A Clinpter on Vegetables. Potatoes came from far Virginia; Parsley was sent us from Sardinia; French beans, low growing on the earth To distant India trace their birth; But scarlet runners, gay and tall, That climb upon your garden wall— A cheerful sight to all around — In South America were found. 1 The onion traveled here from Spain; I The leek from Switzerland we gain, Garlic from Sicily obtain. Spinach in far Syria grows; Two hundred years ago or more Brazil the artichoke sent o'er, And Southern Europe's sea coast shore Beet root on us bestows. When 'Lizabeth was reigning here, Peas came from Holland and were dear. The South of Europe lays Its claim To beans, hut some from Egypt came. The radishes, both thin and stout, Natives of China are, no doubt, But turnips, carrots and sea kale, With celery so crisp and pale, Are products of our own fair land, And cabbages, a goodly tribe, Which abler pens might well describe, Are also ours, I understand. —London Young Folks' Rural. Annlo ami Jumbo. One day, while in England, mamma, papa, and Annie went to the "Zoo," to see the animate. They saw the ducks and swans sailing about in the ponds, watched the monkeys and then follow ed the crowd that pressed about to see the animals fed. Some of the lions, tigers and bears were hungry, and gnawed at the huge pieces of red, raw meat savagely; others Just sniffed at them, and one poor bear, who had worn a track in his cage, kept on still turning around and around, and around, and for him Annie felt very sorry. After this they saw the camels kneeling down to rest, and then they came to Jumbo, the biggest elephant ever known. Ever so many little boys and girls were having a ride on his back, and papa asked Annie if she would like a ride, too. Annie thought she would, and so when Jumbo stooped to let down one set of boys and girls and to take up another, papa helped Annie up the ladder and the keeper gase her a scat on something like a double bench, with boys and girls on each side, sitting back to back. Then papa stood with his hands in his pockets to see them start off, and mamma sat down on a bench to watch them, too. Mamma felt very brave until Jumbo came quite near, swinging his long trunk. She grew anxious und wished that Annie had not taken the ride. But Jumbo brought all the girls and boys safely back, and when Annio and mamma had sponge cake, Bath buns, and a glass of milk, they went hack to Putney, where their home was. Not many weeks after this, papa, mamma and Annie came in a big ship to America from London, and a little after Jumbo came over in another big ship from London to New York. One day, in New York, papa and Annie went to Barnum's to see the circus and what should they see there but dear old Jumbo, lookfng even bigger than ever. Annie said, "Do you think, papa, that Jumbo re members when I rode on his back at the 'Zoo?'" and papa said, "Well, hardly." Before Jumbo had been in the United States very long a sad ac cident occurred. The circus was trav eling about from one place to another, and at one city, the little baby ele phant was on a railroad crossing, Just as the carß were coming rushing along. Brave Jumbo saw the danger and hurried to push the baby elephant off the track; and, though he saved the baby elephant, the cars struck him, and brave Jumbo was killed. But Jumbo will not be forgotten, for his skeleton Is preserved, and his skin is stuffed, so that children can still see the biggest elephant that ever lived, though he will never give them any more rides in the "Zoo," or amuse them at the circus.—The Household. Howe-Maile Kaf(. After heavy showers there are al ways hollow ponds left in low mead ows and in the marshes near the riv ers—ponds not deep enough to drown one, but deep enough to sail a raft upon. For this sport, dear to the heart of the average boy, a home made raft is described in the Chicago Rec ord by a writer, who knows just how for he helped to make one like it, "and played pirate upon it until the ponds dried up under the scorching summer sun. This is how it is described: Go ing to the woods near the swamp we cut down with an ax enough tamarack trees to furnish us with seven straight logs one foot in diameter and eighteen feet long Next we cleared a level space eight feet wide and twenty feet long, and laid across it four poles about four feet apart. Across these poles and in the center lengthwise of the clear space we rolled the best one of the logs, which was to be the center of the bed of the raft. With the center log in position we hewed its forward end to a point. Next we selected two logs that would lie close to each side of the center one, rolled them into place and hewed them off enough to give the proper slope to the prow. Next we rolled two more logr into positoon to fit close to the logs just placed. These were shaped to make the pointed prow, and finally the last two, or side logs were rolled into place and shaped. The next thing was to fasten the logs to gether. We got three planks two inches thick, one foot wide and eight feet long. One of these was placed four feet back of the forward end of the center log. The next one was placed six feet back of the first, and the last was placed two feet forward of the stern of the raft. With an inch auger we bored seven holes in each plank, one above the center of each log and about five inches Into the log. Then we made twenty-one pegs seven inches long and one inch in diameter —just the least bit more than an inch, for tightness' sake. Wetting each peg before driving it into the hole, we "tacked" the logs and the cross-strips together with these pegs of wood, knowing that the water would expand them and make them hold better than spikes. Between the two forward cross-strips we nailed strips of floor ing. Now, for the mast. Directly in front of the forward cross-strip and in the center of the middle we bored four auger holes close together, form ing a square with a diamond shaped piece of wood in the center. Knock ing out the centerpiece we had a mast hole six inches deep and about four inches across. We cut a straight sap ling five inches in diameter and taper ing to a height of about nine feet. This we set in the mast hole and fast ened with wedges. Then we cut two slender saplings, each six feet long, for arms 011 which to fix the sail. We made the sail from strong canvas, get ting a strip fifteen feet long and a yard wide. This we cut into two strips seven and one half feet long by three feet wide and sewed them together lengthwise—only we got our four sis ters to .lo this. Then the ends were turned over three inches and stitched, thus forming sheaths through which to slip the sail arms. The arms were slipped into place and a rope tied to each corner of the sail thus formed. At the center seam,at the top and bot tom bf the sail, pieces of rope were fastened to attach the sail to the mast, which had been notched at top and bottom. The next thing was to prepare the house at the stern of the raft. For the supports of this struc ture four slender saplings were cut, each being about fifteen feet long. These were whittJed down until they were partially flattened and would bend easily into place. Beginning Just astern of the platform a hole an inch in diameter was made in each of the side logs. Two feet hack of this another set was bored, and two feet hack of these the last set. Then the poles were bent into position and fastened into the holes. Back of the platform a hole was bored for a flag pole to rest in. To complete the house we got twenty-one yards of yard wide canvas, cut it into strips six feet six inches long (getting our sisters to sew the strips together) to make a covering for the top and sides of our cabin. The rest was used to make hack and front flaps. After putting these things in place all that remained to do was to put up oar or "sweep" supports to use in case we had to row the raft and to help steer it. These supports were simply pieces of one and one-half inch planking fastened midway of the plat form and about two feet above the water, with places hollowed out to ad mit the oars or "sweeps." Of the sweeps there were three—two for the sides and one for the stern. The sweeps consisted each of a handle six feet long and two inches in diameter and a blade two and a half feet long, six inches wide and a little more than half an inch thick. When the craft was completed we rolled it along the saplings into the water and sailed away. It took us about a week to get the raft completed, but the craft last ed as long as we had any use for it. Manners for Young Men. Familiarity with the prevailing standards of etiquette gives a young man a distinct advantage, and he who is sure that he knows is at ease ami conforms automatically to social re quirements. None can be perfect In deportment who has to stop to con sider how things ought to be done. It a man he a gentleman at heart the outward polish is easily acquired—'be tween manners and morals the tie is intimate. A true gentleman IB sitnple, unpretending, natural. He is cour teous and considerate, and has the personal dignity that comes of self respect, not self-consciousness. He treats every woman as a lady, speaks well of others and recognizes hospital ity as a mutual obligation. —October Ladles' Home Journal. Concentration Is Prudent. The only prudence in life la concen tration; the one evil is dissipation; and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its care, friends, and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work. Concentra tion is the secret of strength in poli tics, in war, in trade, in short, in all management ot human affairs.— Power. NATHAN ROTHSCHILD'S WAY. How a Vast Fortune Was Made in Gov* eminent Funds. Tlio vast fortune of Nathan Meyer Rothschild was made in the purehuse of government funds. In his day there were neither railroads nor tele graphs, and news traveled slowly. Rut he kept and personally superintend :il the finest flock of carrier pigeons the world ever knew, which brought huu early information of the movements of continental armies in whose wakes his active agents followed. Every piece of advance news which he obtained in this way brought him the gain of thou sands of pounds sterling at the stock exchange, the manipulation of which he had mastered to an unexampled de gree. He did not wait on the govern ment, but made the government 011 him, and the ministry at lust be came ills debtor. When Napoleon returned from Elba Mr. Rothschild's anxiety for the pe cuniary prospects of his house led liiiu to Belgium, where he followed events, moving in the wake of the army under Wellington. He even ventured on the edge of the battle of Waterloo, so eager was he to glean the latest intelligence, and witnessed the defeat of the French from the high ground in front of the chateau of Ifougoumont. As soon as the battle was decided he rode as fast as his horse could carry liim to Brus sels, where a chaise was wail'ng to take him to Osteinl, which he reached at daybreak on June 19. The sea was rough, but he hired a brave fisherman to peril his life for the sun ;f SO pounds, and the same night was safe In Dover harbor. Posting on to London, sleeping in his chaise, he reached the city early 011 the 20th, and at 10 o'clock was leaning against his accustomed pillar at the stock exchange. He looked solemn and anxious, and whispered to some of his acquaintances a rumor that Marshal Blucher and Wellington had suffered a defeat, and that Napole on was master of the field and of the day. The news spread. Down went the government securities. Roths child's known agents sold glong with the rest, but his unknown and secret agents bought still more largely, pick ing up every bit of paper they could lay hands on till the following day. On the afternoon of that day—the 21st the real news reached London. Na than Rothschild was the first to in form his friends on the stock exchange of the happy events. Governments rose as fast as they had fallen, and no sooner were the official returns of the battle made known to the world than it was found that the house of Roths child had netted a 1,000,000 pounds sterling by the transaction. The monetary dynasty of the family was from that hour secure.—New York Press. Where Cowboys Come From. In other days the cowboys in the southwest were a heterogenous lot from all over the country. Half of them were cowboys merely for the life of freedom and comparative lawless ness the vocation permitted. The ad venturous and risky character of a life on the plains led a great many sons of line families to leave eastern homes and come out on the border of civiliza tion. Rut nowadays the cattle owners have been driven by keen competition to exercise as much care in the hiring of cowboys to handle a $20,000 or $50,000 herd of cattle as a railroad company exercises in its choice of em ploye's. Cowboys are now divided in to classes, those recruited from Texas and the Indian Territory, known as Texans, and those recruited from the Mexicans. The former are nlore trust worthy, more mindful of the condition of the herds and more sagacious in time of cattle stampedes. The latter are wonderful riders; have greater en durance and have a keen intuitive to pographical knowledge. The Mexicans are considered more to the manner born than the Texans, but they are harder drinkers and are cruel with the Cattle. In a round-up the Mexican cow boys are wonderfully expert in track ing cattle among foothills, ravines and gulches and over mountain ranges, j Some cattle companies employ an equal number of Texans and Mexicans in ' their gangs of cow-punchers, but there I generally exists a deep enmity between j the two. Hit* Amendment. Years ago a bill entitled "An Act for the Preservation of the Healih lien | and Other Game" was introduced Into j the New York House of Assembly. j the speaker of the house, who was ' not especially interested In matters of tills kind, gravely read It, "An Act for I the Preservation of the Heathen and Other Game." He was blissfully unconscious of bis ! blunder until an honest member from the northern part of the state, who had suffered from the depredations of the frontier Indians, rose to his feet, j "I should like to move an amend ment to the bill," he said, mildly, "by adding tlie words, 'except Indians.' " j True to the Nmne. The gronpon the front porch was dis- I cussing the merits and demerits of the house dog, a magnificent animal-that lay basking in the sun. Have you any idea," asked one of J the guests, "why he is called a 'Great Dane'?" "Yes," slowly replied the owner of the dog. "It has always seemed to ' me that it must be because it is such ! a great 'deign' for him to notice any j smaller animal." A young woman with a pug nose turned It up slightly at this explana- I tlon, but there were no otjer signs of dissent 1 Too Many Fried Messes. Dr. Jacobi, writing in the Medical Record, says that in the United States there is one physician to every 600 peo ple—proportionately twice as many as in Great Britain, four times as many as Frances has, five times as many as Ger many has and six times as many as Italy has. And Dr. Jacobi might have gone on to show that we take an inter est in patent or proprietary medicines and in various other forms of extra-pro fessional treatment which is almost non-existent in Europe. There must be some explanation of this American craze for doctoring. Cer tainly it is not that we are a sickly and an ailing race. On the contrary we are exceptionally hardy and enduring. It may be that our backwardness in the art of cooking has a great deal to do with it. Outside of a few highly favored centers the efforts of cooks are directed chiefly to the concocting of sundry fried messes that are interesting to the palate but productive of that lumpy feeling in the pit of the stomach and afterward of all manner of disord ers, from a general sense of gloom and dissatisfaction and need of some sort of medicine to complete collapse and a fierce struggle with death. A good cook can come pretty near to keeping the doctor out of the house.— New York World. Deafiicna Cann*t Re Cured by local application*, as ttiey cannot roach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only ono way to euro deafness, and that is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous liningoftho Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper fect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam mation can bo taken out and this tube re stored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ton are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We willgivo Due Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY A Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c, Hall's Family Pills are the best. The area in Ireland under flax this year is 47.327 acres, an increase of 12,- 338 acres on 1890. Under favorable conditions flax yields in Ireland about £6 or £7 per statute acre. Best For the Bowels, No matter what ails you, headaohs to a { '{nT {I numbers also work to acquire wealth. ' ' V j*. II Some for great commercial prominence. ¥ J Some to preserve intact a splendid inheri- ff tance. Necessity, generosity and ambition are the inspiration of all classes of indus try, and the object of every one falls to the c ground when ill-health attacks him. ' KtaT,' 4 '' Maintaining health is the most vital thing in the world for workers of every jib. ~a' class, and the usefulness of Dr. Greene's /j> |\f Nervura blood and nerve remedy, as a * —"— Btrengthener of the constitutional and V. f vital powers, is beyond all question. This fIMHa V great remedy enters into partnership with Nature and helps human beings do IWI Mfa** "HI V their work without giving up to prema- Wj ' Ab3 8 ture decay. The strain of work is on the minds'of some, on the bodies of others, /***' • m in the nerves and blood. Nervura acts 'IL ~~^==~ its strengthening power is wonderful. WSMfM Dr. Greene's NERVURA \J V W PI for the Blood and Nerves. " k Win w What does the worker do when some chronic S[ 'wiH J trouble manifests itself? He takes some stimulant or Jg® | something which is designed for temporary effect, and jraxQ £ simply weakens his already overworked system. llow JLwjSj mS|if | different from this is the work of Nervura! How C&' ;i 4. I beautiful its support to the natural powers! With- I out shock of any kind its purely vegetable elements VJSR * seek out the weak spots and build them up. Imme- I diately the circulation of the blood improves and the sluggish elements are expelled. The nerves are quieted, the quality of the blood is enriched and the new and strengthening tide communicates itself to every muscle of the body. Mr. JOHN D. SMITH, Electrician for the Thomson-Houston Electric Co., of Lynn, Mass., says: 44 When a man has been sick and is cured, it is his duty to tell others about it, that they, too. may get well. Three years ago I had been working almost night and day, could not eat regularly, and got only a few hours' sleep at night. No man can stand that long, and I soon began Co bo prostrated. I could not sleep when I tried, and my food would not stay on my stomach. I wan in a terrible condition, and was much alarmed. 44 1 went to doctors, but they did ine no good. Learning of the wonderful good done by Dr. Greene's Nervura blood ana nerve remedy, I determined to try it. It <*ured mo corn, pletely of all my complaints. I oat heartily and sleep well, thanks to this splendid medicine, I believe it to bo the best remedy in existence." Dr. Greene, Nervura's discoverer, will give all health seekers his counsel free of charge. His office is at 35 West 14th Street, New York City, and his advice may be secured by personal call or by letter through the mail; no charge is made in either case. The worn-out in body, mind, or sexual powers will get prompt help from Dr. Greene* His advice is absolutely confidential aud is free to aIL A wideawake American has erected steam pumps on the Jordan and is sup plying churches all over Europe with genuine Jordan water. Sweat and fruit acids will not discolor goods dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Sold by all druggists. Hunters' Paradise in China. According to a correspondent in the Washington Star China isdthe last great game preserve in the world. Many will jhe surprised to learn that, notwith standing the dense population of China and the centuries since the country has become thickly populated, it is still the best stocked with game of any country |in the world. Even in the regions about Peking, now occupied by the al j lied troops, where villages dot the plains every mb or two and the population exceeds 2.000 to the square mile, wolves, foxes, raccoons, weasels and rabbits are so thick as to be pests, while such game as pigeons, quail, grouse and rice birds are found in immense flocks. The wolves of China are particularly numer ous and fearless, and many lives are lost every winter from their depreda tions. The Heat Prescription for Chills and Fever Is a bottle of Gitovß'o TAHTBI.KM CHILL TONIC. It Is simply iron and quinine In a tasteless form. Mo eura—no pay. l'rlca 50a An Overwhelming Thought. Our sun is a third-rate sun, situated in the milky way, one of myriads of stars, and the milky way is itself one of myriads of sectional star accumula tions, for these seem to be countless, and to be spread over infinity. At some period of their existence each of these suns had planets circling around it, which, after untold ages, are fit for some sort of human being to inhabit them for a comparatively brief period, after which they still continue for years to circle around without atmosphere, vegetation or inhabitants, as the moon does around our planet. There is noth ing so calculated to take the conceit out of an individual who thinks himself an important unit in the universe as astronomy. It teaches that we are less, compared with the universe, than a col ony of ants is to us, and that tile differ ence between men is less than that be tween one ant and another.—London Truth. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. ■ $2 trial bottle and treatise Iron. Dr. R. 11. Kx.iNK.Ltd. !):il Arch Kt.rhilu.ltt. Danish lighthouses are supplied with oil to pump on the waves in case of a storm. Tiso's Curo cannot be too highly spoken of as n cough cure.—J. W. O'Bnrax, 322 Third Ave., N. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1200. The Missouri is now claimed to be the longer by 200 miles than the Miss issippi. IT. H. GKEKN'S SONS, of Atlanta, Gn., are the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the world. Seetheirliberal offoi in advertisement in another column of this paper. The cost of Philadelphia's marble City Hall to June 30 last were $23,739,- 593- Police Judge Nelswangcr, of Alment, Kas., is a woman. Britain makes 300,000,000 yards o) linen a year. Mrs.Winslow's Soothing Ryrnp for children teething, softens the gums, reduces i nils mnufi. tion. allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c abottlia Central New York is practically 4 dairy country. =* D. all)** Safest, wrest cure for UlaOllll S aU throat tud lung _ troubles. People praise Cough Syrup kSfSK-SSfi: Refuse substitutes. Get Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. LIRBY'S | i of BEEf t 4 1 f Made without regard to econ omy. 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