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A Glimpse of Centuries Ago.

1t gives one little futter of excite
ment, says a correspondent of the Lon
don Referee, writing about the excava-
tions at Pompeii, to look at man, per-
feet in form and feature, lying just as ne
died on that November day exactly 1S0o
years ago next November--to see his
hands clenched and his teeth set, and
the very look of horror on his face that
came there as he fell, fleeing from the
doomed city--fell to rise no more. Ard
in another case lies beautiful girl OF
Pompeii, who died with her arms across
her eyes, shutting out the sight OF the
swift death that was overtaklng hei.
And near her lies poor little dog who
had died that day. He still wears the
collar and chain that bound him to the
kennel and prevented his escape. The
poor little Pompeian bow-wow, who
lived 1900 years age, lies upon his side,
his limbs drawn together in agony, his
lips parted just as they were when they
gave the last dying whimper of terror
and despair. That little dog of A. d.
70 has achieved Immortality, and, like
good many four-footed immortals, he
paid good price for the advertise.
mpnt
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True to His Duty.

During the siege of Gibraltar, its Gov
ernor, General Elliott, was one day
making a tour of inspection, when he
came upon a German soldier, who,
though standing at his post, neither
presented arms nor even held his musket.
''Do you know me, sentinel?" inquired
the General; ''why do you neglect your
duty?" 81 know you we'll, General,
and my duty also,' was the reply; but
within the last few minutes two of the
fingers of my right hand have been shot
off, and I am unable to hold my mus
ket." "Why don't you go and have
them bound up?" Because in Germany
man is forbidden to quit his post un-
til he is relieved by another" The
General instantly dismounted. "Now,
my FRIEND" said he, "give me your
musket, and I will relieve you. Go and
have your wounds dressed" The soldier
obeyed, but went first to the nearest
guardhonse, when he reported that the
General was standing ou duty in his
place. His injury unified him for active
service, but the story of his courage soon
reached England, and he was made an
officer
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Rotation in Cr0ns

The importance of judicious rotation
OF crops should not be ignored, notwith-
standing the asserted ability of chemical
fertilizers to supply all that is required
for any crop for any number of years.
Fertilizers arc costly. A liberal appli-
cation of them costs from $50 to $40 per
acre, and if this expenditure can be
spared by skillful management OF the
soil so much money is saved, and that is
equivalent to the earning of it. A crop
of potatoes takes little Of velue from the
soil, % per cent. of the tubers only is
solid matter, and of this less than per
cent. is mineral matter; but the vines
contain nearly three times as much
mineral matter as the tubers, and, as
these are left to decay upon the land,
and are turned under for the next crop,
it is evident that this crop has gathered
large quantity of valuable mineral plant
food from the soil, and has left it in
the most available shape fer the
following crop. 1t has in fact changed
so much inorganic matter into organic
substance and available plant food. A
large part of this mineral matter is pot
ash, which is much required by wheat,
and hence we find wheat does very we'll
after potatoes; this being due in part to
the direct contribution of plant food
from the preceding crop, and in part to
the useful effect of the tillage. Clover
adds nitrogen to. tie surface soil, bring
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A Wager Accepted.

The yields OF potatoes raised from year
to year on the specially prepared potato
plot of the Rrdl Nee Yorher's expert
ment grounds are the largest on record.
These yields are not confined to occa-
sional favorable seasons, but they have
been produced every year on the same
plot for ten years. The editor, in order
to show his faith in his peculiar method
of potato culture, offered several weeks
ago wager of from $50 to 500 or more
that he would raise on this plot next sea-
son-let it be favorable or unfavorable-
at the rate Of over seven hundred bush
els to the acre, the money to be donated
to some charity. Now it appears that
Mr.. Atkinson, the editor of the Farm
Journal, has accepted the wager in the
interests of agricultural progress. The
crop is to be harvested in the presence of
and the yield computed by at least four
prominent men, whose names shall be
guarantee against errors of any kind.
Such trials are commendable whatever
the outcome, and should the number of
bushels fixed upon be equahcd or exceed
ed, all farmers will be glad to give the
Ruraps method of potato culture care
full trial.-Nep York World.
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Cultivation of Onions.

A correspondent asks how much seed
it will take to sow an acre, the best time
to SOW, what two kinds of seed to US
for market crops, how to cultivate and
the proper means of harvesting and pre-
pairing the crop for market?
The two kinds usually sown by market
gardeners are Yellow Danvers and large
Wethersfeld Red. The latter for shipping
South.
The crop requires a rich, deep, mellow
soil, heavily manured. 1t is better that
they be sown as early in the spring as
the ground can be worked on fall plow-
ing. Three to four pounds of fresh seed
is the usual quantity sown per acre, in
drills eighteen inches apart, and half an
inch deep.
The cultivation is entirely by hand ma
chimes and 5erfcial, working close to
the crop. Wnen the plants are three
inches high, thin to two inches apart.
Keep free from weeds, aad as the bulbs
begin to form, draw the earth away rather
than to the bulbs. Never cultivate
deeply, as it will injure the surface roots.
As the crop gains..size the tops gradually.
When the tops are nearly dry the
onions are collected into thin windrows,
with spaces between, to dry for a few
days. When dry. the tops are pulled,
the bulbs cleaned off the rough skins,
when they are ready for market. If the
onions are to be stored for winter, they
should be kept in cool, airy place, in
thin layers, until late in the autumn !;
they are then carried to cool, dry Gel
lar and stored on racks six or eight
inches deep. They may also be saved
in heaps, out of doors, by riiing in dry
place just before hard frosts set in, COW
ering carefully with hay and then with
earth, just so they will freeze slightly.
Then they should not be touched until
the frost draws out of them naturally,
when they must be Immediately sQld.-
Farm, Field and Stockman.
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Worms in Peach Trees.

The gru'os or worms you find in peach
trees are the larv;e of small moth with
transparent wings, somewhat resembling
large wasp. These moths may usually
be seen flying about peach orchards from
spring until quite late in summer, and
the female moths deposit their eggs on
the bark of the trees near the surface of
the ground. The grubs Matching from
these eggs cut their way through the
bark and feed upon the soft wood under.
meath, often passing almost around the
stem during the season. During the
following spring the grubs complete
their growth, first changing to what is
called a pupa, thence to a moth. AS
the grubs are nearly or quite full
grown in early sp.ing, this is the
proper season to remove them to prevent
any further increase in numbers. We
think that the surest way of checking
the ravages of this pest is to cut out and
destroy the grubs, going over the Or
chard and examining each tree every
spring, but some peach growers recon-
mend the employment of various appli
cations to prevent the deposit of the eggs
by the moths. Smearing the base of the
stems with hard soap or wrapping them
with tar paper is said to be an elfectual
preventive; still, it costs as much to ap-
ply them as to cut out the grubs. Peach
trees should be regularly pruned, not
only to keep them in good form, but to
insure an abundance of strong bearing
wood. If the trees grow too tall they
should of course be ''headed back" and
the branches thinned out when they be-
come too numerous and crowded. -Ne,o
York Sun.
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Hints for the Laundry.

One of the greatest pacifers of th'
sterner sex is perfectly hundred linen,
and writer in the Detrvt Free Press say
that to properly equip laundry the first
utensil wanted will be suction funnel
which your tinsmith can make for you a
a cost of two shillings which you vii
find the greatest labor saving machine
YOU ever had in your household. Let
him take an ordinary funnel such as is
used for filing barrels, solder two strips
across the mouth at right angles to each
other, cut of the small end of the funnel
about three inches from the base, insert
a handle in this end IA broom stick is
best) air tight and secure; with this con-
trivance you will have washer that can
do three women's work in one day-with
an energetic boy at one end of it. Now
for the clothes to be washed: During the
evening prior to wash-day, separate the
white clothes that will be starched, such
as skirts, collars and cuffs, shirts, ETC..
soak them over night in warm water,
which loosens up the dirt and opens up
the me hes of the linen. They are then
ready for the washing. Get a good wash
ing powder, take about three or four
tablespoonfuls, mix we'll in a bucket Of
hot water with one-third of a cake of
soap Clipped fine. Stir up this mixture
until we'll dissolved; pour this with four
two gallon buckets of hot water in a
large tub; use the suction funnel as an
agitator for the clothes and suds for
about an hour, when you will find on in
spection they a"e washed much better
than could be dore by hand and in one
tenth the time.
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HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
Better than Music.

A practical knowledge of housekeep-
ing is of vastly more use to woman than
knowledge of music, unless she pro-
poses to devote herself to the profession
of music. 1t does not follow, however.
that because lady understands house.
keeping she must cook and scrub and
sweep-y she will, when she becomes
the mistress of house, find such knowl
edge more convenient and useful thar
music or French. She will be able to
manage and direct affairs in manner
that will render her home beautiful a,
we'll as happy. A neatly-laid table and
a well-cooked dinner are far more sooth.
ing to the irritable views of a tired MAJ
than the sweetest notes of a piano.
Pi!tsiuyg Commercial Gazette.
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ing it, as the potato brings potash, from
the subsoil, and thus both Of these crops
are usefully brought into rotation. 1t
is clear that what is gained has not cost
the farmer any money out OF pocket. The
remains of good clover crop leave in the
soil $50 pounds of nitrogen, worth IN
money $27 per acre. This value is the
same to the farmer as so much artificial
nitrogen, and possibly in some cases sew
eral times more; hence is apparent the
advantage of a rotation of crops, selected
for their beneficial effects upon the soil.
No doubt our very narrow rotation OF
three grain crcp<, and one of grass and
clover, is too exhaustive for the most
profitable culture of the soil. Two or
three years grass and clover, then corn
taken from the turned sod and followed
by oats, and after this wheat, with all
the manure made, and then beginning
with grass again, may suit a very fertile
and virgin soil for few years, but 1t
has resulted in the gradual reduction OF
the average yield to point at which
very inadequate return is made for the
farmers work. The rotation should be
enlarged so as to include more of the
so.caIled ameliorative crops, and thus
act favorably on the soil as we'll as pro-
duce more money making products.
Potatoes, beans, fodder-corn, clover
and roots for feeding need to be added
to the corn, oats and wheat, and the
grass and clover following this, while
permanent meadows should supply the
pasturage, and instead of buying fertil-
izerS, feeding substances, as bran. oil
cake meal, etc, should be purchased and
kept at home for tie fertilizing OF our
own tieldsiin preference to foreign ones.
Mo York Tines.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Managing a Young Cow

A young COW which is expected to
drop her second calf in the spring re-
quires good shelter, and generous but
not forcing feed. Shut off all grain
rations several weeks before she is en-
pected to calve, as nothing is more con-
ducive to milk fever than an excessively
high condition. Place the COW before
she calves in an open box stall, where she
can have perfect freedom. Soon after
the calf is born give the COW warm
bran mash. When the calf has sucked
draw all remaining milk from the udder
thoroughly by hand, and continue to do
so, morning and night. Take the calf
away the third or fourth day. Indeed,
some of the best dairymen do not allow
the calf to suckle at all, bat take it from
the cow as soon as it is dry. This prac-
tice saves all trouble with both cow and
calf.-American .4gricuturtS..
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Juvenile PrOdigies.

The list of juvenile 'prodigies" of the
past year comprises little Hoffman,,
aged 8; Celeste Plomparc, of Hassclt,
aged 8, and Pauline Ellice, aged 11-all
three pianists; besides Buchanan, of
Lille, and Frederick Kreisler, of Paris -
both violinists, and both aged 12; and
Anita Mazzoli, of Milan, "pianist-
guitarist," aged o. The first prodigy"
Of the year 1888 is Leopold Godowsky,
aged 10, who is said to he an excellent
pianist and composer.-Leipsic Hgnale.
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Hoods SarsapariIIa

II Ihave taken not quite bottle Of Hoods sarsa-
para, and must say 1t is one OF the best medicines
for giving an appetite purifying the blood and regu
atng the digestive organs, that ever heard Of 1t
did me great deal Of good."-MRs. N. A. STANLEY,
Canastota, w.
~ took Hoods Sarsaparila for loss Of appetite.
dyspepsia and general languor. 1t did me vast
am unit Of good, and Iheve no hesitancy in recon-.
mending it."-J. W. WnLKFoRp, Quincy III.
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NARRow-M1NDED people have not though
beyond the lit lie sphere Of their own vision.
$500 Reward.

If you suffer from dull, heavy headache, OBJ
struction of the nasal passages, discharges
falling from the head into the throat, some
times profuse watery, and asrid, at others;
thick, tenacious, mucous, purulent, bloody ana
putrid; if the eyes are weak, watery, and in
famed; and there is ringing in the ears, deaf
ness, hacking and coughing to clear the throat,
eXpectoration of offensive matter. together
with scabs from ulcers; the voice, being
changed and having nasal twang; the breath
offensive; smell and taste impaired; experience
sensation Of dizziness, with mental depres-
sion, hacking c,ugh, and general debility;
catarrh. Only a few of the above named
symptoms are likely to be present in any one
case at one time, or in one stage OF the disease.
Thousands of cases annually, without mani
Testing half Of the above symptoms, result in
consumption, and end in the grave. No dis
ease is SO common, more deceptive and dan
gerous, less understood or more unsuccessful
" treated by physicians. The manufacturers
Of DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy offer, in good
faith 500 reward for a case OF catarrh which
they cannot cure The Remedy Is sold by drug
gists at only 80 cents.
IIEP snent worthily should be measured
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II you feel tired, weak, worn out or run down
from hard work, by impoverished condition OF
the blood, or low state Of the system, you should
take Hoods Sarsaparilla- The peculiar toning
purifying and vitalzing qualities Of this successful
medicine are soon felt throughout the entire sys
tenn, e1pelline disease and giving quick, healthy
action to every organ. 1t tones the stomach
creates appetite, and rouses the liver and
kidneys. Thousands who have taken 1t with
benefit testify that hoods sarsaparila makes the
.uaa afro
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The Handsomest Lady In Town

Remarked to a friend the other day that she
knew Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and
Lungs was superior remedy, as it stopped her
cough instantly when other remedies had no
effect whatever. So to prove this and con-
vince you Of its merit any druggist will give
you a Sample Bottle Free. Large bottles 80
cents and 81
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"Golden at morning. silver at noon, and lead
at night" is the old saying about eating
oranges But there is something that IS rlgnt
eft Mt any hour of the day. This is DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, literally worth It's
weight in gold to any one suffering with scrol-
ulous affections impurities of the blood. or
diseases of the liver and lungs 1t Is un1alllng.
Rv druppiStS.
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Beautiful woman, from whence came thy
bloom, .-,
Thy beaming eye, thy features fair2
What kindly hand on thee was laid
Endowing thee with beauty rare?
" 'Twas not ever thus" the dame replied,
Once pale this face, these features bold,
The 'Favorite Prescription o: DR.. Pierce
Wrought the wonderous change which you
behold"
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Makes theWeak Strong,

At this season, as spring approaches, good fon~
BILE tonic and blood purifer is needed by everybooy'
Hoods slrsaparila is peculiarly adapted for tah
purpose and becomes more popular every ysak.
Try 1t this spring.
"when took Hoods sarsaparilla that heavtne0
in my stomach left; the duness In my head and ths
gloomy, desponient feeling disappeared. I began
to get stronger my blood gained better circuaao1.
the coldness IN my hands and feet left me and my
kidneys do not bother me as before."-G. W. HULL
Attorney at Law Millersburg, o.
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Health and Strength

"A year ago suffered from indigestion, had terrt
be headache verv little appetite; iu fact, seemed
completely broken down. On taking Hoods sarsa.
ra-illa began to improve. and now have sood
appetite, and my health is excellent compared 70
what It was am better in spirits am not troubles
with cold feet hands, and am entirely cured OF In
digestion MINNIE MANNING Newburgh, Orange
County, Ny.
NB-Be sure to get only
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Consumption surely Cured.
that have positive remedy for the above
named disease. BY its timely use thousands OF
hopeless cases have been permanently cured. l
shall be glad to send two bottles Of my remedy
SUMPTION if they will send me their Express
and p. o. address Respectfully,
T. A. SLOCCM. NC. lSl Pearl St., n. 7.
If afflicted with sore eyes use DIR. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle.
The best cough medicine is Piso's Cure for
Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c.
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Many times women call their family physicians suffering
another kidney disease another from nervous
alike themselves and their easygong and dn
his pills apd potons assuming them TO De ech
disorder The physician ignorant OF the cause OF sunerng
patient better but probably worse By reason 81 se
peng all distressing symptoms and nstutng comfort I'M
PHYSICIANS 5s:sS ssfs$ from a!sSs osBss
FAILED Having exhausted the skin of three p phys d.
---a weak could with dfhcuIty cross the room
began taking Dr. Pierces Favorite Prescription and
using local treatment recommended in his Common Sense
Medical Advisor commenced to improve at In three
months perfectly cured and have had trouble since
letter to family paper briefly mentioning how
health had been restored and Offering to send full particulars
writing for them and enclosing envelope
have described and the treatment used have
nesty advised them to do likewise have
received second letters Of thanks stating that they had
menced the Of Favore Prescription had sent the $o
required the Medical Adviser had applied the local
treatment fully and plainly laid down therein and much
better already"
Nb writes DR. Perces Prescription has done me
great deal Of good suffered from reroyelon OF the uterus
for which took bottles Of the Fayre Prescription and
am now feeling like a different woman"
Doctors Failed.Mrs coRwIN. Of Pot & 0rssk ,t. N r
these parts and grew worse until wrote to you aad began
of the Golden Medical Discovery also and half
bottles Of the Purgave Peles do work and and
all and better health than expected to
be this world again. owe all to wonderful Medicines
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Consumption surely Cured.

THE world is comedy to those who think, a
tragedy to those who feel.
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Hoods Sarsaparilla
100 Doses One Dollar

Sold by all druggists 81 six for IS. Prepared only
by C. /. HOOD CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass
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ILL men that are ruined are ruined on the
side of their natural prOpensltleS.
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AGENTS Wanted 9 sssFy fSnp'y hfaSs
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WIN NJ GOLDTHWAITE, 40 Fulton ST., New York.
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A LIFE spent worthily should be measured
by nobler line, by deeds not years.
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COLD is worth s5O0 per ID. Pett1ts Eye salye is
" worth 81 900, but is sold at 25c box by dealers
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Mrs. E. F. MORGAN, Of No. II Lexington st,
was dreadful sufferer from uterine troubles.
Having exhausted the skill Of three physi-
clans, was completely discouraged, and so
weak could with difficulty cross the room
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TREATING THE WRONG DISEASE-

g, as they imagine, one fror
5tion, or prostration, another
ferent, or over-busy doctor,
In reality, they are al
ncourages his practice unit
ielay, wrong treatment an6
10 the cause, would have en-
Of prolonged misery.
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Sold by all druggists 81 six for IS. Prepared
by C. ]. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass
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"WOrn out" "run down." deDlltateu
teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seam-
stresses, shop-girls," housekeepers, nurs-
ing mothers, and feeble women generally,
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the
greatest earthly boon, being unequaled as
an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic:
food, cures nausea, weakness of stomach,
Indigestion, bloating and eructations of gas.