Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 21 August 1891 — Page 3

Kale and. Hearty. These two adjectives by no means Imply the possession of great muscular strength. There ate many men and women of slight build and inferior stature to whom the terms “hale and hearty” perfectly apply. Their complexions are clear, eyes bright and vivacious, pulses (tranquil, step elastic, movements steady, sleep undisturbed, appetites sound. These indicia of haleness and heartiness Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters will assuredly bestow upon the feeble, the nervous and dyspeptic. No tonic of the century compares with it in popularity, no other rivals it in efficacy. As permanent invigoration means also the previous regulation of disorder in the system, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters must also be regarded a'S chief among regulators. It conquers and prevents malaria and rheumatism, overcomes inactivity of the liver, bowels and kidneys, and promotes the acquisition of flesh as well as vigor. Making Fishhooks. There is a little machine ‘which turns out fishhooks in six strokes. Stroke Nd. 1 bites off a morsel of steel wire; No. 2 makes the loop where you fasten your line; No. 3 hacks the other end; No. 4 flattens and bends back the barb; No. 5 makes the point; No. 6 bends the wire and your fishhook drops into a little bucket, ready to be finished. Then it is either japanned—these are the common, black fishhooks—or it is tempered to the delicate blue you sometimes see in cutlery. For this finish it is heated red-hot and then cooled in oil. W. H. GRIFFIN, Jackson, Michigan, writes: •Suffered with catarrh for fifteen years. Hall’s Catarrh Cure cured me." Sold by Druggists, 75c. • The Commercial Instinct Developed. A tourist who visited Alaska recently declared that his reception at the coast towns of that territory brought to mind recollections of previous sojourns at more civilized watering places. He mentions among others the Thlinket Indians A of Wrangell, who spend much time w watching for the steamer. When they see its smoke in the distance they at once convert their houses into shops, where they offer for sale all sorts of curiosities manufactured for the purpose of coaxing coin from the pockets of , travelers. GO AND VIEW THE LAND. Three Cheap Harvest Excursions. On August 25th, September 15th and September 29th, Low Rate Harvest Excursions will be run from all stations on the wabash railroad to the Great Farming Regions of the West, Northwest. South and Southwest. Tickets good returning for thirty days from date of sale. The crops were never so good as this year, and the Railroad Rates, via Wsbash, never so low. Whatever section you wish to visit, be sure and write to or call upon the nearest Wabash ticket agent for particulars as to rates, time of trains, accomodations, etc. If you do not live adjacentto the Wabash, write at once to F. Chandler, Gen’l Passenger and Ticket Agent, St. Louis, Mo. * Worse than Pork* Germany has something a great deal worse than American pork. It is the fact that at least 2,000,000 of her husbands and fathers are working for wages which average less than 8150 per yeaT, and wages are going down instead of up. Impure blood is the primary cause of the majority of diseases to which the human family is subject. The blood in passing through the system visits every portion of the body—if pure, carrying strength and vitality; if impure, disease and death. Blood poisoning is most dangerous. Prickly Ash Bitters will render the last impossible, and will-regulate the system so that health will be a sure result. Little Khody. The smallest of all tho States, Rhode Island, has the largest population per squire mile, or 318.44 persons. The figures of the last census show that if the whole Union were as densely populated ft would contain 945,766, 800 inhabitants. Mrs, Pinkham’s letters from ladies in all parts of the world avef&ge Ono Hundred per day. She has never failed them, and her fame is world wide. A Smart Cow. Westvflle, Ind., has a cow which quenches her thirst at the village pump, tossing the handle of the pump with her horns .until sufficient water flows for her needs. If afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it 250. It is a glad arid glorious thing to be a Christian.

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Gone —all the painful disorders and chronic weaknesses peculiar to the female sex. They go, with the use of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. Periodical pains, weak back, bearing - down sensations, nervous prostration, all “ female complaints ” are cuyed by it. It is purely vegeand perfectly harmless —a powerful general, as well as uterine, s tonic ayd. nervine, imparting vigor and strength to the whole system. It costs you nothing if it fails to give satisfaction. It’s guaranteed to do so, in every case, or the money is refunded. It can be guaranteed =*—for it does it. No other medicine for women is sold on such terms. That’s the way its makers prove their faith in it. Contains no alcohol to inebriate ; no synip or sugar to derange digestion; a legitimate medicine.) not a beverage. Purely vegetable and perfectly harmless in any condition of the system. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Proprietors, No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.

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OUR RURAL READERS WILL BE PLEASED WITH THIS DEPARTMENT. Manure Values—How to Make a Gate— Dairy Notes—Bee Culture—Orchard and Garden—Raising Ducks for Money—A Few Household Hints. THE FARM. Value of Manures.

’HE Experiment Station of Cornell University has made a series of investigations on the loss in stable manures by exposure in open 1 barnyards, the reI suits of which are I summarized in ; buletin twentyseven of that station. In the experiments of 1890 horse manure was saved from day to day until a pile of two tonshad been accumulated.

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This was done from April 18 to 25. Cut wheat straw ms used plentifully as bedding, the relative amount of straw and manure being 3,319 pounds excrement and 681 pounds straw. Chemical analysis showed that one ton of this fresh manure contained nearly ten pounds of nitrogen, seven and onehalf pounds of phosphoric acid and eighteen pounds of potash, making its value about 82.80, if these constituents be valued at the same rate as in commercial fertilizers. The pile of manure thus mads was put in a place thus exposed to the weather and where.’the drainage was so good that all the water not absorbed by the manure ran through and off at once. It remained exposed from April 25 to September 22, at which time it was carefully scraped up, weighed and a sample taken for analysis. It was found that the 4,000 had shrunk to 1,730 pounds during the six months, and analysis showed that this 1,730 was less valuable, pound for pound, than the original lot of manure. It had not only lost by leaching, but by heating or “fire fanging” during periods of dry weather, and the value of the pile of 4.000 pounds had shrunk from 85.60 to $2.12 —a loss of 62 per cent. In summing up the results of this experiment, Director Roberts says: “It seems safe to say tha; under the ordinary conditions of piling and exposure, the loss of fertilizing materials during the course of the summer is not likely to be much below 50 per cent, of the original value of the manure.” Further experiments showed that the liquid manure from a cow is worth as tnuch per day as the solid manure, and that the combined value at the same rate as commercial fertilizers; that from a horse at 7 cents, that from a sheep at 1 cent, and that from a hog at cent for liberally fed, thrifty shoats of medium size. Director Roberts is careful to explain that these values will have to be modified to suit individual circumstances. What he means is that if farmers can afford to buy commercial fertilizers at current prices, then the manures of the farm are worth the price given, and it will pay to house them. A Handy Farm Gate. W. G. Parke sends directions to the Practical Farmer for making a cheap gate as follows: For a gate that swings both ways, set posts firmly in ground, bore 1 inch hole in top of post you want gate to swing on. Take a pole 14 feet long, bore hole about 4 feet from big imd; place on top of post, put an iron pin through pole into post; bore four holes

iii big end of pole, two on a side; put on boards so as to form a trough; nail gate to pole; put stones in trough to balance. Saw top of other post two-thirds of way through, split out, and nail a short piece of board on side, forming a notch for cate pole to drop into. Bore holes in post on each side of gate for pins. Home Made Corn Sheller. To make a corn sheller, says D. G. Thomas, in the Practical Farmer, take a

piece of 6 by 2-inish plank or scantling, 3 feet long. Beginning 6 inches from the upper end, saw grooves across the face of plank 1 inch apart and % inch deep, the last of these grooves to be about 1 foot from the bottom. Get oilbarrel hoops, cut them up into 6-inch pieces, insert in sawed grooves

and the shcller is made. Place in a barrel, run corn down with small end of ear first. Watch closely or you will be minus a tljumb-nail before you know it. ,■ k T»ie Lours in Corn Fodder. , j From experiments made at the Wisconsin station to ascertain the comparative lo§s in corn fodder when preserved in the silo or by the ordinary method of curing in the field, the results of ten trials during a period of three years appear to be narrowed down to this. The loss of food materials in either system is very considerable and shows that fodders cannot be preserved by any method now known without their deteriorating in value. In the fodder-corn as it is cut in the fall there is a certain quantity of food elements that may be preserved in a succulent state in the silo or cured and fed to cattle as dry fodder. In either case an equal quantity of the food materials is destroyed, on an average about onefifth, This loss being equal in either case, the question of which method of preserving fodder-corn to adopt becomes one of convenience and economy of feed. The value of these feeding stuffs was about the same for milk and butter production, hence it is concluded the adoption or non-adoption of the silo must be decided on the score of convenience. In some localities the conditions may be more favorable to the field curing system, while In others the uncertainty of weather, the cheapness of lumber or the severity of winter may speak strongly in favor of the system of ensiling the fod-der-corn. THE PIGGERY. « The Best trill Degenerate. The quality of blood coursing through a pig’s veins has much to do with his value as a feeder, but the finest blooded fellow without proper feeding degenerates in a short time to the veriest scrub. It is boasted that the scrub must go, but ho will be here till all practice better systems of feeding. The man without experience can hardly comprehend how quickly choice stock will run out under continued neglect.—Stockman.

Keep th. Good Sow. The Germantown Telegraph says: While “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s»ear,” still if you use the whole sow in a sensible manner she will fill a silk purse annually. Nine little pigs in March grown to 250 pounds each in December, at five cents per pound, equals $112.50 cash. A sow that will do that should have her life insured for ten years. ; Never kill a good motherly sow as long as she will bear. Individual Excellence. Last year 20,250 Poland-China hogs were recorded in the records for that breed. How many of these were of any value for breeding purposes, or should be found in breeding herds? This is a question that should receive serious consideration. Too many are recorded that have only pedigree to recommend them, and solely on this ground does the owner expect anything of them. A little experience will convince a man that a pig must have other qualities io make it i valuable, viz., a good form and constitution. Without these pedigree is naught. THE APIARY. . .6 Superseding Queens. It will pay you in dollars and cents to remove all poor and inferior queens as early as possible in the spring. Unless you practice this weeding out process, you will find that in 100 colonies there will be ten or fifteen that will be far below the others in profit, and sometimes they will not yield anything, whereas if you had killed the poor and inferior queens early in the season and introduced good ones in their places you could have obtained considerable more honey. Some apiarists prefer to let the bees do their own superseding, but in my opinion it is a practice that will not pay. The way to prove it would be to supersede fifty colonies in your apiary, and leave about the same number to take care of themselves; at the end of the season I think you will find the fifty colonies that you looked over and superseded queens where needed will have given one-tenth more honey.— Pacific Rural Press. Aroma and Color of Honey. By the color of the honey and the aroma therefrom, an experienced beekeeper can determine the source from whence it came. Thus, it is very easy to tell buckwheat honey by its very dark look, and by its strong and pungent odor. Honey-dew has the same dark look, but lacks the odor or aroma. In fact there is little or no aroma about honey-dew. For this reason no beekeeper need be deceived as to the source of such odorless honey. Aroma is a term employed to designate those substances, the extreme minute particles of which are supposed to affect the organs of smell so as to produce peculiar odors.— Rural Home. Italian Bees. It seems petty well settled that Italian bees are best. The proof is that nearly if not quite all extensive honey produces use them. I have done with hybreds. They are too cross, and make me cross. Cyprian and Holy-Land bees promised great things, but very little is said about them now-a-days. The general reputation is very far behind that of the Italians.— Stockman. ORCHARD AND GARDEN. Old Trees Made New. Fruit trees that have been neglected for a number of years and have become scrubby, moss-grown, and half dead, may often be renovated and made to bear several good crops. First, all the dead wood should be removed with the saw. Then they may be pruned out somewhat to admit of light and air. Next, the bark should be scraped and all the moss removed, and it might be well to wash the bark with some alkaline preparation and if the bark has the appearance of being hide-bound, a few longitudinal slits on the outer bark will be of service. Last, but by no means least, the ground should be thoroughly stirred. The best way* to do this is with a pair of good horses and a plow. Do not be afraid if you break off some large roots, because this will only have a tendency to start the tree to growing. Tear up the sod and remove it from around the tree, and keep the land in cultivation. Put on some barn-yard manure, wood ashes or commercial fertilizer. The trees will at once start to grow and in a year or two will have thrown out enough new wood to bear a good crop.— Green’s Fruit Grozver. Advice to Market Gardeners. Prof. Bailey, in a lecture on market gardening, very tersely says: “Marketing is one-half of success; therefore study your market thoroughly; learn the conditions and demands. Failure is often brought aboiit by ignoring such small differences as the color, size or flavor of certain varieties that please the public taste, or from some other reason, except because it is fashionable, it becomes popular. Boston wants a branched celery, while New York requires tall, straight stalk; some markets desire red onions, while others prefer white ones. Find your market before the crop is ready. Send the produce to market in the neatest and most’’ attractive condition. Be honest. Secure the same customers each year, so as to establish a reputation. In each city have one reliable dealer to whom you can send your stock.” Simple Weed Cutter. To cut or pull docks and other toughrooted weeds, I fixed up a device as follows, saysF. J. Tuttle in the Practical .Farmer. Took one section of an old /wagon spring, heated it in my portable forge, then bent it with a half twist at A, and again at B, giving a flat place for the foot to press upon (between A and B.) At bottom I cut it off at the hole, co i sharpened it, leaving a concave edge to prevent from slipping off the roots. Next it was again heated and hardened. At top I attached a small stick for a handle, with one bolt and a nail. To cut a root with it, insert, so that concave edge presses against' the root, put foot on flat rest, and raise the weed by pulling handle toward you. THE POULTRY-YARD. Degeneracy of Poultry. The introduction of new breeds of fowls is only a temporary benefit, unless care is taken to breed them with purity or to cross only with design for a specified purpose, and then killing all these crosses as soon as their purpose is accomplished. A great majority of complaints that hens do not pay come from those who years ago used crosses, and have continued to breed from them. Their progeny are poor layers, subject to disease and are “generally worthless Returning to pure blooded fowls is the only resource of those whose flocks have got in this condition. Ducks that Pay. One of the largest duck farms located in the New England States has been conducted in such a manner that to-day it earns in net cash for Its owner over $4,500. The sales the past season have run to nearly $7,000. The incubator is the power, with its next friend, the brooder, while the duck does her part as the egg producer, »nd does it well. The

average number of eggs to each duck during the year has been 157. This is an average among 2,000. ' Pure Blooded Chickens. Pure blood in chickens should be as much sought for, as in any farm animals. It is a too common thing for a farmer to think that any kind of hens will fill the bill. And so they will, if you are looking at the number, instead of results. There can be no excuse for a farmer having a poor lot of chickens. Any one, by a little careful managment, can in a very short time, and with but a few dollars’ expense, get a good start in pure blooded stock. Don’t try to cross with common poultry, as results will not be satisfactory; or if you do attempt this, kill off the old stock as fast as possible. Don’t try to get pure blooded fowls by sponging off your neighbor, trading eggs and chickens. Buy them and pay your way; you will be better satisfied, won’t tell so many lies about your premium chickens, and will have better luck generally!—Western Farmer. THE DAIRY. Salting Butter. Do not salt butter with common barrel salt. It is not pure enough, and often contains an excess of lime that is not long in making the butter of soapy texture. Salt that stands exposed to the influence of odors will absorb enough of them to convey a taste not wanted to the butter. This matter of salt is important, and for this reason. The salt does not “give lasting properties to the fats in butter, but imparts a clearer cut flavor, and holds the traces of cheesy matter from rapid decomposition, but cannot hold it from forming rancidity Cold storage is the only thing that will make butter.a “long keeper.” Common barrel salt is in too large crystals, and does not as readily dissolve as especially prepared dairy salt; and do not use of any salt more than will all dissolve in the butter. Stop at that point.— Practical Farmer. Dairy Notes. Don’t buy a cow with udder unevenly developed. We should desire neither a very hard nor a very easy milker; a medium is desirable in this respect. Withhold your judgment on the heifer's ability to give milk till after she has dropped her second calf. One dairyman says that by having comfortable stables in winter, and by using a feed cutter he is able to save one-third of his feed. A cow to be a good milker and to produce good milkers in turn, should have the teats far apart and at regular distances from each other. Milking tubes do not seem to meet with much favor with dairymen, and it is probable that hand-milking will continue for a few centuries yet. The dairyman should not be satisfied with a knowledge of results. The knowledge of causes is more certain and can be more certainly depended on. More and more farmers that own a goodly number of cows are burning their attention to the winter dairy. With the help that the silo brings we may yet have June butter in January. Some men seem to be afraid of the term “scientific.” They object to scientific dairying because they imagine that it is following some plan that leads contrary to nature. “Scientifically” means doing a thing according to instinct. This is the way the dairy must be conducted in the future, or failure is nearly certain. The dairy buildings should be made not only pleasant for the cattle but for the dairyman, who has to spend much of his time there. Happy the dairyman and his children if the time ever comes when he will lay out the grounds around his dairy buildings as carefully as around his house; when all will be cleanly, and even flowers Will bloom to adorn the place of his labor.— Farmer's Review. THE HOUSEHOLD. Taking Care of the Stoves. As soon as the season for fires has passed, if stoves are removed they should be stored in a dry place, the pipes and elbows should be well cleaned out and cared for, otherwise holes may be rusted through them in a single season. Al) the sheet iron work about the stoves of any and every description should be cleaned up, and either be kept blackened and polished, or be oiled to prevent rust. For the cheap circular heating stoves one rubbing with kerosene oil will be sufficient if stored in a dry place, but if put in a cellar, as they sometimes are, several oilings may be necessary through this season. The brick linings that have become cracked or broken can often be repaired with fire clay cement with but a little trouble, and so as to make them serviceable for a very considerable time. Much subsequent annoyance may be saved by keeping all the separative parts together when storing them away, so that none shall be mislaid or lost at the time they are wanted. Household Hints. A free use of lemon juice and sugar will always relieve a cough. To stop hiccough, take a lump of sugar saturated with vinegar. Keep the stove or range free from soot in all its parts. A hot-air passage clogged up with soot will prevent the oven from baking well. If you want to make squash pies and eggs are scarce and dear, substitute rolled soda crackers for the eggs, say one to each pie. Season particularly well, and don’t forget the salt. Try a bandage of hot salt outside the face for neuralgia; fill the mouth with hot salt in case of toothache, put a little hot salt in a piece of muslin, and then put’it in the ear for a second or two when earache is troublesome. If a tablespoonful of kerosene is put into four quarts of tepid water, and this is used in washing windows and mirrors, instead of pure water, there will remain upon the cleaned surface a polish no amount of mere friction can give. Too Many Colonels and No Privates. The Rev. Penstock arose in his usual graceful manner and announced that he was in receipt of several private litters suggesting that the Lime-kiln Club form itself into a military organization and be prepared to rush to the defense of its country time of peril. The idea struck him as 16x24, and he hoped that it would prevail. “In case of sich an organizashun have we de right man fur a Kuroell?” asked the President. “I—l—that is—well, I specks I know sunthin’ ’bout de Kurnel bizness,” stammered Penstock. “An’so do I?” added thirteen other members in chorus. “Am dar any member in de hall tonight who knows how to be a private soldier?” askqd the President. The silence for the next thirty mmbAr could have been, knocked dm crowbar. “De subjeck am postponed,* cen» tinned Brother Gardner. “Sik or seben hundred kurrfels an’ no rank an* file wouldn't be according io either Hardee or Hoyle. 1 In kase de kentry am placed in peril we’ll send substitutes.’’—Dotrait Free Pres*.

Dr. Masqulto. Some brainy scientist, with lumps on his forehead like a summer squash, has advanced the startling theory that the mosquito is a medical insect, or, as it were, an M. D. on the wing. He goes on to state that the mosquito is not exactly the universal nuisance that people take him to be, but that he always gives value received, and in exchange for your life’s blood injects a dose of quinine, or a substitute for quinine, into your system at the same moment that he taps your epidermis for a straight drink. Perhaps there is a grain of truth in this interesting and sensational statement. We know for a fact that the favorite haunts of the thoroughbred mosquito are usually located in swampy, malarial districts, where stalk the ghostly chills, dumb yet eloquent agues, indolent livers and torpid spleens. We know that, because we have been there ourselves and have sampled them. And the mosquitoes sampled us at the same time, but we didn’t have the least idea in the world that we were swapping blood for quinine, although we did notice that in these localities, surrounded with such malign and depressing influences, the average mosquito waxed fat and monumental in avoirdupois. The man, woman or child caught prowling in this vicinity, and a long way from a regular, practicing physician, with a sheep-skin diploma, saddlebags and a cross-cut saw, is in momentary danger of being seized with a congestive chill, and suddenly ushered into the dim, uncertain hence without benefit of clergy or the prompt and expensive services of a red-nosed doctor, or even a journeyman medical sharp who has a large and lucrative practice—to get. In such an emergency the philanthropic mosquito comes to the rescue, and while you are stamping, slapping, fighting and swearing, the medical mosquito is busily engaged in saving your life with his little hypodermic injections of quinine, and you never once thank him, or ask him to call again in the morning and see how you are getting along. One of the chief peculiarities of the whole business is that the medical mosquito settles his bill before he prescribes. That’s where he is sharp—sharper than a serpent’s tooth, for he would ever have a thankless patient, even if he got away without being busted up in the medical profession. Os course, this practice of bleeding is no new thing in medical science, but we doubt if any of the numerous schools of medicine have ever adopted the practice of injecting quinine at the moment of the removal of the blood. But, after all, there are other and rather more seductive ways of taking quinine than through the mosquito. Up in Arkansas, for instance, they have a happy faculty of compounding the disagreeable drug with another and more powerful stimulant, renownqd throughout the country for its suddenness in effecting surprising results, and hailed from the Rio Grande to Moosehead lake under the assumed names of “Parole,” “Old Crow,” “Sour Mash,” “Liquid Crime,” “Calamity Sirup,” “Sheep Dip,” “Snake Cordial,” etc., and as a disguise for quinine it beats Mr. Mosquito, M. D., clear out of sight. —Texas Siftings. Bisnop Simpson made his first appearance in Lancaster, Pa., one Sunday morning very unexpected to himself and the “people called Methodists” of that city. His home was in Pittsburgh. He was traveling over the Pennsylvania railroad to Philadelphia, and a breakdown detained him over Sunday in Lancaster. After breakfast he sauntered out to find a Methodist church, and, walking up Duke street, he met a good Methodist, the late Mr. Carpenter McCleery, who engaged the Bishep in conversation. Dr. Simpson was plainly dressed, and looking anything else than a bishop is commonly supposed to look. Brother McCleery judged from his conversation that he was a local preacher, and the good bishop did not enlighten him to the contrary. The preacher in charge of the Duke Street Methodist Episcopal church finally arrived, and the bishop was introduced to him as “Brother Simpson, a local preacher of the Pittsburgh conference.” After considerable persuasion, the bishop was prevailed upop to preach. What disappointment was visible upon the faces of that congregation that morning. They expected to be bored by a “country clod-hopper.” The bishop gave out the opening hymn and then prayed. Those who thought they were going to be bored began to think differently, and when the bishop announced his text, “The greatest of all is charity,” expectation was on tip-toe. A grander, more’ eloquent, more feeling discourse was never delivered in that church. As the bishop was elaborating his points and carrying his congregation to the highest pitch by the magnificent roundings of his sentences, the thought occurred to the preacher sitting in the pulpit that this must be Bishop Simpson, and, upon concluding the sermon, the preacher asked him: “Are you not Bishop Simpson?” The bishop’s modest and naive reply was: “They call me so at home.” The preacher immediately turnedf faced the congregation and said: “You have had the extreme pleasure of listening to Bishop Simpson.—'Harrisburg Patriot. A Prairie Dog’s Well. A Wyoming man has settled the question of how the prairie dogs obtain the water they drink. He says they dig their own wells, each village having one with a concealed opening. He says he knows of several of these wells, from fifty to 200 feet deep, each having a circular stairway leading down to the water.— St. Louis Republic. They Felt For Him. A thief in Cincinnati stole a trunk belonging to a country preacher, and all he found in it were three paper collars and a pair of socks. He put in twenty-five pounds of brickbats and expressed the trunk to the owrter, sending a note Inside to express his sorrow that a man should try to be good on such a slim foundation. A Satisfactory Explanation. First Statesman—How is the official investigation into those boodle charges coming on? Second Statesman—Splendidly, splendidly. We’ve succeeded in not finding out a thing.— New York Weekly. My Liver Hm fur a year caueed me a great deal of trouble. Had aoreneM In the back, little appetite, a Utter teste In the mouth, and a general bad feeling all over that I could not locate. Have been taking Hood'a Sarsaparilla for the past three months with great benefit. I feel better, the Bad Taste In the Mouth is gone and my general health la again quite good. No longer feel those tired spells come over mo aa I formerly did. Hood’s Sarsaparilla la certainly a meat eneUeat medicine. 1 * Maa, L 8. Guam, Fall River, Mass. M.B. Bo rare to get Hood’a Sarsaparilla. . ■ ■ ■ rf.L

Strength and Health. It is quite a common idea that health keeps pace with strength. I know intelligent persons who really think that you may determine the comparative health of a company of men by measuring their arms—that he whose arm measures twelve inches is twice as healthy as he whose arms measures but six. This strange and thoughtless misapprehension has given rise to nearly all the mistakes thus far made in the physical-culture movement. I have a friend who can lift 900 pounds, and yet is an habitual sufferer from torpid liver, rheumatism, and low spirits. There are many similar cases. The cartmen of our cities, who are our strongest men, are far from the healthiest class, as physicians will testify .J On the contrary I have many friends "who would stagger under 300 pounds that are in capital trim. But I need not elaborate a matter so familiar with physicians and other observing people. No test of health would prove more faulty than a tape-line or a lift at the scdle-beam. Suppose two brothers—bank clerks —in bad health. They are measured round the arm. Each marks exactly ten inches. They try the scale-beam. The bar rises at exactly 300 pounds with each. Both seek health. John goes to the gymnasium, lifts heavy dumb-bells and kegs of nails until he can put up 125 pounds, and lift 900, and his arm re; •’.les fifteen inches. Thomas goes to the mountains, fishes, hunts, spends delightful hours with the young ladies and plays cricket. Upon measuring his arm we find it scarcely larger than when he left town, while he can’t put up 60 pounds nor lift 500. But who doubts Thomas will return to the counter the better men of the two? John should be the better man, if strength is the principal or most essential condition of health.— Health. Gratifying to AIL The high position attained and the universal acceptance and approval of the pleasant liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, as the most excellent laxative known, illustrate the value of the qualities on which its success is based, and are abundantly gratU tying to the California Fig Syrup Company. Take a Nap. A physician, writing of rest as a mlffiicine, recommends a short nap in the middle of the day, for those who can take it, as a beneficial addition to the night’s sleep. It divides the working time, gives the nervous system a fresh hold on life, and enables one to do more than make up for the time so occupied. A caution is given against indulgence in too long a sleep at such a time, under a penalty of disagreeable relaxation. There has been much discussion regarding the after-dinner nap. many believing it to be injurious, but it is, nevertheless, natural and wholesome. The Only One Ever Printed—Can You Find the Word? Each week a different three-lnch display is published In this paper. There are no two words alike in either ad., except One word. This word will be found in the ad. for Dr. Iron Tonic, Little Liver Pills and Wild Cherry Bitters. Look for “Crescent” trade-mark. Read the ad. carefully, and when you find the word send it to them and they will return you a book, beautiful lithographs and sample free. Living Without Working. It is said that between the Island of Madagascar and the coast of India there are 16,000 islands, only 600 of which are inhabited. In any of these islands a man can live and support his family jn princely luxury without working more than twenty-five days in the year. In fact, on some of these islands he needn’t work at all, as Nature provides the food, and no clothes are required. Three Harvest Excursions. The Burlington Route, C., B. & Q., R. R., will sell from principal stations on its lines, on Tuesdays, Aug. 25 and Sept. 15 and 29, Harvest Excursion tickets atZow Rates to principal cities and points in the Farming Regions of the West, Southwest and Northwest. For tickets and further information concerning these excursions, *call on your nearest 0., B. & Q. ticket agent, or address P. S. Eustis, Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agent, Chicago, 111. An Adept Gentleman—l never had such a perfect polish on these boots as you have given them. Western Hotel Porter (modestly)—l used to be a private soldier in the regular army.”— New York Weekly. No Opium, in Plso’s Cure for Consumption. Cures where other remedies fait 25c. Wants to Be Buried on Land. An elderly New Yorker, whose business takes him to Europe twice a year, always makes a special contract with the steamship company that if he should die on the voyage his body is not to be buried at sea. FITS.—AII Fits stopped free by Dr .Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day’s use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and *2.00 trial bottle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St- Pliila., Pa. It is unwise to depend on any man’s sympathy longer than a day.

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