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Don't Waste LIQUID Manure.

The value of liquid manure upon
lawns, grass, young grain, cabbages,
turnips, spinch and strawberries
applied in autumn and to many
more crops in spring, is perhaps
theoretically understood by many
people, but very seldom expert
mentally demonstrated in actual
use. Like a great many other
things, involves little trouble at
the outset. AT the East we had a
wet season up to the first part of
August, at least. How everything
has grown The plant food has
been dissolved, and the plants have
taken it in and made use Of it in a
wonderful manner. Asmall amount
of water carrying very little ma
nure- waterproduces market effect;
in fact, water alone is a great thing,
and with a proper cart very easy to
apply. Manure-water is easily
made. a sunken hOgshead in the
barnyard, covered with lot OF
white oak saplings four or five
inches through, will I'll uplwith the
first rain and be strong enough to
make the crops laugh over an acre
or more of land if mixed with
plenty of water. The application
should not be stronger than one
fourth manure. water to three parts
water. Nitrate of soda may be
very effectively applied in this
way, say one pound to ten gallons
of water, or three pounds to the
barrel.
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STREAEY BUTTER.

Many butter makers are sorely
troubled with notified or streaky
butter and are at a loss to tell what
causes it. Many writers attempt
to throw a great mystery around
the subject 10y attributing the
trouble to sour cream, age Of the
cream, food the COWS cat, and
many other causes that may posi-
bly, have been caused by any other
foreign substance getting into the
milk, cream or butter. Why bring
about all this confusion while tie
fact is that in nineiy-nine in every
hundred cases where notifies APP
pear IN the butter it IS caused iii.
rectly by the salt put in it. TO
prove this, take the point Of a
tooth.pick and taste some from the
different colored parts of the but.
ter, and the fresh taste of some
and the salt taste of others will
satisfy the most skeptical. The
remedy lies in two directions. First
use very fine grained salt and
spread it thoroughly over the but
ter while it is worked out into a
thin sheet. Pat the salt in little
at a time, and after it is pretty
well incorporated with the butter,
set the mass away for at least two
hours, and then rewOrk it sufficient
to destroy all streaks and notifies.
Then churn and draw of the butter
milk when the butter is the size Of
wheat grains or a little smaller,
and then thoroughly wash the but
ter in strong brine. The only
trouble with this method is that it
hardly gives salt enough taste to
the butter to suit for open market,
though it is sufficient for the better
or higher priced customers. The
butter maker must be governed
by the taste of those who buy his
butter.
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The New WAY 10 Sleep.

A medical writer recommends
sleeping with the feet higher than
the head, which he AYERS is the on
ly rational and proper position dur
ing sleep. lie knows, because he has
tried it four years. He finds that
he awakes earlier in the morning,
feels more refreshed and is capable
Of much better work during the
day. The brain is better nourish-
ed, he says, and the lungs are ben
Gifted. After a while another re.
former will turn up advising folks
to sleep standing on their heads
Siftings.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-10-30

We have no there's nowadays I;
they are either "skill fnanciers,r
cable manipulatOrs," or "bold op.
orators" when they swindle the un-
suspecting, plumber a bank, en-
beetles trust fund, or "crack q
vaolt,' as the case may be. Every
thing denotes progress; divorces
are more common; penltentianes
are multiplying, jails are filling up,
and Canada is gaining population
somewhat in proportion to the in
creased number OF rogues and
rascals.
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The African Race.

We recently met with a we'll.
known cOlored porter OF Pullman
car, who runs from Atlanta TO New
York. His name is Augustus l..
Grant, and he lives at No. $50
Hayne Street, Atlanta, Ga. lie
said, 81 would like to publish for
the benefit of consumptives and for
the comfort of their friends, how
have been rescued from a cOnsump.
tive's grave. | know that many
people think the colored people do
not have consumption, but | know
from experience that it is a great
mistake. Seven years ago | be.
came a subject of this fOrlOrn dis
ease, and was so pronounced by
my physicians. My lungs became
badly affected, my cough was awful,
at times almost shaking me to
pieces. My general health broke
down and 80 declined that | became
helpless and reduced in flesh al
most to a shadow. Terrible night
sweats; no appetite or digestion
more and more pain in my lungs
| suffered more and more; my
cough became exceedingly exhaus.
tive, discharging great quantities
of pus and consumptive matter. |
had in the meanwhile the best treat
ment; some of the best physicians
prescribed for me, and became in
terested in my case. But after two
or three years treatment, finding
that | continued to grow worse, they
one by one abandoned the case I'M
til at last they were all agreed that
it was only question of time with
ne, and the time was thought to be
very short. In this condition, with
one foot as it were in the grave,
and making my preparations to 90
through the dark waters Of death,
one of my physicians mentioned to
me a remedy which might be tried
as last resort. His reasoning
was that consumption being moth.
ing more than ulcers on the lungs,
WHY'S it that a remedy which will
cure an ulcer on the body will not
cure ulcers on the lungsl At his
suggestion | procured bottle of
Swif's Specific and began to take
il. felt so much benefited from the
first bottle that persevered in the
use of it, and my Improvement was
almost as rapid as it was wonder
full. My appetite came back to me,
my digestion was good, my strength
was rapidly regained, my lungs |
healed over nicely, my cough left |
me gradually, and went to work |
with q new lease on life. For the |
last four or five months | have not |
lost days wages nor felt a symp.
tom Of that terrible disease that |
had brought me so near the brink
of the grave. My physician three
months ago pronounced me sound |
and well-nOt q trace of lung
trouble. He today, July 10th,
made another examination, and |
tells me that my lungs are as sound |
as nybOdy's. l feel perfectly well,
and | know | am entirely cured,
and that | owe my life to s. s. s.,
which was prescribed by the physi-
clan. My advice to every man,
woman and child who has weak
lungs is to take s. $. s. 1t cured !,
me sound and well after all the
doctors and ali other medicine had
failed, and | want every sufferer to
know it.r
Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis.
eases mailed free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Draw
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A Captains Fortune DiscOy-
cry.

Capt. Coleman, schr. Weymouth,
playing between Atlantic City and
n. Y, had been troubled with a
cough so that he was unable to
sleep. and was induced to try DR..
Kings New Discovery 70: Consump
ton. 1t not only gave him in
slant relief, but aIlayed the ex-
IRENE soreness in his breast. His
children were similarly affected
and a single dose had the same
happy effect. DR.. Kings New Dis.
cOvery is now the standard remedy
in the Coleman household and on
board the schooner.
Free trial bottle of this Standard
Remedy at b. Schmitts.
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Picking and Storing Apples.

Hand picking should always be
the rule for winter apples. Valie-
ties that ripen irregularly ought to
be gathered accordingly. General
ly speaking, the later sorts should
be left on the tree until late, so as
to give them opportunity to fully
color up. Before picking begins it
is we'll to have a suitable place pre-
pared in the orchard or near by for
the temporary storing of the fruit,
unless there are two sets Of hands
for sorting and packing as fast as
the fruit is gathered. Apples keep
longest if free from atmospheric
moisture when taken from the trees.
Small baskets holding half a bush.
ell each and suspended from hook
on the ladder are moro convenient
and less liable to bruiSe the fruit
than bags.
Once gathered, the apples should
be securely protected from sun and
storms until they are sorted. Many
farmers who have fruit houses
delay sorting and packing until
the approach of cold weather. The
best method is to sort the fruit ia-
mediately, and lay all that is sound
carefully into tight barrels, shaking
the barrels gently two or three
times during the process Of filling,
to insure the apples packing close
ly; they may then be tightly head
ed with the head sufficiently rrcsS-
ed and secured to avoid all move
mert of the apples inside the bar
rel. Right here is generally the
neglect. The barrels should be
placed on their sides and not stored
away until freezing weather.
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travel and attired in the gorgeous
uniform of an officer high in rank.
Again the maiden answered the
summons, and, as before, in sweet
humility, she said, only father Is
not within SIR
The young gentleman made an
swer as did the youth FIVE years be-
fore. 1t was not her father, but
herself he sought.
He asked her if she remembered
the youth on whom she had be-
slowed kiss.
Remembered him
With bushes and eyes cast down,
she answered, "Yes.'
Then he led her to the room where
bloOmed the flowers on the window
sill.
He remembered quite well the
way. and told her how her pure
kiss bad been as seal upon his
lips, and had kept them virgin to
her through all the years Of his alb
sence.
How the light from her up.turned
eyes had been his beacon light that
had led him on to fortune.
He told her that while travelling
with his young friends he had Wis
tied Russia, and finding that cOun-
try involved in war he had en-
rolled himself under her banner.
He told her in a few modest
words that in more than one ac-
ton he had been so fortunate as to
win the notice and good will of the
great Gar himself, who had be-
slowed upon him rank and hOnors.
But He told her his heart often
turned with longing to his native
land.
Often, by the camp-fre's light, on
the lonely march, amid the dazzling
splendor of the court, he felt again
her pure kiss upon his lips, he
heard again her murmured blessing.
But gratitude to his imperial pa
iron kept him at his post.
At last there came to visit at the
Court of Russia the King of Den
mark.
During the visit the Gar men
toned to his royal cousin of Den
mark that among the bravest and
most honOred of his young officers
there was a Danish gentleman.
The Danish king summoned to
his presence this subject who had
so bravely upheld the honor OF bis
native laid.
He told our young hero that there
was always room for such as he in
the ranks Of his own army.
And when the King of Denmark
returned to his own realm there
came in his train Major Paul Wen
delboe, Baron Lenwenenrue, Equer-
ry-in- Waiting upon his Majesty.
And Major Paul WendelbOe had
lost no time in seeking out the
maiden, whose name even he did
not know, but whose yisage had
been his guiding star that had led
him on 10 win honor and title,
which he brought now, with love
and gratitude, to lay at her feet.
The maiden whispered to him her
name was LugebOrg," and then !
she whispered
No need to tell what she whis-
pered.
IT'S the same sweet sentence that /
Don Cupid prompts all maids to
whisper since the world began.
And this is why there is always |
at the Court of Denmark an Equer- /
ry-in- Waiting called "Paul Wendell
Doe, Baron Lenwenenrue."
Aud why the eldest daughter of |
the House of Lenwenenrue Is al /
ways christened "LugebOrg.' -hose
Eytinge IN Graphic.
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Special Features

Include " Tricycle. Pilgrimage to Rome,
illustrated by Pencil; Historical Papers
by Edward Eggleston, and others Papers
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lar, on "Sidereal Astronomy; Papers on
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rious religious denominations Papers on
Manual Education, by various experts, etc.
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year
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the wants OF a slender pocket
book. With flock of fowls in.
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SERIAL STORIES by
w. ID. HOwelIs, Mary IEaIlOcIx
EOOfp. and Geo. Va gable

Mr.. HowelPs seuai will be IN lighter VEN
than "The Rise of Silas Lapham.D Mrs.
Foote'S is a story of mining life, and Mr..
Cables a novelette, of the Acadians of
Louisiana. Mr.. Cable will alse contribute
series Of papers on Slave songs and
dances, including negro serpent worship,