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:> WOMAN’S WORLD.
PEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS.
BLACK IS NOT GOOD FOItM.
For some years an ontirc black evening
costume has been allowable for unmarried
women. This innovation has always been
frowned upon by the conservative. And
bv their quiet opposition black is again
chnsidetfed bad form for young girls. To
certain complexions it is wonderfully be
coming, but theso fair maidens will have
to confine themselves to light shades for
their evening gowns if they desire to be
considered fashionable. And who is the
woman who does not prefev to be stylish
ly dressed to being becomingly dressed?
—New York World.
JEWELED HAIRPINS.
There are a great many jeweled hair
pins worn at present by fashionable wo
men. They are generally of light shell,
mounted with gems, unless they are in
tended for a blonde, when a bright gold
hairpin may bo selected. The favorite
stones fcg these pins are diamonds, which
are set' in flambeau, fleur-de-lis, sun, star
and other forms in platinum, rather than
in gold, in order to enhance their bril
liancy. Pearls and moonstones are used
with fine effect in these pins, but other
jewels are apt to be lost sight of unless
they arc surrounded or set in diamonds.
A .simple jeweled hairpin may be pur
chased for $10, but au ornament on this
kind, set with fine diamonds, vail cost
from $25 to $200.—New York Tribune.
AN UNIQUE APRON.
An apron exhibited by' Mrs. Laura C.
Holmes, and designed and executed by
Mrs. Florence 0, Tompkins and Miss
Mattie Cooney, took a prize in the Na
tional Apron Bazar, at Kansas City, the
other day. The apron was madedo rep
resent" Louisiana, and very ingeniously
combined six products of the State. The
body of the apron was of raw cotton
ilatting, with a bunch of sugar cane
'painted in tho left corner, while on the
right corneir, rice, glued to the apron,ap
peared to be"'tumbling from a pocket
made of the red flowering leaf of the
banana tree. Moss outlined the left
edge, and orange peel, cut diamond
shape, was sewed about the bottom and
up the right side. A belt, plaited of
latania, completed this really artistic
and unique specimen of the handiwork
of New Orleans ladies.—New Orleans
Picayune.
The status of widows.
Y^jdows,' as a | privileged class, are
known qjnly in,Europe and America. In
Asia they have a hard time of it. Among
the Hindoos every misfortuuc is supposed
to be the consequence of misdeeds in a
former state of existence, and ns the
loss of a husband is a great misfortune
it is supposed by both the suffeier and
the public that the wife has done some
thing,, to deserve the punishment.
Her friends and relatives proceed to
further the designs of Providence by
■adding to her woe every possible indig
nity. Her head is shaved, she is allowed
only the poorest food and clothes, and is
iorcod to devote her time to menial
services. Even when a sufficient prop
erty in her own right rescues her from
some of these discomforts, the disgrace
^ - uid obloquy attaching to her position
R’ make her lot almost unbearable-—Kate
■ Field's Washington.
JEWELS A FEATURE OF FASHtONS.
1, Something akin to the luxury of tho
•Orient is at the present day displayed in
the fashionable woman’s toilet for even
ing wear. Not content with the blaze of
•countless jewels, her very gown is draped
with diaphanous fabrics incrusted with
imitation brilliants, pearls, turquoises,
sapphires, amethysts and the like.
Elsie Bee tells in the Jewelers' Circular
that the dress trimmings this season are
triumphs in the art of combining needle
work with jewels. These are wonderful
.and difficult to describe. On satin or
vhltet grounds are flowers of motifs
worked in relief and varied with what
the French term cabochons, these cabo-
chons being imitation gems and semi
precious, stones, uncut. Jewels are in
deed a marked feature of present fashions;
many of the net trimmings display to
pazes,: amethysts, turquoises, imitation
emeralds, opals—in a word, all kinds of
gems intermixed with gold. Now that
it is the correct style to decorato ball
and'full dress gowns with embroidery
and lAces enriched by jewels, a percept
ible increase is noted in the demand for
small but choice colored imitation and
semi-precious stones, as well as tiny rare
gems. When it comes to ornaments for
the hair, no gem is considered too rare
*or workmanship too finely wrought.
Jewelers appreciating this fact expend a
large amount of ingenuity in producing
novelties in this line.
BEAL AMAZONS.
Woman’s right to bare arms is undis-
: > puled. Her desire to bear arms and to
shoulder her gun and go soldiering to
’• ^var with men is not of frequent occur-
reneerhowever. We read of Amazons,
but do not often see them, except those
of the impossible sort who are dreams of
loveliness in Amnzon marches on the
burlesque stage. The recent disturb
ances in Central America have brought
to the front a olass of patriotic women
ready and willing to fight for their rights
ras men fight, and they are tho women
who should have all the rights men have
in selecting officials, holding office, or in
the management of their government.
The following tribute to Salvadorian
Amazons has been translated from a re-
•cent number of El Mensajero de Salvador:
“Among the numerous army of veterans
which came to this capital on Sunday,
we observed several women, who, shoul
dering their guns, with belts girded to
their loins, marched, keeping time to
the drums, and showing by their bearing
and demeanor as much discipline as the
best soldier. It cannot bo denied that
Salvador, as far as tho defense and
preservation of its rights is concerned,
stands among tho first nations of America
since frail woman, though strong in
these cases, volunteer willingly to go in
to the battlefield, not only to bo of use
in lending succor to her wounded hus
band or son, who fight for their rights,
;»it also to her country, by shouldering a
rifle and firing on the enemy cartridges,
which by nature bIic would fear even to
touch. There, we say, must exist groat
love of country, profound patriotism and
;r eat zeal for their liberty and independ
ence for their fatherland.”
FASHION NOTES.
| , Persian lamb is a favorite material for
primming.
Fur has never been more popular tfiftt
It is this year.
Velvet calf in all colors is used foi
ovening shoes.
Fur is much used ns a trimming foi
hats this season.
Tho Spanish mantilla has been revived
for evening wear.
A note of interrogation in pearls makes
a pretty scarf pin.
Golf ns a game for ladies is immensely
popular in England.
The material par excellence for gowns i
for all occasions is cloth.
A tiny gold heart slinped locket is the
newest thing in watch charms.
Tho tea gown is giving place to what
is now known as the “house dress.”
In Paris, jackets have taken tho place
of other wraps with womon who walk.
Bazaars have been the order of tho day
if not the evening, for the last fortnight.
The bird of paradise in diamonds is
something original in ornaments for the
hair.
Marquise rings are of a length which
would formerly have been considered
outre.
It is now considered the worst possi
ble taste to speak roughly, haughtily or
even crossly to a servant.
It is the thing at small parties to provide
professionals to sing, play, tell fortunes,
etc., for the amusement of guests.
There is a fancy just now for shoes of
old English make, with very pointed
toes and flaps coming well over tho in
step.
A new kind of cloak has appeared.
It is very wido and full and reaches a
little below the waist, being plaited at
the thfloat into the base of a Medici col
lar.
Tho fashionable pockotbook is small
and nearly square, of smooth French
morocco,and is ornamented with a little
painted miniature framed about with a
showy rococco gilt border.
When tartan stockings were intro
duced a short time ago they were vetoed
by well-dressed women on account of
their loudness. Now, they will probably
bo warn with the tartan shoes.
Htmors are about evenly dividen be
tween feathers and fur as a garniture.
Some of tho most elegant robes de
chambre are trimmed with bauds of fur
and a fur boa. Others have the feather
boas with feather bands.
A late whim of swelldom is to put the
maid who opens the door into a sort of
livery, like that of a man servant. Her
dress is dark green, plainly braided, and
the waist and sleeves are trimmed with
livery bands of red braid. She wears
no cap, and this livery is not usually put
on until about lunch time.
Serpents in all kinds of hideous imita
tions, with diamond, ruby or sapphire
eyes, are used for most unexpected and
unprecedented purposes. French bonnets
are composed of one huge, black snake,
coiled about the man’s head. Gold
serpents do duty as necklaces, bangles,
girdles and even as wedding rings.
The snowy muslin or cambric petti
coat is altogether passo and those of ajl
shades of silk have taken their place.
Those for chilly pebple are lined with
flannel. The trimming consists of ruches
or ruffles pinked or hemmed, with a lace
flounce among them, which is black or
white according to the color of the silk
used.
The great rage of the season is for
velvet ribbons—narrow ones tied under
the chin or hanging down tho back in
floating streamers. Black ribbons and
white ones, and all the new malarial
colors, that would look like mistakes if
they weren’t so stylish. Collarettes of
piece velvet, shaped to fit the neck and
match the bonnet, are worn, and are
sometimes fringed with pearls or bordered
with diamonds.
Mohammedans Arc Not Savages.
“The Mohammedans, or, as we call
them, ‘Moohummedaus,’ are as distinct
in appearance from tho Hindoos as they
are in religion,” says a returned mission
ary. 1 ‘Physically they are a much larger
and according to western ideals a hand
somer race. In the north, toward the
hills, many of them are six feet tall,
straight and dignified in bearing. They
are not nearly 30 chaste a people as tho
Hindoos, their religion holding up to
them different ideals. Many both of the
Mohammedans and Hindoos are refined,
cultured and educated. All are civilized
and not the savages or barbarians I find
so many people here think them.
“You hear much of tho poverty of In
dia. It is true. Sixty per cent, of the
population never has quite enough to eat.
Yet I have never seen in India the pinch
ing, degrading poverty I have seen in
London and New York. The people of
India are poor because the population is
so dense, the methods of production so
inadequate, partly due to the existence
of caste and because the taxes are so enor
mous. But £with all this poverty the
mass of tho people find it relatively about
as easy to make a living as people in
Europe or America. Of course, on the
average, they do not live as well. But
quite as dark a picture of life in America
or England can be written—indeed, has
been written—as any that can be writ
ten of India. Tho difference is that our
own experience and observation relieves
the melancholy of the picture.”—Chicago
News.
Tho Monkoy In a Tree.
Here is the latest puzzle: I see a mon
key in a tree. He secs me and gets be
hind tho trunk of the tree. I start to go
arouud him and ho keeps going around
as I do, keeping the trunk of the treo
between him and me. I reached the
place I started from, with the monkey
still opposite me on tho tree. Now,
having been around the tree, have I also
been around the monkey?
A Boston woman is quoted ns sayiug:
“I tried it on my husband. I hau him
for the monkey, and I took a whisk-
broom and went around him, brushing
his clothes. He kept turning around
just as I did, and when I had been clear
around I had brushed only ono side of
him and ono log of his pantaloons. Now,
all the professors of Harvard University
couldn’t convinco mo that I had been
around that man, neithor had tho man
been around the monkey in the treo.”
What do you think?—Buffalo Express.
Hard Work to Fell Mahogany Trees.
To fell a large mahogany tree is one
day’s task for two men. On account of
tho wido spurs which projeot from the
trunk at its base, scaffolds have to be
erected and the treo cut off above the
spurs, which leaves a stump from ten
to fifteen feet high—a waste of the vary
bast wood. j
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
FROTEOTION OF TREKS FROM RABIUTfi.
If the stems of the trees are wrapped
for two feet above tho ground with paper
the rabbits will not meddle with them.
To destroy these pests, cut apples in
slices, sprinkle a littlo arsenic on the
slices and leave them about the trees
where the rabbits will find them. Mice
will be destroyed in the same way.—New
York Times.
A SIMPLE PROTECTION FOR COWS.
The Connecticut farmer who has fast
ened slats to the iloor in front of the
doors at which his cows enter the stable
has set an example which other farmers
might follow at little expense and de
cided advantage. Many cows arc injured,
some of them seriously and permanently,
by slipping on the floor ns they are hur
rying into the stable. This simple and
easy method of avoiding such injuries is
well worthy of ndoption by live-stock
owners.—National Dairyman.
WINTER FEEDING.
It is easier to keep up than get up
after having gone down. When an ani
mal falls off in condition by any neglect
nt the outset of winter it may require the
tho whole season to get back again.
Hence the greatest care should be exer
cised to keep every animal in the best
health and thrift at the present time.
Exposure to storm and cold may do a
serious injury, and wheu the cold weather
arrives extra care should be taken to
shelter all the stock at night. Young
animals especially should be well guarded
in this respect, and they should get tho
best of the feeding at the beginning of
the season.—American Agriculturist.
ARBOR TRAINING FOR GRAPEVINES.
The grapes, hanging free under the
screen of foilage, attain full perfection,
and are more.readily bagged, if their
best quality and preservation are espe
cially desired, or if left unbagged, they
are less liable to injury by birds than on
erect trellis. The canes should be well
sepaiatcd and tied down close to the
rods, which should be fur enough apart
to allow the head and shoulders rising
through for convenience of pruning, etc.,
if the bower be wide. But for a single
long row of vineyard vines a trellis need
not be over three feet wide.
One of the most useful positions for
such an arbor is as an awning or screen
for lower windows and back doors, to
shade the lower story of a house on the
sunny side. There is always abundant
fertility and moisture for the vines to
gather up, and they ripen more perfectly
under the reflection of heat from the
walls; and, as their leaves are continu
ally inhaling moisture copiously, one
always feels an agreeable coolness under
a wide, luxuriant grape arbor, even on
the hottest days. It can be made quite
a handsome extension of the lower por
tion of a house.—New York Voice.
PRESERVING BUTTER IN BRINE.
A method of preserving butter by im
mersion in brine for home consumption
and for export is thus explained:
“As soon as the butter is ready for the
market, by the ordinary method of clean
sing and salting, whether by keg or roll
it is divided into pound and two pounds
pieces, according to tastes aud demands,
and formed into rolls, aud fine cheap
calicQ is wound round with the rolls.
The rolls are then set on end, one on the
other, in a cask or barrel. When tho
barrel is full a cloth is spread over and
tucked round the roll, aud whatever
space remains between the butter and the
head of the cask is filled with coarse salt.
The object of the salt on the top is to
keep the butter tight iu its place, and to
make good the deficiency of any brine
lost lrom leakage or evaporation. The
object of the plate is to keep the rolls of
butter tightly in their places aud
thoroughly immersed iu the brine. The
barrel is then headed up, turned buug up
and filled quife full of strong brine. t)f
course only a small quantity of brine will
be necessary, as it is only in the interstices
between the rolls of butter that it can
find room, and the butter, having already
been sufficiently salted iu the ordinary
way, will absorb none of the brine. The
cask must, however, be filled quite full,
and securely bunged, so that no leakage
occurs; for on the keeping of the barrel
full of brine depeuds the success of the
method. The butter is now ready for
market, aud will keep good for years, and
may be sent to any part of the world with
safety.—English Agricultural Gazette.
TI1E QUEEN BEE.
The queen is the mother bee, as well
as the most important personage in the
hive, for she is in reality the mother of
all its inhabitants. The queen, as com
pared with other bees, is surprisingly
long lived. It is not unusual for her to
do good work for from three to four
years. All depends upon her excellence
and vigor; some queens cease to be use
ful at the end of one year, others at two
and so on. When they no longer lay im
pregnated eggs—cease to be fertile—the
* workers rear a new queen aud destroy
the old one.
It is the queen’s mission to keep the
colony well populated—iu a word to lay
eggs. A good queen lays from 2000 to
3000 eggs per diem, or nearly double her
weight of eggs per day. Queens differ,
however, in the matter of fecundity; the
good ones keep the hives populous with
active,profitable bees, while inferior ones,
although they may lay eggs for a time,
arc uever profitable. These imperfectly
developed bees are, according to Root,
the result of trying to raise a queen where
there nre too few bees, or wheu the larva?
with which they arc obliged to rear a
queen are too old, that is, too nearly
ready to seal up. Professor Cook says
that this lack of fecundity may be duo
to disease, improper development, or to
special race or strain. The activity of
the queen is governed largely by the
activity of tho workers. According to
Professor Cook, as the worker bees feed
the laying queen, it is more than proba
ble that with no nectar to gather the
food is withheld, and so the queen is un
able to produce tho eggs, which demand
a great amount of nutritious food nil
ready to bo alls orbed.
Queens begin to lay whon about eight
to ten days old, as a rule. If a quoin is
not fertilized in, say, a fortnight from
from the time she is hatched she will
frequently begin laying without being
fertilized at all, and is what Is commonly
known as a drone laying queen. Thu
queen is an important individual of a
hive only so long us she is useful. When
her usefulness ceases she is destroyed
with as little consideration as are the
drones.—New York World.
now TO SELECT A GOOD LATER.
How many poultrymen can pick out a
good laying hen from a strange flock?
Not many can do it; yet it can easily be
accomplished after a short Btudy of >
make-up and characteristics. There
goes a hen with a thick neck, large head,
ill-shaped, walks listlessly about, seem
ingly with no purpose or intention in
view. She doesn’t care to scratch, but (
hangs around the henhouse, evidently I
waiting for her next feed. She gets up \
late in the morning, and goes to bed ‘
early in the evening. That hen may be I
put down as a very poor layer. The j
eggs of some of the other hens go to help
pay her keep. Here comes another hen.
She walks briskly, and there is an
elasticity in her movements that denotes
she lias something in view. She is neat
and natty in appearance, small head,
with a slim neck, nicely arched or
curved. She forages and scratches all
day long, and may be too busy to cornc
for her evening feed. She is at the door
in the morniug, waiting to bo let out.
She snatches a few mouthfuls of feed,
and is off to the meadow, looking for
insects. Before she gets out in tho
morning she generally deposits her daily
egg in the nest, or returns after a short
forage. She is neat, clean and tidy,with
a brightness and a freshness pleasing to
the eye. That is the hen that pays for her
feed aud gives a good profit all the year
round. The writer has noticed these
traits since boyhood, and knows thai
they are infallible. By studying these
traits, any man may in a few years, by
selection, have a fine laying flock of hen3.
Fanciers perforce must have good and
bad layers, as they breed for feathers in
the main, and the poor layer may be the
bird with the fine plumage and markings.
This is not wholly the case, of course,
but it is partially so. In this connection
mention can be made of the color of eggs.
Take the Plymouth Rock as an example.
They do not all lay a rich brown egg,
but some of them do, and, by selecting
the eggs of those that do, and selecting
the chicks from those eggs that lay the
desired colored egg, it is possible in the
course of a few years to have a good lay
ing flock of all brown eggs. When a
cross is needed, it is most desirable to
have a cockerel from a hen laying brown
eggs. Here it is where the trouble arises,
but it can be easily overcome if several
poultrymen would pursue the course of
grading up their flocks for brown eggs,
as spoken of above. Cockerels can then
be easily procured, one from another.
These subjects are worthy of caieful
consideration, and they both point to a
better filled purse and more satisfaction
and enjoyment, for who is there that
does not love a good-laying hen, with
her merry cackle and brown eggs? We
leave the facts for the reader to demon
strate.—American Agriculturist.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
A stunted pig is not fit for breeding.
A dry sleeping place prevents disease.
Get tho brood sows accustomed to
their quarters.
The best breed with poor care will
soon degenerate.
Filthy quarters i3 often the primary
cause of disease.
Ducks for profit must.. be pushed
rapidly from the start.
Lime is cheaper than roup and fumi
gation cheaper than lice.
Two thicknesses of newspaper make a
good lining for apple barrels.
Keep the boar on the farm and do not
allow him to be moved about.
Money spent in painting farm buildings
anti implements is well invested.
When well tilled and fertilized the far
mer’s bank (of earth) never breaks.
When a hog gets too lazy to eat, gen
erally the best thing to do with it is to
market.
It is au easy matter with hogs to feed
longer than is necessary if the best profit
is realized.
Add the unaccounted comforts to the
money income before you declare that
the tarm does uot pay.
In a family of children it is better to
cut down on pies and cakes - and be a
little more flush with milk.
Soils may be changed by underdrain-
iug, fertilization and cultivation, but the
demands of any particular crop are al
ways the same aud cannot be changed.
The improved breeds, Pekins and
Rouens, lay large quantities of eggs,
which are always salable, and the market
for table ducks has never been over
stocked.
The breeder who hn3 things so unhandy
that iu'winter he must freeze himself.and
his stock while watering them, “misses
it," most decidedly, and should not be
imitatied.
After the farmer has got all the aid
he can from science, which will prove a
wonderful assistance, he will have to
rely upou his own judgment in many
operations.
When milk is fed to pigs as a food
clement it should be supplemented by
grass, ground oats, middlings, corn, etc.
If fat is required, feed more corn; if
lean, then of the other materials.
Charcoal is an excellent corrective and
aid to digestion. Burnt corn makes the
very best charcoal for hens, being far
superior to wood charcoal which con
tains no nutriment. Feed it twice a
week.
There is no couflict between the
creamery aud the dairy provided the
methods of dairying are up to tho high
est standard. But the creamery is “for-
niust” the manufacture of grease. A3
that is unprofitable anyhow tho compe
tition makes no difference.
Green food in winter is always hard
to obtain. Where the ensilage is rye,
oats or rowcu, it makes au excellent
green fodder in winter, liens will
greedily eat ensilage, and often prefer
it to auy other green food, aud it makes
them lay steadily right along.
Dirty hay is unfit for any animal.
Heaves iu horses nre always tlio result of
dusty hay, and when once a horse is at
tacked with heaves it is a difficult matter
to cure it. As a precaution, however,
hay should bo well shaken and then
slightly moistened bofore feeding it.
Bo sure there are no pitfalls for the
stock to get into. If you have opon
wells in the pasture fence them strongly;
have good posts, well set, and good
boards or wires well stretched. If the
wells are of use no longer, fill them up;
that is by far tho safer plan. Even the
loss of a calf is more than the worth of
time to make these places safe.
A SURE CURE.
The Qrcat SncocM of One of Atlanta’.
Best Physicians.
Dr. B. M. Woolley, who has made tho study
of opium and whisky a I fo work, is known all
over this countiy to be an expert in this line.
Demons who have been addicted to tho awful
opium and whisky habit for many years have
been speedily, as it were, brought back to life
and made whole. Ifo lias treated so many
different individuals, and has had such varied
experiences with them, that he is ahlo at once
to diagnose the ease and tell the oxtent the dis
ease has progressed, thus rendering it possibio
for him to tell tho probable length of time that
will be required in treating the case.
Dr. Woolley has for a number of years been a
progressive and active citizen of Atlanta, largely
interested in Atlanta's Welfare, and esteemed by
her citizons as an upright, honorable Christian
gentleman. It is safe to say that ho lias effected
hundreds of cures, and is now better prepared
than over before to treat people addicted to the
opium and whisky habit, fiis scientific treat
ment, coupled with practical common sense,
has been the salvation ot hundreds of people
whoso lives have been given up in despair,
whose hopes have been blasted, and wlio.-e mis
ery has been pitiful to behold.
Among the thousands of evidences of the
doctor’s wonderful power over the opium and
whisky habit, we give what John H. Jackson,
of White Plains, Ga., has to say :
‘‘.Some four or five years ago I was cured of
the use of morphine by your treatment. I was
using the enormous amount of sixty grains (one
bottle) of morphine every three days when I
began your treatment. It lias now been fouror
five years since I touched opiates or your remedy,
and I have been perfectly healthy and attended
to my business without any difficulty. Your
treatment has done all and more than I could
have hopied, as I am satisfied I would now be
in my grave had I not used jour medicine, and
I hope every one who is afflicted by the use of
opiates will put themselves under your treatment
and be made free and happy as I am. Should
any of those addicted to the use of opiates 6ee
this letter and would like to hear from me, I
will take pleasure in replying to their letters, as
I feel the deepest sympathy for all such af
flicted, a sympathy that those who have never
been afflicted cannot have for the unfortunate
opium-eater. I experienced no pain or incon
venience while taking the medicine, being able
to attend to my business during treatment.
With my best wishes for your continued suc
cess in relieving suffering humanity, I am,
Y'ours very truly,
[Signed.] " John H. Jackson.”
Now, if you are afflicted with this awful dis
ease or know of any one who is so afflicted, Dr.
Woolley will esteem it a favor if you will write
to him, giving him the facts of the case. His
terms are very moderate, and you will do well
to open up correspondence with him at once
and get his book on the subject.
Address him at Atlanta, Ga.
—Atlanta Constitution.
A Chance at Guessing.
Do yoq know how many one-dollar
bills it takes to weigh as pouch ns a twen
ty dollar gold piece? Driving out to
AVhite Bear recently one of those walk
ing compendiums of useful information
sprung the above question, aud the opin
ions that it elicited shows a remarkable
range. One member of the party, whose
business it is to handle money in large
sums, after profound thought, sug
gested that the number would be from
1,000 to 1,200. Others guessed down
the lino to 500, but no one less than that
number. After all had placed themselves
on record the compendium stated that
the number of bills was thirty or thirty-
one, according to their condition as to
dirtiness and age.—St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
Statistics indicate that more than 100, -
000 negroes have left the southern states
during the year past. A large colony
went to Oklahoma. Many scattered up
the Mississippi anil Missouri rivers. The I
pacific states hnve drawn many. Immi- ■
grations to Ca ifornia, were largely from :
Louisiana, Alabama and South Carolina, j
Iliad a slight stroke of paralysis which
frightened me very much. My health was
poor and the doctors gave me medicine for ,
heart disease, but I grew weaker. My cousin
recommended Dr. Bull’s Sarsaparilla, which
certainly has benefitted me greatly,for 1 feel in
splendid health.—Samuel T. Chelan,Dayton. O.
J. E. Murdoch, the great actor and elocu
tionist was born January 25th, 1811.
Malaria cured and eradicated from the
system by Brown's Iron Bitters, which en
riches the blood., tones the nerves, aids diges
tion. Acts like a charm on persons in general
ill health, giving new energy and strength.
Michigan was admitted into the Union Jan
uary 2»>tb, 1837.
The only true and safe intestinal worm
killer is Dr. Bull's Vegetable Worm Destroy
ers. It has brightened the lives of many
children and gladdened many a parent's heart.
Chinese Gordon was killed at Karhtoum
January 27th, 3885.
ftup°fEiSj
A Great Industry.
While Dovenshire, France, Spain, Can
ada and a few other countries furnish
phosphate in enormous quantities, South
Carolina, Florida and Georgia develop
ments show that these three States have
made and are making strides never
dreamed of two decades ago. It is said
that there are 250,000 men employed in
this country and in Europe in preparing
this plant food. The amount yearly
mined is 0,000,000 tons. Last year
South Carolina mined one-tenth of that
amount, and sent 250,000 tons to England
and Germany,
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
is the world-famed remedy for all
chronic weaknesses and distressing
derangements so common to Ameri
can women. It is a potent, invigor
ating, restorative tonic, or strength-
giver, imparting tone and vigor to
the whole system. For feeble wo
men generally, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription is the greatest earthly
boon. Guaranteed to give satis
faction in every case, or money re
funded. See guarantee printed on
bottle-wrapper.
A Book of 160 pages, on “Wo
man : Her Diseases, and How to
Cure them,” sent sealed, in plain
envelope, on receipt of ten cents, in
stamps. Address, World’s Dispen
sary Medical Association, No. 663
Main Street, Buffalo, N. T.
Heart Failure. Sudden Death.
The prayer of the Christian pleads for
guardianship against sudden death, and yc-t
alas, how many leave the world for better or
for worse without a single moments warning.
He died of heart failure. The tired and weary
heart failed while engaged in its momentous
task of pumping the blood from the arteries
and forcing it into every big and little vein
that the wasting tissues of the flesh might be
replenished. How important then that the
great stream of life be kept pure and its cor
puscles red and active, lest the fluid grows
clogged and sluggish, aud the heart in an ex
tra ordinary effort snaps without a signal the
thread of its muscular strength. It is your
duty as one who loves the life that God has
given him, to assist nature in maintaining
free action of the circulatory system by keep
ing the blood in a state of purity and healtn.
Nature has supplied healing and strengthen
ing herbs for this purpose. Science has dis
covered what they are and the eminent Dr.
John Bull, of Louisville, Ivy., has blended
them ih his superior preparation known as
Dr. Bull’s Sarsaparilla. Demand it of your
druggist. Tak£.jjio other.
To the untrue man the whole universe is
necessarily false.
OXE ENJOYS
Both the method aud results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acta
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers aud cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pi easing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beueficial 4s its
effects, prepared only from the most
; healthy and agreeable substances, its
i many excellent qualities commend it
i to all aud have made it the most
W, L. DOUCLAS
S3 SHOE GEN-fAftflEN,
standard dress
Shoe’at a popular price.
9<).50 Policeman’* Shoe Is especially adapted
O for railroad men. farmers, etc.
All made In Congress. Button and I .ace.
90.00 for Ladies, Is the only hand-sewed Shoo
V sold at this popular price.
99.50 Dongola 9hoe for Ladies t ts a new de-
» parture and promise# to become v-ery popular.
90.00 Shoe for Ladies, and 91.75 for Aliases
* still retain their excellence for style, etc.
All goods warranted and stamped with name on
bottom. If advertised local agent cannot supply yon*
6end direct to factory enclosing advertised price or
a postal for order blanks.
W. L. DOUGLAS* Brockton, }Iast.
popular remedy known,
i Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c
j and SI bottles "by all leading drug- i
; gists. Any reliable druggist who j
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute. * --»w
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
* S4V FhAhCISCO, CAL
LOUISVILLE, KY.
ti e Ml YORK, ti.Y.
Brown's Iron Bitters cure3 Dyspepsia, Ma.
laria, Biliousness an 1 General Debility. Gives
Strength, aides Digestion, tones the nerves—
creates appetite. The best tonic for Nursing
Mothers, weak women and children.
Just as you are pleased at finding faults
you are displeased at finding perfections.
C'ntnrrli Can't be Cured
With LO 'AL APPLICATIONS,as they can-
not reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is
a bloud or constitutional disease, and in order
to cure it you have to take internal remedies.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is takeu internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces. Hall's Ca arrh Cure is no quack medi
cine. It was prescribed by one of the best
physicians in this country for years, and is a
regular prescription. It is composed of the
best tonics known, combined with Che best
blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous
surfaces. The perfect combination of the two
ingredients is wmit produces such wonderful
results in curing catarrh, tend for testimo
nials, free.
F. J..Cheney & Co . Props., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, price 75c.
Do Von Ever Speculate f
Any person lending us their name and ad
dress will receive information that will lead
to a fortune. Ben'. Lewis A: Co., Security
Building, Kansas City, Mo.
With "No Trade Secrets to Kee.i," earned
little book we hardly know h<w to name. It
oalls itself "FRUITS AND TREES; Point!
for Practical Tree Planters.” The title is al
together too modest—does not give a notion
of its real value. It is chuck full of practical
information on truit growing from the high
est sources, and just tho information one
wants. We haven t space to tell what it is
like. We can only sav, SEND FOR THE
BOOK, for Stark Bros.. Louisiana, Mi., will
send it free to all.—Formers' Call.
Bh RR
f*r»V UUCCP POSITIVELY REMEDIED
uuT Kwe.to Greely Pant Stretcher
Adopted by
, . -- Harvard. Amherst and other
Colleges, also by professional and business men every
where. If not t r sue in your town s*»ud 2oc. tj
B. J. GREELY, 715 Washington Street Boston.
20c.; best, 35c. Lemarik’s Silk Mill, Little Ferry N. J
DR. SCHENCK’S
SEAWEED
0 TONIC
Is a Positive Cure f:r
DYSPEPSIA
\
An d all Disorders of the Digest
ive Organs. If is likewise a
corroborative, or strengthen
ing Modicine, and may be
taken with great benefit in all
Cases of Debility. For Sale by
all Druggists. Price,&L‘*0 per bottle. Dr. Schenck’s
yew Book on Lung* Liver and Stomach mailed free.
Arfd-ess. Dr. J. H. SCHENCK & SON. Philadelphia,
P f EJ Q I O |J Q Great PENSION Bill
fLllOlUllO is Passed. rr.:,r
en and Fathers are em-
Si ? mo - Fee IIP when you get your money.
Blanks free. JOSEPH H» irSTU, Itty. Wuhl»rwa, D. a
. -ELY’S CREAM BALM-Cleanseg the Naaal
I Passages, Allays Pain and Inflammation* Heal»|
Itbe Sores. Kwtores Taste anil Smell, and
&TAW&01
SgLDtNHj***]
PWyFEffRfljfu,
k/-?
lives Relief at once for Cold in Head.
Apply into the Xostrils. It is Quickly Absorbed.
150c. Druggists or by mail. ELY BROS., 56 Warren St* N. Y.|
t
This Picture, Panel size, mailed for 4 cents.
J. F. SMITH & CO.,
Makers of "Bile Beans.”
255 A 257 Greenwich St., N. Y. City.
CURE Biliousness,
Sick Headache,
Malaria.
8ILE BEANS.
I.rc Wa*ft Chinese Headache Cure. Harm-
hes in effect, quick and positive in action.
Ft lit prepaid on nccipt of $1 per 1 -ot t lo
Adclt r&l'Otf*fiS£\Vyandotte sL.KansasCity.Mo
FITS stopped free by Hr. Kline's Great
Nf-RVK Restorer. No Fits after first day’s
use. Marvelous cures. Treatise aud trial
Lc ttie tree. Dr. Kline. 031 Arch St., Pliila., Fa.
Timber, Mineral, Farm Lands ami Ranches
in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas,
bought and sold. Tyler A* Co.. Kansas City,Mo.
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son's Eye-water.Pruggists sell at£V per bottK.
Oklahoma Guide Book and Mapsentanr arhera
on receipt of 50 cts.Tyler*& Co., Kansas City,Mo.
Beech A M's Fills act like magic on a Weak
Stomach.
The Failure
Of the kidneys aud liver to properly remove the
lactic or uric acid from the system results iu
RHEUMATISM.
Th's acid accumulates In the fibrous tissues, particu
larly iu the Joim», aud causes inflammation and tha
terrible pains and aches, which are more agonizing
every time a movement is mode.
THE WAY TO CURE
Rheumatism Is to purify tho blood. And to do this
take the best blood purifier. Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Hosts of frleuds testify to cures of rheumatism it
has effected. Try It,
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $3. Prepared only
by C. 1. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, M&ss.
IOO Doses One Dollar
PROF. LOISETTE’S NEW
MEMORY BOOKS.
Criticisms on two recent Memory Systems. Read}
about April 1st. Full Tables of Contents forwarded
only to those who send stamped directed envelope.
AJao Prospectus POST FREE of the LoUefelon Arl
of Never Forgetting. Address
Prof. LOISJETTK, Fifth Are., New York.
“August
Flower”
Mrs. Sarah M. Black of Seneca,
Mo., during the past two years has
been affected with Neuralgia of the
Head, Stomach and Womb, and
writes: ’ ’ My food did uot seem to
strengthen me at all and my appe
tite was very variable. My face
was yellow, my head dull, and I had
such pains in my left side. In the
morning when I got up I would
: have a flow of mucus in the mouth,
and a bad, bitter taste. Sometimes
my breath became short, and I had
such queer, tumbling, palpitating
sensations around the heart. I ached
all day under the shoulder blades,
in the left side, and down the back
! of my limbs. It seemed to be worse
in the wet, cold weather of Winter
and Spring; and whenever the spells
came on, my feet and hands would
turn cold, and I could get no sleep
at all. I tried everywhere, and got
no relief before using August Flower
Then the change came. It lus done
me a wonderful deal of good during
the time I have taken it and is work
ing a complete cure. ’ ’ 0
G. G. GREEN, Sole Man'fr, Woodbury,N.J.
-VASELINE-
JOR A. d|tE-DOLLAR BILL sent iu by maA
we will deliver, free or all obargei. to any pereoo hi
the United State#, all of the following article#, oarw
rally packet;
toe two-ennee bottle of Pnre Vaaellne, . . loota
One two-ounce bottle of Vaseline Pomade, - u “
One Jar of Vaaellne Cold Cnain, i*“
toe Cike of Vnaellne Camihorlee, - - - - 10•*
toe Cake of Vaaellne Soap, Anecented, . . 10“
toe Cake of Vaaellne Soap, exquisitely acented.» •*
toe rwo-onnee bota.e of White Vaaellne, - . Js “
named. On no acoen.nl be penuaded to accept from
panrdrugglet anf, ranine or preparation then -
•wlee# labelled with our name, becauee you icC
{•Mi* ircetw an imitation which hat tittle or no vm
Cheeehreogh Mft. Ca., 94 State Si., W.
KING COTTON
Buy or sell your Cotton on JONES
5-Ton Cotton Scale.
$60
NOT CHEAPEST BUT BEST.
For terms address
JONES OP BINGHAMTON,
BINGHAMTON. N. Y.
UftMF ? 1 1 u ' • Book-keeping, Business Form*
Peumanshlp, Arithmetic, Short-hand, stcl
■■ thoroughly taught by MALL. Circulars frafe
Bryant’s College, 457 Main St,, Buffalo, N.f.
T-AftnilA • 10 ° ,r IIOOO 4’srrfBllj lnve»ledh»re J Aft O
I HUSf Iff A bria; i.VU'SUA froa TWILIT* »• I UUaT
lwi iu. Tit DMA i.WKSiaiLYr CD., 1ACDEU. WASH.
I prescribe and fully so.
dorse Big (« »s ths only
specific for the certain cure
of this disease.
U.H.INGRAHAM,M. D-.
Amsterdam, N. Y.
We bavo sold Big G for
many years, and it has
given the best of salis-
factlon.
D. 11. DYCHE A CO.,
Chicago, 111.
^arklSLOO. Sold by Druggists,
189U
piso S REMEDY FOR CATAKKH.—ljest. Easiest to use.
QPIUM
Atlanta. Ua. OUT
uixi Whiskey Habits
cured St home with
out pain. Book of
tlculnrs scut FR
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Atlanta,Us. Otrice UH>, Whitehall St