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AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Dairy Rules.
The Michigan Dairymen’s Association
presents the following rules for dairy
men wno deliver milk to cheese factories
or creameries:
Cows must have an abundance of good
wholesome food, pure and not too cold
water, to which they can have access at
all times.
. Cows must not bo overheated, or un
duly excited or worried at any time.
The udder and teats should be thor
oughly cleansed before milking, by wash
ing if need be, and the teats should be
wet during the process of milking.
Kindness and gentleness should be
used at all times. Cows should not be
excited by loud talk or other noises.
Cows should be milk'd by tho same
milker and as quickly as possible, and
good, pure water and salt placed in easy
access.
During cold weather cows should be
comfortably housed, their stalls well
cleaned and littered, and an abundance
of good, not too cold, water accessible.
Milk, i. kept over night, should be
placed in a tank surrounded by cold
water or ice.
If the milk is for butter or cream for
the creamery or market, cool the creamer
to about forty or forty-five degrees be
fore turning the milk into it. Put the
milk Ln the creamer as soon as drawn. It
should remain from twelve to twenty-four
hours for complete separation.
If the milk is for cheese, aerate it well,
thoroughly stirring and cooling to
sevi nty-flve degrees before starting to
factory.
Milk should never be allowed to stand
where it is subjected to foul odors of any
kind.
Nothing but bright, absolutely clean
tin pails should be used in handling
milk.
Milk must never be allowed to stand
in cans after being returned to the farm,
and they should be thoroughly washed in
warm water and then scalded with water
boiling hot and thorou_hly scoured with
salt at least twico a week. Boap, soda
or other alkalies should not be used to
clean cans or pails.
Horses for the Farm.
It ts with horses as with men, says the
American Cultivator. Large size and
great weight do not always indicate the
possession of the greatest strength, much
less of that more important quality, en
durance. When our civil war broke out
army surgeons were often surprised to
find that many soldiers of apparently ex
cellent physique, large, hearty and
strong, broke down early under the
hardships of the march, while others
that at first seemed more frail toughened
under exposure, and rallied quickly
when in hospital from wounds. We are
told that “the spirit of a man will sus
tain his infirmities; butawounded spirit
who can bear;” Lie is no clear-sighted
lover of the hoiso who does not see some
applicability of this quotation to his fa
vorites.
The life, spirit and energy of a thor
oughbred horse seem more akin to the
finer attributes of a noble man than are
the characteristics of any other domestic
animal. The horse possesses great in
telligence, and at the best often contrasts
with some brutal and inhuman owner,
and almost as strongly as the satirist has
portrayed in his mocking representation
of the traveler Gulliver, who was left in
his wandering to contemplate the great
inferiority of man as compared witn the
Hounhymas in the land where their su
premacy was unquestioned.
A horse at his best must be well bred,
well fed and have received during not
only his own life, but generations be
fore, a great deal of intelligent human
kindness. It is not possible to build up
at once a horse, however perfect in form,
that has not enjoyed these advantages.
If we hear occasionally of neglected or
even abused young horses that afterward
prove great winners on the turf, it is
always easy to show that they owe their
success to some strain of blood further
back that has the making of spirit and
endurance in it. These horses, better
cared lor in their inter years, produce
progeny that excel themselves. And,
aside from all desire for increased speed,
the energy and especially the endurance,
which characterizes the best race iiorse,
are almost equally important for farm
uses and heavier work anywhere.
Weight counts for something in heavy
labor, but character counts for still more.
Add to the massive proportions ot the
Clydesdale or the more compact solidity
of the Perchcron a slight strain of the
old Diomed, Messcnner or Morgan blood
and there can be little doubt that it will
produce an animal fitted alike for the
heaviest pulling or for good traveling on
the road.
Farm and Garden Votes,
Plum shoots grafted upon wild plum
stocks do well.
To properly keep straw and liay in
stacks the stacks must be constructed so
as to shed water.
The editor of the Orange County Far
mer trains his tomatoes to poles and they
grow six feet high.
Farms need agricultural doctors as
much as the human body needs a doctor
in sickness. Most of the old farms are
invalids, but none are incurable.
it is estimated that 50,000,000 eggs
are consumed every day in this country,
or about one for each inhabitant, which
includes, however, those used in the
arts.
The coming buttermaker, according to
the National Stockman, must have a clean
mouth and breath as well as clean clothes
and a clean apron, be honest, neat,
smart, level-headed and able to keep
accounts.
Burn all rubbish not suitable for the
compost heap, such as bones, old boots
and shoes, barrels, Ac., and scatter the
ashes over the garden. It will make a
surprising difference with its fertility in
the spring.
Chlorate of potash, much used in fam
ilies for cold, is recommended of late
for keeping fowls from croup and colds.
It is put into the drinking water, which
will dissolve a certain proportion of it
and no more.
Commenting on the opposition of Pro
fessors Brown and Sanborn to the use of
ensilage, the editor of the American
JJairi, man says: “The poorest ensilage
we have ever seen has been in the silos
of agricultural colleges."
A top-dressing for any crop remaining
in the ground through the winter should
furnish manure and shelter both, and it
answers these purposes best when it is
of coarse material and contains fertiliz
ing matter. Coarse manure with con
siderable litter in it is the best form of
top-dressing; if it is not to be procured,
swamp muck makes a good substitute,
with the addition of a liberal quantity of
fine, bone flour, wood ashe< and plaster.
Uiseases are often communicated by
feeding horses in stalls which have been
occupied previously by diseased animals.
Such stalls should first be thoroughly
cleaned and disinfected. To do this take
a pint of sulphuric acid end put it in a
bucket of water. Then, with an old mop
wash all parts of the stall, especially the
trough or manger. All stalls should be
occasionally so disinfected, as their con
stant use permits them to gradually be
come unfit abodes of the animals.
If your plants should freeze, as soon
as |you discover it put them in a dark
room, or the cellar, where the tempera
ture is but little above freezing and
sprinkle thoroughly with cold water.
In most cases, such plants as geraniums,
abutilons and the more hardy kinds can
be saved in this way, and often quite
tender kinds will come out with little or
no injury. The frost must be extracted
gradually and with application of as
little heat as possible. Keep them away
from the light and warmth for two or
three days. If the tops should wilt, you
may feel certain that they cannot bo
saved, so cut them off at once. The
roots may not be damaged much, and if
they are not, they will soon send up
sprouts.
Domestic animals, especially growing
stock, do not thrive without a copious
supply of light. Fattening stock put on
plenty of weight in darkness, but this is
not thrift; it is cruelty, and their fie3li is
not fit for human consumption. Clean
liness may be observed (1) by keeping
the stalls clean, and (2) by cleaning the
animals themselves. Animals breathe,
as it were, through the pores of the skin,
as well as by means of their lungs.
Dirt stops up these pores and throws
greater burdens upon the lungs, promot
ing disease and acting prejudicially to
the products as food for human con
sumption. There should be free and
constant communication between the air
and the pores, which is prevented by
dirt on the skin, and for this reason also
the air in the stable should be pure.
■Washington’s Death and Obsequies.
After Washington’s retirement to
Mount Vernon he busied himself with
his farming interests, and during the
last few weeks of his life lie was occu
pied devising a system for the manage
ment of his estates. ‘ ‘My great concern, ”
he said at the time, “is to have all these
concerns in such a clear and distinct
form that no reproach can attach itself
to me when I have taken my departure
for the land of spirits.” This system of
farm management was intended for his
overseers. It was written out on thirty
folio pages, and completed December 10,
1799.
The next day there was mud and rain,
and Washington noted in his diary that
at night there was a large circle round
the moon. The morning of the 12th
was overcast. That morning he wrote
a long letter to Hamilton—the last he
ever wrote—in regard to a plan for a
military academy. About 10 o'clock he
started on horseback to make his usual
round of his farms. Soon after noon it
began to snow, and then turned to a cold
rain. Notwithstanding the inclemency
of the \\ eather he continued to ride on,
and did not return to his house until
after 3. When his secretary, Mr. Lear,
expressed the fear that he was wet, he
answered no, his great coat had kept him
dry, and sat down to dinner without
changing his dre-s.
The night was a very stormy one, and
the next morning he complained of a
sore throat. In the evening he was
hoarse, but in spite of his hoarseness lie
occasionally read pas-ages aloud to his
secretary and .Mrs. Washington from the
newspapers which had been brought in
from the postollice. When urged to take
some medicine before retiring he replied :
“No: you know I never take anthing for
a cold. Let it go as it came.”
That night he became extremely ill—
he had a severe chill and experienced
much diliiculty in breath ng. Butho
would notallow the household to be dis
turbed until morning. Then a gargle
wits prepared for his throat, but in the
attempt to apply it he was almost suffo
cated. A servant was dispatched to A1
exandria for I)r. Crailc, and in the mean
time he was bled by one of his overseers.
Dr. Craik arrived about nine o'clock and
later in the day two other physicians were
called. AH the efforts of the doctors to
relieve him were unavailing, and between
ten and eleven o'clock that night he died.
Mrs. Washington sat at the foot of the
foot of the bed watching him when his
spirit passed away. “Is he gone?” she
asked, in a calm tone. I)r. Craik was
unable to speak, but held up his hand
as a signal that Washington xvas dead.
“It is well,” said the grand old dame.
“All is now over. I shall soon follow
him.” Washington expired without a
struggle ora sigh. From the first he be
lieved the attack would prove fatal and
during the day frequently gave expres
sion to the feeling or resignation with
which he met his end.
Tlie r< mains of the Father of his
Country were buried in the family vault
at Mount Vernon on the Pth of Decent
j her. The rubbish had been cleared away
from the entrance to the tomb and a door
made to close the vault, which before
had been dosed with brick. A schooner
was placed in the river to fire minute
guns and there were eleven pieces of can
non in the funeral procession, which be
gan to move about three o’clock. The
Virginia militia formed the escort, then
came the General’s horse, xvith his sad
dle, holsters and pistol, led by two
grooms in black. The body was borne by
Free Masons from the A'exandria Lodge.
Washington’s family and personal friends
followed, the corporation of Alexandria
and people closing the procession. The
Ilev. Mr. Davis read the funeral service
and made a short address, after which
the Masonic ceremony was performed
and the body placed in the vault.
The scenes at Washington's death-bed
and at his obsequies were charm teri ed
by that grandeur of simplicity which
was a marked feature in Washington’s
character. —Ghica ;o News.
Merely a Suggestion.
The late Rev. ,ioel Hawes, of Hart
ford, is remembered by many as an elo
quent divine, singularly angular in per
son and quaint in manner, he preached
truth in a most forcible manner, in one
occasion, after announcing that the usual
collection would be taken for foreign
missions, he added, in his most inpres
sive manner: “And I would say to those
persons who are in the habit of putting
buttons in the box that I would thank
them not to hammer down the eyes, for
the Lord is not deceived, and as buttons
they are valueless." It need not be said
that there were no buttons that day.—
Harper's MogaHne.
Winter’s Charms.
When the air is cold,
And the winds grow bold,
And the robes of snow do the earth enfold
When the home lights glow
And the bright flames throw
Their mellow gleam in a golden flow,
And Winter’s charm agaiu you know.
Where are roses then)
Not in field or fen
Nor with violots sweet in the old farm gled
No, alas 1 they bloom
But in hothouse room
Aud your best girl’s mad if you do not doom
A ten-dollar bill to an early tomb.
—Pittsburg (Jkrenicle- Telegraph,
SHOVING THE QUEER.
Bon. Wm. HI. Evmrt’i Early* but mnooonb
Experience With n Verged Cheek*
“Do you know,” said a prominent
member of the bar the other day, as he
watched Senator William Maxwell
Evarts sauntering along through the
street, “that the Senator’s first largo fee
as a lawyer didn’t do him a bit of pecu
niary benefit?”
The reporter didn’t know it.
“Well, it’s rather a good story,” the
lawyer said, “and as few lawyers even
remember it, it can be told without any
fear of the chestnut annunciator. The
incident occurred in 1842, when Evarts
was only 24 years old, and a slim young
lawyer with an old-fashioned choker col
lar, and his interrogative forefinger just
beginning to be a noticeable part of his
practice. He was then a criminal prac
titioner, and giving glimpses of that pe
culiar mastery of sentences of all sizes
which has kept pace with the effective
use of his forefinger.
“Monroe Edwards, a very skillful and
conscientious penman had forged a check,
got caught, and hired yottng Evarts to
save him from Sing Sing. The trial
came on on June G, and lasted six days.
The future Senator stabbed at witness
after witness with his deadly forefinger
interrogatories, and finally appealed to
the jury for his clients acquittal. It was
s marvelous speech, full of fire and im
petuosity of youthful enthusiasm. It
was the talk of the courts for months,
and undoubtedly laid tlie basis of Wil
liam Maxwell’s fame as an advocate.
But the jury freed itself from the glit
tering heap of brilliant sentences that
young Evarts piled up on them, and
found Edwards guilty. The Judge com
plimented Evarts, and then sent his
client to Sing Sing for ten years. The
prisoner complimented Evarts on his elo
quence, too, and just before he walked
into 'the Sheriff’s carriage to go to the
Sing Sing train gave the tall young law
yer a neat check, bearing the signature
of a well-known man. It was for seve
ral hundred dollars, and William Max
well went proudly to the bank with it
after he had bade his client good-by.
‘“No good,’ said the bank cashier,
when Evarts handed it up for deposit.
“ ‘Why?’ cried young William Max
well in amazement.
“ ‘The signature is a forgery, sir,’ the
cashier responded.
“It is related that this was the only
occasion in his lifetime that, given a
chance to use some vigorous and impres
sive sentences, William Maxwell Evarts
let the opportunity slip. He simply
stare 1 at the check in silence.”
Keeping Sheep or Cows.
In considering the profit derived from
keeping cows or sheep, says Farmer
Stewart, many things have to be taken
into account, and, first of all the ability
of the farmer to manage either. Gener
ally speaking, one branch of business is
profitable as another if both are equally
well managed. A dairy of cows used
for making butter which sells for 18 to
20 cents per pound may be made very
profitable if the right kind of cows ar
kept in the right way. If 200 pounds
of butter are made yearly from each cow
it gives S4O yearly income, and the
skimmed milk would make at least sl9
xvorth of pork and rear a calf worth $5.
This gives $55 as the yearly income from
a cow. By good management a cow can
be kept on three acres of land, and by
soiling on one acre or a little more. For
100 acres, then, an income of $1,600
should be made, which would leave a
very good profit, as other crops could
be grown to pay all the cost of labor
and purchased food. On 100 acres 300
sheep should be kept, and each sheep
would or should bring in $1.50 foi
wool and $3 for a lamb. This would
give an income of $1,350 from the flock
and the grain raised would pay all ex
penses. Less labor would be required
than for the cows. This seems to show
that on equal conditions the cows would
bring in the m st money and profit, and
if choice cows were kept which would
make 300 pounds of butter yearly and
the butter could be sold for 30 or 40
cents a pound, and the heifer calves be
xvorth $25 each, all of which is possible,
the profit of the dairy would be fai
greater than from the flock ot sheep.
A Mean Man.
The Philadelphia News says: Old Billy
W. was one of the richest men who lived
some fifteen years ago, in that part ol
West Philadelphia called Mantua, and
one of the meanest men who ever drew
breath. One day he took a Lancastei
Avenue car for the city, carrying in hij
hand a basket of sup rb white grapes,
raised in his own greenhouse. Old Billy
W. sat in one corner of the car and a
poor mother with a sickly child in hei
lap sat in the corner opposite. Thfl
child looked at the grapes wistfully, aa
the car rolled on, square after square.
At last the old man in a tone of rasping
curiosity asked the child where she was
going.
“To the park, sir, to see the grass and
the birds.”
“Do you like grapes?”
“Yes, sir,” and the pale little face
brightened up as the child half rose
from her mother's lap.
The old mau lifted up his basket of
luscious fruit and plucking one grape
from a gigantic bunch, gave it to the
child.
Hie rest of the passengers said noth
ing, “ut the xvay they lo iked at the old
man would have split a stone post.
At a Christmas tree at one of the col
ored churches in Klberton, Ga., as but
few of the members could read or write,
they selected a gill who had been to
school to write the names on the pres
ents. When they were distributed and
the names called out, the assembly was
greatly surprised to find that all the
handsomest and most valuable presents
had on them the name of the girl that
did the writing. An indignation meet
ing was held, and a redistribution was
had.
Archdeacon Farrar says that “in India
the Knglish have made on* hundred
drunkards for one Christian.”
The Effects of Mental Kxlinusllon.
Many diseases, especially those of the ner
voussystem, are the products of daily renewed
mental exhaustion. Business avocat oils often
involve an anion tof mental wear and tear
very prejudicial to physical health, and the
professions, if arduously pnrsued, ars no less
debtruet.ve tobraiuand nerve tissue. Itisone
of the most important uttribntes of Hoetetter's
Stomach Bit:ers, thut it i ompenmtes for this
undue lots of tissue, and that it imparls new
energy to the brain n l nerves. Tho rap dity
withwich it renews weake ed mental energy
and physical vitality i- remarkable, and shows
that its invigorating properties are of tlie
highest order, liesitfe- increasing vital
stamina, and counte acting the effei ts of
menial exhaus'ion, this potential medicine
eures and prevents fever and ague, rheuma
tism, chronic dyspepiia and oonetipatlnn, kid
ney and uterine weakness and other com
plaints. Phi sit lane also commend It as a
sssdtostsd stimulant and temedy.
A DE3PEBATE EIGHT.
It Is made U Night with a Savage Lasp-
Cervler.
“Wien I was a boy,” said Judge
Poland to a newspaper reporter, “the
woods in Vermont were mighty thick
and the settlers were few. At that time
the woods were full of catamounts or
ioup-cerveir— ‘100 sevee,’ the hunters
called them—and the farmers had great
to do to keep the fierce beasts from
carrying off their sheep and killing their
cattle. A loup-cervier is pretty nearly
as big as a mastiff, as fierce as a tiger,
and as strong as a lion, and is altogether
about as uncomfortable a creature to
deal with as ever lived. My father had
with him on his farm then a man named
Jonas Shepherd, a fellow of prodigious
strength and such great courage that I
don’t believe be ever knew the sensa
tion of fear. My fathor had not lost
much by the loup-cerviers, because he
had kept his stock securely closed in a
strong shed, which none of the prow
ling beasts had yet succeeded in break
ing into. Tho house stood on the edge
of ihe clearing, and back of it for miles
and miles there was nothing but the
mountains and woods. (no night the
family had all gone to bed except Shep
herd, who sat up by the big pine fire
shelling corn with a jack-knife stuck in
a log of wood. All of a sudden he
heard a crash from the cattle shed and a
big noise among the cattle. He dashed
out In his shirt sleeves and found that
an enormous loup ccrvicr, the biggest of
his kind ever seen in the country, had
broken in the roof of the shed and was
in among the sheep.
“As soon ai he heard Shepherd ap
proaching he jumped to tho roof of the
shed and, crouching for a moment,
sprang through the air for the intruder.
Shepherd jumped uside and the big cat
landed harmlessly on the ground. In
an instant he was up again and a furi
ous battle between the man and the
savage brute began. Shepherd had a
knife, and for a while lie tried to make
it reach a vital spot, while the ‘loo’
screamed and bit and tore its tremend
ous claws through the man’s fiesh. The
noise of the fight awakened the rest of
the family and father, grabbing up a
pine torch from the fire, ran out of tho
house. He was just in time to see a
curious spectacle. Shepherd, without
a stitch of clothing on and covered from
head to foot with blood, was holding
the screaming, struggling -loo’ by the
throat and heels high above his ead,
and running as fast as he could towards
the woods. We all dashed after him,
and were just in time to see the end of
the contest. Shepherd ran into the
brook until he was in up to hi waist,
and then plunged the ferocious brute in
and out of sight. There was a tremend
ous struggle for a few minutes, during
which Shepherd’s blood died the brook
red, and then everything was still.
Then Shepherd came out, dragging the
drowned body of the ‘l o’ after him.
We got him to bed as soon as we could
and did everything possible to relieve
him, but it was more than three months
before he was able to stir, and he never
quite recovered from his injuries. My
father said he counted more than 200
distinct wounds on his body. Old
hunters said that if he had’nt had sense
enough to drown the brute he w'ould
have been killed sure. The fight took
place where one of the finost churches
in New England stands to-dav.”
A Frugal Mind.
“Shall I vine! de clock, fadder?” asked
Isaac ALramstein, as he shut up for the
night.
“No, Yawcob; peesness vas too pad.
Choost let it schtop, Yaxvcob, und ve’ll
save de vear unt tear on de vecls.”
Ex-Mayor Latrobe, Baltimore. Md„ says the
best medicine Is Red Star Cough Cure.
Dr. ha Intel K. C. x. D. D., of Washington, D.
C., after a careful ana.ysia, pronounced it
purely vegetable, and mo t. excellent for
throat trouble). Price, twenty-five cents a
bottle.
Passenger—What’s the matter? We’re
running a little too fast, ain’t wo? Con
ductor—Yus, sir; the fireman's run ahead to
chase a cow off the track and the engineer
crowded on a little more steam in order to
keep up with him.
As the g -ea'e)t pa'n-cure. St. Jacobs Oil Is
recomuundeU bypub'.ie in n of America and
other countries, lion. Biila Flint, Life Sense
tor o t.e Dominion Parliament, Canada,
found it to act like a charm.
"I’VE been on this road ten years,” said a con
ductor on a “through line” railroad to ft pas
senger who xvas complaining bitterly of the
sloxv time, “an’ I know xvlint I’m talking
about.” "Ten years, eh I said the passen
ger. "What station did x T ou get on at?”
•‘No Physic, Sir, Jn Mine!”
A good story comes from a boys’ boarding
school in “Jersey/* The diet was monotonous
and constipating, and the learned Principal
decided to introduce some oid-style physio in
the apple-sauce, and await the happy results.
One bright lad, the smartest in school, discov
ered the secret mine in his sauce, and pushing
back his plate, shou ed to tho pedagogue,
physic, sir, in mine. My dad told me t,o use
nuthin* but Dr. P.tree’s ‘Pleasant Purgative
Pellets/ and they arp doing their duty like a
charml*’ They are anti-bilious, and purely
vegetable.
A spring mattress like a spring chicken, is
in season all the year round.
If Sufferers from Consumption*
Scrofula, Bronchitis and General Debility will
try Scott’s Emulsion of Cos l Liver Oil with
Hypcphosphites, they will find immediate re
lief and permanent benefit. The Medical Pro
fession universally declare it a remedy of the
greatest value and very palatable. Read: “I
have used Scott’s Emulsion In several cases of
Scrofula and Debil ity in children. Results most
gratifying. My little patients take it with
pleasure.”—W. A. Hclbbrt, M. D„ Salis
bury, 111.
For a man to be efficient,like a cable oar, he
mustn’t lose his grip.
“Hello!” we heard one man say to another,
the other day. “I didn’t know yon at first,
why! you look teo years younger than you did
when* I saw you last.” “l fed ten years
Soun er,” was tho reply. 41 You know I used to
e under the we at tier ail 'ho 1 ime, and gave up
expec ing to be any better. The dot tor said I
had consumption. 1 was terribly weak, had
cough, no appetite, and lost
flesi'. I saw Dr. Pierce’s ‘Golden Medical
Discovery’ advertised, and thought it would
do no harm if it did no good. It has cured me.
lam anew man because I am a well one.”
Heathen are the people who don’t know
enough about religion to fight, over it.
Ilf another column of this i*suo will be found
an entirely new and novel specimen of attrac
tive advertising. It is one of ti e neatest ever
placed in our paper,and we th nkour readers
will b** weil repaid for examining the sup
poskd diyp’av loiters in the advertisement of
Prickly Ash Bitters.
Motto for a corset have come
to stay.
How Women Would Tote.
Were women allowed to vote, In
the land who lias used Dr. Pierce s Favorite
Pri-tcr ption” wou’d vote it to be an unfailing
remedy for tho diseases peculiar ta her sex.
By druggists.
When love is blind, marriage is a successful
occulist.
You CAN get a $3 Family Story Paper one
year, p s'a-e aid, for $1.50. Sample copy
tre". Addrtbs Thb Chicago Ledger, Chi
cago, 111.
I>nuffhter, Wire* und Mother*.
Send for Pamphlet on Female Diseases, free,
securely sealed. Dr. J. B. Marohlsi, Utica, N.Y
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son’s Eye-water. Druggists sel I at 25c per bottle.
Best, easiest to use and cheapest. Piao’s
Remedy for Catarrh. Pfy druggists, 50c.
Tes, He Drank Beer.
The fact that New Tork city consumes
6,000,000 barrels of beer annually—
which, being averaged, gives each man,
woman and child about five barrels—
and considering the further fact that
there is a large proportion of non-drink
ing persons, especially children, suggests
the idea that there are many people in
that metropolis who get more than their
share of the amber Teutonic beverage;
and it also suggests a story about an old
German brewer, who was brought in as
a witness to testify as an expert whether
or not beer is intoxicating. The lawyer
for the defence asked:
“Do you drink much beer ?”
“Veil, I (rink me a glass aboud efery
ten minnid.”
“Yes. Well, do yon find it intoxi
cating ?
“Nein.”
The judge then asked a question:
“How much beer do you drink every
day, sir ?”
The brewer looked up with a some
what puzzled expression, as if he had
been plied with a problem impossible of
solution, and finally blurted out:
“Vat you mean, shudge ? Kegs ?”
Dressed Poultry.
“What does this mean, Mrs.Wilkison?”
asked the new boarder at the Christmas
dinner. “Did this turkey wear a shirt?”
“What do you mean, Mr. Brown?” re
turned the landlady severely.
“Here is a shirt button in the stuffing;
and I merely wanted to know if it be
longed to the bird,” said Brown, care
fully placing the button at the side of his
plate.
“Now I think of it, Mr. Brown, it
may be all right; I bought that turkey
already dressed.
“WnAT does this mean?” asked a
scholar who had been scanning some lines
written by a friend. “Oh,” said another,
“it doesn’t mean anything! It’s poetry.”
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
I* a peculiar medicine. It is carefully prepared
from Sarsaparilla, Dandelion, Mandrake, Dock,
Pipsissewa, Juniper Berries, and other well-known
and valuable vegetable remedies, l>y a peculiar com
bination, proportion and process, giving to Rood’s j
Sarsaparilla curative power not possessed bv other
medicines.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Is the best blood purifier before the public. It
eradicates every impurity and curei Scrofula, Salt
Rheum, Boils, Pimples, all Humors, Dyspepsia, Bil
iousness, Sick Headache, Indigestion, General De
bility, Catarrh, Rheumatism, Kidney and Liver com
plaints, overcomes that tired feeling, creates an ap
petite and builds up the system.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Has met peculiar and unparalleled su cess at home.
Such has become its popularity In Lowell, Mass.,
where it is made, that whole neighborhoods are
taking It at the same time. Lowell druggists sell
more ef Hood’s Sarsaparilla than of all other Sarsa
parillas or blood purifiers. $1; six for $5. Sold by
druggists. Prepared only by C. L HOOD ft CO.
Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
fci“2sYearsiPoßllrjYard”
33il Edition. 108 pages. How to prevent
HOG and POULTRY CHOLERA, GAPES
KpffSr and ROUP 1 wrote it as a system of
Jpjgfajjapractical HOG and POULTRY keeping.
tSgSigaWSymptoms and remedies for all diseases.
How to reed for Eggs. 25c. in stamps. A copy of
“The Cove Dale Poultry Yard,” containing illus.
Catalogue and Price List, of 80 varieties FREE.
A. M. &.ANC- Box 846, Cincinnati, O.
GAROEBSEEDSS?f"
Frai nets llrill* Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y.
A Mi. 830 a week and expenses
■Hofe 9KK paid. Outfit worth $5 and particulars
Wl UllSnfree. P. O. VICKERY, Augusta,Maine.
In this dav of do optive advertl-lng we desire to
Impress that this announcement means exactly
what it says: that every applicant can secure, ab
solutely free of any charge for the land, one or the
above divisions of valuable Florida property. No
trick! No juggling of words! It means exactly
that—nothing less, nothing more.
OUR METHOD! NOTE ITS FAIRNESS !
We have just Issued a large sheet of detailed
House P ans, Illustrating nine different styles of
houses, costing from S3UU to $1,500 eich, which this
C mpany is prepared to build for its patrons at St.
Andrew’s Bay. In order to defray at least a por
tion of the very large cost of advertising, getting
up these designs, and executing a legal Warranty
Deed for each applicant, we wll. charge 25c. for mail
ing this sheet of House Plans to applicants. The
plans are worth (5 to any one who will ever desire
to build a house. They are all new and gotten up
expressly for us. If you select from the House
Plans any one that ‘Ults you, we will bui and th •
house on your property, and give you five years
time to pay for the house, charging you 5 per cent, in
terest on tho cost of tha house. If you do not care
With a broader business policy than
has characterised any other southern
corporation, wa have steadily appre
ciated the relative value of land and
people. We are holding for our own
profit carlaln lands to be sold in the
future; the balance Is offered Ire® aa
air to all who apply in time.
A little more than one year ago the
St. Andrew’s Hay Railroad r.n l Land
Cos. acquired control of upward of
.*{oo,ooo acres of the most desirable
lands In the State of Florida, eltuated
around about the beautiful bay of St.
Andrew’s, on the southwest Gulf coast.
Pefore the war the town known as St.
Andrew’s Bay was the home of many
wealthy people, who had sought the
shores of the beautiful bay as a loca
tion where could be found In their
SPItfPA All taxes have been paid on these lands up to March, 1887,
TAYEtC and this Company will pay them again at that datei to Decem
| HJIlu ber, 1887, both on Its own lands and those disposed of under
this Great Fro# Offer.
fill ARANTY P o rO a and d t l T,° B^, 0 . t a„ U^r, r v r
llUMfllMfl M ■ I proved during the next two years, and Pay at the
rate of $lO per acre with the cost of the building improvements added. By that
time property will be worth SIOO per acre.
OUR REFERENCES.
Thoee who have done busi
ness with us. In one day the
following list ot applicants,
secured Orange Grove tracts,
ranging In size from 2% to 40
acres each. Space In good
newspapers costs too much to
give a fist of all who have re
celved free property at our
hands. Each one or the fol
lowing list can testify, If he Is
so disposed, to the absolute
fidelity of our methods of
business. No correspondence
lias passed between any of
them and this office, except
A Drawing Lesson.
A teacher of drawing, who advertised,
was called on by young Jenks recently.
Says Jenks: “I see you give lessons in
drawing. I would like to learn how it’s
done.”
“I should be glad to teach you, and
will give you the first lessons now. What
would you like to try?”
“If it’s all tho same to you, suppose
you show me how to draw a Havana Lot
tery prize, for the first thimg.”
The best and sorest Remedy for Cure of
all diseases caused by any derangement of
the Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels.
Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Constipation,
Billons Complaints and Malaria of all kinds
yield readily to the beneficent influence of
mu
iWttSiljl
It Is pleasant to the taste, tones up the
system, restores and preserves health#
It is purely Vegetable, and cannot fail to
provo beneficial, both to old and young.
8 a Blood Purifier it is superior to all
others. Sold everywhere at SI.OO a "bottle.
SOUTHERN SEED for SOUTHERN SOIL
Being desirous of having some of our seed plant
ed in every garden in the South, and knowing,
as we do, there are no purer or better stocks of
fered in the United States than ours, if you will
send us SI.OO we will send to any address thirty
papers of our regular size packets of Garden Seed
(your own selection) and a quarter pound of Pride
of Georgia Melon Seed. Southern Seed Com
pany, Seed Growers, Macon, Ga. Send for our
price list of all varieties of field aud garden seed.
Kf? " DOG BUYERS’ GUIDE, |
> Colored plates, 100 engravings WJ
fInBgESgSL I of different breeds, prices they ere ft
Vfr WEWBWiI worth, and where to buy them Tffl
’■WHHSV 1 Mailed for 15 Cents. H
ASSOCIATED FANCIERS,
g?__2jg237 S. Eighth St. Philadelphia, Pa.),
WE WANT YOUI or woman needing
profitable employment to represent us in every
county. Salary f7S per month and expenses, or a
large commission on sales if preferred. Goods staple.
Everv one buys. Outfit and particulars Free.
STANDARD SILVERWARE CO., BOSTON. MASS.
nrUOIA&ID Officer*’ pay. bounty pro
cured; deserters relieved.
glLiqvivllv! 21 years'practice.
8 no fee. Write for circulars and new laws.
■ A. W. McCormick Ac Son,Washington,D.O.
ADB I 1 AIR U A BIT absolu.ely oure<l
ISr IU awl nADI I not a pabticl*
W pain or self-denial. Pay when cured. Handsome
book free. Da. C. J. WfathEßßY, Kansas City, M
THISTdSSITOOTfI POWDER
Keeping Teeth Perfect and Gums Healthy.
£sßl® to SS a day. Samples worth FRSU
\ki% Lines not under the horse’s feet Address
Baawitkr’s Safety Rein Holdbs, Holt y.Mioh
■ to Soldiers ft Heirs. Send stamp
for circulars. COL. L. BING-
F wSiwlwlßw ISAM, Ait’.v, Washington, D. C.
A | B* Flat top No. 7 Cook Stove for SIO.OO
% B Wvrith fixtures. Send for catalogue. A.P.
IP | 8 Stewart & Cos,, 63 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga.
OK UCSCI Why not save one-/a’/on 1003 useful
ttltitl Articles? Send for Catalogue. Big
pay to Agents. Chicago Scale Cos., Chicago, in.
nDllllfl Habit Cured. Treatment sent on trial.
U ■ 11) nl Humane hemedy Cos., LaFayetto, Ind.
to have a house built you are not obliged to do so,
you being left entirely Tree to decide for yourself
without In any way affecting the gift of the property
—the property will be given to you FREE, ''he.her
you have a house built or not With the sheet of
House Plans will be sent a numbered
FREE LAND WARRANT
in a sealed envelope. Upon Its receipt you will open
the envelope, sign your name in full on the proper
blanks, so that a Warranty Deed can be made m your
name, and return the same to us. A deed for the
piece of land called for by the tree Land Warrant
will be immediately executed in your name. No
charge of any kind will be made for the tree Land
Warrant—the property will be absolutely free.
If vour application is received after all the lands
are disposed of, you will be so notified, and the 2oc.
you send for the House Plans be returned to you.
LOCAL COLONY CLUBS MS
Land Warrants will be sent to any address, to be
distributed among friends, on receipt of $1 for the
House Plans; ten for $2; fifteen for $3; twenty for
TO BE READ IN CONNECTION WITH ABOVE.
highest perfection tho peculiar de
lights of a Florida home. During the
war tho town was bombarded by a
Federal fleet and nearly swept out of
existence. The inhabitants ntd. aban
doning their shattered homes to the
torch and plllnge of the enemy, and
not until about ten years ago was there
any attempt made to reoccupy the
town. This Company began active
operations a little more than a year
ago. Since thar time there has been
tne most remarkable “boom” created
for St. Andrew’s Bay that ha; ever
been known in the Flower State, l.ast
winter more than 5,00) visitors from
all parts of tho country reached that
point In quest of Florida homes. Busi
ness and dwelling houses have been
erected by the hundre i. Property so
tho nocoMary farm, of bust
ness In applying for and re
ceiving free property, and the
names are published without
consultation and merely to
represent the number who
received Orange Grove tracts
fretj at our hands, in one day’s
M. MoCann. Tyrone. Pa
W. A. Klnsloe. Leckhaven, Pa
Salem Hill, Scnenley, Pa
E. B. Knowles, Branford, Pa
T. Murphy, Huntington, w. Va
J. H. Baxtresser, Middlet’n, Pa
W. L. Colvin, Beatrice, Neb
Frank a. Snell, Ansonla, Ct
A. Jarrett. Hutchinson. Minn
cured at the beginning of the “boom”
has been sold for from $25 to S6OO lor
ordinary Building Lots. Every “old
settler" has realized a h mdsome com
petency In disposing of a portion of
his lands at fancy prices. Docks have
b en erected; hotels built and added
to from time to time : a line of seven
boats ply regularly between .'t. An
drew’s Bay and ether ports; and, alto
gether, the outlook promises that St.
Andrew’s Bay will In a lew years be
c me the most lm: ortunt city of the
gulf coast. It possesses every natural
advantage; a deop bay—more than
sl> ty-flve miles long with Its various
branches—with deep channels to the
cuter gulf, at once the most charming
and most useful body of water on tha
coast; a safe harbor for the fleets of a
ASIIIV AIIV Thl Orest Free Land Offer Is open to any txxly
%|iy 1 Mil ¥ cent those who are already located and are now
OIIU I UU I living at St. Andrew’s Bay, also residents of PenMr
cola and Washington and Jackson Counties, Fla.
NO CONDITIONS
not required to move there, or improve It any way, unless you do so freely,
and at your own pleasure-
Lewis Brindle, Latrobe, Pa
Elmira Kcpple, Latrobe, Pa
J. W. McCoaeh, Santa Fe, N. M
J. A. Davis, Pierce City, Mo
Jas. B. Rowley, Olathe, Kan
M. Mlnehan, Gurdou, Ark
Geo. A. Copp, Fisher’s Hill, Ya
W. F. Brewton, Cedar Plain, O
Wm. C. Sampson, Golden. Col
F B. Riblet, Shlnnaton, W. Va
M. J. Lunuuest, Bir’gham, Ala
Joel P. Keys, Colwlch, Kaa
Jno. A. Kramer, Bloomsb’g, Pa
And. Knudsen. Garfield, Kan
Wm. F. Blrkelbach, Shaft, Pa
Moses R. Knapp, Gwynedd, Pa
M. E Lewark, Wabasha, Minn
Mrs. J. A. Davis, Hillsboro, 111
creahbalhKl
Ihave used two botr Hf (525” p in,
Oct of Ely'* Cream IHJ
Balm and consider
myself cured. I suf- fwnmwg M
fared 20 years from ■'
catarrh and catarrh- Hs* / nKjsß
al headache and this Ci^^hßß
is the first remedy reWSfjffi
that afforded lasting
relief.—D. T. Biggin- u .s*.|
son, 145 Lake Street, !!Ry- -nucK
Chicago, 111. HAY-EJfcVtft
A particle is applied into each nostril and is agreeable
to nse. Price 50 cts. by mail or at druggists. Send for
cironlar. ELY BROTHERS, Druggists, Owego, N.Y.
WHETHER YOU WANT A
It will pay you to write to
PHILLIPS & CREW,
ATLANTA, GA.,
For Catalogue (free) and Prices. Montion this paper.
J, P.STEViHS&BRO.
JEWELERS.
Atlanta, Ga.
goad far Catalogue. ■
a ATLANTA
A SAW WORKS.
JjMggKjh Manufacturers of and Dealers in
JEsSm, Saws and Saw-Mill Supplies.
Repairing n Specialty.
SBgslSgSl® Ajente for 1.. Power t OoMFiNT’.
WggIgKSBBBF Wood W.rUlnar Machinery.
Large and complete stock. Him
for oetelojae. Atlanta, Gi.
CATARRH
In it, worst form en bo cured Canadian Ca.
Inri'll Cure, during 10 years’trial, hAa never failed to
effect a cure. Wo guarantee a cure, or prio*
of medicine refunded. Psipnhlet sent free. We refer
to Atlanta Natinnel Bank of this oity, ao to onr standing
snd responsibility. Address
CANADIAN CATARRH CURE CO.,
16>$ Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. ,
BUSINESS
Education a specialty at MOORE’S BUSINESS
UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, Ga. One of the best
schools in tho Country. Send for Cironlars,
nil BB j&X B DR. WILLIAMS’
PILES ” Indian Pile Ointment
B ■ nSai v B will cure any case of Itch
ing, Bleeding, Ulcerated or Protruding
Piles. CURE GUARANTEED. Prepared
for Piles only. [Physicians’ jura by express, pro
naid, 82.50.] Price per box, 50c. and 81. ®old
b/ druggists or mailed on receipt of price by
LAMAR, RANKIN ft LAMAR, Agents, Atlanta. Ga.
4% ■%■■■■ 19 and WHISKEY HABITS
81 fll I I I B m curod at home without pain.
I 188 illß Book of particulars sent I? REE.
U I I U If I B M. Woolley, M.D.,
naomm Atlamn, n. office:
Whitehall Street. Mention thispapar.
/IPs Can get the most Practical Business Edu
cation at Onidsinlth’s School ot Bus?
in css, 38% S Broad St. Atlanta, Ga. Send
v for Circulars ft Specimen of Penmanship.
PSWSir PULVERIZING
Gigli- HARROW,
Clod Crusher and Leveler.
The Best Tool in tho world for preparing
corn, cotton and other ground. D. H. NASH,
Bole Manuf’r, M 2 West Main St., Loulsvlle, Ky.
m ■ ■ _ B*u_. Great English Goutani
Bars Pills, Rheumatic Remedy.
Oval Box 91.001 round, 50 ct.
oa a mm* —a, mmm Obtained. Send stauyp for
| bIM I O Inventors’ Guide. L. Bino
-0 ham, Patent Lawyer. Washington, D. C- __
■ Piso’s Remedy for CatArrh is the I .
Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest.
lAlso good for Cold in the Head, Bfl
Headache, Hay Fever, <fec. 50 cents.
A. N. U Fnrr. ’ST
five for $5. No more thaatwentj-live
ire desired from any one person noting as agent lor
others. Deeds will be made as the Club Agent direct*
when he returns the Free hand Warrants.
YOII W 1 HE A TRAITOR to your own
Interests and to those dependent on you If you fan
to avail vourself of this Great 1-ree Land oner.
Secure it for your children. .
The St. Andrew’s Bay Railroad an 1 Land Company
numbers among its offleer* and stockholders flowert
the most responsible and energetic “en of Florida,
Ohio, and New York, who are enlisted. he artjhand,
and pocket book in this great enterprise. We do
business through the Second National of
and refer to two thousand prosperous settlers at st.
Andrew's. And now we await your pleasure.
Address our Northern Oflice, where all deeds are
executed as follows:
The St. Andrew’s Bay R. R. and Land Cos.,
227 Main St., Cincinnati, O. I
29 Park Row, New York. >
Remit bv postal-note, registered letter, or bank
draft. Do not send stamps when It can bo avoided.
world. Every species of vegetable,
fruit, and cereal will gro*v to perfec
tion in its soft, Italian elimate ; oysters
in countless millions—the best In tn#
world—rest la thousands of exhaust
less oy-ter buds; timber easily access
ible an 1 sulflt lent In quantity to fur
nish cargoes lor ye rs to the ©“tire
carry ng capacity or a nation s fleet;
a climate that, both winter and. sum*
mer. Is th ■ absolute perfection ol
earthly dei g.it: free from malaria,
hire, dry land, and beautifully lo
cated. Th so are among other good
reasons whv S'. Andrew’s Bay is the
in st desirable loation for a Horida
home than the State can offer, ana
why this company has confidence m
the wisdom of it* present bu*lne**
policy.
John Cord, Hanna, Ind
O. P. Fox, Mt. Carmel, Pa
C. F. Strong, Gloucester, Mass
Andrew Sullivan, “
Oteo. W. Davis. “
Jas. N. McMillan, Trans. Sta.
26th Ward, Pittsburgh, Pa
W. S. Davis, Highland Park. 11l
Robt. O. Morrison. Anch’ge, Ky
M. Kennedy, Wabasha, Minn
A. B. Davis, Eureka Sp’gs, Ark
Jas. Kavan, Schuyler, Neb.
St. Paul, Mian.
Moses Blxter, oor. Isabel and
Starkev Streets
Go. Stereo. 20 Isabel Street
Kaaiaa City, Mo.
J. A. Sullivan. Met. Hotel
L. E. MacKusick. 744 Oak St
Jos. Field, Gen’l Delivery
Abram Mann, 718 l enn St
Wm. N. Allen, 744 tak Street
Philadelphia, Pa.
T. McQrory. Sr., 241* N. M St
Wm. H- Bower, 2d * Erie Are
Jas. Brown. 717 Sansom St
J. P. Haines, 1930 Marshall St
A. B. Shipley, 503 Commerce Bt
Troy, N. Y.
Geo. R. Collins, t’> Fifth St
F. V. Hendrick, 187 FUst St
W. E. Chatter, oa, 187 Third j|