Anti-Rheumatic Potatoes.
Corporal Tanner, of the Algiers pre !
clnct, sat out In front of the statioD j
the other night In his shirt sleeves and j
took in the glorious breeze that came !
down Morgan street in all its glory. It
has been a rare occurrence to see the
Corporal In negligee attire. He has been
suffering terribly from rheumatism,
and throughout the summer has worn
his heavy woolen coat, even when the
humifiity would woo it from him. When
fate had him transferred to Algiers an
Irish lady living over there told him of
the virtues of the potato. She gave him
two small "prathles" to carry In his
trousers pockets, and he swears that
he at once felt the rheumatism sneak
ing from his bones. In a few ulghts It
was all gone. The potatoes have begun
to get as hard as a rock, and Corporal
"Bill" swears he will carry them
through life.—-Chicago News.
ITS WORST FORM
All Symptom* of Catarrh Have l>i*ap
pea red Since Taking Hnoil'a.
"My daughter ba.s had catarrh in its
worst form since sho was four years old.
She obtained only temporary relief from
medicines until sho began taking Ilood's
Sarsaparilla. Since using this medicine
the disagreeable symptoms of the disease
have entirely disappeared." M. W. Silsby,
Hartland. N. Y. Remember
Hood's Sarsaparilla
la the beat—in fact the One True Hlnotl I'urifter.
Hood's Pills Constipation, ftcentsf*
What Children Fear.
President G. Stanley Hall of Clark
University lias been collecting facts '
concerning the fears of children. The !
fears of children, he says, arc gen or
ally created by pareuts nnd servants |
He found that 1,701 children had 6, !
450 fears, the leading ones being the
fear of lightning and thunder, reptiles
strangers, the dark, death, domestic
animals, disease, wild animals, water,
ghosts, Insects, rats and mice, robbers,
high winds, etc.
A few of these fears are rational. Ir
New .Jersey no children were found to
be afraid of high winds, but in the
West that fear naturally loads all oth
ors. At Trenton, however, slxty-twc
children were found who dreaded the
end of the world, a fear created entire
ly by adult teaching. His tabulation
shows what education can do in this
respect.
No child was found to be afraid ot
the devil. Two hundred years ago and
less that fear would have led all tne
rest. Few were found who were j
afraid of ghosts, a fear that would
have stood high on the list not lons
ago. The fear of robbers and of wild
animals Is a survival, though robbers
have not disappeared as completely as
the wild animals.
Forty-six New Jersey children were
afraid of being burned alive, a mon
strous thing to Inculcate In the child
mind Fear will always he one of the
strongest influences In human life, but
at least it is possible by teaching whal
real danger consists of lo eradicate
groundless fears.—Chics go Tribune.
Klondike Trademarks.
The Klondike craze has had its effect
on the Patent Ofiice, as has been shown
by the application for trademarks
bearing the word. Two or three patents
have been applied for for objects \\ hich
might be better suited for the gold
fields there than elsewhere, but the
chief clerk refuses to tell of them.
When a girl does not look with favor
upon a young man's suit he should
transfer his patronage to another
tailor.
/A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE.
Heat, sense of tenderness and swelling of a part, EH''
re all indications that there is need of instant repair
—the stiteh in time. Where these symptoms exist on I
the left or the right side of the womb, disease of the ■ BWgkVy JftSifi''
ovary is setting in, and soon there will be, if thcrp Kjl, t'lTf,),, i I
is not already established, a discharge, trifling .at- to/r/' I
first, but later copious and irritating. Soon, also,
there will be felt dull, dragging pains radiating from j
Do not, my sister, let your malady go so far, but Jr j||
those of you who are already suffering in this / / If
way Bhould begin at once a course of treatment / Jf
with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. J
It will restore the organs to their normal con- j | j
In this connection Mas. E. L. MYERS. Quak-/ V J
alee, Pa., says: "My ovaries were badly dis-' J f
eased, and for almost a year I suffered withse- J
vere burning pains which were almost unendurable, and a dull, heavy pain 11
the lower portion of my back. If standing 1 was most relieved with my foot
resting on a stool or chair. The doctor told me I would have to take my
bed and keep quiet. I had not used half a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound before it worked wonders with me. I now owe my health
to the Compound. To thoso who are suffering from diseases peculiar to wo- 1
men, I would say that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is just what
they need."
Mrs. Pinkham wishes to befriend you, and If you will write her at Lynn, !
Mass., telling her just how you feel, she will give you the very best advice !
free of charge. Think what a privilege it is to be able to write to a woman i
who is learned in all these matters, and willing to advise you without charge.
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"Forbid a Fool a Thing and that he will do."
Don't Use
SAPGLIO
It Vegetable Sicilian A
Mairßenewer®
It b a renewer, because
it makes new again.
1 Old hair is made new t ijgfl
ft th e S ra y changed to the Vskttl
color of youth.
SIOO Reward. ®IOO.
The readers of thin paper will be pleased to j
learn that, there is at least one dreaded dis- i
ease that science has been able to cure in all
its stAires, and thai, is ('utarrh. Hall's Catarrh j
Cure is the only positive cure now known to I
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being aeon- |
stitutioual disease, requires a constitutional ;
treatment. Hull's Catarrh Cure is taken inter- !
nally, acting <1 recti} upon the blood and mu
cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy- j
iut? the foundation of the disease, and giving ,
the patient strength by building P the con- \
stitution and assisting nature in doing its I
work. The proprietors have so much faitii in
its curative powers that they offer One Hun. I
dred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Fenil for list of testimonials. Address j
I'. d. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Hills are the best.
There is a Class of People
Who are injured by the use of coffee. Re- i
eently there has boon placed in all the grocery I
stores a new preparation called Grnin-o,rua<le
of pure grains, tuat takes the place of coffee, j
The most delicate stomach receives it without ]
distress, and but few can tell it from coffee.
It does not cost over one-quarter as much.
Children may drink it with great benefit. 15
cts. and 35 cts. per package. Try it. Ask for j
Uraiu-O.
Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness alter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great I
Nerve Restorer. trial bottle and treatise free I
Du. H. H. Ki'tNE. Ltd.. 951 Arch St.,Ph 11a..Pa.
Mr*. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums,reducing inllnmma
tiou, allays pain, cures wind colic, woc.u bottle. 1
Origin of "Blue Blood."
The origin of the term "blue blood"
Is most suggestive. After the black '
Moors were driven out of Spain the
aristocracy of Spain was held to con
sist of those who traced their lineage
back to the time before the Moorish
conquest. These people wore whiter
than those who had been mixed with
Moorish blood. The veins upon their
white hands were blue, while the blood 1
of the masses, contaminated by the I
Moorish infusion, showed black upon
their hands and faces. So the white
Spaniards of the old race came to de- 1
j clare that their blood was "blue,"
| while that of the common people was
black. The phrase passed to France,
where It had no such significance, and \
was. In fact, quite arbitrary, and thenco J
It came to England aud America. j
Caring for the Teeth.
Do not eat, or do not feed your chll- j
dren on, white bread, which Is deficient
,' In phosphates, and causes the teeth to
| crumble. A little hard food requiring
thorough masMcation should be tuken
at every meal. The teeth should bo j
I brushed both night and morning. Avoid
sweets. Drink at least two quarts of
j water a day—a glass the first thing in
I ! the morning, another the last thing be
fore going to bed, the remaining quan
tity between meals. Consult a good
dentist about every six months.—La
dies' Home Journal.
1 Around the World on a Wheel.
1 Miss Annie Londonderry, the Aineri
' can woman who has made a tour of
i the world on her bicycle, Is now writ-
I ing an account of her experiences. Slit?
' was unattended, and it required two
years and two mom lis for her to make
, the trip.
I | It is a rare man who commends; men
kike to tell how it should have been
i done.
Protect Trees With Pine Tar.
To keep rabbits from injuring fruit
trees mix pine tar and grease equal
parts, warm and apply with a cheap
paint brush to the lower two feet of
the tree trunks.
Do Moles Eat Vegetables?
I have insisted that the mole is a
vegetarian, eating sesd corn, roots of
plants, as of asparagus, sweet pota
toes, common potatoes, carrots, tur
nips aud other plants, but those
chiefly. I have tested the contents of
the stomachs of a great many moles
caught iu traps, aud in every case
found starch in them, and on some
occasions have detected the actual
starch grains by the use of the mi
croscope. In no single case have I
found any animal matter, as the re
mains of grubs or worms, but the
vegetable matter has been found in all
examined without exception. This is
direct proof, whilo the French experi
menters have only such weak evi
dence as that the moles refused to eat
vegetable matter when in confine
ment.
Within a few days past I have made
a test. A mole was caught by hand as
he was pushing his way through a bed
of sweet potatoes, which had been bur
rowed through and through by the
pests. A barrel was sunk over two
hills of the row which had not so far
been eaten into. The mole was put
inside the barrel and kept a prisoner j
for three days. When taken out he
had eaten every potato in the hill ex
cept the shells of some of them, and
in his stomach was found the undi
gested pulp of his last meal. In the
attempt to escape he had burrowed
completely around the barrel, but had
not gone deep enough to succeed.
Doubtless lie might have done so had
ho been left longer in his prison. I
have found the dead moles in their
burrows on my lawn, where they had
died after a meal of poisoned corn.
It is the safest way to handle the
baits by means of a small-bladed
knife or pincers which have been bur
ied in the earth for a few hours, and
i not to touch the bait with the hands.
This animal is sly aud wary, and like
the ground hog, another wretched
beast, will hear a footstep a long dis
tance and then lie quiet for a long
time waiting for the noise of tho re
turning steps before it will make a
move.—H. 8., in Country Gentleman.
Stacking Hay Properly.
The accompanying sketch shows the
form of a stack that will best turn
water. A pole extends up through
the centre of the stack and a hit of
canvas or duck over the apex will as
sist in turning rain, pat ticnlarly until
JOTV
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WATKB-rnOOP STACK.
the hay is well settled. Light, cords
extending down on all sides to piua
driven in the ground, will aid in keep
ing the top of the stack from being
blown off. The stack should grow
gradually larger until tho edge of the
"roof" is reached. Select a knoil for
a foundation, or put down boards to
keep the moisture from soaking up
into the hay.—New England Home
stead.
A Remarkable Potato Crop.
The potato crop on the Cornell Uni
versity farm at Ithaca, N. Y., for 1897
is attracting very wide attention, be
cause of its high excellence at a time
when rot and blight are general
throughout tho Atlantic Coast States.
The yield at the University, ou indif
ferent, gravelly and loamy soil, which
has had no fertilizer for four years, is
1100 bushels per acre, absolutely free
from rot. The cost of the crup per
acre, liberally estimated, is abouts2o,
in the following items:
Seven cultivations rE4 .80 83.50
Four sprayings („, 1.00 4.00
Sixteen bushels seed s.Uii
Flowing aud planting..., 3.00
Total 418.50
The only item which is liable to
much increase is the cost of seed, the
seed in this case having been bought
Alien potatoes were cheap. Now the
net price for the crop is sixty cents
per bushel, or §IBO an acre, leaving
§IOO profit on each acre of the crop.
The land is of a kind ordinarily pur
chasable at about §'ls an acre for farm
purposes. It is well within the truth
to say that this crop (and others he
fore it) shows that with scientific
knowledge a potato crop can be pro
duced worth more than three times the
purchase value of the laud it is raised
on.
The important points in this suc
cessful potato culture are stated by the
College of Agriculture to be: (1) prop
er fitting of the land; (2) proper plant
ing; (3) proper and sufficient cultiva
tion; (i) proper spraying. The last is
a specific against potato blight and po
tato rot. In raising this enormous
crop, the college neglected fertilizers,
and did not select land best suited to
potato culture. Elsewhere on the farm,
these factors being added, the record
breaking yield of 380 bushels to the
acre has been reached. It should be
added that the potatoes are of uni
formly marketable quality, with no
waste. The average yield in this
State this year is estimated at not
more than sixty-five bushels to the
acre, and the largest average yield the
State has ever known was 120 bushels.
The prevention of blight and subse
quent rot by spraying with Bordeaux
mixture is an idea which is already
being taken up by farmers. The
usual method of using it, however, is
to wait until the blight appears, and
then spray. It is then too late. At the
university the potatoes are repeatedly
sprayed while green and healthy, and
the blight never appears. The report
of this amazing crop at Cornell, to
gether with the generally poor crop in
the State, has led to a great demand
for a recent bulletin of the experiment
station treating of potato culture and
the prevention of blight and rot, and
thousands of copies are being mailed
weekly to farmers.—New York Post.
New Destroyer of Fruit Cropn.
Reinforcements to the seventeen
year locusts, the gypsy moth, the
browntail moth and all the rest of the
busy army of fruit destroyers are to
lie found in vast quantities in the
"San Jose scale." The San Jose
scale takes its name, not from the lo
cality to which it confines its depre
dations, but to the one in which it
first appeared. Since it made its de
but in California it has shown an im-
SAN JOSE SCALE.
partial fondness for every part of the
Union. Florida has not been too
warm for it, and Massachusetts has
pleased. New Jersey has not es
caped, and the Pacific coast as far as
British Columbia has appealed to it.
The scale, though appearing only
recently, has evidently spent several
eons in preparing to descend upon
the world. It is a microscopic insect
which pierces the green bark of the
tree with its proboscis and sucks the
sap. It has, doubtless with an eye
to this age of germicide solutions,
rendered spraying an infested tree
useless, because it has a scaly cover
ing which remains on the bark of the
tree or the skin of the fruit, and which
acts as an armor against such weap
ons as washes. Fruit infested by the
scale is unmarketable.
I'iirm and (innlpii Note*.
Don't let the beets nnd squashes stay
out too long.
Drainage will greatly increase the
value of wet ground.
The silo will enable the farmer to
keep more cows profitably.
Spare the harrow in tire early stages
of eoru growth and spoil the crop.
The hired man should be a gentle
man among the children in the house.
The tomato trellises will last much
longer if given shelter during the win
ter.
In sections outside the corn belt oorn
can often bo profitably grown for the
silo.
When the surface hakes after a rain,
,a liglitharrow should be used, whether
the crop is up or not.
Hay caps are a good investment.
They will in a wet season pay for
themselves very quickly.
Hailstorms are likely anywhere, and
insurance against them is as necessary
as insurance against lire.
Divide up the farm among the grown
boys, if it is targe enough to make sev
eral reasonably sized farms, and en
courage each to get a borne of his own.
Do you allow smoking in the burn?
If you do, increase your insurance.
That may not be exactly honest, but
when a man tries to burn his barn the
matter of honesty will not probably
worry him.
Large pieces of old sod form the very
best winter protective material when
obtainable. These heaped about the
roses will protect the most tender from
severe freezing, and they come out in
the spring in splendid order. It is
just as good used about any other half
hardy plant.
In gathering fruits remember that
all fruits are best when allowed to ripen
on the tree or vine, excepting pears.
Nearly all varieties of this fruit may he
gathered while still green and put in a
dry, cool place to mellow. All fruit
should be examined often, as decay is
rapidly communicated.
Soot from the kitchen chimney, espe
cially from a wood lire, is invaluable
in cultivation of (lowers. Rich in am
monia it stimulates and deepens the
color of flowers. Used as an insecti
cide it is equally effective in destroy
ing and removing the pest on nccount
of the creosote contained in it. Soot
from hard coal exclusively is of less
value, still it is worth saving.
i OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR.
LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR
LOVERS OF FUN.
Livelier Chords—He's o. K.—What Was
Slie Meant For?— Somewhat Mixed-
No Need—Debris Crop All ltiffht— Hi*
Idea—A Natural Query, Etc.* Etc*
The poet starved for years and years;
His lays were all of love and hope;
But now no hunger pang he fears—
lie sings of liver pills and soap.
—Chicago Record.
He's O. K.
Flabson—"How are you getting
along, Bogglesby?"
Bogglesliy— "Oh, walking, riding
and biking."—Roxbury Gazette.
Dubious.
"Did papa accede to your request
for money, Henry?" she asked.
"Well," said lie, "lie told me I was
welcome to all I could get from him."
—New York Journal.
What Was She Meant For?
Miss Charmynge—"Don't you think
t was meant for a business woman?"
Jack Hustler—"No, I don't. I
think you were meant for a business
man."—Brooklyn Life.
His Idea.
Aunt Abby (at the museum) —"And
ain't that critter got any arms?"
Uncle Ezra—"Of course ho has.
They call him the armless wonder
'cause it's a wonder where he keeps his
arms."
A Natural Query.
"Life was all a blank before I mar
ried you, Rudolph," said the Chicago
bride to her latest husband.
"How many blanks have yon drawn,
dear?" was the natural question which
Rudolph put to her.
Debris Crop All Might.'
"They say the peanut crop will be
short this year."
"Well, the peanut crop may be
short, but I'll wager there will be pea
nut shells all over creation just as
usual."—Detroit Free Press.
Somewhat Mixed.
Boy—"Papa, where's Atoms?"
Papa—"Athens, you mean, my
child."
Boy—"No, papa; Atoms—the place
where people are blown to."
Answer postponed.—Tit-Bits.
Increafting the Centum.
"Those St. Louis people are making
a great tuss over that one-pound baby
that was born there the other day."
"They have a right to. It counts
just as much in the census as if it
weighed a ton."—Chicago Tribune.
Mean Tiling.
Miss Chatter—"l knew you would
be here to-day to see sister."
Mr. Cuddler— i 'lntuition ?"
Miss Chatter—"No; observation.
You always appear ou the same day
that Ethel refuses onions at dinner."
-—Judge.
No Need.
Visitor—"l presume your daughter
plays the piano?"
Mrs. Neuvoriclie (proudly)—"No, !
indeed. Dear Ethel doesn't have to. j
Her pa is rich enough to buy her one \
of those pianos which plays itself."—
Harper's Bazar.
Adaptability.'
"So you asked her if she could be
happy without money?"
"I did."
"Was her answer encouraging?"
"Not exactly. She said she was
sure sho could; that sho had always
preferred buying things on credit."—
Washington Star.
Not Painless.
Victim—"No charge, see."
Dentist—"Did it hurt?"
Victim—"You bet!"
Dentist—"Fifty cents, please."
Victim—"But your notice says 110
charge for extracting without pain."
Dentist—"Ah, but you admitted
that it hurt!"— New York Journal.
Too Much Enjoyment.
"You didn't stay long out in the
country."
"No; our dog enjoyed it so much
that we had to come home."
"Your dog enjoyed it? What did
he do?"
"Killed twenty-seven chickens the
first day we were there."—Chicago
Record.
More Like the Foot.
Canvasser—"You are the head of
the house, I presume?"
Dixmyth—"Y'our presumption is
quite natural, hut you'vo got another
guess coming."
Canvasser—-"Beg pardon, bat I
don't quite catch your drift?"
Dixmyth—"Well, I have to foot the
bills, and as my wife says I'm always
kicking you can draw your own con
clusions."—Chicago News.
Subtle Kmmoniiig.
"Do you see the man and the wom
an?"
"Yes; I see the man and the wom
an."
"Do you think they are married?"
"No; they are not married."
"Why do you think they are not
married?"
"Because he has asked her if she
objects to smoking, and she has replied
that she loves the smell of smoke."—
Cleveland Leader.
Veterinary Surgery Not For Women*
Women may not be veterinary sur
geons in London. The Royal College
of Veterinary Surgeons has refused to
admit a lady to examination, asserting
that all its charters and its rules were
drawn out oil the assumption that men
alone would seek qualification, and
that, therefore, it would unduly strain
the statutes to admit women, [t it,
said that the lady thus repulsed in
tends t> appeal to the taw courts.
I Air Photography.
The experiments to be made by the
United States Weather Bureau in air
photography are expected to throw
| light on many phenomena but little
understood at present. Little is now
! known about the way in which the at
mospheric currents run. The nature
of a hurricane, such as sometimes
runs up the Atlantic coast from the
West Indies at this season, is compre
hended in a general way, but mystery
envelops the working mechanism of
the storm. No one can say how a
whirling tornado plucks a chicken
clean, drives a piece of timber through
a man and carries a baby a mile un
hurt. In order to ascertain how the
air flows over houses, mountains and
through bridges, a little model of each
will be placed before a camera and an
imitation breeze directed against it
; audits movements photographed. Tho
| manner of photographing air currents
I has recently been worked out by Pro
fessor E. Mack, of Vienna. Tho dis
covery is, however, due to Fizeau and
Foucault, two Frenchmen.—Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Biggest Policeman on Earth.
The biggest polceman in the United
States is on tho St. Louis force of
peace-preservers. Ho is new to tho
business, and his name is John Gib
son. He towers above the average
liiau like Chang, the Chinese giant,
and if he so chooses he can carry ten
ordinary men to the station.
Gibson is six feet six inches in
height and weighs 255 pounds. His
arm outstretched measures two feet
7£*inclies; tho biceps 15J inches. His
hand is 8$ inches in length from the
wrist, and his wrist measures ten
inches. He is twenty-six years old.
He wears a 7$ hat, and in lifting on a
scale several years ago raised tho
point to 1500 pounds.
Gibson says that he has never prac
tised much in athletics since he was a
boy, but when a lad he could outrun
any of the boys on tho surrounding
farms, and he says that even to-day
lie can make a good record for a large
man.
Perfume From Living Plants.
Captain Srnee has discovered a
method of gathering the scent of flow
ers as the plaut is growing. He takes
a glass funnel and heats the thin end
over a spirit lamp. He then draws
out the stem to a line point. This ac
complished, the funnel is filled with
ice and placed on a retort stand, the
pointed end being placed in a small
glass bottle, without touching it. After
this the stand and the funnel are placed
in a greenhouse among the flowers
. whoso odors it is desired to collect.
Gradually tho vapor rises from the
| flowers, and, in meeting the colder
| surface of the funnel, condenses i'lto
I drops on the outside of tho glass.
From the point of condensation it
trickles down until it drops into the
bottle. In a surprisingly short time
a large amount of perfume is collected,
and it is claimed that ninety per cent,
of the contents of the bottle is per
fume; the rest is water. Strange to
say, this essence of the flower needs
to be adulterated with spirits of wine.
Otherwise it would become sour and
useless.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Tlio Gulf Pearl PiHherleg.
The value of the pearl industry last
year on the coast of the Gulf of Lower
California amounted to $350,000; this,
says the New York Sun, besides the
exportation of somo 5000 tons of mus
sel shells, the value of which was esti
mated at $1,250,000. The pearl fish
ing, with appurtenances, forms tho en
tire occupation of the native popula
tion, and La Paz, which is the capital
for this trade in the peninsula, exists
exclusively upon this industry. Until
a few years ago only native divers
■were employed, and the greatest.depth
to which they would (live was thirty
five feet. But upon the introduction
of the diving apparatus a depth of 180
feet was accomplished, and, while
formerly the best divers could not re
main longer than two minutes under
water, a diver thinks nothing of stay
ing two hours at a depth of 100 feet,
although at a still greater depth the
stay is necessarily shortened.
Professional Scarecrows.
A great many people may fill tho
role of scarecrow unintentionally, but
to adopt it as a profession is quite an
other matter.
While the Anglo-Egyptian expe
dition is lqaking its way up tho Nile
and doing battle with Mahdist hordes,
the troops as they go up from Cairq
to join the men at the front, see long
stretches of grain fields, and, dotting
the fields ami raised above them, are
tall, muscular forms, almost naked.
These are the stone-throwers, who
guard the fields from the ravages of
the birds, and were it not for them tho
crops would be entirely ruined.
Teeth Affect Eyesight.
When n boy, eleven years old, re
tired a few nights since his eyes were
as usual. In the morning the pupils
were dilated, fixed, not influenced by
light. He could not distinguish light
from darkness. No cause for tho con
dition could be found until the teeth
wore examined, when it was seen that
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