Pike County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 1, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 May 1884 — Page 4

If.:? _ Nil 08BSTY DEMOCRAT* ’ > i PublisM Every Thursday. PETERSBURG. INDIANA. ON TEN SUNNY SIDS. Ht »n<l whoop-boormy, boys! Sing i song of cheer! Here*** holiday, boys, LaaUnghaif a year! Bound the world, and half to Shadow we have tried; Now, we’re where the tough to— On tie sunny side! s eoo Thrwlgh the stable roof. Bear die chickens Audio. - Onrte to sleep, boys, iy side!

Ido awfully funny a candle to China to visit the my goodness! it’s for the French at an unearthly and the coffee you. I think rything that’s the chamberare yoor

ad all . he mast rash the rest of ’em. ind David Cojr field—did you ever read a*»vld Ccp’jitfld? Well, I did, and I el Dickons. Same way with Thack’ray. He began Vanity Fair, and fast vrent crazy about Thack’ray. Ever read Vanity Fair? Ain’t it simply awful? I just struck. I told Fred I just wouldn’t read it if he never spoke to me Jigain. Then that Becky Sharp, too. A girl att our school wrote a composition about 'Becky Sharp. What did she say about her? Mercy me! I didn’t listen to it. jUI I know is, it was about Becky Sharp. * Fred ain't a bit like me. Now when 1 like one book by an author, I never lead another, because I, think I’d be sure not to like it half so well, and then I’d get to hate the whole lot like JKjisOU. .But yon mustn’t think Fred ain’t idee. He’s real handsome and fascinating; has big brown eyes and the cutest mustache: only he m l be superior, and it s so fatiguing. Now what’s the use of being superior? Why can’t you just lie happy and sensible? I’ve known Fred for per-r-fect ages. hy, he used to walk to school with me, and carry my books. But that was last year, for I’ve been out ever so long. We used to quarrel like cats. One day he said to me: “Marie Cassidy, do you ever intendt*? be anything but a frivolous butter' '?” I “Frivolous fidulestick’s end!” said I, and I spoke very severely, too. “If yon want snoeriority, just visit mommer aaven evenings a week.’’ Mommer’s superior enough, gracious knows. The wav shn goes in for general infortdpfclMS sltaply awful.” “Well,’" saidne, “if you are content to remain I said, “am I a •Fred Delbert,’ griffin or a Cyclops?” , %Why. of course not,” he said, opening thorn big eyes .of his. , “Well, then, I ain’t a Cyclops, that’s aettled. and popper has lots of money— just dead loads of it—so what do * want with superiority? I’m sorry you mejo unattractive. There's De fancy Wiliherington, he says mv eyes are hke bi ts of heaven on earth, and_’ Fred got so mad he regularly stamped “Don t quote to me the inane remark of an idiot,” he shouted. “Anyhow,” I said, “he likes me ins a» I am, and he isn’t always treadin; o:a my poor little pug.” “I hate pugs,’1 said Fred. “The’ look As if they’re making faces.1 Well, somehow or other we made ui again, and 1 made him kiss Gigi.be e»OM he’d said snch horrid thing about the poor little pet Gigi’s jus killing—yon ought to see him. Fred and I were sort of engaged ^ ot quite, though, because popper sail Fred was young, and I was young, an< ■hu didn’t 'vant to give up his little gir just yet awhile. That made me cr and feel real badly, because I’ve neve bsen anything but the bother of hi life. But Fred and I had a serious rot

gfe once. Too see,, there was a girl staying with Sin. Calvin, in onr. block; Pamela toaehenge was her name, and she cone from somewhere East. Some people said she was so elegant and charming, and talked about her “classic outline,,Ybut, oh, my! she was so tall and thin, and her nose was m:les too king. I don’t care what anybody says, it tMtlopg. She was dreadfully profound and * 4 >nd Fred began to fly -jra little. I didn't let on I a Hli, because I wasn’t going to but I just flirted awftl Jenifer’s ball, and De n the stairs, the classic : off to the conservatory. I was sure he

He had written he was pretty soft to be home Tuesday evening. 1 was sitting by the window, and the gas was turned h»w, and somehow I felt blue. 1 could see Mrs. Calvin's house, where that horrid Pamela Stonehenge was staying; and as I was looking, two men went np to Mrs. Calvin’s. It was a hateful showery night; but t hey were laughing and _ talking, and when they pnt down their umbrellas 1 saw something that made me jump. Fred has an umbrella with the funniest head, an ebony skull with Rhinestone eyes that flash in the most lifelike way,and there that thing was winking ut me in the gas-light across the street. I was so mad I just cried— regularly howled. To think that Fred would go to see her first of all! Well, who should walk, in bright and early the next morning but Fred himself £ He looked pale-with remorse, I thought. But icebergs and polar bears were: nothing to me in the wav of coldness He began: *T wanted to see yon the first thing, Marie—” “Indeed?” I interrupted. “I feel quite honored.” He turned very red, and stared at me. Then he said: “What do you mean? What are you talking about?” *Oh! of course you haven’t an idea,” I said; and so it went on from bad to worse, until he just got. np and remarked, with the most dreadful tlijmity: S “ You seem to be accusing me of ■sthing; bnt as you will not do me justice to explain yourself, I will you good-morning; and good-bye, " Cassidy.” - course I never meant him to get his dignity, and when I saw Mm ig 1 had half a mind to ran after , only I was too proud, wo or three days passed, but still no i nor symptom of Fred. Mommer getting ready to go to Chautauqua, the house was turned upside down, >d I was fairly distracted. At last I wrote him a few lines, telling him .rished to explain something. I ited all that day, and all the next, no answer came. lien I got desperates I just decided wasn’t worth living, and I’d be suIrior, and go in for sociology ami Imonology, and Ml that sort of thing. [So I told mommer I was going to .ut an qua with her, and she said *shu „ glad I had awakened at length ton nse of my own deficiencies; and we Krted off. It ain’t any fun to travel with mommer. She always declares she’s suffocating in the Pullman, and she think the train’s running off the track ever --— — ——lixtavitv tier few minutes, and drives the conductor’ half crazy asking questions: Then she’ al\r<irQ H—* - -__ always dropping her eyeglasses am hand-bag and handkerchief—pari •bag and handkerchief—particu lari;,- her handkerchief. I tell her it’ like the French exercises, “ Ou est l mon choir de ma mere f' But that make her hopping mad. Chautauqua’s an awful bore, don’ you know—a lot of old drones and mum mies going about, anil pretending theenjoy it so mneh. t believe they real! bat*; it, only they think; it looks nice t" be profound. And then Palestine Park! Oh, my how those Eastern psople can mat sucli guys of themselves, and dress ii bags that haven’t any hang, or fit, o anything, I can’t imagine. Momme would drag me about every where, ti improve my mind, she said.' She has i mar ia for measurements and caleula lions, and (me day she was calulatini the dimensions of the Great Pyramid and 1 said: “Mercy, mommer! yoi must have been evolved from a measnr ing worm.” She didn't like it one bit but I think she ought to have been glac I knew how to apply my knowledge. I was so broken-hearted I took ui Heorew, and it ’mest blinded me. How people could ever hare talked in such i language! W ell, one day I was n the steamboat on the lake, and I was looking over mi account-book. Popper always make: such a point of my keeping accounts, because he says it teaches me the valui of money, but no one ever knew thi value of money better than 1 do. I hat Gigi with me. and it’s awfully expens ive hoarding with ft dog; and then the sen-ants are always so grasping. I de clare they’re just like those horric daughters of the horse-leech that said “Give! give!” though why the daurii tors were a bit worse t han the sons ] never could see, only pimple are always slandering women. Somehow or other I never can my accounts exactly right. There we four dollars I couldn’t jcco -account lor, s, just put them down tn “charitv,” i cause “sundries” has sach an 'unbu ness-like look, though, to. tell the trot I’d only given ten cents to an orgi grinder. l iras so hard at work that I nei noticed I’d been taken ever so far p: where 1 ought to have got out so I jt stepped out at the next stopping-plai and waited for another boat to take t back. It was quite a pretty spot w trees aud things, and a sort of cave i far off; and 1 sat and sa t and gazed the beauties of nature till I was ’mi starved. All at once I heard a noise 1 hind me, and I looked around, and thi was Fred com’ng out of the cave! 1 thought for a moment may-be morse had driven him t» retire from t world and be a hermit. Wouldn’t ti have: been romantic? I glanced at him vetv haughtily, 1 he began right away: “Miss Cassidj oh, Marie! don’t let ns make ourseli miserable by keeping this up!” “Who’s miserable?” I inquin j^Speak for yourself, Fred—I mean, h

A horrid, unfeeling twinkle came into liis eye, and he said: “Do you remember Miss Stonehenge?” •■Oh, yes," said t idly. “She had such a long nose.*’ “She has it still—" “Don’t jest on such n subject, if you please,” I said. “Well,” said Fred, “I admit that it is a serious one. The |ioint is that she was married last week to a Professor of ISanikrit.” “JI suppose she’s refused you," 1 said: “and you’ve come to me to bo consoled.” Tbeu he said a lot of absurd things ]' won t repeat; and 1 told him how ][ thought he’d gone to sse Pamela that livening. It turned out that the poor l>oy had come back sick: with malaria]: fever, and wasn’t-' able to leave the bouse; and Ned Parkinson bad dropped in and borrowed his umbrella. ' “But that doesn’t explain your not: answering my note," I said. “You see,, when it came I was veiy nick at my rooms, and there wasn’t a iloul to do anything for me bat an old bn T-" man with i “ Well, did his wigpjwvent you fi writing to me?” 1 askel; fori can FKJT «ww**o When | fetl like i* J

“Of coarse not; hot I was too sick epitomise raj head- As soon a>t I «> lliJ stood, I rushed arooad to see your bat joa had gone. Dellie Jones told too yon had gone to Chautauqua; M I followed yon. and here I am.” “ Wen," I said, Tory: sternly, **FE foigive job this time, Fred; but you re treated ®e veiy badlj. And, Fred, the hm got a long nose, hasn’t she?” ‘•Shockie^hesaid. So we were married, and came Socith jonrnej. and—oh! there’s me to start. Ain’t he a darling;? Do tell me—is mj bang all right! Thanks ever so much! By-by. —•htiia K. WethertU, in Harper*! Bazxr. Entertainment far a Small Party.

A correspondent asks what she can b* ve lor sapper for a small party; haw she cam serve it nicely without mieh difficulty since she is not situated so that she can employ a caterer. She sap* too, that she is tired of oysters, salad and coffee. Every woman w ho eetertalns much company is seized with a kind of despair at times when she considers how limited her possibilities are, and how little variety is allowable, if you are tired of the articles yon have not!htinned above. How will this liill of fare please ton? Have the nicest Seati that can lie made, cot it in thin ciss, batter it evenly and corncientioosly; then make two kinds of sandwiches; in one kind use a filling mi do of ham (cold boiled) chopfied vsjry fine, with raw egg, pepper and austard ad libitum; and just before itting it with the bread add a little vinegar for flavoring. The filling of the sandwich should be of the thickness of one slice of bread. In the others pnt a jfilling of grated cheese; these are very nice, if well made, with cofice or with chocolate; serve with these pickles or olives, or both. Tlien nuve cake and fruit—oranges or ban anas are so easily prepared and are alwas enjoyed. If yon do not wish to have ice cream, sweet cream whipped, sweetened, and Savored and heaped: in wine-glasses is delicious; or substitute a lemon or peach-ice, or a lemonflavored water ice, made in this way: 8 rain the juice of six lemons and put it into a bowl, drop in a large cupful of leaf sugar, add half a pint of water and a pint of sirup made by boiling threequarters of a pound of sugar with nearly a pint of water; when perfectly cold strain this and freeze it; serve in glasses;. It is refreshing and liked by everybody. About serving the supper or ‘{refreshments,” much depends ujxm the number of yonr gues s and the capjicity of your house. If your diningroom is large enough to seat them all a , one time it is a pleasant arrangement to have small tables, prettily covered with linen cloths more or less decorated, aid with fancy cups and plates, and little pitchers and bowls upon them. Have a small card on the plate with the nsime ojf the person to whom that place beltings. This saves any amount of trou ble, a!ad you are sure vour company will be Agreeably placed. You can think it all out beforehand. But if yonr dining-room is small there are ’two oiher courses left open for you. You can set yonr large table handsomely, and invite yonr guests ont at intervals, or allow them to go. as they please, keeping a sort of unnoticed supervision over all, to see that ton many do not go at the same time, and that all are properly attended and waited npon. I think this involves the hostess >n too many difficulties, and renders it impossible for her to enjoy herself, unless indeed she does enjoy having a hard time. The other and easier way is to serve your supper in the parlor, having small tables brought in for that purpose. This correspondent, who is determined that her visitors shall have a good time, says: “What can we do if we are tired of mnsic and readings?” The natural inference is that she or her guests do not dance, or play whist, or “games of chance,” so called (but in which in reality the battle is to the swift and the race to the strong). This being the case, I know of no more delightful way to insure a pleasant evening than to play games with ]>encils and paper. You may need a l ittle courage to introduce these games, but, believe me, you will be surprised at the happy results which will crown yonr efforts. First try making poetry. Have a sufficient number of jiencils provided, distribute them, and {five four slips of paper to each person. Kach must wrijg one word on each slip. Collect them, mix thoroughly, ana then Alow each person to draw out four slips, but do not let him see what the word is upon it until he has it in his hand. It is then the duty of each one to make a verse of poetry and incl ade in it the four words thus drawn. Then each must read when all are done the versedhat he has written. Do not excuse any one from it, for the most unpromising reople often make the lest rhymes. Then after this try writing poems on subjects, all writing on the same subject, or write epitaphs. Another funny exercise is to make conundrums, or when all are seated let one person whisper the name of an object to each one while some one else goes around the circle and whlspeisthe na me of some person, either a historical cliaraeter or an acquaintance; then each must tell why the person and the object are alike, or whv they are unlike. Resemblances or differences may either be taken as an answer. Try these, orseme of them, and yon will be surprised to Bnd out how quick-witted and bright some “young people of all ages” art.— Cor. X. r. Keening Post.

Amusing the Bah;. Little babies are often tortured by well-meaning but inconsiderate muses and friends. If they show any nne.isinsss or nervousness, they are trotted and bounced and jolted till at last, perhaps,.‘they fall asleep from very exhaustion. How would grown people love to be tickled on the soles of their feet; to be roughly clutched in the pit of the stomach and shaken; to be tossed to the ceiling, sometimes just after a hearty dinner; to have their cheeks pinched and kissed by anybody who happens to admire them? Is it sure that tiie baby likes these things? He can’t speak to ob ect if he doesn't. To be sure he laughs nervoi;sly when tickled, but the laugh is almost indistinguishable fron. a cry, and it he becomes desperate, and sends forth a very audible protest, he is caliled “cross.” Poor, much-enduring baby! Tour father would defend himself against Any one who attempted to treat him as you are treated. He considered himself insulted and abused when tossed in a blanket in his school-boy davs. The sickening sensation when dropping from a height is supposed to be more agreeable to you than it was to him then Your mother counts it a had night when she dreams of falling dc>wn from some high elevation. Some young children do undoubtedly enioy rough play. They am of the hardy, reckless kind, who will be endangering themselves continually: as they are growing up, and have numlcrIcss hair-breadth escapes recorded: in their histories. My plea is more especially in behalf of the sensitive, delicate children, who ere frequently^pxeited and rendered wakeful by injudicious strain upon the nervous system. Such need the gentle exercise administered by loving bands, which check them ere pleasure becomes a weariesss. Let us be considerate of the helpless little ones intrusted to our care.—*'(.rm and Fireside. : f —Frank fleet, who robbed a man of fifty oeots on the street in New Fork, fits npne up for ten years,

•SiAtarjussa slid quality, and have ane put up uni :*fi!ered lor sale i* a nest package, done tap in the moat presentable condition, and the other pat up without care in any ill-looking paekajje, and the nice asking one will sell not only the quickest. bat will bring fro m tea to twentyfere per cent more. Every mam, whether he ho a city commission merchant a country storekeeper, or a farmer, trho has tried to self form produce knows this to be the fact; yet three-fourths of our form products are sent to market in a very poor condition to realise gold prices. Fruitmen are generally mate careful than any other daas, taker as a whole, yet seme of them are Tery careless. It is sot putting the best on top that makes hi article sell, bat a uniform quality all through a package is what brink's the best prices, provided it, is put up neatly, and is in good condition. Eggs are more usually sent to t he city in cases, made especially for their use: but the farmer When lie takes the eggs to town packs them in bran, sawdust or outs. If they are dirt] no edort is made to clean them off—they are all eggs, dean or dirty. The majority of fornuers’ wives take their hotter to market i>. large rolls without any paiticulai size or shape. Whatever is made at one churning is rolled rip into on« lump, and the next into anot her lump. The country merchant dumps nil that ciimes into the same h ex and ship it to tlie city, whore it is sold as country batter, at a very low price. When sqjd at retail the purchaser looks over the batter and almost invariably picks out tike neatest-looking rolls, leaving the balance. Many of our house-keepers frumble because country butter is m aw, when the principal part of ti e fault is their own. Take some pains to send your butter to town in heat, clean shape. If you have not got a, stamp purchase one. Make it a rule to have all that yon send look neat and attractive. You will soon hear: Sirs. A makes nice butter; 1 would rather pay five cents more a pound for her butter than any one elsefe liecause it always looks so clean and nice. (;The merchant is sure to know this, and will be willing to pay you accordingly. Yon may think this a little matter, bet it is a fact, as a very little inquiry will convince yon. Every former's wife knows that it often happens that country stores get more butter than the] want, yet if good butter is put up in the right ccnd tion they will often purchase yonrs when under other circumstances they would refuse to buy at all Many a fanner in selling potatoes has suffered loss bj mixing large and small all together; he got a low price by not taking a little care when sorting. These small potatoes when sold by measure amount to but little, as they only fill up the spaces between the large ones, and the] can far better be fed to stock than be allowed to*damage the whole by being sold without proper sorting. The same may be said of the larger prcportioc of trait and vegetables; the smal l specimens cause the large ones to sell at a low price. Give this matter a trial; show the one you are selling to that what you have i* all of the best quality, and is uniform throughout—whether it be potatoes, apples, cabbage, or other farm produce, lion't he foolish enough to imagine you can make anything by patting ithe best .on the top of the barrel. This may do once, but it is sure to react upon yon, and cause more loss than gain. Take treasonable pains to have everything that yon send to market In the best condition possible. Whenever you can, mark your name upon the package, and you will be surprised how quick purchasers will recognize your goods. It will certainly prove profitable If reasonable care is taken.—It, J. Shepherd, in Prairie Farmer. Mixed Farming. While it is not wise for any one It have “too many irons in the fire ” it is, no doubt, the best plan generally for the former to raise j, variety of crops, for by so doing he is reasonably sure o! succeeding with one if be foils; in another. While he nay engage most largely in a particular line, a moderate degree of prudence and foresight would Srovide smaller ventures m other ranches of agriculture, thus increasing the chances of success over the numerous risks that attend Ibis industry. The folly of depending wholly upon any single crop Is painfully Illustrated by the frequent famines that devastate certain parts of the Old World, where the products of agriculture are limited to one 01 two staple articles. This is the case in some parts of the East where rice is the only crop that receives much attention. When this crop fails, for any reason, the people are reduced to a state oi starvation. The same is true of I reland, where the potato is tbs chief and almost sole dependence of the masses of the people. If the potato crop fails, there is straightway a great cry of distress. We have no reason to doubt that othei crops would grow there quite as well at those mentioned, wh le with a variety some would be quite sure of escaping disaster. While the dire results that a,re seen in India and Ireland are not likely to be the result of any methods of farming adopted in this country, yet there is a principle in single-crop farming that it applicable everywhere. It is neediest to mention the risks that must be encountered in the most favored regions, the early and the late Irosts, the droughts of summer, the ravages of insects and many other causes that destroy growing vegetation and wreck Ute hopes of the farmer, m It rarely happens that some class of products do not pass safely through all the vicissitudes of the season; the very causes that contribute to bring rain to one crop may operate in increasing another. 6 There are numerous rea-ens why it is better to raise a variei y of crops than to tax the soil from year to year with the production of tbe . tame kind of vegetation. Even with the use of fertilizers there is seldom a piece of ground sc rich in any givetl material that it will not become impoverished after a tim* by such a process. A succession ol different crops on tbe same ground is advantageous iu more ways than one: the soil is kept In bett er condition, and the chances of success are increased. Mixed farming prevails more generally in this country in the older settled regions where the forms are smaller and markets more accessible, and we believe this is one reason why this class o farmers are more prosperous, eompara tively speaking, than the great land owners who make a specialty of one or two things. The former method affords a better opportunity to put in practice the theories of fine farming and to test the various improvements that mice frotn time to time put forth for the benefit of agriculture. It induce; more careful and systematic work, and gives a zest to she pursuit that would hardly be possi bio where one or two crops receive all the care and attention.—N. Y Otherwr.

—In a late address. Prof. Wilfty gave the result of his investigations te< decide the question: **How fur north may the sugar industry ortenif” He ljeiieves hat the succors of thi>, sorghum; sugar industry will not be found so far north as many of his friends had hoped and many of his devotees prophesied It is vet early to give a delinks answer, hut at present he incl nes to the opinion chat the isothermal lines for September, October and November ttait pass

—If your silver forks or spoons are stained from usinf^in eggs (as Jbey^al—Oil cloths can be kept like near it washed once a month in skim milk and water, equal quantities of each; mb it in well and polish with an old silk cloth, and they wul keep for years.—Cieveland Leader. « —Ginger Snaps: One quart of lasses, one pint lard, one table-spoonful ginger, one tea-spoonful of soda, one egg. Mix and roll an eighth of an inch tuck, and cut out and bake in a moderately hot oven.—Albany Journal. —Cake Pudding: Take old bits of cake (if two or three kinds all the better), break in small pieces, pnt them in a padding dish which has been previously buttered; make a rich custard, pour over the cake, bake or steam. It is made still nicer by adding cocoanut frosting, and setting in the oven till of a light Drown.—Toledo Blade. —Unalterable Paste: Take one tablespoonful of Hour, add gradually one pint of cold water; boil slowly and stir welt to prevent bunting until it thickens: keep boiling till it becomes thin; add one tea-spoonful of nitro-muriatic acid, and bod till it again thickens, when it is ready for use. This paste is harmless, cheap and will neither turn sour nor mold.—Scientific American. —Seedsmen are now giving their own names to the new varieties of ]plants and vegetables they introduce. It is done, it is presumed! for the purpose of advertising, but the practice may lead to good results. A dealer will not be likely to give his own fine to anything that is very inferior. If he has do bts about the value of a new variety he will not associate his name with it and allow it to injure his business.—Chicago Times.

—The quantity of food actually needed by the body depends on the amount of muscular and out-door exercise. Persons who hare a strong constitution. a healthy stomach and take much exercise can eat and digest almost anything with impunity, hut what is good for one is hurtful to another. The most unhealthful kinds of food are those which are made so by bad cook-1 ing, such as sour and heavy bread, cake, pie-crust and other dishes consisting of fat mixed and cooked with Sour.—Scientific MoniMy. In these days of hard competition from increasing skill, brains as well as muscle are re juired to make any line of farming successful. Both are 'needed, but brains are the more important. It is brains that make a man a better farmer than his jackass, which has five times the strength of his master. While a farmer should not be afraid or neglectful of work, he should not so exhaust himself with manual labor as to hare no energy left to give force to his brain. Too many do this. It would be better for them to work less and think more; and make larger drafts on the lower animals for muscular power. In farming nothing pSys bike intelligence.— Rational Lice-Stock Journal.

Care of Farm Ma chinery. Machinery and farming implements are injured more by exposure than by using them in the fields. The cost oi renewing or repairing them is in a large measure preventive. Commenting on this matter. Agriculture, a paper intended for the tenant farmers 'of England, says: There is no department of the farm upon wh'ch ’more carelessness exists than in that of farm machinery, nor is there one in which more money is needlessly wast ed, for where we find one farmer who intelligently uses the machinery of the farm we will find twenty who neglect them. It is but too generally the practice for farmers to hold their implements as things that require no attention aRheir hands, and there are farms upon which there is no provision for storing such under cover; whilst on others yon will find a damp, open shed, into which they are put during the winter, to be brought out, when wanted foe'use, covered with rust; and neces sitating a visit to the implement-maker or/the village Sacksmith before they c;an be put to >rk. Farmers such as these will always be found declaiming against the cost and uselessness of farm machinery. And well they may; but ilhey appear to be utterly oblivious of the fact that it is owing to their own neglect that the greater portion of the expense is incurred. Cleanliness to the machine is the equivalent of ablution to man; diy shelter equivalent to clothing and a dwelling; oil equivalent to food and drink. Without these the frame of man decays; without these the implement decays. As man can not do without these essentials for a lengthened time, and then go to a doctor to be made whole, so a machine, left without them through the winter, can not be restored to its normal state by the implementmaker or the blacksmith. The implement may be cleaned and patched up, but where rust has laid upon it its corrosive gr'p it is immediately injured, and its working life is shortened. These are facts that can not be controverted; and on every farm, be it; large or small, where implements are in use, it will pay, and pay well, to treat them in a rational and common-sense manner. Farmers who thus subject their machinery to bad treatment wonld receive a practical lesson of much value by visiting a large engineering establishment, remarks a correspondent;, of a Scotch journal, and noting the scrupulous cleanliness and brightness of the machinery In use—not a speck of dirt that can be removed, each joint; oiled and working smoothly and nohtelessly. Perhaps it may be said that; implements that are worked oat of doors can not be kept like those in a foundry. Perhaps not; but much can be done that is now but too frequently left undone. Unring the recent harvest wa were in a corn-field on a small larin in the English lake district The ter;.tint was himself . driving a two-horse combined mower and reaper, and we remarked upon the excellent; work he w*s making. His reply was that it had been in work for fifteen years, and had not cost him as many shillings during that time in repairs, whilst similar machines in the district had to go to be repaired every season—all, said he, for lack of a little trouble, a, sup of oil, and a dry bed daring the winimr months. At the end of a day’s work, half an hour Is profitably spent in iriping down a wet machine, and giivung it a rub over with oil, taking good care to always keep the frictional parts in easy working order by means oil oil. At the end of the season extra care shonld be used in thoroughly cleaning machinery that has to- lay by daring the winter, and in oiling and painting, if necessary, to ward off mst. They th en shonld be housed in a dry building, on a wooden floor, if practicable, but should certainly never be allowed to stand all through the winter months on a damp earth floor. These precautions writ pay (or themselves many times over, and the implements, when required for nqxt year’s use, can be made available with very little trouble. Another and valuable point should not be overlooked. If, after the wear and tear of cuttting, a machine is seen to be in need of repair, let it be done at once. Do not leave the repair over until spring, for there is the probability of its liming forgotten until it is absolutely wanted. Let it be done in the autumn, when there ia time to aee that it is done properly. If leftto the busy time in the spring, there is the almost certainty of the work being scamped, and valuable tram lost in consequence of » break-down.-t-Crieoffo

Some one has said that a weed can he exterminated far better before it has grows than killed after it has secured a root growth. Extermination means keeping land free from weeds until their season of spontaneous growth is over, or other crops have become to fully occupy the soil. In corn-fields, potatoes, « even wheat, the best plan is to plant rather deeply, say about two inches loir corn, and then before the crop is up a fine slant-tooth harrow may be passed over both before and after the plants are up without injury to th in. Tile operation may beeontlnued once a week "until the corn is afoot high Some of the plants may be bent over, but they will be erect again in a day or twee After this, a shallow enlti at or may be run between the rows tin the eo n is as high as the horse’s back. Tliis work, properly perform d, wilt leave the held as clean as a floor— the small slant teeth killing the sprouting seed in the row and among the plan s, as well as over the whole surface ; anil: the subsequent cultivating keeping the space clean between the rows.—Civet land Herald.

—Their may be several of oar readers who do not know what evolution means. tor the benefit of such it affords u» pleasure to state that, according to Herbert Spencer, evolution is amply “an integration o ' matter and concomitant dissipation of motion, during which the matter parses from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to definite, coherent heterogeneity, and during which, the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.’' Now that they know the definition of evolufon, they will marvel that it never occurred to them before.—C.,i:aqo l tines. Important Trade-Mark Injunction in England. A London telegram of May 5th says: “In the suit of the Charles A. Vogeler Com. pany, of .Baltimore, against Parrott & Co., of this city, the Court of Appeals has granted the plaintiffs a perpetual injunction, with costa. The action, which grew ont of an alleged infringement of plaintiff’s well-kno'im trade-mark, St. Jacob’s Oil, was originally heard in the High Court of Justice w here Vice Chancellor Bacon, without going into the merits of the case, considered it eras one that should go before the Comptroller of trade-marks. From this opinion the Vogeler Company appealed, claiming that they were being injured by tthe goods of the defendants, entitled St. David’s Oil, being mistaken for theirs, and that while they had taken steps to bring m case before the Comptroller of trade-marks, months would elapse before a decision could be obtained, and as their business would be seriously injured by such delay, a restraining order should be granted at once. The result. of the appeal was that a perpetual injunction was made, with costs. The proceedings before the Comptroller' have been abandoned by the defendants, and the Baltimore house has thus achieved a doable vrictory. By the order cf the Court of Appeal, Parrott ft Co. and their agents are perpetually restrained from using the term St. David’s Oil, or any similar term, as well as the words ’The Great German Remedy,’ and any words or marks similar to those used by the Vogeler Company in connection with their St. Jacob’s Oil- The progress of this suit has been watched with interest by the mercantile and manufacturing commnnity of Great Britain, where thousands of trademarks of almost incalculable value are owned. It was shown by the evidence that plaintiffs had sold daring the past few years over seven million bottles of St. Jacob’s Oil, and expended as high "»vas five hundred thousand dollars in a single year for advertising throughout the world. Their ~ success in this suit is regarded with great satisfaction in business circles. Eminent English <ind American legal talent figured in the case. The counsel for the Vogeler Co., of which latter Mr. H. D. TJmbstaetter was personally present, were Queen’s Counsel Theodore Aston, John Cutler and TheodoreMacKenna, of London; Rowland Cox, of New York, and General William Henry Browne, of Washington.” Hx that takes a wife takes care.—Franklin. Yos, he takes care that his wife doesn’t catch him huggging the servant girl.—Detroit Post. PAPlLtON Skin Cure is a specific cure for all skin diseases—Salt Rheum, Erysipelas, Rash, Inflammation, Insect Bites, Inordinate Itching, Ulcers, Cuts, Wounds, Bums or Scalds, and all Scrofulous Eruptions. When was Mrs. Noah like a county in Virginia! When she was rocking Ham. Ir afflicted with Sore Byes, nee Dr. Isaaa Thompson's Rye Water. Druggists sell it. sso. Whex the leaves begin to turn—When the teacher looks up to see who is studying his lesson.—Boston Post Don’t Tow Do It. Don’t suffer any longer with the pains and aches of Rheumatism which make life a burden to you. Relief, speedy and permanent, can be procured at the nearest drug store, in the form of Kidney-Wort. El bridge Malcolm of Vest Batb, Maine, says: “I was completely prostrated with Rheumatism and Kidney troubles and was not expected to recover. The first dose of Kidney-Wort helped mo. Six doses put me on my feet, it has now entirely cured me and I have had no trouble since.” The prize fighter's wife, when asked about her husband’s business, replies that be is employed in a mill. Mercury and Potash Are dangerous even when administered by directions and under theeyeof a good physician, and when put up in nostrums, often by incompetent persons, are apt to produce evil consequences. Be careful of these poisonous mixtures or yon may regret it. Swirr’s Specific is not only preferable to these dangerous compounds in the treatment of Blood and Skin diseases, bn’ eliminates the poison of Mercury and Po ash from the system by toning np the organism end forcing ont the poison through the pores of the skin. Treatise on Blood and Skin Disease* mailed free. The Swift Specific Co-, Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.

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Referring to the hot water craze the Button Boat remarks that some people are always in ho! water. Repeated requests hare induced the pro* prietors of Lydia £. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to send by mail to various lady correspondents, large mounted portraits of Mrs. Pinkham: and now many a house* hold wall is adorned by the familiar, Brotherly face of the Massachusetts woman who has done so much for all women. A culinary exchange tells “ howto'hse cold boiled cabbage.” An exoellent way is to give it away to a beggar. We hear occasionally of civil engineers, bat how is it we never hear of civil brakemen?— Oil Cila Derrick. Pawllon B'ood Cure is absolutely vegetable, a posi' ive core for diseases of the blood and liver. AU druggists sell it. A counter-irritant—The woman who offers ten cents a yard for forty-cent goods. —Norristown Herald. E3*A thing of Beauty. The most brilliant shades possible, on all fabrics, are made by the Diamond Dyes. TTnequaled for brilliancy and durability. 10c. at druggists. Bend Sc. for SI Sample Colors. Wells, Richardson Sc Co., Burlington, Vt. A plash of lightning has some striking characteristics. Mrs. "E. Forbes, of Potsdam, N. Y., wri’es: “ Samaritan Nervine cured my son of epilepsy.” Warn a man goes to the hair-dresser’s in warm weather ho takes a short cut. James Beecher,M.D.,of Sigourney, la., says: ”1 have been using a Cough Balsam, called Dr. Wm. Hall’s Balsam for th* Lungs, and in almost every case 1 have had entire success.” One doesn’t notice that a car window is anything like an oyster until he trys to openi.—Dockland Courier-Gazette. Hale's Honey cf Horehonnd and Tar Checks cold and prevents bronchitis. Pike’s toothache drops cure in one miuute. For Bronchial, Asthmatic and Pulmonary Complaints, “Brown’s Bronchial TYoches” manifest remarkable curative properties. Hold only in bores. 25 cts. Boils, Carbuncles and scalds are eliminated by using Samaritan -Yerffliis. AU druggists. For a cold in t he head, there is nothing so good as PisA Remedy for Catarrh. LEASH TELEGRAPHY S£*\£gs£-BSS chance ever otteresl Ad, J. D. Bfiows, Mgr., Sedalfct. Mo. AMERICAN || A|fif C0MPAN1 Send far Catalog^?. %&§$§ Jf Trenton, 5.1. Wtgs&Wave* sent «LOJh anywhere. Wholesaled; Retail Price-list.free. Ctcodajriaraateed. BXLSteml, *57 If abash aY,Chic&s<*. BBYAMT ft STMITM^r;^SorSSmTby mart on me short-Lmi msehtne in one-third the usual time. Graduate* DwtwMfal in paingouplojimat. ||VER . * ar'Drrj HBSt. Bernard 1 “ST. SESMASS YEBETtflE PIUS.'' Tfee 2«t t^re ***** RtUoos complaints.Hraditcbe and &5 apep*U. Prlie, Z5e. ar Drr«rfii»* nr by mail. " Saaple* fVre. BemnxdPlinSateay CSBfetwr 8t. Bear York* *THK BIST SB CMC APS ST.” &IHRESHERSSS QomliBtn (Salted to all sections.) , Writo Tor FSi EK Hbss. Pamphlet - — ~ ^ - maui! d Prices to Ttie A Gltuvxa £ Taylor Got* ManslieUl. t MMgfcglfflr Catarrh Causes ho Pain ws&drm ©r Dread. Cares ipssi prwEsilli Belief at Once. Hot a liquid cr snuff. Applied with the anger. Thorough treat* HAT-FEVER meat will ewe.

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