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. 2o o e f . i Bright and bonny 1s my Joan, Sweeter than all maids that be; Bhe’s my darling, she’s my own, ‘ And she's all the world to me. 0% she 1s so dainty fair! airer maid was never seen; None can with my Joan compare, Love's dellght and beauty’s queen, -y But my Joan is very poor, : Poor am I who love her so; But for that, you may be sure, We had married long ago. s 8o the wise folk tell us both, ‘“Each must tread life’s path alone; You must break your plighted troth,” “No,'"” say I, and “No,"” says Joan, If agdinst adversity, Little one alone can do; . Yet, when two are one, you see, -One. is just as good as two. . .. Hand in hand and heart in heart, JLove will for all ills atone; Better then to pair than part—- . So say é,rand sosaysJoan. =—Marshall Steele, in Black and White.

CLAUDIUS SMITH’S BOOTS.

Haunted, Folks Said, After Their Owner Was Hanged.

Three Men Who Wore Them Killed by Rattlesnakes—A-' Doctor’s Explanation of a Story Told Up in the Schunnemunk Mountains.

“No one in the Schunnemunk mountains will ever forget the story of Brainard Pierson’s haunted boots,” said C'hris£y Lord of that historic part of Orange county. “The story dates back a good ways, but it’s always new anél fresh along the old Schunnemunk. f“Brainard Pierson’s boots, so the story goes, were the very boots that Claudius Smith kicked off his feet just before he was hanged at Goshen in the revolutionary times. Claudius Smith was the bloody Tory cowboy who, with his following of cutthroats and robbers, terrorized the Scliunnemunk and surrounding country for years. His moth€r was a pious woman, who lived near the Ramapo Pass, and when she found she couldn’t turn Claudius from his evil ways, she exclaimed one day: “‘Oh, my poor son! You will die with your shoes on, like a trooper’s horse.’ “After the patriots had at last captured the desperado, and he was taken. to the gallows at Goshen, he kicked his boots off as the rope was placed about his neck, and exclaimed:

My mother said T would die like a trooper’s horse, with my shoes on. I will make her out a liar.’ o .

“Those - were Claudius Smith’s last words. Ilis boots, through some manner of succession, at last fell into the possession of Brainard Pierson years after the cowboy was hanged. I've often heard my father say that when folks hcurdft-hat Brainard had got Claudius ‘Smith’s boots they went to him and said: : Rk

*“ ‘But of eourse you ain’t going to wear 'em, Brainard ?’ 3 :

“To which Brainard replied: “fAin’t 1? Well, but I am, though, most surely!’ _ “Then, as my father used to tell, folks said to Brainard: o

“‘Woe to you, Brainard Pierson, if you wear those boots! Not for all the treasure Claudius Smith buried in old Schunnemunk would we wear those boots! There’s blood on ’em!’

“And you must know that was saying a good deal, for Claudius smith hid in the Schunnemunk mountains thousands upon thousands—of dollars’ worth of treasure which he and his gang stole fromr the patriots, and it's there yet. It was put away so,' snug that although the mountains have been dug over from top to bottom and end to end, no one has ever been able to find that treasure. So, of course, it must be: there yet. Well, when folks warned Brainard against wearing the Tory cutthroat's boots, and told him there was blood on 'em, he answered back, so my father said, that he hadn't noticed any blood on ’em. e : “‘And even if there is,’ Braina®d said, ‘T'll walk it off to-morrow, for I'm going to drive some cattle down Jersey way. I couldn’t geta pair o’ boots lik¢. these for the price o’ the best critter I've got.” e o “So Brainard put on the boots anﬁ‘l strutted around in 'em proud as a peacock. But folks shook their heads and said: : ; |

“ ‘Not for all that Claudius Smith hid in old Schunnemunk would we wear his boots,” ‘ “Brainard Pierson laughed, and next day started with his cattle down Jersey way, wearing the dead Tory’s boots. Somewhere down near the Ramapo Pass a 4 man coming this way met 2 drove of cattle.. They went on by, and the man notieed that no drover was behind them. He went on. He had gone a quarter of a mile or so when he al: most -stumbled over a man lying in the road. He noticed that the man had on a remarkably fine pair .of boots, but he _started back in perror as he saw a rattlesnake lying near his feet. Discovering that the serpent was dead, he advanced and was horrified to see that the prostrate man’s face was black and swollen, and that he was dead. It was plain that the rattlesnake had bitten thke man, who had then killed the snake before he was overcome by its venom. “The dead man.was Brainard Piecrsdn. The discoverer of the tragedy sought the nearest help, and the rattlesnake’s vietim was brought home to Schunnemunk. - The head of the snake had been criushed by a stone, and.one of its fangs was gone. The snake had bitten clear through one of the boots Brainard wore, and a tiny puncture on his ankle showed where the deadly venom had entered to do its deadly work. L “‘Claudius Smith’s boots!” was the first exclamation that folks made when Brainard Pierson was brought honie dead from a rattlesnake bite. ‘Thcie’s blood on ‘em, and we told him so!’ . “For a long time nothing was talked about all through the Schunnemunk , country but Brainard Pierson’s hausnit- - ed boots, and the awful fate that Brainard met with because he flew in the face of warning and wore them,. Somehow or other, though, Brainard’s folks didn’t seem to be able to see Itm how it was that hie wouldn’t have been struck by the rattlesnake if he hj@’t had Claudius Smith’s boots on, and so the boots remained in the family, _ There was no one big énough yet in the fansly to wear boats, and m'{ﬁy _were put to one side. And there they remained unused fmt"bt:; ycf:l::,’ Then ~ the house was robbed one mnight. Smon the property stclen. were the W‘M_s%msm‘ _great

to ride in all directions on fleet horses and hunt the robbers down. ' “ ‘Not so much because he’s a robber,’ they said, ‘but to keep him from weurin‘g them haunted boots, We can Jail him for being a thief. It’ll be a capital punishment if we let him wear Claudins Smith’s boots.’ ;

“If they did any riding they didn’t overtake the robber in time to warn him against the fatal boots. Two days after the robbery young George Pierd scn, Brainard’s son, was hunting on Seven Springs mountain, and, going over to one of the springs to get a drink, he found a dead man lying near il, black in the face and swollen. Near by the body lay a big bundle.: The dead man had on the stolen Claudius Smith’s boot! Young Pierson pulled off the boots. On the man’s right ankle was a little purplish-red puncture. :

“¢A rattlesnake had struck him, as sure as fate!’ exclaimed young Pierson. “The bundle contained the things stolen from the Pierson family. George backed them home, and brough&he bootsT2 along. Then he spread the news gbout finding therobber on Seven Springs mountain, dead from a rattlesnake’s bite.| e :

“‘And the haunted boots?’ folks asked. : E

“ ‘He had ’em on,’ said young George. g ‘Jblaudius Smith might just as well be living and prowling and butchering along old Schunnemunk again,’ they s.ztid,’, ‘if we’re going to keep them haunted boots of his working for him!’

“But still the Pierson folks couldn't see what Claudius Smith’s boots had to do with rattlesnakes biting people, and they kept the boots. No one everknew who the dead robber was, and they buried him on the mountain. -

“‘Seems qyeer, too,” folks said, ‘that if Claudius Smith is haunting the boots he’d turn ’em against a robber.’ “Several years went by again before anyone else wore the haunted boots. Then a relatien of the Pierson folks, who lived down in the Ringwood valley, came visiting them. He saw the boots, and took a great fancy to ’em. He wanted to buy ’em, although he knew the fate of the only two persons who had worn ‘em in vears. 5

t#* “There ain’t any rattlesnakes in our section,’ said he. ‘l’ll risk the haunt.” “The Pierson folks wouldn’t sell him the boots, but they made him a present of ’em. He took ’em home with ’em. Si)me folks say that he didn’t tell his father-in-law the story of the boots when he made him a present of ’em after he got home, and some say he did. At any rate, the father-in-law had a good deal of property which would go to this Pierson relation’s wife -when her father died, and her father was in the best of health. The son-in-law made him a present of Brainard Pierson’s haunted boots. The father-in-law put ’em on one day and went for a walk. Not long afterward he came staggering back home. | “He was a dead man an hour later, with a black swollen face and body. On his right -ankle was the mark of a rattlesnalke bite, as there had been on F_Brainard Pierson’s and on the dead robbers. And there was not a rattlesnake in all that country! The father-in-law lof the Pierson relation was dead before ‘the doctor could get there. The doc‘tor was told the story of the haunted 'boots. Seizing the right boot,he slashed it down to the aakle with his knif:. Something white fell from it to the floor. The doctor picked it up. He examined it for a moment.

4 ‘A rattlesnake’s fang,” said he. ‘And there’s poison enough yetin its channel to kill another man!’ -'

“It was the missing fang of the snake that had bitten Brainard Pierson. It ‘had been pulled from its socket by the firm hold the leather of the boot had taken of it. Held fast thus, with its point on the inside, contact with it had been of sufficient force to puncture the ankles of the persons who had since worn the boot. The venom, though dry, was still potent, and its work as deadly as when it lay in its sack in the rattlesnake’s jaw. That was what the doctor said.

“*S’posin’ he does say so?’ Schunnemunk folks said. ‘lf Brainard Pierson hadn’t worn Claudius Smith’s boots the rattlesnake wouldn’t left his fang in ’em, would it? So it was Brainard Pierson’s haunted boots that done it, and that’s all there is to it!’ : “And a good many ' Schunnemunk folks think so to this day.”—N. Y. Sun. ‘Wages in Mexico. There are really ne wages in Mexico. All working people take what they ccan get, that is, what the employer chooses to pay. Wage-workers mazke so little that there is no incentive to thrift, no stimulation of energy. The classes are the rich and the poor; there is no middle class. More hopefully, perhaps, it might be said that a middle class is just beginning to form. They who see no hope of independence, or even of small homes, naturally have no ambition. As soon as they get a very little money they quit their employment and squan‘der it. Many employers make money, ‘but their prosperity is based on the degradation of labor. The men who do the heavy work in the mines of Mexico receive not more than 75 cents to $1 aday in Mexican money, or 40 or 50 cents in actual money; for agricultural labor there never is a quotable rate; hackmen and waiters at restaurants depend almost wholly on “tips,” which custom makes small, and the half money of the country smaller; house servants get from $2 to $5 a month—rarely the higher price.—Portland Oregoniaun. ' With the Minstrels, “Say, Mose, duz yo’ fink dat when Adam got dat rib turned into a woman dat was de important business ob his life ?” _ : : “Ob co’se it was.” “Well, it wasn’t. Dat was only a side issue.” | . . ' “Ya, ya; but, Bones, which side did she come out ob, eh ?” 4 “De same side woman allus comes around him on. Deblind side,” v “Ya, ya; but say, it's mighty lueky it stop whar it did.” v “Why, Mose?” - “ ' A ~ “Bekase 1 know some fellers would kep’ at it as long as dar ribs held out, and den try to work up some er der | “Golly, yo's right! Ketch de key an’ sing: ‘Dar’s frost on de garden gate.’ ” —Todream that youhave put on clean linen means you will shortly receive 71 patents on the mech-

ILY L, l».'n‘,“: XA ‘l9. {. CHEAP FOOD MATERIAL. Economy Is Always in Order on the Average Stock Farm. : Great waste of food is the rule on the average stock farm. This is especially true on the general farm, where but a moderate number of domestic animals is the rule. The waste is not the quantity but in the quality of the food given the live stock. Corn and oats are often fed freely to the brood mares and older horses when not at work, and when they are in high fiesh. The same practice is found in feeding dry sows, ewes, sows, etc.,, when they are loaded with flesh and fat. Discrimination is not made in feeding for growth and for the proper maintenance of good condition. The food of support is too largely augmented in niany cases. ‘lt is not safe to overfeed the breeding stock. There is always danger in the eifort to limit food of going to the other extreme. This may be avoided by the substitution of the chgaper grades of food. The ensilage furnishes a cheaper qudlity but a very satisfactory food for making gain, and also maintaining condition and vigor of digestion. The various roots, vegetables and fruits can be substituted as a part ration for all of the stock not fattening to a finish. The bulky provender, too, should be used freely instead of grain, as the grain can be more easily carried over to next year when it may be much more valuable. A wise use of economy in feeding:. Ordirary salt and wood ashes, kept accessible to the stock, do good service in maintaining good heath, as well as in giving full c(Tect to the food given to the animals on the farm. o :

There is, occasionally, a false pride about the condition of one's domestic animals. The horse for work or the young growing animal is better able to maintain vigor or make the best growth, if in good flesh rather than excessively fat.

Grazing can be provided onmostfarms during nine months of the year. The rye, early oats and winter wheat are all the bettér when grazed judiciously. This reserves the blue-grass for rainy, windy days in winter, and enables limited acres of regular pasture to do greater service. Oats can be sown in March, and will afford grazing to colts, calves and lambs after May 1, and to hogs after May 20. From March 1 to Beptember 1 is a good time to save the good corn and oats, in view of crop possibilities. Economy is always in order.—Western Rural.

- CHEAP FODDER CUTTER. A Homemade Device Which Will Answer i Every Ordinary Purpose. We farmers must economize. If we can make a device that will answer every purpose, we needn’t buy one, and thus save the money to pay $2,000 official salaries and inflation railroad fares. I made a cutting box, to cut cornfodder, ete. It is shown in the cut, which explains itself. Four pleces of scantling 2x2, and 28 inches long, make the x frame or ends. ' Two boards 14 inches wide and 4 feet long; placed as shown, malke the box. This makes a box a little higher than an ordinary man’s knee. Place a bundle of fodder in the box, put your knee on ‘it, and with hay knife 2 %\i % : ' FODDER CUTTER. ) shear off the ends sticking over the box. Push the bundle along and repeat. Cut up to the band, -then turn the bundle around end for end, and go ‘ahead again. - Tor horses, I cut 3 or 4 inches long, and think it short enough. With a box like this I cut fodder for six horses and three cows last winter, feeding a bushel apiece at a feed. It took me about five minutes to cut enough for one feed.— Ohio Farmer. ]

FACTS FOR FARMERS.

° A lot of old-time sheepraisers who gold out a year or two ago are buying up again. _ A N

It is a good plan to get the poorest land on the farm in grass and cultivate the more fertile land. : There is no need of run-down farms where those in charge é"row clover liberally and rotate with good judgment. :

Experiments with sachaline agd the flat pea at the Swiss station for three years resulted in the condemnation of both. . : ; »

If the oats are covered two or three inches deep the plants will be safer from a hard frost or a dry spell than if too shallow. ] :

At the Canadian experiment station rape was shown to be the best green food for the growth of lambs — both carcass and fleece.

In oats tests at the Indiana stalion with 21 varieties, eight pecks per acre drilled, or ten pecks broadcast gave better results than any greater or less quantity of seed; horse manure was profitable, but no commercial fertilizer used on oats returned any profit. The director of the Oklahoma experiment station says: 'Feosinte, a giant grass, somewhat like corn, makes: u large growth.. At the experiment station as much as 25 tons per acre of green fodder was secured from a small plat. This crop is troublesome to handle, and the fact that it does not mature seed in tkis climate is an objection..—Journal of Agriculture.

The Kind of Horses to Breed.

The thing to do in breeding horses is to select the breed that suits your taste best and stick to that breed, and don’t waste any time experimenting and trying to procure a new breed or a desirable all-around horse by crossing the product of your first year’s breed with some other breed. Keep on with your first cheice.. If the breed and type you selected does not suit you,dispose of all thig stock and select another breed that you think will suit you, and after you have made a selection of a breed, then select first-class individuals of = the breed you have decided upon and pro“ceed .again. Let some one older in the business experiment by ecross-breed-ing and by infusing new blood.— Colman's Rural World, e

One That Is Easily Moved from One Part of a Field to Another. During winter poultry men should find time to repair old chicken coops and make new ones. With ordinary care more vigorous pullets can be raised by scattering them about the fields in small colonies after haying, as insects then form a very cheap and important portion of their diet. When biddy brings forth her brood, place herin one of the coops with the movable run in position. This allows her to get to the ground. After she leaves her chicks the run is removed, the roosts placed in position and the family moved to any convenient spot.- Pullets may be sheltered in such a house until cold weather or until they begin tolay. The coops will accommodate 25 chicks or] 10 well-grown pullets. It is 4by 3 feet, and 21, feet high at the eaves. Thérun is 4 by 3 feet. The run and roof are built with a pitch of 90 degrees. The

eN W ” _ . R e, - - SUMMER POULTRY COOP. ¢ sills are of 2 by 4 material, and extended as shown in the cut to facilitate moving. The plates are of 2by 2-inch material, and extended each way 1 foot beyond the eaves for handles. The sides, roof and floor are of jointed pine boards. The roof is covered with one thickness of sheathing paper held in place by cleats. If this is jointed it will make a waterproof roof that will last a number of seasons. The first 15 inches below each gable should be of half-inch wire netting for ventilation, Each end is provided with a door 1 foot wide, one hinged, the other arranged to slide. The roof;should have a 2-inch projection all around to throw rain. The run is made by nailing laths 214 inches apart upon a frame made of 2 by 2 scantling. Two men can easily move this coop from one part of field to another, giving the chicks new feeding room.—American Agriculturist. :

SCIENCE IN FARMING. It Will Pay Only When Joined to Plain . Common Sense. The following, from a book recently published entitled “999 Queries With Answers,” emphasizés our warning frequently given that while cultivating scinence farmers must use judgment. The intelligent practice of agriculture is now guided by science, and in the future it will be ruled by it. TUnfortue nately, but a small proportion of agriculturists will possess scientific intellie gence, and, consequently, the practices and errors of the past will be continued by the great majority. There will be three classes of agriculturists—the altogether unscientific, the practical culti= vator with some scientific attainments and the scientific theorist,without practical experience or capacity for making things pay. The agricultural experimental stations have done moye in the last 20 years to disseminate scien= tific knowledge of the action of fertilizers, plant diseases and cures, injurious insects and methods of destroying them, than any agency which ever existed. Agriculture is becoming scientific, but it can never be entirely so, as no method or system can be depended upon to produce a fixed result, consequent upon the uncertain effect of meteorological happenings. No art will call to its aid to interpret it so many scien= tific branches as agriculture, but all that will never make it a perfect science on account of the unfixed quantity of heat and cold, rain or drought, the variations of which defeat all calculations. :

FATTENING LAMBS. Prof. Roberts Tells What Experience Has Shown to Be a Good Ration. For fattening lambs Prof. Roberts gives the following ration in the Rural New Yorker: Cornmeal should form, in connection with the other foods mentioned, onethird of the grain ration. Cornmeal, 100 pounds; wheat bran, 100 pounds; oil meal, 20 pounds; peas, 30 pounlls; oats, 50 pounds. Mix and feed from one-half to one pound per day per lamb. This will do'when shredded cornstalks are used, but when clover is fed there should be a greater proportion of corn, and less of oats and peas. If one feed is of shredded corn and one of clover each day, then the corn should not be increased, apd the oats and péa‘.s diminished as much as when clover is fed exclusively. “Sheep do not relish wheat as well as the other grains, either whole or ground. Better feed the wheat to the chickens. The grain alone wculd give a nutritive ratio of one to five and five-tenths. The shredded corn fodder would widen it possibly one to six or one to six and five-tenths. It would be still tco narrow for fattening lambs in cold quarters; if kept in warm quarters, it would be wide enough. By substituteing a little corn for a part of the highly nitrogenous food (peas and oil meal) the ration could be easily widened. A few mangels or some other succulent food would improve the ration.

Cracked Corn for Poultry.

The use of cracked corn is more largely employed among those who breed the smaller breeds of poultry, yet some use it with all varieties. A Dbetter way would be to buy smaller kernel corn or plant a dwarf variety that would avoid the mecesity of cracking it at the mill. In doing so, says an exchange, you get just what is wanted and avoid the trouble of having to pay for a great deal of meal made in grinding the corn, which is not eaten by the flock, and permitting it to. lie in the feed bins long brings the meal worm about and makes the entire grain musty and une pleasant to handle.—Farmecrs' Voice. How to Treat Overfed Hens, ‘When a flock of hens will not range over the fields in fair days, but sit under trees or bushes, making no effort to exercise or seek food,it indicates that they are overfed and too fat and will not produce eggs. The:best treatment is to give no food for a week so as 1o compel them to exercise and reduce their flesh, It is useless to attempt to secure many eggsfromvery fat hens,as they are then out of condition for laying. : - Sheepmen are showing signs of returning confiedence. e

Now is the time to visit the South and investigate for yourself its vast resources and its glorious climate. There is no doubt but what the tide hds turned Sonthward. The Mobile and Ohio Railroad always in thevan to encou a good movement, will %‘;e you apecifl Land and Home Seekers’ Excursions to points in Kentucky, 'l‘ennesseea Missxssigpl and Alabama on April 7th an 21st, and May sth, 1896, tickets being one fare for the rounb. trip good for 30 days from date of sale. Stop-overs allowed on goin§ trip free. On payment of $2.00 at destination additional stop-overs will be allowed on return trip. Excursion trains leave Bt. Louis Union Rtasion both morning and evening on the dates mentioned on arrival of trains of other roads. Low one W}:iy rate for actual settlers and their household goods. and stock are fiven. For information concerning land address the Alabama Land Develfdpment Company, Henry Fonde, President, Mobile, Ala. Ticket Agents of connect,in% lines in the North, East and® West sell round trip tickets over the Mobile and Ohio road, so call on your nearest ticket agent for particulars, or address C. RuporrH, D. P. A, 829 Max(‘(}luette Bﬁf., Chicago, 111., or E. E. Posex, G. P. A., Mobile, Ala.

Bos—*'‘Say, ain't you going to stand treat? I thought you had money to burn.” Dick—“T should have if you would furnish the draft.’’—Boston Transcript.

Cheap Excursions to the West and Northf west. ;

On April 21 and May 5, 1896, the NorthWestern Line (Chicago & North-Western R’y) will sell Home Seekers’ excursion tickets at very low rates to a large number of points in Northern Wisconsin, Michigan, Northwestern lowa, Western Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota, including the famous Black Hills district. For full information apply to ticket 'aéents of connecting lines or address W. B. KNisKERN, G. P. & T. A., Chicago, Il Grory is like a circlesin the water, -which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till bg broad spreading it disperse to naught.—Shakespeare. : : : ey The Pilgrim —Easter Number Will be ready the early part of April. Everything in it will be new and original. It will contain articles %Gapt. Chas. King, U. 8. A., Ex-Gov. Geo. W. Peck, of Wisconsin, and other noted writers. An entertaining number, well illustrated. Send ten (10) cents to Gro. H. HEAFFORD, publisher, 415 oOld Colony Building, Chicago, 111., for a copy. A DrriNiTioN.—‘“What is acritic?? “He is a man who rips things to pieces without knowing how to put them together again.’ —Chicago Record. 3 § ——-———— ‘All About Western Farm Lands. ‘The ‘“Corn Belt” is the name of an illustrated monthly newspaper published by the Chicago, Burlington and'é)uincy R 1b aims to give information in an interestin way about the farm lands of the west. Seng 25 cents in postage stamps to tlie Corn Belt, 209 Adams St., Chicago, and the paper will be sent to your address for one year. Or what use are forms, seeing at times they are empty? Of the same use as barrels, which are at times empty, too.—Hare. e e e, The Modern Beauty | Thrives on good food and sunshine, with ¥lenty of exercise in the open air. Her orm glows with health and her face blooms with its beauty. If her system needs the cleansing action of a laxative remedy, she uses the gentle and pleasant Syrup of Figs. Made by the California Fig Syrup Company. —_————— IN sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.— Claudius. Cheap Railroad Rates. On April 7th, 21st and May bth, 1896, half fare excursions will be run to points on the Cotton Belt Route in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. For full particulars and copies of illustrated pamphlets write E. W. LABEAUNME, G. P. & T. A,, Cotton Belt Route, ~ St. Louis, Mo. e —— et : McVicker’s Theater. Col. R. G. Ingersoll's lecture, |“Why I Am an Agnostic,” Sunday evening, April 12th. Seats on sale at theater. FraTTEry is often a traffic of mutual meanness,; where, although parties intend deception, neither is deceived.—Colton. ——— Firs stopped free by Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. No fits afterfirst day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treafise and §2 trial bottle free. ]{r Kline, 931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. - A BITTER and perplexed ‘“What shallIdo?”? is worse to man than worst necessity.— Coleridge. - : - A Dose in Time aves Nine of Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar for Coughs. Pike’s Toothache Drops Curein one minute. \ e e eoy - Girp your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.—Mrs. Hemans. £k

I courp not get along without Piso’s Cure for Consumption. It always cures.—Mßgs. E. C. MouLroN, Needham, Mass., Oct. 22, '%4.

THE MARKETS. NEw YORK, April 6. LIVE STOCK—Steers........ $3 90 @ 4 45 S RNEeD iy vehiaete ses i 400 %415 HOES . oiessiiiesiidiiaee 1 400 440 FLOUR—Minnesota Patents 355 @ 3 8 Minnesota Bakers'....... 270 @315 WHEAT—No. 1 Hard........ - 13%@ W 10T O e eTR AR o%@ 71 CORNCND. 20 isiahirsesrcs M@ 313% IR i s aeeis 3blo@ 3558 OATS—Western....ve veesvacs 25 @ 28 FTORK — Me55.....c0000000000.0 875 @9 50 LARD — Rendered............ 525 @ 530 BUTTER—Western Cr'm’y.. 13 @ 20 BOGR LG B 1 L CHICAGO. ; CATTLE—Beeves ........... $325 @4 40 Stockers and Feeders.... 250 @ 370 Cows and 8u115........7.. 150 @37 Texas Steers J:. . v ity i:2190: @3 86 HOGB-—-Ldght ... i i 370 @ 395 Rough Packing............ 250 @ 380 SHERE .o i uesaia 2:50 @3 86 BUTTER—Western Cr'm’y. 4 @ 20 MEIRY s 10 @ 18 EGGS — Fresh.......cccovvuvs @ 1014 POTATOBS (per bu.).....ev. 4@ 23 PORK — MeSS..... cccveesenee 55.@ S K 214 LARD — Steam......c.veeeoe.. 506 @ 5 07% FLOUR — Winter......ceeio.. 310 @ 3 00 BOPIAE o i 112/40 @8 25 GRAIN — Wheat, May....... 635% @ 61% CBrn. NO & iG, 2% @ 2873 OIREE, NO, 2080 il s 19 @ 18% Rye, No. 2 iciuisaisvon, 3@ 35% Barley, Good to Fancy... 30 @ 35 : MILWAUKEE ) GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2Spring § 621.@ 6% Gorn,: No: & o iciinsniie 29 @ 29% Oatg,; No. 2-White....s:... 0@ 215 BYe. No T iiaias 37%% 38 Barley., NoO: 2 cvicoide . 1205600 8114 PORK — MeSS... scivavensanie &50 %845LIARD Lo i hini o 10mhh DETROIIT. : GRAIN—-Wheat, No. 2 Red.. § Tll\v@ T Carn, NO 2it iibasvat 0 @ 31 _Oats, No. 2 White.........: 22V.@ 2% Rye, NO. S.reoverrrvinninn, STR® 978 ; ST. LOUIS. : CATTLE—Native Steers.... 325 @ 4 25 MEREN 2 @ ) BOGN . inin vy varsse T 3 o 0 @3 95 BERP okl i A 030 : OMAHA. CATTLE — 5teer5............ $2 25 g 390 ows: ol nile s LTS 360 Heaters .. v iiaiiiiaas 2@ R HOGS ... idviianaaenss 340 @ 38 SHIPP i vivaviiiniiees 2300 @385

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season in the same way. The difference is that the poet breaks out in about the same spot annually, while more prosaic people break out in various parts: of the body. It's natural. Spring is the breaking-out season. It is the time when impurities of the blood work to the surfdace. It is the time, therefore, to take the purest and most powerful blood purifler, Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. * ‘l’hz testimonial will be found in full in Ayer's ‘Curebook,” witha hunfived others, Free. Address: ]. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. e

& 3 1 5 & ol 4 w»rwm s We offer One Hundred Dolls Reward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. €nexey & Co:, Props., Toledo, 0. ‘We, the undersigne&, bave known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. | g:ixsro& TrUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Too, O. : : WaLDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale "Dr-u‘g?sts Toledo, Ohio. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. FPrice 75c. per bottéle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials ree. @ “Hall's Family Pills are the best. WERE it not better for 2 man in a fair room to set up one great light, or branching candlestick of lights, than to go about with a rushlight into every dark corner.— ' Bacon. : Home Seekers Excursions. ‘ In order to give everyone an opportunity to see the Western Country and enable the home seekers to secure a home in time % commence work for the season of 1896, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y has arranged to run a series of four home séekers excursions to various &omt,s in the West, North-West and South-West on the follow--ing dates: March 10, April 7 and 21 and May 5, at the low rate of two dollars more than OXNE FARE for the round trip.‘ Tickets will be good for return on any Tuésday or Friday within twenty-one days from date of sale. For rates, time of trains and further details apply to any coupon ticket agent in the East or South, or address Gro. H. HEeAFrForD, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chicago, 111.

. LaApy CUs'romm; in china shop)—*“Do you break these sets?”’ Dealer—*‘No, madam; the purchasers’ servants usually attend to that.”’—Tit-Bits. :

To California in Puliman Tourist Sléeping Cars.

The Burlington Route (C., B. & Q. R. R.) runs personally conducted excursions to California, leaving Chicago every Wednesday. Through cars to ;éalifornia. destina~ tion, fitted with carpets, upholstered seats, bedding, toilet rooms, etc.; every convenience. Special a%ent in charge. Route via Denver and Salt Lake. ‘Sunshine all the way, Write for descriptive pamphlet to T. A. Grady, Excursion Manager, 211 Clark st., Chicago. ¢ s i Schiller Theater. ; Kellar, the Mysterious Magician, begins his engagement April 12th. Seats can’'be secureg in advance by mail. : :

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Ao Do l ; 800 Try Walter Baker & Co.’s Cocoa and Chocolate and you will understand why their business established in 1780 has flour= ished ever since. Look out for imitations. Walter Baker & Co., Ltd., Dorchester, Mass.

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Poets Break Out in the springtime. And a great many who are not poets, pay tribute to the

. : T AT Lo BE § 3. SHOE %:WoliotHE If you pay 84 to 86 for shoes, examine the W, L. Douglas Shoe, and . s 3 see what a good shoe you can buy for : o OVER 100 STYLES AND WIDTHS, : gl CONGRESS, BUTTON, . N and LACE, made in all - @ N Kkindsof the best selocted SO ("eli¥ey] . leather by skiled workN ‘ 5 -men. We NG make and D PRSTRST S sell more ) X & ':.;7» ‘4‘ :"'; ’ N {33 Shoes .I{,‘ <N \\ than any ) DO\ R §\‘ other ;:Y A ‘ manufacturer in the world. Sl None genuine unless name and . s ¥ price is stamped on the bottom. 'oA § Ask your dealer for our -85, e ¥ Y 84, $3.50, $2.50, 82.25 Shoes; /o 82.50, 82 and $1.75 for boys. R TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE, If yourdealer cannot. supply you, send to fac- Pewe, &9 tory, enclosing price and 36 cents %‘ to pay carriage. -State kind, style v of toe Sap or plain), size and width, Our Custom Dept. will fill Ea#6 gour order. Send for new lllus- B = rated Catalogue to Box R. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, MViass, plwlm may be accomplished by never- , R varylng devoilon to 3 ﬁngkmhu@n B [in ‘the history of the McCormick Harvesting | st _*= Machine Co,, Chicaga, _For 65 years they have | quuua AT simply bean building grain and grass-cutting B 5 md*wy,mdvmmmmwwyw \, 5 muﬁe\mhdﬁlh,llhpkbnr d / that the McCormick Compeny bruilds cne- \ IG5\ third o all the indrs, respers and \ WE HAVE NOAGENTS : but ahelll dlr}ecz !tlO the ‘é?’}“““’“ ! $ esale prices. Ship anys ’ “W’ Shnere fg%ex?u_nlnnuon botore "\ R~ sale. Kverything warranted. Tl Sl N[\ 100 styles of Carriages, i SR [\ o 0 styles of Harness, 41 ' &;g;,,,: % ’;‘[v"/a tyiltesf Rldlnlg Saddles. A ] D rite for catalogue. 9 4&«5& ELKHART CARRIAGE s & HARNESS IMFG CO. W.B. PRATT, S_ecy- ELKHART, IND.

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