Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 16, Number 11, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 September 1885 — Page 7

Looking Ahead.

This department has leen run to very poor purpose if it has not helped to make plain the immense advantage to the farmer of varying his crops, so that if one thing yffn« on him something eke will be there to lake .its place. He should never put all bis eggs into one basket, as has often been said.

There are things to be commended, especially to the farmer living near towns and -cities. Seme of them are poultry, fruit, butter, milk, cream and vegetables. 11 a man has suitable grounds for gardening nothing will pan out Letter than early vegetable ». I/jttuoe. cauliflower and cabbagc are substantial^, and can be depended on every time. But to get the earliest tbey •trust bo planted in the fall and wintered over in cold frames. This process is not difficult, is easily learnod, and will furnish paying occupation to the idle farm hand in "winter.

Prom the 10th to tir* 25th of September is the time to sow the seed in the open ground-. Spinach, '•sprouts," and kale for greens should bo sowu at the same time. Near a large city an aero of kale will bring sometimes as much a* 1503.

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CAULIFLOWER

Requires much the same treatment as cabhaco in raising, but it is a much more valuable product. Heavy manuring of tha (oil ond extra enro wil be well repaid. Tha cauliflower shown above is the Houdor.?oa JEarly gnowball. It is possible to grow cabbage and cauliflower altogether in cold frames and maturo them for market in March and April. In that way they used to pay immensely before the southern markets furnished our earl lest vegetables. Cabbage, •cauliflower and lettuce anywhere in the north, however, can be wintered over in told

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March or April, ond be ready tor market in •July, 'i -y have the fresh, tender tasto of vegetables grown upon the ground

Fro. 1. Fio. 2. Tho cut shows two of the Lest varieties of •cabbage for this purpose. Pig. 1 is the Early Jersey Wakefield. Fig. 2 is Henderson's Early Summer cabbage. This coma* about ten days lator than tho Wakefield. It should be sown about ten days latfr than that 1-cttuco, kale, cauliflower and cabbage aro all hardy, or nearly ao. They will live tn the open ground all wiuter if coveredwith leaver-, littor, or coarse manure. Lettuoo may also bo brought to perfection undor cold frnme sashes alone. It will then bo ready for use in February and March. But tho main early crop should be wintered •over in the cold frame and planted out just as soon as the ground is fit to work in March—the first week in that month, usually. Hot the plants between the rows of cabbage plants, putting them out at the same time, 'iho lettuce will mature in half the time th« abl age does, and all be cut off and out of vh3 way. Ihe Buttor and Curled Silesia aro rocommeuded by Fetor Henderson as tha best early lettuce The crop will be marketed by the 1st of June.

A snug little income may be thus derived from these four—lettuce, kale, cauliflower mud cabltfge in tho spring und early summer, the very time when the farmer's fundi run low. His food is apt to run low about that time, too. The fresh green vegotub'ea r.amod will be a godsend along with his steady diet of hog and hominy or beans and dried apples.

Next week we shall give some directions for "inking cold frames.

Winter Feeding of Stock.

Another way for the farmer to have something to do, and something to sell in the dull months, is to winter-fatten beeves for sale. Food the products of tho farm on the farm. It is better to let them walk eff than to haul them off. The manure will be savod where it is most needed, and returned to the homo soil

The live agricultural college of Kansas, at Manhattan in that state, has keen making some useful experiments in the winter feeding of stock. The trial has proved one thing Conclusively. That is, that corn, ground cob and all, is far better for flattening entile th the graiu alone. It keep* the animal's digestive organs in better condition. Every farmer should have his own corn-crushing mill at home on the ground. The winter fattening of beeves to be recommended to farmers too far awav from market to grow winter and early vegetables. There are always ways to turn an honest penny, winter as well as suuimar, for the farm*r who baa '*gum|tiou." Thank heaven for gumption!

Wire Fenees Strntk by lightning. [Iowa State Register. We learn that there have been many cases of stock being killed lately by electricity in pastuies by the lightning striking wire fences. Electricity runt along fences sometimes 100 rods, and where cattle o* horses are standing near the fence they are killed. We feara from an officer of an insurance company that not long since six bead of cattle were killed, which, from the position in which they were found lying, none of them couki have been nearer than ton feet from the fence, and some fifteen feet From the tact that the fence ports opposite the cattle and for forty rods on either side were split and shattered, •bowed they were killed by a heavy diecharge of electricity. We do not know anything about the operations of th subtle fluid.

Then* are, however, various ca*» on record where stock bet been killed by electricity running along ihe fence when tbey were standing eeveral feet distant. There is abundant opportunity for the electricity to desosnd to the ground on every post, bat owing to the better conducting power of tb* wbns, it continues along tike fence. Wlqr it should leap from the fence to stock ten or fifteen feet away, will taka a scieutM to explain. Bat tbe fact IB bs/ood dispute. If

the stock stood along the fence, which fs often tho case, it is almost certainly fatal Away might be easily and cheaply fixed for the electricity to descend to the earth by a wire running down the side of the posts deep into the damp earth, and in this way secure the safety of stock. Wire is going to be used for fences, and devices should be invented for making fence more safe for stock. If cattle were in a dose lot or corral, with a wire fence, and it were struck all of the stock would stand a chance of being killed. A few dollars spent in aids to conduct th» elecfHcity to the earth would be chenpr than paying insurance premiums to insure stock. With such an instrument as ligbtn'ng rod peddlera carry with them to make hole* to pat down their rods, the common fence wire could easily be put down ten feet, which would be a good conductor, and save the lives of valuable stock. farmers who have valuable stock, inclosed by wire fence think of these ideas.

Orchard and Fruit Garden.

[American Agriculturist.}

The picking and marketing of early fall fruit is now in order. Special care should be taken in handling early varieties of apples and pears slight bruises lead to speedy decay. Send only the best fruit to market, well packed, and don't waste the rest, but preserve by drying. The patent driers are being improved each year, are of all size? and prices, and there is now no excuse for wasted fruit. Most pears should be packed before getting mellow a very few kinds, like the Rostiezer, ripen well on the tree. Where a fruit tree has not been trained from the start, the best time to note what pruning is needed is just after the fruit is picked. Tee cross limb) and shoots will (hea make themselves noticeable, and can be cut out, or, if large, marked with a siring for late fall pruning. Saleable currant Lushes are now ready for riigginqj and heeling in, to await sale or shipment. Make cuttings when the plants are dug, and set them as soon as tho ground is ready. Blackberry and asp berry canes, which have finished fruitIn?, should be cut away. If the growing shoots have been properly pinched they ougbt now to be very stocky, and show thrifty side-shoots. The new strawberry bed* should be carefully watchod. If any plantsbows feeble growth, take it out and rojjinco it with a strong one. The secret of big berries, and plenty, next season, is vigorous growth this falL Give a weekly supply of liquid manure, and plenty of water at all times, if the weather i3 dry. In marketing choice grape3 clip out with the scissors an defective or bruised berries. Study the las to and needs of your market, and pneit accordingly. Don't let any weeds go to seo 1. As fast'as land is cleared of crops, rlow and prepare it for something else. Early orders secure the best trees and vines from the nurserymen. The new crop of nursary stock is now ready to come on the market. Got the ground ready for planting in October, so that there will be no delay when the trees arrive.

Killed by the liutter Test. IBaltimore American.]

The newspaper reports on the death of tbe valuable cow Princess 11, belonging to Mrs. Shoeraokor, stated to be from lung trouble, brought saveral gentlemen breeders and others interested in the valuable live stock of the stale to consult Dr. Ward, the state veterinarian, as to the nature of the disease. He found the entire herd, with the exception of two bulls ond one cow, out at pasture, and in apparent good health. The bulls' looked splendid. The cow in one of the stables was suffering from garget and enlarged knee joints—a chronic case. The dairyman gave the doctor full particulars of the cow's death, which was from effects of overtaxa tion of the system during the late butter tests, or, in other words, as the doctor puts it, from making the cow into an extraordinary milking machine and then trying to return her to the ordinary dairy cow. Value XI, tbe other noted cow as a butter-making creature, died three weeks ego from the same cause or causes. Dr. Ward says such severe test) must at all times undermine the constitution of robust animals, and tbe two splendid creatures were of that class. Princess made forty-six pounds twelve ounces of butter in seven days.....

Augiut Crop lleports.

United States Agricultural Commissioner Colman has out life report for August The long stretch of heat we have had this summer has been accompanied with rains, and therefore boon good lor corn. The prospect tor that groat crop has not been better since 1880. In some parts of the country, notably in Illinois and North Carolina, tho crop promises to be the largest ever known.

As to wheat—well, tile less said about wheat the hotter. There will be enough to broad this great country, with not much to send over to the subjects of the offeto. despotisms, and the price will be very high when nobody has any to sell The prospect for spring wheat has fallen off since July.

There will be a better crop of oati. than there was last year. Cotton promises to be the bc3t in ten years, except in 1880.

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Fraud In lllndlng Twine.

Tho high prica of manilla, from which binding twiiu ii made, has induced manufacturers to sjofc cheaper substitutes. Sisal is the one most commonly used. It does not make so smoota a twine as manilla, and though it costs a little less psr p-un 1 i? realty dearest in the end, as it has a heavier body and doe.* net go aj many hundrod feet to the pound. The cheaper twine we have also found much more liable to tangle or Lreak in the binder, and a little loss of time of mm and teams far outweighs the gain irom saving a few cents in the price of twin.* used on a field.

Things to Do and to Know. Florida is the melon patch of tbe world. CUxft confinement is very injurious to young bulls. It stunts their development and makes them ugly tempered.

The Farm Economist says a whole fruit farm is not as dangerous in a cholera season as one unclean back yard.

Hog cholcra has been in England for over twenty years, yet it is stated that ft has lately broken out there for the first tim?.

The best butter is advancingjin price at last. Tho poorest ought to be given away for twwp grease by tbe slouch who makes it (Tbere are 1,600 kinds of pears, 1,500 sorts of apple*. ISO plums, more than 150 varieties of gooseberries and about 125 strawberries. 2fowi* the time when the farmer *ho •owed corn to cut up tbe green stalks for

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for bis cows is glad of it Give one feed of ft a day. A tomato vine at Plant Oty. Fla., covered a spot seventy-two feet In drench fcrence, and bore all last winter without injury by cold.

Tbe Poultry World thinks tbere is one thing that nature does not supply, and which rtvilixatkxi bas rendered necessary to fowls. It is cbarcoaL A charred carof corn will make the beet happy.

Baking is a meet excellent way of cooking green corn. All ite sweeta— is thus preserved. Tbe bosks are not removed till cooked then strip them back and cut oft tfcs butt with a strong knife, as tbe beat will make itdifficalt to break.

A Freak of Vegetation.

In the mountains of Venezuela grows a remarkable tree. It is found in rocky plac**, at heights of about half a mile. It is a stupid looking tree enongh at first sight. It is lofty and slender, and has stiff leaves, that grow afoot or more in Ibngth. It looks much of the tame as if it was dead. In those regions there is a wet and dry season, and during many at a time not a shows washes its leaves. It bears very small, in-significant-looking flowers.

COW TREE OF THE TROPICS.

What is it good for, this tall, slim trunk, with the dull, dead-looking branches! It is the milk trea, the famous "palo de vaca," which Humboldt describes. He first brought it into notice. It is an evergreen. Its sap is a delicious fluid resembling the finest Jersey milk, only sweeter and richer than even that. When the negroes aro thirsty they cut into the side of thj trunk as one would bore into a maple for sugar water, and tha milk gushes forth in a great stream. It in both food and drink, so rich is it. Aftor a little time it grows thick and yellow, and a cream rises to the top." It tas a fragrant odor. When a cow treo is tapped the natives hasten from all quarters with their bowls to catch the flow of milk. The fluid i3 white. Sunrise is the best time to tap the tree, for then the^ap flows most abundantly. Tht tree gets its morning milking, like a CQW.

Humboldt was much surprised at discovering the cow tree and finding that its mslk was palatable and nutritious. His knowledge of botany had taught him that most milky voge table fluids are bitter and burning to the taste. Some of them are poisonous. But here was one milky sap that put even his great learning at fault.

Attempts have been made to cultivate the cow tree and make it grow in other localities than where it is found naturally, but, in vain. As soon as it is removed from its native mountains it dies. The Venezuelan government exp3rimented with it witnout success. But South American labor is proverbially shiftless. Perhaps if some live Yankee would try to acclimate the cow tree our southern states he might succeed iinally.

Cmim of Earthquakes and Volcanoes. The old^theory of earthquakes and volcanoes is that they are caused by the spurting out and slopping over at times of an interior molten mass which is found at greater or less distances bolow the thick ci ust oi the earth'a cool outer surface. A late •writer says the theory that ihe interior of the earth is composed of a melted redhot mass must be abandoned. The new idoa is that there are three parts to the earth's substance. First, in the center i3 a great, solid nucleus. About this is a ring ot semi-fluid matter which forms a viscid or sticky mas3. Outsido of this is solid earth crust. The ring or layer of viscid substance is thus compresse between two solids. It slips around slowly as tho earth moves. The motion of this internal viscid layer causes upheaval or d.v presiion in the earth's surface, according as different portions are more or less yielding.

Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are accounted for on the thery of electrical disturbances. It is well known that electrical currents are constantly passing and repassing through the earth's crust. "Every telegraph operator knowj that hj cannot telegraph irom one city to another unless the cn-is of his wire are connected with the earth." That there are good and bad conductors of electricity is no less well known, if the curront mo3ts resistance in tha shape i,f a bad conductor, it is oostructed in its ire3 passage, and melts metals, causcs things to take lire, and plays havoc generally In like manner, in the earth are minerals of different conducting power. '•.Let us suppose, now," says a certain writer, "'that a strong current of electricity passing through tho earth along a vein of mineral meets witn the resistance offered by a body whose Capacity for conducting is less, it naturally follows that great heat is developed, the surrounding material comes incandescent or melts, tho earth crust expands and cracks, the water from the surface penetrates to the depths, is decomposed into oxygon and hydrogen by the electricitv, and in other places reunite 1 by explosion, the gases find vent through tha crater of the volcano and the lava follows, propelled by the hydraulic pressure resting upon it."

This writer suggests that if lightning roJs wero driven down into the earth to sufficient depth in earthquake regions, tbe accumulated electricity might pass harmlessly off into the air. But how deep would it be necessary to go?

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Inneb M«tho4 of.Polishing Wood witfc Charcoal. Tin method of polishing wood with charcoal, now much employed by French cabi-net-makers, is thu3 described in a Paris technical journal: All the world now fttiovw of thoje articles of furniture of a beautiful dead-black color, with sharp, ciear-cut edges and a smooth surface, tbe trood of which reems to have tbe density of ebony. Viewing them side by side with furniture rendered Mack by paint and varpfaR, tbe difference is so sensible that tbe considerable margin of price separating the two kinds explains itaeif. The operations are much longer and much more minute in this mode of charcoal polkhlisg, which respects evary detail of earring, wfefle paint and varnish would clog up tbe boles and widen tbe ridges. In the first process tbey employ only carefully-selected woods, of a desa and compact grain tbey cover them with a coat of ttmpbor disaolved in water, and almost immediately afterward with another coat composed chiefly of sulphate ci iron and nntgalL The two composition*, in blending, penetrate the wood and give it an indelible tinge, at tbe same time rendering it impervious to tbe attacks of ineecta. When tbeae two are sufficiently dry, tbey rub tbe surface ot tbe wood at 'first with a very bard brush at conch grass (cbieudent), and tben with charcoal of subatancea as light and friable as posrffaia because if ciiude bard £rain remained in tbe

charcoal, this alone would scratch tbs surface, which they wisb, on the contrary, to rendisr perfectly smooth. The flat parts are rubbed with natural stick charcoal the indented portions and crevioes with charcoal powder. Alternately with the charcoal the workman also rube his piece of furniture with flannel soaked in linseed oil and essence of turpentine. These pouncings, repeated several times, cause the charcoal powder and the oil to penetrate into the wood, giving tbe article of furniture a beautiful color, and «ho a perfect polish, which has none of tbe flaws of ordinary varnish.

V- Electroplating a Corpses A chemist of Brest bias resurrected an old idea about the disposal of the dead. He merely rub3 the corpse with plumbago, suspends it in an electric copper bath, and lo! a fine coating of copper is depositsd all over it. The corpse, it is said, being thus wholly shut off from air will be thoroughly preserved and remain forever. Fruits and flowers have been preserved intact in this way. Bunches of grapes treated with the copper bath are used as decorations for the ceilings and frieze work of dining rooms, and the effect is extremely artistic. Lilies have been immersed in tha bath end delicately coated with dusky, shining metal.

By this methol a corpse becomes converted into a copper statue. A man might electroplate his deceased mother-in-law, and have her always near him. A husband might leave it in his will that he should be thus copper-coated and set up as a bronze statue in his family library. Then, if his widow wishes to marry again, he will be on the spot as an awful warning and example. Persons who cannot afford to electroplate their dead with copper may use zinc. Poor relations may be disposed of in this way. Zinc is good enough for them.

furious Case of Nervous Sympathy. At the last meeting of the French acad emy of medicine Dr. Brown-Sequard related a very remarkable instance of the power of sympathy which cams within his recent observation. A little girl was looking out of a window in a house in the Batignolles a few days ago. The lower sash was raised and the child had placed her arms on the sill. Suddenly the support on which the sash rested gave way and the window fell with considerable force on the little girl's arms, inflicting a severe bruise. Her mother, who was in the room at the time, happened to look toward the window at the moment of the accident and witneasecl it. She fainted with fright and remained insensible for a minute or two. When she recovered she was conscious of a severe pain in both arms, and on examining the seat of it she was amazed to find on each arm a bruise corresponding in position to that left by the accident on the child s. though more extensive.

„:«Fact* of Interest.

It is beginning -to be believed that the famous rsd sunsets of a year ago were caused, not by volcanic dust, but by cosmic, or star dust

The Japanese government are introducing the use of Roman characters into their printed language, instead of the native. It will facilitate popular learning.

It is announced that an English inventor has lately devised a method of coating tin with a material resembling which removes all danger of poison in canned goods.

Anew steam oyster dredge has been invented. An endless chain of bucket up oysters by the peck. But it is the machine will kill off the tribe by the disturbance it beds. That, however, remaps

Fashionable Embroidery

EMBROIDERED TABLE COVER.

The square of Titian red cloth which forms the ground of this table cover is decorated with a wide embroiderod border, a section of which is shown in Fig. 2. The large design has appropriately heavy outlines, which ore defined- by a thick ecru linen cord, sewed down with wid} buttonhole stitcbes in filoselle, partly light olive and partly maroon. Within the linen cord there is a finer gold cord,, sewed down witli stitches of dark red silk. -,

OTCTIOir 09 BORDER.

Tbe flowers, leaves and stems are flOed in with long stitch with tapestry wool, the colors comprising shades of olive, brown, bronze and blue. The table cover is lined with satteen, and finished with a thick cord around the edge. Over tbe center of tbe t^Klo cover in the cut is spread a bobbinet lace square, tbe pattern of which is picked out with colored silks and gold. Tbe edges are outlined with silk or tinsel, and tbe surfaces worked over with open stitches.

Spoons and Forto. (Jeweler's Circular.

Tbe spoon work furnished in solid silver affords, some of it, a wonderful study with its diversity of pattern and ornate decoratirna There are historical spoons, a notable illustration of /which are the "Indian spoons." These are finished with statuettes at tbe top of tbe handle, after the fashion of the "apostle spoons," and are veritable studies from C'atlin's fflustratioes of tbe North American Indians, and from objects fat tbe National museum at Washington, Tbeae spoons are supplied in combinations of doarns or half donna, pain or single spoons, no two of which are alike in design. Another spooai pattern in its ornamentation illustrates the story of court life some centurias tgtk Another gtasa a pictorial description

of ahdls and seaweeds another interests little folk as well as grown peopla with the story of little Bed Riding Hood, or one- of Mother loose's rhymes in etchings 8* engravings A pattern attracting attention Just now is called the "Armenian Berry" pattern, because each size of spoons in a set exhibits in its ornamentation the foliage and fruit of a different berry, tbe smaller spoons naturally being reserved for the smalier fruits, and the large ones for the mammoth kinds.

Among fruit spoons, the orange spoons are, perhaps, tbe most useful of any, as th&e are equally convenient and appropriate for ice cream and water icos, thei sharp point and long, shallow bowl bei: admirably adapted to cutting into ah ice without any annoyance from its slippi: about on the plate. Of course, with thij spoon the orange, cut in halves, can be sera.] out and eaten with a certain decree of elegance rarely attained in the consumption qf this juicy fruit I

I^adlea and salad forks, with handles 4' wood, decorated with silver trimmings, are fashionable. So are paring sets with wood handles, covered with a heavy deposit of silver, which imparts a rough surface similar to that of the bark of a tree, and affords a change with tha silver plating on metal Always beautiful and always fashionabls are the sets with elaborately carved handlas of stained iAjry.

For serving asparagus one is afforded a choice between a silver shevel broad euough to lift and convey to an individual's plate a suitable portion of the asparagus or the asparagus fork with four wide tines.

Kldlculons Masculine Attire. 'ih »5

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LaSies' toiletd have so often beenJkp subject of remark and criticism on thriRnrt of the male sex, that it appears only justifiable when gentlemen's dress is also criticised. The chance of doing 90 is at the present time very favorable, and first we can begin with the astonishingly short overcoat, which, strange to say, now rejoice3 as an obj.ct of special favor in the eye of elegant young men. These coats generally appear in light colors and make an almost painful impressiou, then comes the peculiar fashionable tall hat, with its disproportionately wide crown, the light gaiters and {Minted shoes. Suca an appearance is scarcely calculated to promote respect for the lords of creation in the hearts of the weaker sex. Now wo ara on the theme of gentlemen's attire another latest novelty in this quarter can be inontioned, which has its origin in Russia. The jeunesss doree on the Neva wear silver cravats these are exactly the same shape as the usual cravat and are fastened lound the neck with a moveable silver band.

Painting on I-ace.

Ladies of artistic accomplishments will be interested to know that lac3 paintjn^ is now popular. The effect is beautiful Tho flowers and leaves painted upon tho lac* look as if hung in water.

PAUfTXD LACE.

Oi course the plaih, unembroidered net on. The edge luttonholed or lilacs are tbe ninted fichus iuch admired with rounded

must be selected for' can be scolloped and finished with cord. most fashionable for the neck i:n& They are in ajMjjjiil fo: ,, oomera. edged witn the painted lace, •ftelffl'or gathered A plain long or square piece of net must ba cbosen to work on. Painted lace fam of exquisite beauty are Been. Lddies who understand the use of pencil, brush and colors will be delighted with this new and aesthetic fancy work. Those who do not can buy their painted

Zouave Jacket.

One of the prettiest jet zouave ja/ta*ts noticed lately is of jet eo made as to look like fish scales or armor cloth. The jacket rounds away from the throat, under the arms, about half way between arm and waist line. A high, flaring collar opens to a point The whole is edged with small jot drops. A Centaur belt of tbe same seotns necessary with this pretty jacket—a fullwidth belt, excepting in front, where it shapes in points, and is laced with fine black cord the belt is edged all around with the jet balls. A necklet of solid jet passementerie, sometimes in medallion pattern, is fitan very protty with almost any dress, and especially with a black _surah, or grenadine in fine c^t jet

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»[New York Fashion Bazar.] It is said the woolen guipure lace over silk will be the fashionable autumn dress. This laae is woven to give it a wintry look. Woolen galloon helps to give the dress a look of cold weather.

Colors designed for fall are deeper in tone thnn those in use this summer. A sky-blue, has a gray tinge pumice-gray nebule a deep cloud gray Labrador blue with a noticeable cold gray tint plum a silvery lead color while the yellows are broom, corn blossom, Chinese orange and evening primrose. Eglantine is the favorite pink shade. -E

I FASHIONLETS. v.. White wrappers are made altogether of embroidery.

Bedroom wrappers are still made in the Mother Hubbard style. The prettiest and most delicate fans are painted in soft tints and with much daintiness of design, upon cream colored gauze.

Fine French cashmere dresses of tbe color of red, known as sang de boauf, and elaborately In-aided with black, are favored by English girls for tennis usa.

Tie favorite woolen bee has become more attractive by tbe addition of a velvet pattern. This covers the thick laoe knots, and is sewn on in find chain or stem-stitch lines. in fashionable houses have now no pillows in sight, only a bolster covered with a lace counterpane. Tbe small, soft pillows used for sleeping are put odt of sight in a closet by day.

Rpthiw stout figures lode better with a fiat band of embroidery, beaded lacs, velvet, or any other trimming preferred, put on round tbe neck and straight down tbe front, outlining a jacket, than any other

In woolen stuffs Parisian modistes are

/Vm*1 of finding a colored selvage an I allow ing it to show, so that it forms a trunauug. Striped stuffs are drapei at tbe back so that half are perpendicular and the other ijdt horizontal

Pretty black straw Vtacbona, dotted witb cut jet,l ned witb black velvet and trimmed with two rosettes of white Moresque lace, ftftowii tbe top witb long, dead-gold pins, ara effectively worn witb either vihiu at biack Lock*.

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lng the causo. Boats billons tendencies and make* clear complexion. Equalled by none In tbe delirium of fever. A charming resolvent and a matchless laxative. It drives Sick Beadaclio llko the wind. IWContalns no drastic cathartic or opiates. Bellevca

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the brain of morbid fancies. Promptly cores Rheumatism by rooting It. Restores Ufo-glvlng properties to the blood. Is goaranteed to core all nervous disorders. QTBellable when all opiates fan. R«v freshes the mind and Invigorates the body. Cures dyspepsia or mosey refunded.

Diseases of the blood own It a conqueror. Endorsed in writing by over fifty thousand leading citizens* clergymen and physicians In U. 8. and Europe.

PTTor sale by all leading druggists. $1.09.

fhe DR. S. A. RICHMOND NERVINE CO, St. Joseph,

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Father, Mother, and Three Sisters Bead. Mr-. David Claypool, formerly tsergeant-at-ArmsoftheKew Jersey Senate, and now Notary Public at Cedarville, Cumberland Co., N. J., makes Ihe following Htartling statement: "My father, mother, and three sisters all died with consumption, and my lungs were wrweak I raised blood. Nobody thought I could live. My work (shipsmithing)wa8 very straining on me with my weak constitution, and I was rapidly (joing to the grave. While in this condition

commenced using Mishler's Herb Bitters, and it saved my life. Because it was so. difficult to get it in this little place, find I had improved so much, I stopped taking it for a time, and the result is that I have commenced going rapidly dowrt hill again. Somehow, Mishler's Herb Bitters givea appetite and strengthens and builds me np as nothing else does, and 1 must have a dozen bottles at once. Use this communication as you nle^se, and if any one wants to be convinced of its truth, let them write me and I will make affidavit to it, for I owe my life to Mishler's Herb Bitters." .Thesecret of the almost invariable relief and cure of consumption, dysentery, diarrhoea, dyspepsia, indigestion, kidney and liver complaints, when Mishler's Herb Bitters is used, is that it contains simple^ harmless, and yet powerful ingredients, that act on the blood, kidneys, and liver, and ihrongh them strengthens and invigorates the whole system. Purely vegetable in its composition prepared by a regular physician: a standard medicinal prepare tion endorsed by physicians and druggists. These are four strong points in favor of Mishler's Herb Bitters. Mishler's Heifc Bitters is sold by all druggists. Price $1.0fr per large bottle. 6 bottles for $5.00.

Ask jam hvggm ter Vmnt Bm Bkrm. If b« 6am on* It, dp not Uui

ELGES'S STEAM DYE HOUSE,

6(10 Main HU, McKeen's Block* Tbe only Htenm Dye lloune In the city. Dyftlngand Scouring of all klndsof LadlMf Gents' and Children1* wear, rach as Hllka, HHiln*, Cusiimere*, Alpacas, etc., cleaned or dyed In any desirable shade.

Kid gloves or kid slipper* cleaned or dyed, Jaee curtains and lace ties cleaned, shawls cleaned or died, plumes, cleaned or dyed, geuts' garments cleaned, dyed and repaired.

A11 my work Is done by a steam process, wh eh makes it look as nice as new. A msa can save buying a new salt by taking Ms old clothing to Nelgen and have htm te clcxn. dye and repair It. Ladles can do the Mtic with their dresses by having them cleared and dyed.

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