Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1891 — Page 3

OO AND VIEW THE LAND. Three Cheap Harveit Excursions. On August 25th, September 15th and September 29th, Low Bate Harvest Excursions will be run from all stations on thk wabash bailroad 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 BAilroad 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, accomoetc. If you do not live adjacentto the Wabash, write at once to F. Chandler, Gen’l Passenger and Ticket Agent, St. Louis, Mo. Royal Kisses. When the royal family of England received their royal relatives, the Emperor and Empress of Germany, they kissed as affectionately as if they were ordinary people. Kissing is d noticeable feature of the reign of Victoria the Good. And the custom is marked by a sad fact—the death of the Princess Alice, daughter of the Queen, who could not deny the request of her child dying of diphtheria and kissed him, inhaUng the poison and dying herself in a few days. Three Harvest Excursion". The Burlington Route, C., B. <fc Q., R. R., Y will sell from principal stations on its lines, on Tuesdays, Aug. 25 and Sept. 15 and 29, Harvest Excursion tickets at Low Kates 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 C., B. & Q. ticket agent, or address P. S. Eustis. Gen’l Pass, and Ticket Agent, Chicago, 111. No Time for Idleness. Retired Business Man—l am rich at last, and now I’m going to find a perfect climate to live ite. Great Traveler—Good ideal I’ve always held that when a man retires from business lie should immediately take up something that will keep him occupied for the rest of hfs life.— New York Weekly. The happiness of mother and child depends upon the health of both, a lady writes: “My boy and I are splendid, thanks to Mrs. Pinkham and the Vegetable Compound.* Sensible Fish. Divers in the clear waters of the tropical seas find that fish of different colors, when frightened, do not all dart in the same direction, but that each different kind takes shelter in that portion of the submarine growth nearest in color to that of the fish. F'l’l'S.— All Fits stopped tree by Dr.KUne’s Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first day’s use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and *2.00 trial bottle free to is. Fit cases.. Send to Dr. Kline, 931 Arch SU Phils. Pa. Woman may never be elected to Congress, but she will ever maintain the position of Speaker of the House.

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«i>- ’ A feeble woman is restored to health and strength, by Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. If you’re overworked, “ rundown,” or debilitated, you need it. It’s an invigorating, restorative tonic, and a soothing and strengthening nervine, imparting tone and vigor to the whole system. It’s a legitimate medicine, too —carefully compounded by an experienced physician, and adapted to woman’s delicate organization. For all the chronic weaknesses, functional derangements, and painful disorders peculiar to the sex, it is an unfailing remedy. It’s because it is unfailing that it can be sold under a positive guarantee. If it fails to give satisfaction, in any case for which it’s the money paid for it will be promptly returned. It is a legitimate medicine— not a beverage. Contains no alcohol to jnebriate ; no syrup or sugar to tour or ferment in the stomach and cause distress. As peculiar in ’ its marvelous, remedial results as in its composition, “German Syrup” J. C. Davis, Rector of St. James 1 ’ Episcopal Church, Eufaula, Ala.: “My son has been badly afflicted with a fearful and threatening cough - . for several months, and after trying Several prescriptions from physicians which failed to relieve him, he has been perfectly restored by the use oi two bottles of BoAn Episcopal schee’s German Syrup. I can recomRector. mend it without hesitation.” Chronic severe, deep-seated'coughs like this are as severe tests as a remedy can be subjected to. It is for these longstanding cases that Boschee’s German Syrup is made a specialty. Many others afflicted as this lad was, will do well to make a note of this. J. F. Arnold, Montevideo, Minn., writes: I always use German Syrup for a Cold on the Dungs. I have never found an equal to it—far less a superior. ® G. G. GREEN, Sole Man’fr, Woodbury,N.J. Tutt’s Pills The dyspeptic, the debilitated, whether from excess of work of mind or body, 1 drink or exposure in * MALARIAL REGIONS, wHI find Tutt’s Pills the most gonial re■Corative over offered the suffering invalid. ELY’S CREAM BALM Is Worth SSOO to any Man, Woman or Child suffering from fc* CATARRH. Anply Balm into each nostril. ELY BltOS., M Warren St.. N. Y. Dll CO nlsto '*!'■ ■'i a*.• 'sX 'A ■' e I

AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. A Convenient Home—How Fertility is Wasted—How to Build a Horse Stall and Manger—The Poultry Yard—Hints on Horticultural, Household, Etc. Agricultural Education.

I—)ROF.1 — )ROF. HUXLEY, I while disavowing, in a letter to a society of English X. farmers, the possession of any practical knowledge on his part of the details of crop production, points out that zv certain general —principles pertain to all technical training, first of r which is that “practice must be JgS learned by practice,” Elucidating this axiom, he ex-

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presses truths worthy the attention of all would-be instructors, especially those paid to educate “in agriculture and mechanic arts:” “The farmer must be made by thorough farm work. I believe I might be able to give you a fair account of a beanplant and of the manner and condition of its growth, but if I were to try to raise a crop of beans your club would probably laugh consumedly at the result. Nevertheless, I believe that you practical people would be all the better for the scientific knowledge which does not enable me to grow beans. It would keep you from attempting hopeless experiments, and would enable you to take advantage of the innumerable hints which Dame Nature gives to people who live in direct contact with things. And this leads me to the general principle which I think applies to all technanical teach* ing of school-boys and school-girls, and that is that they should be led from the observation of the commonest facts to general scientific truths. “If I were called upon to frame a course of elementary instruction preparatory to agriculture, I am not sure that I should attempt chemistry, or botany, or physiology, or geology, as such. It is a method fraught with danger of spending too much time and attention on abstractions and theories, on words and notions, instead of things. The history of a bean, of a grain of wheat, of a turnip, of a sheep, of a pig, or of a cow, properly treated—with the introduction of the elements of chemistry, physiology and so on as they come in—would give all the elementary science which is needed for the comprehension of the processes of agriculture in a form easily assimilated by the youthful mind, which loathes anything in the shape of long words and abstract notions; and small blame to it.” A Convenient Home. This is what I consider a model of convenience for a farmer’s residence, and one can make it as beautiful as the means at hand will admit. The dimensions can suit the builder. In this plan the room fnarked A is 22x24 feet, and is the sitting room, B dining room, C bedrpom, D kitchen, E hall, F pantry, G

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conservatory, H, H porches, I bathroom, K closet. There could be a small closet under the front staircase, and if a conservatory is not wanted that space can be used for a The pantry has doors to open into the dining-ijoom with drawers underneath to put all table linen in. The second floor has four large chambers, C, C. C, C. H, 11, H, H are closets, E hall, S store room. B balcony. A large closet could be made at the end of hall where dotted line is.—Mrs. W. S. Churchill in Farm and Home. Hqw Fertility I 5 yvasted. When t see the water in ravines discolored from the drainage from the corrals which border them, 1 believe somebody is paying dearly for his improvidence and laziness. There may have been some excuse for first settlers locating their feeding -yards in sheltered places along the streams, but this practice ought to have been abandoned by farmers long ago. Os course such yards are cleared of manure free of expense to the owners, but tljjs incurs a great loss which many do not count. The corrals should be removed from the aud placed on high ground. In this way all drainage from them will be of direct benefit to the land. If such places are necessarily bleak, shelter should be erected. If unable to build barns and substantial stables, put up walls and temporary shelters. Keep your stock confined to the yards and stables as much as possible, and bed them well with straw or refuse from the hay stacks. Permit no prairie hay to remain in the field because useless for feeding. Haul it into the yard to increase the size and value of the manure heap. My experience as a farmer tells me that manure made and kept under shelter is worth double that made in the open yard, exposed to drenching rains, which takes away its most valuable elements.— T. B. in Farm and Home. LIVE STOCK. High Brt'cd, But Worthless. , The country is full of horses with pedigrees, well bred and deeply bred in trotting lines that for all practical uses for which the horse was intended are worthless; and it is this class of animals that causes the uneasiness in regard to prices which manifests itself every little while. And so long as breeders generally continue this line of breeding the good ones will never deprecate in value, but steadily grow higher. It is an admitted fact that no one knows how to breed a great trotter every time, and it is the truth of this great fact that causes proper selection to stand out more prominenty and demand more attention; the failures to accomplish the object sought to be attained will be numerous enough with all the attention, study and thought that one can possibly give to the subjects— Wallace’s Monthly. Raising Fine Horse*. Raising good horses for the farm or the road is a business which will be likely to pay the careful and persevering breeder. But the raising of horses for the track is one of the most unprofitable lines of business In which a farmer esn engage. He has neither the capital, the facilities, nor the experience and skill requisite for Its successful management. It is true that there have been o a very few fast horses bred on ordinary farms, but the Instances are extremely rare, and even in these cases the breeders have usually sold the animals before their value was discovered, or else they have paid so much for training and raring for them that but very little

pwmt <was'left. We would not discourage oor farmers from trying to raise good serviceable horses. There Is a good'field here for careful and intelligent men, But we believe that the ordinary farmer has a good deal better chance of being struck by lightning than he has of raising a Sunol or a Maud S.— American Dairyman. Horse Stall and Manter, A horse, says Reuben Moore, in the Practical Farmer, should stand on a level floor, with his head down on his hay and feed when eating. Length of manger should be the entire width of stall, about four feet and a half, and. two feet in width, which is sufficient to hold a ration of hay, and afford room for the feed box in one corner. The bottom of manger should be fifteen inches from the stall floor, its height to top of manger from floor three feet, four inches.

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An opening (E) twenty inches wide and of height of stall is sufficient for the horse to nut his head in manger to eat Board up bn each side of this s,o he cannot shove hay out of manger under his feet. A represents stall, four feet six inches wide; B, manger, of same length, two feet wide; C, feed box, in right bottom corner of manger; D, space under manger, fifteenphehes high; E, space in front of horse, twenty inches wide, entire height of/stall, for horse to puVhis head in mange( to eat; F, ring to tie horse to; G, slide door through which to put hay and grain in manger; H, room in front of manger to store the temporary supply of hay and grain; I have used this kind and proportion of stall for years, and can recommend it. All styles of mangers, or racks compelling the horse to pull out the hay, involve more or less stirring up of dust, and are objectionable on that account THE DAIRY. Feed for a Furpose. The last lecture delivered by the late F. D. Curtis, of Kirby Homestead, was at the dairy meeting at Cuba, N. Y. The subject was “Foods.” In this he said: If you feed a cow on straw she will be nothing but vitalized straw, if a calf is fed only whey, a whey calf will be the result, and as whey at its best (sweet) has but little value, the milk sugar and what butter fat—which is of not much value as a food—which the cheese maker allowed tp escape, or which hq nqt prevent, in the whey, being all there is of it the calf will be a poor affair. If a pig is fed only cornmeal, a cornmeal pig, all fat, with neither blood, muscle nor bone, will be the result. Study the nature of foods, feed for a purpose and know beforehand what that purpose is. Packing Button A New York subscriber asks how to pack butter so it will keep till winter. Very much depends on the quality of the butter when packed, how free from buttermilk, etc. Well-made butter packed solid in new, sweet jars or tubs and kept at a cool, even temperature should keep till winter. If a person has not cold storage, a cool spring may be substituted. We have known butter kept in this way till winter. If the jars are not filled quite full and brine is put over the buttpr it will be ’better. We have recently seen it suggested that it would pay those who cannot avail themselves of cold storage to pack butter from churn, while in small grains, in strong brine and in the winter time take it out, churn in buttermilk and work as though fresh churned. This may be a good plan, yet we believe as with all other farm products it Days nine times out of ten to sell butter when ready for the market—when fresh made. — Farm, Field and Stockman. Good-flavored food is necessary in order to procure good-flavored butter. A sharp competition at a Maine fair was once decided in favor of a young dairyman who, it was subsequently learned, had picked bright clover heads each day for the pet Jersey that was giving the milk. THE POULTRY YARD. Buck Keeping;. I shali,endeavor to make it clear that ducks, when properly managed, are a source of profit, and even when kept in very confined places. With only an available space of from eight to ten square yards, a pen of ducks can be kept with less trouble, cleaner and healthier than a pen of fo.wls. There are very many who start keeping ducks that soon give them up through some fault in the system of management, and having failed to keep them in a satisfactory manner, they condemn them and say they are dirty creatures, big eaters, cannot be kept healthy in confined places, are unprofitable, etc., all of which is wholly without foundation. As regards cleanliness, there is not any creature that takes more time and care in cleaning itself. The duck will preen and dress its feathers by the hour together; therefore, if it has the means it will keep itself clean. They will live and thrive upon coarser and less costly food than fowls, and yield a greater weight of eggs. Scraps, potato parings and other waste from the food supply of most houses is usually thrown into the dustbin; this cooked and mixed with middlings (the dressings from wheaten flour) will generally be found to be sufficient food for a pen of ducks. Still they should have some corn each day. When keeping Aylesbury, Pekin, or common farmyard ducks. I have always had more than eighty eggs from each during the season, averaging in weight two and one quarter ounces. Some people object to the flavor of the eggs, which depends very much upon where the ducks are Kept and the kind of food supplied to them. The eggs supplied with clean water, swset and wholesome food, and kept on a smooth hard floor which is kept clear), are entirely different from those from ducks that seek for food in muddy ponds and foul ditches. Though my own ducks are kept in rather close confinement, I have never lost one, old or young through disease; and consequently their state of. health has never been a cause of anxiety but a pleasure to contemplate.—lF. Vale in Feathered World. Where the Eggs Come From. New York city consumes between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 eggs dally. A produce dealer who handles more eggs than any other concern in the country, according to Colman's Rural World, : says that if the whole surface of the State of New York were covered with hens they could not lay enough eggs to supply New York city. Os course New York State yields many eggs, but the larger cities of the interior, like Albany, Troy and Syracuse, use most of the eggs the Now York farmers produce. The same is the case with Long Island. The local residents consume the home supply. New Jersey does not produce as many eggs as its citzens consume at home. Half a dozen Western States supply the bulk of all the eggs which are consumed in New York city. Indiana sends

— the largest number. Next in the list are Ohio, Michigan «nd-low*. It is estimated that Indiana Ifi the largest egg-producing State in the country. Illinois hens produce many Oggs, but they nearly all go to the Chicago market ' Heretofore Canada has shipped into the United States hundreds of carloads of eggs. For the last three or four years Canada has annually shipoed about $2,000,000 worth of eggs to this market. The present duty of foreign eggs promises a practical prohibition against imports. Previous to the change in the tariff considerable importations of eggs were made from Europe, commencing three or four years ago. These eggs were gathered principally in Southern Germany and Italy, and preserved. The dealers say that pickled eggs, while not good for poaching or boiling, because the shells are brittle, yet are useful for many other purposes.— Farm, Field and Stockman. ORCHARD AND GARDEN. Contrivance for Gathering apples. Take a ten foot pole; attach a wire ring With loop for breaking off the apples, and a bag for catching the apples. The wire ring should be large enough to

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admit a large apple. The loop should be three inches long, and one inch wide. This picker can be used where you cannot reach with your hand. — Practical Farmer. The Fea Fateh. In hot weather the pea vines turn yellow. This checks growth, checks the filling of the pods, and soon the whole plant is down. All this ffe caused by insufficient covering of the roots. Hoe up on each side the row. Keep the plants off the ground (if of the low bush sorts), and new flowers, new pods and new life will respond. The pea plant is extremely susceptible to heat, drouth and neglect, and if- well nursed, will keep on till you get tired of peas. When that time comes, can the rest. The late crop is the best for this purpose. The cook book will tell you how to do this. Horticultural Hints. There is now a purple-leaved variety of the common catalpa. Too much manure on blackberries will induce too much wood. Le Delarme is one of the finest grapes for quality, out is not so profitable as some others. Gardening Illustrated advises paraffine Oil as .a ,frui£ tree cleanser, especially trees infested with insects. It is claimed that with proper cultivation and an equal acreage Texas would exceed California in the production of superior fruits. The sulphite of iron has proven in some cases to be a fair tonic for plants with weak flower stems. Weak solutions should be given at first. When red rust appears upon raspberries or blackberries the canes should at once be carefully cut away and burned. Would you have an extraordinary development of fine foliage in cannas, caladiums, castor-oil beans, eulalias, reeds, ailanthus, pawlonia, etc? Then rely on an abundance of manure in the soil and abundant summer watering. The conditions provided and it is very easy to make a grand success with this class of plants. Try it. THE HOUSEHOLD. Look Alter Your Sleep. Insomnia is rightfully regarded as one of the marks of an overwrought or worried nervous system, and, conversely we may take it that sound sleep, lasting for a reasonable period—say from six to nine hours in the case of adults—is a fair test of nervous competence. Various accidental causes may temporarily interfere with sleep in the healthv; but still the rule holds good, and a normal brain reveals its condition by obedience to this daily rythmic variation. Custom can do much to contract one’s natural term of sleep, a fact of which we are constantly reminded in these days of high pressure; but the process is too artificial to be employed. Laborious days, with scanty intervals of rest, go far to secure all the needful conditions of insomnia. In allotlng hours of sleep, it is impossible to adopt any maxim or uniform custom. The due allowance varies with the individual. Age, constitution, sex, fatigue, exercise, each has its share <f influence. Young persons and hard workers naturally need and should have more sleep than those who neither grow nor labor. Women Jiave by common consent been assigned a longer period of rest than men, and this arrangement, in the event of their doing hard work, is in strict ac- • cordance with their general physical• construction and recurrent infirmities. Absoluse rule there ts none, and it is of little moment to fix an exact average allowance, provided the recurrence of sleep be regular and its amount sufficient for the needs of a given person. So that fatigue does not result in such nerve prostration and irritability as render healthy rest impossible.— London Lancet. Hints for the Mousewife. Pieces of licorice laid around where ants run is recommended. Meringues should be put on puddings after they are slightly cool, as, if the pudding be hot, the egg will liquefy. In cooking vegetables, always remember that boiling water evaporates rapidly on the approach of a storm dr when it is rainins. Old newspapers torn in small pieces and wet in water softened by the addition of a little ammonia, are excellent to wash lamp-chimneys. To remove scratches and bruises from furniture, rub them gently with fresh walnut, butternut or fiickorynut kernel, and they will disappear as if by magic. A little memorandum book, or slate, in the kitchen is a great convenience for busy housekeepers in which to write a list of things needed for the kitchen and table. To remove the unsightly marks caused by drippings frtun the faucets In marble basins, or In water closet bowl, nothing equals pulverized chalk, moistened with a few drops of ammonia. Apply with an old tooth brush, and they quickly disappear. Naturalisation in Mexico. In spite of the great progress of Mexico, there are probably fewer foreigners naturalized in our sister republic than almost anywhere in the world. According to a report just issued by the Mexican State Department, only 2,044 foreigners have become citizens in sixty-three years. More than half of these were Spaniards, and of the remainder 146 were Americans. It Is worthy of note, however, that the majority of the letters of naturalization have been taken out since Gen. Diaz become President, which affords a convincing proof oi the increasing stability of Mexim under his efficient administration.— N. Y. Tribune.

A Lady of Tact. After the elose of the war of the Revolution, several ladies from . Philadelphia visited England. Their elegance and beauty compelled the admiration of even the prejudiced court of George the Third. “Well,” said a London hair-dresser, as he was dressing the hair of the ladies of our minister’s (John Adams) family on a court-day, "it does not signify, but the American ladies do beat the English all to nothing.” One of the ladies thus complimented was Mrs. Bingham, the wife of a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. She was remarkable both for her beauty and for the ease and politeness of manners. Such was the charm of her behavior that she fascinated all who sought her society. Even the servants seemed to serve her from affection rather than ’ for wages. An anecdote illustrates exquisite tact and politeness, which could turn even the rudeness of a guest into an occasion for paying him greater honor. Samuel Chase, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, was a man of talents and of bad manners. On the bench he was despotic, and in society he asserted himself, no matter what man or woman he might thereby jostle. While holding court in Philadelphia, he was honored by Mr. Bingham with a grand dinner-party, and placed on Mrs. Bingham’s right hand. Coolly adjusting his spectucles and looking over the elegant dinner, which had been prepared by a French cook, he said to her, — “A very pretty dinner, madam; but there is not a thing on your table that I can eat.” “And with what might I serve you that would be agreeable ?” answereothe urbane lady, not in the least ruffled by her guest's rudeness. . “A beefsteak, or a piece of roast beef, madam, will please me better than anything else.” A word was whispered in a servant’s ear, and the lady’s witty talk hardly allowed the judge to notice that he was waiting, while the other guests were eating. When the servant re-appeared with a dish of roast beef, Judge Chase attacked’it with the vigor of a keen appetite. Having satisfied it, he turned to his hostess, and with the air of one who had conferred a favor by eating at her tabid, said, — “There, madam, I have made a sensible and excellent dinner, but no thanks to pour French cook.” Mrs. Bingham smiled as graciously as if she had received a compliment instead of a rude criticism. But tradition does not record that his “Honor” ever had another opportunity to pass judgment on Mrs. Bingham. A paint for floors, which economizes the use of oil colors and varnish, is described in the German technical press as having been composed by Herr Mareck. It is remarked that this paint can also be used on wood, stone, etc. For flooring, the following mixture has been found applicable: 2| ounces of good, clear joiner’s glue is soaked over night in cold water. It is dissolved, and then it is added (being constantly stirred) to thickish milk of lime heated to boiling point and prepared from one pound of quicklime. Into boiling lime is poured (the stirring being continued) as much linseed oil as becomes united by means of saponification with the lime, aud when the oil nq longer mixes there is no more poured in. If there happens to be too much oil poured in, it must be combined by the addition of some fresh lime paste. For the quantity of lime previously indicated, about half a pound of oil is required. After this white, thickish foundation paint has cooled, a color is added which is not affected by lime, and, in case of need, the paint is diluted with water or by the addition of a mixture of lime water with some linseed oil. For yellowishbrown or brownish-red shades, about a fourth part of the entire bulk is added of a brown solution obtained by boiling shellac and borax with water. This mixture is specially adapted for painting floors. The paint should be applied uniformly, and is described as covering the floor most effectually, and uniting with it in a durable manner. But it is remarked that it is not suitable for being used in cases where a room is in constant use, as under such circumstances it would probably have to be renewed in some places every three months. The most durable floor paint is said to be that composed of linseedoil varnish, which only requires to be renewed every six or twelve months. It penetrates the wood aud makes it waterresisting—its properties being thus of a nature to compensate for its higher cost m proportion to other compositions used for a similar purpose. Its use is particularly recommended in schools and workrooms, as it lessens dust and facilitates the cleaning of the boards.— Chicago Times. Unhealthy Practice. Doctors are fighting the long, streetsweeping dresses. Said one of them to the mother of three young lady daughters: “Leterme advise you to have the dresses cleaned in the open air immediately after coming in from the street. You may not believe, but in the filth, dust, and dirt collected on the hosiery, shoes, and underwear by the trailing, flopping skirt, there is enough germ life to Sicken your whole family. I have nothing to say against the fashion, but if you were in my family and addicted to it, I should compel you to play Turk and leave your shoes, stockings, and trailing robes outside the door.”. Mind Your Own Affairs. Never take part in family quarrels, however sorely you may be tempted. The belligerents are sure to cry truce and make up their differences again, when all who ranged themselves as partisans on either side will be sacrificed without mercy. Strict neutrality is the only safe holding, and with truth and straightforwardness, and neither fetching or carrying, it Is quite possible to be friends with both impartially. Nat Disconcerted. Secretary—The people have tumbled to our SIOO for S2O benefit society, and won’t take any more shares.” President—We’ll soon fix that Promise them S2OO for S4O. — Street & Smith's Good News. A Life Saved Mr. Geo. Raymond, of Seneca Falla. N. Y M Is a pump-setter in the employ of Ramsay * Oo M the well-known pump-makers of that place. He is a member of Ramsay EadneOo. He says: "My wife, without doubt, owes her Ute to Hood's Sarsspsrilla. A few years ago *hs was at death's door, duo to bleed poisoning, or. ss physicians say. pymnla. After everythin* else failed Bond's Sarsaparilla brought her out of the crisis all right. Since then she has suflned at times with numbneaa and headache, but continues taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla and is gradually getting over these troubles. She clings to Hood’s, takes nothing also, and wo bellow M will edbet a mib plats cure." ’’ti- 0.. .A* 1 e'iia » ‘dEX-

.- 5 " vShakers of AH Creed* and Hind* Are to be found in every locality visited by chin* and fever. The very animal* exhibit in such plague-festered regions symptoms of the dire infection. If experience ha* proved, in the domain of medicine, anything conclusively, it is that Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters will not only eradicate from the system every vestige of the miasma-born complaint but effectually defend residents and temporary sojourners In msJaria-scourged localities against it. There 1* a general consensus of opinion among meaical men, no less than in the minds of the public, on this point. Not only on this continent but in the tropics, where malarial complaints assume their most virulent type, this incomparable medicinal safeguard is universally used and esteemed. Dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation, debility ana kidney trouble are all thoroughly remediable by the Bitters. An Old-Time Custom. A resident in Clement’s Inn, England, writes: “Oranges and lemons say the bells of St Clements,” according to a quaint and ancient doggerel which thousands of children have chanted while they play without knowing that the words had any other import other than the hazy ideas conveyed to young minds by nonsense rhymes. Beadles and? porters of St. Clement’s Inn, however, attach a practical meaning to the music of the bells. It is their custom always on New Years morning, and has been from time immemorial, to present to each tenant of chambers in the inn an orange and a lemon, accompanying the gift with wishes for a happy New Year. If all ancient customs were so honored in the observance there would be little fault to find with them. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0., Props, of Hall's Catarrh Cure, offer *IOO reward for any case of catarrh that can not be cured by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for testimonials, free. Sold by Druggists, Too. Crowded Out. Rural Editor—What did you do with that article denouncing prize fights and prize fighters? I sent it in over a week ago. Foreman—lt’s been crowded out right along, but I guess there’ll be room for it to-night. “Um—just leave it out for a few days longer, a week or two.” “Got plenty of room now.” “Nevermind. Just leave it out. I’ll fill up with something else. Um —fact is, < understand, Mr. John L. Sullivan is in town.”—Street & Smith's Good News. The Only One Ever Printed—Can You Find the Yford? There is a 3-lnch display advertisement in this paper this week which has no two words alike except one word. The same is true ot eactunew one appearing each week from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a “Crescent" on everything they make and publish. Look for it, send them the name of the word, and they will return you book, beautifull lithographs, OF SAMPLES FREE. Shakespeare Nowhere. First Theater-Goer—How was the new play last night? Second Theater-Goer —Oh, it’s grand! Most realistic dramatic success of the age. They’ve got a real hydrant on the stage—spouts real water. Y’ought t’ see it.— Street & Smith's Good News. Best, easiest to use and cheapest. Fiso’s Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. 50c. It takes a good many trials to make some folks faithful.

fewEToklC IS The Best Remedy 111 in this world,, says J. Hoffherr, of Syracuse, N. Y.,ia Pastor Koenig’s Nerve Tonic, because my son, who was partiaUy paralyzed three yeara ago aud attacked by fits, baa not had any symptoms of them sinoe he took one bottle of the remedy, I most heartily thank for it. Tehre Haute, Ind., Oct. 17,1500. Some time ago a sunstroke so affected my nerves that at times they were beyond control; eyes were dull and without expression, and a twitching of the muscles of the face and almost continual movement of the hands and anna, especially the left side. There was impediment ol speech, and at times would be so overcome with dizziness as to be unable to stand. Heard ol Pastor Koenig’s Nerve Tonic: tried one bottle, and noticed a great change; tried another, and now can aay that I am enjoying perfect health, steady nerves and a good appetite, which I had lost entirely before using your medicine. FRANK L. GRACH. A Valuable Book on Nervous LULL Diseases sent free to any address, FK X ■ and poor patients can also obtain | IlLsLs this medicine free of charge. This remedy has been prepared by the Reverend Pastor Koenig, of Fort Wayne, Ind., since 1874 and Is now prepared under his direction by the KOENIG MED. CO.. Chicago, 111. Sold by Druggists at SI per BotUe. OforSS. Large Size, SL7S. 6 Bottles for 09. OJVES ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system effectually, dispels colds, headaches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Svrup of Figs is the only remedy or its kind ever produced, pleasing to the taste and acceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in Wo and $1 bottles by all leading druggists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIO SYRUP CO. BAN FItANCtBOO, CAL UMMVIUt. KV. N£M VOAK. SLR

I ndianapolis BusinessUnivereitY ty> timeshort; expenses low: no fee for Diploma; a strictly Dusinessßchool in an unrtrjued com■M DIBO’B HKMKDY FOB CATAKKM.—Best. Easiest to use. ■ -L Cheapest. Belief is immediate. A cure is certain. For ' Cold in the Head it has no equal. J ■ . ■' ■’ .< ~> - • '

y- — 1 a A WOMAN BEST UNDERSTANDS A WOMAN’S ILLS. The experiments of Lydia E. Finkham that years ago gave to the world that blessing, the Vegetable Compound, were made through a feeling of sympathy for the afflicted of her sex. She discovered that nearly all the diseases of woman have a common origin, and therefore may have a common cure. That cure is known in all parts of the civilized world, and an average of 100 letters per day are received from grateful women. LYDIA L PINKHAM’S Compound | I is sold by all Druggists as a standard article, or sent by mail, in form of Pills or Lozenges, on receipt of SI.OO. Send stamp for "Guido to Health and Etiquette," a beautiful illustrated book. Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co.. Lynn, Mas*.

The Soap that Cleans Most is Lenox. The Soft Clow of The TEA ROSE Is Acquired by Ladles Who Use POZZOWI’S MEDICATED COMPLEXION powdeTl TRY IT. SbLfc EVhIywReRE. RELIEVES all Stomach Distress. REMOVES Nausea, Sense of Congestion, Pain. REVIVES Failing ENERGY. RESTORES Normal Circulation, CQd Wabms to Toe Tips. PA. HARTEH MEDICINE CO- M- Lo*l», I*. MONEY— ran *U- h-slaves— MONEY NEGRO PREACHERS ANO TEACHERS READ. S Tell all ex-slaves to sen* *4( money orderjfor a gold emblem badge—VaushAß’s new book (containing letters from Negro Bishops, Frederick Douglass. Bishop hewman, Senator Cullom, Ex-Mayor Carter Harrison. Judge Thurston, and many others, iso pages, illustr* tedk blanks, papers. ete n fullv explaining his EXSLAVE PENSION BILL. Clubs are now forming every where and are endors-ing‘-Vaughan's bill.”as introduced in the Flfty-nreS Congress in their behalf, asking <SOO cash and U 5 per month for some and different amounts for others. Navor Vaughan’s new book, that is the best history of the race ever ten, gives cogent reasons why the GovernmenS should and must grant th* former negro slave a pen. sion. Write at onee and get your pames,etc..in his pension register. No charge except as above until the bill becomes a law. Add. W. B. VkC*MA!t,(Ex-Mayor)Wasbington, D.C. P. 0. L Box 111. BOREf» WELLS O ffcnx * ■ with oar famaoH Well ULjMn Machlser*. The only II perfect solf-deanuig and AFI! JEgjfc* faat-dropping tools id use. LOOMIS & HYMAN TIFFIN. OHIO. FREE. nr MU Age, stability, sound meth- | Lilli ods; cash values, incontestaU||T||A| He policies; the best IflU I (JAL extension systejn; low I IFF 0081 AddreßS Lil L 921-3-5 Chestnut St., Philad’a. BUlElfellWSOT!!" USSI. MBlUOLlCffligl PHXOIOIVO-Dseall SOUMEHRA M disabled. *2 fee for increase. Aywrttiperience. Write for Laws. A.W. McCbnMiCK & Sons. Washington, D. C. A Cincinnati, Q. F. W. N. U '.. No. 37-01 When Writing to Advertisers, please aoy pv* saw the Advertisement in this paper. It Is as easy for some men to bo witty a* 1 it is difficult for some to be otherwise than dull.