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The Habit of Reading

II have no time to read" ID the com
mon complaint, and especially Of women,
whose occupations are such as to prevent
continuous book perusal. They seem
to think, because they cannot devote as
much attention to books as they are COM
pelfl to devote to their avocations, that
they cannot read anything. But this is
a great mistake. It isn't the books we
finish at q sitting which always do us the
most good. Those we devour in the
odd moments, half a dozen pages at a
time, often gives us more satisfaction,
and we are more thoroughly digested
than those we make a particular effort
to read. The men who have made their
mark in the world have generally been
the men who have in boyhood formed
the habit of reading at every available
moment, whether for five minutes or five
hours.
1t is the habit of reading rather than
the time at our command that helps us
on Che road to learning. Many of the
most cultivated persons, whose names
have been famous as students, have
given only two or three hours a day to
their books. If we make use Of spare
minutes in the midst of our work,
and read a little, if but q page or para
graph, we shall find our brains quick
ened and'our toll lightened by just go
much increased satisfaction as the book
gives lis. Nothing helps along the mo-
notonous daily round SO much as fresh
and striking thoughts, to be considered
while our hands are busy. A new idea
from a new volume is like oil which re-
duces the friction of the machinery of
life. What we remember from brief
glimpses into books often serves as a
stimulus to action, and becomes on of
the most precious deposits in the trea-
sury Of our recollection. All knowledge
is made up Of small parts, which would
seem insignificant in themselves, but
which, taken together, are valuable wea-
pons for the mind and substantial armor
for the soul. "Read anything continu-
ously," says DIR. johnson, land you
will be learned" The odd minutes
which we are inclined to waste, if carful-
ly availed of for instruction, will, in the
long run, make golden hours and golden
Days that we shall be ever thankful for.
ScribneT'8.
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AGRICULTURAL.
Profitable Farming.

There are too many men who put
their all into a single venture, and If
that fail are utterly used mp, There is
perhaps M business wherein "two
strings to ones bow" are SO important
as in farming, Other pursuits have
certain rules which have been founded
on experience, and which the shrewd
man of business can take advantage Of
with an almost assured certainty Of
success. But we can not do this. we
can not tell what will happen to our
crops. Sometimes it will he over-dry.
sometimes Over-wet sometimes we are
plagued with swarms of insects Mt
other times we are afflicted with bliohts
and molds. Against none of these
things do we ever get the slightest hint.
But we have dwelt on this recently, in
speaking of the value of diversifvinp
our products. Trouble never strikes
everything alike. Some will succeed.
But, independently of all this, the young
farmer should never be cast down by
misfortune. Tt is here where so many
fail. We knew one, once, who had
made by city work some So, 900. He
had originally been brought up on u
farm, and had always made up hismind to
return to it as soon as he had accumuIa-
ted enough to warrant him in making q
start. But he put away two thousand
dollars, and invested only six in the
farm and stock. It so happened that
the next two years found HIM in terri
BILE losses but they brought expert
ence, and he fell back on his small re-
serve, and this, with his new experience
gave him a pew and good start. It is
notso long ago, but he now considers
himself worth about twenty-five thou
sand dollars, and is one of the most ar
dent advocates of the proposition that
farming will DISCRIMINATION 7eze-
Qraph. .'
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Duty DoNE.-It has come to pass,
and rightly too, that public opinion
considers the duty of mo man with a
family really done before he has insured
his life for it's protection. Life iusur-
ance meets a public want as universal
aud exacting as that which is met by fire
insurance. The demand, too, is for low
rates, financial strength, liberal policies
and prudent management, and we be-,
lieve that on the whole list of companies
in the field, there is none which rerhaps
so fully comes up to all these require
ments as g5he National Life Insurance
Company of the United States of Ameri-
ca, headquarters at Philadelphia, E. A.
Rollins, president, Jay Cook, chairman
finance committee. This company wants
an agent everywhere, and our advice is,
write it.
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The FpUEDATToN OF FRIENDSHIP
In the master of friendship, I have OBJ.
served tIsst disappointment arises chief.
ly, not from liking our friends too well,
or thinking Of them too highly, but
rather from an over estimate of their
liking for and opinion of u.s.. and that
If we guard ourselves with sufficient
scrupulousness of care from error in
this direction, and can be content. and
even happy, to give more affection than
we receive-can make just comparison
OF circumstances, and be severely accu-
rate in drawing differences. and never
let self-loye blind our eyes-then I think
we may manage to get through life with
consistency and constancy, unembit-
tered by that misanthrophy which
springs from revulsion Of feeling. The
moral is, that if we would build on q
foundation Of friendship, we must
L We u friends for their sakes rather
than for our own.-ChGrJoae Brogte.
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LIMITATION TO JOURNALISM IN RUSSIA.
II s~eemsttbat there are countries where
the public cannot with impunity be
treated to every royal or imperial re-
mark uttered within hearing Of q re-
porter. The editor of q Russian Jour
nal has lately been brought before a
court Of justice for printing, without
leave from the proper authority, four
words addressed by the czar to the
khirgistan envoy, Mahommed Sultan.
They were: "Ah You speak Russian. .
II was urged in defense of the editor
that the prohibition to print without
leave from the minister of the imperial
court only applied to such words as
conveyed an intimation of the soye-
reign's wiz, whereas, this was d simple
expression Of goodwill, and that the
complaint had not been preferred by the
minister, but only by the committee of
the censors Of the press. These pleas
were not, however, accepted, and the
publication of the interesting little
item had to be atoned for by a fine and
days imprisonment.
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King of the Blood.

FoR DROPsY.-Oase.-I was attacked with
abdominal, dropsy four years ago. / took
medicine from five different doctors; l ap-
piled to the sixth, but he declined attempting
my case, saying he thought me past remedy.
Another thought he might help me il | would
be tapped, but / was 80 weak / thought I could
not bear it. / then saw your King of the
Blood advertised My son said he wsuld send
to you fer it, and did so. When l began to
take it / could not lie down or sit up straight :;
by wearing o bandage / was able to walk a lit
tie. 1had not put on my stockings for some
months. Persons who visited me thought I
could not live any length of time. [ very
soon felt That your medicine was helping me,
and by the time l had used the second bottle
l could put OF my stockings, and began to feel
comfortable. In two months the water was all
gone, and l was o living skeleton; but my
appetite was good, and I began to gain flesh,
and / now look as well as ever l did and feel
quite we'll SARAH PEETz.
Luthersburgh, Clearfield Co., Penn.
Write for circulars to DIR. Ransom, Son & Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y,
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Wheat and Physical vigcr.

-
Nothing is1rnore sure in the chemis,
try of life than that g~reat-eaters are
the great thinkers, or that the phospho.
rus which wheat contains, in the outer
kernel, Immediately beneath the husk.
is the feeder of brains, and the material
substance which provokes to thought.
study, reason, and all the forms of ner-
vous energy. There are psychologists
who attribute the remarkable success Of
states like Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to
the bounty and perfection of the wheat
crop, and the intellectual stimulus. or
rather food, which it affords the brain.
Certainly no commonwealth in the
world has eyinced a higher sense of law
and order, or more rapid developed a
social system which has hardly an eoual
IN the world. The constitution of In
diana, for instance, the very center of
the wheat zone, is beyond comparison
the best IN the Union, and produces the
highest results in our civilization,
There isl southern wheat belt, which
includes Australia in part, south Africa.
New Zealand, and a part of South
America, where a civilization equal to
that Of the central north of the TTnitad
States is growing up.
But the full value of wheat as a ~civili-
yer will We be fully realized Until
wheat-moal takes the place of bolted
-four, and the people learn to make
bread without yeast or risings. Good
bread is emphatically the "staff of
life " but the commercial article is the
way to dyspepsia and premature death.
Science Of Health. ..
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To PREVENT a COW sucking herself E
correspondent of the Western Rural
took a girth and fasteneda piece of cloth
two feet square to the girth, the cloth
pleated SO as to fit the udder; then fas-
ten two strips Of stout cloth to the two
back corners, letting them pass back
bring the straps up, passing on both
sides of the tail, and fasten to girth on
the cows back. The bag must come
well up on either side of the udder, and
the girth should have a buckle on either
side of the COW The girth is better if
it have rubber cloth in it.
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Growing Glover too Coarse.

1t is sometimes objected of clover
that it is too coarse as feed, this being
the case where it is grown on strong
ground, making a large stalk. This
can be remedied by sowing thick, and
thus getting a fine stemmed crop, and
shorter in length, the stalks varying
from fifteen to twenty-five inches, &C
oording to the quality of the land, the
season, and weather plaster has been
used but the point is to SOW thick,
from ten to twelve quarts per acre,
evenly scattered on mellow soil and
brushed in if sown with spring grain.
This forms a close growth, and must be
cut before it lodges much, and this is
generally the time of towering. Else
if lodged badly, and permitted to re-
main for some time, it will partially rot
and lose some of its quality as a feed.
But harvested in time and we'll cured.
there will be no deterioration of the
high value which this plant has OBJ
tanned among our best dairymen. Three
tons per acre may be thus realized and
If the aso is a good one, the amount
may be doubled by two cuttings, and
clover should always be cut twice, each
time at the hblossoming period. The
medium clover is earlier and finer stem
med than the large kind, and less apt to
lodge, and always permits of two cut
tings. On poor land clover may be
grown successfully, improving the land.
But it may be raised on the richest of
land with the most gratifying results ;
only get it close SO as to have it fine
stemmed, and cut in time.-Oh5ol
Farmer. .
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The experiment of planting pine seed
on the waste lands of Estham, Mass, is
reported to be a complete success. A
thousand acres Of land are now covered
with thrifty pines from seed sown. The
land thus covered, but for this proteo-
tion, would have been a waste tract of
shifting sand. As q consequence, too,
game has been increased, and quail,
ployer and other birds are plentiful,
while foxes are by no means scarce.
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FoR loss of appetite, dyspepsia, indigestion,
depression OF spirits and general debility,
in their various forms, FERRo-PHospoRATED
ELIXIR Of CALIsAYA, made by CAswELL, HAz-
ARD & Co., New York, ag1aold by all druggists.
is the best tonic. As d asgsAularit tonic for pa
tients recovering from fever or other sickness,
it has no equal. If taken during tho season it
prevents fever and aBue and other intermit-
tent fevoTs-CD1p.
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MEDICAL DRPA.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY
OF LoUIsyILLE.-We give in another column
the announcement of the medical department
of the University Of Louisville. This is one
Of the Oldest, best established and most re-
nOwned medical schools of o~urcountry. MANY
of the most distinguished American physicians
are graduates Of the University of Louisville.
Its faculty il able and its means of ~instrrc-
ton very ample. We cordially commend this
school to all medical students who would avail
themselves Of a irst-class institution in a de-
lightful city.
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ALL articles we think that are packed
and sold Full Weiyht should have the
patronage of consumers, also of dealers.
We are glad to notice in the article of
SOAP that PBooTEB & GAMBhE's EXTRA
OLIVE Soar is always packed actual
weight.
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A Coon INVESTMENT Most persons
having money TO invest, whether much or lit
tie, desire to place it where it will be secure,
as well as profitable to them. There is no
more profitable investment than an endow-
ment policy in a good life insurance company.
OF these, one Of the oldest and most reliable,
is the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
OF philadelphia, q company Of twenty-six
years standing; and one in which the insured
will be certain to secure his policy at the low
est possible rates, as oil of the surplus pre-
mi1ms are returned each year to the insured.
For policies or agencies, address J. w. Iredell,
JT., superintendent Of agencies, No. 70 West
Sd st., Cincinnati, o., or the home office. - Com.
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The relaxing power of Johnson's Ano-
dyne Liniment is truly wonderful. Cases are
already numerous where bent and stiffened
it. When used for this purpose, the part
should be washed and rubbed thoroughly.
Apply the liniment cold, and rub it in with the
hand
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AN occasional dose of DR.. Pieroe's

AN occasional dose Of DR.. Pieroe's
Pleasant Purgative PeIleets stimulates the
stomach and bowels, REF Pos the appetite and
invigorateB the system. Hence it is often ad-
vantageous where 80 serious arrangement
exists, One who feels tolerablv well Lften
finds that a dose of these Pellets, from their
cleansing and renovating effect upon the di-
gestive apparatus, makes him feel decidedly
better. Twenty-Five oenta, by druggists. G51
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Wm Is il that 90 many men are
troubled with brain disease Of late ~
asked q gentleman Ia this tele-
graphic, h~igh-pressRra replied a
friend, there AREA great many more
things TO occupy ones attention than
there were twenty years ago. but the
brains amt any bigger now than then.
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What wo Need when D~obll,tated.

Appetite and digestion ~languish at this season.
AT the very tinS when the body most needs reno
walton and support, the stomach, its commits aariat
department. is apt to p ove delinquent. Under
such circumstances the necessity for a wholesome
stimulant, tonic and corrective is selfevident, and
consequently the demand for that peerless com
bination Of the three required elements, Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters. is never more urgent than
at midsummer.
1t is true that a.few medical bigots, fossils left
over &om the dark ages, recommend violent pur.
CATION and water Cruel as a cure for indigestion
aud Its accompanying ills: but they make few
pro5ely ties. Tn majority OF the community are
sane, ana all sane people are aware that a pure
hnd powerful vegetable tonic with Alternative pro.
perties, ike HOstetter's Bitters Is the only cure for
dA spepSia. biliGusness. constipation, nervousness
and the " consequential damages they fIfifct.
The human intellect, unless hupelessly diseased
or egregiouSly hnmbugged, declines 10 astnntsh the
weakened human stomach with fierce CathartIcs
mat, Fushlhg IKE an avalanche through the intpS.
tines, threaten fo take tbe inner membrane with
Glem. TO use q signiiheant catch phrase the knock.
aSGh aad.arag out Wihg@ Of treatment are
IL IL clearly understood that a medicated stimu-
iaub IL essential to the renovation Of an exhausted
frame ana that You cannot strengthen man or
woman BY dosing them with Frustrating ueeuaEa.
mon sense approves of Hostetter's Bitters a. the
2 hI article eNtant Tor 1nyigoPating, regulating and
the system and defending 1t against
poison IN the air we breathe, oE lae water we drink.
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AIR IN DIFFERENT LOCALITIES. An
interesting paper, valued in a physio-
logical point of view, on the quality of
air taken from various localities, was
lately read by DR.. Sigerson, at Dublin,
before the Royal Irish society. In air
from an iron factory he found, on exam
nation, carbon, ash and iron the latter
substance was in the form of little hol-
low balls, each about two-thousandth
of an inch in diameter, the iron being
SO thin that the light passed through it.
In satisfactory air were found flaments
of linen and cotton. Anthony, from
type metal, probably, was discovered
in the air Of printing-rooms. Stable air
wal found to contain floating hair aud
scales and in the air through which to-
bacco smoke was passing nicotine, the
poison Of tobacco, appeared in little
plObules.
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UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
Medical Department,
37th ANNUAL SESSION

W. BayIess. NJ. D., Professor of
a PRINCIPLES and Practice Of Surgery.
y. M. iodine. NJ. D., Professor OF Anatt my and
Dean of the Faculty. "'"
l.. p. Yandell. Jr.. NJ. D, Professor or Nateri,
medica and CliniChI Medicine.
Histology. 'sy VI"
r. s. Bell M. D Professor Science and PRACTICE
of MEDICINE and Public Hygiene.
John f. Grove. M. D., Professor of obstutr,,,
and diseases Of Women and Children.
Clterllstv and FgxicOlegy.
ID Yandeli, M, D., Prof. of Clinical surperv
49,: G0Wlfng, u. D.. Demonstrators of Anatnmy
LPrefessgrs tickets, in tuli. 500; Damon.
sIaieI ticket sl0i Naturalization fee. Is: Gradua-
O.. 4"rob g tbe eity)
Ihe regular session viii Commences ON tba EFpar
IN OCTOBER, ard continue Tntif ~
r19i alarch- A preliminary eolrse Of lectures
Free to all Students.
WI commence on the second Monday Of sentan,
term. !" regular
]. M. IODINE. NJ D., Dean Of Facut,v
Fortle annual circular, CONTAINING FAN ns.t{.,
lars, address g. r.. PALHER Secretary al EsenIiu
~-A@At
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I AM thoroughly satisfied that Sim
mons Liver Regulator is all it claims to be fol-
indigestion and bilious complaints. 1 have
also heard many of my friends speak of it,
aud all agree that it possesses the virtuea
claimed for it. A. H. Hightower, conductor
M 4 w z z
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Fish and Tea as Food.

The London Times sharply contro-
verts the assertion made by DR.. Edward
Smith to the British association. that
fish is rather a relish than food, and con
tains little more nutriment than water
As opposed to this statement, the inves-
LEGATIONS of M. Payen are sited, who
proves that the flesh of fish on the ay-
erage does not contain more water than
fresh beef, and has as much solid sub.
stance as the latter. For instance. the
flesh Of salmon contains 10. 70 per cent.
of water, and 24297 per cent. solid sub
stances, while beef (musole) contains
1888 per cent. water, and 24.1 per
cent. solid substances. The flesh of her.
ring contains still less water than that
of salmon, and even fiat fish are as rich
in heterogeneous substances as the best
wheaton -four, weight for weight. An
other statement made by DR.. Smith,
that the amount Of nutriment contained
In an ounce of tea is infnitesimal, is met
with the assertion that, while tea is no
"nutriment' in the ordinary sense, the
individual who takes tea after his meals
feels, without being able TO define il,
that tea has a favorable effect upon GER
tain highly important functions in his
body, that digestion is accelerated and
facilitated, and his brain-work benefited
thereby. Though not nutriment. tea is
thus alleged to possess o really higher
value, in medical properties Of a pecu.
liar kind.
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A CROWD of "horse men," and others,
daily throng the stores in country and tow
for Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders.
They understand that horses cannot be kept
in good condition without them, and with them
can be on a much less quantity of grain.
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An observant lady says she was never
70 much inclined to laugh in church AZ
on q recent Sunday. when, walking
down the broad aisle after service, she
saw that every woman ahead Of her was
using her left hand IN arranging that
portion of her dress adjoining her back
and before she was aware of il found
herself aAaalarly employed.
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DR.. RAILWAYS
Perfect PaFgatiTG and Regulating Pills,

perfectly tasteless, elegantly coated with sweet
gum, purge. regiilate. pnrify cleanse and strength.
en-. Us PILLS, for the cure of all dfsor.
ders 9f the stomach, Liver Bowels, kidneys, Blad.
INf, nervous. Diseases, Headache, Consultation.
SpsttNehess, Indigestion, Dyspepsia. .Btlonsnass'
BtiloiIs. Typhts, aud Typhoid Feyers. Tnfamma'
tiou OF the Bowels, Piles, and All dpranrpnpnta Of
inc fntsl nal Tfscera. Warranted TO effect q positive
cure. Purely vegetable, containing no mercury.
minerals, or deletgriOus drugs.
as observe the following symptoms resulting
tFgh Disorders of the digestive organs;
Constipation, Inward Piles. Fuliness of the BLOOD
" the Head. Acidity Of the Stomach, Nausea
heartburn, Disgust Of Food. Fulluess Of Weight in
tns stonach, sour lErnctations. Stalking or Fint-
tertiig at the Pit OF the stomach. swimming If The
aeaa, hurried and Decent Breathing. Fl1ifering
az the ueart. Choking or Suffering SeuaafIons
WheB m 2 lying posture, Diu1ness Of Vision Dots
oE weos pei9rs the sight, Fever and Dull rAir y
tne. head, BedcisBey of Pea ~piratiun, Yeti Ebess
9. ne skin and Eyess Pain in the ,s chest,
nus Rnd Sudden Pushes Of Hes BHrHIug III
t5e Elesns a few doses Of Ra WAYS PTiIa
Tree me system from 81 me above named ais
truggists. ah
REAh .FAf ST AND TRUE" send one let
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