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The children of both sexes are trained to reserve their elbow in this painful position at an early age, if their parents are persons of high frrades. To Care A Cold In One Day. Take Laxativo Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. The last instance of boiling to death took place in Persia in 1890. The of fender, guilty of stealing State rev enues, was put into a caldron of cold water, which was slowly heated to the boiling point. His bones were distrib uted as a warning among the provis ional tax COlll 1 JtOTS. Chew Star Tobacco The Best. Smoke Sledgo Cigarettes. Before the reformation 50 per cent, of the land in the United Kingdom be longed to the Church. Oh, What Splendid Coifee. Mr. Goodman, Williams Co., 111., writes: "From one package Salzer's German Coffee Berry costing -5c I grew 200 lbs. of better coffee than I can buy In stores at 30 cents alb." A. C. 5. A package of this coffee and big seed and plant catalogue Is sent you by John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., upon receipt of 16 cents stamps and this notice. PI so'® Cure 1s wonderful Cough medicine. —Mrs. W. PICKERY, Van Siclen and Blake Aves., Brooklyn, N. Y M Oct. 2U, 18W. Mm. Window's Soothing Syrup for children teething. softens the gumfl,rouucing i n Ihtm mix tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. JGcur bottle. Fit® permanently cured. No fit* or nervoue nees after ilrst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. s2trial bottle and treatise free Da. It. H. KLINE. Ltd.. 031 Arch St..Pliila..Pa. To check a cold in one hour use Howie's C. C. C M a homoeopathic remedy of great tower, certain cure. 50 cts. Sample mailed ree. Write Hoxsie, Buffalo, N. Y. In Russia and Switzerland the Gov ernment has a monopoly in the sale of spirituous liquors. FREE! Inventor's Patent Guide. Any Drug fttoroor O'Mara Co-op. Put. Office, Wash., D.C. Not an Ideal Place. "No," said Wheeler, thoughtfully. "3 ran't cotton to the idea that heaven Is A place where the streets are paved with gold. I don't believe a fellow's lires would stick worth a cent to O etreet of that kind."— lndianapolis Journal. Sciatic Rlieumaiism " I havo been troubled with eolatlo rheu matism and bnve been taking Hood's Bar •aparllla. I Improved evory day nud now •m as well as I ever was in my life. I fool flvo years younger than I did beforo taking Hood's Sarsapnrilln." Wit. O'Briex. 2515 uhc). per m •. L | Price. dirt ch.„p. Our creai Hre.l ftoek. 11? * FNITN feed Hitraplee, wo-.-tb 01 to tret n f.r p i 10c. pealKge. 'UH A. SAJk*I/ibEcl) t'U., Lo*c,Ult. f 1 Thompson'* EyaWafer PNC 5 '9B. . H Pert ' T l^ 1 $ I When You Want to Look on the Bright Side of Things, Use SAPOLIO A Bonefactrosi' Kind Act. From the Evening News. Detroit, Mich. Mrs. John Tan9ey, of 130 Baker Street, Detroit, Michigan, is one of thoso women who always know ju3t what to do in all trouble and sickness. Cue that is a mother to those in distress. To a reporter she saidr "I am tho mother of ten children and have ralsod eight of tliera. Koveral yoars ago wo had a serious time with my daugh ter, which began when she was about six teen years old. She did not have any seri ous illness but seemed to gradually waste away. Having never Lad any consumption in our family, as we come of good old Irish and Scotch "stock, wo did not think it was that. Our doctor called the disease by an odd name, which, as I afterward learnod, meant lack ol blood. "It is impossible to describe the feeling John and I had as we noticed our daughter slowly pnsslng away from us. Wo dually found, however, a medicine that seemed to Most of the Time Phe TThs Confined to Bed. help her, and from the first wo noticed n decided change for the better, and after 1 three months' treatment her health was so greatly improved you would not have re cognized her. Hhe gained 111 llosli rapidly and soon was in perfect health. The medi cine used was Dr. Williams' Fink Fills for Palo People. I have always kept these pills in the house since and have recommended them to many people. I have told many mothers about them and they have effected some wonderful cures. "Every mother In this land should keep these pills in the house, as they are good for muuy ailments, particularly those arising from impoverished or diseased blood, and Weakened nerve force. Pittsburg Improvements Completed. The improvements that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have had under way at Pittsburg for the past 15 months have been completed with the excep tion of a small amount of paving be tween the tracks which will be done in the Spring. The line now has splendid terminals at that point and sullicient trackage to handle the vast amount of business with not only economy but with celerity. The changes cost in the neighborhood of $450,000 and consist of a new yard at Glenwood (one of Pitts burg's suburbs), a double track trestle nearly two miles in length, the chang ing of the line of road leading into the passenger station and the building of new freight yards near that point. 3lorc Weddings in the Country. "It is a very noticeable fact," said MaJ. Lusk, who Is authority on the question with reference to Ilymen, "that there are not as many city ehap9 getting married nowadays ns there are country boys. In some instances the country boy marries a city girl, but not very often. The city boy seldom, If ever, marries a country girl. Of course, the city boy does not like to marry wlicre there Is a disparity of minds, for, as Dickens says, 'those people can never live happy.' What do I think 1 the cause of It? Why, I think the coun try boy Is more economical with the money he earns tlinu the boy of the city. lie can do better on $25 a month than a boy reared in the eity can with SSO. Then again, when the country boy marries lie goes on a tract of land given him by his father or bought with hard earned money."-—Jefferson City Cou rier. Delicate Hint. Deal ITole, In his "Little Tour in Ire land," says that when one of his party want a-ilshing, it was to come home in triumph, bearing a glorious salmon, its sliver scales glittering In tho sun. Nat urally he was in good humor, and well disposed to pay the fisherman who had accompanied him. This was tho dia logue as the two men stepped on shore: "Boatman," said the happy tourist, "how much Is the boat?" "Sure, your honor, tho boat'll be in the bill. Your honor'll give the boat man what you please.", "But what Is generally given?" "Well, your honor, some'll give two shillings, and some eighteen pince. A tallor'd be for giving eighteen pince." llow much the passenger gave is nol known, but surely he was not inclined to be classed with stay-at-home tailors, not accustomed to "sport." When it comes to an all-around game of la ml grabbing the European powers will find it difficult to prevent Great Britain from taking a hand.. She llkoa :i little game of that kind. m af Bunch all the worst pains In a lump iike this s < i > | RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, GCIATICA, LUMBAGO. U*E I ST. JACOBS OIL. It wilt cure them all, Separately, Suroiy, Quickly. J N§KY©!C!e:e!e:o: c s-iuKiiotGieS ESMfSFft and tumor tS TO 2S" H PERMANENTLY nitULII curod without knifo, piaster or pain. All forma of BLOOD si: thoroughly eradicated from tho system. Six weeks Home Trcutuut-ut 'or $lO. Book of Information t'rco NATURAL REMEDY CO.', WostMd, Mass. PILES HURT YOU? Send me 50 ctn. and gut good f.vpay remedy. Snr cure. Want agents. Address, 11. I. BICKXELL, MW Webster Ave.. Pittsburg, Pa. WHERE CELERY IS KING. THE CITY OF KALAMAZOO ENJOYS A UNIQUE DISTINCTION. Raialiig and Celery Ilaa Heroine Its Leading Industry—How Hutch Immigrants Made Fortunes Out of Lands That "Were Considered Worthless. To the handsome eity of Kalamazoo, Slich., writes a correspondent of the Buffalo (N. Y.) Express, belongs the honor of making smellage, a popular table relish under the name of celery. Celery, in turn, has made that city famous as the celery gardens of the world; in fact, Kalamazoo is now called the Celery City. This city, with its queer Indian name, was for years made the target of funny stories and minstrel eongs. Situated on the bauks of the river of the same name, the city extends back on the hills, and ' is acknowledged to be one of the hand somest cities of its size in the United States. The railroads enter Kala mazoo along the river bottoms, which extend for miles, and are the most fertile lands north of the Ohio Kiver. The soil is rich muck, and is from two to eight feet deep. A stranger entering the city by rail can distinguish the peculiar odor of celery gardens long beforo reaching the town. During the growing season it is a pretty scene, long rows of bright green against a black background. Not a weed or brush is to be seen. Bill Nye said it reminded him of an Irish woman's black dress trimmed with green braid. Celery, as a table delicacy, came in to existence in this way: Among the early settlers locating in Kalamazoo, was a family direct from Holland, named Blyker. Dem Blyker was its head, and his father had accumulated a fortune in the East India Company. Other familiesfollowedand prospered, and iinally quite a colony came over of the poorer class. At this time the Hats or river bottoms were considered almost worthless lands, but were pre ferred by the Holland emigrants. Many little streams flow down the hillside, and soon the lane near the city was parceled and divided into small plats, like the lowlands of the Netherlands. It was just like home for them, except that here they soon could own their own farm. At first onions and cabbage were raised and shipped out to other cities. In 1878 a gardener named Van Haaften, raised some smellage, which grew so rapidly on tho rich muck bottoms that he had to draw the dirt up against it to keep it standing. In the fall, when taken out, it was found to be bleached white and very brittle and palatable. A sam ple box was sent to a Louisville hotel, whioh bought his onions, for trial as a table relish. Tho instructions wore to eat it as you would radishes, with salt, and it was called Kalamazoo cel ery, instead of smellage. The new relish met with favor at once, and Van Haaften received orders for the rest of his crop and orders for the noxt year. Onions were that year an over-pro duction, while the Kalamazoo celery sold for seventy-five cents u dozen stalks. The next year the Vau Haaften fam ily planted their ground to celery and made a great deal of money. In fact, they paid for the land and bought more from their first year's sales. The year following tho whole Holland pop ulation on the flats began to plant cel ery. Every leading hotel in the United States was ordering celery,and land that had sold for $lO to §2O an acre increased tenfold. Glen D. Stuart, a young business man, formerly from New York, saw the possibilities in celery and began busi ness as a celery shipper and soon had an immense trade. He was a clever man, and bought whole gardens and advanced money to new gardeners. In less thau five years he was known as the Celery King, and did a quarter of a million dollars' worth of business shipping celery during the year. In thoso days celery brought a good price, and every available foot of low land was utilized. To-day it is esti mated that over -1000 Hollanders are actively ongaged in celery culture, and about 8000 acres of tho river bottoms are devoted to celery gardens. A million and a half of money is paid to the growers of Kalamazoo Valley each year for their celery crop. This celery industry has developed others, such as box factorios, printing offices, celery medicine companies and numerous concerns making celery tea, celery gum, celery cough drops, celery bitters, celery pickles and chow-chow, nerve tonic, celery salt, celery soups and a score of other preparations. All the trunk lines of railroads cater to the celery trade and run special re frigerator cars to all the distant cities. I'rom the middle of July until after Christmas the atmosphere of Kalama zoo has a decided celery flavor. There is a continual stream of wagons deliv ering their product to the express com panies from 8 a. m. until about -I p. m. Tho crop of 1897 is estimated at 18,000,000 dozen bunches, and will bring the growers about nine conls per dozen. A Pioneer Postodtec. William Beatly, a farmer near Scio toville, Ohio, while splitting up a tree which ho had felled on his farm, found in the heart of the trunk a buckskin bag containing a letter, dis colored by ago. The writing had practically faded away, only u word hero and there being intelligible. The tree was evidently 150 years old,,and it is thought that the letter had been placed there a hundred years ago, when the "Little Scioto" trail l from the Ohio River to Chillicothe was used by the traders, and passed close to whero the old tree stood. Thd hole in which the letter had been hidden had been completely covered by the new growth of the tree. It was un doubtedly one of the "postoffices" of the pioneers. THE ERIE CANAL. The Part It Played In Now York's Ad vancement iu Wealth and Population. Mr. Ernest Tngersoll writes an arti cle for St. Nicholas on the Greatei New York, his paper being entitled *'Reasoning Out a Metropolis." Mr. Ingersoll says: The greatest of all the influences that assisted New York to reach first place was the Erie Canal. The first quarter of this century wa3 the era ol canal buildiug. No matter how fin* the turnpike may be, horses can haul in wagons only high-priced merchan dise, in comparatively small quantities and for short distances, unless the cargo is to cost for transportation more than it is worth. Men found oul in Europe and Asia long ago that foi moving grain, coal, timber, ore, and similar bulky or heavy goods, where speed was not especially important, a ship of boa* was the only practical method. If a river were not conveni ent, then an artificial waterway, called a canal—that is, channel—must be made. When in any country some thing of this kind cannot be done, that country must remain undeveloped and thinly populated, like the Sahara. Why is a canal so much better than a good road for commercial purposes? Because, while two horses and one man can haul on a hard, level road perhaps two tons, the same driver with two horses harnessed to a canal boat can move twenty tons nearly as quick ly; that is, the same force aud expense for pay and food of men and horses accomplish ten times as much in re sult, which really makes the goods ten times cheaper at the end of the route. Hence, before the invention of rail roads, it was necessary for any grow ing country to dig canals to servo as the highways of commerce; and this the young United States hastened to do. New York, as usual, moved among the foremost. She planned aijd constructed, besides some lessor ones, that great waterway, four hun dred miles long, from Albany to Buf falo, which was called the Erie Canal, and connected the Hudson with the Great Lakes. This canal was finished in 1825, and immensely stimulated the growth, not only of the western part of Now York State, but of the whole region of the Great Lakes; for now farmers in the Northwest could send their grain and fruit and cattle, aud the miners their ore, and the lumbermen their ship timber, and boards and staves, to the seaboard at profitable rates; and in return they could obtain tho imports, merchandise ami manufactures of sea coast cities at fair cost. A fleet of vessels on the lakes came and went, bringing from farm, mine aud forest cargoes which were loaded into canal boats and sent east, often to bo trans ferred to vessels for foreign ports without ever touching land at all. And back went supplies for the interior of New York State, and for settlers in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and beyond, who could never have lived and worked in those distant parts except for this means of cheap communication. To thorn, also, every summer, went thousands of new set tlers from New England and Old Eng land and all Envope, who needed no longer to spend weeks and weeks in 1 raveling in wagons before reaching their new homes. No! n Necessary Food. Mrs. S. T. Rorer writes on "Do We Eat Too Much Meat?" in Ladies' Homo Journal, answering her owu query affirmatively. "Meat," she as serts, "is not at all necessary to a per fect existence. Most people, however, look upon it as though it formed the only food upon which they could work, and yet many great athletes have never touched it. Meat, after it en ters the stomach and is digested, may be injurious, but for all this tho ordi nary American has made up his mind that lean meat gives him less trouble than any other food, so he takes it in large quantities, invariably breaking down iu middlo with just such diseases as oomts from the over-use of concen trated nitrogenous foods. Children fed on beef juice aud beef soups, with white bread, lose the various salts necessary to the building of bones, teeth and muscle aud the soda for the blood. Tho outer part of the wheat, which js so rich in these earthy salts, is cast aside, so that the child in grow ing getß weak bone structure as a frame for its lean flesh. The stalwarl men of Scotland find that porridge and milk contain all tho muscle, bone and nerve food necessary fcr an active existence. "An excess of carbonnaceous food, on the other hand, forms an accumula tion of fat, preventing tho complete nourishment of the muscles. The over-fat person has bulk without strength; his vital power always de ficient, while the excess of nitrogen ous food which he consumes increases the tendency to disease of a plethoric character, showing at once that the surplus is burned and stored tho same as fuel food." Puulahing uu Interloper. One of the residents of Laneaboro, Peuu., recently had an opportunity of witnessing how an interloper is pun ished by tho marten species of bird. A pair of martens had taken posses sion of a small box and were building their nest in it. One day, wliilo they were absent, a screech owl took pos session of tho box, and when the mar tens camo homo he would not allow them to enter. The smaller birds were nonplussed for a while, and in a moment Hew away. In a short time, however, the little ones returned, bringing with them a whole army of companions, who immediately set to work, and, pro curing mud, plastered up the en trance to the box. Then all flow away. In a few days the farmer examined the box and the owl was found dead, i—New York Press. Worrying the Cow. A rough, quick-tempered man should never bo tolerated around the cow stable. The cow loves quietude. Any disturbance which excites her lessens, if it does not stop, the secre tion and flow of milk. It is very easy for an employe, by kicking and beat ing a cow just before or while he is milking, to lessen her milk flow by one half. This is called "holding up" tho milk. It is really a prevention of milk secretion, and the milk thus lost does not come down at any subsequent milking.—American Cultivator. Preservation or Ksrs. Tho Berliner Markthallenzeitung reports about experiments made for tho purpose of securing tho most ra tional method of preserving eggs. This being a topic of general iuterest, I beg to give hereafter an extract of the results obtained, as described in the said journal: Twenty methods were selected for these experiments. In the first days of July -100 fresh eggs were prepared according to these methods (twenty eggs for each method), to be opened for use at the end of the month of February. Of course, a most essential point for the success of preservation is that only really fresh eggs bo employed. As the most infallible means of ascer taining the ago of the eggs the experi montist designated the specific weight of same. With fresh eggs it is from 1.0781 to 1.09-12, If the eggs are put into a solution of 120 grammes (4.23 ounces) of common salt in one litre (1.0567 quarts) of water, the specific weight of which solution is 1.073, all the eggs that swim ou this liquid weigh less, and consequently are not fresh. Only those eggs that sink should be used for preservation. When, after eight months of preser vation, the eggs were opened for use, the twenty different methods em ployed gave the most hetrogeneous results: (1) Egss put for jireservation in salt water were all bad (not rotten, but uneatable, the salt having pene trated into the eggs). (2) Eggs wrapped in pajier, eighty per cent. bad. (3) Eggs preserved fin a solution of salicylic acid and glycerin, eighty per ceut. had. (-1) Eggs rubbed witii salt, seventy per cent. bad.—From tho United States Consular Report, A AVork Shop on the Farm. A. work shop on the farm is a groat convenience; every progressive farmer has one, and those who want to keep up with the advancement of agricul tural interests will follow suit. To build a work shop is an easy job; it doesn't take long and costs but little, if constructed as that dear old cabin iu which I used to work. My work shop was about eight by ten feet and six feet from the floor to the loft, covered with oak boards and having no floor save the ground. It was sided up with one-iucli oak boards, which were sawed from timber cut in tho woods, the space between the planks being covered with thin oak strips. Tho shop was provided with an anvil, two strong hammers, a vise, planes, saws, screw-drivers, chisels, a shaving horse, brace and a set of fif teen bits, rangiug from an eighth of an inch to an inch,spoko shaves, a square and rule, etc., all of which may be bought now for about sl2. I also had a harness-maker's outfit in the shop, so when harness needed re pairing I did not have to go eight or ten miles to have it done. Whenever any of tho machinery got out of order it could generally be repaired at home, and thus save money and time. For instance, when wheat is dead ripe and ought to bo cut as soon as possible, the binder breaks, a rod or some minor part gets out of order; then to the blacksmith shop, unless you are pretty well skilled iu the work of re pairing iron and have a shop and tools of your owu, iu which ca3e much valuablo time is saved. A workshop is, in my judgment, as essential to tho farm as a spring or oisteru, and I am ardently in favor of tho latter. When there is work to be done in the shop in thowiuter, a sinoll stovo is easily put up. Thus com fortable quarters are prepared for the workmen. Oftentimes the farm har ness break, sometimes when the farmer is in tho midst of a very busy season. Now comes tho chance to use the shop; or when there is no particular need for tho broken harness, a rainy day will come about when the farmer may go to the shop and do his work in tho dry, having the necessary tools at hand. Farm implements, no difference bow strong they may ha or how sub stantially they may bo constructed, will frequently get out of or dor, thus occasioning the use of a blacksmith or wood workman. Now, all such work can be and ought to bo done by the farmers themselves, and if they would equip themselves with the tools, eto., whioh can bo obtained for a small out lay, they could do it. Let every farmer bo his own blacksmith, wood worker, carpenter and saw sharpener, if you please. During rainy days on the farm there should be work to do, and there is. The cross-cut saw needs sharpening, the harness require mend ing and the axes ought to be ground. ! and a dozen other things of this character might be attended to. The j farmer needs to become an enthusiast ' ou the subject of agriculture and all the branches connected therewith; he must l)e dominated by that spirit oi I onwardness which knows 110 limit; he j must keep abreast of the times and take all the near shoots possible to the ! goal of success. Let us be alert and wide awake; farming will surely re ward all who in fact farm. The voca tion is now regarded as the most in dependent of any.—Dewitt C. Wing, in Tho Epitomist. Uvo Stock Notes. A gentleman will have gentle stock. Regularity in feeding, both as tc time and quantity and quality of food, is one of tho things that pay. As a rule the lirst 100 pounds ol sheep and the first 200 of swine costs less and sells for more than that added later. Good feed and plenty, of it *nrly in the life of the animal is what secures the maximum development and lays the foundation for future usefulness. All lowa stockman claims that lumps 011 the jaws of cattle, particularly those recently dehorned, are often caused by vicious jabs given by the sharp horned youngsters running with the herd. George Franklin says the man who has had u taste of spring lamb, like the sheep-killing dog, never forgets it, and he may as well be fed on a well cooked saddle-flap as to again go back to aged mutton. Lamb-creeps and pig-creeps arc good things in giving the young stock a start in life. You will be surprised to see how young they will begin to eat and how much they will consume if th© right kind of foods is provided. A Michigan dairyman writes that by judicious breeding and feeding and careful selection by the teat, keeping only the best cows and caring for them properly, he has in three years raised the test of his herd from loss than four per cent, to over live pel cent., and reduced tho cost of butter three cents a pound. There is apparently littlo foundation for the claim made by some feeders that most of the nutriment lias been taken out of tho grain which passes the animal whole; often tho loss is sufficient to twice pay lor grinding the feed. A good farm mill will often pay for itself in a single w inter's feeding. The hoofs of the horses must be kept properly trimmed or they will grow long and ill-shaped, then per haps split; or they will gtow lon