Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 August 1885 — Page 7

j-' The Farmer** Flih.

The world over the farmer's family deservo the

bast

Of everything to eat. Not

zrich, greasy and sweet messes that will rot their teeth and make them skinny and dyspeptic, and consume all the profits from their farm besides* Hot by any means. Bat -a varied diet of fruits, grains, vegetables, •fish, poultry, milk, eggs and cream. Tbat^ with scientific fanning, the means for schooling and gotting on in the world that there are in this country will produce from Hjur rural population, in time, the finest race "of men and women the world has yet seen.

It ought to be so, and is bound to be, if the American farmer attends to his business. The roost eerious lack to the presant variety of rural diet is that of fresh fish. It is safe to my there are families of even well-to-do farmer* who do not have a meal of it •once a year. Bait mackerel and codfish are the beat they can do in the fUh line. This country is very big, and many of the best farms in it are far removed from the sear shore* and large water courses. It is much to be regretted, for fish is an important constituent of a healthful diet.

The only way to remedy tho defect is for -every fanner to have his own fish md. It •ought to be at much a matter of course as the poultry yard or pig pen.

And every farmer can have a fish pond. ^Pisciculture has now reacbe 1 such a point in this country that this is easily possible. "The fUh above all for the farmer to cultivate is tho German carp. Right here it may "be remarked that young carp are distributed free by the United Statefrgovernmsnt. The Way to get tb im is this: Write to Professor IS. F. Baird, United States fish commission, Washington, D. C., for a blank application. Fill it out as required, get your United 'States senator or representative to indorse it, and then return it to Professor Baird. You will get the carp at the proper season -for distribution.

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CARP POND.

The youn? fish will be distributed from October to April. Have your pond all ready to put them into. Very oxact directions for building a pond have Leen given by Charles Sv. Smiley. These havo bon published by tho United

States

government for gratuitous

distribution. It isn't a bad sort of government after all. The phaniphlet should be gotart.l studied by everybody who intonds going into carp culture. For this pamphlet writo to Professor S. F. David, Washington, D. C. Ask hitn to send you "Carp and Carp Ponds," by Charlei W. Smiley. The first jart of the pamphlet is in the form of question and answer. It answers 118 questions that have been put to the fish commission about a million times each, more or less. Thoy eoutnin all that it is npessary to know about raising carp.

The boys of the farm can start a pond, whon it is not convenient for the master Jaiiuaelf to do so. They would like no better fun. The lesions they will learn in mechanics, and the ways of water and its inhabitant* will be worth more than even the food value of the fish themselves.

An ice pond will do very well to raise the :fl»h in or a pond can be roado at a spring orln depression in a meadow—any place where there is a body of water that will not stagnate. If, in a meadow pond, the drainage of the surrounding surface can run in, alt tho better. It is rich in matter that will be food for the fish. Freshets must be guarded against The carp likes still, warm, muddy water. It is a lasy, quiet fish. The pond may be very shallow, except in one or two plaoss. There it should be as much as five teet deep, for the fishes' winter quarter*. They burrow in the soft mud in winter.

GCRHAl? CARP.

The carp belongs to the gold fish family. A writer in The Southern Cultivator, who has had experience in this line, says he knows of no investment that will give a better return. He pat sixty-three fish in small pond in 188a A year later he pat them into larger pond three-quarters of an •ore in six*, ana found forty-eevea fine large fish. That spiring they spawned. In the fall the writer drew the water off, and found not less than 80,000 lively little fish, three to nine inches long. He says that with good core an ajre pond will raise *,000 to 4,000 fine fish a year. They should not bo loft to themselves altogether, but should be fed, like pigs and ebicken* Like these, too, they can trained perfectly to come at feeding time. They become so tame in time that they can oven be caught with the hand. What fan it will he to the farm boys and girls to feed and tame them!

When well ted, they grow to fifty and seventy-flvo pound*. They are good eating at 3 years old In the old royal palace at FontainebtaMi, Franco, there is a carp that Is said to be 800 years of age. lite old follow is blind as a bat, but still very lively at feeding time. He has lived longer than any government has been abb to do in France tor a good while.

The writer above mentioned setts his young carp to people in Us locality for stocking pond* of their own. The fish he has can he caught readily with hook and line be finds, although carp generally cannot bo. He feods the fishes on bread, dough, boiled potatoes, cabbage, green corn cat from the cob and grain of all kinds. The season for the carp to come upon the table Is October to May. This it jast when fresh food is scarcest* The government pamphlet gives pictures of the various processes required in constructing acarppoad.

&a»H>Mrr*Uewt*g. (Rural New TerltwJ

F-v.r.i allowing Is one of the deepest wbirH oar fathers, with a soil node *s "rich st mad" lay ago* ot decaying vegetVtta ad Ube disintegration of rocks riea in mineral slsmwuts of plant growth, so easily slid, and to which we have perabtantly stuck, fiat there neret was a greater fallacy or a mora etishadiag

proverb than the one above quoted or one that has wrought more permanent mischief to the American farmer or done more to impoverish his land without adequate return.

A much better way, and one that can be followed without the loss at a crop, is to tow wheat after some spr ng crop or after a clover-hay crop or pasture. In no case should the plowing be done socner than the first of August, and if a pasture is to be used, it should be previously looked to that no weeds be allowed to saed before plowing. The ground should be plowei only once, but bo well plowed then harrowed, rolled and cultivated until packed hard and solid below and the surface mellowed, but only a couple of inches deep. Of course, by thin metUod the loss by the evaporation or by wa hiag by rains is reduced to the lowest limit, and the seed-bed is prepared jost as wheat or other winter grain requires— hard and solid below and friable on the top— reducing the disturbance by frcsts to the lowest amount, Now, if the value of the clover bay or grain taken off, or of the pasture be added, in the shape of some kind cf manure or fertilizer, a better crop will be produced than is possible in the old way, and the land, instead of being robbed, will be made the richer.

Vermin on Turkeys.

-i [Southern Cultivator. 1 Destroy all the vermin on the mother, or the young will soon look sleepy, dwindle «tu1 die. There are two kinds of lice that trouble turkeys: one iR Ion? and black, found usually on the wing and tail feathers tbe other is somewhat like a bed bug. If the mother is thoroughly washed with warm water and carbolic eoap on a bright, warm morning, she will ba relieved and the lice destroyed. Kerosene will kill the lice and the turkeys, too. Turkeys don't eat much the first few days after they are hatchel. I never feed with raw dough baked bread, made of unsifted corn meal, crumbled fine and moistened with clabber or butter milk, is tho best fojd you can H?iv& Cut up cabbage leaves very fine and drop to the little ones don't cut many at a time until they learn to eat them. They like everything fresh feed often aqd just a little until they learn to eat, then three times a day as much bread and greens as they will eat It fa astonishing to see the quantity of greens they will consume. We have realized from $30

juring

$80 a year from tho sale of

turkeys, besidos keeping plenty for family use. We found it more profitable to dress before marketing than to sell on foot.

Water Cure in Sun Stroke.

As there have baon many case.? of sun stroke this summer, 1 will tell you what I know about ouo that was cured with water. A man was prostrated in a field. The m?n carried him to a shale tree, and one of them came running and said:

'Coxae quick, the

man is dying" As we could not gat a doctor in time to save him, I got a handful of towels and two buckets of water and ran to him. I wet the towels and laid one on his bead, one on his breast, one on each wrist and one on each anklo. Then we poured fresh water on the towels continually threequarters of an hour, and he then began to breathe freely. I then told tho men to rub him until his skin was red, and that would keep him from taking a chill. They did so, and in an hour and a half he was able to ride home in a wagon. The man is a German, and his friond told him what wo had done for him. He said to me, "You have saved me from dying."

MRS. J. W. AHCHARD.

Now Richmond, O.

.5 To Get Kid of the Wheat Weevil. [Rural New Yorker.]

The true weevil that infests granaries and irheat bins can be entirely killed by the use of bisulphide of carbon, if the granary and bins can be shut up air tight. When the granary has b?en made tight, by pasting jinpor or cloth ovjr every crack or opening, Ihereshould bmplaced on the grain a dish ontaining a quantity—more or less accordiug to tho size of tho bin or room. The liquid is very volatile, and, being heavier than the air, it will settle to the bottom of every grain package, and will kill every weevil. Care should be taken in using it, as it Li both poisonous and highly inflammable. By opening tha doors and windows of the granary, the whole will pass off without in

the grain. The same treatment will

kill weevils in poas, or moths amonj clothing

How a Good Pear Originated.

Tho Seckel pear originated near Philadelphia, before the revolution. A noted sportsman known as "Dutch Jacob" used to bring home every tall some small lut delicious pears, declining to tell anybody where he procure! thom. About that period tho London Land company, which owned some land below the city, made a sale, and "Dutch Jacob" purchased tho lot upon which bis pear tree stood. It afterwards became the property of Mr. Seckel, and as he permitted nurserymen to take grafts and buds from trees, they gave the fruit his name.

nutter and Cream.

There are 660 butter and cream factories in Iowa, 407 in Illinois, 130 in Wisconsin, 100 in Kansas, 100 in Minnesota, 61 in Missouri, 60 in Indiana, and 40 in Nebraska—a total of 1,789 in eight states. The value of the dairy products of Iowa alone in 1684 was $50,000,000. and that of the United 8tates was $600,000,000. The value of the milch cows of the United States is put at $700,000,000 in esoess of tho entire capital stock of all the national banks and trust companies of ths country.

Thing* to Do and to Know.

Red clover is a biennial largely, and most of its roots die the second winter. "Wiggiers" and other vermin in cisterns may be destroyed by heaping minnows therein.

In Washingtoa territory there is a kind of cedar tree which grows 800 feet high, and is sometimes fifteen feet in diameter.

In the northwest farmers and fruit grow ers are now experimenting with Russian plums. All others seem to winter-kill.

Ragweed can be turned to a good account as a green crop by brooking the ground early in September when the ragwead is in bloom.

Common hard soap may be used to fill up erodes in the floor or the crevices between It and the base boards. No insects will venture to posh through it

Peter Henderson says that the flavor and crispness of all celeries will be increased if they are soaked in ice-cold water for a short time before serving on the tablet

Tfaa south has the nxxst attendant fruit crop this year that it has known in many a season. It would be a good locality far jsvaparaiors and canning establishments.

It is claimed that* cream separator, even ana farm where the ordinary number of cows are kept, will aake increase enough in the receipt* in one yeat to pay for the whole expense of butter malrihg •Grass gives the grabs, inter and especially the flavor to bolter la Jane and My, bat the cow will gtve a modi better OHMS of it if*yoa will feed her three er foar pounds at earn meal each day whflssheisaa pastern. This is now the practice of the bast dairy* aaa in the cnantry.

One of the Knr British Ironclad*.

Six war vessels have just been completed for the British navy. They ore called the "admiral" ships from being named for famous admirals. One of these, just launched, is the

Ben

bow. It was built at the Thames

fron work*, Black wait The admiral ships are all of tha so-colled citadel type. This class of vessels leave their ends exposed at the water line, au armor heavily amidships. On this acccuos they have been bitterly criticised.

The Ban bow is, however, the most notable vessel of her class in the British navy. She is different from others in that she carries the two most powerful naval guns in the world. They are 110-ton breech-loading cannon. They are 43K *e0t l°ng» A*"® an 1,800-pound balL To give this tremendous projectile a send-off requires 900 pounds of powder. It would |e rather expensive on the Fourth of July,

H. M. 8. BESBOW.

The Benbow cannon is more powerful than the famous Krupp 119-ton gun. That weapon fires with a muzzle energy of 46.061 foot tons. The Benbow's gun has a muzzle energy of 61.200 foot tons. It is calculated that it will pierce a wrought iron armor plate over thirty inches thick. It is a roarer, no mistake.

Like most of these greit guns and great hips, however, the Benbow and her huge -annon are probably more formidable on paper than anywhere else., They are very rarely indeed brought, into real action. They serve more to impress the public mind than anything else.

The Bmbcw's big 'guns are seen at each ?nd of the ship, sticking out like a telescope lrawu out. They nfe very thick at the breecb, and get smaller and lighter "by jumps" toward the muzzle. They are fixed an the top of revolving armor-plated iron towers. That style of mounting a gun is railed "in barbette." The guns are loaded by running them bacii and lowering the oreech

BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF DECK.

The Benlow is 330 feet long and 68feet wide. She is of 9,0JO horse power, and it is "hoped' 'to run her sixteen knots an hour. Besides the cannon in the barbette towers, the vessel will carry also upon her hurricane deck eight quick-firing Ho^clikiss guns and four Nordenlelt machine-guns. She is mastless. The pole that rises in the center is designed to carry two revolving macjiine c*uns. They are protected by the cover seen in the illustration. On her batteiy deck are ten broadsida 6-inch guns. There are also upon this deck four quick-firing guns and six machine uns. The quick-fir-ing gun is made much of in the present notions of naval warfare.

This big ship is also designed to drop torpedoes, if need be, as she goes along, froJi her front, 3tera and middle. She caa likewise be used for ramming. She is a twin screw vessel.

t**' Women Inventors. '"V'"

At the New Orleans exposition the women made an extensf ve show. 1 hose who declare th:*t the female mind cannot invent anything but an excuse would have been a little staggered in their faith. The women's department of the great show displayed as many as ninoty different machines and devices, paten tei and unpatented, that took their origin in the brain of woman. It is true that most of these inventions amount to little. But then there are some that are very good, and the sex ought to have the credit of them, as far as- they go.

A woman physician, Dr. Isabel M. Melchell, exhibits "vzone," a method for preserving fruity meals, milk and eggs in a natural condition without tbe u-~e cf ice, no matter what the temperature is, for years. If genuine, this is ono of the most important discoveries that has been made in years.

Mrs. Whitney, of Chicago, shows a fishboner, also useful. It will rapidly remove the scales, eatraiis and bones of a fish. Chicago is a lively place. A number of the feminine Inventions come from that city. Miss N. G. Rood has invented a squatter's cottage for the far west. She calls it tha portable combination cottage. It is built in numbered sections. These can la taken' apart and set up again, like a puzzle. The same lady has devised also a portable wire summer bouse, which is delightful for tbe country this weather. The wire sections are hinged together, have a touting canvas roof, and are absolutely insectproof. It can he easily carried about, and will hold twenty person? and a tabla. Mia. Rood has invented several other things than these mentioned. She it the manager at a large intelligence office in Chicago. Miss Alice Morton is topographical draughtsman in the United States engineer's office at Indianapolis. She shows at New Orleans a fine map at the Wabash river. Helen Disker, of Massachusetts, has a fire-escape approved fay the New York fire commisRioa and highly spokan of at the United States potest office, Mary Carpenter, of New York, evolved a sewing machine far sewing straw hats and bonnets. That probably is what has made them so cheap at present Miss Carpenter sold the English patent for this invention for $10,000, Mrs. Hicks, a Massachusetts woman, contrived a cistern spout trap which will keep nasty worms and beetles from falling into oar cis-

One rather important invention is

Sempts paper cutter, with quarto clampi It Is in asel with Harper Brothers, Houghton & Mifflin, and other large publishers. Mrs. M. H. Sempla, of Lowell, Mass., devised this, ia looking over tbs list, ooe finds that more of these inventions come from Massachusetts than from any other state. The Yankee mind is ahve la both sexes.

Further, there are griddle^reeeers, broom-handle covers, dost pans, dtoOs, patant corset fasteners, pie Uftera, and tootstools without end.

Catharine Cote, of The New Orie«» Picayune, has carefully own piled the list for bar paper. Ooanotkas that the fcmiBiaa

mind runs largely to dress catting. One lady, Mrs. Gil man, of Illinois, has a wash* ing machine which, it is claimed, is very valuable. If it really is, then Mrs. Gilman's invention is worth nearly all the rest put together.

A Ship May Steer Htrtclt

Charles H. Washburn has patented an electrical apparatus by which the control of the rudder of a vessel can be taken entirely oat of tbe hands of the man at the wheel at any moment and assumed on the bridge by tbe officer in charge. It is automatic. The ship is set oa her course. When she varies from it tiie vibration of a compass card closes an electrical circuit, and brings her back again. Compressed air is a force made use of in tfaa apparatus. The inventor has received permission to try his new machinery on the old United States steamer Tallapoosa. Perhaps the Tallapoosa will thus be put to some useful purpose at last. Mr. Washburn says of his idea: "I have the utmost faith in it. I have at least upset one of the favorite theories of the old electricians. 1 can surround a compass with electricity without deflecting its needle. Old electricians think 1 am crazy when I say this, but I am ready to prove that I can do it at any time."

When to Stop Kunning.

The age at which running can be practiced, an eminent physician say-, by a healthy man in training is from 30 to 80. Boys and girls also of 10 or 12 can run with no apparent fatigue. Iu boys' races, for those uudar 14 years no previous training should be inflicted. No one should train for running until he is 18, but 20 would be the safer. Between 20 and 27 is the best age for attaining speed in running. Between 30 and 40 a wise man will think twice before undergoing training for race running. Older men should run on no pretense whatever.

MerclfUl Killing by Electricity.

Dr. Curran writes to The Lancet concerning the advantages of -ing electricity in killing criminals. "It is a pity," he says, "the thing is not tried, if only by way of experiment, on some of our low congeners, whence it might be transported in time to the higher regions of Newgata and the provinces." This man writes with considerable nerve. "The apparatus^" he continues, "of this fluid or force mi^ht bo packed away in an ordinary traveling trunks"

Cinder* In Your Eye*

One of the minor trials in railway travel arises from cinders in the eye. A simple and effective cure may be found in one or two grains of flaxseed, which may be placed in the eye without pain or injury. As they dissolve a glutinous substancs is formed, which envelops any foreign body that may be under the lid, and tlie whole is washed out.

Facts or Interest.

The instructive course of articles on cookery in The Popular Science Monthly have been published in book form. Their author, Mr. W. Matthieu Williams, advocates the use of pure malt as an addition to our food. It would aid digestion and promote health.

The Sanitarium says: "Inasmuch as persons who have had cholera are not exempt from its recurrence, we are at a loss to pcrccive how inoculation, even though it be with the true microbe, can have any prophylactic effect, however successfully inoculated persons may pass through the process.'

An Excellent Vegetable.. [Courier-Journal.]

Purslane, that so many think worthless weed, is a wholesome and excellent vegetable. Choose young plants free them from roots and any fibrous stalks wash well put into boiling water slightly salted and cook until don9 and drain. Put a little butter in a stew-pan, and when melted lay in the purslane stir it a little and sprinkle over it a pinch of flour season with salt, pepper, and a little minced parsley simmer for ten minutes, stirring all the time. Remove from the fire and mix with it two wellbeaten eggs and serve. It may also be simply boiled and drained, mixed with a little butter and served.

A Lesson for Householders.

IChtcago Journal.]

"How perfect your housekeeping is," a summer visitor said to her hostess, a la ly of education and old family. "You must have excellent servants to keep house and grounds in such pleasant order." "Yes" was the an swer, "they do pretty well for housework and gardening—all but the drain and garbage. I can't trust anybody to see to that but myself." Herein lies a lesson for householders in hot weather. If you want delicate innocuous conditions about your place, you must see that your laws are carried out in person.

Women in Literature. [Boston Advertiser.)

Less than one-fourth of our magazine writers are women—a result which will probably cau^e some surprise that is, of our first-clas* magazines for grown people it is probable that to include children's magazines would vary the figures. The propob tion of women writers is greatest in The Atlantio Monthly, where sixteen of the fifty-one authors are women it is least in The Century, which has only eleven women women oat of seventy-six.

Bow to Cook

Cor*.

[Household.]

Now isn't It strange that so many people do not know bow to cook oornf They eook it too long. It should be popped in a pot of boiling water—ao salt—and left titers for ten minutes—be sore the water is in a great rage—then taken oat and wrapped in a large napkia until you are ready to eat it. Boiled longer than ten minutes, the milk hardens in the kernel, and it is not a tenth part as palatable and its much less digestible

Woman's Kxtravagaaee. (Ban Francisco Chronicle.]

This talk about womaa's extravagance Is only accepted as troth because tbe male man keeps the ledgers aad his wife has nothing hat a debit in them. It isn't fair. If a man ware to deal honestly and squarely aqd figure op his own expenses end all be gew for them, the woman would rise ap before him a perfect angel of sense in expenditure and make him blash.

Klgbt Have Been Worse.

[Bffl Arp.]

Man that barn of one woman and tied to is of few days and full of troobia Bat it might have been worse a beep worse, for be might have been barn a a woman and bean tied to amaau That is the moot perilous condition in all nature.

Women Dentists In Germany.

Women dentists are gaining ground in Germany. They are practicing in many at tbe great cities in Hamburg, Strosburg, Cologne, Wiesbaden, and

Prankfort-oa-the-I!?r:Did

Maln. They are very popular with the nMHiy,

Comfort.

There are many yoong ladies WM fca*e not the means to go to tfce ssa shore who find jnt as much pleasure and a deal sun comfort "camping oatf at eoantry fan* hCWKS*,

A Water Museum on Land.

St. Nicholas proposes something for the boys and girls which will afford them

lot

of fun. It is a plan for making a water museum. It is less expensive than an aqaar rium, and more interesting. Besides that, in an aquarium all the specimens are together, and if any accident happens to one it will happen to all. In

museum the

specimens are in separate jars. It is better not to have your "eggs all in one basket," as the wise old people say.

Almost any glass jars will da Broad, flat candy jars are about the best. The most convenient size, the writer in St. Nicholas says, is from six to nine inches in height by four to seven inches in diameter. (What is diameter?) Candy jars whose tops have been broken can generally be got cheap. But wide mouthed fruit and preserve jars will do very well. A bell glass, such as gardeners use to turn over plants, is very good set upsida down with its knob stuck in a dish of sand. A pretty effect is male by scattering clean sand and white pebbles, tinv shells or irregular fragments of rock upon tbe bottom of tbe larger jars The fish like to hide under them. Tho jars must be filled with water, and this is kept sweet by putting into it sprigs of aquatic plants, SUCJ as water-cress, duck-weed, etc. You can look and see what plants grow in the brooks,

pond3

neighborhood.

ynd^ puddles in your

WATER MtTSEUM.

With a few water plants in the jars it will be sufficient to change the water itself once a week. Put your museum jars upon a small table near a sunny window, then go out and catch the tiny creatures that are to go into it. Take a strong wire hoop and sew around it a dip-net of double mosquito bar stuff. Fasten along handle to it. Take a good sized tin pail along with you and start out. Go to some shallow pond or pool in a brook. Dip your net into tha bottom, and scoop up what you find there. Save the live things you catch. Mr. Channing, The St. Nicholas writer, says: "I have never failed to find in this way bream, dace, beetles, water scorpions, tadpoles, snails and many other specimens." Some of your pets will eat up the others. Watch them and see which is which.

The water snails are the scavengers. They eat the green scum of the water and plants. This green scum is really made up of millions of tiny plants, called conferv®. The minnows will eat very small crumbs of bread, meat and vegetables. They will flock around like chieks when you come to feed them. But never let scraps of food decay in tho bottom of the jars. The snails lay eggs like patches of jelly against the glass. These batch into hundreds of young snails. Caddis-worms, which fishermen use for bait, are well worth studying. They build houses of tiny sticks and grasses. In the spring they hatch into pretty caddis files. A magnifying glass will be very useful to study the ways of all these creatures.

1 GETTIKO SPECIMENS.

Mr.'Channing says: My water museum began modestly with two jars and a goldfish globe. In two hours spent at a small pond near my bouse I foun4 enough mate rial to fill all these, if I except a venerable goldfish who was an old family friend. In my pet jar, which was.three-fourths full of wiiter, I placed the goldfish, a pair of small bream, another of dace, foar minnows, rix snails, two caddis worms and a larva of dragon fly, besides a few sprigs of a fine water grass and cress to keep tbe water pure.

The goldfish immediately assumed

the head of affairs, and struck up an intimacy with the sober-sided daoe. Tbe minnows were tbe life of the establishment, their graceful bodies flashing with all the colors of the rainbow as they swam gayly about, or jumped oat of the water to snatch a few crumbs with which I fed them weekly. While the/ lived at the top of tbe water tbe jolly little bream, whose fanny faces seemed always laughing, kept near the bottom or •mmg the pebbles there.

Haw to Make Friends.

[Wide Awake.]

Two little people who couldn't agree Were having a tiff, and were "mad asoould be They looked at each other in silence awhile, Till a sudden glad thought made aaa of them smile. Said she: "Say, you ain't wry mad, are you, Bossier1 ••Well—no—' said the othsr, "nor you, are you, Jessie?' "Tben lot at make up," little Jessie suggested. •*Well, yoa be the am to begin," Bern ra-

But that didn't suit So the tiff lingered still While tbe small^assd disputants were daiming their will, When., what do you think brought at last sonny weather! Just this: Uhey agreed to—begin, both together. ___________

A taaiMW Toad.

I yoa ever see a frog or toad with light 1 through himf This is the way to prepare him Catch a toad aad pat him under a large glass dish or wide-mouthed glass Jar and feed him with flre-fliee in tbe evening. Yoa can stuff him till be refuses to eat any more. As ta*t as be snaps at and swallows them the fire-flies will give off their ligtt and illuminate his in* rido tiU you can see qaite through him.

Helpless Upon a Friendless Seat

Who, in taking passage in a great trans-Atlantic steamer, does not leel a thrill of exultation over her magnificent power. Against her the Storm King may hurl his elemental forces, nor pierce her armor, nor stop her onward coarse.

But let me describe a scene when, one morning in mid-ocean, there came an alarui from the pilot house followed by a cry: "The ship's rudder is lost!" From tbe confident expression, consternat on came to every face. The wheel-: man being helpless to direct her course, the vessel was at tbe mercy oi wind and wave.

The captain had been negligent—the hangings of the rudder were allow to wear weak, and suddenly it had dropped deep into tbe sea!

Strong in intellect, in physical vigor, in energy and in ambition, man confronts, undaunted, gigantic tasks and commands applause for his magnificent achievements. But, all unexpectedly,.' an alarm comes—the rudder of nis constitut.ion is gone. He has been careless-, of its preservation mental strain,' nervous excitement, irregular habits, over-work, have destroyed the action of his kidneys and liver. This would not occur were Warner's safe cure used to maintain vigor. And even now it may restore vitality to those organs ar«l give back to tbe man that which will lend bint to the haven of his ambition. —The Traveler.

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Father, Mother, and Three Sisters Dead. Mr- David Olnypool, formerly Sprceant-at-ArmsoftheNew Jersey Senate, and now Notary Pubiic at Cedarville, Cumberland Co., N. J., makes ihe following startling statement: "My father, mother, and three sisters all died with consumption, and my" lungs were so weak I raised blood. Nobody, thought I could live. My work (shipsmithing) was very straining on me with my weak constitution^ and I was rapidly going to the grave. While in this condition commenced using Mishler's Herb Bitters^ and it saved mv life. Because it was so difficult to get it in this little place, «nd I had improved so much, 1 stopped taking it for a time, and the result is that 1 liuva commenced going rapidly down hill again. Somehow, Mishler's Herb Bitters givea appetite and strengthens and builds me tip as nothing else does, and I must have & dozen bottles at once. Use this communication as you please, and if any one wants to be convinccd of its truth, let them write me and I will make affidavit to it, for Iv_ owe my life to Mishler's Ilerb Bitters.''^

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