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FARM AND HOUSEHOLD!
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An Old l*l*ii for fSrovrin* cnenmlMTe.
The following is an old plan practised
In some sections with good effects: Spade
up a good piece of garden soil and make
a circular mound about eight feet in di
ameter and ten inches higher in the cen
ter than at the outside. In the center of
the mound sink an old leaky barrel and
Gil it two-thirds full of barnyard ma
mire, with some hen manure mixed in.
Pour the wash water from the house into
the barrel ami let it leak through into
the ground. Plant the cucumber seed
in a ring, about six inches from the bar
rei; watch for the hugs and destroy
them by the usual methods. Supply tbe
water often enough to keep the ground
moist, to promote a rapid growth, hut
not too wet.
Manure for Grape Vines.
Common barnyard manures are not
Adapted to growing the best grapes,
though they are much better than no
manuring. The faults of stable manures
are an excess of nitrogen, causing cx
cessive growth of vine and too little of
mineral fer ilizers which produce the
fruit. An application of potash in
spring or any time during the growing
season is very beneficial. Old country
vineyards are manured almost exclusi vely
by the ashes from the burned trimmings
of grape vines. These asl.es are very
rich in potash. This mineral food is es¬
pecially valuable in promoting early
ripening. Vines that overhear are s ni
ply in most cases setting a larger num¬
ber of clusters than the vine can sup¬
ply potash for the perfecting of the
seeds, ami for changing the harsh juices
of the green grape into the riper one.
Thoroughbred lIor*en and Farm
Woik,
It is frequently stated, says the Turf,
Field and Farm , that the thoroughbred
horse is not fit for farm work; that his
limbs are loo weak to stand the strain,
and his nerves too highly strung for
plodding effort. The weedy thorough
bred is light limbed, and on the turf he
never ranks above fhe common plater.
But with the muscular and sfanchly built
thoroughbred it is different, lie has
speed, stamina and weight carrying ca¬
pacity. His temperament is lively, and
it is necessary to be patient and kind
with him when put to slow work. Harsh j
treatment will ruin his disposition.
Thoroughbreds are often condemned be
cause those who seek to make use of
them do not discriminate, do not make
proper selections. A Tennessee observer
writes to the Spirit of the Farm:
“I believe that the past proves that
wherever there is thoroughbred blood > i
whether in the trotting horse or mule,
lie is bettered by it. Feme of tbe fast¬
est trotting horses tire country has ever
seen have a cross of this bloorl, and I am
sure from iny own experience that amule
from a thoroughbred mare by a good
jack will kill almost any other not simi¬
larly bred if it is forced to keep up and
do the same amount of work. 1 know
of a ease where a gentleman, living in
Davidson countv, plowed a thorough¬
bred horse, and ho told me that on on<?
occasion, when plowing corn, which was
about up to a man’s shoulders, on a verv
hot day, and having a large number of
plows , running, . all ,, drawn , by , mule* , ex
ceptonc.it . ., . being . drawn , by , the .. ,, thor
oughbred ,, , horse, , that when , the ,, mules ,
were hot and tired, and had to be
watered and Tested, this horse, though
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„ as wet , with sweat . as , lie could ,, , be. was
not blowing a particle, but went on pull
ing bis plow without the least trouble.”
Iloiiseliu'd IlintM.
Pencil marks on paint, or white-washed
walls, may be removed by rubbing with
a little cooking soda on a damp cloth.
Windows may be beautifully cleaned
by using whitening, w ithout cither water
or soap, and pouliing off with either a
chamois or with old newspaper.
Straw mattings should never be
washed with soap, which is certain to
turn than yellow, use clean salt and
water mot brine) and wipe dry as soon
as washed.
Kerosene oil will sofien leather belts
or boots that have become bard from ex
posure or u-u around the wash room,
Good for the harness when hard front
rain or dampness. Wash with warm
water, then grease with good animal oil.
A cheap paint that will last for years
may be made for out-buildings, by tak¬
ing milk and cement, or “water lime” as
some call it, mix and apply three or four
coats; any dry color may be added,
This will last for years, and by renewing
once in two or three years, a building
will look as if painted with oil paint.
To put this on, the paint should be
stirred constantly, as the finer parts will
soon I e all used obt, and you will have
nothing lcL but sand.
A Logical Hen.
Every one has beard of the distress of
the ben on beholding young ducklings
hatched by her taking to the water. This
occurs so frequently as to attract little
remark, except when observed by any
one for the first time. Mr. Jesse, in his
natural history “Gleanings,” records a
singular incident. A hen which had
hatched three successive duckling broods
got so accustomed to the aquatic ten¬
dency of her pupils, that on hatching a
set of ber own eggs she led the chickens
to the pond, and in surprise at their un
willingness to take the water, actually
pushed some of them in, and several were
drowned before the awkward situation
observed and the survivors rescued.—
Leisure Uj% r.
The farmer king of Alabama is Bragg
B- ComeT, of Barbour county. He raised
2,230 bales of cotton last year, beside a
large amount of corn. He has from 3,000
to 10,000 acres in cotton and corn this
year.
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The superstitions of life are many,
^ c i rcums tance9 giving rise to the .'
peculiarly varied and complex, but uoc
excite more the curiosity of people with
^ inclinalion t0 mvs ticism than the pe
cuhar gignificance seemingly attendant
q the employment of the numeral
, fhe uge o{ tbe num b er can L«
| traccd back tQ the Mogaic narrative
i since which period, as marking the du
qJ . a week in day8) it i ias influ
enced the social life of nearly all con
tinental nations. It is somewhat curious
to note the peculiar character of its
progress through the ages, and its re
mar) .. lb | e adhesion to history and sei
pnco Ag> for instance) therc are . ac
cordjng fo fhe time honor ed creed,
seven bodic8 in alchemy, divided, and,
so to speak, personified thus: The sun is
gold; the moon, silver; Mars, iron;
Mercury, quicksilver; Saturn, lead; Ju
j.iter, tin: Venus, copper.
The mystic charm goes further. The
champions of Christendom were seven
numbcJt) gaint9 George, of England;
AndreWj of Scotland; Patrick, of Ire
j )avi d, 0 f Wales; Denys,of France;
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Jamc g) of Spain, and Anthony, of Italy,
]nvincib | e Itome crowne d seven hills an J
ancient TKebcs j, a< i seven gates piercing
hef maggive walis . Keiigion even falls
underneftth the influence, for are there
not seven mortal sins—pride, wrath,
lugt> gluttony? avarice an d slothi
The life of Rien/.i, possibly, was most
potently influenced by the innocent nu
meral. On the 7th of October he com
pletcil the conquest of his foes, lib
reign as Tribune lasted seven months,anti
the period of his exile embraced seven
years. Seven weeks after his return
witnessed him without an enemy, and
the crowns bestowed upon him by Roman
convents and council were seven in num
her.
The seven sleepers, presumably buried
at Ephesus, were presumed to exercis
an infiuence upon national fortunes a<
late as the time of Edward the Confessor
for William of Malmesbury says; “Ed
ward the Confessor, in his mind's eye
saw lire seven sleepers turn from thei,
right sides to left, thus boding great
disasters to Christendom.”
An ancient chronicler thus memorial
izes those types of elemental power, thi
seven wonders of the world:
“The pyramids first, which in Egypt wet
laid;
Next Babylon’s gardens for Amphytis made
Then Mnusoles’ tomb of affection and guilt
put!,, the Temple of Diao, at Ephesus built
The Colossus of Rhodes, east in brass to th
sun;
Sixth, Jupiter’s Statue, by Phidias done;
The Pharos of Egypt, lust womler of old,
Or Palace of Cyrus, cemented with gold.”
The most far-reaching of the super
stitions attending the utilization of till
number seven is the astrologic power con
ferred upon him who shall stand as tlu
seventh male heir of the seventh son
Such a person was presumed to possesi
iu a large degree the power of curing
disease by the laying on of hands, — Cin¬
cinnati Enquirer.
Chronology of Steamboating.
The first i,|ca of stcam navigation wa*
contained in a patent obtained iu Eng
* an< ^ Hulls iu 1 <3(5.
Fitch experimented * in steam naviga
tion on the , Delaware river . in 1733-4.
Oliver Evans was the , next expenmentei
in Virginia ..... in steam navigation .... in ,_ 1785-0 OK
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HamS °- V al8 ° aU ^l-nmcntcr u
' . stc ,m navigation in
**r?* nia m ‘ 1 - •
W. Symington n made trials on tbe
Forth aiul ^ de " rib , a rudely eon
8tructed ino,lcl a 8tcal » er la J-S 9 -
Chancellor Livingston built . steamei
a
on tbe Hudson in 1797.
The first experiment of steamboating
on the Thames, England, was in 1801.
Mr. Symington repeated his experi
ments on the Thames with success ii
1802.
Fulton built the steamer the Nortl
nivcr> m: „ lo a passage up the llud
son river to Albany, from New York, it
thirty-three hours-tlie first steam navi
gation on record. The engines were
constructed by Boulton & Watts. Th<
voyage was made in 1807.
The next steamboat was the Czar ol
Neptune in 1808.
Fulton built tbe Orleans, at Pittsburg,
tbe first steamer on Western rivers. It
was completed, and made tho voyage tc
I New Orleans 2,000 miles, in 1811.
I The Paragon was tho next steamer,
: built in New York in 1811.
The Richmond was built at New York
in 1812.
The first steam vessels of Europe com
ntenced plying tbe Clyde in 1812.
The Vesuvius was built at Pittsburg it
1815.
England built her first steamer it
1815.
The Savannah, the first steamer tf
cross the ocean, was of 350 tons burden,
and sailed for Liverpool from Savannah
Ga . July 15, 1811).
The first steamer built in Ireland wa:
in 1820.
Captain Johnson was paid t‘10,000 oi
$50,00) for making the first steam voy
age to India. The voyage was made oi
tbe steamer Enterprise, which
from Falmouth, England, August 16.
1825.
The Great Western, from Bristol, Eng
land, and the Sirius, from Cork, Ireland
both arrived at New York city, each ot
their first voyage, and each eighteen
out, on June 17, 1838.
i The first war steamer built in England
was in 1838.
,, R * tUr " 8 fr °“ States
gav,
| an aggregate of 700 steamboats in tht
United States in 1838.
j There were about 1,500 steam vesseh
in the I'nited States in 1867.
The Washington was the first Ameri
can ocean steamer of note, She made
! her first passage to Southampton, £ng
land, in June, 1847 .—New York Karin,
Journal.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Wet winters have been found to result
disastrously to insects.
The grasshopper develops from the
young larva to the winged adult without
changing its mode of life.
Tr; London an electric light has been
used to illuminate the interior of an
oven. The door was of plate glass, and
every part of the process of baking could
be distinctly seen.
Discussing the manufacture of hone
dustj Professor J. Konig shows that
vvhen hones, previous to grinding, arc
freed from fats by treatment with ben
z0 ], they are purified from ingredients
wb ich have no agricultural value,
while our country is sunposed to be
near , y frec from earthquakes, no less
^han 364 shocks were recorded in the
United g ta tes and Canada during the
lwelve year3 en( ]ing 1883. This is an
average of about one in every twelve
days.
A mountain explorer just returned
from Asia states that during a four
months’ residence at a height of more
than 13,000 feet above the sea his pulse,
normally sixty-three heats per minute,fell
below 100 per minute, and his respira¬
tions were often twice.as numerous as at
ordinary levels.
Before the Linnean society, of Lon¬
don, Mr. A. Taylor has sought to prove
that plants have a dim sort of intelli¬
gence, and are able, at least, to exert as
voluntary power as certain lowly organ¬
ized animals. One proof of this, is the
plant’s avoidance of obstacles—placed
artificially in their way—by bending
aside before touching.
A French botanist, M. Fonssagrivcs,
asserts that poisonous gases are given off
by both growing and harvested fruits—
such as apricots, oranges and quinces—
and death by poisoning lias resulted
from sleeping in rooms exposed to such
emanations. A similar deadly gas—evi
dentlv connected in some way with
vegetable odors—is given off by sweet
scented flowers and odoriferous leaves.
Adanson found trees of the baobab
species in Africa which he computed to
be 5,150 years old; and De Candolle has
reported the deciduous cypress of Mexi¬
co to reach a still greater age. The
oldest individual specimen of any
species—in fact, the oldest living thing
upon the globe—is probably tbe cypress
of Santa Maria del Tule, in the Mexican
state of Oaxaca. If estimates of tree
ages are to be relied upon, the life of
this venerablo forest monarch may have
spanned the whole period of written his¬
tory. At last accounts it was still grow¬
ing, and in 1851, when Humboldt saw
it, it measured forty-two feet in diam
eter, 145 iu circumference, and 282 feet
between the extremities of two opposi
branches.
On the Raging Canal in Venice.
It is possible to go through London by
canal, but it is not possible to go through
Venice by any other route unless a per
Bon walks, says Luke Sharp in the De¬
troit Free Press. It is hard to imagine a
great city where most of the inhabitants
never saw a horse except at the public
gardens, where an equine couple are kept
as curiosities.
My two Pinafore gondoliers got one on
each end of a large gondola, and I
seated myself on tbe comfortable cush¬
ions in the center. Every gondola has a
sort of air cushion, one to sit on and one
to lean back against, and the effect is
very luxurious. When once a person
gets into a gondola the charm of Venice
is on him and the enchantment never
leaves him. The evening was still and
the canal as placid as a mirror. The two
gondoliers swing together in working
j ! their oars with an easy rythm of motion
that sent tho boat along swiftly and si¬
lently. As we neared the beautiful arch
of the Hialto they turned into a smaller
canal and thought it part of thoir duty
to sing. I made them quit that though,
and nothing further occurred to mat the
perfection of the journey. It was almost
dark as we passed under the gloomy
Bridge of Sighs, a most appropriate
time to get a first view of that structuie,
although in the dimness I regret to say
that it reminded me of one of these cov
ered ways that sometimes span an alley
overhead to unite two parts of a sepa
rated factory. Then we canie out into
the broad open water again and up
another narrow canal, and thus cam" to
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the .id. th. bi e ltot.1. !
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About Widows.
I have a vague idea that a widow.
to be natural, should always be plump.
| I can’t give any reason for it. I have
| long had a conviction that grief over a
departed husband is fattening. 1 knew
I that stage widows are always wan and
pale, and faint at the sight of any relic
of the deceased. But that is a dramatic
license, and only in comedies where true ,
iove and devotion are made funnv, not
1° S8 J ridiculous, do they make widows
plump. Come to think of it, 1 don’t see
a widow shouldn’t be plump. She
^ as n °thing to worry about. She is
Porcine of one great battle, with a
weakened world before her to conquer.
^ ^e widows. It always seems to me
that a widow is a woman who has got
‘ the be9t of a man Uc “ay have been a
B 00< ^ of a man, or very little of a
I man, but she’s got the best of him. It
seems to ire awfully hard for a woman to
survive her husband. I do not wish to
ask whether matrimony is, after all, a
disease that is fatal to woman. I don’t
say that a woman should never marry at
all. She should always marry some
other man .—San Francisco Chronicle.
Although William Cullen Brvant has
been dead since 1878, letters addressed I
to him are still received at the office ot!
the New York Evening Post.
LIEUTENANT ADD THE TIE.
A I.1TT1.E AltVIV -TOliV OF GENBHAI.
ItUANT ANO ID* MAYS.
How n Menlrnnnt who Passed Himself oft
as General Grant mine to l.rlet.
Here is a comical story of the way in
which , ■ , General ,, , Grant is saw K „;,i to to have nave
punished a “ cheeky ” lieutenant. We
ftal it in t,„ Springfield Mm. “Tb.
officer in question coming upon a lonely
'arm-house one dav. and being struck
with ... the pangs of ( i,mirror hunger, dismoumtu, dismounted
and in order to get the best the house
afforded, hail the impudence to repre
sent himself as General Grant, lie was
served with the greatest alacrity, and,
with . . his companions, nearly r'pnnwl c < anea the tut
larder. Pay was refused and they rode
rejoicing. . . r
away
“ In the meantime General Grant,
who wuo had aau halted na.icu his u armv a few miles
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further back for a brief resting spell,
tame in sight of and was rather favor
ably impressed with the appearance of
this same house. Riding up to the fence
in front of tf. door, bo do,nod to know
if they would cook him a meal.
it < No ’ said a female, in a gruff voice.
. General „ , Grant „ ,__, and .. his staff u._„ have jus
been here and eaten everything in the
bonto oxo.pt one pumpkin pie.'
(< f Humph,’murmured Grant; ‘what
is votir •’ nnmp 9’
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I < f Selvidge, r , , replied the woman.
“ Casting a half-dollar in at the door,
ho Rhked if she would keep that pie until
he sent an officer for it, to which she
molted replied that Hilt «he she would wouiu.
“ That evening, alter the camping
ground had been selected the various
regiments were notified that there would
bo a grand parade at half-past six, for
Officer. „™>]J see th.t ell IM.
men turned out, etc.
“In five minutes the camp r was in a
perfect uproar, and filled with all sorts
of rumors. Borne thought the enemy
were upon them, it ... being so unusual ix to
have parades when on a march.
“At At halt-past ImlfiW six six the tne parade parade was was
formed, ten columns deep, and nearly a
quarter 1 of a mile in length. °
“Both officers and men were amazed
at this uuusual parade f after such a long
and march, and wondered what . it .
weary
portended, when the assistant adjutant
general rod. to tr.Mol tbe liee., and, to
a grave, loud, and clear voice, read the
following order.
“ HiSAUQUAUTEliS Armv IN THE Field,
“ ‘Special Order No. —.
(t t Lieutenant Wtckfiald, of tho Iu
on this day, e«te»
everything in Mrs. Belvidge’s house, at
the crossing of the Trenton and Poco
Liontas ftiid , Biaci , Ivivor ,, aiiu , Gape (jirar
dean Roads, except the pumpkin pie
Lieutenant Wiektield » w, ordentd
to return, with au escort of 100 cavalry,
and j tat , xt.rtf that pie ifin also. „l*n
<< ( U. S Grant,
“ ‘Brigadier General Commanding.’
“It is impossible to describe the effect
the reading ol this order had on the
troops. Every one was expecting to hear
some momeutuous announcement, and
li.to.to,. .-1,1, T , .ttototo,,.
when it was finished, looked at each
other in utter bewddermeut, aud asked
what did it mean,
“The parade was over, aud the moment
they dispersed each one sought an ex
planation of the btiauge affair. It soon
leaked out, and by the time the crest
fallen lieutenant was ready, with his es
eort, to leave camp, it was in a perfect
uproar, aud peals of laughter followed
. him . as he . defiled | j», x a ; ong the road on his
way back to oat that pie,
“Grant made no explanation of his
conduct, followed it by no reprimand.
The order carried its own lesson, admin
istcred its own rebuke, and each one
knew that it would not be a safe business
to pass himself off as tbe General-in
Chief, much Jess forage in his name for
his own benefit. When the lieutenant
returned to camp, late iu the evening, he
glad to escape to bis tent to avoid
tho numberless questions and jokes about
the pumpkin pie.”
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liBBAT _ Biutain buys
her postal card
supply from Germany, the last order
giveu the successful bidder being b
150 090 Odd 011 n »%.|I. tl
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An unusual number of houses are now
for rent in New York, and many private
residences on Fifth avenue are being 8
converted into stores.
The pay of a retired army officer is
seventy-five per cent, of the pay allotted
•to the rank of officers in active service
at the time of retirement.
The Hotel Vendome, of Boston, is
unsurpassed iu location and appoint
ments. Tourists wishing to stop at a
hotel which offers the comforts of their
— ll0me s -hould h ut fail to vi.it it.
Tlo Secured the Interest..
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A few years before the war the late
Commodore _ , Garrison, _ , of . New „ York, _
purchased with Commodore Vanderbilt
a majority of tho stock of the line now
known as the Pacific Mail. The part¬
ners disagreed, aud each wanted to bay
the other out. At last Commodore
Garrison received an offer of several
millions from Vanderbilt. Garrison ne
ce l’* e L au d Vanderbilt, paid him in
n °t es - After the notes had ran for some
time Mr. Thorne, Vanderbilt’s son-in
law, wont to Garrison and said that
Vanderbilt did not want to be paying in¬
terest any longer, and offered to settle
for the fall amount. This was accepted,
Vanderbilt sending around a check for
the principal. Commodore Garrison
put it in his pocket, and walked to Van¬
derbilt’s office, 3 Bowling Green.
“Look here, Vanderbilt,” he said,
striking the check against the palm of
his hand, "1 want the interest on this
money. ” '
“Do you ?” replied Vanderbilt.
“What will you do if you don’t get it?”
“Do? I’ll show you what I will
do,” replied Garrison, closing the door
and locking it.
No one knew what passed, but ten
minutes afterward Garrison emerged
from ‘ he d o° r of »«• 3 bearing a check
lor the full amount, principal and in¬
terest. Neither of the Commodores
could ever be prevailed on to disclose
the secret of that interview.
A SINGULAR ROOK,
*4clntillatinff with Snrrafln .-nd Brilliant
\vil!i iraili.
Kno Ynrk Correspondence American Rural Home.
Chap. I. “Has Malaria;’'goes to Florida.
Chap. II. “Overworked;” goes to Europe. Em»
Chap. III. “Has Rheumatism;” goes to
Chap. IV. Has a row with his Doctor!
The above chapters, Mr. Editor, I find in a
oook recently published read deal by of an anonymous in
, u thor. I have a sarcasm my
lay, but I never read anything J equal to tbe
herejn containe a. i suspect the
experience portrayed is a personal one ; in
“™£££- is the cloak “ W with
“Malaria” as it states,
which superficial physicians cover up a mul
titudo of ill feelings which tluw do not under
m)J (lo not nnl ,. h CAre to investigate.
11 js ulso a cover for such diseases as they
^tT^a^or h^oC
vvorked and needs rest and is probably suf
rering from malaria, it is a confession of ig
norance or of inability. Tlie patient goes
ahroad T(l0 change j s tonic and for a time
he feels better, t omes home. Fickle appe
tite, frequent headaches, severe colds,cramps,
sleeplessness, irritability, tired feelings, and
general unfitness for business are succeeded
in due time by alarming attacks of rheuma
tism which flits about bis body regardless of
ail human feelings. his back. Articular,—
It is muscular’—in
" his joints. Inflammatory, my! how he
{ears it will fly to his heart! Now off he
goes to the springs. The doctor sends him
hands'.
That would hurt his business!
Better for a few days. Returns. After a
while neuralgia transfixes him. He bloats;
cannot breathe; has pneumonia; SSftilSaR cannot
has ^iS5KSUJSt frequent chills and fevers: , everything
about him seems to go wrong; becomes sus
picious; musters up strength and demands to
know what is killing him!
“Great heaven 1” ignorance?” he cries, “why have you
::ept “Because,’ me so long said in the doctor, “I read
your
fate five years ago. I thought best to keep
! V°u comfortable and ignorant of the facts.”
t He dismisses his doctor, but too late!
His fortune has all gone to fees.
But him, what becomes of hint?
^ ^ a weU known Wa „ street
banker fa ;j to- me. “it is really astonishing
how general Bright’s disease is becoming.
| for nephew recently cured when his
; Physicians my said was impossible
recovery was one.”
1 he case seems to me to be a wonderful
This gentleman in formerly represented his gov
eminent a foreign country. He knows,
appreciates and declares the value of that
preparation, because his nephew, who is a
i son of Danish Vice-Consul Schmidt, was pro
' "“’unced incurable, when the remedy, War
„ er > K sa f e cure, was begun. “Yes,” sai l his
father. “I was very skeptical, but since tak
II I regret the remedy to note the that boy is President well ” Arthur
ex is
said to be a victim of this terrible disease.
IIe n VBht t0 ' iv ? ^ ut the probabilities are
1 , hat since authorized remedies cannot cure
him, his physicians will not advise him to
his life, as so many thousands have
Co.’s, jOSSSL'^TSSTSS^j told he regarded “as wonderful
me a
Well, I suspfect the hero of the book cured
himself by the same means. The inierna!
i evidence points very strongly to this conciu
! sion.
1 cannot close my notice of this book bet
’-^eSSf^lSrSSi'ii’SSK 1 have portrayed, do not
cnee t,rust as Physicians the exclusion put your
i! 1 to of other
remedial agencies. They have no monopoly
over disease and I personally know that many
of them are so very‘conscientious’ that they
than that they should be saved to earth by
the use of any ‘unauthorized’ means.”
i And that the author’s condemnation is too
| true, bow many thousands duped, and yet
rescued, as he was, can personally testify?
In a Dream.
An exchange tolls of a theological pro
Eationer who was being examined at the
2 &£$£
wa8 greatly worried by the questions,
He was rooming temporarily with a
j young lawyer ^ and a Methodist preacher.
1 8 e< ’P ^ l0 student began to answer
j suggested °the ^prSel
the formal questions to the
lawyer, who propounded them to the
sleeper. The latter passed his strange
examination with great credit, but on
day a bad fai ‘" re
| when the same questions were asked u by
! the authorized examiners.
| --
WnTi Yks.—A circular issued by the
Psychical Society asks, amoug other
j questions: “Have you ever, when in
I good health, and wide awake, had a
: vivk ] impression of something extremely
| fh r °o at R ““ wS" we »th« think we
have. What made the impression so
vivid was the fact that the extremely
good and inspiring stuff was actually
trickling down. P. S.— It was ice water,
on a warm day. —Norristown Herald.
$500 lh'wanl.
1 The former proprietor of Dr. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy, for years made a standing, public
offer in ail American newspapers ot $500 for
a case of catarrh that he could not cure. The
I’tesent druggists laoprictors have reiwwe i this offer.
All the soil the Remedy, together
with the-Douche ’ and all other appliances
advised to be used in connection with it No
< atarrh P atient is longer able tosay “I eau
?°n be cure<i ” YuU get #5J0 in cas0 of
failuro '__
Conversation:—Tlie idle man’s business and
the business man’s recreation.
Dr. Freckles, Tingiles, Salt Rheum cured. Ad'ss
M. Hutchinson, 110 Clark St., Chicago, El.
If your hands cannot he usefully employed,
attend to the cultivation of your mind.
An Oniv r,ai,*iii. r Cme i oK un.nmpiion.
When death was hourly expected from Con
;
made a preparat on oi Indian Hemp, which
cure Ibis only child, and now gives this recipe
on receipt ot stamps to pay expenses. Hemp
al ach, T.’ n,r and f will n ‘,8 br» ht s ak '' fO a S ; fresh na ’ lsea cold “ t in . ^ 24 hours. stom
Address Craddock & Co., 103i Race street,
1 hiladelphia. Fa., naming this paper,
Mi -M- S. K. CHASE,
Of Chase’s Market, Lowell,
Mass., is frequently called upon
£J for information in regard to his
wonderful cure by the use ofb
f Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.
l He assures all inquirers that
i, J his testimonial is strictly true.
f Here it is: —
- .j From my infancy I was afflicted with
LJ | Scrofula. The doctors pronounced my
l— case incurable, and were of the opinion
L that Consumption, induced by scrofulous
V* poison in the blood, would terminate my
life. About five years ago I had become
A ,1 so debilitated that to do day’s work
a wa*.
hi <1 an impossibility. I was completely dis¬
IU couraged, when a friend advised me to
^ try Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. I bought one
bottle, took the .Sarsaparilla regularly, and
began to improve at once. Continuing
the treatment, I was permanently cured—
taking less than one dozen bottles in all.
The virulent sores, tyhich had eaten
through my nook iu a number of places,
rapidly healed, and my strength gradually
increased, until I became a vigorous man,
as I am to-day__S. K. Chase, with I. M.
Copyrighted Chase, Provision Dealer, 203 Merrimack
Et., Lowell, Mass.
Fropivud Ayer’s Sarsaparilla,
i>y Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., LoweU, Hats. Sold by Druggist.. Price $1; six bottles, *6
Your character cannot be essentially injured,
except by your own acts.
Brown’s T.lttlr Joke. ,
“Why, Brown, how short your coat is,’
said Jones one day to his friend Brown, who
wittily replied: “Yes; but it will bo long
enough before I get another. ” Some men spend
so much for medicines that neither hoal nor
help them, that new clothes is with them like
angels’ visits—few and far between. Internal
fevers, weakness of the lungs, shortness of
breath and lingering coughs, soon yield to the
magic influence of that royal remedy, Dr. R.
V. PierceV “Golden Medical Discovery."
The value of an autograph depends upon what
it is annexed to.
If afflicted with nore eyes use Dr. Isaac
Thompson’s F.ve Water. Druggists sell it. ‘25c
“The Mitc'y Dollar”—‘That made up of church
collection pennies.
For ia’rpevsia, indigestion, depression or
spirits and general debility in their various
forms, also as a preventive against fever and
ague and other intermittent fevers, the “Ferro
l’hosphovated Elixir of Calisaya,” made by Cas¬
well, Hazzard & Co., New York, and sold by ail
Druggists,is the best tonic ;and for patients has equal. recov¬
ering from fever or other sickness it no
Franklin: An investment in knowledge always
pays the best interest.
Stricture of the urethra in its worst forms,
speedily cured by our new and improved
methods. Pamphlet, references ami terms,
two three-cent stamps. World’s Dispensary _
Association,663 Main street, Buffalo, ,
Medical
N. Y. _
The Russian platinum mines are said to bo
the most valuable in the world.
Important.
Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central depot.
600 elegant rooms, fitted up at a cost of one million
dollars, *1 and upward per day. European plan, tie
vator. Restaurant supplied with the beat. Horse cars,
stages and elevated railroads to all depots. Families
can live better for less money at the brand Union
Hotel than at anv other first-class hotel m the city.
Cicero: To live long it is necessary to live
slowly. __
A SURE PREVENTIVE
to »li sending $2 to DR.
BOSTON’S PALATIAL HOTEL
The Vendome.
W. TRACY EUSTIS, law.
Wh Pensions ■ to Soldiers k Heirs. Sen<X*tarap
The Great Nerve Remedy,
Curcs diseases of tho Tin a in ami Nerves,
called Neuralgia, Epilepsy, Fainting, Fits,
Paralysis, &c.
It also cures diseases of the Liver, nervous
weakness, loss of nerve power, etc. It is a sue
cific for Pyrosis or “\Y titer Brash,” spitting
blood, loss of appetite, weight of fullness , under
left stomach, flatulence, _
breast ana nausea, cos
tiveness, .. diarrhoea, , palpitation . .. .. of . the .. heart, . .
dizziness, pam m the heart, j despondency, , , peev
ishness, irritability, general debility, and cold
,eet -
Pemberton's French Wine Coca,
Is the medical wonder of the world. It is ac¬
complishing great results for tho people, by
restoring health to body and mind, and happi¬
ness to the heart.
There is joy and health for all who use it.
J. S. PEMBERTON & CO ,
Proprietors and Manufacturers,
Atlanta, Ga.
Sold by all Druggists.
A Groat Benefactor cf Women*
Lydia E. PinkJiam of Lynn, Mass., is often
spoken of as the great benefactor of women
and frequently receives letters like tho one
we quote from, written by a lady in San
Francisco. She says: “I am taking your Veg¬
etable Compound and find great benefit from
it. Jt has done me more good than a’l the
Doctors Mrs. T. of Vincennes, lnd .writes:
“Having taken 11 bottles of your Vegetable
Compound and cured by its use, 1 feel very
anxious that every woman nfliicted with
NV onib Disease should make use of it. An¬
other lady in Birmingham, Mich., was suf¬
fering from weakness and displacement. She
says: “I began taking your Compound and
it helped me so sooa, I feel like proclaiming
to the World its preat virtues ns a healing
agent for women.
a., Vte ARE HOT SATISFIED
V*le Iron and cannot ba broken. K<in m
in all ,, pesporfg to rords and weightfl, ami at o».
-
ntli t lift cost. Can bo applied with a BcrY-w-drlvor
, ,n : nandv powm. Hainplo coffiploto for th-‘
winnow mailed upon receipt of loots. Agt-uts wanted
in ovary town. J. R CLANCY, 8yracwv\ N. Y.
AGENTS WANTED
WlifiS
BOA It I), 141 Madison Ave , New York,
WITHOUT MON EY! gSSSSPSI
iSisssssI information that *"« i ffsasuskaa
may provermore valua- ■» i -
WITHOUT PRICE!
A QUESTION ABOUT
Browns Iron
Bitters
ANSWERED.
Physicians known recognize*Iron the profession, as the and besTTiffitorativn inquiry
to 0 f anv
leading chemical firm will substantiate theassertion
that thero are more used preparations in medicine. of iron than of anv
other substance is acknowledged This shows con
eluBYve\y that iron to be the moat
important factor in successful medical practice. It
e^'o7lYiA)WN>S b £ f HIVt'eI
IK f)N tlSno
iy satisfactory iron combination had ever been found
headache, BROWN’S prodace IRON constipation—all BiTTERSteffi
medicine*do. or liHOU N’M IKON other iron
cures fndiffCNtion* ISilioiiMiiess, Weakness lUTTJEHs
Dyspepsia, Tired Feeling,General Malaria, Chills Debility,Pain ami Fever*!
Side, Hack I Jmbs,f f eaducfio inthe
or and Nenra*.
gia—for all those ailments Iron is prescribed chib
BROWN’S IRON BITTERS,feSiT
minute. Like all other thorough medicines if *r.f a
slowly benefit WUen taken by nun the first symptom
is renewed onurgy. The muscles thon becnm,
firmer, the digestn .n improves. the bowels sre activo
In i comen the effect is usually more rapid and markftd -
The eyes begin at once to brighten ; the skin cleani
disappears; up; healthy functional color comes derangements to the cheeks; become nervousne^
jar, and if a nursing mother, abundant reeii
is supplied for the child. Remember Brown’s sustenance w!
Bitters is the ON LY iron medicine that is in U
jurious. Physicians and Druggists recommend not
it
The Genuine h»s Trade Mark and crossed red li nes
on wrapper. TAKE NO OTHER.
DROPSY
TREATED FUEE!
DR. H. H. GREEN \
A Specialist for Eleven Years Past,
Has treated Dropsy and its complications with thi
most wonderful harmless. success; Removes uses all vegetable remedies
entirely symptoms of drops’
in eight to twenty days.
Cures patients pronounced hopeless by thebesta
physicians. From the first dose the symptoms rapidly disao
near, and in ten days at least two-thirds of allsymp
toms are removed.
Soi ne may cry humbug without knowing anythin]
about it. Remember, it does not cost you anythin)
to realize the merit« of my treatment for yourself
In ten days the diiVvulty of breathing is relieved’
the pulse regular, the urinary organs made to dis
charge their full duty, strength sleep is restored, increased, the swelling
all or nearly gone, I the constantly curing andapn e
tite made good. am that have been tapped cases of
long standing, cases patient declared a mini,
ber of times, and the unable to
live a week. Send for 10 full days' history treatment; directions
Ml d terms free. Give of case. Name
sex. how long afflicted, how badly swollen and where
is bowels costive, have legs bursted and dripped
water. Send for free pamphlet, containing testi
menials, Ten day questions, s' treatment etc. furnished free by mail.
Send 7 cents positively in stamps for cured. postage on medicine.
Epilepsy fits H. H.fjRKEN. M.D.,
55 Jones Avenue, Atlanta,(Jn.
Mentio n this paper._________
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Gordon's King of Pain relieves pain of what ever na¬
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remedy wherever known for Rheumatism, Neural
idft. Headache and Toothache, Burns and Scalds,
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I Ulcers, etc. Burns
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reduced or which
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bearing Kobo lien a red f fine tin tag; cut; that that Lorillw^J LorillardJ
Ihe Navy best Clippings, and that LoriJlard’s considered ?_____
ana cheapest, quality
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Kov Chocks and M-SW'NJ
Catalogue free. S. Mjgr
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