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Alive in His Grave.

A latter-day Lazarus has temporarily
returned to life at place called Espar-
ron, in the Department of the Haute-
Garonne, France. He was an elderly
man, named Babe, whose death had been
duly certified by the local doctors.
Preparations were made for his burial,
and the coffin containing his body was
actually lowered into the grave when a
hollow voice was heard uttering moans
between the four boards. Then followed
several distinct knocks on the inside of
the coffin lid. Most of the people who
were standing around the grave were
terrified and ran away as if they were
pursued by battalion of "bogies."
The Cure, the croque-morts, and the
sexton showed, however, no signs of
trepidation, and one of the funereal fra
ternity of mutes went for the Mayor,
while another boldly and rather prac-
tically shouted down to the supposed
dead man: "Wait bit, old man. !"
When the Mayor arrived the coffin was
opened and the man was taken out, but
the fright was too much for him. All
the town was soon talking of the
"Modern lazarus" whose resurrection
was regarded as a miracle; but, after
having lowered for day or two between
time and eternity, the venerable villager
at last departed from the precincts of
the cheerful day in real earnest.-London
TeieqraDh.
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What q Good Cow Is.

A good COW is not one that will make
large quantity of butter for nothing, or,
what is the same, from poor pasture. 1t
is fallacy to think that cows make IA
or 20 pounds of buttet weekly out of
poor pasture alone. 4 any person has
claimed this his statealent is incredible,
and it is useless to seek for such COWS.
There are none of them. A good cow is
one that will make 10 pounds of butter
weekly with good pasture and 6 quarts q
day of mixed fine cornmeal and bran
(the clear bran). A better cow is one
that will make IA pounds of butter
weekly with 10 or II quarts daily OF
this feed with the same pasture. The
more feed cow can turn into milk and
butter the better the cow is. There arc
good cows of all breeds, and more among
the native COWS, if they are looked up
and tested, than in aGathe pure-bred
cows together. But few farmers give
cows chance to show what they can do
whom we'll treated, while pure-bred
cow is stuffed with all she can swallow.
Pick up the best looking native COWS
you can get, with slender makeup and
large udders, and then feed all they will
eat of the best food, and you will prob
ably get satisfactory herd. If cow
fats up instead of milking, beef her and
get another and persevere.-NeD York
Times. ~
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Be cheerful A light heart lives
long.
The most profound joy has more of
gravity than gaiety in it.
Shame comes to no man unless he
himself helps it on the way.
Remember, every moment of resist
ance to temptation is victory.
The end of man is an action and not
thought, though it were the noblest.
Work and play are necessary to each
other, but they should not be mixed.
Politeness is the distinctive attribute
of the gentleman; rudeness of the boor.
He who buys hath need of hundred
eyes, and he who sells hath enough of
one. =
One may live like conqueror, king.
magistrate, but he must die as q
man.
Nothing is so contagious as example;
we are never either much good or much
evil without imitators.
Wickedness may prosper for while;
but, in the long run, he who sets all
knaves at work will pay them.
A man of strong character always
make enemies, but because a man has
many enemies you cannot be quite sure
that he is man of strong character.
Teach self-denial, and make its prac-
tice pleasurable, and you create for the
world destiny more sublime than ever
issued from the brain of the widest
dreamer. ,,....-. .- =.
Those who, in confidence of superior
capacities or attainments, disregard the
common maxims of life, should remem-
Der that nothing can atone for the want
of prudence; that negligence and irregu-
larity long continued will make knowl-
edge useless, wit ridiculous and genius
contemplate.
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vent her doing so by making cage OF
stats to fit the neck, and large enough
80 the cow cannot reach the udder with
her mouth. The only advice for the
cows so thin that you have to lift them
up at calvlng time, is to feed better
during the winter. Give the COWS equal
parts by weight of bran and corn meal,
commencing with eight pounds per day,
with plenty of good hay, and warm
water to drink, and gradually increase
the feed to fifteen pounds per COW per
day.
To have good corn the soil should be
we'll plowed and thoroughly pulverized
before planting. The seed bed should
be put in good tilth. Secure the very
best seed of whatever is planted, espe-
cially corn. No less than three ker.
nels to each hill should be planted, and
the rows kept straight. More seed will
make it necessary to thin out the stand,
as more than three stalks in each hill
will not yield we'll. About the time the
corn is coming up, 60 over the field with
q smoothing harrow, and the corn vii!
come up much better, and millions OF
weeds will be killed, A free use of the
cultivator or horse hoe, or anything to
keep down the weeds, must follow.
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The Deadliest IntOxicant,

aEAbsinthe I is the deadliest intoxicant in
the world and its use is increasing. Its
slightest use is its abuse. And it is easy
70 form the habit of taking it because
the intoxication it causes is exhilarating
and pleasant, and it needs very small
quantity to do the work. The drink
was introduced into New York by
Frenchmen and travellers and it is now
common beverage in hotels. clubs and
fashionable barrooms. French soldiers
introduced it into Paris after the cam
paign in Algiers in 1914. In an
astonishingly short period it permeated
the civilized world. To day its manu-
facture Is one of the largest liquor trades
of Europe. Neufchatel, in Switzerland,
is the headquarters for its manufacture.
Two million of gallons yearly are made
there. What France makes and does
not consume is sent for the most part to
America. ~.
1t is pretty, seductive and insidious
liquor. The taste is pleasant and not at
all like spirituous compound. Yet it is
made by mashing together the leaves and
Towering tops of four species of worm.
wood, with sweet flag and angelica root
and star anise fruit, and macerating them
in alcohol. The compound is distilled
after eight days soaking and anise oil is
added to give it taste. limitations are
made of essential oils and barks with
blue vitrol. This is quickly fatal. But
the genuine is deadly enough. The imi-
tation is very close, too, and importers
themselves are often deceived. On gen.
eral principles it may be said that the
average absinthe tippler in this country
has never tasted the genuine absinthe in
his life. The hospitals are rapidly get
ting to know the victims of absinthe.
Its effects are frightful and unmistakable,
and very few of its devotees are ever re:
stored to entire health. A new and
special treatment is even now being ex-
perimented with by some of the Bellevue
physicians. York Graphic.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Potatoes Under Mulch.

At the Colorado State Agricultural
College, where potatoes have been grown
under mulch for three seasons,it has been
decided that the best mulch is composed
of either partially decayed materials or
of clean oat straw. Itis reported that
the yield under mulch is ordinarily
greater than without, especially in un-
coageniaI chimes. The shading of the
gfound furnishes the proper conditions
Of temperature and moisture at the root,
as well as assuring the necessary me-
chanical condit on of the soil so desira'
bic in securing uniformity and the great
est possible development of tuber. A
mulch, to be of any value in dry climate,
should, according to the report in
question, be quite foot thick, using
large seed pieces, however, to enable the
tops to push through Il lReover.
The opinion is exp ed that mulch
culture is only practiesaAe on a small
scale and in localities, soils and seasons
unfavorable to the proper development
of the potato under ordinary culture
NeU YOrE Worli.
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Farm and Garden Notes.

Do not allow water to stand about tho
roots of evergreen and fruit trees.
An ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure when applied to the treat
ing of animals.
Some Philadelphia growers Of begonias
have had great success with plants by
growing them in Jumps of peat, stepped
in manure water.
Professor l.. H. Bailey considers native
trees and shrubs preferable for wind
breaks. Of exotic trees, only the Nor
way spruce and apple are desirable for
wind-brcaks in Michigan.
A practical butter-maker says: 81
find that from open setting q can of cream
raised when the cows are fed hay and
grain will make thirty pounds of butter,
for the same quantity when the cows are
feeding on grass, twenty pounds"
If eggs are the main desideratum in
keeping fowls, avoid short-legged fowls
of any breed. They rarely lay we'll the
second year on account of laying on too
much fat, while fowl of good length
of leg will ordinarily lay we'll until three
years of age.
The sure way to break hen from egg
eating Is to cut of her head. Prevent
the habit. if possible, by giving nests
lined with straw and large enough for
the hen to move without breaking the
eggs; also gather the eggs daily and use
artificial nest eggs.
The fact is we'll known to all pains
taking cultivators that the mere stirring
of the surface (as with steel rake in gar.
den, or slant-tooth harrow in lately
planted corn or potato fie'd) soon rs the
soil is dry enoug gh to work after rain, will
destroy nine tenths of the weeds that
have started but are not visible except to
close scrutiny.
Too much concentrated food will
cause the cows to lay on too much fat
Feed less corn aud more of other foods,
such as oats, rye, bran and shorts or
middlings, with plenty of hay, corn
fodder. and straw; csrecially straw.
Good whcas straw. says IN authority, is
as good us hay when properly cut and
mixed with oatmeal and middlings.
When morse has udll Ill LIS 1ooI,
either picked up or the broken part Of a
shoe nail, the lameness is peculiar. The
animal holds up the leg; when he moves
he puts the foot tenderly on the ground.
resting it on the toe, and steps slowly
and carefully. When this is perceived
the foot should be examined. At first
the foot will not be hot, but in few
days Inflammation will occur, and un-
less the foot is cleaned and the nail cut
out liberation may take place and cause
permanent injury.
In relation to the cow that sucks her
self, the better way would be to fatten
| and beef her. You may possibly pre-.
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Printers Exempt From Cholera.

The printers have been exceptionally
exempt from falling victims to the
cholera epidemics which have recently
occurred in the South American conti-
nent. When the yellow fever epidemic
in 1868 created CONSERVATION here the
Typographical Union had only to pay
the expenses for two members, and both
of them recovered. Now to day the
same incident is recorded in Chilli with
respect to cholera, where we find that,
according to the report of the President
of the Typographical Union of Val
paraiso, up to the date of his last report,
not one of the 100 members of the
union had been attacked. Thus they en-
ioyed the same good fortune they had
experienced during the previous year.
Lima (Pru) Psensa.
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Water in Butter.

An authority whom we do not now re-
call, in relation to some points in butter
making, relates the following:
While salt will readily dissolve at so
degrees, it is not so easy to get the butter
free from the surplus water, and it is by
this needless water that much injury is
done to butter; 55 degrees would be
better, and salt the butter at 60 degrees.
Water is great solvent Of caseine and
sugar-traces of which will be found in
all butter, however we'll worked-but
the more water remaining after working
over the greater and the chemical action,
and acting upon the minute particles of
curd or cheese, it becomes rancid by well
known chemical action. Butter should
not contain more water than is necessary
to dissolve what salt it will retain in the
form of brine, and fourteen per cent
seems to be about the amount. More
water than this dilutes the brine, and de-
feats by so much the object of the use of
salt in butter to preserve the caseine
from chemical change-nor can this be
accomplished save below so degrees of
temperature.
In the usual creamery butter, and all
made by cold setting, the maker unin-
tertionally leaves more than twenty per
cent of water in butter, notwithstand-
ing that butter made from cream slightly
acid, retains more moisture than that
nade from sourer cream. The souring
breaks up the texture of the cream, and
the butter separates better from the but.
termilk. Then all the butter maker
needs to do is to churn the ripened
cream at lower temperature than is
neededfor sour, to use salt each time in
washing it free from buttermilk, and
when the regulation amount of salt is
used to season the butter, let it dissolve,
and then by gently working and pack
Ing, know that the butter is free from
lny excess of water above fourteen
per cent. Then if kept below fifty de-
grees and away from the influence of the
air, butter made from soured milk must
keep weil.-Farm, Field and 4Stoekman
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WHY Fruit Crops Fail.

why CTuiC SFopS dh.
The Hon. Fl. E. Van Deman, pomolo-
gist of the United States Department of
Agriculture, gives the following reasons
for the failure of the apple crop, which
apply with equal force to the peach,
pear, plum or orange. Mr.. Van Deman
says:
The true theory is to cultivate an
orchard every year, manure we'll, and
never plant or sow to any crop unless it
be clover or cow peas. Small grains are
especially harmful, for the time of their
standing is just when the cultivation
should be going on. ...
The Ovcr-age of The Trees: The aver
age age at which an apple tree with
ordinary treatment reaches its highest
usefulness, is not far from twenty-five
years. A great share of the orchards of
the older States have already served out
their time, and should have been re-
placed by young ones of such varieties
as have proved the most valuable.
Insect Depredations: There is no
doubt that the insects which prey upon
the trees aud the fruit are much more
numerous than formerly. These, how
ener, can be fought with success, if in
telligence and perseverance are used.
The person who allows insects to destroy
his apple crop IS neglectiug h s business.
Lack of Sufficient Nutrition: When
the country was first settled the virgin
soil was full of decayed vegetable mat
ter, which stimulated the growth of
orchard trees of all kinds. The decrease
of natural fertility of the sol. has not
been met by sufficient artifcis enriching
it. Crop after crop has been taken, and
rarely return in the way CT manure.
An orchard is like a bank account
deposits should be made that the checks
may be honored. A little business COM
mon sense might be applied with profit
to our apple orchard management.
Deforestation This may have some
thing to do with the failure of the apple
crop. The hills and valleys ere now
brown and bare, where they were once
covered with a cooling shade which kept
the moisture in the earth, and made the
streams constant and refreshing to all
nature around. The winds now un-
hindered sweep through the orchards
and shake off the apples. Aftor storm
the hopeful owner of loaded orchard
goes out to see the ground covered with
apples which he had expected to take tc
market the next week, or the next day.
Poisonous Plants on the Farm.
Professor George G. Croft, of Lewis
burg, Penn, says in the Minnesota
IL
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Are you sad, despondent, gloomy ~.
Are you sore distressed? -
Listen to the welcome bidding '-
sgr"Be at rest. -
Have you aches and pains unnumbered,
Poisoning life's Golden Cup2
Think not there's no balm In Gnead, and
'- "Giye 1t up" r.
A Golden Remedy awaits you
Golden not alone in name
Reich, oh, suffering one, and grasp 1t,
There is but one Golden" Remedy-Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 1t stands
alone as the great "blood-purifier, !" strength:
renewer'' and "health-restorer," Of the agel
The Liver it regulates, removing all tmpuri-
ties. The Lungs It strengthens, cleansing and
nourishing them. The whole system 1t builds
up, suppl ying that above all other things most
needed-pure, rich lood. = ~.
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a cre,,,n.r0aer. c,,,.

In another part Of this paper will be found
,the advertisement Of q prominent Soap Manu-
featuring Firm Of Buffalo. The offer Is g pecu.
to any subscriber Of this paper who will send
their address on postal card, q case of as.
sorted Family and Toilet Soap on 80 days
trial. The Soap Is probably as fine as can be
made; but yet in addition, there will be packed
in each case, for limited time, a great array
Of presents, premiums, extras, ETC., for which
no charge is made. You cannot well affo ID to
miss this bargain, SO send your add. 50 at
once TOT. b. Larkin & Co., Buffalo, N. y.
. ORANGE trees to the number of half mill
ion were set out In California during the past
q .
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Newa About Town.

It is the current report about town that
Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs Is
making some remarkable cures with people
who are troubled with Coughs, Asthma, Bron-
chitis and Consumption. Any druggist will
give you trial bottle free Of cost. It is guar
nnteed to relieve and cure. Large bottles, so
cents and 81. .> ~.
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S;JA'c.oBsOILI = |. !. |
FOR POULTRY.
Chicken Cholera and all
Diseases Of Poultry.

saeaENERAL DIRECTIONS, zNsap ad
bread or dough sat,lratedwih s.. Jacobs 0a y
he foul cannot s,caAlo0 force q dotun ne tsroat
Hiz some corn-Heal dough vith Tie on Gipe
nothing else. They toin finally eat and Be cured
Sold by Druggists and Dealers Erery.rherc.
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In answer to causal question,
How easy and truthful to tell it's
A cure or the worst indigestion.
To take Pierce's Purgative Pellets.
Delicate Children, Nursing

THE Senate of Sonora, Mexico, leyies q tax
of So on eve y baby born within its limits.
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Copyright 1885, by Proctor d Gambi

ness, ,softyouthfule effect and fine finish. Harm
less, doesnot reughen, draw, wither, norm any
way injure the most delicate or sensitive sktn,
Superior to any PSwdes Paste Past q asa sa s aor
SunbIrn, Freckles, Pimples, Coarseness, Sal
low Skin, all blemishes and imperfections: u.
bottles at Druggists and Fancy Goods Dealers,
or by Express: prepaid, on receipt OF price.
E.S.WMLs, Chemist, jersey City, MI. .U.S.A
TROUGH ON NEURALGIA" 800. Drug.
TROUGH ON RHEUMATISM" " ST. 80. Drug.
TROUGH ON ASTHMA" st.50. Druggists.
TROUGH ON MALARIA - $50. Druggists,
or prepaid BY. Ex. e. S. ME1Ls, Jersey City:
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DAMASCUS is to have street cars Just like an
m0darn city. - l. &C., y ~
"IDon't Want Relief; But Cure"

"IDon't Want Relief, But Cure,'
Is the exclamation Of thousands suffering from
catarrh. To all such we say: Catarrh can be
cured by DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Ithas
been done In thousands Of cases; why not in
stamp to Worlds Dispensary Medical Asso-
citation, Buffalo, Ny, for pamphlet on this
disease Lals 90
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The success Of some Of tho agents employed
by B. F. johnson & Co., Richmond, Va, Is
truly marvellous. 1t Is not an unusual thing
for their agents to make as high as $50 and $50
nigh as $40 and S5O-even more. But we hesi-
tate to tell the whole truth, or you will scarcely
believe we are in earnest. Write to them and
see for yourself what they will do for you.
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WELLS
INVISIBLE
Velvet
Cream

AMag1cCom-
plexion Beauh
der for Face,
Neck and Arms
Elegant for
dressing an d
whitening the
skin. Unrivaled
rTheafre,Re-.
ceptions, Balls.
Parties, &c. Un.
equalled for
delicate trans.
parent white
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AMANDA TAYLOR, miss only eleven years
old, is teaching school in Owen County, Ken
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AwAx monument Of General Grant Is onex-
hibit on in New York.
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Hoods SarsapariIla
Make the Weak Strong

II take Hoods Sarsaparilla spring tonic ard
recommend It to all who have that miSerabl. tire
feeling."-c. PAaMKLEE. $40 Bridge ST., Brooklyn
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500 to $500 A nsss soSTa ~oztiss Sss ies ss
GOLD Is worth $500 per ID. Pethts Eye Salye ID
(T Worth $1,000 but Is sold at 25c. box by dealers

%%tE>H;y>tz.,t,Es
The man who has invested from three
to five dollars In q Rubber Coat, and
at his first half hours experience IN
n storm finds to bis sorrow that 1t b
hardly q better protection than mos:
quito netting, not only feels chagrined
st being so badly taken In, but also
feels IL he does not look exactly like
Ask for the "FISH BRAND" sLIcYER
does not have the FISH BRAND, send for dss,
f,,F4<,.,k,ks4
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Delicate Children, Nursing
Mothers, Overworked Men, and for all diseases
where the tissues are wasting away from the
inability to digest ordinary food, or from over
work of the brain or body all such should axe
SCOTT's EMU SION of Pure Cod Ii, sr Oil with
Hypophosphites ~ used the Emulsion on q
lady who was delicate, and threatened with
Bronchitis. It put her in such good health and
flesh, that must cay it is the best Emulsion
ever used."-L. P. WADDELL, Md, Hughs
;1o
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Poisonous Plants on the Farm.
Professor George g. Croft, of Lewis:
burg, Penn, says in the Minnesota
Farmer that on many farms and about
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E Live s.hes and mako more money working for than
Huk at anything else In world Either Co.tly outdt
TrIY. TEHS rzxK Address, TsUx Co., Augusta, Aains.
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Hoods SarsapariIIa

sold by all druggists 81 six for S.. Prepared oui
'y c. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
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|ERBRAND FIFTH Wheel. !as assess c.Inassse nqass
Improvement. HERBRAND CO., Fremont o.
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n Rn to SS day. Samples worth $50 FREE
- II Lines not under the horses rect write ~,
vi u Brewster Safety Rein Holder Co., Holly, Mich