to abandon them in cases that have been noticed. The cause assigned is that farm products are grown so cheaply in the West that our farmers cannot compete with the West ern farmers. But our farmers can use (he cheap foods, however, and change them into more salable products. It may be mentioned that so far as the quality of the soil is concerned, poul try can be made a specialty 011 the poorest or the best, and tho frozen stock of the West has never interfered with prices in the East. Strictly fresh, uearby eggs and choice carcasses can not lie brought East, while consumers will not discard the good for tho in ferior.—Mirror and Farmer. CHRYSANTHEMUMS. Who doesn't love chrysanthemums? Vet comparatively few raise them, the reason usually given beiug that they are too much trouble. Many others, u t knowing that they can be raised from seed, thinking the plants must be purchased from a florist, do not raise them on account of the expense. One nice way to manage them is to lit a lot of egg-shells into a box, fill the shells with sandy soil, and in each one plant a seed, covering them to a depth equal to about twico the thick ness of the seed. Care for them as for any other seed. If planted about (he last of February they will bo ready to transplant by t he time all danger of frost is gone. Transplant each plant into a five or six inch plot. Sink the pot 111 the earth in the garden where they will get tho morning sun, but will bo partially shaded in the after noon. Water if necessary, but they will require little else, 'in August (hey should be trimmed back to twelve or fourteen inches in height so that they will braucli out and thus bear many flowers. lu September it is well to begin giving them manure water two oz three times a week. Not absolutely necessary, of course, but it will pay any one to go to the trouble, for the blooms will be not only more abundanl but larger and more brilliant. They should be removed to the house early enough in the fall to iusure against frost, but should bo put in a room without fire at first. Indeed, the cooler the plunts are kept after they onco begin to blossom the longer the bloom will last, and by a little manage ment may be kept for Christmas blooming. To do this thoy should bo more shaded than the other plants and not cut back so early in the season. Then when brought into the hous3 they should bo kept as cool as possible not to freeze. | Somo persons do not sow the seed until the season is so far advanced | that tlicy maybe sown in open ground. They grow all summer where sown, but are potted early in the fall, be in 3 trimmed back at that time. They do not bloom quite so early as where the seed is sown earlier, and the plants not disturbed by fall potting, but some as lino blossoms as I ever saw have been grown on plants so treated.— Farm, Field and Fireside. THE FARMER'S GARDEN. It is probably true that farm gar dens, vegetable and fruit gardens, will bo more generally cultivated this yeai than ever before, for the reason thai wo are daily learning more of the re quiroments of life and discover them only in a well supplied table, and thai the latter is found only where the kitchen gardeu affords the necessary material. Man is not altogether a meal eater; indeed we have learned that with fresh vegetables and fruits from h properly conducted garden with cream and butter and oggs ho is much bet ter off and likely to enjoy bcttei health than with more meat. IJOSS meat and pastry, less high living and a nearer approach to nature's own health giving products will nour ish and sustain the auimal economy with less irritation of the mental and physical systems, less indigestion and constipation and a heartier, happiet tone generally. A good sized two acres near to the house should be laid off, thoroughly plowed, well manured and put in the finest possible tilth. Then determine what vegetables you want for spring, summer, nutum and winter use. Take a pieco of blank paper, mako a map showing where tho roads through it are to be, then where this that and the other thing is to be planted. Goose berry, currant and raspberry bushes may be planted in straight rows only from end to end, so as not to interfere with the plow; but they should be, if possible, nca:: the road and pathways or along under the fences. j Deep cultivation, perfect tillage anil i thorough manuring with stable or ! barn yard manure are the main requi ( nitea to success. Take, then, one of the great seetl catalogues and select what seed you want for tho lirst year. If ; you are short of help select fewer vu ( rieties, but have them so as to supply , a continuous variety from the earliest i spring till frost comes, and even then have tt store of such as will keep | through the winter. The American farmer should be the best fed man in the world, princes and kings not ex cepted ; and he will be if he only lays himself out to produce for liis own table lresli fruits and vegetables, fresh milk, butter, eggs and poultry, and fresh meat when it may he convenient ly had. The beautifully gotten up seed catalogues published by our ad vertisers for gratuitous distribution should be in every farmhouse iu the country and ho freely and fully con sulted. They not only remind one of the varieties needed, hut, as a rule, tell how they are to bo cultivated so as to insure tho best results. The making of thegnrden and the planting thereof may come just when all hand's and horses are wanted for other work, but hotter employ oxtra help to make it than not have a garden at all. It should bo so planted as to admit of horse cultivation,—Column's ltural World. FARM AND HARDEN NOTES. It is in working the butter that the fine art of butter-making comes in. Eggs from pallets nro not npt to hatch as well as those from adult fowls. In every country school agriculture, horticulture and dairying should bo taught. Poultry powders nro rarely required j for Hocks that are fed and cared for properly. 1 he secret in growing large and flue chickens is to feed often and but little at a time. . There is a better market for small cheeses than for those weighing forty or fifty pounds. Propel care and feeding are even more necessary than breeding for early maturity of stock. Little ducks require almost twice as much food as chicks, but they grow very rapidly. They should be fed four times a day aud given all they will eat. It is paid that unrendere 1 beef tal low chopped into very small pieces aud mixed in the feed for two or three I days will put a tine gloss on the plum age of show birds. | A TALE FROM THE MOUN. TAINS. nOW A FARMER'S WIPE WAS BATED A Remarkable Story o! ■ Woman's Ex cape From Dentk Told la Iler Onr.i Word*. (From the Scranton, Pa. f Republican.) Nearly five mtlrs north or the town of Ber wiok, In Columbia County, Pa., right at the foot of a spur of the North Mountains, Is the homo of Ainos Cop?, a sturdy young farmer. A Scranton newspaper man drove from Berwick to tho G'opo farm in order that the accuracy of an interesting rumor might be | determined. -**. Ho had nearly reached the farm when he | observed a woman coming towards him from ; the fields near by nn 1 walking somewhat rapidly. He was not cer:aln that he was on the right road and, awaiting her coming, In | quired as to whero Amos Cope lived. Being > told that the farm house just ahead wns the : p'ao?, ho said ho had come out to seo Mrs. I Cope, nnd was fairly startled when she re ! plied, "I am Mrs. Cop?." I Bho was about thirty years old—her eyoe flashed with brightness, and her cheeks were I of that healthful glow that is so common | among the wives and daughters of farmers. She had been out gathering raspberries and ! was closing up a day's picking of about forty j quarts. Iloiug asked concerning her sick ness and recovery, she stated explicitly and 1 unreservedly that she regarded her present 1 hoalth bettor than it had been in years. "All of lost year, and part of the previous one," she said, "1 just moped about tho hous3 un able to do anything, in bed perhaps mora than half tho time, nnd was treated by all the doctors of tho nearby towns. Bomo of thorn doctored mo for dyspepsia, others for In flammation of tho stomach and rheumatism ; whilo pleurisy of the left side, and even in flammation of the brain (for there were tlm"8 when I knew not what I was doing)engaged tho attention of others. They all seomed at sea but I did everything they directod, but without aval'. "Uterine nnd stomach troubles also at : tended tho goneral breaking down of my (Strength and body, and Just before last Christmas I wafc forced to bod front which I did not arise until during bust March. Then none of my friends thought I would over get well. Medicines without stint wore bought nnd taken, so much so that I finally lost all hope of life and was ready to resign myself lo Co l's will. It was then my husband rea-1 of a medicine called Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Ho got tho pills, and lo please him I began Iholr use just as the directions said they should bo taken. Before the first box was used I could feel a decided change ; my ap petite was returning; I wns no longer dis tressed by gases on my stomach ; I could feel the blood passing through my veins, anil there was no more cf that terrible pain in tho region of the heart. My head became clearer nnd clearer, and before tho second box was used I was out of bed. lam now using the sixth box, and am HO much im proved that I feel that any of the drudgery on tho farm that is a woman's work I can now perform. We bought the Pink Pills at Dr. L. Reagan A Co.'s drug store on Front St.. in Berwick." Mrs. Emma Posten. a neighbor ef Mrs. Cope, and Mrs. Jacob Wise, a lady who lives on the road loading from Berwick to the farm, both continued thestory of Mrs. Cope's sickness. The reporter next visited Amos Cope where he was working iu the field. He fully corroborated ovary statement made by his wife, and seamed most happy that rink Pills had been tho means of bringing good health to his suffering wife. When Berwick was reached the reporter fouad Dr. L. Jleagan, one of the best known and most popular practicing phvpicians In tho place. He is also tho head or the drug firm of Reagan A Co. lie spoke freely ot Mrs. Cope's long illness and of her final curt by Dr. Williams' Pink Pi Is. Mr. J. W. Diet rick, tho druggist, stated that there wore many persons in the town now using Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. An analysis of Dr. Williams' rink Pillt Slows that they contain, in a condensed rm, all tho oleimiita necessary to give now lifo and richness to tho blood and restore shattered norvos. Tltey aro au unfailing spociflo for such diseases as loeomotoi ataxia, partial paralysis, Ht. Vitus danco, s jlatic i, neuralgia, rhoun. ilistn, nervous headache, tho after offoels of la grippe, pal pitation of tho heart, palo and sallow com plexious, an 1 all forms of weakness oithei Iu male or fo nalo. Pink Pills aro sold by all dealers, or w.ll bo sent post paid on reoolpl of prleo, (SO cents a box or six boxes foi #2.50 they aro never sold in bulk or by thi 100 ) by addressing Dr. Williams' Modloiui Company, Schenectady, N. Y.,or Brockville, Ontario. ADOPT twenty-two hundred persona wore killed during 188'J by tho deadly car-coupler. Seuttoied as theso un fortunate beings were over a great ex tent, of country and tho BO called acci dents extending over a year of time, no one gives the matter special atten tion. "When will this horrible and useless slaughter cease ? A postal, a droo ol' ink, a request for a frea catalogue \W) mailable artit U- - mve 251 ■ 50c. on 31. u ed\; Nerve ami Benin Treatment, 07c. Liver Pill* 1.V.; Poroun PHler.<. l.'c.; ilat Dye. 10c. h. A. llall, Charleston. S. 0. K^LEDGE^ Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who livo bet ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Svrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in tho form most acceptable and pleas ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a j>erfcct lax ative; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers and permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with tho approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid neys, Liver and Bowels without weak ening them and it m perfectly free fiom every objectionable substance. Syrup of Fip is for sale by all drug gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered. P N ulfi
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