Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 24, Ligonier, Noble County, 20 September 1894 — Page 7

A DESPERATE WOMAN.

Her Way of Winning Back a ) Recrsant Spouse.

Mrs. Warburton sturted a little at sight of me, but it is only justice to her to say that she was not at all flurried. Not so much as a flush. of ker smooth cheek betrayed that it was amy surprise or annoyance to find'me there. I had considerable ecuriosity to see whether Rex would evince the same impassiveness, and quietly resumed my book after the first greeting. Rex did not come to his appointment punctually, or perhaps he had scented my espionage. The widow, after one or two turns across the terrace, approached me and seated herself on one of the steps at my feet. “Is that something very interesting you are reading, Mr. Nye?”’ she asked presently. i “Not absorbingly so,” 1 responded, partially closing the volume and smiling down at her; I felt no malice toward the handsome widow. ‘ ' “Yet you keep a finger on the place as much as to say you did not like being interrupted. I wish I could find anything worth reading these stupid days.” “You are welcome to this,” I said, extending it toward her. It was a copy of the revised statutes. ‘ She glanced at the title and back at me. ' . The pext instant she snatched the, book from my knees and threw it as far as she could into the bushes. : I gazed stupidly after the vanished volume. Mrs. Warburton laughed almost naturally as she rose from her seat on the step. . “There is Rex, now,” she said, sweetly; and floated away tomeet him, superb in sang froid and effrontery. She avhispered him something as she took his arm, and he looked over his shoulder at me and laughed immoderately. He had not felt in the least like laughing when he first saw me. ‘*His face flushed uncomfortably and he frowned, but he was merry enough under Mrs. Warburton’s beguiling. “Rex,” said I, entering his reom an hour after, unannpunced, “what is the meaning of this? D,i(}' you not promise me—"’ Do “Bother the promise, Uncle Nye;” blurted Rex, ‘‘a fellow isn’t responsible for promises or actions when .a pretty woman is in the question.” ‘“There is but one pretty woman in the world for you!” : “Amy?—Oh, Amy is an angel; I love her to distraction.” “The deuce you do?” said I. *I wish the widow was a man. I’d shoot her, by George!” r. “There wouldn’t be any need in that case.”’ .

“I'll disinherit you and marry Amy myself!” he said angrily. } “Qh, you will, will you?” said my nephew, grinning. ‘lt is very fortunate that the widow has a handsome income, as in that case I should marry her.” ) ,

_ “You—why, she is old enough to be vour mother.” S

“Six months younger than your unworthy nephew, uncle. We made the. calculation not half an hour ago.” “‘She’s a false, maneuvering flirt as ever lived, and I believe on my soul there’s a pair of you;” screamed I, as I banged out of the ,room, leaving Rex in convulsions of ‘the most unaccountable laugi}:jgr, and running against Beatrix—ttr&t is, the widow—in the passage. - : 1f she had not been one of those gliding creatures who seem to move on air; if she had not gracefully receded before my onset, thereis no conjecturing what the consequence would have been. As it was, she recovered herself at once, or rather did not seem to have lost herself at all, and stood smiling sweetly at me. “I was just coming to ask you to lend me the charming volume you were perusing this morning,” she said, in the most matter-of-fact manner possible. - “‘Ah, doubtless you wish to examine that portion which treats of the legality of marriages contracted under false—"" I began, tartly. . _ “Precisely,” she interrupted me; “that was just what I wanted to do. Women are so lamentably ignorant on all legal matters. Poor me, I have no idea whether bigamy is considered a crime or mnot.” - She smiled again with an air of being the simplest ‘of creatures instead of the most artful, tripped me the most charming of courtesies and glided away. Could it be she was in earnest about Rex? 1 had my fears about him. I had not been free from anxiety lest she should so far entangle him in her meshes as to induce total forgetfulness of the claims of the lovely girl to whom my nephew was already betrothed; but that she could herself mean anything beyond defying and provoking me to the utmost I had notdreamed.

If she persisted in her course what should I do? Whatcould Ido atthe last but the very thing I had so often and solemniy vowed to myself I would not do—acknowledge the truth concerning the so-called Mrs. Warburton. I fancied the flash of Beatrix’s magnificent' eyes when she saw me forced to this extremity, the triumphant curve of her scarlet lips a$ my discomfiture. Heavens! how artful, how persevering, how determined the woman was. How many women of my acquaintance would have had the address or the courage to do as she had? Yet she was ss proud as the best of them, beautiful beyond any, accomplished, witty, clever, popular. I had anathematized ‘myself often enough for suffering her to fool me at first. Was 1 going to be such an old simpleton. as to let her snare me after all, play me a neater trick than the other a great deal? If I only knew what the woman was atl Could Rex be in league with her? A bright thought struck me. Iwould have Amy up here. 1t was all nonsense. her staying at a stupid farm when we were at a gay watering place. I wrote directly an odd sort of an epistle, and one that showed I had not so much sense as Rex, if I were his senior by almost twenty years. Anybody but Amy would have refused to obey such a peremptory and unreasonable summoas from a merely prospective uncle-in-law. But she, good child, came at once. My worst anticipations were confirmed when Rex and Amy met. : e 1 had purposely coneealed from my nephew the fact that his betrothed was so near. Ihad confidentij calenlated thatif be were in league with

Beatrix to confound me he would betray himself by the joy he would testify at meeting Amy. But nothing of the sort. He was manifestly disconcerted and annoyed at her coming. SBhook hands stifly, asked how she did ‘in the coldest manner and expressed such surprise at her coming at all' as covered the poor child with blushes and confusion. I was in & furious passion at receiving such evidence of his entanglement with Beatrix. How could any man in his sober senses prefer a woman old enough'to be his mother to thislovely creature? What could Beatrix see to like in this almost heartless jackanapes of a Rex? Why, if she must totment me with her flirtation, could she not have chosen a man of at least her own years? “] wish you hadn’t sent for me, Uncle Nye,” began Amy in a disconsolate tone. ‘‘Rex is angry with me for coming. Why is he displeased Bt my coming?” ' “He is flirting with somebody else, Amy; that’s what's the matter. He’s carrying on an abominable flirtation with—with —well, & woman that don’t care a snap of her finger for him. She’s somebody’s else’s wife, too, for aught he knows,” I burst out. ‘ “Oh, no, uncle; not a married woman. Rex wouldn’t be cross at me for & married woman,” cried poor Amy. :

““He don’t know she is married. She passes for a widow.” . “Then you ought to tell him. Ah, why haven’t you told him, Uncle Nye?” - How Beatrix would have laughed to have heard her. I could have bitten off my tongue for saying it. Beatrixa wife indeed! - ) )

I hushed Amyup quite sternly and sent her away to her chamber to dress for dinner. I took her down myself. Rex never come near. He was with Beatrix Warburton.

I admired Amy’s spirit. She took matters so coolly, and ate her dinner with what seemed a really fine appetite. 1 was too angry to eat, and with my usual stupidity I let everybody see that I was annoyed and what annoyed me.

That evening the glittering circlet which Beatrix had worn on her marriage finger, and which she had so often and ostentatiously flashed in my eyes, had disappeared, and in its place was a large diamond. &

Beatrix showed it to me herself. Her face was hard-and cold, her eyes defiant: ‘ 5

*You can not marry Rex,” I said in a low voice. ‘

““Not?” she said without lowering her eyes, and setting her teeth; ‘‘you will see.” i, -

*‘He is engaged to that girl yousaw with me at dinner.” ‘

‘“IIe is not—now,” glancing at her solitaire.

‘““You are not so reckless as you would have me think,” I said, coldly. . “Reckless of what—you? What are you to me?”’ o “You will marry Rex?”’ She nodded, smiling and blushing. “You dare not.” _ | “You krnow I dare.” B ‘ “You shall not,” E ‘ ‘“Who will hinder me?” | “I. I will tell him the whole shameful story.” : - Her cheek whitened, whether with fear or anger I could not tell. “He will not believe you,” she said, quietly. s ~And, sure enough, he would not. He regarded me even pityingly and shook his head over the story, as though he doubted my sanity. “It is altogether ‘too improbable, Uncle Nye,” he said, sagely; ‘‘just look at the acts of the case yoursel!f. Here is a Dbeautiful and accomplished woman, toward whom you have evinced from the first a mostsingular hostility. Having tried every other means to prejudice my mind against her matchlessness, you come finally and tell me that somewhere about two years ago you met Mrs. Warburton amd were married to her yourself. Don’t interrupt me. You say, furthermore, that you have the best of proof that she did not care a straw for you, that she maneuvered for you solely because of your money; that your marriage having been strictly private, the clergyman who officiated having lost his life the next day by asingular fatality, the certificate not having been recorded, and other circumstances being favorable, you having accused and quarreled with your wife, to punish her deserted her, refusing to acknowledge any marftal relation as. existing between you and her. You represent yourself as having met her now during these few weeks for the first time since this apocryphal marriage, you denounce her at this late hour, and you ask me to believe that you are in your senses. I beg your pardon, uncle, but you 'must think me a remarkably bright i young man to swallow such a confoundedly ridiculous yarn as that.” That was all the reason I could argue into Rex Dusseldorf. He even stared at the marriage certificate when I produced it, wish “pooh!”—and “pshaw.” Anyhody could get up such a thing as that, be said. : I must say that I was eonfounded! What to do next? o :

There was but one thing that could be done. That was to gulp down my pride the best way 1 could; seek Beatrix and eonfess whav an illtempered, blundering, besotted old fool I had been and ask her to forgive me and wear my marriage ring again. - T did it. ) |

She was ineredulous at first, and cool as an iceberg. But she melted at last. : : )

“You don’t deserve to be forgiven, George.” she said, gravely, ‘‘but Dl’il tell you the truth row, just as I would long ago if you had notangered me so. I did not need to marry you for your money.” ; - : *Then you lowed me onee, Beatrix?” ‘“Always,” she said. “And Rex—" - “That was part of the programme necessary to bring you to your senses.” : : e I found Amy amfl Rex were both in the conspiracy. They were generous enough not to leugh at me.—N. Y. News. ‘ : ; And Perhaps to the Encore. . “I'll venture to say that fellow can sing,” observed Bamks. “Look atthat long lauscular throat. Look at that larynx.” - : *Yes;” mused Rivers, “I dare say his Adam’s apple is sound to the core.” And from the orehestra came the agonizing strains of the “High School Cadets’ March.”—Chieago Tribune. ~ HAVE good will'to all that lives, let~ ting unkindness die, and greed and wrath; so that your'lives be mﬂda like Soft, sifs passing by.~Sir Edwia An no Wy s : u *' e ‘;

AGRICULTURALHINTS. THE TAR-HEEL TRAIL. A Contribution to Good Roads Literature by Humorist Bill Nye. The prize medal was cheerfully awarded to the writer last year at Chicago by a competent committee, for the most picturesque display of roads. Ido not say this boastfully, but because it may encourage others to make a similar collection. _ ' ‘Western North Carolina is very mountainous and therefore a beautiful country, the soil in most instances being a cheerful red, similar to the shade adopted for second-hand cook stoves. These vermillion roads wrap themselves around the mountains of Buncombe county in graceful sweeps, or pour in Venetian red cascades over the ridges and hog-backs of Catawba county. L Many of these roads liquify and run over the farms, or slip down into the fields during ‘a shower, and remain there to be called for. I have two stray roads still on my estate that lodged there after a long wet spell in April. - - The methods of building and repairing roads here are not adopted elsewhere, except aleng the shores of Lake Victoria Nyanza in South Africa. When the roads are too wet, large irregular stones, ranging from the size of Daniel Webster's head to that of the pee wee egg, are placed in this mud where they disappear, yet may be noticed plainly by riding over them. Each year, in the country region,the adults are called together by the road master for the purpose of sampling each other's tobacco, and making mud pies along the highway. The bed of the road is sunken several feet below the level of the sea, and then plowed up and made mellow like an onion bed. Where it is desired to deflect a stream of rain across the “bed on a side-hill, instead of putting in a culvert;the tarheel scientist constructs a soft, wet ridge diagonally across the road, which resembles the new-made grave of a pathmaster, but unfortunately it is not. The loss on rolling stock here is easily 83 1-3 per cent., for I have kept an accurate account of it for three years, luring which time my wagons have been renewed. Landaus and Vietorias are not much used here, but a hickory crotch is‘ attached to an axletree of some hard and tenacious wood; a pair of cast off wheels from the wreck ot a four-wheéled wagon completes the trap, unless one should be highspirited and want a box, in which case a common quail trap is nailed on the axle. ’

Naturally the resident here is content with things as he finds them—or as they find him. Ifa wood tickora Buncoinbe county flea should attack a man who was born here, the man heaves a sigh, sceratches the place, and says to the insect without .passion: “Well, there! I hope now you are satisfied.” ; 1t is the same with the roads. Ifa chuck hole gets formed in the road and squirts a yellow stream into his whiskers, he waits -till “his whiskers dry and then he is ready for another dose. He also raises whiskers of 4 color which matches the clay. and so it is not noticed.. S

The corduroy road was also originated in this country. After several generations of corduroy, it is found that most of the people here are entirely destitute of kidneys, these features having been shaken loose and lost after many years of riding on corduroy roads. o But the material for making roads here is good. In fact, that is about all that it is good for. The stone is not good for building, and the soil is not capable of even raising a disturbance. Last year I put $103.85 into seeds, and $l5O into a gardener.. I also hired the ground plowed, and hired a night watchman to put ear-muffs on the ears of my sweet corn when the July frost struck -the mountains; and yet my flageolet string beans cost me §1 per dozen, and the accursed garden prevented my son’s graduation at the John Hopkins place. : ' The roads are in a sad plight after a long rain, and look like a mneglected candy pull. 1 feel very sadly this condition of affairs, for where the climate is so healthful that people under 115 years of age attract mo attention, it seems a sin to take our pullets to market aboard a roan heifer. We have a glorious climate the year round, and the people come here from the four corners of the earth to get rid of their tubercles; but the roads are so rough that one has to hold in his ‘broader principles’ with one hand and his appendicitis with the other for miles at a time. If congress— But that’s out of the question when congress hasbeen in perpetual session for a year, and has developed nothing but paresis. We must go to the polls this year, and the next, and the next, with good roads at the top [of our ticket, and live or die, elect only those men who promise wus upon] their sacred honor that this platform and this battle cry alone shall win. - ‘ . I'ta not much of a politician, but we had better stop sending Bibles to other nations until we have something to show for roads aside from a long cow trail of dead horses, bleached bones and turkey buzzards outliring a loudsmelling guagmire that a barbarian aud a cannibal would scorn to use as a war path.—Bill Nye, in Good Roads.

Sample of Yankee Ingenuiiy.

The way a Connecticut farmer utilizes water on his place may offer suggestions to some of our farmers. He has made a pond at the top of a ravine. Near by he has built cold storage houses for his fruit: The ice is taken right from the pond into the cold houses. The overflow from the pond is made to turn a wheel which provides power for churning, grinding and other farm. work, and then goes through ditches and troughs to Irrigate the land. There is no waste there, even of water, and that is the ideal plan for all farm operations.—Rural World. Bad Roads Cause Insanity. - A sclentist says: ‘''Bad roads cause insanity.” . No wonder the lunatic asylums of the country are ail full and running over. One of these days a plank will be inserted in political platforms in favor of ‘‘road reform,” and the politician who doesn’t stand upon it will get left. The country dopends for its wealth upon the farmors, and yet allows them mired upon impassable roads fully one-third of the year. It spends ¥18,000,000 this year to make good rivers for commerece, but not a dime for good roads.—Chicago

COLD STORAGE +OUSES.

A Pennsylvania Gentleman Makes Same “Timely Stuggestions. e

In fruit growmg, as in everything else, writes Judge Sitzel, in the Philadelphia Ledger, no one can expect to succeed who does not take an interest in his business. The future of fruit growing in this country is undoubtedly bright, and while there may not be fortunes for everybody, there is pleasure, at least, for all who embark in the pursunit. One of the most important adjuncts in the raising of fruits is the cold-storage house, by means of which fruit can be kept and put on the market when it will command the best: prices. The selling period can also be prolonged. On any wgll-inanaged fruit farm the cost of such a plant will soon be made from the profit. I have inspected houses that cost from $3OO to $7,000, and as a rule the small houses are not a success. Some years ago I had drawings prepared for one that cost $lOO, and the other $7,000. The larger had a capacity of about 8,000 barrels. Of this, the outside dimension was 40x55 feet; the outer wall was two feet deep and lined with cement. Next to this wasan air space of seven inches, and inside of this a charcoal lining of four inches. The storing room was divided into six departments entered from the vestibule through which entrance was | made by the outside. These doors were always kept carefully closed to prevent a sudden change of air. Spouting was arranged between the joists to carry off the water from the melting ice.” There was no ventilation in the storage room, except what was admitted through the entrance doors. The ice chambers had two large ventilators in the roof. The ice was covered with corn fodder or similar substance for protection. In the construction of fruit houses it is essential to build them strong. I have found that unripe berries can be preserved in their natural state a long time in jars filled with dry sand and sawdust and placed in the ground at a depth that would give an equaled temperature. An evenly cold tem- | perature is a reliable preventive of decay 1n fruit, and to this is due the success of the fruit house. If pears are ! properly handled and put in the fruit house wuntil the market is bare of those varieties twice the momney can be made. The same with vegetables and stone fruit. The temperature of a well-constructed fruithouse can be kept between thirty-two and forty degrees. What is true of cold storage of fruits way be said about cold storage for vegetables and milk products, as well as fresh meats. = We believe that ifl the farmers, of a township, for instance, would unite in building a farmers’ cold-storage house, wherein butter and fresh meats could be stored, that it would prove such a sueccess that the system would immediately become popular throughout the entire courtry. By this system there would be no need of rushing butter or vegetables upon the market when there was a glut, but they could be held in cold storage until such a time when they could be sold to the best advantage. o 1

TREE-SETTING DEVICE.

It Obviates a Difficulty Which Is Very . Annoying to Orchardists. - When the stake which is supposed to locate the exact spot where a tree should stand is pulled up to dig the hole it is often difficult to find the precise spot again. A device like that shown in the illustration obviates this difficulty. Two pieces of board, one two feet long and the other three feet long, are hinged together, a notch being cut in the end of the shortest piece. An upright stick- sharpened on s ; i ; 'E : =N ‘i, <TF—et e DEVICE FOR TREE SETTING. the lower end is run through the center of the longest board.' A peg is also placed in the end of the same piece to secure the device in the ground. It is used by placing the notech in the shorter end of the board, against the stake which locates the position of the tree. It is then turned back and the hole dug, after which the end is let down and the trée placed in the notch, when it is, of course, in the exact position previously occupied by the stake, and, if your measurements are correct, in a straight line with the other trees.—American Gardening.

FOOD FOR HOGS.

Different Rations and the Kind of Meas : They Produce.

Corn is ‘a standard food for hogs, though wheat is also excellent when soaked and mashed. Boiled potatoes and barley meal are considered to make the finest flavored bacon.

Cracked corn and wheat bran in equal parts, stirred in slops or pure water, is a most nutritious, healthful and fat-producing feed, but this should be alternated with dry corn every three or four days for best results, - When milk is given it should be fed with buckwheat bran or meal in order toavoid hardness and dryness of the lean meat which milk food produces. Pea-fed pork is a]so\hix_rd and dry. Sugar beets form an excellent ration if given occasionally in limited amounts, but too steady feeding is cloying. The flesh of pigs fed on clover pasture during the summer and afterwards finished with oats and paas, is excellent. . b f

Wood ashes or charcoal should be supplied to correct the acidity of the stomach, brought about by too exslusive grain feeding. It does this by the potash which it contains, and whiech a little further burning would develop into ash. It in this way aids digestion, and there is more in what the ‘hog digests than in what he eats.—N. Y. World. foa s !

IT may be best to sell the cow that is in fresh milk this fall if a heavy price be obtained, but if she is a good one and her calf a heifer, raise it. 1t pays to raise fall calves. Weil-fed they are right for a good start on next spring’s grass. But determine to keep them warm, as well as fall, this wine ter. 3 BB e CRE R Y

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

International Lesson for September 23, 1894—Daniel’'s Abstinence-~Daniel 1:8-80. [Specially Arranged from Peloubet's Notes.] GOLDEN TEXT.—Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself.—Dan. 1:8.

TIME.—B, q 605-3, The beginning of the seventy years’ captivity. . . . PLACE.—Babylon, on the Euphrates, five hundred miles eastof Jerusalem. T

RULERS.—Jehoiakim, king of Judah; Neb=uchadnezzar, of Babylon. . DANIEL.—At this time fourteen years old, born at Jerusalem, of noble parentage, carried captive to Babylon, where he lived all the seventy years' captivity. A great.statesman, a learned scientifie man, a true prophet of the noblest character, he lived at least till B. C, 534, and died at the age of eighty-filve or more.

VICTORY OVER TEMPTATION.

The Captives.—We learn from the verses previous to the lesson that King Nebuchadnezzar ordered that from among the captives should be selected a number from the highest families, and such as should give the best promise of talent and ability to be trained in the language and literature of the Chaldeans. The object of this selection was that they should be held as hostages. Four were selected from the Jewish captives, the chief of whom was Daniel. The others were the Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who afterwards were cast into the fiery furnace and escaped unharmed. - - The Temptation.—*‘Purposed . . . that he would not defile himself with the . . . king’smeat:” What wasthe wrong in eating the king’s food? (1) The dietary might comprise articles of food, such as the flesh of swine, hares, etc., which the law interdicted to the Israelites (Lev. 2). (2) The flesh may not have been perfectly cleansed from blood, so as to be allowed by the Jewish law (Deut. 12:23-25). Jews, even at this day, have their own butchers, and regard as unclean the meat prepared in the ordinary way. (3) The universal custom among the heathen of consecrating each meal by offering a portion of it to their idols and pouring out libations of wine in their honor. (4) The luxurious diet provided by the king would corrupt the body and diminish the vigor of the mind. ‘‘Nor with the wine:” He has probably seen (1) its effect on others; (2) the bad company and danger into which it led. Probably these were far worse at Babylon than in Palestine. :

Tempted to What.—The four captives were tempted (1) to do that which was debasing and degrading; (2) to disobey the law of their God; (3)to deny their religion and God, and yield to the popular idolatry of the day; and (4) thus to be recreant to their country, and their nation, and- all the promises and hopes which belonged to them. - . . Temptation by What.—(l) By appetite. The love of the king's luxuries and wines. (2) By their ambitions and hopes of success. How could they expect to succeed with a heathen king, when they were so set in a religion which condemned him and his conduct? (3) By the king’s command. Why ¢hould they not yield as to an inevitable necessity—their very life might depend upon it. (4) By the love of popularity. Their course would make them appear odd, and subject them toridicule, and bring them into many troubles. (5) They were tempted by theirchange of names. (See v. 5.) Their own names were all compounded with the name of God. Daniel=God is my judge; Hananiah— God is gracious; };\’lishéel=This is as God; Azariah=God is a helper. The new names were compounded with those of royalty or of idols. Daniel was named Belteshazzar—favored by Bel or Beltis, the great Babylonian god and goddess. These changes were doubtless made as one means of transforming them into Chaldean heathen, and to lead them to forget their country and their God. i 5 ‘

Note- that the temptation is not merely to strong drink. That is but one of the strongest and most visible of temptations.. The temptation is to every bodily appetite and every wrong feeling of the mind. The question with every young person is: ‘‘What shall rule? What shall be king and sit on the throne of my heart?” Shall passion and appetite control my nature, subdue my conscience, guide my life and decide my future? Or shall conscience, and reason, and love to God and man control my body, and govern my whole lower nature? What rules the soul decides its quality and its destiny. The only way to be safe against the temptation to strong drink'is to subdue all the bodily appetites, and make God our king, and his love our life.

THE DUTY OF TEMPERANCE

1. One fundamental principle of temperance is not to defile ourselves. 2. Temperance is not merely total abstinence from all that can intoxicate, but from all excess, all wrong use of the appetites, all indulgence in that which defiles or injures the body. - 3. It is our duty to care for the health of the -body, because it is a temple of the Holy Ghost and d4n instrument for doing God’s work. i 4. The advantage of temperance has been tested by a multitude of facts. TEMPERANCE AND ITS ALLIES, THE WAY

OF SUCCESS.

1. God’s favor to those who'love and obey Him. e e . 2. Good character, strong, true. to principle, upright, overcoming temptation. e :

3. Amiability, courtesy, wisdom in dealing with others et L 4. True religion that trusts in God, and does right under all circumstances. 5. Diligence and faithfulness 'in study, and preparation for life’s work. 6. Temperance, and care for the health of the bodv. - Y

FARM NOTES. ' " Tox flesh of the donkey is said to be excellent eating, being as delicate in texture as the finest mutton, with the flavor of roast pork. : EvERY indication now points to a good demand for all classes of improved stock, and the old experience is that the masses prefer to buy when prices are high. : Grese do not arrive at maturity until their third year, but are long-lived. When full-grown, geese will weigh from twelve to eighteen pounds when dressed.. ' _ o Tue proper time to cut clover is when the heads are all in blossom. 1f cut too early it is watery and if left until the heads are brown, the second growth will be checked. ; ' Or the 47,000,000 sheep in the United States, Ohio possesses the largest number—4,4oo,ooo; Texas and California stand respectively second and third, the latterdbeing credited with 4,200,000, Ix Paris the dead horses are sold to the proprietors of the great poultrybreeding establishments in the neigh‘borhood, who make them -into fineiy minced, highly spiced and ‘nutritious poultry food. o -

- ;THE U. S. Government Chemists have * . reported, after an examination of the different brands, that the ROYAL Bak= ing Powder is absplutely pure, greatest - in strength, and giperior;' to all others. | ROVAL BAKING POWDER COMPANY, 106 WALL ST.NEW-YORK,

Mgs. Porrs—‘You have just been thrown out of work, eh?’ Everett Wrest—! 'Scuse me, I didn’t saf' I'd been t'rown out of work; I said I had been trun out of de works — workhouse, seet’'—lpdianapolis Journal. - o

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(with two dollars added) will be made by Tuar WABASH LINE, to &;)ints in twenty-one States of the great est, Northwest and Southwest, for the Homeseekers’ Excursion, September 11th and 20th, and October 9th, 1894. Don’t forget the dates, and that these rates will apply to Kansas City, Omaha, Denver and other prominent cities. Tickets will be good returning twenty days from date of sale. Stop-over privileges allowed. For full particulars a%pl{ to the nearest railroad ticket. office of the Wabagh or eonnecting lines, or to C. S. CRANE, Gen’l Passenger and Ticket Agent, St. Louis, Mo. -~ -

THE devil is always polite upon first acquaintance.—Ram’s Horn. .

< . THE MARKETS. - L NEW YORK, Sept. 17. LIVE STOCK —Catt1e........ 2% @ 530 Sheep: ... ...l BES @3D HOPS . laesiseey o 840 (@ 808 FLOUR—Minnesota Patents. 330 @ 360 City Mills Patents........ 400 @ 415 WHEAT—N0.2Red............ 9%%@ ©58% No. 1 N0rthern............ 62.@ . 63 CORN-No. 2 ... e 64 @ @ 64% September.....i cevere con. 2@ 63 OATS - NO. 2.. sessrionesisins M B RYBE-State........cciviiiiien 58 @ 54 PORK-—-Mess, NeW......5..... 1550 @l6 00 LARD—Western. .............. 915 @ 920 BUTTER--Western Creamery 15 @ . 24% Wiestern Dairy....-c.. 00l B @ I : CHICAGO. e BEEVES—Shipping Steers.. § 10 @ 625 CGOWSL v 125 @ 390 Stockers: . .viiisiasaaiani 190 @ 275 PBOACTES oiuvi i meansngvns - 2600 (@ Sd9 Butchers’ 5teer5........... 28. @ 350 Bulls. .o i i s LBO ) H D HOGES . ook e 8o SHEBEP. ... oo i ge. 1.400@ 3080 - BUTTER —Creamery......... 4 @ 245 DALY o e 1% 20 BEGGS—Fresh.... (..viciviciis 15 @ 16 BROOM CORN (per ton)— o : Self W0rking.............. 8003 @ 80 00, - New Dwarl. ... 11000 @ LIS ) AL HarlGL . s i il 90008 (RO D EPOQEATOES (per bu) so) 60 @ 82 PORK-—MESS....ocucve rsveeas 1400 @ 1471234 LARD-_Steam ... o 880 @ 883 FLOUR—Spring Patents.... 320 @ 390 . Spring Straightsei.on.o: 2200 260 Winter Patents. oo ... 280 @ 290 Winter Straights.......s. 240 @ 260 GRAIN-—=Wheat, No, 2 Red.. aßly@ - 634 Corn, N 0 2., s iviivvenes D43{@o 5514 Oats NO 8.... iv vt 30%@ 30 ; Bye No. 2o . ieaidii. 47 @ -47 k Barley, No. 2o iwiidaciiy £D (@ . .bbt LUMBER— biv e Plece Stuff...ccocvieiviann 600 @ 995 - _ Jolsts s 1228 a 2 B TIMDEIR oo ks onsvit cviaviis 97 @ 1000 Hemilock . isocinaiiiaeoaes 62 @ 650 TathiDry.. vit 100 1 sShingles: oot 12 @R 00 : . < ST. LOUIS, : CATTLE—Texas Steers...... 260 @ 28 Native Steers. ... ivvvvee 2256 @ 260 HOGS .. .. . iiiiiiiead 40 6 68 SHEEP-.. . ...........cin 200 @ 3 : OMAHA. : L CATTLE—Steers ..cc.c.,civvec 200 @ 409 TEEAETS | v iiigen. 225 @2 WY HOCS o aasiie... b 4 @ 628 SHERP 1. ciieeis sesniviasess 2050 @ 8 100

THE ONWARD MARCH of donsum]ption is _stopsed. short by Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. ’lf you haven't waited begond reason, there's complete recovery and ctire. In those scrofulous conditions of the blood w_hxchﬂ invito Consumption; in severe, lingering Coughs, and Weak Lungs, this medicine is a proved - remedy. Mrs. SARAH S. SNEED, ! ‘ of Clio, Iredell Co., # /5 N.C.,writes: “My ,\‘f/‘//'\(g( <= gau%lxteg' w?g l?mt atG THENNNY acked w neu’,ffif‘;"/‘.‘/m/"{i‘i*\\» \\\‘ monia and gleur?sy in, A \Q,\‘ very bad form and. b AR was then taken with a 7~ \M verybad cough, which - © kept growing worse i 3 ) imiworse, gnt%hﬁnall; - seemed as thoug ek ’//) s%e hmfn consumption oS oy very bad. The phyy sicians prescribed Cod N ] liver oil, but to no TR, / benefit. I procured S two bottles of Dr. e Piierﬁtie's Golden I(\ile%{cal Discovery and ghe Miss M. H. SNEED. grow better. She basn’t felt any return o lun% disease in over twelve months. She was nothing but a skele= ton when she took tne'ﬂrst dose, and to-day she weighs 185 pounds. " . W. L. DoucLAaSs 3 OE IS THE BEST. 5 ) NO SQUEAKING g=. %5 CORDOVAN, g ™ FRENCH&ENAMELLEDCALF " 82\ *4.’3SOFINECALF&KANGARDD. gr . | 1330 zi’%bﬁl;ks SOLES. 7| | gpsoPe. WORKINGY & | $2.%1.75 BoYSSCHODLSHOES. —7/ el s - 'LAP lES - ' X $552§.952. 175 cor 4 T 4 O BesTDITERA &0\ & PR SEND FOR CATALOGUE A ONNNEY We L DOUGLAS, IR BROCKTCN, MASS. - You con save moncy by wearing the W. L. Donglas $3.00 Shoe, Because, we are the largest manufacturers of this grade of shoes in the world, and guarantee their value by stamping the name and price on the bottom, which protect you against high pricesand the middleman’s profits. Our shoes equal custom work in style, easy fitting and wearing qualities. We have them sold everywhere atlower prices for the value given than any other make. Take no substitute. If your dealer cannot supply you, we can.

"SHE KNOWS WHATS WHAT™ | QEVER AR . ”a\ BECAUSE ITS THE BEST. PUREST & MOST ECONOMICAL | . R SOLD EVERYWHERE &7/ "~ THENKFAIRBANK GOMPANY, Crucaco. THE POT INSULTED THE KETTLE BECAUSE - THE COOK HAD NOT USED GOOD COOK_ING DEMANDS CLEANLINESS _ SAPOLIO SHOULD BE useDp IN EVERY KITCHEN,

Dooror—*‘The pellets I left were to produce sleep. Did they: have that effecti” Patient—‘Yes, indeed; the nurse never wakened once during the night.”- -

- QUITE naturally, it is the man of seae soned intelléct and ripe experience who does not seem fresh. : ‘

Youxa people ‘who have courted in Bociety go on bridal trips to see how they like each other. - G .

_ Give others justiceand if you are able and kind you might do a little more than that for them.—Galveston News. - . ,

- Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. = Price 75c.

. RO R o : £ oo ’ > AL : £ ™ BN N e W NS 2N il - KNOWLEDGE . Brings comfort and improvement and tends. to gexsonal enjoyment when rightly used. * The many, who live better than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adaptings_the world’s best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in- the remedy, Syrup of Figs. v _ Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable.and pleasant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect laxative ; effectually cleansing the system, ‘dis&)elling-coms, headaches and fevers and permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels without weakening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. -Syrup of Figs is for sale by all druggists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered.

WALTER BAKER & GO : - The Largest Manufacturers of , PURE, HICH GRADE X, COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES . s}} NOn this Continent, have received ERISTEI SPECIAL AND HIGHEST - S AWARDS ,ﬂ xlﬁ\‘} on all their Goods at the , y Ir%“‘\ CALIFORNIA . Jil |7 I[{\ MIDWINTER EXPOSITION.) f 00) | | Y imner BREAKFAST COGOA, »L-, N ! i '“7 A_\V}ﬂch, unlike the Dutch Process, S gk iPI i made without the use of Alkalies J R ,__., eOT oihqr Chemicals or Dyes, is absoe : WCEP™ Titely pure and soluble, and coats less than one ¢ent & c'ux_xq s '/{'. - §OLD_ BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE.. i/§ " WALTER BAKER & G 9. DORCHESTER, MASS. : 7 e = 0% & 2 '-“: ;.é o N Ho 2 /a¢~§£§%ﬁﬁéﬁﬁ s ik o FOR DURABILITY,ECONOMY-AND FOR | GENERAL BLACKING IS UNEOU%!.LED.{ HAS AN ANNUAL SALE OF 3.000 TONS. % WE ALSO MANUFACTURETHE Ty SUNPASTE STOVEPOLISH| FOR AN AFTER DINNER SHINE,ORTO " TOUCH UP SPOTS WITH A CLOTH %AKES NO DUST, IN 5&10 CENT TIN BOXES. - THE ONLY PERFECT PASTE, Marse Bros,ProP's. CANTON,Mas<. ANER 1518 WHEN WRITING TO AI)VERTISERS PLEASE state that you saw the Advertjeement in this ' paper. ( : i@;‘l,.., o PRIy L-r- — " % S P IBOISICUREIFOR: 5@ Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use FN U“D'l » ﬁ@. Sold by _o\ ,ﬁfv& ’ - B eN T