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Lend a Hand. Liie is made ol ups and downs— Lend a hand; life is made of thorns and crowns; II you would the latter wear, lilt some emshed heart irom despair— Lend a hand. Crowns are not alone ol gold! Lend a hand; Diadems arc bought and sold; But the crowns that good men own. Come from noble deeds alone— Lend a hand. Many crown9 that many wear— Lend a band; Never in the sunlight glare; Diamonds never in them shine, Yet they hold a light divino— Lend a hand. Hold a light that ne’er shall fade— Lend a baud; Beauty, art hath never made; 'jFot these crowns that good men wear, Fverfasting are, as rare— Lend a hand. Would you own so bright a crown Lend a hand; When you see a brother down, Lead him from the deep, dark night, * Place him in tl. morning light— Lend a hand. FARM, GARDES ASD IIOUSEHOLBU . joiisehold Hints. A ’am shell is more convenient for scraping kettles and frying pans than a knife. It does the work in less time. When washing fine laces do not use starch at all; in tho last water in which they are rinsed put a little fine white sugar, dissolve it thoroughly, and the result will he pleasing. When the hands are chapped, instead of washing them with soap, employ oat¬ meal, and, after each washing, take a little dry oatmeal, and rub over the hand so as to absorb any moisture. A solution of one and one-quarters ol a pound of white soap and three-eighths of an ounce of spirits of ammonia, dis¬ solved in twelve gallons of soft water, will impart a beautiful and lasting whiteness to any flannels dipped in it, no matter how yellow they have been previous to their immersion. After be¬ ing well stirred round for a short time, the articles should be taken out and well washed in clean, cold ivater. Recipes* Milk-Yeast Bread— Take one cup¬ ful of milk, add hot water to warm the milk; mix sifted flour to make a thin sponge; let stand over night in a warm place; in the morning add one half cup¬ ful of butter, and flour to sufficiently stiffen for bread, kneading thoroughly; fill pans Half full, and in a warm place allow the loaves to rise to the top of the pans; bake in a steady oven, not too hot, one hour. German Flummery.—H alf pint ol milk, two ounces corn starch, two of sugar; boil until moderately thick, Flavor with lemon or vanilla; beat the whites of four eggs to a snow, stir in lightly, turn the whole into a jelly mold (any dish will answer) that has not been wet with milk; let it get coot and firm; serve with any fruit syrup, boiled mustard ojj whipped cream. A Nice and Simple Dessert.— Take aalf a pint of rice,which must be put into a little cold water and boiled until nearly soft; now pour into it a pint of rich milk and boil again, stirring it all the time; sweeten with half a pound of sugar, and season with a little rose-water to your taste. Dip blane-mange molds in cold water, and fill with the rice, which should be cooked to the consist¬ ency of stiff mush. It will harden in a short while, and turn out prettily upon a flat dish. Eat with preserves and cream, cream, sugar, and nutmeg, or syllabub; custard even may be used for variety’s sake. IVeat I»oor-lnrd*< The person who lives in the city has but a small yard, and generally can manage to keep it neat and clean. But country fo If s have larger places, and having so much work constantly on hand theyji ej.flnable to spend the time which thev think would be required to make t.uir surroundings pleasant. Many farmers also have an idea that it costs a great deal to put out ornamental trees and lay out the grounds as village people often do. In order to lay them out in an artistic manner and have the grounds resemble a city park, consider¬ able money would be needed. But a yard can be made quite pretty without much labor or expense. The surface of the ground should be made and kept quite smooth, and the grass should be cut often. A few ornamental trees or shrubs may be planted, but a good green stretch of lawn by itself looks pretty, and saves work. Such a lawn, too, is enticing for the children, and if kept neat, which after all h the main thing, the place will be much more attractive than such too often are. StwiiiK Seeds* While it mny.bp Yffy desirable to save the first seeds af-some'of our vegetables, such as sweet corn, peas and beans, it is not best to make snob a selection from all kinds. The first tomatoes that ripen are generally small andill-shapen, and it would be undesirable to select seeds from these, as they would soon deteriorate the variety; but the best plan is to wait till large, smooth speci¬ mens are produced, and from these select seed for future crops. By doing this for a few years, you will find that you have wonderfully improved the tomato; and to secure improvement o) any kind of vegetable it is absolutely necessary to select the best specimens ol every kind. Deterioration ought to have no place in tho farmer’s vocabu¬ lary.— Cultivator. Take Uaoil Care of the Horsea. Horses need good care in these hot days of midsummer. They should be kept clean by frequent currying and occasional washing of the legs and feet. The flies will cause tho most incon¬ venience, and while working in the field some protection from them in the shape of nets or thin blankets (sheets) is a great comfort to the animals. Keep the sta¬ bles clean that they may not harbor the flies or develop any bad odors. Horses that are at regular farm work need good food—better titan grass alone will give. Oats or ground teed ot some kind must supplement the pasture at night, Ulixed Feed Best tor A»tfinals. No animals do well for any great length oftinie on any one article for food. The natural condition of all our domes¬ ticated animal is to roam at large and make their.own selections from the abundant varieties which nature has provided. We frequently speak and write of the excellent feeding qualities of one or another variety of fodder, but in the experience of feeding it will be found that in the first change from one kind to another we have an increase of milk, although the change may not al¬ ways be in favor of the most nutrition. A new variety tempts the appetite, and the extra quantity which the animal consumes will move than compensate for its less nutritious character. It is generally said for a horse that is work¬ ing in heavy teams corn is preferable tc oats, but for the driving or riding hors* oats are better than corn. With this statement we disagree and prefer a mix¬ ture. Oats produce more muscle, corn more fat. A horse fed on oats is quicker in its motions and more restive, but fed on corn is steadier and more en¬ during, hence the benefit of mixed feed. Nowhere is the advantage of a mixed feed more apparent than in milch cows, for, milk being a product that requires a fair proportion of all the elements re¬ quired for the production of an animal, it is ovidentthat all the elements^will be necessary tor making milk. But Some¬ times we make a special effort to pro¬ duce an extra amount o f butter; then we must feed an extra amount of food which contains an excess of oil or fat. We find if we are feeding the best of hay, if we add a little meal we do not increase the quantity of milk so much as the quantity of butter. The German chem¬ ists have for some time been teaching us that to obtain the best results in feed¬ ing we must have the supply of carbo- dydrates (fat and heat producers) and albuminoids (flesh producers) so evenly balanced that one shall consume the other in the animal economy, though this cannot always be practicable on ac¬ count of the”different conditions of the animals. One that is being fattened will consume a larger portion of carbo¬ hydrates than of albuminoids, and the latter will be found making richer the manure pile, although food is furnished largely in excess of fat-producing ma¬ terial. In growing animals flesh and bone producers should be in the ascend¬ ancy, and in milch cows, as already stated, the elements should be well balanced. The evidence that no one production of nature is ! 11 that is re¬ quired in Die animal economy is fur¬ nished in the fact that no one produc¬ tion is adapted to all the requirements of the animals or all that is required from the animal. No person has any higher apprecia¬ tion of rye and corn fodder than tliQ experienced feeder. Yet we do no{ think that these fed alone are equal to a mixture. Rye is valuable because it copies when it is desirable for the cows to' have a change; but there is a won¬ derful difference between the addition of a few quarts of brewers’ grains and a quart of bran, mixed, and a pint ot meal, in tke'produclion of milk; We ark! compelled to feed rye alone because no other forage crop is available, or we would not do it. If we could have a mix¬ ture of barley, oats, and clover with the rye, we should have a superior fodder. Pasture grass,or rather grasses,excel,ton for ton, either rye, barley, oats, clover, corn fodder, or any like crops, because pastures yield a combination of grasses, all varying in their composition and in their time of maturing; but the differ¬ ence is this, that we can obtain a ton of any of the fodder crops from less than one-tenth of the ground required for the pasture grasses. Still, it is undesirable to feed any one forage crop when we could feed three or four mixed, or alter¬ nately. A mixture of grasses make a more profitable hay than any one kind. Clover and peas are good to alternate witli corn fodder. Clover, which is rich in albuminoids, will produce a large quantity of milk. Sweet corn fod¬ der is rich in sugar, starch, and fat, and will add to the milk the butter and sugar elements, and so on. But we have said enough to illustrate our position as to mixed fped being best for animals.* ’ American Cultivator. At the Bottom of the Ocean. Wonderful, isu’t it? that it is possible to tell what is at the bottom of the ocean. It seems incredible to the landsman who has ventured a few hundred yards out¬ side of the coast line that any one can tell the secrets of the great deep. Yet the scientists have mapped out the bot¬ tom of the ocean, at least of the Atlantic ocean, and the story is told by Doctor Crawford of the results of the explora¬ tion of the British ship Challenger. The average depth, it seems, is about 13,000 feet, or about two miles and a half. The average height of the entire land, of the globe is only 1,000 feet above the sea level. The area of the sea is about two and three-quarter times that of land. The form of the depressed area is liken¬ ed to a tea-tray, the edges of which abruptly slope up, thu3 forming Europe and Africa on the one side, and America on the other. It is on this flat and relatively even surface that the cables are laid. Venus or Love, in the old Greek mythology, was born of the sea. Strangely enough, the scientists all seem to think that the origin of life -was in the ooze and slime which covers the ocean beds. But how different are the researches of the scientists compared with the visions of the poet. Who does not recall in this connection the splen¬ did lines which Shakspeare puts into the mouth of Clarence, the brother of bloody Gloster, who thus tela his dream of the ocean bottom: “ Methought, I saw a thousand ioarfnJ wrecks; A thousand moil, that Ashes gnaw'd upon; Wedges oi gold, groat nuuhoi s, heaps of pearls Inestimable stones, unvalued jov ely, All sc.irici'o l in the bottom ol the sea. Somo lay in (lend men’s skulls, and in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there wereoicpt (As ’twero in scorn ol eyes) reflecting gems, That woo’d (lie slimy bottom of tho deep And mocked tho dea l hones that lay scat¬ ter'd by.” Fine poetry this, but wholly unlike what Dr. Carpenter found in his re¬ searches.^ —Denmcst's Monthly. Tile aud Wealth. When the American girl lavishes her smiles and her preference upon the hand¬ some youth of good family and great fortune, dof s she prove herself to be a snob ? If her feeling could be analyzed, it would be simply this, that she would willingly marry him as the condition of an ample gratification of her social am¬ bitions and tastes. Her marriage would seoure her the best social position, and supply her with the splendid environ¬ ment which she desires. The young English girl sets all her smiles in the same way for a dissipated young marquis, let us suppose, ignorant, and boorish, and poor. But are not her feelings and purpose the same as those of her Ameri¬ can sister ? Is not her motive the same desire of the best social position and the gratification oi splendid tastes ? And is this what is meant by snobbery ? Evidently Thackeray’s lance was thrown at something more than this, and one of the shrewdest of women says that very snobbery is worship of rank as marking a higher order of humanity. The English girl, says this authority, does not lock upon the marquis as the American girl looks upon the young mil¬ lionaire, but she thinks him to be a superior being and his willingness to marry her a condescension. This is the degradation of snobbery, she argues, that a mere acoident, or something wholly apart from the character or of the person, like the form of bis or the color of his hair, should another person as a kind of superiority. No American girl can derstand that anybody is her merely because be is of a certain or of a recognized rank, and she laugh until sunset at the suggestion a man called a duke did her a favor, or condescended to her, when he promised to marry her. Snobbery, according to this view, is the worship of worship which levels all moral and tal distinctions and eats up the soul, But the desire of money in the of the Amerioan also levels such tinctions and in the same way. This not an essential difference between feeling which impels a woman to marry a marquis because of his rank, however poor, and ignorant, and repulsive may be, and that which persuades to marry a millionaire because of money. Snobbishness is the of time, and labor, and thought, energy, in fact, of life, to mere display. The woman yho laughs at pretensions of social rank and title, yet who gives herself for a is no less a snob than her sister gives herself for a coronet. In tb caBe the coronet stands for a]MR| fortune implies in the othei rank be held to be indicate thing essentially superior, jliaM J is more respectable mere money.— Harper’s A nliat is iM According to tin!' li;'A'" ance Reporter fire not includo the othri’ folly* “... - Fences and ’) stove furniture aoA ‘ glass of doors the nud dimensions wiudovficTgs-ijj are o\ more. It is important that thislS!! tioned in the wording of such articles are to be incus the polity. articles^®® The following named included in the security of a fire ance policy unless mentioned, viz.: elry, plate, watches, musical ments, ornaments, medals, palters, printed music, printed engravings, paintings, picture sculpture, casts and mode’s, money bullion, bills, notes, accounts, evidenoa of debt or securities. should always be specified. If a ing falls no insurance will attach, cover its loss, unless it is caused by Stolen property is not to be paid for the insurance company. Losses explosions are not to be paid, unless ensues, and then only the actual fire is to be settled for. Property on leased ground must be so of the company and expressed in policy. Goods on storage must be resented as such. The assured, in of fire, must invariably do his best save it, and carelessness in this will vitiate his olaim. In no shall he abandon his premises to and thieves. How Railroad Time is Kept. There are in use between this city and New York thirteen electric two of the number being placed in waiting-rooms and oue in the er’s office at the Grand Central depot New York. The time on the clock the depot at East Albany exactly with the time in New Each one of these clocks is With the general superintendent’s in New York, in which the time is kept on what is called the clock.” Conductors, train men others are compelled to keep their watches in strict conformity with the superintendent’s clock. It is set by standard time and connected with the time-service department of the gold and stock telegraph. The time is distributed over the line each week day as follows: At ten o’clock fifty-eight minutes and thirty seconds a. m., the word “time” is sent by the main office to the telegraph stations between New York and A lbany. The word is repeated for twenty-eight seconds, during which time operators must sec that their instruments are ad¬ justed. At ten o’clock and fifty minutes, seconds commence beating and continue for fifty seconds. The word “switch” is then sent over the wire, and operators having electric clocks connect them immediately with the circuit known as No. 9 wire. Ten seconds arc allowed in which to make the connection. At 11 a. M., with one touch of the New Fork key, the hands of the different clock's are set to eleven o’clock. 1 f they are last or slow, they change at once to the hour named .—Albany Argus. A Dakota hove Story. William Dowdall) of Faxon, Sibley county, Minnesota, the head of a num¬ erous family ot boys and girls, yielding o the laudable ambition of finding a larger farm for his family, set his face to the westward and selected himself a home ol 320 acres in range fifty-six, in McCook ’county, Dakota. So well pleased was he with the country that he resolved to send his two grown up daughters out to the new laud of prom¬ ise that each of them might secure a farm of her own. Willi this aim in view the old gentleman, before leaving, made arrangements with Charles Bar¬ rett, a claim agent and locator, who guided himself in his homesceking, to receive his daughters upon their arrival at Sioux Falls. In course of time Dow- dall’s daughters, Nellie and Annie, ar- rived at the “ Lowell of the West,” and true to his appointment an instinction gallantry the lively land man, Barrett, met them at the depot. They were a pair of charming girls, calculated to ex¬ cite in the manly bosom a regret, that in this favored region a man can marry only one wife at a time. Added to the charm of personal appearance Nellio Dowdall, one of the sisters, was tho happy possessor of ways at once practi¬ cal and fascinating. Nellie meant busi¬ ness, talked business, and was business all over. She talked in an eminently practical manner to the land agent, and an an’4j$$ f ment was entered into that they should start upon their land ex¬ ploring trip next morning. Sister Annie was simply lovable. Nellie was tho business partner of the concern, and i was deemed inexpedient to take Annie along, Nellie volunteering to “go it alone” with the land man and select claims lor herself and sister. On the trip they were accompanied by other homeseekers; but Birrett and Nellie Dowdall occupied a foremost place fir tho procession, enjoying a whole wagon and quiet conversation to themselves. As far as the history of the affair dis¬ closes, the whole conversation related exclusively to business. The girl se¬ lected a pre-emption and timber claim (320 acres) for herself, and the same for her sister, and resolved to complete the business of her mission by proceeding to the Yankton land office, sixty miles dis¬ tant, to file the necessary application for the claims. It was afternoon on a rainy day, un¬ pleasant for a long ride in an open wagon, and the land agent, fearing that in the darkness they might lose their way, suggested that they ' lay over under shelter on the prairie that night, but the bright young blonde from Min¬ nesota came West on business, and expressed her determination to have him go on and make the entry 8®Yankton. Their task accomplished r( -' turue d to Sioux Fails, and two girls again set out for Min- ta . iBut Nellie left a pledge behind. was wfth the McCook county Jnt. Before leaving] she made ■H promise tl* .t in two weeks she !ln<J mado arrangements 11 to send a dispatch announcing of her arrival. Ontheantici- Sliy ♦l, Barrett, rod; eleven miles lo the nearest postoflicc, to |^HPtb jlher communication; its call, rode and night, in all jHHHirniiig. |||E at Sioux Here Falls lie at an early hour Min- met the ; i' 'l' 01 ’ 1 ' ’; “ 3of ’“ ey« looked love to «it spake again,” and inside of a . »our the Dakota, boy and Min- HSfUirl were made one flesh. BMrwo j o souls with but a sin-le thought, hee els that beat uj oue.” ------ |y - y t History earliest Pagan of the times Beard. primi- e the ims to ■ties were represented with ma- j inefl i [cards. In France they played jk, nni a cuts iidpi the reign of Pharamond down¬ ward. Under Clovis, indeed, the heard of the 'king was an object of peculiar veneration, a,nd, indeed, every individ¬ ual was more or less sensitive regard¬ ing his beard. It is related that after the great battle of Toibiac Clovis sent a deputation to the defeated Alaric re¬ questing him to come and touch the victor’s beard as a token of Far from accepting the invitation in the spirit in which it was offered, the en¬ raged king of the Huns seized the Fraukish emissaries by the beards, and hauled them out of the room by theii revered looks. The unfortui ate envoys returned rather crestfallen to Clovis, narrated wliat had happened, and swore “on their beards ” to avenge the affront. In subsequent reigns the beard was the object of numerous enactments, and the fashion of wearing it was changed as frequently. Sometimes it was worn long, sometimes close-clipped, now peaked, now plaited, or even decorated with pearls and gold trinkets. Even in the saeied atmosphere oi Rome itseif beards were the objects of considerable discussion. Different popes enacted that no beards were to be worn; another as stringently directed thattttfr$0zor was never to be applied to the chin. Saints Clement o Alexan¬ dria, Cyprian, Jerome and Chrysostom, ongaged in vehement controversies about the mode of wearing the liair about the face in the fourteenth century. In France the final triumph of beards dates from the Renaissance, when the example set by the great artists, who largely indulged in these appendages, was closely followed by the sovereign and other magnates of the land. Under Henry III. shaven chins were the mode, the mustache being worn long and drooping. During Henry IV.’s rdign beards, cut square, came again into fashion ,and mustaches were curled; while under Louis XIY. beards were again tabooed, and the mustache alone worn, in the two following reigns the razor was in full use. Under tho re¬ publican regime, as also under those of the empirp and restoration, no beards were grovjir. witp the They revolution came in again, ol 1830, how¬ in ever, company with many other changes of "“slump, jtc., and at the present day no universal rule exists op^the matter. —London G lobe. _ The combined capital of the Boston aationa) banks is fifty million dollars. Wo shall never cease to endorse the good qualities of Dr. Ball’s Cough Syrup, for, with¬ out it» good effects, our paper wouUl have been short of reading matter tb’s week. We had a shocking cough.—Weekly Union. [Kansas City Tim?Pi] M arathon Mr. William Hadeier, extrefJWuffering at the Hotel, Wausau, after with rheumatism, without any benefit from physicians or various preparations, was cured by St. Jacob’s Oil.— Wis. Exchange. Corsets are said to have originated from an iron waistband, in which ty¬ rannical husbands in early history of the human family encased their wives. [Cincinnati Irish Citizen,] Mr. Thomas Lewis, 62 Bntier street, informs us that for seven years he was I fflieted with that dreadful malady. Sci¬ atica, and being induced to try St. Jacob’s Oil fouud almost immediate re¬ lief therefrom, and is now perfectly cured. Professor Newcomb, of the Was liing- ton observatory, has run his celestial tape-line out and finds that light travels 184,320 miles a second—a little slower than had been generally suspected by astronom ers heretofore. “More food and less medioine, more of nourishment and strength, less of the debili¬ tating influence of drugs, is what cur ex¬ hausted constitutions require,” said Baron Leibig, when he perfected the composition of the “Malt Bitters,” prepared by Malt Bitters Co. Two lads who had barely passed their sixteenth year, while breakfasting to¬ gether recently in a Paris factory, quar¬ reled and agreed to settle their dispute in what is now the prevalent fashion. They were not, however, in possession of foils, arid as a consequence deter¬ mined to fight with knives, throwing them at each other in the Spanish fash¬ ion. Standing three paces apart, they began the battle, and' soon one of them fell covered with blood. Thereupon the victor descended to the basement of the building for medical aid, and brought a doctor upon the scene just in time to witness the death of the wounded lad. Vegetine —Tlie groat tuccesB of the Vege¬ tine aa a cleanser and purifier cf the blood is shown beyond a doubt by the great numbers who have taken it and received immediate re¬ lief, with such remarkable cures. A Detroit alderman youth brags being that held he “ remembers in his on Andrew Jackson’s knee.” What we now want to know is, whether Andrew used a shingle or his hand.— Boston Post. Vegetine will regulate the bowels to healthy action, by stimulating tho secretions, cleans¬ ing and purifying the blood of poisofioua humors,and, in a healthful and natural manner, expels all impurities without weakening the body.__ Arc You Not in (loud Health? If the Liver is the source of your trouble, you can find an absolute remedy in Da. Sas- i'obd's Liver Invigobatob, the only vegetable cathartic «liioh acts directly on the Liver, (lures all Bilious diseases. For Jlook address Dr. Sanfokd. 162 Broadway, New York. Try‘Kend&U’s Spavin ItiDgbones, Cure,’a sure remedy for Spavins, Caros, or any en¬ largement of tlio joints. Hee advertisement. 5*=“■ Tit- Voltnlc Hell Co. Marshall, Mich, cures gnafanioed. them without They delav. mean Treat they say, Write to ‘Kendall’s Spavin Care’ is highly wonderful recom¬ mence horsfe I by Professor Williams, the trailer. Read advertisement. TIMELY TOPICS. Fred Hoyt had a dreadful ride of fifty- miles from Park City to Echo, Utah. He had murdered a son of Sheriff Turner, and the father had led a party in successful pursuit. The prisoner was tied securely to the front seat of a wagon, and the sheriff sat with a gun in his lap in the rear seat, hesitating Whether or not to shoot him. Some¬ times Turner would cock his gun and take deliberate aim, as though about to fire; but he did not do so, and finally put Iloyt alive in jail. The prisoner bore the ordeal calmly, never once beg¬ ging for his life, not even showing the slightest fear. _ On the island of St. Hilda, in the outer Hebrides, they have rather primitive postal facilities. The mails are sent out and brought in by any stray ship that happens to be going there. Some time since nine Austrian sailors were east ashore on St. Hilda. They remained there rive weeks without beijpg able to communicate Witte,their relatives in the outside world. They amused them¬ selves rigging up bottles with dispatches in them. At last a bottle was picked up at Orkney and aid was sent to the sail- ors. The people of St. Hilda have peti¬ tioned parliament for improved postal facilities. They humbly beg that a mail be sent to them twice a year. The man who wanted a lodge in some,vast wilderness ought to pitch his tent iteSt. Hilda.__ Yung Kwai, the Chinese boy, whe was graduated fr m tho Springfield (Mass.) high school last June with the salutatory address, became a Christian, and wrote home about it to his father, who is one of the highest of the Chinese nobles, though not of royal blood. The father wrote a very indignant letter, ai d ordered him to return home, threatening to starve and beat him into renouncing his views. As the boy was determined to be true to his new faith, he looked upon his return to China as going to almost certain death; but he started quietly with other boys for Boston, whence they were to sail for home by way ol Europe. Yung Kwai, iiowever, stepped from tho train at Springfield, and that is the last that has been seen oi him. if he succeeds in keeping hidden lor a year he will then be twenty-one, and can become a citizen of the United States. Edward Atkinson, than whom no man Js iftpre competent to express an opinion, iffiiys-'that we do not begin as yet to ..appreciate the magnitude of the wealth to bo reaped by cotton culture in this country. He says the present crop oi cotton will be twenty-five per cent, larger than the largest crop ei er raised by slaves—that i3.it will exceed 6,000,000 bales. If it be; that amount, it will produce 3 000.000 '^ tons of cotton seed wili b ^ de s e e A ‘° r antin8 ; which yield 0 90,000,000 aa „ n gallons of oil, M0Q,800 trife tons of oil cake and 1,500,000 of hulls suitable for making paper. Each ton of oil seed meal will keep five sheep six months. Thus the cotton seed crop will support millions of sheep and return to the land the fertilizer needed to grow more Cotton. He further says that the.present cotton acreage of the South covers Ipss than two per cent, of the cotton-growing area in the United States. nit u ill H JR I i ••■••a 5- J wmM jv; j m ti i mm \ FOR? EgEUTM, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of the Chest, Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell¬ ings and Sprains, Burns and Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet and Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. No Preparation on earth equals St. Jacobs Oil as Remedy. a safe, sure, simple and the cheap comparatively External A trial entails but trifling outlay of 50 Cents* and every one proof suffering with pain can have cheap and positive of its claims. Directions in Eleven Languages. 80LD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS IN MEDIOINE. A. VOGELER Sc CO., Baltimore, Md. ,U. 8. 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Faulkner Carter, in charge of the elephanls attached to the Royal Belgian expedition into Africa, gives an account of a sudden fight he;, had with three lions at Kerima, Central Africa. He shot a pig, and soon discovered three lions devouring it. He says: The two nearest were within two feet of me, and the furthest three and a half feet. - The brutes’ boards, chests and claws were covered with blood. Though startled at first, I was perfectly cool, and yet felt certain that 1 must be killed, as: even a tame lion is savage when eating his food. The lion opposite me caught sight of me at once, curled his lips, lashed his sides with his tail, but what the others were doing 1 cannot say, as my friend was in the act of springing, and I dare not take my eyes off him for a second. 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