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GAME .EAR NORTH. HUNTING THE BUFFALO, MUSK OX AND CARIBOU. Indians on the Upper Mackenzie Slaughter Them by the Thou, sand—Vast Herds In a Far- Away Region. N a valuable report on the Mackenzie River country William Ogilvie, a Government explorer, devotes a chapter to the lur bearing animals of this far away district. “As regards .the muskox,” says Mr. Ogilvie, “this animal inhabits a much more inaccessible country than the wood buffalo. This animal roams over what is commonly known as the “barren lands,” that is, the treeless plains lying east of the fringe of woods along the Mackenzie River. “I was informed, but cannot give it as authentic, that they have lately been found much further south, east of Lake Athabasca. They are frequently found within forty or fifty miles of the Mac kenzie River, down to the Arctic Ocean. A white man has entered their grounds twice recently, His object, I under stood, was simply to see the region they inhabit and secure a few heads as trophies. “He was accompanied by Mr. McKto- lay and a large number of Indians. They proved a nuisance and had to be pro vided with food. On this trip upward of sixty musk ox and eighty or ninety caribou were slaughtered, and only a few musk ox heads were brought out, most of the remainder being wasted.” A close season for fur-bearing animals, especially the musk ox and wood buf falo, is recommended, together with an ordinance limiting the number of skin3 to be taken. “Mr. McKinlay,” continues the re port, “thought the close season for them should be about the same as for moose. He informed me that the Indian method of hunting them was to drive them to some natural barrier and then slaughter BjtoSgin. He said while they were driving they kept up a continual talk to them, being firmly persuaded that the animals understood what they were saying. “The musk ox gives birth to its young generally in April. The Indians told Mr. McKinlay that the cows generally bury the young in the snow as soon as they are born, selecting some sheltered spot exposed to the rays of the sun for l this purpose. I have also heard that I they only do this when menaced with ' danger. About three days after the birth they are able to run with the dam. 1 “Numberless bauds of caribou make Mfhe barren lauds their heme in the sum- BPer mouths, traveling north to the ^Arctic coast in the spring and returning south to the wooded country in the fall, i On their migratory journeys they run in vast herds and the Indians kill large numbers of them, often through sheer love of slaughter. “The Indians visit streams and lakes , where the animals cross and spear them in the water, often killing several hun dred. Mr. McKinlay told me that for days they were never out of sight of caribou. Tho average weight of meat Yielded by a female caribou is sixty to ^eighty pounds, and the male about 150, sometimes 200.” Narcotic Effects of a Spring. Superintendent Stout recently de scribed a wonderful mineral that form- * erly flowed from the mountain side some mile3 above the Butte Creek House, and near the Plumas County line. This spring was first called to Mr. Stout’s attention some years ago while camping in that vicinity by an old pros pector, who called it the “chloroform spring.” The water which flowed from it did not differ in appearance or taste from the water of other springs, except that it was slightly brackish. It was the effect that followed the drinking of its ; waters that was remarkable. A small l cup would in trie course of half an hour I render the drinker totally insensible, l>—Vhe would remain for hours as if dead, r But few white meu had ever tried the experiment of drinking from it, but those who have done so describe the ef fect as not unlike that resulting from a heavy narcotic. To the Indiai’s this spring has been known for generations. They call it the "Heap Sleep’’spring, and it is said that more than one weary red man has en tered the “happy hunting grounds” through the medium of its waters. Mr. Stout states that when he saw the spring in the summer of 1890 there were no less five carcasses of deer, besides numerous smaller animals, iu its im mediate, neighborhood thithad drank of the water and been overcome and died from the effects. An examination of the geological con struction of the immediate section failed ^to show any mineral that might account for the peculiar power of tho water, and so far as known, no analysis has ever been made.—Oroville (Cal.) Mercury. Star Stones. The asteria3 or star stones are among the most wonderful productions of the mineral kingdom'. They are corundums; the star sapphire being a grayisu blue; the star ruby bright red; the star topaz, a straw yellow. The star appearance in the stone is caused, according to some mineralogists, by a foreign substance in the gem; others say it is due to peculiari ties of crystalizution. Whatever it may be, advantage is taken of it by the lapi daries who cut the stone cabochcu, or in the shape of a dome, beginning at the centre of the star and making the points radiate to the circumference. The stone has six points, and as the light plays on the surface of the stone the bright lines of the star change with the position of the gem and produce a singularly beau tiful effect. These stones are very valu able, the best specimens being, it is said, worth as much as diamonds of the same weight. Burton, the great oriental traveler, had a star sapphire which .te always carried on his person, and in the heart of Africa, the sight of this wonder ful gem always Inspired a respect that was akin to reverence. The wild Arabs Africans would gaze at the stone and then at the possessor and, concluding that he had 3 talisman of unexampled power, would render him all possible as sistance for fear of incurring his ven geance.—New York Dispatch. The Height of Courtesy. 'he Queen of Saxony is passionately 1 of children, perhaps for the very on that she has none of her own. ordingly, she never fails to caress a y whon she .gets a chance. Once, in taking a stroll in the park at Dres- , she accosted a nurse with a couple plendid babies in her arms. “Oh! the :lv pets!” she said. “Twins, no Yes, your Majesty.” Their father must be very proud of This one’s father certain y is; but other one’s father has just died.” But you told me they were twins 1” hen the nurse blushed, and said, “I pardon, it was not myself who said but your Majesty, and—I didn’t i to contradict you.”—-La Belgique. Scene at a Dutch Kermess. On the second day the crowd really begins to swarm, and by evening alt the avenues of the iair are jammed. The gasoline lamps shed a flaring light over the sea of heads; the hurdy-gurdies of the different merry-go-rounds try to drown one another; the managers of the theatres, with their companies in tights and spangles on the platforms beside them, are bawling through speaking trumpets descriptions of the wonderful pieces about to be performed inside, oo- casionally giving snort sketches as allur ing samples; parties of young peasants and their sweethearts “charge” through the crowd. This “charge,” which is peculiarly Dutch, is accomplished by from ten to twenty persons locking arms, with the weight forward, and acting on the principle of a battering ram. It is very effective, and will open a lane through the densest throng. The chargers sing cheerfully during the on set, and the collisions are generally taken as neat bits of pleasantry. When the chargers reach, or have created, a com paratively open space, they form a ring, and jump up and down, shouting, “Hustle 1 Hustle!” in time to the steps, while the tempo is accelerated till the feet give out and the breath is gone. What the Donnybrook Irishman would term “a fine bit of a fight” now follows. A cry has gone up from two combatants who have squabbled about nothing— “Laron 1 Laren! Lareul” from one, and from the other, “Huizeul Huizenl Huizenl” Our village (Liren) is Catho lic ; Huizen, just beyond, is Protestant; and the feuds of the rival creeds, though mild in comparison with those of the past, are bitter yet. No de cent and self-respecting Larenite would dream of marrying into Huizso, and vice versa. The women’s caps and ear rings are of another pattern; so are the sabots, even those of the children. There is absolutely no social communication between the communities. In the olden days there was constant fighting, and many a head was broken and many a knife stab given; but iu these times, except ou special occasions, the towns preserve a surly peace. Bat hot blood boils at kermess time, and the old trouble breaks out again, and the war cries bring the reserves hurrying to the field, clearing for action as they come. In this case the police separate the brawl ers, taking one to one end of the fair, and the other, with a handsome cut on his head from his opponent’s wooden shoe, in the opposite direction. It may be well to state, by tho by, that a wooden shoe of the size worn hereabout, snatched off and used either as a club or projec tile, makes a weapon of great effective ness, and one very convenient to get at upon the first call o'f necessity.—Cen tury. What Plant Names Indicate. The botanical names of plants ari often, when understood, interesting topics for study. For example: Our flowering maple, abutilon, is from an Arabic name for an allied plant. An other, called abuta, is a native name for a plant from Cayenne. Achimencs is from two words meaning to sutler from cold, the plauts all being very tender. Acorus, the flags, is an allusion to the eyes from its medicinal properties. Ba- biana is from a Dutch word for baboon, tho bulbs being eaten by baboons. Briza, or the quaking grass, means to nod and is expressive of all the family. Campa nula, meaning a bell, has reference to the shape of the flower. Capsicum is from kapto, to bite, which relates to its hot fruit, and carex to cut, because the leaves of many species have their margins mi nutely serrated;these will cut the hand if drawn rapidly through them. Dianthus for the pinks is a name for the flowers given as long ago as the time of the Romans, and means the divine flower, from the exquisite fragrance of the blos soms of most species, as well as from their unrivaled neatness and brilliancy. A large number of plants are named iu honor of some botanist or person of re pute in horticulture. Magnolia, fuchsia, begonia, camellia and indeed most ol those ending with th.3 “ia,” are such names. The second, or specific, name is more often descriptive of the particular species, as elongata,elongated; coccinea, scarlet; matutina, morning; micnlatu, spotted; rubra, reddish; ciliosa, hair fringed.—Chicago Times. Mexican Peonage. A local paper has created a sensation hv declaring that slavery exists in the State of Tabasco. This is, of course, not true, but there is still in existence, not only in Tabasco but in several other States, a kind of peonage which very much resembles slavery. For instance, there are laws in several States which are presumably for the purpose of regulat ing the relations between employer and employe which bear mo3t oppressively upon the latter. One law provides that no employer shall dismiss an employe without giving eight days notice, and that no employe shall leave his plac3 without giving due notice and of paying whatever sum he may owe his employer. This last provision, in practice, consti- tues peonage, whether it was so intended or not, because where such law's exist employes are always in debt to theii employers and for this reason cannot leave their places. In olden timeB the laws in many sections provided that upon the death of the father his debts should be assumed by his sons, and in some cases by his children irrespective of sex. So far as we know, such laws no longer exist. As those laws which now impose peonage are local and so worded as not to conflct with the Fed eral Constitution the general Govern ment cannot interfere. However, these laws are gradually disappearing and in the near future will nowhere exist ia the Republic.—Mexico Two Republics. Horsu Sense. “Horses surely have reasoning powers, for I have known animals that were ex tremely vicious when mounted by a man develop into the most affectionate and tractable saddle horses when mounted by a lady,” said a gentleman at the South ern. “I travel through Southwest Mis souri and the Indian Territory, where ladies ride almost exclusively on horse back, and they know how to put a horae through his paces without the aid of whip or spur. “One of the finest saddle horses I ever saw was a magnificent sorrel gelding owned by a doctor’s wife in the Indian Territory. The horse was bred in Ken tucky, but was sent to Texas when a colt. From the first attempt to break him he was stubborn and vicious, strik ing with his fore feet or refusing to go at all. He had the habit of bucking and but few riders could stay in the saddle. The doctor bougfit him at the request of his wife, who was an expert rider, and in less than two weeks the horse would follow her like a dog. He expected a caress every time she appeared, and would eat fruit, candy or confections from her hand. He never attempted to throw her, and she could shoot from his back or turn him loose in the prairie and he would remain as close to her as pos sible. She called him ‘Martin,’ and I have seen him leave a herd of horses and gallop to her when his name was called. Don’t call that instinct, my Hear sir; that is, to my mind, the clearest of reason ing. St. Louis Republic. CURIOUS FACTS. There are forty-four separate pieces of leather and other material in a pair of fine shoes. BRAIDING THE HAIR. People who braid their back hair are now raising it up higher and braiding it very close to the top of the head; then it is looped down on the head and fastened closely to it. The reason for this is that the small bonnets must have some thing more than merely a fancy pin to hold them in position, and this arrange ment of the hair makes them more com fortable.—New York Telegram. ABOUT SKIRTS. The skirt is irrevocably evoluting t< greater width and consequent weight, and the prtfent chronicler cannot too strongly urge the maxim, “Be mod erate.” The modes now in vogue are too graceful and convenient, and have too much to commend them, for us to relinquish them without a struggle; and because a few women, always eager for any novelty, no matter how eccentric, have wired ruffles in their skirts, it doss not follow that the inconvenient ab surdity is ia mode. For walking, skirts ere short, and simply trimmed around the bottom; for the house, they are long, and for evening they are trained, and much more elaborate trimmings are ad missible. When there Is deep trimming extending in widely separated bands or ruffles to the knees, a deep facing of crinoline, canvas, or even of horsehair if the trimming is heavy, extends as high as the trimming. New skirts are cut fuller, from three yards and three-quarters to six yards at the bottom—this last for evening gowns —and gored but slightly at the top, a little fullness extending all the way around, either gathered or laid in fine plaits.—Demorest’s Family Magazine. PREMONITIONS OP FANIBB8. Although paniers are not yet openly favored by fashion, there are some indi cations that, before the season is over, they may be arrived at by indirect ways. Lace is gathered in a deep flouhee to the edge of the round waist, in Russian style. It is also set on the outside of the edge of the bodice, gathered full, and turned up edge to edge, then dropped over the seam to have the effect of a puffing. It is applied in the same manner on princesse dresses. Wider lace is used on dinner and evening toilets, this occasionally forming panier-like draperies that terminate in long ends on the back, caught to the dress by bows of handsome ribbon. The use of lace will constantly increase from this time on, throughout the spring and summer, forming tabliers, jabots on both skirt and bodice, and plaited in fans and co- quille ruches to increase the flaring effect ou the bottom of the dress. Yery short- trained bell skirts will have the flounce all around the hems, while demi-lrains and full trains for brides and dowagers will have it only on the front and sides, leaving the sweeping breadths urn trimmed.—New York Post. THE BACK OF YOU. These are the days for the women with pretty necks, especially if they are pretty at the back. The pointed gown, the soft ruffle around the edge, the hair drawn up, all give a most graceful effect if there is any beauty at all. For that matter, women are apt to forget the charm of the back view of their sweet selves. She is a wise woman who, in stead of standing ready and expectant to meet him, sits down in a,low chair in front of the tire and pretends she doesn’t know he is coming at just that particu lar minute. You see, when the eyes have met, there is little else to do. It is all over, to a great extent. Why not prolong the effect? Give him a chance to see you a moment when he fancies you do not know he is there. Let him note the glow of the firelight in your hair; let him take in the graee of your sweeping gown, the thoughtfnl bend of your head; give him a chance to come up behind you and say the word that shall turn your face to his, and put all the gladness of your smile and voice and welcome in his sight. It is a good deal better so, is it not? You will avoid the strange awkwardness that mars the joy of so many first meetings after long ab sence, an awkwardness in which you feel that you should be more happy than you are and show more happiness. The style of gown of to-day’s fashions is just the thing for this. High collars and exaggerated headdresses were a little out of line, but now that all is so simple and graceful it will be as well to remem ber “back effects” as a legitimate part of your repertory of charms.—Detroit Free Press. Some thirty square miles of land are in this country alone devoted to the purposes of burial. Tombstoue, Arizona, has three mines named “The Lucky Cuss,” “Toughnut” and “Good Enough.” Sauerkraut, although of German origin, is more largely used by Ameri cans than by Germans. In New Zealand one may catch 100 pounds of trout in a day with a minnow or thirty pounds with a fly. Eight olive trees now exist in the Garden of 01ive3 at Jerusalem which are known to be at least eight hundred years old. There i9 said to be only one hotel in this country, and that one in Philadel phia, which has a library for the use of its guests. A pot of gold and silver coins of American mintage was dug up near Pittsfield, 111., recently. The value of the find was $225. Members of the British House of Com mons enter and leave the Chamber with their heads uncovered, but during ses sions they wear their hats. A genius at Omen, Ky., had several ponds on his place that the cold spell froze entirely covered up with straw, and proposes to take out ice during the summer as he wants it. The largest South African lion on record weighed, five honrs after death, 583 pounds. This fine specimen was shot by John Otto at Koppie, Allwin, in Orange Free State, South Africa. A plentiful supply of hot water was struck at a depth of 372 feet in the artesian well at the Boise City, Idaho, penitentiary a few days ago. The flow tills a five-mch pipe and is very hot. Nebraska has a young lady in the per son of Miss Schaffer, of Beaver Crossing, fifteen years old, six feet three inches in height, weighs 259 pounds, and wears a No? 10 shoe. She Is growing rapidly. There is a woman in Brocton, Mass., who can boast of having lived under the administration of every President of the United States. She was born the day preceding Washington’s retirement from office. Leif Erikson’s statue in Boston has been criticised as artistically inaccurate because it has a smooth-shaven face. The question is raised as to the possi bility of razors having been in use among the Northmen in his day. Asafetida is not, as many suppose, an animal product. It is prepared from the roots and stems of a plant grown ex tensively in Persia, Beloochistan and In dia. It is the last named country cooks use it in all kinds of pudding. Samuel HarmoD, of Fox Hill, PenD., claims that he has eaten in the last twenty years 3650 pies. His regular consumption has been half a pie daily. He declares that he has never experienced the slightest attack of dyspepsia. A resident of Auselain Springs, N. C., claims to own a peculiar ear of corn. It is said that there are thirteen ears all containing well developed grain, grouped around the large ear. All these fourteen ears, he states, grew in one shuck. Wall space for advertising purposes commands very hii(h rentals In popular business thoroughfares in New York City. There is one man who obtains an annual income of several thousand dol lars out of one side of a house which is conspicuously exposed. The Denison (Texas) Herald chronicles the arrival in that city of Isa To-Ba, one of the most picturesque characters in the Chickasaw Nation. His long silky hair, massive head and generally imposing appearance attract attention wherever he goes. He has been Justice of the Chick asaw Supreme Court and National Audit or. He is a full blooded Indian, but is known to the whites as Josiah Brown. FASHION NOTES. White silk slippers are embroidered with pearls. Double-faced shot ribbons in velvet and satin are new. Narrow bebe ribbon rosettes in tri colors are liberally employed. Accordion-plated fronts are being placed in empire evening gowns. A glimpse of the new spring goods in dicates the blow of the wind, in this season’s fashions. Garnitures describe wide plaiif braids, the alternate squares of the pattern filled in with fur imitation. Some of the muslins are figured in what are called in the store “lappet spots,” which give a pattern in large waved effect. Parisian dressmakers and couturiers never omit to ask when a dress is-ordered from them what perfume is adopted by their client, and they then proceed tc introduce between the linings tiny, flat sachets, prepared in accordancrwith.the answer. An empire wrap/of olive green velvet was accompanied by a white velvet bonnet from which a mass of yellow curls overflowecLand tell aboutia piquant face and down upon the great puffed sleeves, fte small wearer was perhaps three years old. Among the stylish'fancie3‘forjyoiithful wearers for spring are double-breasted round waists of plain cloth or velvet, in dark colors of blue, golden brown, dahlia or myrtle green; with pifein cloth, skirts lapped on left side, and buttoned about half a yard down. A stylish«lre3s of figured'Indian silk has a long bell skirt, cutaway jacket fronts and very full sleeve puffs. The fitted front, high) collar and ssleevesvfrom elbow to wrists are of plain velvet. 1 hat of velvet to;match is trimmed with plaitiugs and xuching3 of fine,- black lace. A very simple yetieffective>styla ol dress to follow in the making 'tap of any of the medium-weight woolens foi spriug wear is one with a round waist with cape revere, large sleeves, girdle and stock collar, with a slightly full round skirt that flares (considerably u il nears the hem. - Permanence of Agricultural Methods. It is a curious and interesting fact il lustrative cf the permanence of agricul tural methods and the continuance of excellent products as well as the stability of the art, that a cheese made by the ancient Gauls from the milk of sheep before that Nation was conquered by the ancient Romans, which was sent to that luxurious city, Rome, to furnish the tables at the numerous feasts, is still made in the same locality, and nowhere else, and by exactly the same process and cured in the same remarkable caves, which, in fact, is- the secret of its ex quisite quality, as at that far distant time. This is the Roquefort cheese, made at the town or district of that name in the south of France, in one of the most curious volcanic formations known to the geologists. The mountain is honeycombed with caves, and being of limestone, furnishes a pasture of the richest kind for a race of sheep that have been bred for milking since long before the people of that part of Europe ■ were heard of. The elder Piny, the natural ist, who wrote many books on agricul ture, mentions this cheese by its present name and extols its delicious qualities. The conquering Romans quickly monop olized all the best productions of the Na tions they subdued, and with a taste ed ucated by luxury, very quickly adopted this cheese and secured tne whole supply of it.—American Dairyman. A New Horseshoe. A new horseshoe, rocently patented, has for its special object the obtaining of better foothold and the lessening of concussion or jarring effect upon the animal’s feet. The shoe is made with apertures extending through it, located between the positions usually occupied by the nails. The openings are of dove tailed form ani the usual nail hole3 are provided in the intervening solid metal portions of the shoe. Projecting through the apertures are elastic rubber studs which are fixed on a strip of rubber or leather intervening between the metal shoe and the well of the hoof, and through which the nails are driven in the operation of shoeing. By this construc tion the grip of the horse’s foot is im mensely increased, especially on slippery pavements, and the tendency of the horse to leg disease is materially re duced.—New Orleans Picayune. Testing Pare Water. It is one of the easiest things in the world to tell pure water from the im pure. If you want to test the color of the water just fill a colorless glass bottle with water and look through it at some black object, and the distinctiveness with which you can see the object will give you an idea as to the amount of clay or sand there is in the water. Then pour out one-half the water, cork the bottle tightly and set it in a warm place for about twenty-four hours. Remove the cork and smell the air in the bottle. If there is an offensive odor, even the slightest, the water is unfit for domestic uses. Well water, no matter how bright and sparkling, is, nine times out of ten, putrescent. Then, as a matter of course, decomposition is sure to set in in a day or two if you put the bottle in a warm clsce.—New York Telegram. COOLING A DAIRY. It is quite possible to cool a dairy by means of a metal box containing the ice suspended in the milkroom. A greater effect would be produced by adding salt to the ice after breaking it, for by this method as much as thirty degrees lower temperature may be produced in the cooler. Cheap salt for this purpose may be procured for six dollars a ton, and the salt water may be thrown on the ma nure or a compost heap, and its cost saved in that way. The cooler should be kept as high in the room as possible. The plan proposed is in effect precisely the same as that by which common re frigerators are cooled.—New York Times. THE COWPEA VINE AND SOJA BEAN. In digestion experiments with various feeding stuffs carried on at the North Carolina Experiment Station, at Raleigh, cowpea vine hay formed one of the sub jects for consideration. The nutrative ratio obtained in this experiment shows this hay to have been relatively about equal to the standard rations for heavy work and production of milk. The an imals ate this hay nearly as well as they did the pulled fodder and the clover. With cowpea vine hay of good quality for above uses no grain need be used, while for maintenance and light work straw or cotton seed hulls could well be fed as a part of a good ration. The soja bean is considered a promis ing crop. Soja bean silage has been fed in the station stable long enough to give assurance of it3 value. For cows it seems to arrest the natural decline in yield for a time. The high percentage of protein in proportion to carbo-hydrates gives this silage a narrow nutrative ratio, and this indicates that it can be used to good ad vantage as part of a ration of hay or straw with corn, or corn and oat3, or mixed with corn silage. A correspon dent of this station, who grows corn and soja beans together for silage, gives the assurance that this combination saves him much grain, as less is needed with his stock when feeding this combination than with other coarse foods. A ration of forty pounds corn and soja bean silage, in equal parts by weight, has been calculated to yield di gestible nutrients in pounds as follows: Protein, .768; fals, .418; other carbo hydrates, 4.022. The nutrative ratio is 1 to 7.4, and, although the nutrative substance is but 5.81 pounds less than two-thirds of the standard for oxen at rest, it is in all probability sufficient to sustain a 1000-pound animal and produce slow gain. This is possible because the animal will take little or no water not in the silage, and having, therefore, less internal work to perform, the small amounts of nutrative substances suffices for the animal’s needs.—New York World. CARE OF FRUIT TREES. If fruit trees are trained well they ought to be able to carry a great amount of snow without breaking. Of course there are few exceptions everywhere, especially these trees trained to standards on account of growing along roads oi for any other reason. They will require the attaining of greater age before they will be able tc stand as much as their neighbors close by which are branched close to the ground and sturdy all the way up. The first you ought to do is to knock all the snow off them to prevent breaking off the limbs. Be careful the way you do it. Do not take a stick oi your foot to shake the snow load off; you are apt to bruise the tree and cause barking and sores. You are sure to have an old broom around the house. Take it and go along the rows and you may knock the trees auy way without fear of injuring the bark. If the snow keeps on falling and you have some trees with iimb3 too long to cairy any heavy load and the limbs neces sary to form your tree, take a string out of your pocket, which you as rancher or fruit raiser are very apt to carry always with you, and tie the limbs in one way or other to secure a hold for them on the main stem or stick supporting the tree. Is the tree split and that in a place where every limb is needed, splint the place as you would a broken arm, and secure the standing branches. You must 1-emember that the circulatioa of the sap is seriously interrupted. How can the smaller amount of bark nourish the same system of limbs. Cut out more or less of the branches of the upper part and thus balance the supply and want of food. If the cold keeps on you will have to protect the sore place even further, especially if the frost is severe. Take tree wax, or any felt material, axle grease or the like, and by wiping it over the injured place you keep the cold and wet out. Don’t think that you are doing any unnecessary work. Any tree will do better for being treated thus and the healing process will go on ever so much easier.—The Homestead. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Hens over two years old are not profit able to keep for egg production. Allow no male bird to run with the females unless eggs are wanted for hatch ing. A gcod plan in feeding corn is to feed it to fowls on the cob. Let them do the shelling. It is slowly but surely dawning upon the minds of American farmers that fowls do pay a profit. Young chicks should not be fed for twenty-four to thirty-six hours after leaving the shell. A dusting place shold be provided for the fowls. Dry road dust is bast, but sifted coal ashes is good in lieu of the former. Other conditions being favorable, sweet potatoes are more successfully kept in large than in small quantities. Suc cess has been reported in keeping small quantities in barrels between layers of perfectly dry forest or fruit tree leaves. Pork is “looking up” so much since the foreign embargo on it has been re moved that those who have breeding stock for sale smile and are happy. The man who will sell his be3t pigs at aix to eight weeks old for fattening at any price will be foolish. A first-class trough can be made in a few minutes of chestnut, pine, or hem lock plank spiked firmly together, with coal tar soaked on all connecting edges and candle wicking saturated in the same stretched thereon before nailing. Such joints never leak nor rot. Parsley is very easy to grow. Set some plants from the garden in a cool corner of the greenhouse or else in a rather warm window, then you may have parsley leaves all the winter. You can sow seeds at any time or dig now and plant in the window. SERIOUS FACTS ABOUT BREAD You can 1 old roAa T u liich Housekeeper* Should Earnestlj Consider. A serious danger menaces the health of the people of this country in the nu merous alum baking powders that are now being urged upon the public. There is no question as'to the detri mental eCcct of tliC'-e powders upon the syttern. Everj Board of Health, every phys c;an, will tell you of tho unwhole some qualities they add to the food. Some countries have absolutely pro hibited the sale of bread containing alum. Even small doses of alum, given to clii dren, have produced fatal results, while cases of heartburn, indigestion, griping, constipation, dyspepsia, and Yarn us kindled gastric troubles from irritation of the mucous membrane, caused by the continuous use of food prepared with the alum or alum-phos phate powders, are familiar iu the prac tice of every physician. It is not possible that any prudent housewife, any loving mother, will knowingly use an article of food that will injure the health of her household, or perhaps cause the death of her chil dren. How shall the dangerous alum powders be distinguished? And how shall the danger to health from their use be avoided ? Generally, alum powders may be known from the price at which they are told, or lrum the fact that, they are accom panied by a gift, are disposed of under tome scheme. The alum powder costs but a lew cents a pound to make, and is often sold at 20 or 25 cents a pound. If some presont is given with it, the price may he 30, 40 or 50 cents a pound. It is impossible to name all the alum powders in the market, but any baking powder sold at a low price, or adver tized as costing only half as much as cream of tartar powders, accompanied by a present, or disposed of under any scheme, is of this class, detrimental to health, and to be avoided. But the easy, safe, and certain protec tion of our bread, biscuit aud cake from all danger of unwholesomeuess is iu the use of the Royal Baking Powder only. This powder is mentioned because of the innumerable reports in its favor by high medical authorities, by the U. S. Gov ernment, aud by the official chemists and Boards of Health, which leave no doubt »i to its entire freedom from alum, lime and ammonia, its absolute purity aui wholesomeness. While its use is thus a safeguard against the poisonous alum powders it is satisfactory at the same time to know that it makes the whitest, lightest, sweetest and most delicious food, which will keep moist and fresh longer, and that can be eaten with im munity hot or cold, stale or fresh, and also that owing to its greater strength it is more economical than others. These facts should incline consumers to turn a deaf ear to all importunities to buy the inferior powder. If a grocer urges the sale of the cheap, impure, alum brands, it should be borne in mind that it is because he can make more profit on them. The wise housekeeper will decline in all cases to take them. Take no chances through using a doubt ful article where so important a matter as the health or life of dear ones is at slalce. London is the largest city in the world, containing a population of 4,764,312 per sons. The largest river in the world is the AmszoD, being 4,000 miles long, 150 milts wide at its mouth, and 'navigable for large ships 2,200 miles from its mouth. The largest island in the world is Aus tralia. It is 1,500 miles across from east to west, and 1,030 miles long from north to south. Its area is 2,9S4,287 square miles. The largest empire in the world is that of Great Britain, being 8,557,675 square miles, and more than a sixth part of the lobe. The largest suspension bridge is the Brooklyn bridge. The length of the main span is 1,595 Let and 6 inches.— The entire length of the bridge is 9,989 feet. The largest inland sea is the Caspian Sea, lying between Europe and Asia, it being 700 miles long and 279 miles wide. The largest cavern in the world is the Mammoth cave, Kentucky. The largest tree in the world as yet discovered is in Tulware county, Cal. It is 275 feet high, and 106 feet in cir cumference at its base. . The largest desert is Sahara, in north ern Africa. Its length is 3,000 miles and breadth 900 miles; h.viDg an area of 2,000,000 square miles. The largest volcano in the world is Etna. Its base is 90 miles in circumfer ence; its cone 11,000 'eet high. Its first eruption occurred 474 B. C. The largest body of fresh water on the globe is Lake Superior, 400 miles long aud 160 mile wide. It greatests depth is 200 fathoms. Its surface is 635 feet above the level of the sea. The largest church in the world is St. Peter’s in Rome. Its length is 613 feet. Its dome is 195 feet in diameter, and its height to the cross on the summit 448 feet. Floral Curtains. Fish net makes an easily arranged foundation for a floral curtain when one is desired in decorating a room. At a reception where the house was decorated in white and gold, yellow roses with long stems were woven in and out of the meshes of the net. The ne'ting in somewhat finer mc-sb, that comes in col ors, and also gilded, may be used with exqusitei effect for the same purpose. Such a curtain is not only pretty be tween doorways, but drape-t back from a large mirror. Almost any flower can be used against these curtains, or the greenery of smilax, or other vines with a few flowers. Retribution. Teacher—“Do you know what ret-ri- bu-tion means?” Bright Boy—“Yes’m. We had that word last week.” Teacher—“You have a good memory. Now stand up and give a definition.” Bright Boy—“Wy, if you play in th’ dirt, you mamma fills you ears an’ nose an’ eyes full of soap. ” To Believe the Trulli About the efficacy in obstinate cases of dys pepsia of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, re quires no stretch of credulity. Are you troub led with indigestion ? If so try it, not occa sionally, spasmodically. Take a regular, per sistent course. Prompt relief, ultimate cure SISieilL lionise, riuiupo , ... will be the result. The dyspeptie, the bilious, the nervous, the rheumatic, the the nervous, toe rueuiuitut, tuo malaria aim kidnuy-troubled attest its efficacy. A wine glassful before meals. It is all nonsense about our climate chang ing. Professor Hazen says that the facts of history show that the world’s c.imate has not changed in 3,000 years. Malaria cured and eradicated from the sys tem by Brown’s Iron Bitters, which enr.chos the blood, tones the nerves, aula digestion. Acts like a charm on persons in genera. ill health, giving new energy and strength. Mrs. Minks—“Mrs. Leadem is aging very rapidly.” , . . Mrs. Binks—“Yes, poor thing. She is worry ing herself gray trying to look young.’ How*fl This f We offer One Hundred Dollars regard for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure. ng Mali’s Catarrh cure. F. J. Cheney 4c Co.. Props., Toledo, Q. We, the undersigned, nave known IT. 4. perfectly honorable in all Business transac tions, and financially able to carry out any ob ligations made by their firm. West & Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Waldixq, Kinnan & Mabvtn, Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, O. Hall’s Caiarrh Cure is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per. bottle. gfildLby.all druggists. A Great and Useful Hook. Owing to the growth of the English language and its continually increasing prevalence, very much more is required of an English dictionary to-day than formerly, and >oah Webster, who spent twenty years in preparing his American Dictionary, would hardly recog nize it in the perfection which it has attained in the hands of modern scholars. Webster s International Dictionary, the latest of the amount oi ui.ura.ry muui cAptuu^ ,^r jj earliest edition, and is the most complete and reliable work of the kind ever published in ? single volume. It is warmly indorsed by emi nent scholars throughout the English-speak ing world, and is a most useful book for the library, the school, the family, the student, and in fact for all who read or write the Eug lish languaie. Lady (to famous animal painter)—“It is a jjreat p’tasure to me to meet you—I adore an imals. ’ Best of All To cleanse the system in a gentle and truly beneficial manner.when the Sprtfcgtime cornea, use the true and perfect remedy,Syrup of Figs. One bottle will answer for all the family and costa only 50 cents; the large size SI. Try it and be pleased. Manufactured by the Califor nia Fig Syrup Co. only. Sponge black silk with cold coffee and am monia to freshen it. Brown’s Iron Bitters cures Dyspepsia, Mala ria, Biliousness and General Debiiit*. strength, aids Digestion, tones ti e ni'ves— creates appetite. The best tonic for .. ursing Mothers, weak women and children. Tbt Largest Tilings. Good Lemonade. I learned a new thing,” said a woman recently, “while visitiDg last week an English friend who is living in this country. We had a flmall dance one evening of my stay, and my hostess served the most delicious lemonade I ever drank. I spoke of it the next day, and she told me it was made of freshly hoiled water—the secret, she said, of thoroughly good lemouade. ‘I have a regular rule, she further iuformed me, which insures success if I am making a quart or a gallon. For a qu irt I take the juice of three lemons, Using the rind of one of them. I am careful to peel the rind very thin, getting jn3t the yeliow outside; this I cut into pieces and put with the juice and powdered sugar, of which I use two ounces to the quart, in a jug or jar with a cover. When the water is just at the tea point, I p ur it over the lemon and sugar, cover at once and let it get cold. Try this once and you will never make it any other way.”—New York Times. Visitor—“And so you went to church to see the wedding? vYbat did you thiuk of it?” Little Girl—“I didn’t think. I just looked aud talked, an’ talked without thinking, same as everybody else.—Stree t & Smith’s Good News. $3 Worth of Rood’s Cured When Others Failed Salt Rheum or Psoriasis—Severe Case. Mr. N. J. McCoun Kingsley, Iowa. “In 1879 I had an eruption appear on my left leg and arm. Sometimes it would ulcerate and on account of it I was unable to work a great deal of the time. I had sevendf ctors ex amine and treat me without success. Some called it psora^is, some eczema, some salt rheum and one knowing one called it prairie itch. All the doctors in the county had a trial but none did me a particle of good. I spent all my spare money trying to get relief. Finally I was persuaded to try Hood’s Sarsaparilla. After using one and a half bottles I saw the benefit. I have now used the third bottle and am completely cured. I received more HOOD’S Sarsaparilla CURES benefit from three dollars’ worth of Hood’s Sarsaparilla than from the hundreds of dollars paid for advice and other medicine. Any ono suffering from skin trouble will surely get re lief In Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” N. J. McCoL’N. Kingsley, Iowa. We Know This to Be True “ We know Mr. N. J. McCoun; saw hie leg and arm before taking Hood’s riarsaparillaand know he was terribly afflicted; now he iscured.” “ E. H. Basks, Druggist, “ D. A. Oltmann, “J. P. Gasper, “ R. B. Ellis, “ c. C. Barceu, Kingsley, Iowa. Head’s Pills are the best after-dinner Pills, as sist digestion, cure headache. Try a Box. How isYour Blood? I had a malignant breaking out on my leg below the knee, and was cured sound and well with two and a half bottles of Other blood medicines had failed to do me any good. "Will C. Beaty, Yorkville, S. C. I was troubled from childhood with an ag- avated case of Tetter, and three bottles of I cured me permanetly. 1 WALLACE MANN. ManBville.LT. Our book on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. A Powerful Flesh Maker. A process that kills the taste of cod-liver oil has done good service—but the process that both kills the taste and effects par tial digestion has done much more. Scott’s Emuli stands alone in the field of fat-foods. It is easy rjfr assimilation because part ly digested before taken. Scott’s Emulsion checks Con- sumption and all other wasting diseases. WHISKY All OPIUM If you will cut this advarti ment out, put it in a letter and writ© for our catalogue of Dia- i monds, Watches and Jew- I dry, which we will send you / free of charge, it will oxplain to i you how y>.u can make one dollar J in a minute. Address at once I J.P.STEVENS &BRO. JEWELER 3 , i 47 Whiteba l St., Atlanta, Ga. Startling Facts For Women! Over two million women in the United Stvt-L , between the ages of 'in and.06 years. More than | tvre va hundred thouianJ of them suffer 1 necessarily for several years during this pent • ‘Change of Life. ” A1. can be relieved at ho . by our “Women’s Home Treatment. 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Listen to it. “In the Spring of 1888, through ex posure I contracted a very severe cold that settled on my lungs. This was accompanied by excessive night sweats. One bottle of Bosehee’s German Syrup broke up the cold, night sweats, and all and left me in a good, healthy condition. I can give German Syrup my mostearnest commendation.” ® DR. KING’S ROYAL GERMETUER D R IS A POSITIVE CURE roll K r.aCrippo, Cntnrrli, It brumal Isia, K 1 Neuralgia, Dyspepsia, Bowel, Kid. I N ncy and Bladder Diseases, Blood N G Poison and general Debility. r Pleasant as Lemonade. R Harmless Always. R O Price, $1.00 Per Bottle. o Y Unexcelled for BURNS, BRUISES Y L *■■*> STUSitfS. L- MANUFACTUKKD ONLY BV G E R 1.. ATLANTA, GA. M Jp Take Dr. King’s Gernietuer Pills f9r ^ I KIM’S ROYAL GERMETUER CO. T tlie Liver, and Constipation—50 pills in A g box, price, 25 cents. g R DR. KING’S ROYAL GERMETUER Do Hot Be Deceived with Pastes, Enamels and Paints Walch stain the hands. Injure the Iron and hum red. The Risitn; Sun Stove Polish Is Iir Jllant, Odor less Durable, and the consumer pays for no tin or glass package with every purchase. a®L°aTu 15 UNHAPPY AND k WONT be: DRIVEN. - ’ — : > . ARE CHEERFUL AND SHARP r f . AND,-THE DIFFERENT SIZES / A lit VERY ANX!«IJ3 FO / |/, . mu. vuo ooiove .w /\// , L Y ADAPT THEMSELVES / / r /\ TO Al l THE USES \ \-f | I r\ ."to ALL THE USES A A- tpn tun Companions:- TTg(jd in aU hom0s Homo Nails. „ ... ... . ’ Sold by all dealers Home Tacks. very little desfre to enjoy the pleasures of life, and la entirely unfitted for the cares of housekeeping or any ordinary duties.If afflicted with SICK II KA I)- ACI1E DAY ALTEit DA Y aud yet there ai« few diseases that yield more promptly to proptr medical treatment. It Is therefore of tbe utmost im portance that a reliable remedy should always be at hand. During a period of more than (id YEARS there has been no Instance reported wh»*r** such cases have not been permanently and PR 031PT E Y CURED by the use of a slngie box of the genuine aud lust I y celebrated Dr.C. McEANE’S EIVER PILLS, which may be procured at any Drug Store, or will be mailed to any address on the receipt of 35c. In postage stamps. Purchasers of these Pills should be careful to procure the genulno article. There * — Liver Pills are manufactured only by FLEMING BE0THES3 C0„ Pittsburgh, F*. MEND YOUR OWN HARNESS THOMSON'S!! SLOTTED CLINCH RIVETS. No tools required. Only a hammer needed to drive and clinch thu-m easily and quickly, leaving the clinch absolutely smooth. Requiring no ho e to he made in :h* leather nor burr for the Rivets. They are atronsr, tongrh and durable. Miiiions now in use. All Tenirths. uniform or assorted, pm up In boxes. Ask your dealer lor them, or send 40c. In stamps for a box of 100, assorted size*. Man'fd by JUDSON L. THOMSON MFG. 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Ill 1 UTCn Traveliko Salesmen; or have fine side W A" I lU line. Bouquet Cigar Co., Lynchburg, Va, Cares Consumption, Coughs, Croup, Soto Throat, Sold by all Drug*isu on a Guaranty, Consumptives and people who have weak lung* or Aath- ma. fhouidaae Ptao’s Core for Consumption. It has ewod thousands. It has not Injur* •d one. It la not bad to take. It is the beat eongh syrup. Bold everywhere. flammaiAfoBl A. N, U Twelve,