Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 15, Number 52, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 June 1885 — Page 7

Improving Soils.

In tbis country there are chiefly two kinds of bad land for the fanner to fight. One li the stiff, wet clay* soiL The other is the light, dry. sandy soil. The first bakes and becomes tod hard and brick-like for the root* of plants to enter. What the second is like was described along time ago in the parable of the sower. The teed sprouted and sprang up quickly, but when the sun came it withered the plants, they dried and that was the end of them. The sandy soil dries out quickly, and roots cannot be firmly fixed therein. Of the two bad soils, clay and nfjy*l the sond is the hardest to improve. Rather strangely, however, the remedy is the same in both instances. It is red clover. At least red clover is better than anything else. It should be harvested when in bloom. The second crop should be plowed under, green, in the falL Good soil is made up of clay, sand and loam, or decayed vegetable matter. The strong, tough clover roots wedge themselves into the clay and make it loose friable. On the other hand, the same strong, tough roots compact the loose sand, hold it together and keep moisture from drying out

Dark colored soils are richer, a* a general thing, than light. As ground become* poorer it grows noticeably lighter in color. A ton of clover hay enriches annually an acre of ground to the value of $10. That is to say, it gives the soil fertilizers that would cost that much. Whatever adds clay to a sandy soil and increases its stock of vegetable matter makes it richer and heavier. Steady effort year after year In this direction will tell, on both the sandy and the clay soils. Rich ground should be one of the chief objects of a farmer's existence. ij

Raising Celery.

It is time now to be looking out for celery plants, to supply the table during the winter. All things considered, the best variety is perhaps the new

WHIT* PLUMB CELERY.

It is crisp, sweet and tender, and best of all needs not the laborious "banking up" that the other kinds require.

In July tbo celery plants are set out for the crop. The seeds should hare been planted early—as soon as the ground was dry enough to be worked. Seedlings must b* thinned out to three inches space between them. Plants, however, can probably be obtained by those who have not raised them for themselves. The seeds should have been sown in abed of rich soil, and kept clear of weeds until time for setting out. "It will require from 200 to 500 plants to supply an ordinary family. The plants must be put out in a strong, rich soil, thoroughly well mixed with manure. Mark out with a line rows four feet apart. Set the plants six inches apart. The setting out is a matter of care and delicacy. The plant must be put into the soil Just to the depth of the roots, otherwise the heart will be covered with earth and choked up. Spread the roots out and tramp the earth in firmly over and about them and water them plentifully. Now keep the weeds down till Sentetnber. Here the advantage of tho White Flume celery corner in. As cool weather approaches it bleaches itself, the stalks and inner loaves turn to a rich cream white. It you have this sort in September draw the stalks together in a mass, and hoe the toil up against them to keep them together. That is all that is necessary. Tho picture show* this variety as it grows, ready for use, needing only to bo taken up, trimmed and washed. It is a handsome table ornament in brief, as pretty as it is good.

If, however, yon have other plants than the White Plume, begin in September and draw the earth up with the hce on each side of the celery around the plants. Bring the earth nearly to the top of tho plants, and press it firmly about them till all the stalks are covered. So let it rest till October or November.

For winter table use, the celery may be put into trenches as aeea in the illustration.

cxLsar ix TRXWCHM FOB wcrrxa. Dig it up from the banks in installments, according as it Is wanted. Dig then a very narrow trench, not more than ten inches wide. Pack the celery into this trench, upright, being cartful that no eot! ts put between the heads. Pack closely without bruising the stalks, and draw the earth doe* about tfes top. The trench should be the depth ot the height of the oelery stalk. Nothing will be left above ground except the tip of green leaves. Thus the celery will blanch and grow nutty. The row* must be covered with leaves or straw at the approach of the coldest weather to keep the earth frcsn free sing so that the plants cannot got at.

The above Isthe mfcthod of storing celery for market UML The best way for ordinary family use is to vatic tt in boxes in the cellar. Get narrow boxes, not quite as deep as the oelery is high, and fill in the bottom with a few fetches of soO. Pack the celery in theee boxes upright^ with only the roots in the soil. Pat the bane in a cool cellar and the thing is dotoe. Ibr u» at Christmas time, dig up and pack tike plants about Oct 9ft for Ja&sary, about the seoood I week ia November, aad Ibaft nrcsriyspriag about the lest November. In localities 1 where the treses up comes early, it will not do to risk Jt oat later then Nev. tt. Tbm stalk* ssait be kept dry when packed Sar winter we.

Anddtmft fafi tophfttit&ife JWy. Do it now jf you aim ttd before, Celery is palatable beyopd ipoet gantea relisfaes

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With the salt meats and dried vegetables of winter it rounds out the variety of foods in a most satisfactory way.

Celery-growing is very profitable, too, in localities where there is a market. A family would go into its culture would make a good part of their living off it. Near cne of the large cities, a few years ago, there was what was thought to be an irredeemable swamp. There were several acres* in it. But one day a genius bought it for a song, tho merest trifle. He drained it and went into celery culture—that alone. In a few years he had made a comfortable fortune. The acres of hopeless swamp clear many thousand dollars every year. The heavy, atiit soil is of unknown depth almost, and it was just what celery needs.

American celery is better than that in Great Britain.' There the attention is given to producing giant stalks. They are rather coarse a«d green. Here the dwarf stalks are the favorite, and they have a crisp, delicate, nutty flavor unknown on the other side oi the water.

Plenty of*Water for Celery Plants. Celery is a vegetable that drinks constantly. If its thirst is not quenched the stalki grow tough and hollow-stemmed. Keep tb« plants growing from the time they appeal above ground in the seed bed

Transplant

them to rich soil—give them water as often as they need it, and give it in abundance, and you will have tender, plump celery

W JaSXl Pasture Grasses. The butchers of my town, who are familiar with every pasture in the township, say that I have the best one they have seen, and I attribute it to the fact that I seeded heavily with mixed grasses. I sowed more timothy than my neighbors do when seeding for meadow, then I put one bushel of blue grass seed to the acre, and on the richest land I sowed orchard grass, and along the run red-top, and I mixed with the timothy enough clover seed to make three or four pounds to the acre. My management of this pasture since it was sown has been such that it has grown better every year. I have always kept the stock off from it from the time the ground first froze in the fall, till the ground was well settled and the feed good in the spring, and while I have often stocked it heavily so that it has been eaten close in June and July, I have always reduced the stock in the latter part of the season so as to have growth enough to furnish protection to the roots through the winter. With such a pasture as I describe of mixed grasses, a cow will need no extra food while the pasture is good, but will give a full flow of milk but if the pasture does not contain a variety of grasses, or is so heavily stocked as to be short, extra feed will be found profitable. I think cattle will do better to have two pastures, and allow one to grow up while the other is being depastured, as the cows will relish the change, and I believe that the land will yield more grass than if grazed constantly.—[W. P, Brown. fi".'

Curing Hay.

[Iowa State Register.]

Hay half cured will not save sweet and clean in stack or mow, with the ordinary surroundings. It may keep in a tight mow where the air is entirely excluded, something on the same principle of the silo. But damp hay, half cured, when put in stack or barn, will mould, spoil and become useless. And the old and foolish idea that salt will aid in preserving hay when used in the proportion of one gallon to the ton, is too ridiculous to contemplate. It was one of Horace Greeley's impracticable theories published on the same page of The Tribune with the recommendation to sprinkle cucumber and melon vines with salt pickle to kill the striped bugs. Jk

The writer had a hay farm exclusively for twenty years in Indiana, where he made all kinds of experiments in cutting and curing hay. And during twenty-three years on a large farm in Iowa where he seldom, if ever, cut less than 150 tons of hay per year, he found invariably that it was necessary to have his hay thoroughly cured, if he would have it come out in winter sweet and clear of must

Accommodating Railroads.

Strange as it may appear, the very railroads which will transport beeves from the west to the Atlantic markets at $30 to $40 per car will not contract at the same rates to load the same cars on their return trip with stock cattle from our eastern states. With low rates of transportation the western stock feeders could afford to buy thousands of calves, yearlings and young stock in New England to take to the cornfields of the west and fatten. However, at the present low prices of western corn our eastern feeders can afford to improve their feeding rations by tho addition of some grain, and by securing manure of increased value for their arable land.

The Troth About Johnson Grass, [American Dairyman.] The agricultural papers have had a great deal to say of late for and against the forage plant called Johnson grass. Under favorable conditions it is undoubtedly an enormous cropper. This plant seems to do particularly well in California, and will probably succeed equally well in some of the southern states. We could hardly advise trying it except in a small and experimental way in any of the northern states. It is said to grow too large and coarse to make good hay, and when well rooted it defies dry weather equally with the plow when trying to eradicate it.

Things to Do and to Know. Florida is a good state tor poultry raising. Connecticut crop prospects are good There will be plenty of hay, grain, tobacco said fruit

Iowa has over a thousand women farmers, market gardeners and dairy managers. A good state for women to go to.

In setting out cabbage or tomato plants, it pays well, even in field culture, to twist or wrap a piece of paper about the stems and fasten it with a stooe or a lump ot soil. Plants so treated are safe from the cutworm.

Commissioner Coleman has called a convention of representatives from all the agricultural colleges in the Union to meet July 8, at Washington, to fix on uniform methods for farm experimenting and testing crops

Dent wash the sheep, says The Wool Journal. The name or designation of washed wool has ceased to have any charm, and the sooner the practice of washing is eatiralv bandoaed the better it will be for the sheep, their owners and the trade generally.

The cotnmhafaaer of agriculture has made a directory of department*, boards, societies, colleges and other organisations in the interests of agriculture^ botffcsltura, stock raising, dairying, bee keeping, fish culture and kindred industries in the United States. It contains the names of more than 6,006 organisations.

To make a geati* milker, a calf should be trained from the time it is two months old. It should be nibbed and stroked and petted. Its teats and udder ahoold be handled f*a» qaeatlv from thebegiauiat: Thaswtteathe a&iitti to ready, to beam* cotr tt«H be familiar with the motions of ""Mt

TERRB HAUTE Saturday Vjmsmsra MAIL

Beddy and the Telephoae.

If Neddy had been brought up in the woods he might have imagined the telephone to be tn exaggerated specimen of an owl but being a canary of some experience, he was only puzzled, and scratched his head reflectively while the telephone man was busy setting up his instrument.

But when the bells were tried he exchanged Us "cheep" of angry defiance to a note of (ear. and sprang wildly against the wires, dinging desperately awhile then he plunged into the bottom of his cage, where he oow*red motionless.

Thinking the worst was over, he took a wed to comfort himself, and was busy shelling it when another "call" sent him up into bis swing. It was comical to see him stretch bis neck and peer anxiously about, while his smooth feathers rose and fell gently, and tittle shivers agitated his wings. "What is it? What.is it!" he seemed t6 say. And all that day he regarded it as a toe, or a hidden source at danger.

••WHAT IS rrT

But gradually his vanity asserted itself, and his old saucy, cheerful demeanor returned. When there was a ring he would listen intently, scrape his bill leisurely, as if to show his indifference, give two or three preliminary hop*, then strut across his perch, singing his very loudest, and, with a cunning twinkle of his little black eye, finish with a satisfied chirp, that said as plain as could be, "Beat that if you can."

As the days rolled by, and he had brooded over the subject considerably, he evidently made up his mind that it was a new and dangerous rival in the musical line. So, whenever the bells rang, which was often, he would listen, with his head turned nearly upside down, and after going through a polka of his own, invented for the occasion, would sing himself almost off his perch. In fact, it became necessary to remove him if any conversation was to be held, and his indignant chirps were very amusing.

He feels it his duty, nowadays, to answer every call, and as there is but one line for all, his responsibilities are heavy. His public duties as an official member of the telephone company are arduous. Seeds are in danger of becoming neglected, and his morals are running down. From being a strict 9 o'clock bird he keeps up until the rest of the busy world quiet down ere he can retire, and of late ho is frequently dozing in the bottom of his cage, anxious to be tlw one to have the last word, instead of going to bed as he ought.

If he could appreciate it I would read to him the fable of the fly and the wheel, but it would do no good. Like many uufeathered bipeds he thinks the company would go to smash unless he was around to see to things, little imagining he is more of a hindrance than a help.

Children's Sayings.

Whit {^tenders mo3t children are! They love to impose upon themselves as well as upon others. "I must sit down and study this scholar stuff," said a little boy in petticoats who can neither read nor write. "Oh, brother, you smile like the dawn of the day 1" said one infant to another, and then in an undertone asks: "Mamma, what is the 'dawn of the day To children the mysterious always appears imposing. Willie, hearing his father say that Willie's grandmother bad expressed the wish to be cremated when she dies, listened in open-mouthed wonder, and went to a neighbor's at once to communicate the intelligence that his "grandma is going to be cream-tartered." The same boy, aged 6, though several years younger than his sister, feels an almost manly superiority over her. They were talking of something, when he said: "I knew that before you were born." Alice, meekly indignant, said: "Why, Willie, you were not born then." "Well, the lump of dirt I was made of knew it."

Buttoning Shoes.

Did you ever watch little children trying to button their shoos? How they tug and sweat over it. What a triumph it is when the chubby fingers have at length been trained to perform the task without aid from mamma. Some children can do it when they are 5 or 6 years old, and occasionally there is a slow, clumsy boy who can't learn it until he is 8. But there is one little girl named Evelyn who beats them alL She can button not only her own tiny shoes, but also her papa's, and she is only 8 years old. She tried it a good while before she succeeded. But she was a very persevering child and at last accomplished it

I A Knmerical Enigma. My whole is composed of 16 letters, and is the of a famous American.

My 4, 11, 16, 3 is a girl's nama. My 14, 7, 8, IS is part of a chain. My 1,10,6,15, 8 is apart of the human body.

My 9, 5, 6^ 5 is renown. My 7,12 is a preposition.

PI.

Here is a line of "pi" that contains a sen tence which is good for boys and girls to know. Each separate bunch of letters composes a word, if you {dace them right

Na cooeu fo klcpu si rhotwanto to kclu.

Stealing ftimplas.

I watt going to ldss the dimples from ont the little cheeks. Where they ripple and they danoe every time she laughs or speaks She said 1 shouldn't do it, but I held her fast and tight, w, And kissed and k£*ad the rosy little face with all my might

Andtbeiiapairof' eyes fcw&iffivW graVtiy out, And a pair of little lips gathered up a dolefal pout. With little drooping oorner*—no wonder, you will say, Teeee sack bonny, bonny dimples stolen all away..:..

I thought I aboold have kept tfcsm tor jo* a liftlewhile But little teeth w*e soon peeping tkroefcha ti ttle smile, And then a laugh Ufes santMna wae ortf til harJaea.

Aad 3b^SLple ^ha again tie pleat

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THE CICADJE.

A DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVENTEENYEAR LOCUSTS.

Properly Speaking They Are Wot Xoeasta •-Uamage Done by the Pemale—Sev-•nteen-Tenr Lanch—A Brief

Season of Enjoyment.

{Louisville Courier Journal.l

In a beautiful beech grove two miles east oi the city there was the other day a concert such as is heard only once in seventeen yean. The air was filled with a hamming something like what would be made by 900 or 300 large swarms of bees, except that the pitch is a little lower and the occasional obligates or solos are those of bass instruments. On looking into the trees the musicians are easily disoernibla They are the "seventeen-year locusts," thousands of which are seen on a single limb of the trees, while others circle clumsily about in the air. Under foot and on the trunk of every tree, on nearly every leaf and blade of grass, are the discarded overcoats of those small musicians, whose song is always an address to their lady-loves—for they are rare lovers, theee clumsy fellows.

NOT LOCUSTS.

There seems to be no reason for calling these insects locusts any more than there would be for calling a bat a bird. They belong to the family of cicadas, commonly called harvest-fiiei. In particular, this species is called the cicada septem decim, or seventeen-year cicada. They have broad, short bodies, broad heads, larfee red eyes on each side of the head, and three eyelets on the crown. Their wings and wing-covers are transparent and veined their bodies are brown their legs reddish-brown and rather inadequate for their bodies, with no power of springing like grasshoppers. The male is the musician he has a pair of kettle-drums, one on each side of the body behind the thorax and just back of the wings. In the cavity inside of the drum are cords fastened to the inside ot the plaited parchment. By contracting and relaxing these muscles the drumheads are made to emit the sound. The intensity of the sound is increased by the cavities within the body.

LAYING THE EGGS.

The drily damage by this variety after it reaches its perfect state is the damage done by the female in laying her eggs. This is an interesting process. The female has a conical body, under which she has a longitudinal channel for the reception of an instrument with which she pierces the limbs of trees. This piercer consists of three parts, the inner one fitting into the grooves of the outer two. The outer parts are provided with saw-like teeth the central part i* spear-pointed, and is used as a boring instrument. The female selects a small twig, clasps it on both sides with her legs, and then sets her saws and auger to work, thrusting them obliquely into the bark and wood in the direction of the fiber. The action of the faws leaves a fibrous cover for the eggs. The eggs are conveyed into the nest through the piercer, and are deposited in pairs, the woody fiber serving to keep them separate. The nests contains fifteen or twenty eggs each. Then the insect moves on and makes another ne?t, and continues to do so until she has stocked the limb, when she goes to another. She lays 400 or-600 eggs, taking about fifteen minutes to a nest After a while she gets tired, tries to fly, falls to the ground, and dies.

The little limb has probably been killed by the cutting it has received, and a good wind wilhthrow it to the ground, where the young hatch out in a month or so. If the limb does not fall, the young grubs, which are lively, though only about as big as an ant, are lea by instinct to throw themselves off the limb to the ground, trusting to blind luok to bring ap safely somewhere, and often getting wrecked by their unreasoning confidence. When they touch the earth they at once bury themselves, and begin to hunt around for the root of some nice pride-of -the-orchard peach or pear tree.

SEVENTEEN-YEAR LUNCH.

Finding this, they stick along suoker into the root and begin their seventeen-yoar lunch. Their only- meat and drink is the juice of some succulent plant Sometime their brothers a'd sisters get around in such numbers that they year by year kill the tree. The little creatures do not go very deeply into the earth.

They grow target in the course of time, and gradually develop the various members which they have had in embryo from the time of their hatohing. When their hunger is satisfied—that is to say, after about seventeen years of continuous .feeding—they begin to think of getting up into the air, for which purpose they make cireuitous passage? towards the earth's surface. The burrow fills up with earth as the insect ascends, but it keeps the upper BIX or eight inches clear. In fine weather he comes to the top of the hole and peeps out at the Min and takes tho air. He keeps this up for several days until he becomes familiar with the immediate surrounding*. Then he goes on a wider voyage of discovery, selecting the night for his adventure. His ambition is to keep on getting higher, and if he starts up a blade of grass he will go to the top of it and stay there. Often be gets up on the trunk of trees and more frequently into the limbs. ..-i'--

A NOBLE MISSION.

When he gets tired he stops to rest, and then becomes conscious that he is a nobler bird than he knew anything about He finds that he has a higher nature, which he cannot develop till be has gotten rid of his incumbering case. He begins to wiggle, aad presently the skin cracks over his head aad the forward part of his back. Then he squirms, aad pulls, aod pushse, aad draws himself painfully and slowly through the cp$ in his rfrin- Finally be gets out aad leaves the old bulk still clinging to whatever he had attached himself to before be began to get too big for his breeches. This cast*off skin, or shell, to a very perfect bug in appearance. Eaeh detail of tbe anatomy ts perfect in appearaaoe, aad oae not familiar with tbe insect would be deceived into thitiiring tbe empty shell a genuine bug. In a little while the moisture dries off, the wings become strong aad bard, and the insect has attained his fullest powers. In this state be remaias a week or two, perhaps more, exhausting in this short time the strength it required seveateea years of earnest eating bo obtain.

The QHMS'I Mess lagers. [Boeton Transcript]

The queen of Knglend has twenty-two milium, sn constantly traveling back aad forth with precious documents aad her royal behests that cannot be intrusted to tbe telegraph. WbOe she was on the continent two of theee meessngerfe wers continually skipping back aad forth, one being always on the road. J.JTW iv., i-

Baelly XaptafaMd.

fe (FfaflaMpMaOaB.] Fiift Mfikman—IWs artseian wtSk are something new. ain't theyf 8e&»d Vmnaa-Wea ym, tUl cMff try, bat I beer they have been known Chine Cm* time inpamarfel,

Vint M£fcmett--Wel^ fat aoi Cos*ere«4p^e0MttosiVv j* -J&

CAN I POftQIVSt

Can I forgive! Nay, smeldoSllpo#. Dear love, give me your hand, ait by firs. What have they done to ust How fell the hlowf

Nay, dear obe, do not speak. See, leaping higher, The tinted flames spring up to show your face I watch you seated in the well-known pitta A little anguish, trouble, fame aspersed:

The outer world looked ooklly for awhile The storm cloud lowered, yet it did not burst

It only bid the summer's glorious smile. It only threatened, shed one tiny tear It did not touch your faith in me, my dearl May be, dear heart, sweetheart the fervent trust

We had in human kind is not so strong Tet did we not expect too much? Unjust 'Twould be to blame the maker of the song, If some voice unattuned took up the lay, And with harsh notes swept all the air away. What have they done, then, sweet! The dear old home,

All girt with green, and cradled in the hills, Is ours no mon no longer may we roam

When eventide with all its grandeur fills The hollows in the distance—may no more Wander at night along the river shore! Tet close your tender eyes, lean your dear head

Upon my shoulder. All comes back in baste. I soent your flowers—see the glowing red

That rouad your window autumn's hand hath traced I see the river run its course of gold, The hills arise to greet us as of old. They can not take these pictures from us e'er

They may not enter here our hearth beside They can not spoil Dame Nature calm and feir

They may not mar our love, or mar our pride. Ahv dearest! love me still, and while we live We have no foe—there's nothing to forgive,

i,*,., FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD!

How a Woman Paid the Assessment on Her Few Shares of Stock. [San Francisco Chronicle "Undertones".!

It is no u«e denying the superiority of woman. Whenever

mari gets up a shrewd

scheme and makes it a success, all his fellowmen applaud bim, shake hands with him, pat him on the back and stand him drinks. There is a modesty about female ingenuity that prevents publicity and all its attendant kudos. There is a married lady in this town who would be a fortune either as an advance agent of a show, a partner in a bank or a manipulator on Pine street The produce exchange should make her an honorary member, and if she were in Chicago she would be a grain queen or something like it She was dabbling in stocks. For most men assessments are nightmares, but assessments have no terrors for your true woman. There came due a little matter of $50 delinquent on a few shares she held. Her husband believed her pure and unspotted from the stock market Indeed he thought she knew nothing about business at all. She was busted, had not a cent and dare not ask him for tne money. She did not want to let the stock go.

As she sat demurely trimming anew hat one evening, with a most demure and purely domestic look of love in her psnsive eyes, and her devoted husband sat in dress-ing-gown and slippers reading oppositj, a bright idea struck her. Shs arose early next morning and went down to a friend of hers. Her husband had a dog ot which he thought the world! He would not loA that dog for anything. She took that dog with her. After she had paid her call she said: "I wish you'd let me leave this dog here." "Certainly." "I'll send for him to-day if I get home in time, bnt, if you don't mind, would you tie him up in the yard." "All right With pleasure."

The dog was lost whon the husband got hom«*. "My dog gone! Somebody stolen bim! Gr»at

Scott! What shall I do?" "I -uppoo the simplest way would be to cdverti ft reward of $50. That would fetch bim," and the wife looked terribly d'siro sed at her husband's angui«b. Next morning's paper contained an advertisement, "$50 for dog lost" At 11 o'clock a me-sender boy appeared with tho dog, got the $50 and somehow or other the wife still owned the stock, assessment paid. |_,

They Were Painted. [Detroit Free Press.]

Waif an hour after a painter had finished painting the front steps nf a house on Fremont street and had put up aboard with the warning "paint!" in large letters, a boy came along and gave the job a thorough looking over. Had the painter painted, or had he not? Did that 6ign on the board mean paint on the steps or around in the back yard? He pondered over'these things for along five minutes, and then decided to Investigate. If this was an old gag, all right if it was anew wrinkle he wanted to catoh on early.

Without stopping to spit on his hands the boy boldly advanced up the walk, removed tbe board, and walked up the five steps and down again. He left tracks and he smelled paint, but it needed more than this to convince him. A woman came around by tbe side gate. She bad tbe broom raised over her head in both haada She brought the brush part down on the boy's head as if she meant to drive his heels through the pine plonk*, and as he fell against a tree-box aad rolled into the gutter she yelled: "Them steps has been painted 1" "Yes," replied tbe boy as he started off tor a walk, "but I wooldnt hardly have believed it!"

dear aad Cloe*.

[San Francisco Chronicle "Undertones."] It bas often struck me how deer and does was Shakespeare's knowledge of human nature when he makes Touchstone say to Aobrsy in "As You Mke If: "A poor thing, but mine own." That is very much what men always seem to exproas when they i» troduee you to their wivea You are coming down the street Yea meet Jones and his wife. You have business with Jones. You stop end speak to him. He talks to you a minute and then he tarns around aad waves hie hud at his wife. "Mr. Smith— my wife—Mrs. Jonas." "A pom thing, but mine own." Oh, genius of the divine William! In that quiet burg of Stratford-oof Avon 900 years ago to draw the human nature of Kearny street, Sen Frandsoot hi 1885.

What Seme People Iktsk. Utew York Paper.]

Tenant (to owner oi east side Harlem flat) —Some of tbe plaster in my kitchen fell do*n lest night, and I want you to Ox it landlord—WhaS cawed iff Tenant—The than who oceupied the floor above sneesed. landlord—Weil! Seme people think because they pey a month rent tj»y can 'carry on jot ae if thsjr lived In a Booaa

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In the fall of 18841 was taken with a case of malarial fever which prostrated me both body and irind. Iwasdrugged after the old fashion with mercury and other mineral mixture*, but with no good reeults. My health was shattered and ray energy gone. My legs and feet would swell, and I had what everybody thought was dropsy. Theee symptoms alarmed xne, and 1 was readv to grasp at anv remedy suggested. A friend advised me to try Swiff's Specific. I procured three bottles and commenced its use. Tbe swelling soon subsided, have taken tbe three bottlee, which have made a perfect cure, and I feel like anew man to-day. There never was a more meritorious medicine offered to suffering humanity. It bas wrought wonders for me. Willis Jones.,

Leesburg, Lee County, Ga., March 11.1835. Treatise on the Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free.

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Look oat for Tour Head.

No matter what parts it may finally affect, Catarrh always starts in the head, and belongs to the head. There ia no

A Prompt, Safe Sure Cure

For Itch in 80 minutes, with O Quick Curative for Itch. For salo by all "Druggists. The trade Supplied by Cook & Bell.,, ^J£^| m.

V. Nervous Debilitated Men

You are allowed a free trial of thirty days of the use of Dr. Dye's Celebrated Voltaic Belt with Electric Suspensory Appliances, for the speedy rolief and permanent cure of Nervous Debility, loss of Vitality and Manhood, and all kindred troubles. Also, for many other diseases. Complete restoration tobeialth, vigor and manhood guaranteed. N® risk is incurred. Illustrated pamphlet, with full information, terms, etc., mailed free bf addressing Voltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mlcb, Ja-8-l-y

O Quick Curatlvo Por Itch. J~' A PositlveJBafe Sure Cure in 80 minutes. Ask your druggists for it. For sale by all Druggists. The trade Supplied by Cook 4 Bell.

The Best In the World.

Dr.J. W. Hamilton, of Merrillon, Wis., says, 1 have sold Warner's White Wine Tar Hyrup for years. It is the best cough medicine In the world and has no equal for asthma. 9-4t

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mystery about the origin of this direful -j dieease. It begins in a neglected oold. One of the kind that is 'safe to be better in a few days." Thousauda of victims known how it ia by sad experience, Ely's Cream Balm cures colds in the head and Catarrh In all Us stages. Not a snuff nor a liquid. Applied with the finger to the noetrils.

To Err ts Human.

But you make no mistake if you use Dr. Jones' Red Clover Tonic for dyspepsia, costlveness, bad breath, piles, pimples, ague and maleria diseases, poor appetite, low spirits, headache, or diseases of the kidneys, stomach and liver. Price 60 cents, of Qulick & Co. 4 *1 -i 5,'}

The Longest Pole S

Knocks the persimmons, and Dr. Bigelow's Positive Cure knocks all throat $ lung diseases, each as coughs, colds, croup hoarseness, bronchitis, asthma, influenza and consumption. Pleasant for children to take and cures

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speedily and permantly. L«rg« bottle' $1.00 at Qulick A.Co.

GrlggslGlycerlno Salve.

The great wonder healer has no equal for cuts, bruises, scalds, burns, wounds and all other sores *111 positively cure piles, frost bites, tetter and all skin eruptions. Satisfaction or money refunded. 26 cents, Gel tbebwt of GuUck & o, tf. ——. f.\j

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Why call CallendAni Liver Bitten itbe Left Liver Bitters? Because the human liver is oar trade mark and our left liver,seett on each bottle, •one genuine without it

BITTER^

Why use the human liver as trade „mark? Because

Patented AprU 14, tS74,ityer bitters is a specialty for Liver Complaints in all their forms. Beta* compounded from pure root herbe, aod okl peach, the great appetizer'of ortbe age, a favorite famlly^tonlcanda warranted medicine. Liver bitters gefcat tbe seat of all diseases by tbe direct act ion, opening digestive organs of the liver at the same time acts dlrecSy on tbe kidneys, cleanses the lungs, cores bright* of the kidneys, puriOeetbe Diood and beautifle# the akin. Ask your druggists for them. Manufactured by KSSSYc Peorts, Ills. Sold la Terre Haute by the following druggists Adamson KrlUrtwOne, Ml Mate rt-jCook A

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