CAEE OF GRINDSTONES.
Is. cold weather the grindstone
should always be under shelter. It is
more or less absorptive of water, and
when water freezes, as it must in
winter, it will soon chip off pieces and
make the &tone run unevenly. A
grindftone of pood quality, will, with
care, last manyyeais, and it is a pleas
ure to use it. One exposed always
to the weather is a nuisance to any
one obliged to use it. Boston Culti
vator. PROTECTING TREES.
Discovered the colts barking trees
in the posture one day. Had a roll of
fine mesh wire chicken fence on hand,
which I cut up and put around each
tree. It did the business, and it will
stay there. By th9 way, why can't
we have fino screen wire galvanized
for permanent guards for fruit trees?
Would it not overcome the destructive
work of the apple tree borer by pre
venting the insect from di-positing its
eggs in the trunk of tin; tree, as well
as afford protection from rabbits and
mice. American Agriculturist.
DISEASES OF THE 1'ORE LEGS.
The feet and legs of horses are at
tracting more attention among breed
ers than formerly, as all breeds have
good and bad feet and legs. A scien
tific writer in Europe says: "That
there are more diseases of the fore
th vn of the hind 1oj;s of the horso is
only what would be expected from his
conformation, his mode of progression
and the nature of his work. The fore
legs and feet are the first to suffer in
jury, for they are the most severely
taxed both at ease and at work."
MUTTON AND WOOL.
A few years ago farmers kept sheep
for wool alone, the carcas.i of the ani
mal did not enter into consideration
us a thing of value. Then camo the
Budden demand for good mutton and
first class lamb. The fleece sank in
the opinion of the breeders as the
meat rose. The talk is to-day entirely
of the "mutton sheep," and few farm
ers realize that the famous English
broods aim to produce both wool and
mutton of the best quality and in
largo quantities. Whilo mutton is the
first consideration, it i3 by no means
the only one. The fleeco, the young
lambs, the sales for breeding purposes
and the enrichment they give the land
aro all sources of profit iu sheep rais
ing. It is by attention to all these
points that the English farmer has
managed to exist. Now York eWorld.
HF.CIPE FOIt PICKLING BEEF.
There are various recipes for pick
ling beef, but the following is a favor
ite one among our Northern farmers :
To each gallon of water add one and
one-half pounds of salt, one-half
pound of sugar, and one-half ounce of
saltpetre. In this ratio you can in
crease the jiicklo to any quantity de
sired. Put the pickle in a kettle and
boil until all foreijj matter rises to
the surface and is skimmed otf. Then
throw into a tub or clean cask to cool,
and when cold pour it over the beef,
which, of course, must have been pre
viously closely packed in the barrels.
Th9 meat must bo well covered with
pickle and kept down with a weight.
The meat should not bo 2acked down
for at least two days after killing, and
during this time it is wel! to sprinkle
with about equal parts of salt and
saltpetre, which will remove the sur
face blood and leave the meat fresh
and clean. Store the meat in as cool
a place as you have the cooler the
better in your climate. New York
Sun.
now CREAM IS RIPENED.
The cream is best skimmed when
rather thick, that is, when it may be
almost rolled up on the pan and lifted
in a sort of cake. It will then con
tain about twenty per cent, of milk,
and some milk mnst then bo poured
into the cream j ir with the cream,
and the wholo stirred to mix the two
intimately. This stirring is done
every time the cream is added, and
the third milking should bo the last
before the cream is churned. The
cream will ripen of itself if it is kept
in a warm place all this time, at not
less than sixty decrees of temperature.
At tho end of this time the surface
will glisten like satin when it is
stirred, and this is a good indication
of its full ripening for the churning.
Otherwise, the cream may be set on
the addition of the last cream, by mix
ing half a pint of tho buttermilk from
the last can, churniug to five gallons
of tho cream and stirring it well ;
then, at a temperature of sixty or
sixty-five degrees the cream will be
ready for churning in twelve hours.
;This will yield the linest-fiavored but
ter, that is fit for the finest tables in
a few hours after it is mad-', or for
some tastes it is churned for every
meal, and eaten as it is churned.
Cream thus flavored will make a very
delicately-flavored butter. New York
Times.
UTILIZING THE WASTE.
A good plan whereby a farmer may
utilize more waste is to have a spot
set aside into, which all tho kitchen
and table waste in the shape of meat
6craps, pieces of bread, uneaten vege
tables, etc., may bo thrown. Heat
this up iE the morning with boiling
water, and mix in bran, shorts, prov
ender, or whatever is cheapest and
most abundant on the farm, until the
whole is a crumbly mess, says the
manager of the Poultry Department
of the Canadian Central Experiment
Farm. A small quantity of black and
red pepper should be dusted in before
mixing. Let the mixture stand for a
few minutes until partially cooked,
and feed in a narrow, clean trough to
the layers in the morning. A light
feed of oats at noon, and a liberal ra
tion of wheat, buckwheat, or other
grain for the evening meal should
bring plenty of eggs.
Each layer should bo sent to roost
with a full crop to carry her over the
long night fast. It is imperative that
green food in the shape of marketable
vegetables, clover hay or lawn clip
pings the two latter dried in Bum
mer and put away to be steamed for
winter use should be supplied. If
green bones are fed they may be given
in lieu of any of the regular rations,
reducing the quantity of grain in pro
portion to the quantity of bone used.
New York World.
PROFITABLE SWINE RAISING.
Select the breed best suited to your
fancy and surroundings, then breed
pure. Avoid inbreeding, for no farau
animal will as quickly deteriorate from
it as the hog. Select a pure bred sow
from one to two years of age, of good
length, heavy quarters and a Bhort
snout. The boar should also be
heavily quartered, well proportioned
and evenly made. Sows should be
bred to farrow about the middle of
April and the pigs eho'ild be kept
growing until ready for market. Fall
pigp, unless weighing from thirty tc
forty pounds when going into winter
quarters, are usually unprofitable.
Feed the brood sow sparingly of corn
but give her plenty of bran and mid
dlings. Some feeders argue that a
sow will do better at farrowing if she
be thin in flesh. This is true if 6he
has been fed on corn, but if fed as rec
ommended above, she will do much
better by her pigs if in good flesh. A
few roots and an occasional feed of
clover hay ate very healthful and will
be enjoyed by the sow. Care should
be taken not to overfeed her for a few
days preceding farrowing and for two
weeks after, as the pigs cannot disjjose
of too much milk at that age. But
after that feed the sow all she will eat
of a mixed ration of corn meal, oat
meal and bran, with ground barley
and middlings for an occasional
change. As soon as the pigs are old
enough to cat slop they should bo
allowed the freedom of a pen apart
from the sow, where they can be fed
separately. New England Homestead.
WHERE PALMS FLOCRISH.
Palms at home have a peaty soil,
but will do well and probably live
longer in a mixture of sandy loam and
well-decayed manure, with a sprink
ling of charcoal to keep it sweet. The
soil must be well drained, and the tub
or pot should fit close about the roots,
says tho Philadelphia Press. Palms
are easy to grow in the conditions of
tho ordinary dwelling, and nothing
appears to greater advantage at so
little cost. A successful grower of
paluis ordered her plants from a dis
tant florist. The plants, when they
came by express, had a good ball of
soil about the roots ; this, wrapped
first about with burlaps, then with
strong paper. The pots for the plants
were five inches more in diameter than
the thickest part of the roots. In the
pot were first put broken pieces of
crock and charcoal to the depth of
three inches for drainage, then a half
inch of potting material, and upon
this the root was rested. The earth
was then packed in firmly to an inch
of tho pot. The amount of drainage
and earth under the root was deter
mined by tho size, tho rule being to
have the stem of the plant meet the
surface of the soil. The secret of suc
cessful palm growing is in the water
ing ; not too much, and yet the sur
face of the soil nover to be dry, and to
keep the foliage clear of dust by fre
quent sponging. The owner of these
plants, aresidentof this city, although
ostensibly growing them as attractions
for tho home, adds considerable to his
income every year by loaning the
palms for decorative purposes. Balti
more American.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Even in winter the horso is better
for outdoor exercise.
Teach a horse what you wish him to
do and he will always do it.
Water the horse in the morninar be
fore giving him his breakfast.
Timothy hay is poor stuff for cow
feed. Clover hay is the thing.
Because prices are low is no rexson
for starving or neglecting horses.
Brood novo size and more quality
into the carriage and coacn norse.
Where your ewes are insufficiently
sheltered from cold, breed them so
that they will lamb in April or May.
Mix your animals' rations scientifi
cally aud weigh them carefully. Noth
ing is more important in mixing foods
for live stock than to mix them by
weight.
In homo counties in Iowa half the
wheat crop will this year be fed to
stock. In the northwestern States the
whir of the steel wheat crusher is
heard in the laud.
After you have shown animals at
fairs quarantine them to themselves
a while after bringing them home. It
is easy to catch contagious diseasei
among your live stock at fairs.
Keep the breeding ewes in good con
dition. Many ewes are lost by hav
ing them start into winter in poor
coudition. Such ewes, wiieu they
themselves do not die, produce dead
or weakly lambs.
Black fowls have the reputation of
beiug uniformly better layers than
white breeds. The black Leghorn by
some is considered superior to white ;
the same may be said of the Miuorca,
Langshaii, Java, CochiD, Plymouth
Rock and Spanish breeds.
The manner in which a horse stands
still is one of tho best indications of
soundness. If he stands with his legs
straight and well under the body there
is not much the matter wifh them." If
he favors a limb or straddles before or
behind, examine him carefully.
When you buy new hogs, sheep or
cattle, turn them into a pen or yard
by themselves until you ascertain
whether they have not some infectious
disease. This precaution is especially
necessary now when European Gov
ernments pretend that wo have swine
plague and pleuro-pueunionia among
our live stock.
To break up and scatter the manure
aud to loosen up the spots where there
is no grass, they plant and harrow
the pastures at the Ohio State Uni
versity, according to the Agricultural
Student. For this purpose they use
four fence rails nailed together side
by side and tied behind a light
smoothing harrow.
Wheat is a good food for laying
hens; it contains -protein fats and car
bohydrates, and is considered prefer
able to corn for uailv feed. It is im
portant to bear in mind that it is the
nutrients in foods that are valuable.
There is a great deal to learn of what
certain fools contain, and the results
derived from feeding.
If a horse balks, do not whip him,
but let him stop ami think it over.
Altera little reflection and a few
tosses of the head ho will often start
of his volition. Talk to him kindly,
pet him, loosen a strap or a buckle,
and he may forget his obstinate spell.
An apple or a bunch of grass from the
roadside mav win him.
The production of precious metals
in the United States from 1858 to
188S amounted to 248b' tons of gold
and 20,300 tons of silver.
Sig Scramble for the New Four Per
Cents in New York.
ALL TAKEN IN A FEW MINUTES.
Bio Itecelved for More Than Te:i Times
V.if A mount of the Loan of 8G2,.00,
OOO Foreijfn financiers Sliowed freat
Eagerness to Get the "New Yankees "
Sellinsr at a Premium.
Kubscrii tioti.s for the mueh-talked-of four
per nt. Ix-ind issue, which is to supply t'ue
United States Treasury with .t6j.000.000 in
gold, were opened simultaneously iu New
York City and London. With the oj.-:dnif
and raj.id flowing of the new boa'l, a brief
visit from Secretary of the Treasury John G.
Carlisle) and reports that Londoners had Kone
wild in their efforts to subscribe to what
they facetiously termed the "New Yankees,"
New York finaneial world generally h-i I
sufficient to occupy its attention for one day
at least.
Look before the banking houses of J. P.
Morgan A ;o., and August Uelmont & Co..
who received subscriptions, opened for busi
ness, messengers with blank bids filled out
stood In line readv to subscribe, to one-hulf
of tho 02,000,000 "four per cent?., which por
tion the big foreign syndicate is under con
tract to sell in this country.
At 10 o'clock the subscriptions were re
ceived, and for exactly twenty-one minutes
all blanks presented were taken. It was ex
actly twenty-one, minutes past 10 o'clock
when the big subscription closed.
In that time every dollar's worth of tho
31.000.000 bonds was subscribed for ac
cording to estimate, twelve times over, and
those whos subscription will be received
had the gold io pay for thom either in the
Sub-Trejisury or in one of the several banks
deputized to act as depositories for the Gov
ernment. According to the announcement of Messrs.
Morgan and Belmont on behalf of the syndi
cate, the right whs reserved by them to reject
any applications, to allot smaller amounts
than had boon applied for and to apportion
allotments between American and European
applicants In any way that they might deem
best.
The amount of the entire issue of the new
four per cent, bonds is $62,500,000 in coupon
form of 50, 100. $1000, and registered form
of 50, 100, $1000 and $10,000 each. They
bear interest from February 1, 1895, when
they aro dated, and are payable at the pleas
ure of tho United States after 1925, when they
mature. Interest is payable quarterly on
February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1.
Tho price of the bonds to the public is
112j if which 12) per cent, is payable on
the allotment and the remaining 100 percent,
upon the delivery of the bonds with interest
at four per cent, a yerr from March 1.
The bonds will be delivered as soon as they
are prepared and executed by tho Treasury
Department. It ha been arranged that pur
chasers who desire to complete their pay
ments before the delivery of the bonds shall
receive negotiable receipts.
The other half of tho 62.313,000, which, in
a like prospectus to the one issued in this
country, was offered in London by Roth
schild & Sons and J. 8. Morgan & Co., it was
announced by a cable despatch has been sub
scribed for ten times over. A later cable des
patch announced that the bonds were at a
premium of four per cent.
Secretary Carlisle and his son, William K.,
eallod on Assistant Treasurer Conrad N. Jor
dan at the United States Sub-Treasury in
New York during the morning. Mr. Carlisle,
-hen questioned by a reporter, declared that
ne had not a word to say for publication on
the question of the new loan or any subject
connected with his olBoe. He said, however,
that he already knew of the great over-bidding
for the bonds and of the success of the
loan.
A NEV.' ORK VILLAGE BURN-ED.
Fort., r'asiness Flaceg in Hamilton De
stroyed "With a Loss of 8300,000.
At 8.30 p. m. a fire started in the furniture
store of Rowland & Beal, in Hamilton, a vil
lage twenty miles south of Utiea, N. , and
the seat of College University, The one en
gine in the village was frozen up, the water
pressure of a new system of water works was
miserably small and the fire swept the busi
ness portion of the town. A stiff breeze
fanned the Games, and before aid could be
sent from Utiea and tho surrounding villages,
forty business places were totally destroyed.
The burned district includes the Smith
block, erected at a cost of 60.000; tho Tripp,
a three-story brick building; the Davis.three
etory brick building; the Tripp Opera House,
the Shores brick building, the National Ham
ilton Bank, the Postoftica, the engine house,
tho Masonic Hall, the Hamilton Sentinel
building, the Rowlands building, the Mott
brick building, Dodge estate stone building,
the Banning estate brick building, Bonney &
Meldon's brick building, Haskell's building,
the Rice building and the Smith estate build
ing. These aro the principal structures, and in
them were many stores anil offices. Frac-
( tically nothing was saved. Merchandise and
goods waieh were removed to the street
caught lre and burned.
A conservative estimate plaoes the loss at
$200,000, with a nominal insurance.
RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT A SUICIDE.
First Secretary of the Legation Shootg
Himself In Washington City.
M. P. Bogdanoff, First Secretary of tho
Russian Legation, killed himself at 10.15
o'clock a. m. by shooting himself in the head
at his boarding house in the fashionable part
of Washington City. He had been sick for two
or three weeks, and his suicide is supposed
to be attributable to the suffering he had un
dergone. M. Bogdanoff was between thirty and
thirty-flve years of age and unmar
ried. He was First Secretary of the Russian
Legation, and was highly esteemed among
the members of the Diplomatic Corps. He
had been suffering for several weeks with
severe pains in h:s lower limbs, the result,
probably, of a heavy cold, which had de
veloped into grip. It is thought that he had
become despondent over his illness, which
did not seem to be leaving him. and that in a
moment of despair he killed himself.
PATENT COMMISSIONER'S REPORT.
Citizens of Connecticut Lead the List In
Number of Patents Granted.
Commissioner of Patents John S. Seymour
submitted to Congress his report of the work
of his bureau for the year 1894. He says that
during the year there were 20,803 patents
granted and 1600 trade marks registered, and
12.920 patents expired.
The total expenditures were 1,100,047.
The receipts over expenditures were 87.092.
and the total balance to the credit ol the
Patent Office in the Treasury of the United
States amounts to 54,369,135. In proportion
to population, more patents were issued to
citizens of Connecticut than to those of any
other State. .
CaptaiH and Two Men Lost.
Captain Thomas McLean, of the British
bark Valona, left his vessel in. a small boat
for Darien, Ga. He was accompanied by two
of the crew. Captain Pattersc a. of the tug
Mallonee, reports finding the b -.at bottom up
near Sutherland's Bluff. There is no longer
any doubt as to the party's being lost.
Family Frozen to Ileath.
The echoes of the blizzard of February 6,
7 and 8 are just now being heard from the
far outlying districts in Missouri. From
Buford Mountains, eight miles southwest of
Iroudale, Mo., comes news of a woodchopper
named John C. Warner, his wife and three
children found frozen to death.
Twenty-two Person Frozen to Death.
There is yet no abatement of the cold
weather throughout Austria. Twenty-two
persons have been frozen to death in Galicia,
and several cases of death from exposure to
the cold are reported from other regions.
Brazilian Kevolutionists Active Again.
A dispatch from. Montevideo says that ad
vices received there from the Brazilian fron
tier are to the effect that the Brazilian revo
lutionists are active, and art? massing weli
armed and well mounted bodies of men in
the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The revo
lutionists are under the command of Admiral
de Oama, who took such a prominent ptirt
n the naval operations before Rio de Jan
eiro. Most Unique Strike on Record.
All the cigarmakers in Marti City. Fia..
went out on a st-rike because Teacher C. W
Washburn refused to admit colored children
t the free schools'.
KOREA IS INDEPENDENT.
Notice to That KSTect Served on the Cal
ne Minister in Washington.
The Korean Legation has served notice on
the Chinese Minister at Washington that
Korea is independent, a fact that he had
ignored in sending the Korean Charge d" Af
faires a copy of the Chinese almanac for the
current year. Ordinarily the presentation of
a calendar might not be considered a matter
of great importance, but the Chinese years
are arbitrarily managed by the Emperor
Kwang Su, who has arranged" for this year to
have thirteen months, including an addi
tional month of Mav. This calendar is an
nually distributed to the subjects of the Em
peror' and to the rulers of vassal States, who
are commanded to govern their dates by the
Emperor's system. Heretofore the Koreans
have used the Chinese year, most of their
transactions being with China, and this ha9
been considered bv China a satisfactory proof
of vassalage. When Yang Yu. the Chinese
Minister at Washington, sent the Koreans an
official calendar several days ago it was
promptly returned to him with a notice that
thev had no use for it, as h-reafter they in
tended to count time as othor civilized Ni
tioiis. It is understood that th-3 Korean Legation
ha3 hitherto accepted this annual piit from
the Chinese Minister who has thus been able
to declare that the Korean representative-in
America was subject to his authority. After
this, however, he will have nothing to base
his claim upon.
FATAL MINE EXPLOSION.
Five Men Instantly Killed and Six Others
Terribly Injured In Pennsylvania.
By an explosion of mine gas in the West
Bear Ridge Colliery of the Reading Coal and
Iron Company at Mahanoy Plane, Penn., six
miners were killed and Ave were burned,
four of them probably fatally. The dead are:
Thomas Durkin, of Girardville, Joseph
Glibe, of Crescent Hill; Peter Greenback, of
St. Clair; Peter Kline, of Ashland; Anthony
Myerp, of Ashland; Benjamin Beaber, of
Mahanoy Place.
Ad but Myers were probably Instantly
killed, and it was some time before their
bodies were recovered from the workings.
Mvers was takei out alive and die 1 while
being carried to the hospital. The injured
are;
Edward Davis, of Girardville; William
Minnich and William Goff, of Ashland; John
Lamey and William Davis, of Mahanoy
Plane. It was feared that the first four of
these injured men were fatally burned, but
William Davis was only slightly hurt.
The cp use of the explosion was supposed
to be that a naked lamp ignited a large body
of gas that had been let loose from a blast
that was made in tho gangway. The ex
plosion set fire to the timbers of what is
called the "monkey airway" cutting off the
escape of the flvo men killed in the mine.
FICCAT FILCHED FOR YEARS.
His Iluge Defalcation Canoed the Bank of
Lexington, Va., to Collapse.
The defalcation of Cashier C. M. Figgat,
which has practically put out of existence the
Bank of Lexington, Ya. , and the only finan
cial agent of the entire community and county
people, has fallen with a telling effect. Over
twenty thousand people are victims of this
financial collapse.
The liabilities of the bank are 193,402.42.
The assets are 133.202.32. This leaves a
shortage of 65,200.10, not including the
capital stock valued at 80,000. It is said
that Figgat used up the 80,0 and 65,
200.10 of depositors' funds, leaving a cash,
balance of 6573.12 to meet the cash de
posits of 72.000. It is given out that the
period of defalcation covers twenty-three
years.
The Virginia Military Institute had nearly
20,000 deposited in the bank. A large
amount of the County Treasurer's funds was
also in the bank.
ARSON FOR FIREMEN'S PRACTICE.
Au Entire Company Discharged for Com
plicity in Incendiarism.
The entire Fire Department of Ypsilanti,
Mich., is in commotion'over the confession
of ex-Fireman Charles M. Walker, who has
sworn that he. Captain Graham and Archie
Harrison, now somewhere in Ohio, set fire
to many buildings during 1892 and 1893. He
says that Captain Graham was the chief
conspirator and that he supplied the kero
sene oil to rtart the fires.
Their motive was to rid the town of old
buildings, to give the members of No. 2 com
pany opportunity to be at the fire first and
to get some needed practice. The firemen
were then paid so much per fire. He further
swears that the company was notified when
the ttres were to occur. AU tho members of
No. 2 have been discharged and Graham and
Walker are both under arrest.
FARMERS' COMMON ENEMY.
State and Federal Aid Asked to Kill the
Russian Thistle.
The Interstate Russian Thistle Conference,
called by the Governor of Minnesota to devise
ways and means for the suppression of that
weed, met at the Capitol, St. Paul. Resolu
tions were adopted setting forth that the Rus
sian thistle has extended from the Dakotasto
California on the West; to New York on the
East and from the thirty-fourth parallel on
the South to the fiftieth parallel on the North,
rendering valueless for p u rposes of agricul
ture extensive areas, and that tho conditions
prevailing in some of the States afflicted are
such that the National Government must ren
der direct assistance to the people in connec
tion with their State governments by appro
priation of public moneys, if decisive battle
is to bo begun against the common enemy
KILLED BY COLD.
Klghty Deaths in London Aione Attributed
to the Severe Weather.
Cold is named by the Coroners as the cause
of eighty deaths in London alone in about
one hundred inquests held within four days
and a great many more are reported from the
provinces. Similar conditions of weather,
with many fatalities, are reported in central
Europe. Snow has tied up the State railway
in Hungary and the drifts resist even dyna
mite. Baden and Wurtembcrsj are separated
by snow, from Mannheim to Cologne the
Rhine is solid ice. and birds are dying by
thousands for want of water. Tho cold iu
Germany was less, but the snow was increas
ing. THOUSANDS STARVINC IN CH.CACO.
Fully One Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Persons In Need of Immediate Assistance.
According to a report made by the Out
door Relief Committee of the County
Board there are 150,000 persons in
Chicago who require immediate assist
ance to avoid starvation; 50,000 per
sons have already been supported
at their homes at public expt nse. Many are
said to be industrious persons who have been
out of employment until their credit and re
sources are exhausted. Many more are in
danger of being evicted from their homes.
Drowned Under the Ice.
Lillian MeMullen, aged lifteen, employed
at the stock farm at North Haven, near Sag
Harbor. Long Island. N. Y., was drowned in
an air hole in the ice at South Ferry. The
girl was walking on the ice with two
children, daughters of the superinten
dent of the pond. She slipped when near
the air hole and fell into the water.
The two children hastened to her assistence.
and they, too, fell through. Lillian, instead
of trying to get out herself, bravely grasped
the rough edges of the ice and held on until
the children climbed to her shoulders and
thence on the ice. Then she sank to her
death
Killed by Her Hatpin.
Carrie Pelsgrove, a pretty girl of seven
teen, residing near New Castle, Hy., went
skating with her sweetheart and a party ol
gay young friends on a pond near her home.
Some of the youngsters began a race, and
Miss Pelsgrove, becoming entangled in the
crowd, fell, driving a hatpin into her brain.
The pin broke off, leaving part of it in her
skull. The girl died before she could be
taken home.
Starving in Oklahoma.
An appeal for aid has been issued by set
tlers in the Cherokee Strip. Hundreds of
families are absolutely starving, eating
prairie dogs and horses. The suffering is
unparalleled. Cattle have been dying in
droves, as a result of the unprecedented
"northers" which have visited Indian and
Oklahoma Territories and Texas within the
pf-st few weeks.
A Smallpox Serum.
Experiments with a smallpox serum are
being conducted by Health Commissions
Homan at the Quarantine Hospital, St
Lonlf. Mo.
A SURGEON'S KNIFE
rives you a feeling of horror and dread.
There is no longer necessity for its use
in jnanv diseases formerly regarded as
Incurable without cutting. The
Triumph of Conservative Surgery
is well illustrated by the fact that
DITDTI1DP or Breach is now rUdi
KUr 1 Urvti cured without the
knife and without pain. Clumsy, chaf
ing trusses can be thrown away f They
never cure but often induce inflamma
tion, strangulation and death.
TI 1 M ftRQ Ovarian, Fibroid (rterine)
1 Ui'lviw and many others, are now
removed without the perils of cutting
operations.
PILE TUMORS, 1 a la.Td
other diseases of the lower bowel, are
permanently cured without pais or re
sort to the knife.
CTfWP in th Bladder, no matter
31 Uiti how large, is crushed, pul
verized, washed out and perfectly re
moved without cutting.
CTDIfTITPP of Crinary Passage io
O I Ivlw 1 UlVL. also removed without
cutting in hundreds of cases. For pam
phlet, references and all particulars,
send io cents (in stamps) to World's Dis
pensary Medical Association, 663 Main
Street, "Buffalo, N. Y.
MOTHERS
and those soon to be
come mothers,
should know that Dr.
Pierce's Favorite
Prescription robs
childbirth of its tor
tures, terrors aud
dangers to both
mother and child, by
aiding nature in pre
paring tne system
for parturition.
Therfhv "labor"
and the period of
r," 1 m i. tl t 3Cf
jrreatly shortened. It also promotes tre
secretion of an abundance of nourishment
for the child.
Mrs. Dora A. Gctttrik, of Oat ley, Overton Co.,
T-nn., writes : " When I began taking Dr.
Tierce's Favorite Prescription. I was net able to
Maud 011 my feet without suffering almost death.
Now I do all my housework, washing, cooking,
sewing and evervthing for my family of eight. I
am rtoiiter now" than I have been in six years.
Your Favorite Prescription ' is the best to take
before confinement, or at least it proved so with
me. I never suffered so little with any of my
children as I did with niy last."
Discovery ol a Xotetl Watering1 Place.
The Worcester (Mass.) Gazette re
calls the fact that Professor Agassiz,
Dr. Kowe, James Russell Lowell and
other companion spirits used to 6pend
their vacations together in some out-of-the-way
unknown spot. Dr. Howo
had at one t ime a camp, a log house
of some size, on Little Ampersand
Pond, in the Adirondacks, not many
miles from Martin's, on the Lower
Saranac, but there was a four hours'
carry through the woods. It was a
small pend off the regular line of boat
travel. It was the Agassiz-Howe party
who discovered the little fishing vil
lage of Bar Haibor, on Mount Desert
Island, with the ragged shore below
and Green Mountain looming up in
the near distance, rising as it does
almost out of the sea. This must Lave
been about the year 1858 or 1859.
Fiobert's little old red tavern was the
only imitation of an inn, aud the na
tives who owned the land were fisher
men and farmers, or a little of both.
An investment of a few dollars in land
in those days would have been better
than Calumet and Ilecla stock. The
Cambridge men told their friends
about Mount Desert, and Bar Harbor
became in time the most popular
watering place on the coast.
Pure Air and Medicine.
It isn't drugs or medicines that is
needed nt all ; it is pleLty of the purest
air thnt can be had. Open the win
dows aud the doors, clear out the cel
lars aud ventilate it thoroughly, re
move the dam2ness, the mustiness,the
ancient odor, the smeli of decay which
greets the nostrils when one enters
from the health-giving atmosphere
out of doors. Never mind if the out
er air bears the taint of the gas house,
the manufactory or some other un
pleasant thing ; it is also mingled with
the health and strength-giving forces
of Natu re, and is certainly better for
the human system than the same air
which has been shut up and contam
inated far an indefinite period with no
chance for purification. Don't mind
even if a little dust is brought in ; a
few minutes with the duster will put
the house in perfect order again, and
even at the worst, dust is not half so
bad as disease. And as for fear of
draughts, with colds and a thousand
resultant evils following in their train,
nineteen-twentieths of that is imagin
ary, and the other twentieth is easily
avoidable. Good Housekeeping.
Cotton Wool in the Nostrils.
Says Dr. E. P. Mann in the Pacific
Medical Journal : "Abundant experi
ment long ago demonstrated that cot
ton wool was capable of arresting
germinal matter with which the air is
filled. By placing within the nostrils,
out of sight, a thin pledget of cotton,
not sufficiently dense to interfere with
free inspiration, the air may be greatly
purified. The cotton immediately be
comes moistened during expiration,
which adds materially to its efficiency
as a filter. That, thus placed, it will
arrest dnst, particles of soot, etc., may
be easily shown by introducing the
pledgets, and then, after an hour's
walk through the streets, removing
them, when they will be found black
ened and soiled. Microscopical ex
amination discloses quite a museum
of germinal matter. Prominentamong
the displays are found various forms
of catarrhal and bronchial secretion
that have been desiccated and pulver
ized 1 y massing feet, thus liberating
the ge m which, planted upon a con
genial boil, will produce catarrh, to
order."
Accept None of
Pretended
t
ECAUSE inferior and cheaper made baking
preparations are bought at wholesale at a price
so much lower than Royal, some grocers are
urging consumers to use them in place of the Royal at
the same retail price.
If you desire to try any 01 the pretended substitutes
for Royal Baking Powder bear in mind that they are
all made from cheaper and inferior ingredients, and are
not so great in leavening strength nor of equal money
value. Pay the price of the Royal Baking Powder
for the Royal only.
It is still more important, however, that Royal Baking
Powder is purer and more wholesome, and makes better,
finer, and more healthful food than any other baking
powder or preparation.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO
Massage ior Ulack Ejes.
Those who make a business of ob
literating evidence of fistic encoun
ters in the shape of black eyes by
painting the damaged optics no longer
enjoy a monopoly of such business.
This I was told by a pugilistic ac
quaintance whose experience entitles
him to be regarded as an authority on
the pubject.
"Massage treatment of the region
affected," he Eaid "will beat paint and
raw beefsteak all hollow. But it should
be applied immediately after the in
jury is received in order to prove
thoroughly efficacious. It does not
require an expert to do it. All that
is necessary is to move the fingers
rapidly and firmly over the bruised
surface, and to keep it up until the
last vestige of discoloration has dis
appeared. The explanation is easy.
Where the blow has been received tho
blood becomes congested. It is tho
clots of blood showing through the
transparent skin that produces the
black effect. The pressure of the
fingers gradually loosens the clotted
blood, which passes oil" into the gen
eral current of circulation, and lresh
and properly colored blood takes its
place."
However, as a rule, the professional
"pug" does not bother himself about
accelerating the disappearance of a
black eye. It is a sign which pro
claims the fact that its proprietor has
recently filled an engagement, and as.
such he is an object of envy to his
less fortunale brethren. It is the
man about town, whose overindulgence
occasionally causes him to forget that
discretion is the better part of valor,
who is apt to profit most by the
knowledge that massage, promptly ap
plied, will remove the signs of mourn
ing from an eye that hr.s been in vio
lent contnet with some other fellow's
fist, and thus obviate the necesf-ity of
inventing a story to account for it,
which, however ingenious, will be
neeredat by sceptical and incredulous
acquaintances, me of whom may
have "been there themselves." New
York Herald.
Food Adulteration.
A recent Washington dispatch says
the Consul at, Auruiberg has reported
to the Department of State the result
of the investigations conducted by the
Society for the Prevention of the
Adulteration of Food in Saxony,show
iug that of 715 analyses made by the
chemist of the assosiation, 128, or
17.9 per" cent., showed objectionable
adulterations. Of nine samples of
American dried fruits examined, eight
were found objectionable. The fruit
had a nice white color, but, as they
were dried on zinc plates, they con
tained the injurious substances of that
metal. White in former years they
were freely admitted to the market,
their sale has been prohibited during
the past year.
Oil of citron contained only an in
significant per cent, of the real oil,
the balance being other ingredients
and alcohol. Batter, particularly that
from Austrian dealers, contained co
coanut oil, uesame oil, tallow, etc.
Textile fabrics were dye 1 with pois
onous colors and wool etufls showed
cotton admixtures up to eighty-five
per cent. Spices with which meats
had been prepared contained tannin,
and sausages contained living para
sites. Fruit juices were colored with
chemicals. A sample of coffee was
found to be impregnated with animal
refuse. Bye flour was adulterated
with rice fiour, and buckwheat with
starch. Bran was a composition of
wheat and rye, bran, sand dust and
mite eggs. Olive oil was found to be
nothing but grape seed oil perfumed
with rosemary oil, the adulteration
being so carefully done that experi
enced merchants could not detect it.
.
The Sheriff of Cook County, Chica
go, Illinois, gets twenty-five cents a
day for feeding each prisoner under
liis charge, and he is said to make
$50,000 a year out of it.
The Populist.
Why shouldn't there bo a third party? II
is true they disturb the smooth running ol
the regular organizations an! sometimes
overturn election, but what is popular is
founded on merit : As for instunw, dmoDg
all the remedies used tor sprains and bruises,
8t. Jacobs Oil is the most popular because it
is known to be the best ; hence it is the Pop
ulist in medicino. The more because it
cures so promptly and eurely. There is nc
crippling Iroru spraia where this old remedy
is used. It iini,iirM new life and strength
and the pain vanishes. Truly it i3 a l'opu
list. Wedding outfits can bo hired in New York
for so much an hour.
Dr. Kilmer's Swaiip-IIoot euros
all Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Famphlct and Consultation froe.
Laboratory Bmhamton, N. Y.
Bolivia was thus called in honor of Simon
Bolivar.
For Whooping Co:it;i), I'iso Cure is a success
ful remedy. Al. I'. Dieter, 67 Throop Avenue
Brooklyn, X. Y., November 14, 1HU.
Antidote ?or Cyanide Poisoning.
Cobalt nitrate is found by Dr. Jo
hann Antal, a chemist of Hungary, to
be an antidote to ptussic acid and
cyanide poisoning. First he tried the
cobalt on animals, and then, presum
ably at different times, on forty living
persons who had been accidentally
poisoned by prussie acid, and in all
cases the results are reported to have
been satisfactory. Scientific Ameri
can. the
Substitutes for
Baking
1 Powder
, 10 WALL ST., NEW-YORK.
March April
Are the Best Months in Which to
Purify Your Blood
And the Best Blood Purifier is
ood's SarsaparSSIa
Which Purifies, Vitalizes and Enriches the Blood
At this season everyone should take a good
spring medicine. Your blood must be puri
fied or you will be neglecting your health.
There is a cry from Nature for help, and un
less there is prompt and satisfactory response
you will be liable to serious illness.
This demand can only be met by the puri
fying, enriching and
Biood-Vltallzins
elements to be found in Hood's Sarsaparilla.
" My mother-in-law, Mrs. Ellzatth Wolfe,
at the age of 72 years, was attacked with a
violent form oi salt rheum; it spread all over
her body, arc! her hands and limbs were
dreadful to look at. At the same time, my
little daughter Clara, who was Just ono year
old, was attacked by a similar disease, like
scrofula. It aj peared in
ood
The chief rabbi of New Zealand says
that of the 208 cancer cases treate l in
the Wellington Hospital during the
last eight years not one was a Hebrew.
He attributes tho immunity of He
brews to the regulations regarding the
slaughter of cattle.
The hoopskirt was in full feather in
1596. It was then made of iron and
sometimes weighed thirty pounds.
How's Thin I
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
pnycapeof Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J.Chesev & Co., Props.. Tolcdn, O.
We, tho undersigned. Lave known V. J. Che.
ney for t.h lat 15 years, ami believe htm j ei .
f-jctly honoruhlo in all business transactions
and imano'al'.y abls to carry ou auyooli.i
tion made by the.r firm.
West ft Tkcax, "Wholesale Druggists, Towdo,
Ohio. . , ,
Waldisg, Ktn-van & Maiivin, Wholesale
Drugtfitits. Toledo. Ohio.
HaU's Oa'arrii Curo is t.:ikun internal! v, .ict-
ing directly upon thcl;lo n 1 lauouus ur.
Caoos of the svtetu. Ii-ic;e, 7.V. pt-r bottle. Sold
by all Drucrelf ts. TeeUatjiiiala froo.
!cliool Children
will eat sweetmeats and you can't pre vent it.
The first you know erf it there is a he-dichc;
the cMM is billons ami eomethim must le
done. IJae Ripans Tabules, a remedy whica is
standard for ouch troubles.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the sums, reduces inflamma
tion, allayR pain, enre wind oolic. ""c. a bolt le
Karl's Clover itoot, the k're:it blood purifier,
rivea freshness and clearness to the complex
ion and cures constipation. 'IS cts.. fit) ots.. IS.
Thb Public Awards the Palm to Utile's
Honey of Horehound and Tar for oous'ih.
Pike's Toothache Drops Cure In one minute.
Both the method end results -when
Syrup of Figs ia taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to tho ta?te, end acts
gently yet promptly on tli3 Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to tho taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substancea, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50
cent bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one rho
wishes to try it. JDo not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE. KY. NEW YORK, N Y.
Raphael, An lo, Kulx-na,
The "LITTENK" are the Best and ?Ioot Ecenomi
cal Collars and Cuffs worn; they are in.vle 0 fina
cloth, both sid9 finished alike, and beinK rersi
ble, oooeollarlseqnal to two of any other kind.
Thev fit well, wear tne.ll and look v'l. A hoi of
Ten Collar or Five Taira of Cuffs for Tweuty-i'tve
Ceuts.
A Sample Collar an4 Pair of Oiffg by mail for Biz
Cents. Karoe style and size. Addrets
REVERSIBLE COLLAR COMPAHT,
77 Franklin Bt.. Kew York. 87 Kilhy St., Boston.
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8D Adjustable Pad which
can 1 made larger or
smaller to uit ehuii(Mri(f
eor.fl it rT t,9 f Tl'l I -Tj T7
PATEWTKD. lllllH. Cut. sent Fernrelv
sealed by (i. V. House Mfg. Co. 744 Broad Tray.N.Y.CIty
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II MLL Vli Fit EE reader of this paper.
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flENSION.?
f Successfully Prosecutes Claims.
Lte Principal Ki&ir.iaer U. a. Penioo Bureau.
TTiDlaet war. iSadimlicatiiigclaiins. Uv uua.
you need Pearline.
Beware
you an imitation. Le honest send it buk
-
S only O
Tuw
tg Best Cough byrup. Ta-tes Good. Use 13
ijj In time, feold by drnggiptn tJ
JLL
You Will Realize that "They Live We I Who Live
Cleanly,"
ay
Large Sores
under each side of her neck; had tho ntt-v. !
once of the family physician and oth-r -tors
for a long tim-, but s vmcd to lt t
worse. I read of many people cured cf r -ula
by Hood's Sarsaparillo. As sn a -pave
Hood's Sarsapariiln to Clara, r-ff 1 - .
to pot hotter, and bef.m-th first b it:.'
Kone, the sorea entirely heultsl up a:rl
has never been any sigix of the .iiLe ,-u. ,
She is a
Healthy Robust Child.
Her frrandmothr t-ook H-od's Sars.npnr::: i
at tho same rime, and th wilt rh.-u-n .i.s-r..
ed in Ite violence and a 'rfivt cur- va- -efT.xted.
It took about !hre in. nth- f r
cure, and she ascribes her p. d !':'. ! ! . !
strength at hr advanced ajj" t li i '- . -sapariila.
It has certainly hron ;i ;!
my family. "Mas. iSoruiA Wulxs, Zl--'i. v...
ood's
W.L.D
us. as K P fk.
tea n sr -iv
$3 SHOE 'I?
E BEST.
OR A KiNO
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43.5i FiN Cau IKANC.nca
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'" finc- -'-
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best
fe:?S!93rs" SENATOR CATALTGur
Over On Mllllaa Ccopls wcur tho
W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes
AH cur shoes arc equally satisfactory
They telve tho beot value for fie muntv.
Tliev equal cuton Hoc In t vie onil lit.
Thrlr wearing qitnlStlea re umurpnnrl.
The pricea ara uniform, stempc J i n au!i.
From $1 to $3 aavcil ever othrr irnkc.
li your dealer cunot supply you we cac.
C"
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LITTLE
PASNS
SERIOUS
ILLNESS
If not ntteiido I to in time V.
HEADACHE, DIZZINE3J nn.l ...
sjmpt.uiis tell f lum-Iioiiil b
bancc in thu mvsIi tii. the prompt 11-
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RIPANS
TABULES
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Will prevent much Mifrcrimc.
Thin t;r:md renn-dy cures
DYSPIP3IA, -:- CONSTIPATION
BILIOUSNESS,
AND K 1 N I i: K i A II. M KXTS.
I oiTGis reuefTi
o o
EVEHY m HIS OWN QOSTOi
n
ByJ. Hamilton Ayi-rx, . M.,M.r.
Tills ig 11 most V11I 1, bl Hi'iiit
lor the lloiisrliul i, h ii- Iuiik us 11
it.irs tho -iisll-(ll-:iiitiihii-il
.VtllptOIIIM of llll'M'fllt iMwu-es,
the 'uu.:V utiiI Mi'atis or I'r. -vcnliuK
Midi 1'l.euM.. unit tho
Si.iijlot KemeilleH wliii-li will lil
Irvuite ir -lire.
r.ifi 1'uire-", i roiii: i lv llliHiriiK-l.
The Huo.i iswiittrii in ili!U
evt-ry-isay t'i'.li, iul in !!
flimi the U'ti.lui al t i ik wlilen
r't'itiT inoht I'uct'r J'nks mi
value leas to tin- -i.i.f ralily nt
ri''!-rs. T!iia in in
tended Io hi- ill -ervM c in
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as toot-readily uii'li i -iii'i l iil
ONLY tit em. I'tlVi rMK.
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Not only does ml ! . m,m
talu lnuoh Information li.:
tive to iiiKe.'iHe, I. in very proper
ly pi veii a Complete Anal og of
everything pertaining to Omri
shlp, MiirriaKC and the, l'rnilue
tlou unil hearing or HeuMiiy
I amllleK, together wlin VhIiiiiMk
KeclpeH and I'reKrrip' .on:-, r.x
plunatloriKof I'.oT.-iiik-h! r'r;i tlo'-.
Correct uneof Oriiin.'try l:e; l s,';r
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AMI K'f!il T.
IP you ttiv'K Tin i HKi.r.
You cannot ! tills nnlem y iu urider't-jn t 'I.
hlid now how to eater to t heir rc'iulrenieM , ' 1
yon earinot Hpend yearn and doll.-irx learn n, ' '' '
per.'enoo, so you h.-.ihi buy the knowledge .v pi f 1
by others. We oTr Him V, y.pi tor only H"
YOU VANT THEM TO PAY THEIR
OWN WAY.
even If you merely keep ihem as a dlver-d- n In ' -r
der to handle Kowls judiciously, you in'." ki. r
something about them. To meet thu want
nelliun a boon pivini !nn experlen-e flnlw
of a practical poultry r.user forlURIJ Lv
twnty-five years. It was written by uiiian : '
all nlH mind, and time; and money to making
ce-is of Chleken ralHin not a a patlm, ' " ' 1
bi:slnew, and If you will profit by hln t -A n' ' r'
years' work, you ean gave many Our it ai.rpin
it.d mak your Kowls earn dollar for you. ' '
point la, that you must be abl to detect troin.;--.'
the Poultry Yard an soon an ft appears, and kk 'j
how to remedy it. This book will leneh you
It tells how to detect and euro illM-ac; to feed '
erns and aluo for fattening; which fow In to i-.iv. f .'
i.reedin; purposes; and everything, indeed, -;
suouiil know on this subject t ) make It t r nr
tent jxistpald for tivenly-tivc i-mi, In : .;n; .
Book Publishing House.
1 :i I I.e.. in A HI; ST.. .V V. ' ''
A Pleasant
Reflection
tho fact that easy washing
has been made safe. Until
Pearline came, it was dan'-r-ous.
Pearline takes away t'v
danger as it takes away t.1
work. 1 here is no so r
ing and scrubbing
wear rhinrr nut t
T i
i-rr
. - - -' - i -
. .Tim. .V. -hVl
mm
IgRN jjjg
3
is no trouble in keeping things
Pearline is better than soap,
soap, you need hard work ; for easy
clrun.
With
work,
Peddlers and some unscrunulous procer will ;e.! v
",hl5 's as good as" or "the same as 1'eariine." 1
tuimic .S never lIlln :l vr.nr ,ir, in-r
- ! i.'m I'V ! "
if Ycu Use