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DOWN A FLUME.
A Swift Journey Down q
Nevada Mountain.
Bushing Through Space at the Bate of
Two Miles a Minute.
A Chicago newspapor man tells in tho
Herald of that city an experience he once
had riding in a Nevada lumber flume-
“Lumber flumes in the Sierra Ncvadas,”
he said, “aro all tho way from fivo to
forty miles long. They are built on a
regular engineer’s grade, The bod of
the flume is made of two-inch plank In
the form of a V, the sides of tbo V being
from eighteen to twenty six inches high.
They arc built on a grade of about six¬
teen feet drop to the thousand. They
carry eight inches of water in tho acute
angle, and discharge it at tho rate of 400
miner’s iuches a minute. In other words,
turn in your water at tho head of the
flume, and it will carry a log weighing
400 pounds with a velocity greater than
the fastest engine that was ever made.
The log’s displacement just about fills
the V, without any more friction thaD
necessary to keep it in place.
“About nine years ago I was up al
Lake Tahoe with E. W. Smalley and W.
H. Patton of the Mackey & Fair Lumbtit
Company. Patton was showing us the
sights. We had come up from Carson
City, sixteen miles, by stage, aud it was
a hot and tedious nde. About sundown
Patton said: ‘Boys, we’ll go home by
the flume, and we’ll get there a little
quicker, I think.’
“He directed a man to bring out the
yacht, as he called it. This was a V-
ahaped canoe about fourteen feet long,
very shallow, and made to fit the flume
and just about fill it with the displace¬
ment of 600 pounds. The yacht had a
brake—two rubber pads on either side,
worked with a lever, and so applied
against the sides of the V flume that on
pressure it would lift the yacht gradually
and allow the lightning current to pass
under her. She also had two small rub¬
ber wheels, one on either bow, to keep
her nose from grinding the sides of th«
flume as she went by curves.
“ ‘Now, boys,’ said Mr. Patton, ‘but¬
ton up your coats, tio down your hats,
and hold on. Don’t get scared. Trust
your lives to me for the next half hour.
I’ve sailed in this yacht before, and 1
know she’s staunch.’
“There were three seats. Patton took
the front one, to handle the brake.
Smalley took the next one, and I took
the rear and worked the tiller. That
was rigged just like a ship’s rudder, with
a rubber wheel to ease off her stern against
the side of the flume if she got to yawing.
Patton told his men to put on two inch¬
es more of water, and then, with a wave
of his hat, we weighed anchor. Great
Scott 1 how that thing jumped 1 Smalley
got seasick. I jammed my helm hard
down, but Patton yelled through the air,
‘Let her go; I’ve got her 1’ And with
one hand on his bi »ka, hia hat crushed
down on his head, and his teeth set, he
looked the incarnation of courage. We
plunged down the mountain with a speed
that no steam could give. Ttces flew by
like spectres. Looking ahead down the
narrow thread-like flume it seemed like
a plunge to destruction. Several times
the flume carried us over a high trestle.
It seemed like leaping over a precipice.
Smalley held his breath, but the little
yacht jumped it through the air appar-
ently with a swish. Curves would show
themselves ahead. The rudder wheel
would squeak on either sitle, and the
good ship would round the curve like a
flash. Sometimes an unevenness in the
flume would occur, and then, ns the craft
sped over it, the spray would rise fifty
feet in the air.
“‘Keep on your hats I’shouted Patton,
then, as we struck a straight five-mile
stretch, ‘Now hold on to your teeth.’
“I don’t exactly know what the next
sensation was, but I tried to peep out
from under the rim of my hat, and, my
soul, it was all a blur—trees, rocks, land-
scape, were all mingled in an indistin-
guishable mass. It was as if one was
blown through the air from a catapult.
“Well, from the time we weighed an-
chor up at Lake Tahoe until Patton put
on his brakes just outside the lumber field
at Carson City it seemed like a minute or
two. We all looked at our watches,
We had made just sixteen miles in eight
minutes and forty seconds. I never ix
all my life had such an illustration of tb)
force of water.”
Learning Farming in Dakota.
The past week an 18-year-old young
man, heir to a large English estate, ar¬
rived in the Red river valley, consigned
to a large farmer by his guardian, who
pays the farmer £60 besides his services
for instruction in Dakota farming for
one year. There are thorough, first-class
farmers in Dakota, but it has not been
supposed that England was without ex¬
perts in that line. It is probable that
the considered healthfulncss of the cli¬
mate was one of the reasons for the con¬
signment.— St. Paul (Minn) Qlobe.
Agreeably 1> sappointed.
“And are you giad to see me,B >bby?”
asked the bbhop, on his semi-annual visit
to the parish.
“Oh, yes,” said Bobby, “be-
cause wc alwajn have a good dinner
when you come, Put I didn’t expect
you.’*
“No.”
No. I thought you’d go somewhere
else,’cause ma said yesterday that it was
about time some other member of the
church offered to entertain yon.”— N. Y.
Sun.
The city of Mexico has fifty bakeries
nnd 1,598 places for the sale of iutoxi-
tants, including 817 shops where tl.o
popular pulque is sold. This beverage
has about the same potency as lager beer,
and is regarded as a tonic and blood
maker.
FOR THE FARM ANI) HOME.
Rlack Teeth tn Swim.
It mny be considered as somewhat fool¬
ish to refer to the popular errors in re¬
gard to black teeth in swine wero it not
that some fraudulent people, to be class¬
ed among the prevalent humbugs, are go¬
ing about inducing fanners to let them
pu 1 out the black teeth from their pig's
jaws as u specific against cholera and all
other diseases of swine for a fee of 25
cents per head. Black teeth are no indi¬
cation of any greater or worso disease
than a sour stomach, caused by ovorfood-
ing and consequent indigestion, uml due
to the very prevalent habit of gorging
pigs ujion sour swill. Along with tho
black teeth there is a fetid breath pro¬
duced by the same disorder of tho stom¬
ach, and the teeth are no more the cause
of this trouble than the moon is of tho
crawling on the ground of lima beans.
Humbugs and frauds of all kinds flourish
and thrive upon the ignorance and super¬
stition, not to mention the dishonesty,of
their victims, and this class of parasites
will probably always find abundant prey.
—.Yew York Times.
The Apple’* Emmy.
This, it need lmrdly be said, is the
codling mot b or apple worm. Tho only
nic(J thlng ubout it ig itH ent m .logical
name, carpocapsu poinonella. This moth
makes its appearance in latter M-iy or
early June, aud it is well to be prepared
to meet it when it com js. Traps have
been invented for this insect, nnd vari¬
ous means suggested for staying its ad¬
vances and preventing its ravages. Pro¬
fessor Cook asserts, in a late uumber of
the Rural New Yorker, that Paris Green
and London Purple if mixed with water
and sponged on the trees is sure to kill
this arch enemy of our most valued fruit.
He has found that a pound of the poison
mixed with 100 gallons of water, and
kept well mixed, is still effective to kill
the larvae as they attempt to enter the
apple. One or two applications of the
poison to the trees, made Boon after
blossoms fall, will thin almost to extinc¬
tion not only the codling lame but all
oth r insects present,as the canker worm,
leaf roller, and various caterpillars. The
probabilities are that in those localities
where apples were so abundant last sea¬
son,there will be few enough at best this
year, and we can’t afford to give many
to the worms.
litas for Hatching.
If the rales given by an authority in
France—where poultry matters receive so
much successful attention—were strictly
followed, we should hear less about ad¬
dled eggs, chickcus coming dead, or too
weak to break out of the shell when
fully developed, Never let the eggs
pass over one day in the nest when laid,
and it would be better to pick them up
three or four times a day, or as soon after
being laid as possible. This prevents tho
prolonged contict of the heat of each
successive laying hen, which is apt to
create a premature development of the
germ in the egg, making it liable to
perish when this heat is withdrawn. Re¬
ject all with soft shell or in any way mis¬
shapen, or surrounded with a circular
ring, or having one end with an uneven
or rough surface. Also those very nar¬
row or unusuully round, or wanting in
size, or too Large, or double yolked. Tho
goouer they are set, the more certainty of
hatching, and the more quickly; eggs
gc t immediately after being laid often
hatch in nineteen days, instead of in
twenty-one, the general prescribed time,
Eggs will preserve their germinating
powers twenty days; but in order to be
well kept during this time they ought to
be turned once a day, as is done by the
hen when sitting. This turning has the
<ff<-et of keeping the yolk in the centre,
which is important; it being of greater
ipecifio gravity than the white or albti-
m en, its tendency is to work through to
the side of the shell .—New York Tribune,
Sod Making.
The three essentials for securing a fine,
close sod by seeding are:—Rich ground
of a suitable character, seed of good
quality, thickly sown and frequent mow-
ing.
In preparing the soil for thg sowing, it
pays to be at a good deal of pains at the
start. Results extending through years
of time will depend chiefly on this part,
with plough or spade the surface should
be worked over to the depth of one foot
at least. If it could be threo or *ix
inches deeper yet, all the better. Along
with this process some finely divided
manure, say at the rate of a good two-
horse load to each four square rods of
land, should be worked into the soil.
As the bed is finished it must lie scon
that at least six inches of good soil (that
is, not sterile subsoil) is present in all
such lawns as are not to be kept watered
in dry weather:but this is quite as essen¬
tial to those made by turfing as any
others. Wherever the surface is broken
by walks, drives,flower beds and the like
the edges next to these should be made
of sod to a width of six or more inches.
This will keep the sowed parts from
breaking away, as it would do if not thus
protected. All stones lying at or noar
f he general surface must be cleared away,
the area be made even and firm with the
proper impliments and the surface be
worked up fine by the use of a rake or
light harrow—the finer the better.
Use good seed and plenty of it, apply¬
ing at the rate of one quart and one-
fourth per square rod. As for seed, the
f 0 n 0 wi g is a superior and inexpensive
“mixture”;—Two parts june or blue
grass to one part red top or bent grass.
Bow evenly; this may be done by double
sowing. By this we moan to divide the
seed needed for a given area into two
equal lots, sowing one-half of it ovor the
plot, walking back and forth across it
oneway, and then the remainder by
walking crosswise of the first sowing,
After this rake the entire surface lightly,
then roll.
1 * 1 -lining Currant and Uooseberry Bnthee
I uotico ad vice on pruning currant* as
follows, writes a New York correspon-
dent. “Prune out old canc* and train up
new shoots." But permit me to give you
a modern Canadian plan of pruning that
s/MiC 2
top of the bush each year after they are
old enough to bear, and only leave one
or two young shoots each year from the
W,o». njCU^tbod ,h. following
a< vantages are game •
First-Strong growth in the fruiting ...
part of the bush, at the top.
Second-Rank foliage that will not
fall off until frost comes, thus keeping
the , frait .... from sun scalding , and .... having to
be picked early in the season to savo
them.
Thiid — Larger fruit and longer
111 bunches, because .11 ,, the small currants ,
and short bunches are produced near the
terminal buds, and these being pruned
off give us nothing but the largest fruit,
and as it is the seed that exhausts the
plant, and small currants have just as
many seeds as large, so when they are
disposed of tho plant w 11 bear its burden
of fruit euch year without exhaustion
and thus allow a better growth and
thicker, stronger foliage, for it is a set-
tied fact that any kind of currant can be
exhausted by one or two heavy crops,
and thereby will have to lie idle for a
year or two to recruit, and often never
regain its proper vigor.
Fourth—Regular bearing, for a strong,
healthy bush will bear every year unless
it has grown too much to wood from too
close pruning, in which case one year
without pruning back will balance it
ag “ in -
Fifth Bushes pruned , . this ..
in way
grow year after year and become much
larger than when pruned in the old way,
and where bushes can be grown to a
large size they can be planted, suy, six
feet each way and produce more fruit
than the old style, thus a great saving
in plants, and when planted this way
can be cultivated both ways, which is
also a saving of one-half the hand work
and hoeing.
Sixth—By this mode of pruning all
the med urn sized, heavy bearing vari
ties, such as May’s Victoria, Versailles,
Baby Castle, red Dutch and black cur-
rants as well, may be made to produce
fine fruit nearly as arge as the cherry
currant and longer in the bunch.
Seventh—Bushes last for twenty
years or more pruned in this way, for
the vitality is always kept up, and they
are better able to stand the ravages
of the currant worm on account
of the rank foliage and abundance of
it.
Eighth—And while we could name
other advantages yet with the above
named, we can say from our own experi¬
ence that currants will pay as we 1, if
not better, than the cultivation of any
other kind of fruit produced for market
at the present time. My own experience
with one acre pruned this way has alto-
gether excoeded my expectations, eg
well as others who have tried the same
plan. The above plan will apply quite
well to the cultivation of the gooseberry
also.
Houaehold Hint!.
Starched shirts will iron easier if you
let them dry after starching, so you will
have to sprinkle them before ironing.
Many persons may not know that
white paint may be cleaned as well as
windows by using whiting and water.
The wings of turkeys, geese and
chickens are good to wash and clean
windows, as they leave no dust nor lint,
as cloth.
To brighten the inside of a coffee or
teapot fill with water, add a small piece
°f soap and let it boil about forty-five
minutes.
Slake three pounds of quick lime in
water and add one pound of pearlash,
making the wholo into the consistence of
paint. Lay this over the old work with
a brush, and let it remain from twelve to
fourteen hours, when the paint will be
easily scraped off.
Recipes*
Muffins in Tins .—Take one cup of
sour milk, one egg, a little shortening, a
teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda; if the
milk is not very sour less soda will do.
Make a thick batter, and a little salt,
and bake in a hot oven. If you cannot
obtain sour milk, sweet milk and baking
powder will answer. To a teacup of
sweet milk allow a heaping teaspoonful
of baking powder.
Beets and Butter Saucer —Take two
Burmuda beets of medium size. Wash
and dry them without breaking the skin.
Boil them for thirty-five minutes in fast
boiling water, slightly salted, which
must entirely covor them. Then scrape
off the skin, cut the beets into slices, and
the slices into strips. Melt an ounce of
butter, add to it a little salt, pepper and
a teaspoonful of vinegar. Pour it over
the beets and serve.
Bice Cream One cup of rice boiled
soft, but not to a paste; two cups of
milk, four eggs, a cup of sugar vanilla
extract, a cup of whipped cream. Make
the eggs, milk and sugar into a custard,
season with vanilla. Scald the milk first,
pour upon this the heated egg and sugar,
and let it get almost cold before you beat
in the whipped cream. Set to form in a
wet mould on ice. When you are ready
for it turn out on a glass dish.
Watermelon Cake —One cup of white
sugar, ono-half cup of butter, one-
half cup of sweet milk, whites of four
eggs, one-half teaspoonful soda, one of
cream of tartar, two scant cups of flour,
one-fourth cup of sour milk, two-thirds
cup of pink sugar, one fourth cup of but-
ter, onc-half teaspoon of soda, whites of
two eggs, one tea cup of raisins, flour
enough to make rather stiff. First and
second half of recipe to be made up sep-
arately, ajid mixed like marble cake be-
fore baking.
CUPPINGS FOB THE CURIOUS.
Evil spirits, it was bcliovad in old
times often took the form of a fly, and
the term “fly” was once a popular syno-
nyra for a familiar spirit.
number of boys born than girls. The
proportion varies from 102 [to *" 100 boys
, 0 100 girls
A Chicago writer .polking of th. CM.
ncse in that city, says that whil* tho men
™ ^ have , t deat of hair ex .
“T““ ,
"^y ^o-third. of that appendage * .. •
plaited ' silk thread.
To o itain moi ey to carry on a wai
against the Indians, Gov. West of South
Carolina, in 1680, offered a price for
every ^ Indian captive, c W and 11 then sold all
w 0 wer ou c 1
slave dealer8 r!:0 . disposod
> ' a g am o
tbem P rofltabl v u> We*t.Indiau planters.
-
Nothing disgraced the humanity of the
P ast ^ 10 neglect and cruelty pmc-
ticed towards tho wounded in war.
Under modern law, the ambulances aud
military hospital* for the wounded are
held to ; be neutral property and are re-
spected and protected by the bclli^t j-ents
It is gravely related in an Illinois news
paper that after a peach tree on the farm
of James M. Baker of Palm ra. had
blown down, the broken trunk was stuck
in the fire under a soap kettle. Not a
blossom was on the tree, but when the
heat of the fire penetrated the branches
the tree uurst into full bloom,
The great reforms in modern interna-
tional law due especially to the spirit of
Christianity, begun in great part with
t j ie eminent Dutch publicist, Grotius,
early in the seventeenth century He
taught humanity towards women, clerks,
f armer3> merchants and to aU in battle
wbo cr i ed quarter or offered to yield.
" : “
Agriculture iu Mexico.
Although the main business of the
country is agriculture, this branch of in-
dustry is carried on under exceptionally
disadvantageous circumstances. One of
its greatest drawbacks is that the whole
country is divided op into emmense ha-
eiendas, or lande-l estates; small farms
being rarely known; and out of a popu!a-
tion of ten million or more, the title to
the soil is said to vest in not more than
six thousand persons. Some of these es-
tates comprise square leagues instead of
square acres in extent, and are said to
have irrigating ditches from forty to fifty
miles in length. Most of the land of
such estates aro uncultivated, and Hie
water is waisted upon the remainder in
the most reckless manner. The titles by
which such properties are held are ex-
ceedingly varied, and probably to a con-
siderable extent uncertain. Some came
fr°m the old Spanish Government,
through its viceroys; some from Mexico,
through its governors or political chiefs;
wlu.e over a not inconsiderable part of
a ^l the good land of the country, the ti-
ties of the Church, although not recog-
nized by the Government, are still, to a
certa n extent, respected. Added to all
this, there is a marked indisposition oa
the part of the large owners of real estate
in Mexico to divest themselves of such
property; and this for various reasons.
Thus, in the heretofore almost perma- ‘
nent.y revolutionary , . condition of the ,
country, the tenure of movable or personal
property was the subject to embarnu-s-
ments from which real estate, or immoea-
lie property, was exempt. Under the
system of taxation which has long pre-
vailed in Mexico, land also is very 1 ILht-
‘
, ly , burdened. , . An 1, finally, from what is .
probably an inherited tradition from Old
Spain, the wealthy Mexican seems to be
prejudiced against investing in co-opera-
tive (stock) or financial enterprises—the
railways, banks, a d mines, in both Old
Spain and Mexico, for example, be ng to-
day mainly owned and controlle i by
English or other foreign cap.tuhsts. —
Popular Science M<mthb/.
--
A Dakota Judge on His Dignity.
We will stop taking testimony for ten
minutes, said a Dakota justice of the
peace, removing his coat, during which
time the court will lick the attorney far
the defence. The constable will please
remove the chairs and small boy, as we
propose to l tm him down on the floor
about twenty times. When a lawyer re¬
fers to this court as a square-cornered
sage hen of the alkali desert and accused
it of having been bought by the prosecu¬
tion for $2.50, he will find that this
judicial body is loaded for game found
only in the tall timber, namely, b’ars
gentlemen, large griz’ly b’ars. We pro¬
pose to maintain our dignity while get¬
ting on this here nail k—er bench and
rill do so if we have to stay at home cir¬
cus day and pound lawyers. And if we
can’t do it alone we intend to invoke the
power of the United States and get
backed up by the supreme court and reg¬
ular army. If the attorney for the de-
fense has any friends in the room, they
-will be given an opportunity to shako
hands with him and take any instructions
he may wish to send to his family. The
gentlemen will please form a ring and we
would direct the constable to pull him
off if he attempts to bite or pull hair.
Take yo«r position for the court is a-com-
mgi—EstelHne (Dak.) Bell.
Gobelin Tapestry.
In the famous manufactory of Gobelin
tapestry, which belongs to the French
Government, are produced large and
beautiful woven pictures, and the great
merit of the work is that it is done en-
tirely by hand, no machinery being used,
The operation is very slow, each work-
man putting one thread nt a time in its
place, and faithfully copying a painting
iu oil or water colors, which stands near
him, as a model. If, in a day, he covers
a space as large as his hand, he considers
that he has done a very good day’s work,
—SU Nicholas.
Home.
BT ANNIE E. MYERS.
The home governs the world,
All social and moral laws of our com-
mon civilization revolve around the home.
Pub-
-
Clear-sighted reformers aim to direct
the power that rules the home. Inaccr-
tain sense we are all reformers, we all
KtoSL'b*«"
we should all begin at cheerful home. sunshiny
Let the home be a
place. There let us find neatness and
com{ort Above all, let u. have always
good nature and means for improve
mont.
Home is the place for all the bast
t j,j ng(J . therefore don’t keep all your
cheerfulness for society, nor shut oat all
the sunshine except when you have visi-
tors. Cheerfulness and sunshine do not
C o*t anything, but withhold them and
you are u heavy loser,
j t j, not # | one the housekeeper’s tidy; duty
t0 keep the home rooms neat and
^
c j ean t j iat SJ . 4VC8 a vast amount
of making clean. Anyone of relined feel-
i, lg regards all labor to secure neatness a
labor of love and duty, nftS!
* t to
you. said straight-backed,
u Well,” chair a rocking
traight-legged to a cosy
[>lacedt ?. be f ore Iwou]d besueb .drudge
■ » you are, I would be a stool; or, if
,-sible, something more insignificant.
People ure not content with making you
co'utinuany rocking'them^to
and fro.”
“To be sure,” answered the little
rocking-chair, “ I am always busy and on
^ fhemby haveTwon'ZanJ friend!,’
and appear to be a great favorite with all.
This pays me for all my trouble.”
The moral of this pretty fable is, that
a1 ' who cheerfully aud willingly do for
fves & ° 1W3 " ° k alU m ° 9 ° T
the rase
This is a most beautiful lesson to
utilize for home life.
Oue of the pleasantest and noblest
duties of the family is to furnish it* man-
bers with good reading. In times tiiat
are [last, it was considered enough to
clothe, feed and shelter a family. But
now it is recognized ns a fact satisfied. that we all
have hungry minds to be
They must be fed a healthy diet; they
want to be sheltered from the pitliess
storm of error and vice. An ignorant
family is a dark spot on our modern in¬
telligence. reading into homo
Let good atmosphere go changes. a The boys and
the very
begin to talk of men, girls principles, the
past and the future. The find open¬
ing before them a new life of knowledge,
duty and love. will intelli¬
Out from that family go
gent men and women to fill useful and
lonorable places in society.
Let the torch of improvement be lit in
every household. Let the young and the
old vie with one another in introducing
new and useful topics of investigation
and in cherishing a love for study and
advancement.
Such a home implants memories in the
heart that can never die. The rough
rubs of the world can never obliterate
them. Lives so formed are the timbers
that uphold the world.— Chicago Ledger.
Old WhimsicalitiM.
Dream of snakes sign of enemies.
Dreaming trouble. of muddy or rushing water,
brings
Finding a horseshoe or a four-leaved
clover brings good luck.
If T c you cut . your nails •, or sneeze on
Saturday you do it “for evil.”
She who takes the last stitch at a
quilting will be the first to marry.
If you cannot mak* up a handsome bed
your husband will have an ugly nose.
If J,? U tlle 8alt 80me °“ e wiU V e
“mad” „ with you unless you put some in
Hie fire,
wheroVuare "wMtedTyour llfft, whera
you are not wanted.
If the rooster crows on the fence the
weather will be fair; if on the doorstep,
he will bring company,
If the first Sunday in the montth is un¬
pleasant, there will be but one pleasant
Sunday during the month,
If your right ear burns, some one is
praising you; if your left, your friends
are ra *ving you over the coals,
Returning to the house for a moment
after having once started out will bring
bad luck unless you sit down.
the When, floor and in dropping stands a fork, it strike*
visitor; upright, it will bring
a gentleman if a knife, a lady.
While at the washboard, if the suds
splashes and wets the clothes you are
wearing, you will have a drunken hus¬
band.
If you drop your dishcloth you will
have company; also if you sweep a black
mark; or if two chair* stand accidentally
back to back.
If a baby sees his face in the glass it
will be the death of him. If his nails
are cut he will be a thief. If he tumbles
out of bed it will save his being a fool.
Break a mirror, sign of death. Death
is also foretold by a dog howling under
a window; hearing a mourning dove, •
strange dove hovering about, or dreaning
of a white horse.
If you see the new moon through the
glass you will have sorrow as long as it
lasts. If you see it fair in the face you
will have a fall. Over the left shoulder
bitd luck—over the right good luck.
Mileitooei on tho Rood to Health.
The recovery of digestion, and the resump,
tion of activity by the liver, bowels and kid-
neys, are milestones which mark our progress
on the road to health. They speedily bet o no
perceptible when Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
is used by the invalid. Nothing so surely and
expeditiously goal. consumes bodily the function distance to the de¬
sired As no can suffer
interruption without impairing the the general
health of the system, so the system can never
acquire perfect be vigor, actively health’s synonym, until
that function resumed. Take, for
instance, digestion, a suspension of which is
invariably which rectified by the Bitters. If the or¬
gans upon it devolves grow weak, bil¬
iousness, constipation, and hundred headache, poverty of
the blood, a other symptoms su¬
pervene, which indicate unmistakably the
baneful general influence of dyspepsia. The
disappearance of all these symptoms through
the U56of the Bitters, show with what thor¬
oughness it removes their cause.
In order to compete successfully one
must study his the world as much as the far¬
mer does almanac before he plants
his squash.
Baldness and dandruff can b. prevented by
using Hall’s Hair Kenewer.
Quinine relieves only temporarily in fever
and ague. Ayer's Ague Cure cures permanently
It certainly is discouraging to make a
fool of one’s self, but what makes it
grind worse is in knowing that you have
not only got to shoulder the responsibil¬
ity but “grin and bear it.”
Th« only cough mixture before the people
that contains no opiates or narcotics is lied
Star Cough Cure. Price, twenty-five ccnis.
A man who had been arrested as n vagrant
protested !ng-to that he had a regular trade eclipses ami call- of
wit, smoking glass for total
the sun ; ami as these occur only a few times
in a century, he was not to hlame for being
out of employment a good deal.
One among the many eminent church digni¬
taries who have given tlioir public endorse¬
ment the wonderful efficacy of .St. Jacobs Oil,
in ruo of rheumatism and oilier painful ail¬
ments, is the Right iiov. Bishop Oilmour,
Cleveland, Ohio.
A child who had just mastered her cati -
clilsm confessed herself obey disappointed, the (iftli command¬ because,
she said, "Though 1 and
ment, and honor my papa mama, because yet my
days are not a bit longer in the land,
I am still put to bed at seven o’clock.
Homebody’! Child.
Bombhody’s child Is dying-dying with the
flushothope on hi* young face, ai d somebody’s
mother thinking of tho time when of that hope dear
face will be hidden where no ray can
brighten it—because there was child no cure be lor
consumption. Header, if the your
neighbor's lake this comforting word to tho
mother’s heart before it Is loo late. Toll her
that consumplion is curable; that men aro
liv ing to-day whom the physicians pronounced
incurab e, because one lung had beon almost
destroyed by the disease. Dr. Pierce’s ‘ liolil-
cn Medical Discovery" has hypophospliites, cured hundreds:
surpasses cod liver oil, and
by other druggists. medicines in curing this disease. Sold
Life leaves a common legacy to all men—an
epitaph.
The Testimony of n Physician.
Jame, Beecher. M. D.. of Sigourney, towa,
*ays: “For several year-31 have been using a
Cough Balsam, called Da Wu. Hall's Bal-
sam for the Lungs, and in almost every case
throughout my practice I have had entile sue-
cess. I have used and pre-cribed tiundre lsof
bottlessince the days of my army practice (1X63),
when I was surgeon of Hospital No. 7, Louis-
ville, Ky.
The Brown Cotton Pin is "A No. 1.”
"It is simply perfect.” Has all the latest
Improvements and is delivered free of all
charges at any London, accessible point. catalogue Sen t to Com¬ ask
pany at New G’t., for or
your merchant to order one for vou.
None but fools have an excuse for criticis¬
ing the wisdom of God.
Ueautifu! Women
•remade pallid and unattractive by functional
Irregularities, which Dr. Pierce s "Favorite
Prescription” will infallibly cure. Thousands
of testimonials, By druggists.
Politeness will succeed where money alone
will get worsted.
Mensman’s Peptonized beef tonic, theonij
tious preparation of beef containing its 'ntire nutri¬
force,generating properties. It contains blood-making
and life-sustaining properties;
Invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, also, in and all forms of general debility;
all enfeebled conditions, whether the
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over¬
work or acute disease, particularly if resulting
from Co., Proprietors, pulmonary complaints. New Caswell,Hazard <§
York. Sold by druggists.
The "boss" book agent of the South is Mr.
. T. Hopkins, of Eastern N. C., who is work-
ing,for A Co.,of the Richmond, publishing Va. house Mr. of Hopkin’s B. F. Johnson prolita
R fe frequently thoroughly footed up to over $200 a week,
a n 8 under the impression that
the . , books published by B. F. Johnson & Co,
sell faster than any tliiog else on the face of the
earth.
25c. buys a pair of Lj on’s Patent Heel Stif¬
feners, which makes a boot or shoe last twice
as long.
If yon have tumor, for tumor symptoms)
Cancer (or cancer symptoms),Scrofula,Erysipe¬
las. Salt-Rheum, Chronic weaknesses,Nervous¬
ness qr other complaints—Dr. Kilmer’s Fe¬
male Remedy will correct and cure.
morality. Parity is the letter’’A" in the alphabet of
Dr. Pierce's “Pellets"—the original "Little
Liver Pills” (sugar-coated)—cure s ek and hi 1-
loiw headache, sour stomach aud bilious at¬
tacks. By druggists.
Exaggeration is tho least or second cousin
of falsehood.
"Big Money In It For Us.”
Among the 150 kinds of Cloth Bound Dollar
Volumes given away by the Rochester (N. Y.)
American Rural Home for every $1 subscrip¬
tion to that Great 8 page, 48 col., 1C year old
bound weekly, (all 5x7 inches, from 300 to 900 pages
in cloth) are
Law Without Lawyers. Danelson’s (Medical
Family Cyclopedia. Cyclopedia. Counselor.
Farm Boys’ Useful Pastimes.
Farmer#’ and Stock- Five Years Before the
breeders’ Guide. Mast.
Common Sense in Peoples’ History of
Poultry Yard. United States.
World Cyclopedia. Universal History of
What Every One AU Nations.
Should Know. Popular History Civil
War (both sides).
Any one book and paper one year, pos paid,
tl. 15 only! Satisfaction guaranteed. Refer¬
ence : Hon. C. R. Parsons, Mayor Rochester.
Samples N. Y. 2c. Rubai, Home Co., Ltd., Roches¬
ter,
No Opium in Piso’s Cure for Consumption.
Cures where other remedies fail.
Needing refiewed Btreuisth, or wli» Euffer f»* ora
InBrmltlen peculiar to their sex, nhould try
THE
BEST TONIC.
This medicine oombinen Iron with pure vegetable
tonics, Women* and is invaluable for Diseases peculiar to
and all who lead sedentary lives. 1 1 Kn-
liches and Purifies the Illoml, Stimulates
the Appetite, Strengthens the xWugcles and
Nerve*— in fact, thoroughly Invigorate*.
Clear* the complexion, ana makes the skin smooth.
It doe* not blacken the teeth, c*use headache, or
produce Mb. constipation—alt other Iron medicines do.
J. W. Carter Meridianville, Ala., says: “My
wife ha* been an invalid for 18 months, for the past 8
month* has been confined to the bed most of the
time. She triod various remedies without relief.
Brown’# Iron Bitters has m*de her feel like a new
Mas. 8. A. Jackson, Knoxville, Ga., soys: "I Buf¬
fered with General Debility and Female Weakness.
I was despondent, and had no Hppetite. I used
Brown’* Iron Bitters with great benefit.”
Genuine ha* above Trade Mark and crossed red line*
on wrapper. Take no other. Made only by
BROWN CHEMICAL CO., BALTIMORE. MI>.
WILSON’8
CHAMPION SPARK ARRESTER
Bent open draught arrester In
the world. No more gin house*
bnrned from engine *parkn. Sold
I on lor. guarantee. W rite for Utrcu-
T. T. WINPNOIt Ac t «., No*.
113 426 Wsyneht.,IUill«‘dgfivill«,Ga.
tW __ ~Responsible Agont* wxnted for sale of Arrester.
be rO for us. »00 A Rents preferred „ A ,ai;fx A p? who n ’ a . C, , can can " t
the bus horses a no give their whole tin: le to
ployed iu also. ess. A Spare few moments may be profitably em-
B. F JOHNSON vacancies in towns and cl tie*.
& Co., 1013 Main fet., Klc.imond, Va.
and \VIII*ltV HABITS cared
at particular* home without Free. pain. Boek of
*ent
B. M. WOOLLEY, M. D., Atlanta, Qft
Blair’! Oral Box PMk*KLSr fel.tlOi round, 4 Sr
SO eta.
Pflaaajgja jg rng
BEST IN THE
WORLD*
MAHLIN Magazine Rifle.
For largo small r»me—all tlaei. The thootin* rifle Perfect ~ A
or »tron*e«t mode.
aeoo'ary ^BALLARD guaranteed, and the only absolutely •aie rifle on the market. ' '^6
GALLERY, BPORTING AND TARGET RIFT.es, world renewned. Send for
Illustrated < ataio-ne. MARLIN FIRE ARMS CO.. New IIav©n, Conn.
SSLICKER Is The to est
Water
, ErcrMait.
tamped None ptnalm with t a he unless Don’t waste yonr money on a pmra or rubber coat Th«FIflH BRAND ^ k ,
a’oova i.-? absolutely and proof, and will keep yon dry in the l* 1 '.
TRADE MARK. A«k. for the*’FISU UR AND” fLicxxR and take no other. If your fltort h' ,
Ot liavo the “FISH BRAND”, send hr dA«erlntiva estslncniA to A - .T TnWPR 90 fiimmmut St-. 1 -so*
ASK FOR Till!
W, L. DOUGLAS
Ration U a^^cf i r j , r r..V rr ‘ UUd -" ^
for the \V. I,. Dougina' ilyT***
0*2.00 Shoo. If tiame ns
til. *100 Shoe. yon cannot /,
get theae ahocs from deal.
•ra.aend add reason U Duuglw, poatal SPK
card to W. aGV
Brockton, Moat. a.
$3 fgflP
o
ROOK ACSEXTS WANTED f 0P
PLATFORM ECHOES
«r LIVT.NU TRUTHS FOli IIEAI» AID I1EAAT
By John B. Clough.
nil lilt and crowning life work, brim foil of thr'llin, i^a I.,-
^ the u ;s Life and o ^ Death , 'irr^.^r:^^ of Mr. Gough, by ( p 1 vv lirv. nd LYM TfT l ,, VN
BOTT. lOOO Agent* Wan tea,—Man and in
to $200 month made. (Hr *Distance women AintfranuVn tin*
a ne
- A STEP IN ADVANCE
OF ALL OTHERS.
--- A JffcAflO w sir— ’3ETTF R I /VSTRUMt NTS
vr T " “laPBial LOWER PdiCI-S
L£3"'2*r? dr JLAiiiW #s| CRTCB«ls PL«
white, j —— It,
j inclosing Stamp <’■ go 'jd
for "Mst
Full Particulars. &7>
DEirt BROS A CO.
Nnil NEWAaa.N.j. .„o N ,
iSi TPTPCT SCALES ppf^TVTTTTv:
^ AWARDED * *
T IJE w makS
(Four Cold Medals. All other rrin.ipai
dcqt v*l tit f,. VflllR UflktY Jncp I-nr circulars, tcrmguu
"»lUC I u lULn lu mil parit.-ulan, naarea
BUFFALO SCALE COMPANY, BUFFALO,N.f,
£ ROANOKE
COTTON PRESS,
The Beet tind Clicn pest Pre«
nmde. Costs lasB than shelter
n over other presses. Hundndl
* in nctual use nt both stewa
n nd horse power Kins. Bxim
raster Address than Roanokk Any Kin can picn.
Ikon and
Wood Works, ChatUnoogi
Tenn.
A I.iullcs! J hose dull
-x* Jby .ol JBKr speak tired looks volumes and feeling
V AM I This
.'V' Itemed y corrects all con
fiSf’SSJffSS ditions, restores visor
wlwMCr hV and 1 I-ii.jvd beauty. o! hr. Kiln.,-J>i Irrvmistf.
NftTagK'. fV, X rxss*r.T, I»ettera or Inquiry riiiL'hamtou,N, answered. y.
H * *3 Guido to Health (Sent Free*
H Pimple*, mofehen, Scnly or Oily Shin,
fl pi nnd BlcmUlie* Complexion nnd all Beautified Skin Dincascs CureJ
k ky
Beeson's Aromalic Alum Sulphur Soap. J
sold by Druggist! or sent by mall on receipt Itlann-B ofl
iH cents by WM, DUE VI)OI*PEL,
lacturer, SOS North Front St., Philadelphia, Pa. I
reys Msa a
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA.
[Formerly, 1817,-1831, the University instruction of Louisiana.]
Its advantAffftft South-West for practical unrivaled, the in 1- the diseases
of the are as w secures it
superabundant materials from the great Charity Hoi*
ivital with its 700 beds, and 20,<00 patients annually.
Students stnicti is hav» daily no hospital-fees (he bedside' to pay of the and sicl, special hi in*
<n given «t information,adtlre.i* as bo
other institution. For catalogues or
Prof 8. E. CUA1LIA., 11. I>., Orleans Dean, . La.
O. Drawer 261, New
Salvo CIMS BRUMES!
and Inicmprrfinre* onfv not in«tantlT,
but effectual!y. The sciontlf.eanil
dote for the Alcohol Habit «n<l thi
only remedy that dares to send trW
A bottles. Highly endorsed bv the med
known leal profession New and prepared pbfjrtclaits. by veil ben)
York
*2^ stamps for circulars and r»*f reno*
Address “SALVO HFKKDY” York
No. 2 West 14th 8L, New
'
ERMAN S*H f OPm
FOR ONE DOLLAR.
A first class Dictl onary gotten out at email
co to on courage tho study of tlie German
nguage. It gives Knglish words with the
German, equivalents, and German words with Knells*
definitions. A vt*ry cheap hook. Send Sl.00 V
BOOK PUB. IIOUSK, 1.31 Leonard Si., inalL
Y. City, and get one of these books by return
1 CURE me»n FITS! uiorol/ to «wp ^
When 1 <n« uut
remedy to cure the wnret .-me*. Uecuue! oil:
tailed SS15* (• no reeeon for ro*,".Vn.t rot now Wik" ««'»'»* VSJ’i.'Suiai
H *
No Ropo to Cul Off Horses’ Manes.
Celebrated ‘ECLIPSE* IIALTBK
a ml HIM DUE*] loinblned. cannot
bo Slipped by any horse. Sample 5
Halter to any part of U. S. free, on jr
receipt of $1. Sold by all Saddlery, Dealers .jf jCmCXJ jfSrTKL*
Hardware and Harness nd JT $
Special discount to tlie Trade, wSCSf
Send for Price-List. ^
J. C. LIGHTHOUSE,
l«aa*!rcd. Buy direct and mva $15 to $35.
j Orrnusjriven cular with 1000 iu premium*. tmtiruonifth Write f for FREE cir¬
rmn evrt v bI*«MCo.__^^__
Gto. FAYNEACO. 4 4 W.Monro#S4. 1 (
ISUUlOOirn iwroons rhould Join the N. ff*
GlnmAnriltU ll III uni Endowment Circulars free.
W and receive $i,0U) when married. Minn^.
P. O. Box £S4G, Minneapolis,
SB
25 fjj
mal. l)o not run the risk of losing: your Horse
want of Knowledge to cure him, when 25c. winw
for # a Treatise. Buy oue and inform yours®”* ehowinj
Remedies for all Horse Diseases. Plates postpaid
bow to Tell the Age of Uor»es. Sent
85 cent* in stamps.
N. Y* nORSE BOOK CO- ;
134 Leonard St., N. Y Clty^
TlDRSTOFSluVtTOOTBFOVDu IIe«M*
Kaspiu* Taetfa ter feet ud Gam. s.nd.»$ j
Pensions to Soldier* dtHolriv COL. L.
for CifCUlar*. Washington. 1). o.
HAM. Att'y,
OPIUM SirSi Dn. M.msn
MS o UICX for Prof. Moody’s New
>k oil Press Making, New Dolmwi. »»“ U
) a dov. rrof.«OODT.< i"* lnD * -
G hM taken th* lend W
th* sales of that claw
T«W issfci siting*
Sjjv-sf •gtQsvuu.ranted ..... Strloiuro. aol .1 ■ "murphy mo*.
s i Urj.nl,b T ,h, © ha. -on th.
HglEuB! VfcA Cla.lnn.tl Chimiesl Si. cia*» of th* o' 1 ?, 0 ™*.
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CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes druggists. good, use
in time. Sold by
3:5 r T: