Improved Tco Fast.
Mrs. Smith (thoughtfully)—l'm afraid
I shall have to stop giviug Bobby that
tonic the doctor left for him.
Mr. Smith (anxiously)— Why, Isn't he
any better?
Mrs. Smith—Oh, yes! But he has slid
down the banisters six times this morn
ing, broken the hall lamp, two vaaes, a
pitcher and a looking-glass, and I don't
feel as if I could stand much more.—
Harper's Bnzn r.
Crease and Increane.
An elephant wears more creases to his
trousers than any other animal. They seem
to be sort of a kilt pleat with a bias slope.
He is not very fashionable, but Is up to date
in taking care of himself. Some sudden,
violent tSUns crease, twist or contract the
muscles or tendons, and this is the nature of
a bad sprain. If neglected, the creases in
crease, and so does the pain, until sometimes
it is very difficult to straighten them out,
but by the prompt use of St. Jacobs Oil, the
friction or rubbing in its application and the
curative qualities of the oil will smooth out
the worst twist or crease and get the muscle
in natural shape, where it will remain, re
stored, strengthened, cured. Promptness in
using It insures prompt oure, and when the
sprain is cured, it is cured for good.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 2Gc.a bottle.
The B. & O. Southwestern has adopted new
Specifications for section houses. These struc
tures are now being built with slate roofs and
cost about a piece. The slate roof is found
to be a preventative of lire from sparks.
CASCARETS stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe; 10c.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portions of the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that Is by constitu
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
flamed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper
fect hearing. and when it is entirely closed
Deafness is the result, and unless the intiam
mation can be tnken out and this tube restored
to its normal condition, hearing will be de
stroyed for ever. Nino cases out of tenure
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
flamed condition of the mucous surfuces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can
not h cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
F. .T. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
.Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
WHEN bilious or costive, eat a Cascaret,
candy cathartic; cure guaranteed; 10< ~25c.
ff afflicted withsoreeyesuse Dr. iaaacThomp
son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. ner bottle.
FITS stopped free and permanently cured. No
fits A fteriirst day'suso of DR. KLINE'S GREAT
NRVK RESTORER. Free $.! trial bottle and treat
ise. .Send to Dr. Hline,&U Arch St., Phila., Pa.
St. Vitus'Dance. One bottle Dr. Fenner's
Specific cures. Circular, Fredonia, N. Y.
JUST try a ICc. box of Cascsrets, the finest
liver and bowel regulator over made.
Piso's Cure for Consumption has no equal as
a Cough medicine.— F. M. ABBOTT, 383 Seneca
bt., Buffalo. N- V., May U, 18U4.
The Kansas Methodist Conference has
voted in favor of the admission of women.
No-To-llac for Fifty Cents.
Over 400,000 cured. Why not let No-To-Bnc
regulate or remove your desire lor tobacco?
Saves money, makes health and manhood.
(Jure, guaranteed. 50 cents and fcl.UO, at ali
druggists.
The Bank of England was openend 202
years ago.
Almost Blind
Was my little girl, owing to scrofula trouble.
She was treated by physicians and sent to a
hospital without being cured. We resorted to
Hood's Sarsapnrilla, and In a week we could
see a change. We continued giving her this
medicine, and to-duy her eyes are perfectly
well; there is not a blemish on her skin, and.
she is the picturo of health." B. C. ALLEN,
221 West 61st Street,, New York, N. Y.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
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DSIIA prompt, efficient and
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V N C IS
GRAFTING UNPRODUCTIVE TREES.
A great improvement can be made
in most orchards by regratting those
that are lound to be of undesirable
.varieties. It can be done during this
month with greater oertainty that the
crafts will live than if cut and set
later. Grafts of the cherry and plum
must especially be cut as early as pos
sible. If kept in a cool, moist place
tbey can be Bet even after the trees
are in leaf.
MILKING.
If money is to be made from cows
it is essential that they be milked at
regular hours morning and evening,
says the Patron's Bulletin, and the
nearer the time is dividod e jually the
better it is.
It is also advisable to milk them in
the tame order every time ; it prevents
them from fretting. Personally, I
have found no satisfactory result un
less I managed to make friends with
tho coiv, or, if you please, indueod her
to look upon me asau "adopted oalf I"
While pure food and water is essen
tial to the production of perfect milk,
it has been proven that manv of the
taints which we thought were intro
duced in tho milk while it is elabor
ated in the cow, are due to direct con
tamination from the dust of dried
urine and excrements as well as of the
fodder itself in the stable. When tho
cow converts the food into blood and
then into mill:, most if not all of the
impurities are separated in that won
derful filter—the kidneys—and the
germs are found not in the milk but
in tho urine and excrements. A
healthy cow fed clean and healthy
fodder and water will always produce
perfect milk. We have been fooled,
us, for instance, by the fact that milk
from cows fed on turnips had a turnip
flavor, but careiul experiments have
shown that this flavor was produced
by a bncterium found on the turnips
aud in the excrements and introduced
in the milk directly by dust falling
into it whilo milking in a stable where
tho turnips were fed while milking or
shortly after, orwlmre the excrements
had a chance to dry and lloat as dust
iu the air.
Those faots make it clear that we
should not feed tho cows while milk
ing, and should not clean the Btable
jjist before milking, as the dust then
raised may drop in the mill:. Nor
should we keep a stock of such fodder
in tho stablo.
Of course there are certain weeds,
snob as leeks, rag-weed, oto., which
will taint the mill: as produced iu the
cow, and too much of certain foods
will affect the inilk in various ways.
Thus more than two poauds of linseed
meal per cow will make the butter
solt, uud so will rape-seed and peanut
meal, whilo more than two or tnreo
pounds of cotton-seed meal will make
it hard and like stearine.
RAISING EARLY rOULTRT.
There is.every encouragement to the
one who wishes to keep poultry for
eggs nnd market, writes B. N. Wol
cott, in the American Agriculturist.
The road of the amateur fancy cliickon
dealer is sure to bo a rough one for
rnauy years nt least, for there ore so
many well-known dealers, aud adver
tising and booming are over Jono and
disappointing. A dealer iu ono little
town shipped during tho month of
February 3000 dozen eggs. An nverage
of $230 worth of poultry was shipped
weekly last winter, aud there were
other dealers iu the same town and at
nearly every other town in the county.
No one, to my knowledge, makes a
specialty of poultry. It was the surplus
from the farms. A farmer near Arling
ton Junction hnd a tine Hock of
Brahmas, which are heavy weights to
sell ut maturity but do uot feather
early euough for broilers o'r early
pullete. Neither did they lay as well
as ho wished. Ho bought last year
some pure White Leghorn cockerels
and has an all-purpose chicken hard
to beat. In three weeks in December
ho sold fifty-live dozen eggs from
ninety hens nnd pullets at the time of
year when eggs ure searca and high.
They still keep up tho record. This
year he bought pure Brahmas cockerels
again, for the chickens soon get too
small for market purposes. Tho Cochin
and Brown Leghorn makes a lino
cross, or I'lymouth l'oek and White
Leghorn, and they feather early for
broilors. Early broilers are the most
profitable, aud they should weigh 1 or
1} lbs. by the first of May at least.
The next best thing to an incu
bator for hatching early chicks
is a dozen Cochin hens, and
this is about all the good I could ever
get oat of them. Laugshnns ore pret
ty fair early sitters. One must have
a dry, comfortable jilaee for them or
bowel disease will surely take them
oil—a henhouse feet long,
half the south side hinged at the
southwest corner to swing back and
bo a windbreik for the house. Tack
screen across the doorway to keep the
chicks inside, fsnd you have shelter,
sun and fresh air. A shed attached to
the east end of the henhouse, covered
and sided north and east with straw
or cornstalks nnd lathed on the south,
is a cheap nnd comfortable place.
Put the coops along the north side and
the chicks cun scratch nnd grow during
the cloudy wet days of spring without
danger of chill or drowning. A board
a foot' broad kt the ground keeps the
wind off of them and keeps them un
der the shed. I had eleven hatched
i the 23d cf February and they are
thriving finely under this shelter and
nre no trouble only to feed and water.
Don't begin to raise poultry without
some such place. The wear and tear
of constant watching, exposure to
rains, trying to corral tho broods, the
loss bv dampness and chill and drown
ing, all go to make early poultry rais
ing unpleasant and unprofitable;
whilo these cheap conveniences rave
all this, besides the nit iber of chicks
saved for early market.
PROFIT AC I.E ROOT CROP 3.
It is perhaps unfortunate that the
attention of farmers has been so
strongly and exclusively directed to
potatoes as a profitable crop to be
generally grown. It has undoubtedly
led to the too extensive planting of
potatoes, especially in the far West,
where ordinarily the climate is not
adapted to potato growing, aud where
four years out of five the crop must be
a failure. When it does succeed under
this extensive planting the market is
Kure to be glutted, so that not even
those who grow potatoes under tho
most favorable circumstances, and who
thoroughly understand the business,
can make anything. Such a misfortune
to potato growers occurred in 1895.
It is yet to be seen whether 189G will
not repeat the lesson. Prices of pota
toes are much lower now than they
usually are at this season, though
probably the amount in farmer's
hands, thanks to last year's dearly
bought experience, is les3 than it was
a year ago.
In the meantime shrewd farmers
who have made the most money in
growing potatoes, finding this crop no
longer profitable, have given their at
tention to the growing of other roots,
yielding qaite us largely as potatoes,
and for the past two years paying
much better. It is true that carrots,
parsnips, beets, turnips aud rutabagas
have not so extensive and sure a market
as have potatoes. Undoubtedly also
if any one or ali of these were to bo as
extensively planted as the potato has
lately been, their prices would go be
low paying rates. Yet at the risk of
repeating the mistake of Kocrdtary
Morten, we call attention to ths com
paratively high prices of all those
various root crops in the Bo3ton mar
ket. Each ono is, either retail or
wholesale, dearer than potatoes, and
on most land each can be grown in
larger crops and at less cost per bushel.
It is not very hard to grow 700 or
800 bushels of carrots or parsnips per
acre on good land. The work of weed
ing and thinning the plants whilo
young is the most troublesome and
disagreeable part of it. W hen grown
with such yields as this,absoluto loss is
hardly possible, as the roots are valua
ble for stock, aud will bo bought by
dairymen and horsemen lor morethau
it costs to grow them. While potatoes
nre not good stock feed, especially for
cows, there is nothing better for thorn
for produoing milk or butter tbau lib
oral feedings of carrots or parsnips.
All horsemen will buy, nt higher than
out prices, carrots for their horses.
Half oats and half carrots will keep
horses in better winter condition than
to double the ration of oats without
the roots. An old horseman once told
us when we had uny carrots that we
wanted to sell at thirty cents a bushel
to bring them to him, bat we could
sell at thirty to thirty-five cents per
bushel to tho groceries, and never but
once had oocasion to test his offer. The
beet crop, while not so nutritious as
the carrot and parsnip, is still more
easily grown, and is equally palatable
to all kinds of stock. Beets should
also appear on more tables andoftener
than they do.
Tho potato is doubtloss more starchy
than uuy of the roots, but it occupies
too exclusively tho foremost jiliine on
all tables both in city and country.
The roots proper are mora digestible.
If a greater variety of roots and vege
tables were eaten it would be better
alike for publio health, and for the
diversification of farming industries
wuioh is necessary to make them more
profitable.—American Cultivator.
Boat Meat for .Mutton.
Tho Biblical contrast between the
sheep and the goats came up oddlv at
Buffalo, N. Y., when Market Clerk
Hoesch announced he had discovered
that Western farmers are shipping
goats' flesh here and selling it for
mutton. The remedy for the practice
has been summary, for the clerk no
sooner made the discovery than he
poured kerosene oil all over the carcass
and set it afire.
This meat has been coming in for
some time, anil was becoming popular
with the butchers, as it was sold to
them at a cut juice, nnd could be
worked off as mutton. Ho far it has
not been discovered where tho meat
comes from, bat it appears that a con
siderable quantity of it has been gath
ered in some part of the West and
shipped here. Probably when other
receiving centres look into the matter
it will bo found there, too. It is hard
for the uninitiated to led goats' meat
from mutton, and it i 3 wholesome
enough if properly handled, but it is
far from being mutton, for all that.—
New York Press.
Ap Villi Folks', t'luh,
In Lexington, Ivy., there is a clab,
tho youngest member of wkioh is
eighty-nine years old. All the others
are over ninety. The elnb meets reg
ularly for purposes of mutual improve
ment and social pleasure.
THAT'S WHO!
Who hypnotized me with her w.ij*3
Until my heart was all ablaze
With love, and every nerve appeare 1
To be, like lightning, double geared?
Lucfndtu
Who listened to my earnest pleas,
And warme I toward me by degrees
Until she called me Sam, and said
I'd sort o' turned her little head?
My sweetheart.
Who let mo kiss her one sweet night
lionenth the moon's white metal light,
And said she'd ever cling to me
As clings the baric unto the tree?
My betrothed.
Who left the altar at my side,
Dressed in the trappings of a bride,
And said agaia and yet again
I was the king of all the men?
My wife.
And now who often calls me down,
Upon her face a vicious frowu,
And if to answer her I dare
Entwines her ilugers iu my hair?
Same girl.
—Denver Post.
HUMOII OF THE DAY.
Orator— <4 My friends, what is the
price of liberty?" Binthare—"Three
to ten dollars, according to the judge-"
—Judge.
• 4 Hor sweet humility," he wrote—
They read it with avidity,
And o'er the printer's break did gloat-
He set it up "humidity."
—Clevelaud Leader.
Deacon Black—"How did you like
it down at Bloomtowu?" Rev. White
"I tell you they're wide awake down
there I" "Oh, then you didn't preach
for them?"
If you're a cyclist, sir, you know
It makes u difference where you go:
For there are regions of retreat
Where rubber tires won't stand the heat.
—Detroit Free Press.
"Hear about Timrains writing a
poem to Dollie Fliptoe's foot?" "Xo ;
did he?" "Yes, and when he read it to
her lier foot went to sleep, so she
says." —lndianapolis Journal.
Alice—"Well, Maud, I hear you are
engaged to Jack." Maud—"Yes,"
Alice—"Well, I congratulate you. Ho
wn3 about the nicest fiance I ever had."
—Newcastle (England) Chronicle.
Freshman—"lsn't young Rush
brawny enough this year to play foot
ball?" Seuior —"Oh, yes; he's all
right physically, but u recent spell of
fever caused his hair* to fail out."—
Judge.
Miss Shorthair —"What changes
have taken place in the world !" Pro
fessor Longhair "Yes, indeed, my
dear. In the duys of Methuselah it
was the men who used to lie about
their age."—Judge.
"I'll teach you to play pitch and
toss !" shouted an enraged father. "I'll
Hog you for an hour,l will!" "Father,"
instantly replied the incorrigible,
"I'll toss you to make it two hours or
nothing."—London Tid-Bits.
Mrs. Mimms—"George,are you sure
you locked up the house?" Mimms
"By Jove! I can't remember about
the frontdoor." Mrs. Mimms—"Never
mind about the front door. How about
the coal bin ?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
New Boomer (sarcastically) "ls
this all the soap there is in the room?"
Landlady (decidedly)—" Yes, sir; all
I will allow you." Now Koomer—
"Well, I'll take two more rooms, l'vo
got to wash my face in the morning."
—Baltimore News.
"Dearest," he said, "I live upon my
love for you." "Then," sho coldly
returned, "I suppose you've been rat
ing cloves to throw others oSf the
scent." And when he got outside he
knew that tho last words had passed
between them.—Cleveland Leader.
Fond Wife—"What are you worry
ing about this evening?" Husband (a
young lawyer)—"Au important case.
My client is charged with murder, and
I can't make up my mind whether to
try to prove that the deceased was
killed by some other man or i 3 still
olive."—New York Weekly.
Passenger (alighting from cab)
"What's tho charge?" "One dollar."
"That's quite reasonable. 1 knew by
your face that you wouldn't try to be
extortionate." "Thankeel "I know
by your faco that you'd be too mean
to pay more than the legal fare with
out a law-suit."—New York Weekly.
Helen —"Oh, yes; he always thought
the world of me. Before we were mar
ried he used to say he was willing to
die forme." Nellie—"But he didn't,
Helen—"Of course not. Ho was so
thoughtful, you know. Ho said that
he did not dare to do it lest I should
be unable to replac3 the loss.''—
Household Words.
Hour to ltest.
To understand how to rest is of
more impoitanee than to know how to
work. Tho latter con be learned
easily; the former it takes years to
learn, and some people never learn the
art of resting. It is simply a change
of soenes and activities. Looting may
not be resting. Sleeping is not always
resting. Bitting down for days with
nothing to do is not restful. A change
is needed to bring into play a different
set of faculties, and to turn the life
into a new channel. The man who
works hard, finds his best rest in play
ing hard. The man who is burdened
with care finds reliof iu something
that is active, yet free from responsi
bility. Above all, keep good-natured,
and don't abuse your best friend—the
stomach.
A (front Benefaction.
The school children of Now Orleans
are raising a fund of S3OOO to erect a
monument to John McDonongh, who
bequeathed raoro than $1,000,000 to
New Orlenns for educational purposes.
The gift has resulted in the erection
of more than thirty public school
buildings, in which 18,003 children
are at present enrolled.
LONG DISTANCE RACE.
Louis Gimm, Who Hnn Ridden 480
Allies in 1-2 Hours.
Louis Gimm was bom in Germany,
but came to this country at an early
age, and to all intents and purposes is
an American. As such he has done
more to popularize long distance cycle
racing than any other wheelman In this
country. Aug. 14 and 15, 1805, at Cleve
land, Ohio, he reduced all American
records from nine to twenty-four
hours, paced, by riding 452 miles 1,715
yards in "twice around the clock." Last
September at the Coliseum in Chicago,
in competition, he created a uew Amer
ica n record for one day's riding by cov
ering 48G miles 1,157 yards 1 foot, ex-
LOUIS GIMM.
coeding his former mark by 33 miles
1,105 yards and 2 feet. He did not ride
the full twenty-four hours, thanks to
the officials, who, guided by humane
sentiments, had him withdrawn from
the track at the expiration of twenty
three and one-half hours. Had not that!
been done it was prolwible that his half
conscious form would have had to be
borne away by his attendants. Glmin'a
finish In that race was one of the most
pitiful sights that was ever beheld on
a race track. He seemed to bo a physic
al wreck. His eyes were glassy and his
form limp.
One \t the many wonders of the great
Paris exposition of 11)00 is to be a tele
scope of gigantic power. We hear from
Paris, says the New York Herald, that
the object lens is to be fifty-one inches
in diameter, and that the huge instru
ment will bring the moon within an
apparent distance from us of one mile
To accomplish this, however, the tele
scope must embody other new features
than merely gigantic size, as reports
from leading astronomical centers in
the country show. For comparison's
sake the diameters of the object glass
es of the greatest telescope in the world
are here given: The largest in exist
ence is the Lick, whose object glass is
thirty-six inches across. The second
largest Is at Pulkowa, Russia, with a
glass of thirty inches. The third is at
the University of Virginia, its glass
being twenty-six inches. Harvard has
the fourth largest, with a twenty-four
inch glass, and the fifth In size be
longs to Princeton College. The fa
mous Yerkes telescope glass, the latest
of the celebrated productions at Cam
bridge, Mass., is rated at forty inches
diameter.
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JNtf And Consider the All-Important Fact,
That in addressing Mrs. Pinkliam you are con
fJ> | fiding your private ills to a woman—a woman
y\ whose experience in treating woman's
v \ diseases is greater than that of any liv
f IYX3PAMV aRS physician—male or female.
(/ /) >Ff/ 8 ■ u ean freel y to a woman
\ * x\*"- it is revolting to relate your
\ Private troubles to a man -besides,
/ a man does not understand—simply
iJr because he a man.
Many women suffer in silence and
drift along from bad to worse, know
ing full well that they ought to have
(T MHHH immediate assistance, but a natural
modesty impels them to shrink from
/ exposing themselves to the questions
£ I and probably examinations of even
£ ,ilj njm their family physician. Itisunneces
£ fill [[M sary. Without money or price you
j w fill C£m consu li' a woman, whose
m Jl ■ - knowledge from actual experi-
II ence is greater than any local
m physician in the world. Thefol
* I lowing invitation is freely offered;
fc accept it in the same spirit:
MRS. PINKHAM'S STANDING INVITATION.
Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly
communicate with Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. All letters are received,
opened, read and answered by women only. A woman can freely talk of her
private illness to a woman; thus has been established the eternal confidence be
tween Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America which has never been broken.
Out of the vast volume of experience which she lias to draw from, it is more
than possible that she has gained the very knowledge that will help yonr
case. She asks nothing in return except your good-will, and her advice ha
relieved thousands. Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does
not take advantage of this generous offer of assistance. —Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass.
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