Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 45, Ligonier, Noble County, 21 February 1895 — Page 3

FARM AND GARDEN. S Gee——— "ROADS IN VIRGINIA, Mr. D. O. Nourse Tells How They Might . ' Be Improved. . Mr. D. O. Nourse, the agriculturist and farm superintendent of Virginia experiment station, has just published a bulletin relating to the roads of that state—*‘if,” as he says, ‘‘the tracks over which we are obliged to trayel may be dignified by the name of roads”—in which he makes a strong plea for placing the building and repair of earth roads in the hands of persons who understand how to do suc'}l\) work in accordance with correctprinciples. What is wanted is an engineer or overseer for each county, to be paid a regular salary, who would, ## a man of honor, be jealous of his reputation, and.good roads wpuld be the result. Such an officer oguld, in a few years,'by keeping a sufficient numbgr of teams and employing men used to the work who would be becoming better workmen year by year, bujld up & department that would be a credit to the community. It is no wonder that roads are poor when contracts are let to persons ‘who hardly know a good rodd from a "bad .one —for it is just as necessary toknow how to build a highway as itis to build a railroad. A few fundamental prineiples in the building-and maintenance of earth roadsare given. . | + 1. A common error is that of attempting to repair without first removing the cause of the trouble. Drainage must be first attended to, as itis simply impossible to make a road bed -to stand if the drainage is bad. ‘‘We have seen on one of- the most traveled roads the water run for half'a mile in the wheel and horse tracks, when perhaps the taking out of a stump or one blast of’ rock would remove all obstructions and allow good gwiters,” YWater must be kept out of the road\at nll hazards and this must first, last and always be by the conduits at each side. ' ¢ Water never runs up hill. Oftén ‘the. gutters are sufficiently good’in every respect except that the slope is in the wrong direction. The eye isnot always a true evidence of slope of ground, as the topography of the land may be such that the fall is more apparent than real. Apply the test of the simple level. o © 3. Asaferuleis to place bridges or culverts wherever there is a depression in thé road; and unless the water may be conveyed to fields on each side, 2 culvert must be made in the lowest spot, carrying the water across the road. S

4. Whenever a- mud hole is formed in 2n earth road, it should never be filled with a lot ¢f stones, as this is almost certain to make two mud holes instead of one. Tirst remove the mud and water from the puddle, and then take earth as nearly of the same nature as the roadbed as possible and pound this into the hole firmly, so that wheels may pass over it at once without sinking into it. It sHould be filled somewhat hi@ae’x‘{than surrounding portions to allow forjsettli‘ﬁg.

5. Give the road bed the proper slope.. I Never allow it ‘to be too flat, or lower | in the middle than at the sides. A section of road should, if cut transversely, present an arc in shape, sloping from the center to each side. This, of ¢ourse, is to prevent water from standing on.! the surface.’ 4 i ' 6. Do not ‘make roads too wide or' too narrow. If too wide they becoms very expensive to keep in repair, and if too narrow the gutters become obstructed from wagons running intothem. In general theserulesapply with equal force to earthor rock roads, as, if # rock roadis to be made, these principles must first be carried out. The ildea may appear absurdly simple, but there are thousands of instances in which they. are utterly disregarded in roadbuilding and repairs, and hence are the more necessary.— American ‘' Agriculturist. Lo i ; 2

NOTES FOR GARDENERS.

MAEgING a hot bed is not a very great task and,it advances the season weeks sometinfes, when the spring happens to be late. . . i ;

WirH a good garden there is health and variety of food, both very desirable, not to speak of the saving in household expenses. ; PuT an extra coat of soil; or what is better, a coat "of coarse manure, over the potato and turnip pits before more severe weather comes. : LeEvEL culture is best for almost every crop. Hilling up is often disastrous in a dry season, where level culture would have succeeded.

It does not hurt cabbages that are buried to freeze once, but if allowed to freeze and thaw and freeze again, it is spoiled. "’rAfter the ridge is frozen through, cover it with straw and it will not thaw out until spring.

A WELL KEPT garden is an ornament to any farm. and tells the passing stranger that the owner is proud of his profession and who believes in having the comforts of life when they can be gotten as easily as a supply of garden stuff can. . - Wl

Ir sods are cut into squares a foot each way and placed upside down on a hot bed or cold frame and seeds planted in them tlre plants, when large enough to transplant, may be lifted with the sods and |set in the garden without stopping }ﬁowth. It this way we have transplanted beans, cucumbers and many other things that are not usually transplanted.~Springfield $O.) Farm News. ok g

How to Grow Cabbages.

In'my experience, cabbages are most economically grown by giving ~only a moderate manuring of farm-yard manure, and then applying repeated dressings of nitrate of soda. This can be most eheaply and effectively done by dropping a small quantity near the root of each plant, where 1 ewt. per acre will do a 8 much good ‘as 3 ¢wt. sown broadcast or along the drill. This should be done as soon as the plants have' theroughly begun to grow, and should be repeated at intervals of three or four weeks, until the crop thorough1y covers the ground. In this way you may economically expend from 3 ewt. to 4 ewt. of nitrate of soda per. acre, and I think you will find it more profitable than depending on the dew.—Rural World. : AL Tuaberculin Test 1n Canada. ¢ 'The Canadian minister of agriculture thas ordered that all eattle entering any of the quarantine stations shall be - mgjecud to the tuberculin test. One ~wvaluable bull was found to be affected ‘with tuberenlosis, and the owner was fiven the alternative of having him slaughtered without compensation or returning him to the Uuited States, ‘Whencebe pme. .

SPLENDID WEIL SIPHON.

Now in Use on a Well-Conducted Dalry ; Farm jn Ohio.

During a recent visit to the home and farm of Mr. A. W. Evans, some very interesting faets came up, well worthy of mention. He s a common, practical farme#, but an- air of thrift seems to pervfge all the surroundings and efforts of this worthy Quaker and his wife. . /

A splendid herd of Jerseys that average in test 5.4 at the neighboring creamery, headed by a first-class, purebred St. Lambert bull, were ruminating lazily over the flelds. A brand new silo, filled just recently, stood like a tall sentinel against the cow barn, as a manifesto that dairying had come to stay at that home. He was in the icehouse, still containing plenty of ice for use in preserving the milk over two days, thus saving a trip to the creamery except every other day, the distance being considerable. A well-bal-anced ration of the best grains is fed to these cows the year round, and to a very good profit, too. : My eye was attracted by a lowwheeled. truck, constructed from four wheels of two old mowing machines,

5& o il o == & ; "f;'m Eéﬂ%r?~t—"‘ I L S i T Hh 18 I () X ‘ \ :“._ = | B H=—— ! c,%f SEooqge—————l—-————= | e ‘\f =——= E s — %3' ; Fia. 1, : one pair higher than the other, similar ‘ to a common wagon. This truck was more used upon the farm for most of the hauling than the ordinary wagon, because of its broad tire and low plat--form. : i : The most attractive feature we have to speak of we found ‘in his cow stable, directly in front of his cows. This was ! a watering device that is novel and | useful. Itis not possible for all to ar- | ‘range such a convenient contrivande, ! yet very many can, and hence 1 shall | illustrate the plan and describe it. ‘ - The whole arrangement is nothing | short of a siphon from his house well to the barn, and it works like a charm, ' the bottom of the well being some. two | feet higher than the point of delivery | lin the stable. A pipe one inch in di-' |

- L ST, e ek ! tf’" i~ == — i 3 E—;’i:;:; | S e v FIG. 2. ) dmeter was inserted in the well within one foot of the bottom, elbowed at A, Fig. 1, and connected with a horizontal pipe passing through wall into a trench two feet deep. About four feet from well wall a T union was put on, as indicated in Fig. 1, with an upright pipe extending one foot above ground. This pipe is used to fill up the pipe from bottom of well to the stable, then plugged up with a tap screw, B, putin perfectly air tight. ; : ; - The point C, Fig. 2, is an ordinary half-turn stopcock with a rod extending eighteen inches above ground or floor, passing through a six-inch box which lets on the flow of water or cuts it off. At Dis another half-turn stopcock which acts as a drain pipe to keep frost from freezing water in pipe at E. This stopcock is closed when water is to be drawn for use. ' I omitted to state that a valve (V) is necessary at the bottom of pipe in well, while filling. - This valve should be loosely put in with a wire (W) from : { y £SRot et }-ﬁm M‘éw : & FiG. 3. - i top attached, to draw it up. Fig. 3 shows this valve more clearly. After the pipe is full the opening of the coclk starts the water to flow as a siphon, and it will contiuune to flow indefinite-ly,-as long as the air is excluded from the pipe, until the well is drained, but subject to the will of the operator in opening the stopcoek at C, or closing it. A device of this character, where possible to operate it, is equal toa running spring and betteér than a windmill. Persons once in possession of such watering conveniencess in their stables are loath to even think of _doing without them. They become a practical part of their profitable operations and add hou¥s of real pleasure to their daily labors.—Ohio Farmer.

| ABOUT BITTER MILK. %’ : iU'sna.lly Caused by 111-Health and Poor Condition of the Blood. i Several readers have -written complaining that the milk of;their cows is bitter after standing a<few hours or a single day and that the feed used is of the best, clean and wholesome. Some of the cows have been in but a few months others will be fresh within three months. : Cows that have been in bui a few 'months, are properly fed, pave pure water, free aceess to all the salt they wish and give milk that is bitter without being tainted by contact with outside surroundings, may be in ill-health which affects the condition of the blood. : . The best remedy for this trouble if produced by the blood being out of condition is to give a pound of sulphate of | soda (glauber salts) or of sulphate of magnesia (epsom salts), dissolved in warm water, by means of a common drenching horn or long-necked ‘l‘)zttle; and after this has operated, 2 daily dose of one ounce of hyposulphite of soda may be given with good results, forl two weeks. This latter i 8 readily taken, by most cows, when powdered and sprinkled ‘ over a mess ¢f scalded bran or in other | feed.—Western Rural. | When Objection Should Cense. "1 Whenever a township has plenty of gravel, or can get it cheaply, it should mprove its roads. The objection to ‘road improvement on account of great ‘expense shonld not be carried to an ~extent that will prevent road improvement when 1t oan be done a 6 Little ex-

'~ Story of the Sseds. - % Onellove;” a pretty face - Bending o'er the grate; ; * Two Ilove,” a soft, sweet voice Measures out her fate. “Three Ilove, I say,"” and stiil o Other seeds galore; - “TFour Ilove with all my heart,”. ‘What need is there of more? * Five I cast away’’—Ah, no! Fortune thus were wrong. Should the count thus ended be! ' Love's ties are too strong. ; ¢ Six he loves,” a dimpled smile; ** Seven she loves,’”’ a blush; * Eight both love;’’ a sweet look steals O’er the fair face filush. : * Nine he comes;” ‘‘he tarries ten,” - ¢ Eleven he courts’’—but wait! ; Anxious search has failed to find The seed where rests her fate. : : Carefully she looks them o’er, Then, as brow grows light; : “ Twelve he marries. Meroy!l I - *Nearly died from fright!" ! ; —J. O. Robinson, in Puck. ' The Coming of Night. A gray hand out of the paling west Makes shadowy passes o'ér meadows green; The frightened color fades from their breast, As life and love leave a soul to rest : ~ When the shadow of death is seen. The young leaves shiver; from earth a sigh Follows the touch of those fingers chill; All song is hushed; the wee birds cry 'Neath mother’s wings, as an owl flits by, And she tenderly tucks them closer still. —Elizabeth Ferguson Seat, in S. S. Times Magnanimity. To the ivy said the oak: * Half my majesty you cloak, Half my power and pride efface! ° You are beauteous, yet I vow That I tire, through bole and bough, Of your burdening embrace.”’ . From the heavens a wild storm broke. Gashed with lightning the grand oak, . Then in roars of wrath withdrew. But the pitying ivy twined Round the great tree’s ruined rind, And so veiled its blight from view! —Edgar Fawcett, in Youth's Companion.

RATES FOR CLERGYMEN. A number of the eastern railroads hawv« ing on January 1, 1895, changed their rules regarding the issue of reduced rates to clergymen, and unauthorized statements as to thereasons for making the change having been published, considerable correspondence between the clergy and the railroads has resulted. The recent letter from Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, President of the New York Central, corrects certain erroneous impressions and states that company’s position in the matter very clearly. The letter is as follows: New York Central and Hudson River Rallroad Co., Grand Central Depot, ) : NEW YORK, January 19, 1805. Rev. Newton J. Conklin and H. H. Stebbins, D. D., Conunittee. - : : GENTLEMEX.—I am in receipt of your letter of January 15th, enclosing the resolutions of the Presbyterian Ministers’ Association of Rochester. The resolutions are based upon a misapprehension of the faects. The press dispatch announcing that the New York Central had withdrawn the ministerial half-rate tickets ‘‘because some of the ministers had abused the privilege, loaning their permits to unauthorized persons, and sometimes even

selling them,” was wholly unauthor- i ized. No such information or notice was given to the pressor to anyone else by any officer of this company. There was also an interview reported with me or this subject, making similar, if not more serious charges, but no such intetview ever took place. - I deeply regret the publicity which was given to this matter and the discussion which has grown out of it before we had really arrived at what was the-best policy for this company aund its associates in- the Trunk Line Asso-. ciation to pursue. It had been developed that very great abuses existed in the issuance and use -of the so-called ministerial ticket. It was not, however, the fault of the ministers. So faras I can ascertain, no clergyman of any church has been guilty of any impropriety in the use of this privilege. Like most departures from regular rules, this one led after awhile to serious demoralization of passenger rates. The privilege of the ministerial order became extended to all persons who had ever been ordained as clergymen, whether they still had any. charge or ‘performed any ministerial services or not. Many who had gone into business | claimed and received the order. Then it was extended to missionaries and officers of the Salvation Army, of the Y. M. C. A.,and of other religious or semi-religious organizations. This enabled railway officials who desired to do so to issue the half-rate ticket to almost anybody. ‘ : I am sorry to say that some railways do not treat theiragreements with each other with the same sense of honorable obligation which the officers would observe in their individual transactions. We were amazed to discover that in order to increase their business without apparently cutting the rates a few of the roads placed the ministerial tickets in scalpers’ offices for sale. = In this way they came into the hands of the general ~public. It frequently oécurred that the conductor, when calling upon some passenger whom he did not think was ‘& minister ;to produce the ministerial order which every clergyman carried, ’was met by a flat refusal, simply because the passenger was not a ‘minister, had no order and had received or purchased- the ticket in some one of the ways which I have described. Or, the conductor would find that under the guise of a missionary or an officer of one of these organizations he had received the order and ticket or else had bought a ticket which some one who could not be vouched for asa clergyman awith a charge had secured, and thenvplaced in a scalper’s office for sale. Of course the essential principle at the bottom of the relations between the railways and the publicis that everybody shall be treated alike; that the railway fare shall be like the postsge of the government, the same to everyone who boards the train and becomes a passenger between the same points. The wisdom of the prohibition of discriminations in favor of one person as against another, or of one shipper as against ‘another, or of one locality as ‘against another, is now universally admitted, and is incorporated in the rail‘way laws. ahl » “ ~ The ministerial ticket was issued at. a reduced rate, notas an act of charity, as some have alleged, but because it was believed that the clergy and the chureh performed an essential service which was felt throughout the vast employment of these corporations. Personally, I would be very glad if the privilege could be continued under | restrictions whicli would confine it ~within legitimate bounds. You will see, however, from the explanations which | Lhave given, how difficult a problem " Youmverytraly, (Bigned! Cmauscey M. Dueew, > Sdany Argus.~+Jan. 49, 169%

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. | ey - | ; % - Inzernational Lesson for February 24, 1898 —Christ and the Blind Man—John 9:1-11. [Specially Arranged trom Peloubet's Notes,] GOLDEN TEXT.—I am the light of the world. —John 9:5. 5 3 TiME.—A Sabbath (v. 14). in October, A. DD. 29; probably soon after the feast of tabernacles referred to in 7:2.° Andrews places this just before our last lesson. f Jesus.—Nearly thirty - three years old, toward the close of the third year of His ministry, about six months before His cruclﬂxiin. . CIROUMSTANCES.—After the transfiguravion, in the summer of A. D. 29, Jesus returned slowly to Galilee, teaching His disciples by the way. We find Him next at Capernaum (Les. VL). Inthe autumn Jesus went to Jerusalem to attend the feast of tabernacles, which that year began October 11. The discourses of Jesus at that time, as He walked around the oity and temple, are recorded in John 7 and 8, It wason one of His walks that He met the blind man of to-day's lesson. ' { LESSON NQTES. . | Blindness is specially frequent in tbe east. While in northern Europe there is only one blind in a thousand, |in Egypt there is one in every hundred; indeed, very few persons have their eyes quite healthy. The causes are (1) the sudden changes in temperature and light; (2) the intense brightness of the sun, and (3) the fine dust in the air/of those sandy countries. : |

His Threefold Affliction.—(l) He was blind. Consider what a terrible %ﬂ blindness is; of how large a part of all that is happy and blessed in life it deprives one; how it darkens and nfrrows the life; how 'little of beauty can come in; how many avenues of leaming it closes up. Mr. Ruskin says that ‘“the greatest thing a human soul ever dpes in this world is to see something, and to tell what it sees in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think; but thousands c¢an think- for one who can see. -To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.” (2) He was helpless. There was almost nothing which a blind person could do in trxat country. This man| could neither|remove his blindness nor support hfimself. He must be dependent on |his friends, and little it was they could| do for him. (3) He was poor; a b]!ind beggar (v. 8) by the gate of Jerusalem. The False Charge Against- His Character.—2. “And His disciples asked Him, saying.” This question grew out of the fact that it was: the common opinion among .the Jews that e‘fer'y trouble and misfortune was ‘the direct result of some special sin. ‘“Who did sin, this man, or his parents?” f : . The disciple’s question brings up| the old question discussed by the friends of Job. They assumed that dll suffering is & punishment of sin, for how can a FS'& God send suffering upon the good? o do so would be rank injusFice. What! punish the. innocent? For|Job to declare that he was innocent, ’“Thile suffering so bitterly, was to charge/God with injustice. - There is this trutr in their argument, that sin always results in suffering, and that some suffering is the fruit of sin. But the belief that every affliction is the direct punish)}nent for some special sin, and that we can judge of the moral and spiritual ;:Ifndition of any person by the calamities that befall him, or by the outward success and blessings that crown his aays, tends to several great evils; (I)fselfcomplacency and spiritual pride; k 2) to uncharitable judgment of others, and (3) to hopelessness and despair on the part of the afflicted, instead of learning the lessons affliction is intended to teach. ; fi

Jesus’ Answer to the Charge.—Jesus answered: ‘‘Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents!”i. e., soas/to be the cause of the blindness. Our Lord does not deny the existedce of sin either in this’ man or in his parents.— Godet. Nor does He deny that through sin all evil came into the worli‘,ﬁbut only that this ‘blindness was not the punishment for any particular sin in either the man himself or his parents. Christ the Light of the World.-—The light of the world is the sun, and the sun is a perpetual illustration of what Jesus is doing in the moral world, The: rays from the sun are of three kinds, different from ome another prgbably only as to the length of the waves of which they are composed. (1) Light rays. Nearly all the light we receive comes from the sun. Even the moonlight is but reflected sunlight. Even when we are in°the shade, or in the house, where we cannot see the sun, the light we receive is sunlight, dispersed from the particles in the air, reflected from all things around us; even the light of our lamps and ®gas burners is but sunlight which has been stored up in the earth. So t is that all our spiritual [light,, ifrom whatever sources it seems to come is really from God. Our white sunlight is really composed of thousands of colors, shades and tints, which. ﬁll the world with beauty. Such varietg is in the pure light from Christ, reflected from our manifold natures, needs and circumstances. The light drives away darkness, shows the way, makes clear Heaven, goodness, God, the future; it fills the world with beauty and | glory. (2) Heat rays: Nearly all the £eat in the world comes directly or indirectly from the sun. The fires that warm us and that are the source of pewer are. from the wood or coal in which the heat of the sun has been stored.r Such is God’s love to us in Jesus [Christ, bringing cheer, warmth and bljessing. (3) Chemical rays, which aect| upon plants, and cause the movements of Jlife. These rays are in a setise the source of life, the instrumentality of life. So Christ is the sdtrce of ot\r spir(itual life. Light, love and life all come i from Him, as the bringer of lig#ht\a.n’d i truth from the Father of lichts o . SR WOMEN IN .BUSINESS. Miss ELreENe A. BAILEY, 61 New York, has invented and put upon the market about thirty useful articles. ' Miss ErlzaßeETH POLHEMUS, a, bright young California woman, abousﬂ twenty years of age, is qualifying herself as a pilot for ocean vessels entering the harbor of San Diego. In eight motths she expects to pass the required examination. L e MuE. CARRE, a business-like ‘ French woman, is the private ‘secretarj of Col. Waring, New York’s street ¢leaning commissioner, Mme. Carre speaks and writes fluently English, French and German and has some knowledge of Italian. Mrs. HARRIET DUTERTE, a | colored woman, is one of the most sucgessful undertakers in Philadelphia. She has carried on the business for abont tiven-ty-five years. She furnishes hearses, carriages, and all the requisites for fommnly. - - o W | Mns. L. A, STARKWEATHER, of Kansas City, one of the first women solicitors of life insurance, says she finds ne dificulty in inducing women to insure. It is much easier than to insure men. Reo~cently in one month she wrote $211,S e et s eS e e T

Conscience. » With sightless eyes but sunny face - She sat and plied her busy thread; What charm was there about the place? What had she there—besides her lace?! “I have my thoughts.” she said. . With pallid chéek and starting eye A wretch lay cowering on his bed; The bars were stroang, the walls were high, What should he fear, with no one nigh? l. “I have my thoughts,” he said. ; =William A. Caldwell, in Youth's Companion. | ; Sty : : | Charity’s Emblem. - Think not that whoso with a harsh hand .- ! Doth shower kis gold upon expectant need . Has therefore done a worthy, noble deed, - And earned the dignity of being grand. s No charity is that which d_wellsiapart : ‘ . From sacrifice and love to fellow man; All kindness, since the very world began, *Was fostered first within some loving heart. g -—Keyes Becker, in Ram's Horn. THE GREAT GERMAN COFFEE BERRY. Coffee at one-centapound,that is what it costs to grow it, good coffee, too, Some say that it'is better than Rio. This we know, while in Europe last summer in search of seed novelties we often drank thisin hotels in France, Holland and Germany. . ‘Thirty-five packages earliest vegetable seeds, $1 00, not 3 cents per package. Largest growers of farm seeds as oats, grass and clover, corn and potatoes, ete., in the world. Early heavy yielding vegetables our specialty.

IF YOU WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND IT with 15¢ postage to the John, A. Salzer Seed company, J.a€rosse, Wis., you will get free a package of their GERMAN CorFEE BERRY seed and their catalogue. [x] .. TEACHER—**J ohnn_ieﬁ did you look in the dictionary for the spelling of cyclone#” Johnnie—‘“Yes'm; Iread the first ten pages an’ I couldn’t find it no place, ’—lnter Ocean.

Deafness Cannot ba Cured

oy local applications, as they cannot reach thediseaseg portion of theear. There isonly one way to cure Deafness, and that is byconstitutional remedies. Deafness iscaused by an inflamed condition of the mucous linihg of the Eustachian Tube.. When this tube {:ets inflamed you have a rumblin'g sound or mperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and thistube restored toitsnormal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but :fm inflamed condition of the mucous suraces. :

‘We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. < * F.J. Cuexey & Co., Toledo, O. K«%‘Sold by Druggist,s 3¢5 ' ~ Hall’s Family Pills, 35 cents. - THe man who is always impugnicg the motives of others simply advertises what he would do if he had their opportunities. Icicles : ‘ 7 : Glistening intherays of the noonday sun are beautiful exceedingly, but if one of them were thrust down your back how you would shudder. This is Precisely what, you do when the premonitory chill of fever and ague comes on. Thenis the time to take Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, a ‘‘knocker out' of every form of malaria; also of dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation, rheumatism and kidney trouble, i L PerrecrioN is made up of trifles, but it is no trifling matter to attain perfection. Tae sales of the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co., of St. Louis, Mo., show ‘the following gratifying gain over the sames period one year ago: : : From Dec. 13, 1894, to Feb. 1, 1895. .... $668,307 24 From Deo. 16, 1893, to Feb. 1, 1894..... 564.588.18

Gail..iiiereierinenncinens 750, 8108,719 06 The “new year’ with this firm commenced Dec. 14, 1894,

il THE MARKETS. 5 NEW. YORK, Feb. 18. LIVE STOCK—Cattle......... 8100 @ 5 20 SRE6D. . i caers s deies i 225 @ 460 Ht?gs 440 @ 49 FLOUR-—Minnesota Patents. 305 @ 380 City Mill Patent 5......... 400 @ 4 15 WHEAT—No. 2 Red.......... 564@ 57 No. I:Northern......csovse 66%4Q - 67 CORN-NO: 2. igess fvise 4Buß@ 48% MEY 00l S idaivi e snyiaess BE@ 494 OATSNG: 8o ciiiaiises 4@ 8414 PORK—Mess, NeW........... 1120 @ 12 2% LARD—Westérn.......v...... 68 @ 690 BUTTER—West'rnCreamery - 11 @ 244 Westarn Dairy....c..i.e o 10 @ 15 .. - CHICAGO. CATTLE—Shipping Steers... §338 @ 5 50 Stockers and Feeders.... 210 % 3 65 Butchers' 5teer5.v........ 300 3 60 ' TexXAs 5UEEr5...........c0v 2060 @ 440 HOOS 0 on i egies 2 8 70.@ 430 - SHEEP ... it iTisieee 200 @ 440 BUTTER—Creamery.... ..... 12 @ 234 BIRIPY.. i e s L eade i 8 @ 20 EGGS—FTesh....;oeeeee conees 28 @ 23% BROOM CORN (per t0n)..... 60 00 @l2O 00 POTATOES (per bu.)......... 57 @ 66 PORK-—MESSB.... ....voeaneses 1000 @ 10 1235 LARD—Steam. . .i. .t 6:500 '@ 166214 FLOUR—Spring Patents...... 300 @ 38 50 Spring Straights.......... 210 @ 27 . Winter Patent 5........... 2580 @ 2 65 Winter Straights.......... 230 @ 250 GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2........ V@ 50% COTN,INO. 2500 it vaanseioi e 4254@ 422 aOats; NOZvil v vndats, - 1 28% @ 28 RO L i A sk 52 @ 5214 Barley, NO: %..ccio.savs 5 @ 56'% LUMBER—Common Boards. 13 40 @ 13 50 Fencinig. s cicivevecsssnin-so 12.50: @ 10 60 Lath, Dre o, Gaiaias s 20 (@ 2 2 Shinglesici vty 219@: 260 MILWAUKERE. - i GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2 Spring.s 534 D 531 Corn-NO 8 .00 ivioini 43 @ 48y Oats, No 2 White.......... Y@ A oßverNo I it G M 4 @ 95 ; Barley. No. 2. .08 ki 3% @ 5314 PORK—MeESS.scevvessecnsinas. 1020 @ 10 25 LARD-—StoamM, . cccsehrevssones 650 .@ 656 i . ST. LOUIs. - CATTLE—Texas Steers...... $320 @ 390 Native Steers..ieeceecece.. 310 @ 49 HOGOE i vivisiavenssme.. 2100 43 SHERP. i v seiivnaa 380 @BB5 OMAHA. ; CRATTLE Gl iaaioiininin 138000 4 4gg HOGS—Light and Mixed..... 350 @ 3 | HOQVY siiciviiviny sivnivdsn - 5805 @ 400 SHEEP.. (o sarivisiianviensin. 020 @ 310

THE ONWARD TARCH N L OF Cogsumpt{)onDis ) stopped short by Dr. \_ G Piel;ce’s Golden Med- / \ \\% ical Discovety. If B '% ou. haven’t waited \5 geyond reason, ol ﬁ there’s co;uplete re- © N ) covery and cure. %gd' Although® by many. . /’q“ ,‘y’é believed to be incur--2 SIS able, there is the \/&/ WO 0 evidence of hundreds '/ 5 of living witnesses to / i the falct that, in all : (= 2 )""7% its earlier stages, con--4 -y’/ 7 ’/,% sumption is a curable : ’4ﬁ ZZ~# disease. Not every L - ga‘ “* case, but }z_ large pcr;i SK 2o E] 22> cenlage of cases, an P eGP we b%lieve, fully 98 s TN per cemt. are cured by Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, even after the disease has progrg:ssed 80 far as to induce repeated bleedings from the Ilungs, severe lingering cough with copious expectoration %including tubercular matter), great loss of flesh and extreme emaciation and weakness. - Do you doubt that hundreds of such cases reported to us as cured by ‘‘ Golden Medical Discovery ”’ were genuine cases of that dread and fatal disease? You need not take our word for it. Theyhave, in uearlg every instance, been so prenounced b%t e best and most experienced home physicians, who have no interest whatever 'in misrepresenting them, and who were often strongly ‘pre‘judice& and advised against a trial of ‘‘Golden Medical D.iacoverz,”' but who have béen forced to confess that it surpasses, in curative power over thJs fatal malady, all other medicines with which. they are acquainted. Nasty codliver oil and its filthy “emulsions? and mixtures, had beeu tried in nearly all these cases and had either utterly failed to benefit, or had only seemed to benefit a litile for. a short time. HExtract of malt, whiskey, and various;Fregarations of the hypophosphites had also been faithfullytrieg in vain. ‘The photographs of a large number of those cured of comsuihption, bronchitis, lingering °°“§l,‘s» asthma, chronic uasal catarrh and kindred maladies, liave been skillfully reproduced in a book of 160 pafes which will be mailed to ?oh, on receipt of address and six cents in stamps. You can then write those cured and learn -the:reﬁp:rience; AddressWoOßLD’S DISPEN--BARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.¥, SRRt N T SN R ST A e b e e S s P ey S

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Buadins—*‘Does Goldstein take much interest in business?’ Muggins—*l should sgf he did. He's a pawnbroker.”—Philadelphia Record. : : 3 g S OUR OWN CARLSBAD. Tho Title So Aptly Given, Hot Springs, ; . Arkansas. ) 3 The season at this famous Health and Pleasure Resort is now at its height, and in addition to the many attractions offered at Hot Springs and the Resorts in the near vicinity, arrangements have been made for a daigrunniqg meet at the Race Track, Foot Ball Games and Base Ball Games between Professional Clubs at the Park. All lines from the East, North and West connect at St. Louis in the new Magnificent Union Station with the Iron Mountain Route (Special Service) with elegant through Pullman Buf: fet Sleeping Cars daily, direct to theSprings. Call on or write Ticket Agents of connecting lines for beaitifully illustrated and descriptive pamphlets relative to the S&?ngs Hotels, and other information,. ailed Free), or address H. C. TowNsEND, General Pass. Agent, Iron Mountain Route, St. Louis.

Biegs—¢‘There are .very few poor men in the senate nowadays.” Diggs—‘Yes, but E’é’m are plenty of mighity poor senators.”— S :

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Thé Passenger Department of the Big Four Route have issued a very convenient and attractive Pocket Guide to the City of Beston which will be sent free of charge toall members of the Young Peo;llle‘svSocie:y of Christian Endeavor who will send three two-cent stam;ivs to cover mailing charges to the undersigned. This Pocket Guide should be in the hands of every member of the Society who contemplates attending the 14th Annual Convention, as it shows the location of all Depots, H’otels. Churches, Institutions, Places of Amusement, Prominent Buildings, Street Car Lines, Etc., Ete. Write soon as the edition is limited. . . : E. Q. McCorMICK, Passenger Traffic Manager, Big Four Route, Cincinnati, O.

Miss Quip (at euchre table)—“Will you take my hand?’ Mr. Flip—*This isn’t leap year.”—Philadelphia Inquirer., v 5

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toshomeseekers and Floridatourists. All &Jersons contemplating d trip to Florida, and all points in the southeast, will do well “before purchasing their tickets to write to or consult Briard F. Hill, northern passenger agent of the famous Dixie Flyer line, which passes through Nashville,. Chattanooga, Marieta and - Atlanta, over . the lines of the Lookout Mountain route consisting of the Nashville, Chattano%ga,and St. Louis Ry., and the -Battle Field route, the Western and Atlantic R. R.;over which arerun a double daily service of throu%'? Pullman Buffet and szaepingr cars to Jacksonville, Fla., via Macon and Tifton, leaving Chicago at 5:02 p. m., reaching Jacksonville on the second mornin% at 7:20, thus avoidin% all detention or delays while en route. Folder, maps and all information pertaining to this short through line will be furnishe ‘or mailed on application to the Chicago office, 194 S. Clark St., Room 2.

“Do You think the Bictures will be lifelike?” “Yes, indeed, She was in a perfect rage with the artist.”’—lnter Ocean.

McVicker’s, Chicago.

¢Shore Acres’”’ remains until February 24. Thos. W. Kean, the eminent tragedian, begins his engagement February 25. Seays secured by mail. : e

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THE %iraffe has a tongue seventeen inches long—that is the male giraffe. What must be the length of the tongue of thelady giraffe? i . g © - LOW RATE EXCURSIONS, March Bth and April 2nd. . ‘On the above dates, the Missouri Pacifia Railway and Iron Mountain Route have arranged tosell Excursion tickets to points in Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana at the very low rate of one fare (plus §2.00) for the round trip. Tickets good to return inside of twenty days, with privilege of stopping off en route. For further information in regard torates, descriptive and illustrated pamphlets, land - and map folders, (Mailed Free), emﬁire -of Ticket: Agents connecting lines, this Company’s Agents, or H. C. TowNsEND,Gen’l Pass, Agent,St.Louis,

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