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AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OP IXTKIIKST RELATIVE 4 TO FA II 51 AND GARDEN. , Soiling vs. Pasturing. ; Careful trial has satisfied those who practice soiling that ouc acre of land, well tilled, will support a cow as long as three acres of pasture and one acre of meadow. A succession of crops must be town, of course. The first crop to cut in the spring is winter rye, then follow medium clover an A orchard grass, timo thy and alsikeor pea vine clover, or both, oats, or peas and oats, millet, corn and sorghum, ihe latter sowed very thick to keep the stalks soft, and if to this sys tem of soiling was added that of silage, and the latter used after, the green grow ing crops were frozen -up, and with the silage a variety of root crops saved and used, how much more cheaply would we carry our stock through the entire year. ' Colmuis Rural World. ' . Hints About Sheep. ! I have made sheep raising a study all my life, and find in the Shropshire just what is wanted for a general purpose sheep. Have crossed them on fine wools ,for six years in succession, and produced lambs that would average 120 pounds at from ten (o eleven months old, and which sold for six cents a pound each year at home market. Micignn Farmer. There arc prob ibly few men who have fed sheep for fifteen or twenty years who can say that they found them, in every 'case profitable; and yet more men could probably say this of sheep than could say it of either hogs or cattle. Fat sheep jnever advance to the extreme values oc Icas'onally reached by other fat stock jbut at the same time they arc less apt to jgo to an extreme the other way. Infact, taking a term of years together, no other istock shows as great uniformity in its quotations - . The man who commands the fleeces and th'e carcasses of a nice ibunch of wethers every year finds sheep Ifccding protitable. National Stockman. j One advantage frcm keeping a few sheep on the farm is the f.ict that those ifortunatc farmers engaged in. the pursuit have a clip of wool, some fat. lambs or sheep sell at a time when but few other farm products are ready for the market. :Money is usually most in demand among ifarmers during the spring and summer, for it is then that, they are engaged in making the crops to be sold the ensuing fall and winter. Combining sheep hus bandry with grain growing, pieces out an iuncomfortable gap in the finances, when without it the farmer's business would ifora while be all outgo and no income. ' Leichton Journal. To those who have noticed how little mindful sheep are to the severest cold .weather when well f'ceced, it miy seem idle to say anything about protection for sheep for two months, yet protection is even more important during the next two months than it will be in the sub sequent two. It is not cold weather that hurts sheep so much as it is wet weather. "Wool is always injured by getting wet, and when a sheep is exposed to a cold rain, such as we arc likely to have an abundance of d uring the fall months, and . the fleece gets filled with water which must be dried out slowly by the heat of the animal's body, will not only injure the wool but give the sheep bad colds, catarrh, and reduce the vitality of the sheep to a low ebb. If good, healthy lamus are to rc expected, it is therefore quite necessary that the ewes be pro tected from storms. Rural World. , 1 Farming as a nusiness. "Farming as a "business," says Pro fessor Gulley, in Home and Farm, "is not what it has been in the past. It re quires much more intelligence and skill to farm successfully now than it did for merly, and for a variety of reasons. "Our wants have increased. Ihe luxuries of our fathers have - become cveiday necessities for our comfort. We feel th it we must live better, dress better, do more, work fewer hours, and we require more in the way of mental improvement, accomplishments and the like. This is as it should be. The farmer should have and should enjoy all that is within the reach of the merchant or professional man; he is even en titled to more than the town resident to make up for the iso'atioa of life on the farm. "The fact that country people do not have the advantages of the town people, that farming at the present time does not hold out such strong inducements to young men as other occupations, not only prevents the town bred boy from be coming a farmer, but it also draws a large proportion of the brightest and smartest .boysfrom - the country to the town, and we have as the result a much larger num ber of the naturally-gifted, shrewd men of the country engaged in manufactures, transforation, trading, etc., than we find farming, and it natui ally follows that the smarter men secure the larger share of the proceeds of the industries. " Another disadvantage that the farmer labors under the outcome of greater ability possessed by men in other indus tries is the fact that improvemeat in methods of manufa:ture, trade, transpor tation and distribution has been very much more rapid than in farming. These industrlei are growing away from the production of farm crops. ' - 14 During the past fifty years the power of one man to turn raw products into manufactured goods and distribute them to consumers, through, the introduction of improved machinery and application of scientific discoveries, has increase I from five to one hundred or more times. "We have made no such advance in growing crops. "It is true the introduction of large implements, and the b:ndv-r and header, has increased the capacity of one man tenfold in growing and harvesting wheat, and haying machinery to nearly as great an extent in making hay; but we have only increased a man's capacity two or three fold in making corn, while in cot ton growing it is probable that, on the average, one' man really produces less, or at least no more than he did thirty years ago. "There is still another -factor that is detrimental to the interests of the farm er, and that is the exhaustion of the vir gin fertility of the soil. Except in por tions of the older settled States, up to the present time farming has been largely of the pioneer order, which means c.ear ing up the land and cropping it in such a way as to produce a crop with the least labor, regardless of the exhaustion aad loss of the fertility of the soil, compel linc us now to fidont some svstem of fer- tilization that is necessarily expensive to make the land produce as much as it did formerly. "So much is said and written at the present time about monopolies and unjust laws which are oppressing the farmer that many are led to believe that the con dition of ti e farmer miy be improved simply by legislation.- While there may bo some inU:t:ce done to the farmer by powerful corpu'a'ions anl lawmakers, still we must study the underlying piiu ciplei of agriculture and its connection with other industries and raise it to a par with those pursuits before the farmer can secure a just compensation for, his '.abor. 7 ; Farm and Garden Notes. Do not allow your cattle to drink from a stagnant pool, j The flocks and herds need weeding, the same as fields. A good season for ditching, draining and digging wcl's. The very best mine for a farmer to in vest in is his farm. If your chickens have the diarrhoea, give them bailed sweet milk. Rolling upland, with light or gray sub soil, well drained, is the best for wheat. Corn cobs make good fuel, and the ashes of corn cots contain stores of potash. I The assertion; is made that potatoes which grow nearest the surface are most subject to rot. Ducks tan live with a bath once a week, but they j are aquatic enough t enjoy a dozen a day. According to J Dr. T. H. Hoskins the tomato rot is getting to be about as bad a disease as the potato rot. - Be sure that j your milch cows have enough pure, sweet water. Else the typhoid fever may admonish you. It is claimed that sweet-cream butter, though better flavored, does not keep as well as that from slightly acid cream. It is charged that the English sparrow protects the caterpillars by driving away the native birds that would destroy them. j . Young turkeys should only be allowed to run in fields where the grass is cut short, as wet plumage seems to be fatal to them. Decaying vegetables should be thrown on the manure pile, and no)t scattered about the door tard to befoul the air in a hot dry time. The farmer who sells the best and keets the poorest seeds and animals is on the right road to the wrong place. Bet ter "bout facc.V Dutch belted cattle are not as large as llolstcins, but j are said to rival the Ayrshires in hardiness,, being well calcu lated for ro.igh lands. Cellars require care and attention to preierve them sweet, pure and healthy. Stagnant air, slops, or decaying vegeta bles will soon vitiate' them. Prominent apiarians advise extracting the honey from partially filled sections at the end of the season, and keeping the sections for use the next season. The use of soil on asparagus is con fine! to keeping down of weeds during cutting time. Asparagus is a semi-marine vegetable, but too much salt will injure it. j . There is a brisk demand and good prices for feathers, eggs or flesh of ducks and geese, and I these fowls are easily raised. Some deem them more profita ble than chickens. When fodder: corn is in bloom it con tains but thirteen per cent, of solid mat ter. When the; kernels begin to glaze it has twenty-five percent. Don't cut it too soon, wh.-ther for siloing or soiling. If a silo is built in a hillside, the South ern Cultivator deems the following a good way to construct it. Plank up inside with two-inch plank, then a course of tarred p iper, then another plank. on the paper; all on the inside of the silo. The Southern Cultivator avers that smoke is the great secret in the manage ment of bees. If judicially applied before a hive is opened and the frames are han dled with care, there need not beany diffi culty in performing all necessary opera tions in bee-keeping. John ,M. Stahl, the well-known agri cultural writer,? says: "Ninety-nine of every hundred farmers get their knowl edge of and skill in their particular work by the pick ing-up process." He adds, however, that .very few farmers show their sons or their laborers how to man age the details of farm work. "It is. as if an apprentice were put in the black smith or carpenter shop and never ta.tght." ) A Hot-Wind' D.iy in Australia. With strict impartiality it speeds alike down the hutter's chimney, formed of old kerosene tins, and the Elizabethan stacks of fashionable suburban man sions; charges up the busy streets, flashes through the omnibuses, in at one widow artel out of the other, like the clowu in the pantomime. But not all of it! not the six bushels! Shake yourself and see. Then it spins along the su burban highwa3Ts, pounces down on the scavengers' heaps of dead leaves and other odds and ends of unconsidered trifles, and they arc gone, and their place knows them no more. Poets seek ing new tropes and figures of speech should try what can be made of an Aus tralian dust storm. Every window in the cities is closed, and the heated blast chafes and howls about the casements in a frenzy of impotent rage. Should any one incautiously turn a street corner pat ticularly sprucely dressed, straightway it makes for him. The air soon- becomes a combination j of atoms as lively as aerated waters.) The whole surrounding country seems shrouded by an atmos phere which has been whipped into the consistency of pea soup. One side of the street js sometimes as completely hidden from the other side as by a November fog in London, j Woe to the Umlucky housemaid who has inadvertently left open a single window 1 Repentance in sackcloth and dust is her condign punish ment. And thus the enemy speeds -up and down the day through. . The heat is stilling, but people all seek to close every avenue of approach. Batten down and stew is the order of tho day. Of two evils it is by far the least ; indeed, the only defense, and every port is . closed as on board ship in bad wreather. Should the demon succeed in effecting an en trance he sweeps through the hall, rushes up stairs, and bangs every door like a man'.ae. The hotel kitchen is a subject of special anxiety to the functionaries concerned, and f certain ve iders of per ishable commodities close their shops al together. 3fu r ray's Magazin e. Wetltlinsrs in Colonial Hays. In Mr. Sanford's "History of Connec ticut," recently issued, is the following: "Weddings in early colonial days were usually celebrated quietly at the home of the bride. With the increase of wealth there was a marked change in this re spect; Not only were the banns pro claimed in the church, but a general in vitation was "given from the pulpit to attend the ceremony. Friends and neighbora were entertained with a lavish hospitality at the bride's house. On the wedding-day,, muskets were fired; and those who attended the ceremony marc hed in procession to the bride's home. The wedding feasts lasted sometimes for two or three days, j At a grand wedding in New London, on. the day after the mar riage ninety-two lad'es aud crentleaieiv it is sai 1, proceeded to dance ninety-two jigs, fifty-two contra-dances, forty-five minuets and seTcntecn hornpipes." THE HOME DOCTOR. Five Ways to Stop or Cure a Cold. 1. Bathe the feet in hot 'water, and drink a pint of hot lemonade. Then sponge with salt water and remain in a warm room.' 2. Bathe the' face in very hot water everv five minutes for an hour. 3. " Snuff up the nostrils hot salt water every three hours. r 4. Inhale ammonia or menthol. 5. Take four hours' active exercise m the open air. - Summer colds arc the worst of all colds oftentimes, as it is then very diffi cult to protect one's self properly. A ten-grain close of? quinine will usually break up a cold in the beginning. Any thing that will set the blood actively in circulation will, do it, whether it be drujrs or the use of a bueksaw. Medical News. Sleep a Medicine. The cry of rest has always been louder than the cry for food, not because it is more important, but because it is often harder to obtain. The best rest comes from sleep. Of two men or women other wise equal, the one who sleeps the most perfectly will be the most healthy, moral and e Mcieut. Sleep will do much to cure irritability of temper, peevishness and unhappiness. It will restore to vigor an overworked brain. ;. It will build up and make strong a weary body. It will "cure a headache. Indeed, we might make a long list of nervous disorders and othei maladies that sleep will cure. ; Sleeplessness is best ciired by a clean, good bed, sufficient exercise to produce weariness, pleasant occupation, good air, not too warm a room, a clear conscience, an avoidance of stimulants and narcotic?. For those who are overworked, haggard and nervous, who pass sleepless nights, we recommend the adoption of such hib its as shall secure sleep; otherwise, life will be short, and what I there is of it, sadly imperfect. Herald of Health. Remedy for Poison Oak. The Popular Science News gives the fol lowing remedy for poison oak; I have always been susceptible to the poison ol ivy and oak so as to give me great annoy ance, unless it is immediately checked on its first appearance. This common wash ing soda accomplishes for me if properlj applied. ; I make the application by sat urating a slice of loaf bread with water, then cover one surface with soda, and ap ply to the eruption, the soda next to the licsh. When the bread is dried by the animal heat I drop the water on the outei side, so as to keep it thoroughly moist ened, and dissolve the crystal soda in contact with the skin. This, you will perceive, is merely a bread poultice the bread being a vehicle through whose moisture the soda reaches thg humor. 1 find that washing or bathing with soda water, even continuously, will not suffice with me. My skin requires the heat and moisture of the bread in order for the "soda to act on and neutralize the poison. I rarely have need to retain this soda polticc for more than thirty minutes on any affected part, ? No pain ensues. For merly I suffered often for weeks, as the poison would spread all over my body. How Postage Stamps Are Made. In printing steel plates are used, on which 200 stamps are engraved. Twc men are kept at work covering them with the colored inks and passing them to a man and girl,' who are equally busy at printing them with large, rolling hand presses. Three of these little squads are employed all the time, although ten presses can be put into use in case ol necessity. After ; the small sheets of paper upon which the 200 stamps are en graved, have dried enough they are sent into another room and gummed. The gum used for this; purpose is a peculiar composition, made of powder of potatoes and oth r vegetables, mixed with water, which is better than any other material, for instance, gum-arabic, which cracks the paper badly. This paper is also ol a peculiar texture, (somewhat similar to that of bank notes. Alter having again been dried, this time on little racks which are fanned by steam-power for about an hour, they are put in between sheets of pasteboard aud pressed in hydraulic presses, capable of applying a wTeight of if, 000 tons. The next thing is to cut the sheets in halves; each sheet, of course, when cut contains 100 stamps. They ate passed to two other squads, who, in as many operations, perforate the sheets between the stamps, j Next they are pressed once more, and then packed and labeled and stored away in another room, preparatory to being put in mail-bags for dispatching to fill orders. If a single stamp is torn or in any way mutilated, the whole sheet of 100 is burned. Five hundred thousand are burned every week from this cause. For the past twenty years not a single sheet has been lost, such care has been taken in counting them. During the progress of manu facturing, the sheets are counted eleven times. Chicago Journal. Wootl Stews in Siberia. We have all -had our sympathies aroused by statements that these people (the natives of Northern Liberia) are often during famines ; compelled to re sort to w.o.xi for food, writes Lieutenant William If. Schuetz. Now the fact is that careless observers have simply been imposed upon, - or they have jumped at conclusions without caring or perhaps being able to make inquiries. Wood in a certain form is a most common and constant article of diet on the Leua River, all along the no'itti coast and in the immediate neighborhood of Yakutsk, in fact wherever the Yakut reside-:. North of Yerchoyausk, except in a few sheltered valleys, it may be said there is no other wood than the larch, and for miles south of the tres limit absolutely no other. The natives eat it because they like it. Even when fish are plentiful it usually forms part of the evening meal, as the many cleanly stripped larch logs near every hut testify. : They know by experience thaf th fact of- their eating wood arouses the; symp ithies of strang ers, and shrewdly use it to excite j:ity and to obtain a gift of j tea and tol;a?co. They scrape o'.i the thick layers immedi ately, under the bark of a log, and c hop ping it fine mix It with snow. It is then boiled in a kettle. JS unciimcs a lit tle fish roe is mixed wish it, and further south cow's milk or butter. 1 have often seen it eaten without anything addi tional, though as in the present instance there was apparently enough other food an hand. r L - An Old Man's Mighty 3Insele. General Favrat possessed enormous strength, even in? his old age. Feeling ill one day, Favrat sent for the doctor. As. the latter was sitting by the bedsi'le, the old warrior began to lament : "Ah, Jeaf doctor, I am not the man I wa?: foil can't imagine how weak I am getting; look here!" And with these" words he grasped with his right baud one of legs of the chair on wh"ch the doctor wj;s silting and lifted both the chair and its Dccupant a eourvc of feet from the ground. You see it takes ouitc an sffort."- le Monde JUtutrie. HOPES AND FEARS. W ILiti ANY OP THE ANARCHISTS BE SAVED FR03I THE G ALLOAVS? The Police of Chicago Afritated Over " an Incendiary Proclamation. Judge Gary.Sta'e Attorney Grinnell, and Captain Sehaack, the police officer who discovered the anarchist i conspiracy, are deluged w th anonymous letters now, though they are not concerned about them in the least. The families of these gentlemen are in a torment of agony all the time, and par ticularly Mrs. Grinnell, who has received letters to the effect that if the anarchists are hanged friends of the condemned wi I kidnap her children. Since the conviction of the reds detectives have been constantly guarding the residence of Mr. Grinnell, and Judge Gary, and now the guard has been doubled. When in Chicago they are followed by city detectives and no strange men or mysterious person ages of any kind are allowed to come near them without being closely watched. An attack upon the persons of either Judge Gary or Mr. Grinnell, would have to be exe cuted very quickly in order to be effective, for the assailant weuld be almost instantly killed. Mr. Grinnell and Judge Gary express no fear, but are concerned because of the effiect upon their families. Among the friends of the condemned the opinion is strongly expressed that the sen tence of five of the men will be commuted; and that t ie two fated ones are Spies and Ldngg. The anarchists th emsel ves, however, think they will all ba hanged. They will not talk at all now on the subject of their situation, though Parsons will talk on every other subject. Many of the friends of the prisoners have been pleading with them to follow Parsoi's example and put themselves in communication with the pub lic, for they are alive to the fact that the only means of saving them, if they can be saved is a strong public demand that they b.j not hanged. It is claimed that the alleged bomb throw er, Schnaubelt, is in a small Austrian town, and could be had by the State if he was assured that he would not be sentenced to death. Ha claims that he did not throw the bomb and feels very sore at his compatriots that they should have saddled the thing on him. He ran away, he said, because he could not get a fair trial: It. will be remem bered that he was arrested here immediately after the Haymarket massacre, but was allowed to go tho authorities being of the opinion that he was a poor Dutchman who hadn't sense enough to throw a bomb or en gage in a conspiracy. The Sheriff and Police i Department are considerably agitated over the circulation from an unknown source, through the mails of the following circular, ;which is without signature or other identification. NOTICE. ' Woukinomes. Will you, as workingtn-e i of Chi cago, allow ch imnions of your legitimate rights, whi are now contlned in jil under sentence of death brought about ab.-olutely by public clamor occasion ed by grossly exaggerated and fictitious statements of the capitalisti j press, to haag? It would be (limiging to this iand of boasted civil ization, working nen, if thosi champions ara to hang on the 11 of November. Rise in your might and etfect their rescue. The independence of the United States was b-ought aboui by ihe use of bona bs and firearms. They are effective. Forewarned if fore armed Anv action that may be dq'initely determined upon should be kept secret until proper time. It is not at all probabie that the militii will ba on tho seaa of any attempted execution. This notice is not intend ed for any whl are not m sympathy with the condemn ed men. Further notici will be givan later on . Sheriff Matson, when shown a copy of the circular said he had no idea who were cir culating the seditious sheet and declined to express his opinion on its importance for a day or two. Capt. Sehaack was of the opinion that it had eminated from the brain of some "crank" who might have access to a printing press. PA SSENGERS CRUSHED. A St reet Car Struck by a Freight Train With Fatal Kffcct. An engine attached to a freight train on the Fort Wayne Railroad struck a street cai at the Federal street crossing, in Allegheny City, Pa. , and two passengers who jumped from the car were caught under the wheels of the engine and ground to death. Their namer John M. Culp, teller of the Odd Fellows' Savings Bank, and Miss Har riet Weyman, a sister of Weyman Brothers, the tobacconists. The accident was caused by the gateman, Stewart Cunningham, raising the safety gates too soon. It appears that the gates had be n lowered for a construction train. Af tei it parsed Cuningham, not noticing the freight train coming in the opposite direc tion, raised the gates to allow the street cars and pedestrians to cross. Car No. 23, of the Manchester line, which was filled with pas sengers on their way home, succeeded in getting nearly over the railroad tracks, when Mr. Culp and Miss Weyman ran out on the rear platform and jumped off, the other passengers remaining in the car. The engine of the freight train struck the car and tore off the platform, but did no other damage. Mr. Culp and Miss "Weyman fell on the tracks, -and before the train could be stoppe 1 they vere ground to death under the wheels of the engine. The other passen gers were not injured. The remains of the two unfortunates were picked up and con veyed to their homes. Mr. Culp was a married man, about thirty-five years of age. Miss Weyman was forty years old, The accident created in tense excitement among the passengers, and several Jadies fainted. Cunningham claims that he d.d not see the second train in tima to hold the gates do vn. GQSSIP OF THE DIAMOND. Louis vi ci.-s has signed Denver, to play lirst base. ; Sam Siuth, ol The New Yo. ks will have enough players next spring to make two or three nines. Tiishe will be many new faces in the dif ferent clubs when th? next season opens. ThjCRE s?enii to be a large sized baseball combination i:i the West ; as well as in the Eas ; Tua Detroit ani St. Louis clubs propose to play a championship series through the Soutb next season beJora the regu'ar League season opens. The attendance at the fifteen Detroit-St. Loa s gam:s was o!,45. The receipts were about 50,:i0.. After piyinsc ah expenses the c.'ubs divide I ?:24,OOi. . O vly three men played in every League championship game Ixst season. They are Ward, of Xevv York: Morrill, of Boston, an 1 Sam Thompson, of Detroit. FisaGirsoir, of the Philadelphia, is a base toll wonder. He is the four ch among pitchers, secon i in secon t baseman, third in batting, an 1 has the heit record in a run around ti;e base lines. D c x la p's re eord of sea wn for Detroit is mj.de in the Dosition. ,15 at second base this t-y -iar the best ever Last season Bastian. lc T t hu tv w; tion wftrt of the Phiiadciphias .VM, wmtn was vm best up to tnat time. It is given out by one of the beat of author it'es that R sdbo arne is to eo to the Philadei p'ai i Club next season, ih.it Ward will not , play in New York, and that Fieffer and j Williamson will not leave Chicago next sea j son. j First-base does not seem a hard position j to play, yet a number of clubs have lound it i prett nail to get the ngJt tot of men j riltsburg, Cievelmd, Ixmisville and the Athletics were practicall sho t handed in i this respect - - f Mike Kelly, the famous bi ebill player, has signed a contract w.tii tLe SlcNish. Johnson & S avin mins?rel party. He will act a interlocutor, and hi contract ca Is for his appearance after his return from Califor nia, in January. lSS. i Ephraim Lemleit and Mrs. Mary Burton were made one in Pope County, Ark., re cently. The groom is t3 years old, has twenty-three children and has been married five times. The bride is only H) and has no j family worth mentioning. j The new -census of Buffalo, N. Y., just'j taken by the police, will show that the total 1 population is 230X0). 'Ihe last preceding I census was taken in June, 1885, and showed a j population of 0)2,818. - - - THE DRAFT WAS A FORGERY, How a "Western Bank Was Cheated By a Supposed Evangelist. Last Sunday morning the Rev. Mr.. Baskweller, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Central City, Neb., answered the knock of a tall, fine looking gentleman wear-i-g a handsome dark mustache and a sm of black broadcloth cut af er the most ap proved clerical pattern. He presented a letter of introduction from W. E. ICimball, of the Presbyterian Church at Madison, Neb which stated that the bearer was the Rev B. Browns, of Lebanon, Tenn. The stranger wis cordially rece ved, and in the evening preached in the Rev. Mr. Baskweller's pul pit a magnificent sermon, which won t .e hearts of the whole congregation. At the end of the service he was intro d ce I, among others, to F. M. Persincer, P si lent of the First National Bank of Cauiral City, and in the course of the conver sation remarked that he would have some ba: i less at the bank in the course of a day cr two. Tue day afternoon he appeared at trie bank and presented a draft for ?0,t00, purporting to be drawn on the Chemical National, of New York, by the First Na tional, of Lebanon, Tenn. He asked for s 1 ,500 in currency, deposited the balance to his credit and walked out Mr. Persinger's brother was suspicious, and sending a query to the Lebanon Bank received a reply that the draft was a forgery. The Rev. Mr. Browns had gone. He was traced to Omaha and thence to C- uncil Bluffs. President Persinger and an officer are in pursuit. A LAND SWINDLE. ' Citizens of Four Si tes Duped by a Bogus Government Officer. Lew Passoa, who has b en representing himself in Nebraska and Iowa .as a Govern ment official, was arrested at Lincoln. Ho claims authority from the Government to locate homesteaders, and has plied his scheme on innocent victims throughout Iowa and Nebraska for the past three months. He represented to his victims "that there was considerable land in Seward county, Neb., which had been forfeited by the railroads and was open to entry. A few days ago he brought parties from Iowa to look at the land, and showed them some very pretty locations, which they concluded to purchase from the Government. He took them before a notary and had them make affidavit that their business was such as to prevent their a tending to the business personally and constituted himself their agent. They were assured that the papers would promptly be made out and forwarded. They sent 30.50 eich as a loca tive fee to Lincoln, Neb., where the papers were to bo delivered. They were delivered to them," but were made out so adroitly that the deeds failed to cover this land or any other. When the parties arrived and pres ented their deeds at the land office Register Davis immediately pronounced them a fraud and before Passoa could escape he was ar rested. Among the victims wers J. M. War ren, Omaha ;;V in. Warren, of Iowa; John Jackson, of Harlan, la. ; Joseph Garlow, of Panova, la. ; a gentleman named Early from Ohio, and another named Graham from Chicago. : ALL FOUR DEAD. Tragic Close of the Career of Two Ala bama Couples Ten Orphans. Miss Eva Doles died at the home of her father, Charles Fuller, two miles south' of Crawford, Ala., Fri lay night. Her death is a tragic ending of four lives. Ten years ago Ivey Doles and Tom Jones married twin sisters, daughters of Charles Fuller a highly respected citizen of Russell county, Ala. For years the two mea were warm friends and intimately associated, in 188-'$ Jones kept a barroom in Seale and Doles was Dep uty Sheriff of Russell comity. The two men had a quarrel in Jones's bar one afternoon, when Jones shot and killed Doles. Jones was tried, found gu lty o: murder in the second degree and sentenced to the Alabama penitentiary for eighteen years. His lawyers however succeeded in getting a new trial, and Jones gave bond and was released from jail. On the second trial in 18S6 Jones was again convicted and sentenced this time f L-r fifteen years. After being in the penitentiary for about seven months the Governor pardoned him on the recommendation of the peniten tiary physician, who gave it as his opinion that he was a victim of consumption and had but a short lease of life . Jones return ed to his old home in Russell county, where he died last winter. In the mean time Mrs Doles and Mrs. Jones were living with their father. About three weeks ago Mrs. Jones died, leaving five little children. On Friday Mrs. Doles died, leaving five little children. Mr. Fuller, their gran if ather has charge of these ten orphan children. COUGHED UP AN EEL. The Strange inmate of a Man's Stom ach for Ten Months. He'.iry Sle n-r, coughed up a nineteen eel, .at I n Talo, N. Y., fainted when he saw ft, and is no .v in a xery weak eond tion but out of da ger. The eel is 15 inches long, and a perfect fish, with the exception of the eyes, which are wanting. The mouth is very long and shaped like that of a sucker fish. Last. December, Steiner, who is a wood carver, thirty-one years old, drew a pail of water from the city hydrant on Lemon street, rear his house, and drank a glassful. In swallowing 1 e felt a lump about the sije of a hazel rut pass down his throat. Tvo mont s later he began to suffer the most ter rible cramps and stomach pains, which have confinued until to-day. Doctors treated Steiner successfully "for neuralgia of the heart, gastritis, dyspepsia and tapeworm, administering morphine when the iain was severest. A week ago the strongest emetic failed of etlect. Steiner became convinced that he had a tapeworm, and by the advice of his mother-in-law bought a quart of whiskey and went to bed drunk. When he arose he was in ter rible agony, and about two o'clock the eel appeared from his mouth, head first. The ii-h was covered with a slimy mucus from the membrane of the stomach and did not lacerate the throat. It was in a torpid con dition when placed in water, but scon wriggled around and lived four bom's. GLEANINGS. Several. Guatemalan revolutionists have been shot. A Michigan train ran over a fox and killed it the other day. Tri-wejkly put lie receptions have been resumed at the White House. A society in Detroit of men sworn not to Kansas abounds in natural gas. There are j lis companies engaged in developing it. Bckeaus for furnishing legal advice free to the poor is the latest thing in New York. The onion crop in the United States is this year about three-fourths of an average crop. A well defined case of leprosy is reported to have been discovered in St. Louis by a prominent specialist. It takes 14,800,03 gallons of oil a year to keep the railways of Great Britain going, and tne cost is nearly ,mx,()ij. '. The trade and shipping of table grapes, in California, has greatly increased, and it is safe to estimate it at nearly double that of last year. . " Sugar-caxz in Louisiana, although it has fallen off somewhat in general condition, is stilt the best grown crop in Louisiana for many years. , A late steamer from San Francisco for China took out 2UU tons of mining machinery and six skilled American miners to aid in the mineral development of that conutry. The Piedmont Exposition at Atlanta. Ga.. netted a cash profit of 10,000, besides pay- ! rug over siuu.wj xor tne Duuamgs aud grounds. On account of this success there will probably be a World's Fair there in HEN WHO 1TIN. Fire Handred Dollar Thrown Awar Ilia Aim Was tacce. A pood healthy body is almost sure to be found assoeiati with a good conscience. A doss student of human nature is rarely willing to place large matters of trust in the hands of another until he has seen the one whom he is to trust. He looks for the fresh health and vigor, the honest, frank counte nance and manly form, and in fact all that is attractive in men. He doubts the dyspeptic with sallow skin, drawn cut feature, tho evident weak and irritable nature. He feels as Shakespeare makes Julius Casar say: Let me bare men about me that ara Tit; Heelc headed men. and each sleep o'n'ghta; Yon Ca Hut hatti a lean and hnngrj look; lie thinks too taiicli; fuca men are dangerous!" He does not doubt the honesty of the poor unfortunate, but fears disease of the tody will affect the mind, bring misfortune upon the individual, and loss to himself. It may be injustice to tb.9 weak, but if the man has not the mental strength, or if he is wrapped up in his m.sery, be cannot take in the situation of the world, does not see that ides are broadening, and that isms and teachings are adven nng! How can an em ployer hope for success frcm such a man? The dyspeptic Icok, the wax-like complexion and sal'ow featurev.show disease. Ice far seeing man nots all these sins, and knows that the great light of man, the brain, is af fected, cr will l, at uo distant day. He discards th- poor victim of disease who goes wearily out into the world. Discouraged -at last he takes to his sick bod. He seeks me lical a d. Lacking the kroad ideas of the fucccssful man of the world, he tries the same medical treatment that he has tried many times lefoi-e. The sarhs bigoted coun sel is sought, the same drugs are administer ed ty the same old family iriend that treated him months and years before, and his parents" before him, and "in such a way he drags out his miserab'e, unsuccessful existence. Is he to blame Why not? When he sees daily, and. hears from every sHe, proclama tions of a remedy known as Warner's safe cure, which is becoming more prpular daily, hourly, while he is becoming weaker. J. A. Gettys, insurance agent of Chiilicothe, Ohio, suffered for nearly three years with dyspepsia in its worst forms, having periodi cal spells of vertigo, fainting and chills. He wrote over his own signature: I spent abcut ?00, had the best medical attendance, tried all the remedies lecommcn led without suc cess, until I was inlueed to try Warner "ssafe cure. I used three bott'es, have gained twenty pounds and feel like a new man." t'ucliaman as we have described, nine times out of ten, unconsciously to himself or to his physician, has a kidney di.sorder.which is fast wasting his bo iy and liie. He sees tho merits of Warner's safe cure at every turn, and hears it proclaimed from the house tops, and yet he does not use it, because it1 is said by his illiberal physician that it is not profes sional, and not admitted by the coJe, Mean while the man of tho world presses forward, cares not a fig for this or that school; his aim in life is succe.-s, and h3 looks hopefully for ward to the world beyond, believing and trusting in man in this world.and to his faith for the world beyond. Books In their present form were invented Ly Attulus, King of Pergamus, in 887, An Important Arrest. The arrest of a suspicious character upon his seiif ral nppearanoe.inovcments or compmion-f-hip, without wait in cr until ho ha robbed -a traveler, fired a house, or murdered a fellow man, is an important function of a shrewd de tective. Even more important is the arrest of disease which, it' not checked, will blight and destroy a human life. The. frequent cough. l's of nnnctite. General lanxuor or debility, pallid skin, and bodily aches and pains, anaounce thc approach of pulmonary consumptBUftwhich in promptly arrested and pprnianenuy cureit )r. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery." Sold by druggists. ' The lirst iron ore to l e discovered in this country was found in Virginia in 1715. Consumption, Scrofula, General Debility, Wnstlne Diseases of Children, Chronic Coughs and Bronchitis, can b cured by the use of Scott's" Emulsion of Piiro Cod Liver Oil with Hvpophossdiitei. Prominent physicians use it and testify to itsgreat vabie. 1 lease read ihi lot'owing: "I used Scott's Emu'.sion for an ol-stina'e Cough w.t'i Hemor rhage, Lo33 of Appetite, Emaciation, s ecp lesmes3, &c. All of these have now left, and I believe your Emulsion has saved a case of well-developed Consumption." T. J. Flndlet, M. D., Lone tar, Texas. Speak well of your friondi of your encruy say ncthinj. The Special Offer of The Youth's Companion, which we have published, includes the admirable Double Holi day Numbers for Thanksgiving and Christmas, with colored covers and full-page pictures, twenty pages each. These.with the other week ly issues to January 1, 1838, will be sent free to all new subscribers who send $1.75 for a year's subscription to January, The Compan ion has been greatly enlarged, is finely illus trated, and no other weekly literary papjr gives so much for eo low a price. A wise man is net inquisitive about things mprtinent. Weak lungs, spitting of blood, consumption and kindred affections cured without phyRi cian. Address for treatise, with 10 cents. in stamps, World's Dispensary Medical Associa tion, 66a ilain Street, Buffalo, N. Y. Truth is a rock large enough for all to stand upon. "I Don't Want Relief, Jlnt Cure," is the exclamation of thousands suffering from caiarrn. io an sucn we say: v,a.iRi-ni ran n bofn floiif. in t.hrmsji rul of c;ie.s: whv not ill yours? Your danger is in delay. Enclose, a stamp to World's Uinpensary Medical Associa tion, Buvfalo, N. Y., lor pamphlet on this dis ease. Judge charitably and act kindly to each other. - Offer No. 171. FREE! To Merchants Only: A genuine Meerschaum Smoker's .Set (five piecesUn satin lined plush case. . Address at once, R. W. Tan SiLX. & Co., 55 State Street, Chicago. Consumption Surely Cured. To the Editor: Please inform your readers that 1 have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall be gl?.d to send two bottles of my remedy free to any of your readers who have con Etunption if they will send me their Express and P. O. address. Reswctfully, T. A. 8L,(JCUM,M.C, 181 Pearl SU N. Y. r?nrhters. Wives and Mother. Send for Pamphlet on Female Diseases, frea securely sealed. Dr. J. H, Marchisi, Utica,N.Y. 'Rota l Glue mends everything! Broken China, Glass. Wood. Free Vials at Drugs & Gro The fall of a leaf is a whisper to the living. Catarrh May affect any portion of the body where the mu cous membrane Is found. But catarrh of the head is by far the most common, and, strange to say, the most liable to be neglecte1. It originates In a eoM, or succession of colds, combined with Imp'ire blood. The wonderful success Hood's Sarsaparllla has had In cnrlnjf catarrh warrants us in urging all who suffer with this disea.se to try the peculiar medicine. It renovates and Invigorates the blood and tone3 ev ery organ. t "Hood's Sarsaparllla cured me of catarrh, soreness ;f the bronchial tubea and terrible headache." II. Gieboxs, Hamilton, Ohio. ' Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1 ; six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Poses One Dollar MARVELOUS DISCOVERY. holly unlike artificial systems. Any book learned in one rending. MLV, dent ii)Ue; versity of Pcnn, Pnlla. ; 0 at Weliesiey College and rtopectu post frek from Jl PROF. LOISETTE. 217 Elfth Ave- Xew York. fllaip'l Dillcfc Crea! English Gout an J yiair O rillSi Rheumatic Remedy. Ural Box. 34t rciad, 14, Pi I U. leFTSmiUAIO IE! BW DrV?.?S E aa,w' of v Columbia Law .f u s ; 2 at Meriden : at Norw i-h - avi -.i :e ; two classci of n m g v.u . x,, . T.; DAYLIGHT. If agcntlcmnn l.y the name of Day volunteer? tt!.r v the li.ht of hi ex perience into tho darkened j '.n (lf misery, o that other- jiny Ko and do lie ha i. ne nnd enjoy iiiV, n:av it not be" reasonably cnU-i !.vvl.-!, As for instance, take the c.i - f t Parpen t -S. Iav," : '!"! e-tcr, M.i- . h h . writes April 1!. 11: "N inc time ji..- . 1 was s tillering with rheuma' i-ni . I i small portion olt. Jacohs O'w aud wa c . ! at once. I have used it fr sprain- an ! n v t r once have known it to fail. I will ncv-r ! . witho-.tt" a bottle.". Captain Pay a!-. ; ecived a circular letter, and in reply u-i r date of Jul v 1, 1.7. he says: '1 t.rd t! nU ns t tat od and was p rin ne:itly cup-! . f rheumatism by it use." Purine th- in'.; vening six years there had been n re. rence of the' pain. Also a letter fi 'in Mr. II M. Converse, of the Warren (Mass.) IleraU, dated July 0. InST, as follows : "In response t yours of J '.me 'J. would ay that in 1 $'!) my w ifc had a severe attack of rheumatism in shoulder and arm, so that f-he could not rai.M? lur hand to her head. A t'-w v A V applications of St. k Jacobs Oil cured her 'permanently, and sho has had n- r t i-M it." Anot hVr ea-e i that of Mr. I,' I- K Tower Hiil.: Appomattox 'cunty. 'a.. writes. November. I "Was a': s.'el I several years with rhenmati-m an i ;;ron worse till the time. Kminent physii i;isn gave no relict"; had j am-, and a le t ex pected tolic: was ruhhed all over wiih Sr. Jacobs Oil. The first app tion rei.eve con? i :i ied i; tho seeond reniv.i the pam cured me; non'aj -e :n iiv. much work as c e; ." The- ears, and ih ;uv pri 't ' ot t ; perfection of the remedy, a'nd. taken in e ucct ion with tho inira. les pcrfoimed in ot eases, it has no cjua 1. II M 17 j KIDDER 3 1.1 a sntK ci ki: i nt 1NMGKSTI0N and I) YNl'KPSI A. 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