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Safe in the Middle.
Material surroundings are a great
help to religions faith, as this dialogue
from au Enlish paper will show:
“Do you always say your prayers at
bedtime, Slaty?” asked the Sunday
school teacher, affectionately.
“No, miss, not regular, I don’t,”
was the reply.
“Why, Mary, are yon not afraid to
go to sleep at night without asking a
blessing?”
“Not when I sleep in the middle, I
ain’t, miss.”
An Overwhelming Reflection.
“Just to think of it!” so’emnly ex¬
claimed the man with a gripsark ami
chin whiskers. “Just to think of it.”
"What’s wrong,” asked the depot
official.
“I don’t pretend to criticise, but I
just heard about it, an’ I can’t help
tbinkin’. The president gono on a
vacation an’ hundreds of thousands of
ns people that voted fur ’im ain’t got
our offieeyit!”—Washington Star.
The Modern Eve.
A man never appreciates » woman’s
true value until he has married her.
Ho usually overestimates it before.
Eve’s most vulnerable point was her
susceptibility to flattery. Her (laugh¬
ters have not made any improvement
iu this particular.
When a woman gets so old that
praise no longer has its charms she
—but she never reaches that age.—
Philadelphia Bulletin.
A Summer Episode.
She looked at him with burning
eyes.
“Fly!” she cried, “Fly!”
Ilo only lifted his tired eyelids and
went to sleep again.
And the gay bluebottle merrily
buzzed at the woman’s futile efforts.
—Cleveland Plain Denier.
An Abominable Lckiipy.
A tendency torhenmniism in undoubtedly in
tier!tod. Unlike many other legacies, it re¬
mains in the family. Tho most effectual means
of cheeking this tendency, or of removing in
cl pi out rheumatism, whether pro-ex latent in tho
blood or not, is to resort to I log* otter’s Stomach
Ritters as soon as tho premonitory twinges are
felt. Nullifying the influences of cold, expo¬
sure and fatigue, the Ultteis not only fortifies
the system against their hurtful consequences,
but subjugates malaria, liver and kidney coin
plaint, dyspepsia and nerve disquietude.
The man running for office often take* a mud
bath without going to any of the health resorts
of that description.
A I*rose Poem.
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No opium or other harmful drug
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EE M. is used and recommended
By some of the best citizens
Of this country.
If your dealer does not keep EE M.
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Soot Water.
Water in which soot has boon dis¬
solved has always been a favorite with
florists for manuring plants, and also
at tho samo time keeping off ittju ions
insects. It has a slight stnell if sul¬
phur, to which doubtless its power to
repel injurious insects is duo. Some
ammonia in the water makes it much
more effective as a fertilizer. The
soot is pure carbon, and has consider¬
able power to absorb ammonia, which
it will give out only as the roots of
plants surround the carbon thus
charged anil absorb it.
C7acmnbcr Dickies.
The best time to plant cucumbers to
grow pickles is from the first to tho
fifteenth of July. They will make aquiek
growth at this season,aud be much less
likely to attacks from tho cucumber
bug than if planted early. The secret
in growing cucumber pickets is to keep
vines very closely picked, allowing
none to grow much, if any, above two
inches long. If even one cucumber is
loft on tho vine to ripen, it will take
so much of the plaut’s food that the
roots furnish, that the vine will wither
and began to turn yellow.
\ Hiimin.ir Ifo£-pen.
The swine quarters are often in
buildings connected with the house,
and in such cases are likely to become
■Bti WEL
ORCHARD PIG-PEN.
offensive during the warm weather of
summer. It is wise in such a case to
construct summer quarters out in the
orchard. The cut gives a suggestion
for a cheap little house and yard. Tho
cud of tho yard has a sloping top, so
that tho pigs call lio out of doors upon
the ground, aud still he protected
from the sun. Tho roof of tho little
house can he of matched lumber and
loft nnshiugled.—Now England Horn e-
stead.
Kflfoot of Fusil lug Food.
The logical conclusion of tho largo
amount of experimenting on this sub¬
ject at tho Ohio aud other stations is
that the process of ensiling adds noth¬
ing to the nutritive value of tho feud¬
ing stuff. “It does add to its puluta-
been bility, however, whon tho method has
properly larger employed, and in conso-
queneo a proportion of tho fod¬
der will ho consumed. In regard to
tho eo3t of this method, we do not con¬
sider it any greater than that of tho
ordinary ing method of cutting and husk¬
aud stacking and grinding the
grain, and certainly all this must be
done if tho food materials uvo to be
thoroughly preserved anil made as
completely available ns they are in
well cured silage.
Tho Cabtmgro Hoot Maggot.
The white maggot iu cabbage root is
the larva of a two-winged fly, which
closely rosctnblos tho common house
fly except that it is Smaller. The flies
Appear in April aud early May ami lay
eggs at tho base of nowly-sot cabbago
plants. These eggs hatch in about a
week. Tho maggots begin work in
tho young roots aud proceed in their
attack to tho larger roots and finally
the stem. In two or throe weeks tho
maggots are full grown aud proceed to
pupate. After tone days tho next
brood of flies emerges. Thoro aro
about threo such broods.
Tho host treatment to avoid this
maggot is to put cabbage iu ground
where turnips, radishes or cabbage
were not grown tho previous year.
There is no satisfactory romody to de¬
stroy bage, tho maggots and save the cab¬
but the best is the use of carbon
bisulphide. Iujoot u-toaspoouful just
urnlor the plant when tho maggots are
first discovered in May. It would not
bo safe to repluut tho sumo ground
with cabbago either this or next sea¬
son, although Into cabbago is not so
much troubled as is the early crop.
Lime or salt would not destroy or
drive away the maggots.—American
Agriculturist.
Culture of Melons.
Watermelons aro excessive feeders,
and many fail in attempting to grow
them because they do not furnish suf¬
ficient plant food to supply Iho neces¬
sary strength for vigorous vine and
fiuo fruit. Not infrequently water¬
melon vinos turn yellow and die when
they simply should bo just in their prime
from plaut starvation.
I prepare the ground as for corn.
Lay off in rows twelve feet apart each
liulf way. I dig a hole about one aud ouo-
feet deep and perhaps threo feet
in diameter. In the bottom of this I
put a peek or more of good stable ma-
in mire, layer tramping it lightly. Next put
a of soil, aud follow with a
layer made up of equal parts of soil
and line rich manure thoroughly
mixed, and, lastly, where the seed's
are to be placed, auother layer of pure
soil. Sow seeds thickly and cover
about one inch. When the second or
third leaf shows thin out to two or
three plauts iu tho hills. If excep¬
tionally large melons, regular "prize
takers," are desired, thin to but one
plant in tho hill. I cultivate about as
I do corn, hoeing each hill after tin
eutiro patch is plowed. If very dry,
cultivate often, particularly about the
hills. It is some trouble to thus pre¬
pare the ground, but it more thau pays
in the size, number auil quality of
melons produced, that ulsoin the increased
length of time the vines are iu
bearing, as they remain greeu and iu
goon condition until killed by frost.—
Grange Judd Farmef-.
Tho Horn Ply,
One of our representatives writes
that the little black horn tty is again
appearing the to the great annoyance of
cattle aud loss to the owners who
are anxious for practical methods to
prevent the loss of thrift which follows
the discomfort which the fly caused.
When the fly. first 'appeared in litis
country about ten years ago, all sorts
of wild stories were told concerning it.
Among other things it was said that
the fly ate through the horn, caused it
to rot and laid eggs iu it which after¬
wards penetrated the brain. There is,
of course, no truth in such tales, but
the facts are had enough, for the an¬
noyance to cattle is very serious and
prevents thrift in beef animals aud
milk production in dairy herds.
A great many methods of combating
it have been tried with more or less
success, those most effective consist¬
ing of the application of substances of
an oily character. Kerosene emulsion,
applied with a spray pump, has been
found quite useful, as it kills all the
flics it touches. Good results have
been secured with fish oil to which
about two tablespoonfuls of carbolic
acid to tho quart is added, the mixture
being applieil^with a broad, flat paint
brush. Two parts of fish oil or cot¬
ton aoed oil and one part of pine tar
is a Successful application and the cost
is low. At tho Mississippi Experi¬
ment Station this mixture was applied
to three hundred and fifty cattle at a
cost indicate of only 82.20. These suggestions
in a general xvay the character
of the remedies to bo used. Any of
them require frequent renewal as they
only protect tho cattle for from three
to six days. When dairy herds can be
confined iu dark stables during the
day it is best to do so, care being taken
to keep the flies out.
laid The horn fly is propagated from eggs
in the droppings or the cattle, and
it is therefore a good plan to break
these up when the droppings have be¬
come a little dry. One peculiarity
about the horn fly is that it cannot
travel well unless it has cattlo to ac¬
company. If, therefore, tho farmer
can prevent his tho multiplication of the
fly on own promises by the use of
tho roinoilios and by breaking up the
egg bearing droppings, he is not likely
to be much troubled, even though the
fly ho numerous on the adjoining farm.
—Wisconsin Farmer.
Tlio Farm Garden.
The garden is tho most productive
aero of the farm. If it is not, it should
bo made so. It is tho most indispen¬
sable part of farm life. Half of out¬
living should come from our garden iu
summer.
Not one-half tho country people make
# effort have garden.
au to a There are
some that start out well iu the spring,
sow au abundance of seed and never
look at the garden again until thoy
think it is time they should havo re¬
sults. They take a look and cannot
find auy for tho Weeds have covered
tho little plants. Then thoy come to
tho conclusion that the seed did not
grow. the Thoy say all sorts of things
about seedsmen, and mow off the
weeds and wait until another spring
when they go through the same pro¬
cess. Now this is all wrong. To keep
tho garden clean wo should begin early
and continue the cultivation until fall.
It is impossible to destroy all the
woods whilo wo aro cultivating tho
early vegetables. Little patches of
weeds around the garden will produce
3oeil enough to seed the whole garden
next year. Wo should try to plan so
as to koep all tho ground occupied in
the garden. It will require but little
more labor to cultivate a cabbago or
turnip iu a vacant place than simply
to cultivate to keep down tho weeds.
You can sow lettuce iu July and it
will be nice in the fall. Cabbage aud
turnip can ho transplanted iuto tho
ground when the early peas and pota¬
toes havo grown; or you can sot celery
and beets for winter use. Keep all the
ground occupied. If clean cultivation
is given, as should be done, tho weeds
will be killed out and at the same time
a good crop secured. Thinning out
plants is au important matter iu gar¬
dening; beets aud carrots will not grow
to any size if left too thick. No vege¬
table but the onion will stand crowd¬
ing. If tho soil is rich enough onions
will grow to a good sizo when fivo or
six stand together; they will crowd
each other out of tho ground all but
the roots and will bottom nicely. The
onion maggot destroys onions badly; a
good remedy is to take the soil away
from tho bulbs no matter if tiro little
onions tip over; so long as tho roots
aro iu tho ground they are all right.
By doing this tho ily hns no ehanco to
put its eggs on the stalks aud then
there are no maggots in the bulbs.—
Farm anil Homo.
A Poultry Ilottso Oovico.
Where fowls are kept iu confine¬
ment, whether the season be summer
or winter, they must be furnished
green food iu the form of cabbage,
turnips, boots or out clover. These
should not he thrown loosely iuto the
pen to become quickly soiled, but put
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RACK POlt POn.TRY PEED.
into a rack with sloping sides, like
that shown in the sketch. The hens
reach through the slats and eat what
thoy desire. The top slopes so that
they canuot roost upon it. If tilled
with cabbages, etc., they will come
down to the heus as fast as eaten._
American Agriculturist.
lirutw Discoloration.
To prevent a bruise from becoming
discolored apply immediately water ns
hot as can bo borne comfortably,
changing tho cloth ns it loses its heat
If hot water is not to be had at onoo
moisten some dry starch with cold
water aud cover the bruised part with
it.
THE HARVEST OF PRUNES.
AN INDUSTRY OF CREAT MAGNI¬
TUDE IN CALIFORNIA.
estimated That There Are 53,000 Acres
Planted to Thin Fruit, Involving an
Investment of *20,000.000 — How
I’runea Are Gathered and ltrled.
The magnitude of tho prune indus¬
try of California is little realized by
the people in the Eastern States. In
a decade the growing of prunes has
gone forward in California by leaps
and bounds, and to-day 820,000,000 is
invested in it—that is, in lands, trees,
irrigation systems, agricultural tools
and packing houses. Notwithstanding
damaging frosts last spring through¬
out tho lower part of the San Joaquin
Valley, and all over the horticultural
valleys of Pomona, San Gabriel anil
Santa Anna, the total product of green
prunes now on the trees in this State,
says a Los Angeles letter to the Chi¬
cago Record, is estimated at 83,000
tons. Of this quantity about one-fifth
will be shipped East as green fruit for
salo at fruit stands anil for canning
purposes; the remaining four-fifths
will bo dried for market, making about
24,000 tons of dried prunes.
Ten years ago tho total area of bear¬
ing prune orchards in California ivas
less than 7000 acres. In 1890 tho to¬
tal area of bearing prune orchards was
18,000 acres, and there was an euor-
rnous in planting of prune trees that year
all the fruit growing valleys of Cali¬
fornia, because of the large ’profit in
the industry. Twelve thousand itcres
of prune orchards were set out in the
winter of 1891-91, and 24,000 acres
more rvere planted in tho next two
years. These orchards have now come
into hearing, and the Stato Board of
Horticulture finds that, there aro 53,-
000 acres of bearing prune orchards in
California to-ilay and about 8000
acres more to come into bearing. Con¬
servative estimates put tho total crop
of California prunes in a favorable
year at not less than 90,000 tons.
The value of the crop has gone down
very rapidly iu tho last three years.
In the season of 1892 good prunes
fresh from the trees sold for 835 a ton.
In 1894 tho same product brought 825
a ton. This year the very best prunes
bring 818 a ton, but the general mar¬
ket price is 810 a ton.
When the prune crop is harvested
iu August the scenes in the orchards
and in the drying Acids arc long to be
remembered. Thousands of men,
women and children throughout tho
valleys of central and southern Cali¬
fornia are busy iu the prune orchards
and at the fruit-packing houses in
theao (lays.
A prune orchard in itself Is one of
tho most beautiful things in the realm
of horticulture anil when the throngs
of workers are there it is an intcrcst-
ing sight. Tito thousands of trees arc
planted in long rows, so equidistant
one from the other and in such sym¬
metry that one may look in any direc¬
tion among thorn anil the alignment is
perfect. The ground is soft anil even,
aud tho years of monthly cultivation
and care have made it so smooth that
not oven a pobblo or a clod or a blade
of grass or tho smallest weed may be
seen anywhere.
When the fruit grower, who has
been daily watching the process of
ripening fruit of his crop, finds that tho
is so thoroughlp ripened as to bo
soft to the touch he employs a force of
workers. Great sheets of cheap cloth
are laid on the ground beneath the
trees. Strong men shake the trees
and boys shake branches so that the
prunes may fall, The sheets are
gathered up at the ends and tho fallen
fruit poured into padded boxes, so as
to avoid handling as much as possible.
Tree after tree is treated in this way,
once each (lay, until the crop is gath¬
ered. Tho operation is often repeated
once a (lay for twenty days before all
the prunes are harvested.
Meanwhile the gathered fruit has
been carried to the washing boxes and
the dripping caldrons. 1 Tho prunes
are put into great heavy wire cages
holding atnl several first dipped hundred'pounds each
aro into running
water, whore the dirt and dust are
washed away. In a moment more the
cage is elevated on a crane anil let
down into a caldron of hot water,
heavy with concentrated lye. The
purpose of this operation is to remove
the bloom aud crack tho skin that on-
volops tho flesh of tho prune iu order
that the. drying process may take place
more skin is rapidly. In its natural state the
so smooth auil tough that it
would take a week to dry tho fruit
properly for market.
From tho caldrons of hot lye
water the cages of prunes are lifted
a lain and once more plunged into hot
c can water, so that the lye may bo
washed awoy anil a gloss be given to
the /nut.
Then comes the drying process.
Girls aud boys come with shallow
wooden trays a yard square and, as
the prunes pour down from a hopper
into which they are dumped from the
cages, deft hands spread the product
over tho trays iu the twinkling of an
eye. A little tnmway carries t ie
trays and fruit out into the drying
yard every minute and there on tho
grouud, covered for two or three
acres with some cheap fabric, tho
prunes arc plaeod for drying by the
sun. There is a strong sunshine
twenty-nine days out of thirty in each
summer mouth in the valleys of cen¬
tral and southern California, aud so it
is the rule that primes are well dried
iu two aud a half or three days.
A little army of workers is always
busy in the prune season iu gathering
tho dried products from tho trays and
carrying it iu baskets to the' sweat
boxes, where, after a week or ten
days, the dampness that arises from
quickly dried fruit has evaporated.
Often a prune grower ou nn extensive
scale may have in his bins at the close
of the harvesting of tho crop 600 or
700 tons of dried primes, while his
drying yard of several acres may bo so
completely look covered with trays os to
as if smeared a purple black.
The more exteusive prune growers
in California handle as many as
seventy tons of prunes in a day. It
takes from two and oue-half to three
potiuds of the greeu fruit to make one
of the dried product.
The active work of the harvest over,
the grower looks about for buyers for
his yield. There are always scores of
purchasing agents for Eastern whole-
sale fruit dealers aud commission
houses throughout the horticultural
regions of California in the fruit sea-
son anil there are hundreds of local
fruit shippers in the State. The fruit
IS sampled and tested for its saccliar-
ine qualities, the firmness of the f*jsh
anil the gloss of the skin. .Little bags
of sample fruit are sent here arid
there. When a sale is made it is
done on the basis of the sizes of (lie
dried prunes. Thus there are six
sizes: 1, those ranging from forty to
fifty to the pound; 2, fifty to sixty to
the pound; 3, sixty to seventy; 4,
seventy to eighty; 5, eighty to ninety,
am} 0, all below ninety. An ex-
perienced prune grower and buyer
can tell at a glance what size of fruit
he is looking at and, of course, the
larger sizes are tho more marketable,
Soldiers to Guard Buffalo.
The Secretary of the Interior at
Washington has under consideration a
project which will hereafter furnish
some of the Fort Logan cavalrymen
with a novel variety of active duty in
tho summer and fall seasons. It is
that a detail of Itegular Army troopers buffalo
he told off to guard the herd of
which exists in Lost Pork, Colorado.
There are still about forty of these
rare beasts alive, but if some immedi¬
ate precaution is not taken to protect
them against the depredations of pot¬
hunters they will speedily be exterm¬
inated. Late last fall one buffalo was
found dying at a remote distance from
its fellows, having been wounded a
number of times by rifle bullets. It
was put out of pain by a deputy game
warden, and its stuffed frame is now
among the collection of rarities in the
rooms of the State Historical Society.
This incidont led to the discovery
that several others of the herd had
been killed during the preceding sum¬
mer. No trace of the marauders who
did the killing could be discovered,
nor could any effective means be de¬
vised by the State Game Warden to
guard against them in future. A good
deal of indignation was aroused thereat
among sportsmen and others who are
interested in preserving- Colorado’s
rapidly dwindling buffalo. As a re¬
sult the scheme to use cavalrymen was
concocted, arid James A. Miller, clerk
of the Supreme Court, was delegated
to communicate with Congressman
Shafroth on the subject. This action
was taken by Mr. Miller on May 5,
and yesterday he received from Con¬
gressman Shafroth a letter, inclosing
a statement from the United States
Adjutant-General’s office to the effect
that the military buffalo warden pro¬
posal was under consideration by the
United States Department of tho In¬
terior.—Denver Republican.
An Expensive Business.
Residents of the lower Mississippi
have for many years felt tho greatest
concern on account of the washing
away of the banks and tho necessity of
some means by which tho currents
could bo deflected and stop the con¬
tinual wearing away of the shores.
Some idea of the expense attending
tho keeping of this great body of water
within reasonable bounds may be got¬
ten from the statement of an expert
who has just finished an examination
of this erratic stream. Immense mat¬
tresses or mats aro mado of willows
and underbrush. These aro woven in
with wires and poles of various sizes,
forming an enormously heavy and ap¬
parently very strong resisting mater¬
ial. These mats are woven on barges
anchored out in the stream for this
purpose. Then they are slid off into
the water and weighted with stones.
Home of them are three or four hun¬
dred feet long. Some of the largest
of them will cover eight acres. The
work can only be done during low
water, which fact greatly adds to tho
cost, ns there is only a short season,
aud tho work must be pushed to the
highest rate of speed. Sometimes,
after all of the effort, tho first high
water sweeps tho whole structure
away, and all must be done over again.
• Asbestos Hope.
Asbestos formerly in use now has a
formidable competitor in the blue as-
bestos of South Africa. The latter is
less than half as heavy, and furnishes
finer anil longer fibres, which have
been worked iuto webs but little in¬
ferior to those made of vegetable fiber,
are most absolutely known fireproof, and resist
chemicals, corrosive va¬
pors, and atmospheric influences.
A blue asbestos rope, three-fourths
of an inch in diameter, was weighted
at one end with 220 pounds, and ex¬
posed to a constant flame from a largo
gas jot, so that a considerable portion
of its length was surrounded by tiro.
It only broke after twenty-two hours.
Tho asbestos rope has only two-thirds
tho strength of a now hemp rope, but
as they grow older the proportion
changes in favor of tho former, since
it is but little affected by the atmos¬
phere. The blue asbestos fiber is
also worked into mattresses for hospi¬
tals, which ore cooler in summer anil
warmer in winter than those of ani¬
mal hair or vegetable fiber. As an
experiment firemen’s apparel is bo-
ing manufactured from tho fiber.—
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
A Pyramid of Darrels.
A pyramid, not of the kind usually
read about, but one composed of hogs¬
heads, barrels and casks of every kiud
aud description, which has been in the
process of construction for several
weeks on the top of Gallows Hill,
Salem, where nineteen persons wore
executed inlG92for alleged witchcraft,
collapsed yesterday afternoon, much
to the chagrin of many persons, who
had been anticipating a big bonfire at
midnight of July 4. Tho pyramidhnd
reached au altitude of 120 feet anil w as
to he still higher. It was forty-seven
feet Square at the base, aud contained
more than 10.000 barrels, thousands of
them being crushed by tho fall.
Several persons narrowly escaped
being hurt, While its destruction
has somewhat spoiled the ardor of
those building tho pyramid, it is an¬
nounced that there will be auother one
erected, but it will not be anywhere
near as high.—Boston Transcript.
Restrictions on Balloon Ascensions.
There has been of late such an ex¬
traordinary craze for balloon ascentB
in Vienna, that the Municipal Council,
on account of the number of accidents,
has issued nn order to the effect that
“every one who should wish to make a
balloon ascent must prove that lie has
jsriSars. issrf.2; b
part . 111 ; BL aerial . , voyage canuot . <lo , SO
without the consent 6f their wives and
children.”
A Beau if il Skin
.
f,. ry eruptions, red and unsightly ringworms—
, v ( l“ 8 w0 ^. y & y^ 1 C o^ 1 e pieteiy and quickly cured
by Tntterlne. 30 cents a box at drug stores or
; J® r w ln stamps from J. T. Shuptrine,
- a ' annal1 ’ a
IlMS OF INTEREST.
An ant which Sir John Lubbock, the
English naturalist, had kept for obser-
,. fttion nlftl , y years, recently died,
whereupon the Indinn M i rror publish-
ed obit notice of the death of
}jj 8 ‘ aun t ’
Mr. Appleton, . . A secretary of the Bnt-
lsh . Foreign Arbitration and Peace
society . has been sentenced to three
months imprisonment by the Maryle-
bone police magistrate for assaulting
anil beating a housemaid.
Paris and Marseilles are now con¬
nected by telegr aph lines entirely un¬
der ground. They are placed in iron
pipes and buried four feet beneath the
surface, with manholes 3,000 feet
apart. It cost $7,000,000 to bury the
wires.
For the purpose of removing horses
from burning buildings a new fire
mask has been platted on the market,
consisting of a hood to cover the eyes
and nostrils to prevent the horse from
seeing the fire or smelling the smoke.
The X rays are now used in the
queen’s kitchen. They are an instant
anil infallible detective of stray fish
bones, plum stones and what-not, that
may accidentally get into the royal
food. The ray lifts a great weight of
responsibility from the cook’s mind.
Natural Selections.
“I don’t know what’s going to be¬
come of that boy of mine. He was
never known to get anything right. ”
“Make a weather prophet of him.”
—Detroit Free Pree Press.
SUFFERING .WOMEN.
How Many of Thom Havo Quietly
Obtained Advice That Made
Them Well.
My sister, if you find that in spite of
following faithfully your family doc¬
tor's advice, you are not getting well,
why ilo you not try another course ’?
Many and many a woman has quietly
written to Mrs. Pinkham, of Lynn,
Mass., stating her symptoms plainly
and clearly, and taken her advice, which
was promptly received. The follow¬
ing letter is a
r??5 pretty strong
- confirmation
of
our claims:
“ I had been
sick for six
< months;
one doctor
Tj | would told me have I
\ to go to a
A \ I hospital before I
would get well. I had female troubles
in their worst form, suffered untold
agonies every month ; my womb tipped
back to my backbone, hail headache,
hysteria, fainting spells, itching, leu-
corrhoea.
“ My feet and hands were cold all
the time, my limbs were so weak that
I could hardly walk around the house:
was troubled with numb spells. I
have taken four bottles of Lydia E.
Pinkham’s* Vegetable Compound, one
bottle of her Tilood Purifier, one pack¬
age of her Sanative Wash, and am
entirely cured. I have not had one
of those numb spells since. Can you
wonder that I sing the praises of a
medicine that has cured me of all these
ills ?”■— Mrs. Louisa Place, G50 Bel¬
mont St., Brockton, Mass.
;gf AT LAST
- SI A Oil perfect Lantern. Coal
aagljg m iJjbgs % BaroaVBrilliant'
Tliat’a its narno.
Stylish,
Fine Light,
Withstands a
Hurricane.
m Delights the
Owner.
Prices to suit the
isi times. Ask your
dealer. He’ll ^et
m . it Other for you. lanterns
SSi aro NOT as good.
,v iBBBimx
Olio Lantern Co,
TIFFIN, OHIO.
CHRONIC Of All Forms Successfully DISEASES Treated.
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Bronchitis, Palpita¬
tion, Indigestion, &<*. CATARRH: Of Nose,
Throat and Lungs. DISEASES PECULIAR TO
WOMEN: Prolapsus, Ulcerations, Loueorthot,
&<•. Write giving history of your case, and It
will receive Immediate attention. An opinion,
price of treatment, pamphlet and testimonials
will be sent you free. I)R. S. T. WHITAKER,
205 N or cross Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
MONEY 0 GIVEN AWAY
■ W IS NOT APPRECIATED.
RUT.....
When you can earn it easy and rapidly it is a
good thing. For HOW TO DO IT, address
THK II. G. LIN HERMAN CO., 404 Gould
Guilding, Atlanta, Ga.
MAPLE SYRUPS
■ W loess, In ft few minutes, costing 25 cts.
and soiling at $1.00 per gallon. Also Maple
Sugar mado from same.
“1 want to thank you for tho Maple Syrup
recipe which 1 find is excellent. I can recom¬
mend It highly to any and every one.”-—R ev
Sam P. Jonhs, Cartersville, Ga.
Send $1 postal order and get tho recipe. Bo¬
nanza for agents.
J. N. LOTSPKICH, Morristown, Tenn.
CLAREMONT COLLEGE,HiCKORY.N.C.
Girls and young
worn on. Lo«’;i-
tion ,a noted
health resort.
f. Ten schools In
& one. $400 Piano
V & given to tlio best
JS ! DiMfe nt music o. gradli¬
isE n aa#£ and Mountain water. For air
w/i SI cat K. A. al’g P. M., Hatton, Pres. address
$75.00 For S37.50 T° be Obtained at
WHITE’S BUSINESS COLLEGE,
l. r > K. Cain St., ATLANTA, GA.
Complete Ihisitiess and Shorthinifl Course Com¬
bined. $7.50 Per Mouth.
Average time required five months.
Would Average $.5.00 cost $37.50. This course
cost at any other reputable s< 'hool.
Business practice from the start. Tri atnod
Teachers, four so of study tui excelled. No va-
cation. Address F. li. Will TK, Principal.
E f?T r* Eb • LEEb w— tr“
v r
Tho f litter, ctttxen .nil chriatUn hero. A (freftt new
I S book aSriBHiw jus* ready, giving life and ancsstry. Araojwy
■ orm,8U-,Bichmood.Vk
■ m
3ji ho »«*»»«•» N.M., WASHINGTON. sibwoty 1). 1'.
1 only Institution teaching practical electrical
October uJ rST“ tOT go^iS n ^S;
1. Catalogues on application.
MELZA’S tallty. Cures troubles Makes all and Nervoug Lost old men VI.
VIGOR strong and vigorous,
builds up weak run¬
down manhood In
both old and young.
BEANS Write for particulars
and how to get FREE
treatment.
MELZA REMEDY 00., Atlanta,Ga,
ELIZABETH L COLLEGE.
FOR WOMEN.
CHAKLOTTE, N. C.
EQUAIi Colleges TO for THE BEST with
men every feature of tfc
high grade College for women added.
A FACULTY OF 15 SPECIALISTS
From schools of international reputa^
tion, University as Yale. Johns Virginia,Berlin,New Hopkins, Amherst, Eng¬
of
land Conservatory, Paris, &e.
THREE COURSES
Leading to degrees.
GROUP SYSTEM
With electives.
MUSIC CONSERVATORY
With Organ,JPiuno, course Violin, leading Guitar, to dip^^a. Banjo, Man** Pip^
ART CONSERVATORY
Full course to diploma—all varieties.
FULL COMMERCIAL
Course—Teacher from Eastman.
A REFINED HOME
With every modern convenience.
CLIMATE
Similar to that of Asheville.
COLIjECftS BUILDING,
173 ft, frontage, 143 ft. deep, 4 stories high,
built of pressed brick, fire proof, with
every modern appliance.
Catalogue Address, sent free on application.
REV. C. B. KING, President,
Charlotte. N. C.
SOMETHING NEM.
fill® Lin IMiGlQB.
jj/'EEPING the inventions abreast of with this
chinery, age, we, by modern ma¬
compress our
powdered Dr. M. A. Sim¬
mons’ Liver Medicine into
tablets and sugar coat
them.
Consumers can either
swallow the tablets whole
or chew them up and swal¬
low with water. The
candy sugar coating ex¬
cludes the air, protects the
purified medicine influ<f*^-s' , f rom
microbic pre¬
vents the possibility of
deterioration from atmos¬
pheric changes, insuring
perfect purity and full
strength when taken, and
makes it pleasant to
take as candy. Tablets
contain only the powdered
Liver Medicine, same as
sold in packages by Dr.
M. A. Simmons and we
his successors, since 1840.
Price 25 Cents per Package.
0. F. Simmons Medicies Go. f
PROPRIETORS,
S'T. Louis, Mo»
e gsggjg^fss^ wsr ‘Success”
% n 1/011011 ......
Seed l ull6r
Jj i.- 1 IB lF 3 s "’ mlir -
| doubles
tbo Valuo
of Seed to the
Farmef.
All up-to-date Ginners use them because the Grow¬
ers give their patronage to such gins. Hulloris
PRACTICAL, RELIABLE and GUARANTEED.
For full information Address
SOU LE STEAM FEE D WORKS, Meridi an ,Mi8j
GROVES
!■
/
i\
11 •>
TASTELESS
CHILL
TONIC
IS JUST AS GOOD FOR ADULTS.
WARRANTED- PRICE 50cts.
Pari? Medicine Co., Galatia, Mo. Ills., Nov. 1G, 1893.
St. Louis,
Gentlemen:—We sold last year, GOO bottles of
GROVE’S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC and have
bought thr ree gr osp already tills year. In all our ex-
pe rtenc of 14 years, lu lu tho drug business, linvo
never ne sold nn articlo thatga ve such universal satis*
faction as your Touic. Y ours truly,
AllNE Y. CARR & CO.
WEAK MEN il),
■ V Are fully restored
by HAGGAIID’S SPE¬
trr. CIFIC TA IS F/KTS. 1 box,
$1.00; 8 boxes $2.50, by
mall. Address, W Y. L
Haggard’s ATLANTA, Specific GA. Co., |
Full particulars sent by
mail on application.
S iiBurnta, lin. Actual jaisinos;. No text j/
booio*- Short time. Cheap board. S^ni for catalogue.
CANCER^™™®
MENTION THIS HIPER in tisers. writing Anu toadvor. 97-33
' :25 6'15
PI SO/S CURE FO'R
UUnt. h nn Syrup. enc all tLbt rAILb.
Ik'Hi Couf Tastes Good. Use
In t«ue. Sold by drogglpts.
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