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AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. - Th® Chos of Straw. The value of straw is too ..... little taken . , into account either ou ,°L tlle eays 1L the tarm i tuld ,, and Stockman. , Too many farmers seem to act on the principle thit it should be fed to cattle. This is the least important of its uses. Its valuo as food is so slight that cattle fed ex elusively on *traw would die about as soon as when fed on any such substanco as dead leaves, for instance, the only use of which is to properly distend the stomach. The feeding uso of straw, therefore, is only in connection with concentrated food. But there are other uses of tho straw of cereal grains which render it an im portant of these integer is in farm economy. One the covering of sheds. An other use to which it m;iy be profitably put, when cold and winds are severe, is in forming an impervious barrier by fill ing a space a foot wide between two rough walls of sheds. These walls may be made of any rough material, as slabs, polos, but near enough together to pre vent, the pulling out of straw by the unimals. Thus sheds and stables may bo rendered as warm as much more cost ly The structures. uso of straw is too much ignored as a means of comfort med as bedding for animals. Under sheds it should be laid a foot thick, and in the yards not less thau six inches. In stables that are regularly than inches cleaned in it thickness. should not be less six Thus it will fully soak up and hold the liquids and retain them while spread on tho land to bo plowed under. It takes no more material as bedding six inches in thickness than less, for only the soiled portions need bo removed. The added valuo to tho animals in con-crving wurmfli is not generally estimated. It not only keeps animals comfortable, but ns manure straw is valuable princi pally it has in proportion to tho liquid manure soaked up. It will pay to use lib ernlly tioned, in tho directions we have men and less so as a food in winter than is generally practiced. Farm and Garden Notes. T.ay in your stock of seeds for spring made now. Every the preparation should be before busy reason opens in the spring. Cows that have no bedding are often injured down, in the knees by getting up or slippery. cspeciullv if the lloors be wot and much Cooking discus feed ed for stock is a subject at presant, and as good authority advocating as Professor Stewart is reported as it for all kinds of domes¬ tic animals. This is tho season when the horses’ legs should be well looked after. On re turning from a muddy drive wash them well and at once dry thoroughly by gen tie planted Al;hough a large tree can be trans* to rapidly anew location, yet it wilt not has grow occupied as the nor :is large as one that same place since it sprung from the tree. Use the soot from the stovepipes nnd chimneys. plants. It is excellent for llowersand young .Mix it with water, about a peek of soot to a barrel of water, and apply with a watering pot. ider , vinegar . , bo quickly . , , made, , when the cider may latter high i - pure, by removing tho from to a barrel temperature another, and bring pomung one to to it lnto more direct contact with the air. A Iren h lioiticulturist, M. Nobbc, has found that the seeds of the finest variety than of grapes of germinate more quickly those commoner sorts, and that seeds fresh from tho fruit germinate bet ter th in those which have been dried. Of the varieties of ducks the Pekin stand confinement best, but they arc not as tamo as tho common kinds. They grow nine pounds very largo, each, often and reaching eight or white color und yield feathers of a equal to those of the goose. The nearer the free ing point the ccl lar can be maintained without actual v endangering for the stored fruit the better apphs. Heat and light do more dam age than ro’d. Alternate fr. o/.ing and thawing will soon destroy fruit and veg •tables An exchange advises planting peach trees closely, not over twelve to four¬ teen feet apart, and cutting back strong and putting only planted crops among them for a year or two, and then giving thu well ground hated. to the orchard, keeping it cult Orchards may be pruned at any time from the present until tho b ds begin to swell, but the earlier the work is dono tho hotter, t v ipo vines may also lc pruned now aid should be. lest tho work be deferred too late. In the early spring tho vines will bleed too much and for this reason it is best not to delay this work. F1 ur of sulphur is the great remedy employed vines, i.i ( atiada the to check mildew on grape but National Agricul turnl Society of Franrc, in its session of a few weeks ago, brought into promi ncnco another re i e ly, which M. i'asteur ■ays is ?o e ’cctual that the inventor should be dive u’ered if possible, and a suitable reward conferred upon him. Tho remedy is a mixture of milk and Unto ami sulphate of copper. Iron is .m important part of the blood, neoessita giving itv rod color, but this docs not e tak ng solutions of iron for health. All well developed vegetation contains some iron. It is the coloring matter of green leaves. In soils from which every tr ice of iron has been re moved sec Is will germinate, but they will be white. Touring a solution of copperas or the sulphate of iron on tho soil will change leaves to a dark green color. A cross of the Dorking and light Brah¬ ma ina cs excellent capons. They should be batched as early as possiblo and kept until full grown. The best time to sell is in February and March, during which periods the prices are often as high as fifty cents per pound, while choice capons will weign from twelve to fourteen pounds used each. in order Tho to produce proper crosses large should oe capons, Leghorns, Hamburgs, black Spanish and other small breeds are worthless as ca pons. Only the large breeds should be used. Without doubt the greatest and most common loss in team management is from kcc eping do poor horses unable at any timo to a full day’s work. It is the most difficult thing possible for many farmers to get tho idea into their heads that a horse capable of doing but little is value¬ less. An old, w >ru out horse will always sell for something, no matter how poor he may be, and always for a greater price in proportion to his value when most worthless. For farm purposes, with tho dear wages now paid to farm help, it does not require much reduction day from a full day’s team work each to make up the valuo of a first-class team in every respect. If possible celery should i be stored in the soil ■oil where the orop grew, for it is found to do better atored here than in other, it end different aoil. For it family could use, would be an advantage if by sufficiently protected just where it grew, over aigning and packing away elsewhere. And thi$ can easily be done by setting up boards along and the two feet from the row, and filling in* $pace between with leaves, or other litter, to keep out the frost. Then it can be taken up from ono end as wanted, always re turning is dug a good coat here, each time soifte la storing large quantities, it will be better to bring it within a smaller compass, but tho protecting should also i, c done, with a view to making the ccl cry ca9y accessible at all times, Taken In. “Where did you get that watch?” said her husband, as shivery ostentatiously pulled “I bought out a watch it.” and looked at it. “A present?” “No; I bought it for myself. I couldn’t help it, I couldn't bought see a the poor woman’s family starve, and I ! watch.” “Just like you,” he said. “You’re ! always doing something kind—with my money.” mnd, John, you*” “You’re not are “No; let me look at it. What did you give for it?’ dollars.’’ “Forty dollars!” and the husband be “Forty g an “I’ll cxa uining it. how it happ ened. I tell you was passing along the street and there was an auction going on in a store.” “An auction! Oh! ’ “Yes, I was listening and distressed looking, nnd as I stood there a poor, man a»d came up. tho He auctioneer pulled out this watch, he asked if he’d auc tion it for h m. He said his wife and j family old family were heirloom starving, and and this he wanted was an to sell it. Well, the auctioneer he 8ft id he’d sell it, and he put it up, and all they’d bid for it was $7. The poor fellow began to cry. ‘It’s worth a $i 00 ,’ he said. ‘Won’t somebody give more than $7? I can’t sell it for that. I’ve had an ofier of $45.’ And I got mad and sorry for the poor man, and I bid and somebody bid $!>, and I bid $ 10 . ! and finally they got it up to $40, and I bought it. Poor fellow! The man went oil quite relieved and happy, and I felt bargain.” so happy that I’d done a good deed at a don’t “Yes, the poor chap was relieved; 1 doubt it. This watch is worth $1.75, and that was a mock auction, and that distressed-looking the establishment. man does was a capper for He that twonty times a day. ’ “Oh, Johnl” “Just like you, my dear. Always do . something stupid-with money.” mg my ^ an * 1r<tncisco Chronicle. Mon Who Get Along Best. tion It seems a pity to tay it, but obsorva sustains the statement that men of coarse fibre, obtuseness of feeling and cold-healed circumspection in dealing with their fellows get along better than of chivalro is instincts, delicate sensibilities an 1 that generous credulity which those practice who, never medi tut in ing wrong themselves, gentleman never suspect it otheis. The in the best acceptance of that term finds Jordan an sigh-i embarrassing road the end to travel, and often to b,* at of the journey, lie is annoyed saddened by impertinent inquisitivc ne-s. by meanness and often robbed by ra cals who h ive taken his measure as the hawk does of some gentler jl selects for prey. had The public cede men j n country who have a high of ethics have been constantly misunder stood. The rough and ready class will not understand reserve, and tho schemers and scamps laugh at honesty. Even in the - erv domestic circle too fine a sense oft JS s proprictiei misses its mark, and society only recognizes surface manners, It doe* not care to go deeper. is melancholy In fact, it dare not do so. It a thing that tho ma i who educates li s children as nearly as possible to an ideal plane of thought and conduct simply prepares them for sorrow the and mishaps, confiding What a transition noble-spirited from ingenious, nnd young man twenty-one and the sobered and hardened man of l;fiy, who lias seen all illusions tra up ed in the lmre. Still, ^ ,r il tal j’ sincerely, ls ^ t 1 ^ cr and, to aun high, live the P”»’’lyand , isolation, even at soul c ‘ os ^ p eserve }our own Irom stigma or stain. Even the world does late .ustice over the graves of those who h id the c Mirage to speak and act the truth .—Vi tsburg Chronicle. Fasting Liquids. Ravage tribes aio known to use “fast¬ ing” liquids. There is a fluid extract of cocoa, a little of which will enable a man, not merely to exist, but to endure tho s.iid, fatigues weeks. of days, The Indians and it is Brazil o en of of ca i perform long journeys, with nothing to live upon but a small quantity of a prepared tobacco juice. But even plain water, as it is called, may have its solid nutritive ingredients. I his is the cx planation of the instances, hut far too numerous for detailed mention, in which 4 >nowed up” people have lived for as tonishingly snow water, long and periods in which upon miners, nothing im- but prisoned for down be!ow, have survived, until not only hour days, but deliverance. even for weeks, lime tho of th' ir The in the water which oo:ed through the rock, and.upon 1 which alone in Northeastern the workers of a we known mine Franco lived for three weeks or more, accounted ,, for the , escape of the unfortu na tcs. By muscle, simply by lying keeping still, oneself and not moving a und as "arm as possible, sleeping as nearly ns P os8lb ? twenty-four hours in a day, °, ne may live a long time on plain water, the very pla nest of which contains one or more of the solid ingredients necessary t° th e building up of the human frame London . Mio. On the Wing. Supposing the rate of a bird’s flight tc be taken at forty, fifty or sixty miles an hour, the sportsman has only to remem ber that a mile an hour is almost exactly equivalent to one and a half feet per sec ond, nnd ho thus has a ready means of comparison with the tables of velocity, j The»e show, for example, (thirds that with nnd an ! ordinary one-eighth sporting ounces) charge the velocity one ! and mean of No. 5 or No. G shot, in a range of thirty-five yards, about 900 feet a sec¬ ond, or at the rate of H 00 miles an hour; and so, on comparing this GOO miics with the speed of the bird’s flight, it will be founa that the shot moves ten times ns fast as a bird going sixty miles an hour; twelve times as fast as one that flics fifty miles an hour, and fifteen times as fast as ono which goes forty miles an hour. Consequently they would fly about two and a quarter yards, three yards and three and a half yards respectively, while the shot is traveling thirty-five yards at the rate given above .—Hew York Herald. Norfolk, Va., is the in greatest straw¬ berry shipping place the world. Among the many strawberry farms its neighborhood is one of 440 the acres, world. largest strawberry farm in HOTEfc OF CURRENT STENTS. A Cwtv ago butcher admits that (two* thirds of the canned meat sold in the markets there as chicken is in reality the meat of rabbits that have been long frozen. The jury that recently tried two sa¬ loon keepers of Woodland, CaL, for grand the laroeny jury, returned defendants this verdict: ‘ We, find the not guilty, leave with tho recommendation that they the town within forty-eight hours.” Nicholas Spear, of Hartland, Mich , went home for a week’s spree orae day last week, and the next morning put Paris green in the waterpail used by the family. Then he for. ot all about it and drank of tho water himself and died. His wife discovered the poison in the dipper before any other person drank of it. A Commercial traveller cays that in Pittsburgh barrooms one can buy two drinks for a quarter, and if be buys one drink he pays fifteen cents and receives a check which represents two and one half cents. The next time he wants a drink he pays ten cents a ad the check. It trade. seems a good scheme to encourage A Traveller in one of the hotels of Bangor, Me., put his false teeth in a glass of water when he went to bed the other night. In the morning the water was frozen aolid, and as the water pipes in the house were also frozen, he had to take the glass to bed with him, and taus thaw t'*he ice before he could go to breakfast. Some months ago Daniel Kelly, of Port Clinton, Pa., saw that a heavy boulder had fallen on the track of tho Pennsylvania Railroad, and he managed to run ahead and stop an approaching passenger train in timo to avert a wreck. The other day he received a costly watch and chain with the compliments of the railroad company. A Chicago drummer tells of a mer¬ chant in Walnut, III., who, being pros¬ perous and a heavy buyer, is well treated by th® commercial travellers, and has many a cigar offered to him. He always takes the cigar, says “Its against my principles to smoke in business hours; I’ll light this after supper,” and when he gets a hundred puts them in a box and sells them to a train Doy on the Burling¬ ton road for half price. A Young woman ®f Louisville was carefully picking her way along a slip¬ pery sidewalk the other day just behind an elderly and portly man. Suddenly he slipped, and in his efforts to keep from falling down he threw one hand backward and struck the young lady squarely and violently on the nose. The blow stunned her so that she had to be assisted into an adjacent store, and an examination by a physician developed tho fact that her nose had been broken. Both eyes had became blackened from the injury. Dr. Brown-Sbqitard is quoted as say¬ ing and that one has destroy only to harden the neck feet and their sensitiveness by to prevent daily blowing taking cold. This is done a s ream of cold air, by means of an elastic bag, upon tho neck, and by immersing the feet in cold water. The air is at fiist only slightly cool, but is each day made colder, until the neck can stand an arctic blast with impunity. first Tho feet are immersed in wa er at at a temperature of about ninety degrees, thirty-eight and this degrees. is gradually re¬ duced to lie Pays Li con so on a Dog. [From the Detroit Free Press.] “I like to ask you if dere vhas some license to keep a dog?” inquired Mr. Donder, as he carefully tip-toed into the presence of Sergeant Bendall yes¬ terday. “Yes, sir, th re is.” “Who gets him ?* 1 “You have to go up stairs to the City Clerk.” “Doan’ somepody come to mo after him?” “No, sir.” “Vhell, dot vhas curious. Last week Shake goes oudt mit Mount Gleinens to see his aunt, and he prings home a dog. Me keep him tied obb mit der back yard, und he vhas home only one day when a man walks into my blace und say vhas I Carl Dundee? I vhas. All right. lie like to get dot license money on Shake's dog. Der regular brice vhas one dollar, but be make it seex shillings pccause it vhas hardt times.” “And you paid?” like haf dot dog “Vhell, I doan’ to kildt, you see? Eaferypody says he vhas sooch a dog ash shmells some tiger or lion two miles avhay. Next day a stranger comes in m t a shm.all pook in his hand und a pencil oafer his ear. Vhas I Carl Dunder? I vhas. All right. Be like to get dot license on Shake’s dog. If I paid him to some poay else dot vhas nothings mit him. He vhas a i'rendt to Shake, howefer, und he make it feefty cents.” “And you paid that?” vhas good “Vhell, Sergeant, dot a dog. If some burglars vhas a mile avhay he bowls und wakes us obb und saves us two thousand dollar. Dis morning a stranger comes in. He bar some badge on. Vhas I Carl Dunder? 1 vhas All right. He like to get dot license for Shake s dog. If I pay some¬ pody else I vhas a fool. Nobody can collect dot license onless he haf dot badge on Being asli I vhas swindled he make it twenty-five cents.’’ “And you were fool enough to pay?” “Vhell, Sergeant, Ilways taxes in two wards und I vhas headquarters dog vhas lor cam¬ paign clubs. Dot great on coons und elephants. Vhas it some shwindle on me?” “Certainly 1 You ought to be sent to an asylum 1 ” “Sergeant, look at my eye, und doan’ you forget him! I vhas going Vhas home. Carl Somepody vhill come in. I Dunder? I vhas. All right. Sergeant, I shall shump on dot berson like a spar¬ row on an elephant. I vhill break him in two und drag him aroundt und bang his head mit dem floor until der coroner finds only one ear und a shirt button to hold an inquest on l Good-bye. After I vhas in you shall corns und see me sometimes for I vhas an honest man who haf to defend my family.” Physicians Hav® Fennd Ont That a contaminating and foreign element In the blood, developed by indigestion, is the caufe of rheumatism. This settles upon ths vensitiv® sub-cutaneous covering of the mus¬ cles and ligaments of the joints, causing con¬ stant and shifting pain and aggregating as a calcareous, chalky do, osit which produces stiffness and distort: jn of the joint®. No fact which experience has demonstrated in regard to Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters has stronger evidence to eup; ort than this, namely, checks that this medicine of compr®hensiv® uses the formidable and atrocious disease, nor is it less the poe.tlvely established that it is preferable to medi ine poisons often used to arrest it, since the contains only salatary ingredients. Li is also a signal dyspepsia, remedy kidney 'or malarial bladder fevers, constipation, ailments, debility other disorders. and 8®® and that you g®t th® genuine. Talking of Warta. E. L. Akehurst stepped into John H. Sheehan & Co.’s store the other day and was waited u jwn by H.^O. Hart, one of was picking quantity out of change to par 'he his bill from a money that had scat¬ tered on the top of a show case, Mr. Hart remarked: “I see that you have one or two large warts, Brother Akehurst.” “Yes, I hare had them since child¬ hood.” “Why don’t you get rid of them?” was the next remark. “How can that be done?” asked Mr. Akehurst. “Easily enough,” said Mr. Hart. “Bun up the stairs to Joe Monroe, the order clerk, in the third story, and he will take them off.” “Take them off 1 ” said 3Ir. Akehurst, in astonishment “Cer.ainly; you go up and I’ll tell him through the speaking tube that you are coming,” said Mr. Hart. Mr. Akehurst went up into the third story. “Good morning, Dr. Monroe,” said he to the druggist. “Mr. Hart sent me up to have my warts taken off.” “All right,” said Dr. Joe. “I’ll do it.” He took hold of Mr. Akehurst’s hand, looked at a large seed wart, put his fingers on it, looked Mr. Akehurst iu tho face, and, as the latter remarked afterward, laughed “we talked and laughed and and talked like a couple of youngsters for a few minutes.” Then Dr. Monroe dropped Mr. Akehurst’s hand and said: “That wart won’t bother you much longer.” No fee was charged, and, aftdr thank¬ ing Mr. Monroe, Mr. Akehurst left the store, and in the rush of the holiday trade he forgot the incident that had amused him for n day. One evening, xvithin a week, he looked at the hand where tho wart had been located and found that it had wholly disappeared and the second one had decreased in size materially. Observer A representative of the saw the mark on the spot where the wart was located. It looked like a scar Mr. resulting from a light burn. Monroe was interviewed, and on being asked how he operated, he smiled and said: “Ther^ is no operation about it; I felt of the wart and talked it off, as I have done probably 500 times a year for several years. 1 claim no pe culiar gift in this matter, and suppose that you have the same power that I have, if ycu would only develop it. I have a great deal of amusement in studying the faces of my patients, who express alternate feelings of douot, hope, and surprise; but the warts go away, all the same. If you havo any on your hands show them to me and I’ll take them off .”—Utiat Observer. Principal Cities* Pseudonyms. Alexander—Delta City. Atlanta—Gate City, Baltimore—Monumental City. Boston—Modern Athens. Brooklyn—City Buffalo—Queen of Churches. Chicago—Garden City of the Lakes. Cincinnati—Queen City. Cleveland—Forest City of the West. Detroit—City of the City. Straits. Hannibal—Bluff City. Indianapolis —Railroad City. Keokuk, Iowa—Gate City. Louisville—Falls City. Lowell—City of Spindles. Maysville, Ky.—Seven-Acre City. Milwaukee—Cream City. Nashville—City of Rocks. New Havon—City of Elms. New Orleans—Crescent City. New York—Gotham. Philadelphia—Quaker Pittsburgh—Iron City. Quincy—Model City. City. Savannah—Forest City, Springfield, Ill.—Flower City. St. Louis—Mound City. Rochester—Flour City. Toledo—Corn City. Washington—City of Magnificent Dis¬ tances. Small gourds, with a triangular, open¬ ing cut in one side, look quite pretty when gilded—the gilding can be procured at art stores—and suspended by a colored libbon which is tied tastefully about the neck; they are useful as lamp lighter holders; and also look well filled with grasses. If you have a cough or cold, do not doso yeu sfif with po eonous narcotics, but take lied Star Cough Cu c, which contains no opi a ed, and is prompt, ?afo an l sure. Price, twenty-live cents a bott e. Tr> n „ ________ _ _ 7~. .,,,4 tl.i£ Chinese is wedded to her for life. According “o affairs, but courtships must be very inexpensive contain no more fun than walk i ng two miles home from church a'ono on a dark and rainy night.—Norristown Herald. ' Y ou will never succeed in finding permanen! relief from rheuma'.i m U itll you have med fct. Ja ob3 Oil, the great pain cure. Price, fifty cents. These polite and sanctimonious members of the house of representatives: First member Come, why dont you take part in the debate? You havn’t opened your mouth yet. Second member—Pardon! I was yawning the whole lime you were speaking.— lid Bits. A New Way to Pay Old Debts. plished Shakespeare telis how this can be accom¬ in one of his immortal plays; but debts to r attire must be paid on demand unlessda> a of grace he obtained through the use of Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery.” It i not a “cure-all,” but invaluable f or sore throat bronchitis, asthma, catarrh, consumption.ana all diseases of the pulmonary and other or¬ gans, caused by scrofula or “ba l bluol.” Scrofulou 4 ulcers, s veil ngs and tumors are cured by its wonderful alterative action. Bj druggists. The railroad stove, dangerous an It Is, has m terror for tho legislator who rides on a pass. A Terrible Fire. Wbat a thrill of terror passes over us when wo real the record of some fearful devasta¬ tion by fire, and yet it is a fact that thousand! are daily being consumed by the inward fire oi fever, caused by consumption of the lungs, which could bssub.iutd by Dr. P.orce’s “Gold on Medical Discovery.” “ Your presents is desired at our Christmas celebration,” was a boy’s lettertohis uncle. A Ghost Is a myth, bat solid reality wil\ fee known by those who write to Hallett Ac Co., Portland, Maine, thereby learning, free, abont work that reside, they can do piofit and live of at from nome, $5 wherever $25 and they at a to up¬ wards daily. Some have earnen Hallet over $£0 In a day. Capital All to not needed. Dolaynot. Pay A Co abso¬ will start you. new. lutely sure from start- Wealth awaits ®very worker. Both sexes. All ages. A Lady’s Unfortunate Experience. Was that ot one ot our aenuaintan' e who suf¬ fered fromscrofu a, a yellow compl heft xion usinj an< distress ot the stomach,io? years ra her Dr. Harter’s IronTonic.whch finally cvrad Pbicklt Ash Bitters warms up and invig. orates the stomach, improves and strengtheui the digestive organs, opens the pores, pro¬ motes perspirat on, aud equalizes the circula¬ tion. As a corrector of a disordered system there is no thing to equal it. __ If you have • Cold, Cough, Catarrh (dry-hacking Droppin» Croup. cough—Dr.Kilmer’s Cankered-throat, Indian Cough Cun causing Oil) will relieve instantly—heali and (Consumption Price 25c., 50c. and $L cures. Daughter®, Wlv®® and Mother®. Send for Pamphlet on Female Diseases, free, securely sealed. Dr. J. B. Marchisi, Utica, N. x S month’s treatment for 60c. Piso’s Rem •dy for Catarrh. Sold by druggist®.______ “DON’T TOU WOBBI." How 8hrow4 Baal mm Moo Hot* SoItoO a Great Preoleop. “Li there a fatality among oar prominent meat” is a question that we often ask. It is a question that perplexes our leading medical men, and they are at a loss to know llow to answer it. We sometimes think that if the physi dans would give part of the energy to the con sideration of this question that they practlc gi re to combatting might be satisfactorily other schools answered. of ce, it The fights of “isms'’ remind us often of the quarrels of old Indian tribes, that were only each other. happy when they were annihilating If Allopathy makes a discovery that promises rides it good to the race, Homoeopathy de¬ and breaks down its influence. If ises Homoeopathy be boon makes a discovery that prom¬ to a to the race, Allopathy at¬ tacks it. It is absurd that these s hools should fancy that all of good is in their methods and none in any other. which Fortunately these “isms” for the will people, the merit not recognize, is recognized nition, taking by the tho public,and form of this demand public recog¬ a upon the medical profession, eventually compels it Is to it recognize possible it. that the question has been answered by shrewd business men? A promi¬ asked nent man him once how he said to rich: an “I inquirer, rich who be¬ I got got cause did things while other people were thinking about doing them. ’ It seems to us that the public have recognized what this fatality is, and how it can be met, while the about medical it. profession has been wrangling By a careful examination of insurance re¬ ports we find that there has been a sharp re¬ form with reference to examinations, (and that no man can now get any amount of in¬ surance who has the least development of kidney disorder,) because they find that sixty out of every hundred in this country do, either disease. directly Hence, or indirectly, reliable suffer from kid nev no company will in ure a man except after a rigid uri¬ nary examination. This reminds us of a little instance which occurred a short time ago. A fellow editor was insurance. an applicant He for a respectable amount of because, unknown was rejected himself, on examination, his diseased. The to shrewd however, kidneys were did the He had aeent, not give up case. an eye tobusi ness and to his commission, and said: “Don’t you worry; you get a half dozen bottles of Warner’s safe cure, take it according to directions and in about a month come around, I and we will have another examina¬ tion. know you will find yourself all right and will get your policy.” The editor expressed surprise at the agent’s faith, but the latter replied: “This point is a valuable one. Very many insurance agents all over the country, when they find a cus¬ tomer advice, rejected for this cause, give similar and eventually he gets the insur¬ ance.” What are we to infer from such circum¬ stances? Have shrewd insurance men, as well as other shrewd business men, found th® secret answer to the inquiry? Is it possible that our columns have be n proclaiming, in the form of advertisements, what has proved a blessing Ignored in disguise to millions, and yet by many as an advertisement? In our files wo find thousands of strong testimonials for Warner’s safe cure, no two alike, basis which could not exist except upon a of truth; indeed, they are published under a guarantee of $5,(100 to any one who will disprove their correctness, and this offer has been standing, we are told, for more than four years. dealing Undoubtedly this article, which is simply advertisement out justice, will be considered as an such. and bo rejected by many as We have not space nor time to discuss the proposition that a poor thiug could not suc¬ ceed to the extent that this great remedy has succeeded,could not become so popular with out merit even if pushed by a Vanderbilt or an Astor. Hence we take the liberty of telling our friends that it is a duty that they owe to themselves to investigate the matter and re j fleet carefully, for tho statements published ! are subject to tho refutation of the entire 1 world. None have refuted them; on the con | trary hundreds of thousands have believe! | them have found and prove! the highest them true, and in believing measure of satisfac¬ tion, that which money cannot buy, and money cannot take a wav. Bill Nye advises the Southern farmer to work his butter more and bis cows less. flow to Gain Flesh and Strength. Ueo after each meal Scott’s Emulsion with Hypophosphites. It is as palatable as milk, and easily digested. Ths rapidity with which delicate people improve with its use is wonder¬ ful. Use it and try your weight- As a remedy for Consumption, Throat affections and Bron¬ chitis, it Is uneq ta’e 1, Please read; “I used Scott's Emulsion in a child eight months old with goo 1 results. lie gnined four pounds in a very short time.’*— Tho. Prim, M. D„ Ala¬ bama. Seven women liotl the position of county Superintendent of Schools m li inois. Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescrip!Ion” ; s a most powerful valuable restorative tonic, and combines the most nervins properties; espe¬ cial y aaaj)!cd to the wa its of debili a cd la¬ dies suffering from weak back, inward fever, co lgest o i inflammat ion, or ulceration, or from druggists. nei-vousne s or i.e iralgio pains. 13/ It is the emrif.v heart that ache*. The head is different New Orleans Picayune. Prepare for Spring It Is none to early to be gettin? ready for spring, j \ and tho first thing which should receive atten tlcn Is your own system, ir you have not been well j during the winter, have been troubled with scrofula, . salt rheum, orother humors of the blood,youshould j purify the blood by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. You w, fl then escape that lndcacrlbable tired feeling whlc1 ' 181 r08trat,nB a ld often 80 "^accountable j * n the sprin ; months. Do not put off taking are liable medicine, but take Hood’s Sarsaparilla befort It is too late, “ I take Hood’s Sarsaparilla for a spring medicine, | and I find it Just the thing. It tones up my system i and makes me feel like a different man. My wife takes It for dyspepsia and she derives great benefit from it She says it Is the best medicine she ever took.”— Frank C. Turner, nook & Ladder No. 1, Friend Slreet, Boston. Mass. Mr.s.C. \V. Marriott, Lowell, Mass., waseompletely cured cf sick headache, which she had had 16 years, by ILod's Sarsaparilla. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Fold by all druggists. $1; six for #5. Prepared by C L HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, IOO Doses One Dollar B ©(CapcinEj© 3 fo: ER Hlgbnt Award, of Pedal, la Karo pa and Aaertaa. The neatest. quickest, safest an 1 most iwwerful remedy known for Rheumatism. Pleurisy, Neuralgia, and Lumbago. all aches Backache. and Weakness, cold in the chest cians and Druggists pains. of the Endorsed highest by 5.U00 Physi¬ Plasters promptly relievo and repute. Benson's plasters and cure where other greasy salves, liniments and lotions, ara absolut *lv useless. Beware of imitations under ucln.’' stin lar sounding names, such as ’ Capsicum,” -’Cap ’’Capslclne,” as they are utterly worthless and intended to deceive. Ask for Benson's and TAKK NO OTHERS. All drugvlsts. SSABUKY A JOHNSON*. Proprietors. New York. DR.KILMER'S . B A r rest that Catarrh,llron chitist or Asthma. Till® R Kerncdy relieves quickly, ■k Cure® permanently. It ja prevents and death Decline., from Consumption. Night-Sweats Big tY* Prepared at dh, ku.nxh’s MU BM DfgmvSARY, inquiry Binghamton, N. Y. Letters of answered. YOUW ufc7 Guide Sold to Health Druggist*. (SentFree). SAVES by SOLID FACTS! “Sevan Springs" Iron-Alum Mass, will gire you an app«tit«. Headaches, strengthen jroo up, the cure blood, Dy*pepsia, Diarrhoea Kid ana all purify act oa i lie nay*, relieve Catarrh ana ward off malaria Price, Me. and $1.00 p« r bottle. Dickey’s No Palnltss Ask Eyewater for it. .Sold by Diugrists once. cnre.no pay. Price DICKEY &. or ANDEltKON, sent by mail post Manufacturers. paid. 25c. Bri Tenn. stol. One Agent (Merchant only) wanted in evory town for < Although I was paylu.' $11.00 per 1.000 for mv lead¬ ing 5c brand mr sale* are more ‘T’ansiU’s than twenty-flv® Punch" times as large sin e 1 put in your 5c. cigar, I could not have believed It. Your* r® spectrally. Wii. M. Dal*. Druggist, Chicago. Address R. W. TAN SILL Sz CO.. Cblcma®. Cm IIAT as ares w 11* ai “a“ I r* Ootaiued. Send stains for 0 O inventors’Guide. L. Bw® t.^A, Patent lAWTCf. Wa-dilngi®:!, D. C. A Lost Industry. Jay Gould, the railroad magnate, takes pleasure twenty-five in letting the he world earned know that by honest years ago money for farmers. industry, Work making of that noon kinds marks done what only a quarter of a century ago indicates a short way in time we arq. removed from the use of crude, ancient devices. It is only within half a century that the admirable mechanical methods of Ameri¬ can clock-makers have brought the p rice of time pieces so low that it would not pay to go round offering to make noon marks. The noon mark was an humble brother of the sun dial, which was a crude method of indicating time com¬ pared to the cheapest modern time piece; yet the dial was considered a great in¬ vention in its day, and the Babylonians were honored for originating such a boon to mankind. The sun dial might have still remained the leading rural time in¬ dicator but for the persistence of Con¬ necticut clock-makers in underselling the world. When they succeeded, by the in¬ terchangeable stamping process of manu¬ efibek facture, in finishing serviceable works for twenty-five cents each, the oc¬ cupation that gave Jay Gould his finan¬ cial start was gone forever. LIKE A RIVER THE PRAISES OP B. B. B. POUBS IN UPON US. Would That We Had Spaoe to Pub¬ lish a Hundredth Part. ROCKMART, Ga., December 24th, 1886.— G. M. Morgan came to my office ill October with an old scrofulous ulcer of many years’ standing. On examination I informed him, in addition to my local treatment, he must have a blood purifier. He preferred your B. B. B., which acted like a charm, and with my treatment and B. B. B. he is now a sound man. I am aregular practicing physician.and this is the fiist time I ever addressed a patent medicine company. I regard B. B. B. as one of the best patent blood medicines. W. J. ADAIR, M. D. P. S.—G. M. Morgan is now on E. T.,Va. and Ga. R. R., but was formerly suporvisor of bridges and trestles on the Richmond and Danville R. R., and is a gentleman of con¬ siderable influence, being identified with the railroads generally. W. J. ADAIR. NEWTON, N. C., June 29, I880.-Bloodl Balm Company, Atlanta: Your medicine was used in the case of my mother, now about 45 years of ago. who has been afflicted with rheumatism for tho past ten years. After using three bottles, wo consider that an entire cure has been effected. I used one bottle myself for a humor of the blood., which caused a disfiguring breaking out on my face and all parts of my body. The re¬ sult is that my skin is smooth and perfectly tree from pimple or blotch. A perfect cure has been effected. W. T. MOREHEAD, Newtown, N. C. BALTIMORE, Feb. 6, 1887.—Botanic Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Dear Sirs: I bad suffered with bleeding piles for two years, and take pleasure In stating that I have been entirely cured by the use of one bottle of “Botauic Blood Balm” (B. B. B.) [ cheerfully make this statement for the benefit of the public. CHAS. REINHARDT, No. 2026 Fountain St., Baltimore. Md. Th® Groat Nuraery cf PERCHERON ■ BIVIlVbwB HORSES, 200 Imported Brood Mares Of Choicest Families. LARGE NUMBERS, All Ages, both Sexes, IN STOCK. .4hM m sgjillii ya £: =3 300 to 400 mrORTEO ANNUALLY from France, all recorded with extended pedigrees in the J’orcheron Stud Books. The Perehcron is the only draft breed of France possessing a stud book that hfts the support and endorsement of the French Government. Send for 120-pnge Catalogue, illustrations by Ron® Bonheur. M. W. DUNHAM, Wayne, DuPage Co., Illinois. S H OW CASES. WALL CASES. L DESKS, OFFICE FURNITURE AND FIXTURES. A.k Tor Illustrated Pamphlet. TERRY SHOW CASE CO., Nashville, Tenn business schools in the Country. Send for Circulars. ATLANTA SAW WORKS. Mauufaoturars ot and Dealers in Saws and Sa«-Hill Supplies. Repairing a Specialty. Agent* for L. Powm A Company*® Wood Working Machinery. Large and complete stock. Writ® for catalogue. Atlanta, Qa. J.P. STEVENS&BR 0 , JEWELERS. Atlanta, Ga. Sen4 for Catalogue. SB TAPEWORMS Illustrated FRf.K. Hook * sent Address 400, A. 91. HOCK, P. Ga. O. Atlanta, A if* A W Flat top No. 7 Cook Stove for 810.00 A.P. IP IWI with fixtures. Send for catalogue. Atlanta, Stewart A Vo ., 63 Whitebail.St., Ga. WAN ; SI Pk | & gColored DOC plates, BUYERS’ IOO engraving® CUIDE. . of different breeds, prices they are worth, and where to buy mem W cj H Mailed for 15 Cents, ASSOCIATED Philadelphia, FANCIERS, Pa, M237 S. Eighth St. AD ll0.f!lnsS A DEC “SJKU Eifi i’rS ,?a I , !W i lS o M Campbell. 3 I I trial eomrfnes* IU most tkcpticcU. I'rice 50 eta. and ■ ■ ®1.0®, *f DU. Drucgtsts K. *011 or IFF ky mail. MAN, Sample St. Pant, FKF.K Mfasn. tor L stamp. IBST 01 K TOOTHPOWDER K< T®®lls Pwfcet >®i Gut® Healthy^ onusaeffisssa — ■? • M!?' the liver, KUaejra, Dyspepsia, Sick H_______________ kteflU Blltoos Complaints aai HaieiteeffB yield reality to the i>a|*:<iY jrniiid It la pleasant to the taste, tones np the system, restores and preserves health. It Is purely Vegetable, and cannot fall to prove beneficial, both to old and young. s a Blood Purifier it is superior to all others. Sold everywhere at $1.00 a bottle. CTS MIS CURFS WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. 25 Best in Cough time. Syrup. Sold by Tastes druggists. good. Use ■I ^f sy kfiisto■ g Hainesville, N. J. I October 15, 1856. E. T. Hazeltine, Warren, Pa. Dear Sir: I was taken with a very severe cold last Spring, and tried every curb wo had in the store, aud could get no help. village doctor I had o r prescribe for me. but kept getting worse. I saw an¬ other physician from Port Jervis, N. Y., and ho told mo ho used 1 iso’s Cure for Consumption in his prac¬ tice. I bought a bottle, and before I had taken all of it there was a change for tho better. Then 1 got my em¬ ployer to order a quantity of the medicine and keep it in 6 tock. I took ono more bottle, and my Cough was cured. Respectfully, McKelvy. Frank I CTS 2 I 5 Best Cough Syrup. Tastoo good. Use CTS. 25 in time. Bold by druggists. B mi Oc ’IRON THE ONLY TRUE -v TONIC lX OR of YOUTH Dj8|.erBi».W*nt 1 k of Strength eolutoly Appetite, and cured: I ml Tired least : Bone*, Feeling ion,Lock urns- ab- of cles and nerve* teceivo new force. Enliven* the mind , end eupplies Brain rower, ladies and speedy Gmsaclear, heat TONIC a *afe th/ropu>^i^Tf our*. ot oXi* d °£ p the oriB'ii>* not experiment—get th* Omoiyul and B* bT, the DR.HARTER MEDICINE COMPANY. 8t. Louis. Mo. Ask your retailer for the James recommend Means’ S3 Shoe, Camion ! Some dealers Inferior goods in order to make a larger profit. This is th® original gSShoo. Beware of Imitation* which no knowledge their own Inferiority by attempting to build upon the reputation of tho original. Mono Genuine unless bearing thl® Stamp, JAMES MEANS’ Tor Gentloaen, $3 SHOE. lb- , ® Made la Button, Coif Congress and Lace. Beat SMn. Unex I Wleeila Apt>earauce. l In Durability, postal Comfort card <® e* a ~ sent io us will bring In¬ formation how to you this Shoo in Scat get Ik. Territory. any • or Ms * N. Jt J. Means & Co . 41 Lincoln St, Bc/Bton,Mass. •• ':■< iBumN^KiiiiPW^ £*§h35 Our celebrated factory produces a larger quantity of Shoes of thie grade than auy other factory In the world. Thousands who wear them will tell you the reason If you ack them. J A 91 Ef* 9IKANK’ g‘1 #!?OE for Boys is unanr> r ' i *ebefi »„ n ..„'.nuy. WELL DRILLING rSHSHSSS to business ®40 per for day Winter with our machinery and tcoU the Splendid mid or Summer. We are oldest largest Manufacturers for In th* hu*!n*se Send 4 cent* lB Stamps illustrated Catalogue H. 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OPIUM Habit Hfmavx Cured. Remedy Troataent®enton Co„LaFayetle, trial. Ind. I Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh Cheapen! Is tba^ltI B Best. Easiest to Use, and CATARRH m *WMaCu 6 , Hiy f Fever 6 TRf| oECs Ac■ 50 Q 6 Dt|® I a* w« p® *,*T!7ri7rr7rrrr.s s..*®,^..****,yf%i t