Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 26, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 November 1893 — Page 7

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. —Carers far cups and glasses used ia a sick room can be made of card-board and covered with a crotchet cover ol either -white silk, wool cr cotton, as preferred, a small loop being put in the middle of the top to lift it by. —Browned Potatoes.—Let potatoes boil until they-arc nearly done; half an hour before taking your meat roast from the oven put the ’ potatoes in the dripping-pan with it and baste them often with the meat gravy. Serve as Boon as they are a delicate brown.— Prairie Farmer. —Blanquet of Chicken—Cut up and cool boiled chicken. IVnid one large tablespoonful of flour; add one large cupful of white sauce; cook two minutes; add salt, pepper, and one cupful of cream. Boil up, add fowl and boil ten minutes. Beat the yolks of four eggs with four tablespoonfuls of milk, and add. Serve with rice border, or garnish of toast.—Good Housekeeping. —Jam Cakes—One cup of sweet milk, one cup'of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, and four eggs, one teaspoonful of soda and two of cream tartar. When the batter is made put one cup of jam in one half the batter, and bake the cake in layers. It will make four layers. Stack it up with icing between, putting the plain and jam cake alternately. —Lemon Pie.—The juice and grated peel of .three lemons, two good-sized apples, grated (or three crackers), two cups of sugar, three eggs (reserving the whites of two for the meringue) and one cup $f milk. Bake half an hour in nice pie crust. When baked, cover the tops of the pies with the whites of three eggs beaten to a stiff /froth. Smooth it over with a knife, ana'set it in the oven to brown.—Boston Budget. —Peach Catsup.—Select firm, ripe peaches; weigh, rub off the down with a damp cloth, halve, cook and strain. Allow half a pound of sugar for every pound of fruit, and for eight pounds of the latter allow three teacupfuls of vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of cinnamon, one of mace and the grated rinjj of two lemons. Put the pulp and seasoning in a porcelain kettle, boil until as thick as desired, and bottle.— Country Gentleman. —For Soiled Carpet.—To remove soiled spots from a carpet, taike very hot water with a little ammonia added, then with a small brush and a cloth wrung as dry as can be, begin by dipping thdSfbrush into the water; then rub the spots, dipping the brush into the water often. When the spot is removed, rub with the cloth until the carpet is as dry as can be. When dry it will look fresh and nice. With the brush one can use the water very hot, and remove spots very rapidly.—Kural New Yorker. —Fish Soup—This dish can be made of remnants of both boiled and baked fish, or of fresh fish. Take a pound of the latter and boil in salted water until it flakes easily, then drain, remove the skin and bones afid run through a coarse strainer or a fine colander. Cook a slice of onion in a quart of milk ten minutes, remove the onion and thicken the milk with one tablespoonful of butter and two tablespoonfuls flour rubbed smoothly together; cook five minutes, then stir in the fish and season with salt and pepper. Let it boil up once and serve.—Farm, Field and Fireside.

I WU MUblUAL UUUb. Carious Stories Told ot Critical Canine Ears. A wonderful story of a French musical critic is related by persons who profess to have been acquainted with him, and who have seen him in attendance on musical performances. He was a dog, and his name in public was Parade; whether he had a different name at home was never known. At the beginning olf the French revolution he went every day to the military parade in front of the Tuileries palace. He marched with the musicians, halted with them, listened knowingly to their performances, and after the parade disappeared, to return promptly at parade time the next day. Gradually the musicians became attached to this devoted listener. They named him Parade, and one or another of them always invited him to dinner. He accepted the invitation, and was a pleasant guest. It was discovered that after dinner he always attended the theater, where he seated himself calmly in the corner of the orohestra and listened critically to the music. If a new piece were played he noticed it instantly, and payed the strictest attention. If the piece had fine, melodious passages he# showed his joy to the best of doggish ability; but if the piece were ordinary and uninteresting he yawned, stared about the theater, and unmistakably expressed his disapproval. Another very curious story of a canine musical ear is told of a '"London organ-grinder’s dog. The organ-grind-er was blind and aged, and the dog used to lend him about. One night, after a hard day’s work, the old man and his faithful companion lay down to sleep with the organ beside them. They slept soundly*,- and when they awoke the organ was gone. They were in despair. Their means of earning a living was gone. But the dog led the old man through the streets where he had been accustomed to play, and persons wbo had given him alms before continued to befriend him, so that the loss of the organ proved not su bad after all. Weeks went by. One day the old man heard a hand organ played a few feet from him. It reminded him of his lost instrument, but he paid no special attention to it. Hand organs •were common in London and he heard them often. Not 60 the dog. He showed signs of great excitement, barked violently" and led his master in the direction ,of the organ. He sprang at the robbers^ throat, dragged him away from the stolen organ and led his master eagerly up to it with expresions of recognition and delight— Manchester Times._,__ All Timt’s Needed. •» Blanche—Do you think I will ever make a good singer? Fred (encouragingly)—Yes, indeed; »11 you lack now is a good voice.— Puck.

FARM AND GARDEN. WINTERING THE BEES. To Do It SucreMtully Ii the Great Point in Apiculture. Many hives are lost during a long spell of hard freezing by getting separated from their supplies. The cluster being located in the'center, so long as the bees can reach their stores they will survive all right. But, having exhausted all within the reach of the cluster, they will perish, though abundance of food be in the remote combs. To avoid this, we h ave cut inch holes, with a sharp knife, in the center of all the combs, to render them more accessible to the bees. When left to themselves to construct their own combs, following their unerring - instinct, they will leave passages, rendering all their combs accessible. This is all prevented by the use of full sheets of foundation, which cause the b^)g£ to build them solid; hence, the necessity of making artificial holes in these combs to correspond to the natural passageways of the bees. Another device to secure the same thing was invented by Mr. Hill, and, from the name of the inventor, it is called “Hill's Device.” It is simply placed upon the top of the frames, and secures an open passage from one to the other. The following cut will enable anyone to understand its nature and construct it. We

> 1HLL 8 DEVICE. have made very excellent ones out of the staves of old barrels that have failed down, by cutting a piece from each end of the stave, and using- the bulged part. By nailing several of' these together and placing them on the frames, with the bulged side uppermost, we have a cheap and excellent device for securing an open passage over the frames, whenever the bees desire to change their position. It is well to have all feeding done before cold weather sets in. Whatever feeding has to be done, do it at once, and let the bees have time to seal it over. It will then be under their immediate control and management, which will be wise and economical. Put chaff cushions over the frames as large as the tops of the hives will allow. These are made out of coffee sacks and filled with1 wheat chaff. The chaff acts as an absorbent, and will prevent the accumulation of moisture in the hive, besides retaining the animal heat of the bees. When the size of the hive will prevent the use of such a cushion, it will pay to make an outside case for the entire hive out of a store box or light boards, and. Having set the hive proper within it, pack the space between the walls with chaff, making provision for the bees to pass through this space by a small tunnel into the air through an opening in the outer case, corresponding to the entrance to the hive. Such a device, when properly defended from rain and mice, will be of invaluable advantage to the bees, in keeping up uniformity of temperature during the long, cold, freezing spells of gloomy winter. Wintering bees safely is the great point in successful apiculture. Those who can do this well need not despair in making a success of bees and honey. As this has been and still is the dead ; point of the business, nearlyall failures have been here. By successful wintering we not only mean the preservation of the life of our bees until the return of spring, but also that they shall be sufficiently numerous to pass the several trials of spring in safety, and have their hives overflowing with bees at the opening of the honey flow. This is successful wintering, and when it is accomplished our labors will be crowned with abundant success.—William Ballantine, in American Farmer.

AMONG. THE POULTRY. It is our opinion that you will have a better potato crop next season if some of those “seed potatoes” you are savingare boiled and fed to the hens during ttie winter. If the water dish is kept in the hen house have one that does not leak. Some houses are made damp by the amount of water that leaks out of the drinking vessel. Dry quartere are needed to give health and vigor to poultry. We believe in fresh air for poultry, but it seems .to us that the cold and melancholy winds that play around the tree tops just.now must be a little too fresh for the good of those hens that are compelled, for lack of better shelter, to roost in them. If your henhouse is smaUi its borders may be enlarged so as to give a sunning place for the hens this winter by building a sbed. A north side and a roof will do if no more can be provided. Take some poles, make a frame and bank <Up and cover with straw and the deed is done. tlske an Acre Double Its Crop. Instead of cultivating too much land the true system of successful farming is to make an acre double its crop. 'To do so the manure and fertilizer should not be spread over a large surface. It does not pay to give a plant only half enough for its support, bat rather to give it all that it needs, as will be the ease when a small plot receives the manure. Economy of labor and a lessening of the cost in fertilizers, as well as larger profits from an acre, will ther be assured._ to Maks Beans Larger. If pole lima beans are pinched back when they grow to a height of five feet the size of the crop will not be reduced but the beans will be larger. All the beans that set after the vine reaches this height will be killed by frosts unless the season is a very late one, and it is useless to let the strength of the plant go to the formation of the sxtra pods from which nothing will ner be realized.

THE SHEEP BUSINESS. Valuable Hint ft for Those Who Think of Engaging in It. Prot Craig- has given some valuable pointers to those who are about to enter the sheep business. First: Study your farm conditions and team exactly what sheep will thrive ltest upon it. Second: If you are not able to purchase even a small flock of pure bred or high graded sheep then put all you can advantageously in a pure bred ram and after that do the best you can in buying ewes. Start right, even if upon a small scale. The sheep will rapidly increase. Third: In purchasing a ram get one fully developed, strong in bone, straight shaped and thoroughly typical of his breed and sex. Fourth: Do not purchase sheep that you have to trust in for proper development It is only the experienced breeder who can forecast development Fifth: Never take an ill-doing sheep, even if it is cheap, with the expectation that it will become all right Sixth: in selecting sheep if possible handle them so that you may know how much of their form is due to themselves and how much to the shears. Seventh: Select as critically as you can to a chosen type. Uniformity is a cheap feature for you to buy and yet a valuable one in a flock. Eighth: There is no sheep that embodies perfection in sheep qualities. Judging between different sheep is a checking of weaknesses and a balancing of qualities. Be inclined towards the sheep that appears to be better every time it catches your eye. Ninth: The purchaser will find it to his interests to select from field sheep and thereby shun those that have been fitted for show. Tenth: The best time to buy is usually in the fall. Provision may be made with the seller to have the ewes served by a ram of different breeding from the one you buy and thereby you add another season’s use to the ram of your flock. TO HANG A PORKER. A Contrivance to Lessen the Labor o» Dressing Hogs. As cold weather comes on the number of porkers slain for home use will in crease. The labor of dressing them may be materially lessened by the use of the “hanging post,” illust rated herewith. No. 2, in sending it to Farm, Field and Fireside, says: “Take • m

round post twelve feet long, mortise two holes three feet from the top. slip in two crossbars. Make a round tenon on top, put on cap and pin above, or put hook on back part and hook to staple in post Leave loose, so it can turn to swing hog out of the way of the next.” On this four hogs may be hung. If the post is set loose in a neat-fitting hole three feet deep it, the post, -can be taken out after using and put under cover. FOR A PULLING HORSE. A Halter Which No Animal Will Ever Succeed iu Breaking. An excellent halter for a pulling horse is one made as shown in the accompanying cut. It is similar to the common halter, except that the chin strap is double and the ring by which the horse is fastened attaches to only

one of the pieces, forming a noose which tightens upon the horse’s jaw whenever he pulls. When the puller finds he accomplishes nothing except his own discomfiture, he is usually willing to give up the effort. The entire halter must be strong, so he will never succeed in breaking it. A colt .should never he tied with anything weaker than a half-inch inanilla rope, that he may never learn his power.—A- G. West, in Farm and Horn*. Introducing New Blood. When the flock is to be improved by procuring males from elsewhere, the farmer should so arrange his yards as to know what to expect. If he turns the newly acquired male out to become a member of the flock, where there may be other males, his object may not be attained. The proper plan to pursue is to seleet the best hens in the floek, about one dozen, and place them in a yard with the selected male in 'the spring, about a month before the; time for hatching the chicks arrives, it will do no harm to allow all of ihe hens to be together during the winter, provided they are separated as mentioned, in the spring. If new blood is to be introduced you must be sure that you are accomplishing your purpose, t,?hich demands personal attention until the hatching season is over, when the Dales will no longer he required.

WORD HISTORY. Tea is a Chinese word. Ukase is of Russian origin. Gin was first made in Genera. Acre formerly meant any field. Villain was formerly a farmer. Pillow lace is made on a pillow. Candy was first made in CaDdia. Guinea fowls came from Guinea. Frieze first came from Friesland. Peck was once only a poke or bag. Lemons originally came from Lima. Florins were first made in Florence. Huzzy is a corruption of house wife. Apocrypha means hidden or spurious. Magnets were discovered at Magnesia. Tulle was invented at Tulle, in France. Canaries came from the Canary islands. Gillyflower is a corruption of July flower. Taboo and tattoo are of Polynesian origin. Sarsanet was first made by the Saracens. Farewell means, may you fare or travel well. Broadcloth took its name from its unusual width. WORLD’S FAIR TROPHIES. The McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Awarded Seven Medals and Diplomas Tor the Superior Excellence of Their Binders and Mower*. Chicago, Oct. 34th. At the World’s Columbian Exposition today seven medals and seven diplomas were awarded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company of this city. "These honors are in recognition of the merit of the following named machines manufactured by the McCormick Company: The Machine of Steel, Bindlochine, Open Elevator, McCormick Simple Knoiter, No. 4 Steel Mower, Big 4 Steel Mower and the Corp Harvester. These, the highest awards, are based on the performance of the McCormick machines be fore the judges in the field, at the regular field trials of the Exposition, held at YVavne, 111., in July last, the machines tested being those regularly built for the general trade. It is a significant fact that of all the manufacturers of harvesting machinery having exhibits at the World’s Fair, the McCormick Company alone complied with the committee's request to show the capabilities of their machines in the field. The first successful reaper was invented by Cyrus Hail McCormick in 1831, and from that time to this the McCormick machines have had a decided prestige over all others. They have won the grand gold medals and highest awards at every World’s Fair, and it was possibly for this reason that sixteen different manufacturers of Binders and Mowers did not compete in the field with them. Throughout the entire season these sixteen concerns, in their efforts to have a floor award granted, have done everything possible to baffle the Commission and prevent a fair opeu field exhibit that should test the working qualities of the machines. And now, after a four months’ fight by the makers of harvesting machines who did not dare meet McCormick in the field—a light in which the United States Commission voted at every turn that the only way to examine a machine was by seeing it at work in the field—and after having signed an agreement with all the others not to show in the field, one concern wanted an award so badly that only two weeks ago it went so far as to get a secret permit to pay the expenses of a new Committee, to secretly accompany their special machines Jo a remote section of Colorado, where no other machines could be shown, and where the crop (If there is any left) must be much lighter, and the surface of the ground firmer, with the evident hope that these conditions would insure as easy work and as light draft as were shown by the regular McCormick machines in the official tests in July, in the very heavy grain then harvested. The diplomas awarded the McCormick machines speak in highest terms of their efficiency, ease of hand ling and extreme light draft. The McCormick No. 4 Mower showed wonderful power at work, and a 5 ft. cut machine, in a field averaging three tons to the acre, with a dynamometer perfectly adjusted by the U. S. Custodian of Government Weights and Measures, drew at work, at an average draft of 153 lbs. The judges pronounce this a remarkable performance. The McCormick Binders, cutting 6 ft. of heavy oats on uphill ground, anil carrying bundle carriers, measured by the same standardized dynamometer, showed a draft as low ns 320 lbs., and none higher than 360 lbs. This wonderful showing was a great revelation to many distinguished foreigners at the trial, and no one present was at a loss to know why more machines did not take part in the tests. Orator—“Where else will you find in one spot such products as marble, iron, clay, chalk, copper, lead, slate, glucose, fruits of all kinds, hemp, flax, and all manner of grains!” Man in Audience—“In my boy’s pocket.”—W a

THE MARKETS. Nsw York. Nov. 6, 1893. S 10 8* 4 10 68 V4 47X 36* CATTLE—Native Steers. 83 60 0 COTTON—Middling.. 8310 FLOUR—Winter Wheat.. 2 26 0 WHKAT—No. 2 Red. 68 0 OOKN—No. 2...... 47M0 OATS—Western Mixed. S6 0 PORK—New Mess.. 18 00 0 20 00 ST. LOUIS COTTON—Middling. 7£0 BEEVES—Shipping Steers... 4 70 0 Medium. 4 36 0 HOGS—Fair to 9llect. 5 85 © SH REP—Fatrto Choice. 2 50 0 FLOUR—Patents. 3 05 0 Fancy to Extra Do.. 2 30 0 WHEAT—No. 2 Red Winter. . 58X0 CORN—No.2 Mixed.:. 36 0 OATS—No. 2.:. O RYE—No.2. 44 O TOBACCO-Lugs.... 6 50 © Leaf Hurley. 1000 0 HAY—Clear Timothy . 9 00 @ BUTTER—Choice Dairy. 20 0 EGGS—Fresh. 0 PORK—Standard Mess (Kewh. © BACON—Clear Rib.. 0 LARD—Prime Steam.. .. .... 0 CHICAGO. - CATTLE—Shipping. 3 55 KOGS—Fafrto Choice. 5 75 SHEEP—FalrtoChoice.. 8 00 FLOUR—Winter Patents — .. 3 75 Spring Patents.. 3 40 0 WHKAT—No. 2. Spring. 0 „ No. 2 Red.. 0 fcORN—No.2.- O OATS—No. 2.„. 0 PORK-Mess (new). 17 0!) 0 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers.... 2 50 0 HOGS—All Grades.. * 50 0 WHEAT—No. 2 Red. 54 O OATS—Ns 2. 25510 CORN—No 2. 31 0 NEW ORLEANS. PLOCR—High Grade. 3 10 0 CORN—No. 2.. 0 OATS—Western.... 0 HAY—Choice. 15 75 0 PORK—New Mess. 0 BACON-Sides.... 10 0, COTTON—Middling. 0> CINCINNATI. WHEAT—No. 2 Red.- ... 0 CORN—No. 2 Mixed.., .... 0 OATS—No. 2 Mixed. 0 PORK—New Mesa.. .... O 1 BACON—Clear Rlha. 0 OOTTON—Middling. 0

* Cream of Tartar and Soda t Have uses in cooking weD known to every housekeeper ; but the method of refining them to make them chemically pure, and of mixing them together so as to produce their greatest leavening powe^ and best results when combined, is a matter of great exactness, requiring the most expert knowledge and skill. Royal Baking Powder Is the product of this knowledge, and experience and the expenditure of many thousands of dollars in patents and appliances for its preparation. It is a compound of strictly pure ‘ grape cream of tartar and_ absolutely pure soda, combined with 6 exactness and care by famous chemists, and it will produce more ■wholesome and delicate bread, biscuit, cake, rolls, etc., than can be had where this modern agent of cooking is not used. Beware of the cheap compounds called baking powders to catch the unwary. They are made with alum and are poisonous.

—Lawyer Bunker, of Ellsworth, Me., recently had an unprecedented contest with an angry bull on the Hancock county fair grounds at that place. He seized the angry beast by the horns, and, after an exciting tussle, actually succeeded in downing the bull *Since then the young farmers of the county have been practicing at this hazardous Wrestling, and most any average-sized-man will now boast of his ability to upset any bull in the count}*. Competitive challenges have been the natural outcome,, and Bucksport has just issued a defiance to Ellsworth to match its star against any “rarsler" (wrestler) in the latter place.' “horns holt, best two out of threefculls.” —Japanese women sent to the Columbian exposition silk embroidery so exquisite as to make almost all other work.of the sort look clumsy by com-, parison. It was mostly in the form of panels and screens, and so faithfully reproduced nature as to rival the work of the brush. Espeeial mention should be made of their marvelous success and fidelity to nature in reproducing the iridescent plumage of the duck, which no brush ever so faithfully portrayed. The work bears microscopical examination. appearing more beautiful the closer it is scrutinized. —The longest day of the year at Spitzbergen is three and one-half months. At Wardbury, Norway, the longest day lasts from May -1 to July 33, without intermission. At Tornea, Finland, June 31 is twenty-two hours long, and Christmas has less than three hours of dayligat. At-St. Petersburg the longest day is nineteen hours, and the shortest is five hours. At London the longest day is sixteen and onehalf hours, at Montreal it is sixteen hours, and at New York it is about fifteen hours. —Paynter Frame, a farmer of Sussex county, Del., shipped to President Cleveland a watermelon weighing sev-enty-two pounds and measuring fortyeight inches one way round and sixty inches the other. It is in Mr. Frame's region that watermelons are varnished and kept to grace the Christmas dinner table. It is here, too. that the pulp of the watermelon is boiled and preserved in sugar as a winter delicacy. Reader Harmless the Pestilential Yapoi Of malaria, and the diseases it bejjets, with a course of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters at the beginning of those seasons when miasma impregnates! the air and poisons the system. It is a most efficient safeguard and remedy long tried and proved. Liver complaint, dyspepsia, constipation, incipient rheumatic ana kidnev trouble and nervousness are promptly relieved by it. Tne debilitated, elderly anil delicate benefit greatly by its use. Wuex some people are left to entertaiu themselves with their own thoughts there are two awfully bored persons in the company.—Youug Men’s Era. In Olden Times People overlooked the importance of permanently beneficial effects aud were satisfied with transient action, but now that it is generally known that Syrup of Figs will permanently cure habitual constipation, well-informed people will not buy other laxatives, which act for a time, but finally injure the system. It is truthfully remarked that the tramp probably puts more sole into his profession than many men of eveu higher aspirations. —Hatchet. Pleasant, Wholesome, Speedy, fbr coughs is Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Mrs. York-“You say your son died of bronchia] trouble!” Mrs.' Braska—“Yes, throwed from a broncho.”

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