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DOCTORING LIQUORS.

Confession of q Dealer In Fusol Oil and
Other Atlulterants.
The American Analyst reports deal.
er in liquor adulterants as saying:
Our largest business is in the liquor
line. With French spirits and color as
basis, can make you any liquor you
want with our extracts. Here are the
essences of Old Tom, London Dock,
Swan, Holland, and Schiedam gins, the
extracts of Otard and Cognac brandies,
rye, bourbon, appleiack, Irish and
Scotch WHISTLES, Santa Cruz. Jamaica
and Medford runs, not to speak of the
fancy cordials and liquors. To make Old
Tom, take a teaspoonful of French
spirits, one of water, three drops of glu-
cose syrup and two drops of the OK tract
That makes the Old Tom you have
drank in a dozen saloons in this city.
There are some funny things about this
part of the business Most people like
their whisky and brandy aged and free
from fusel oil. But there are a great
many, especially among manual labor
ers, who like 1t fresh and harsh. They
want it Ito cut as it goes down." To
supply this demand We sell fusel oil to
rectifiers and even retailers. They mix
barrel of whisky, of spirits and one
of water with a gallon of fusel oil. That
makes Decent rye which beats torch
light procession. It's cheap, too. and
stands an intelligent dealer in only 81
gallon. That's 20 cents bottle, and
less than cent a drink on an average.
No wonder rum-sellers grow rich and
become aldermen or go to Congress.
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LIVE STOCK NOTES.

We are indebted to our excellent con.
temporary, the Kansas City Live Stock
Indicator, for the items below, which
are not otherwise credited:
A LITTLE saving of the pastures now
often means much more feed in the sum.
mer.
PIGS should never be fed so much al
one feed as not to be hungry when the
next comes.
TREE planting need not be done toe
early; rather wait and have the soil
warm and dry.
A MIXTURE of one-third each of corn,
oats and barley makes good ration Of
grain for the work teams; little hay
or roughness should be added.
In shoeing colts especially, consider
able care must be taken to do the work
properly, or considerable injury may be
done that afterwards may he difficult to
overcome.
THOSE who carry away the prizes a,
the live stock shows and fairs are the
breeders that allow nothing to interfere
with the growth of the animals from
birth until maturity.
EXAMINE the pedigree as we'll as the
horse before breeding your mare. Some
horses may, with good treatment, pre-
sent a much better appearance thar
their real value warrants.
THE London Chronicles Berlin cor
respondent says that Germany is MOI
indisposed to relax the prohibition Of
American pork, on condition that the
United States agrees to concession ir
regard to German imports.
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indignant excitement At that time l
was a reporter on prominent daily,
and, in response to sensational bulle-
tin from our local correspondent at
l., was sent on by the chief to fur
nish long special dispatch of the case
for the morning edition. left the city
at dusk, and reached my destination
seventy miles away, between nine and
ten o'clock.
1t is unnecessary to enter into any de-
tails of the murder here. Suffice it to
say that, after some trouble and more
delay, l secured very successful report,
and at eleven o'clock it had begun spin
ming over the wires.
Twas asmall country place where
the midnight trains did not stop; but
before leaving the telegraph Office !
learned from the operator, who was a
genial fellow-do not stare-that by
hiring horse at the village, which was
a mile from the station and rea~ ia in
the daytime By stage, could be driven
to -- Junction, eight miles beyond,
board the train there, and be in the city
at daylight.
determined to act on this sugges-
ton, and after few further inquiries
set off toward the village. The moon
had gone down, and thick clouds GOV.
cred the sky. 1t was as dark as pitch.
Not leaf stirred. 1t seemed as though
the night were holding its breath, pre-
monitory symptoms of lachrymal out
burst of rain. did not mind the gloom,
however, and whistled along merrily
enough.
The highway ran along the east side
OF the track for nearly half mile, as
cending hill, then descending abrupt.
~ to the right, crossing the track at a
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self 1t the rate Of fifty milea IN hour.
One of the train men, whom lat once
recognized, was sprinklin9 my face With
water.
Before speaking looked down ct my
feet To my surprise they were both
there, though one was minus shoe and
began to pain me. was soon able TO
sit up and give an account Of myself, so
far as knew, concluding with an In
quiry as to how badly my foot was hurt
by the train.
At this there was general smile.
''Speak out" said I, didn't the train
run over me?" "l'll tell you all about
it, said the conductor, who had just
come in. when our engineer got .
little past L., he saw man lying
close to the crossing, and thinking he
mustbe either killed or injured, we ran
back the train to pick him up. As to
running over you, We couldn't have done
that without some Inconvenience. You
were not ON the main line at all, but on
. side-track close beside it. We cut of
your boot In . second or two, took you
along with US, and here you are"
I understood at once. had had all
my excitement and mental suffering for
nothing. There was nothing to do but
to put short face on the matter, and
laugh with the rest thanked them
all warmly, you may be sure, for their
kindness. ...&0 y
Then followed many "reminiscences Of
adventures on the rail, some similar to
what had befallen me, in which. the
poor fellows had not got of so easily. I
reached home early in the morning:
Ny sprained ankle laid me by for .
month, after which took up my daily
duties as usual.
And now when cross railway track.
I can not help but recall with .
shudder that dark. starless night
when reason tottered on its throne,
when, with the full expectation of being
crushed beneath the fast express, lay
PROSTATE and helpless, firmly held by
the heels. S. Cairns, in Yankee
Blade
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A BLAME FOOL.

blame fool?-Wall, mebbe so, but, then, he
want all alone,
Fur they's lots O. folks thought death q song
wot's found Their life groan;
An thet's wot happent joey Thorne, an Of hs
They's plenty others left 18th us upon the ole
foot-stOol! &c.
She kem up from the city for to what she called
% ''onjoy 58& .,@'s 80
Tho bewtchus rooral scenery, an, let the breezes
An wsuton with her ringlets,"-sn' . lot o.
mush like that,
Wfoh p'raps soun's gram an pikcherskew, but
1osu--wall, darn fiat. sz%5
But Zoo was kind o. dreamy-like an all tibet
sort o. bosh, -.- - - s
Jes' sort o. soaked right inter him, an made
him think, b'goshl ...rs -.
She was wtngless angel, 18th q voice like gold
ing harps-<,
An all thet kind o. truck shel!ed out by all them
Shaikspere sharps.
An so when they was any drives or walks it
happent that,
Foollike, Joe would hang around an have q
little chat:
An then they start together, an while Joe'ud
A bunch O. water lilies, she'd set on rock an
sketch"
Il think she called it that and Joe 'ud come
aroun' an talk
About tho dangerous lily an the rose an hol.
lyhawk,"
1.-The hummin' O. the drowsy bees" an 'twit-
term o. the jay,''
An Kaleidoscope O. nature" and the 'dyin'
orb o. day."
An SO things KEEP on jes' this way till summer'd
passed, an Joe
KEN to the house the night afore the day she
he'd to go,
An when they was alone, he said he'd hev to
IBID good-bye"-
An then stopped short and bit his lip an tried
to shade his eye.
guess the light hared up too bright, an thets
what make Joe blink;
think,
Some trouble bout his eye-sight-but he braced
right up an told
Well, you know jes' how it is yerself-the story
that's so old!
An Carrie-well she kind O. smiled an reached
an Tux his hand,
An spoke. about her visit, and tole Joe to I'M
derstand
Thet she 'joyed her trip to Rosevale, an that eff
at any day
He'd need q friend-but Joe turned round, an
stared on walked away.
An So one day Joe disappeared an lef' note
behind,
A-sayin ef they missed him, they need on'y
look an find
Him seepin' in the water-fer tibet he he'd
"on'y gone
Fer to fetch q bunch OF lilies from the old &C.
customed pond!'
An thet's wot happent Joey Thorne, an Of he
war fool
rhey's plenty others left 18th us upon the ole
foot-stool!
*. G. Tapley in Jury.
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lently until nearly exhausted. There
was no result except that my ankle be-
gan to pain me from the rough treat
ment and felt thatit was, beginning
to swell. s & :
To escape from this trap, 1 found
must take the matter more coolly. By
strong effort at self-command I be-
came calm again, and began to .consid-
or the best way out Of the fix. Consult
Ing my watch, which had an illumin-
ated dial, found it was twenty min
utes past eleven. No train would pass
| till after one, and this was the one I
wanted to catch at the junction. There
fore need not worry lest should be
run over; had plenty. of time. Yet
from the pain in, my ankle I feared
could not reach home as early as had
intended. sess S~Efe !
went systematically to work, and
tried to pull my foot out of the shoe.
Failure Again and again I endeavored.
Dead failure. Ny foot was badly swol.
len. t,-s.x- ~, sss.S .sss. -
A happy thought flashed through my
mind. and 1 almost shouted with Joy.
Jubilant ut the prospect Of deliverance
felt for my pocket-knife. Horrors! 1t
was gone. But no. Almost miraculously,
it seemed to me, my hand at that in
slant touched it lying on the ground.
where it had slipped when l fell. With
thankful heart opened its only
blade
then cut deeply into the plank where
1t held my heel. But in my eagorness
overestimated the strength of the
knife, and before I had taken of a
shaving, to my infinite dismay and
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ITEMIZED FACTS.

10 SAY: Il can drink or let it alone"
is about as wise as to say: Il can drive
nails in lions tail and get away be-
fore he can grab me. Rams Horn.
L. GEORGE BLAIKLocK, the London Tenn
perance lecturer who is travelling in
this country, says that his city contains
90, 600 paupers and spends annually for
drink about $40, 900, 600.
Tim DELANEY's Pump" an old sa-
loon at Worcester, Mass, where beer
had been the chief beverage dispensed,
has been turned into q Temperance
restaurant and coffee house by the local
w. c. T. u. ...gzs,., -. Isl
! SEE but this one lesson-no nation,
no individual, can thrive so long as 1t
b under the dominion Of besetting
sin. It must conquer or be conquered.
It must destroy or be destroyed by it
Thrust strike at the sources of it or be
stricken down by it into the dust
Canon Farrar.
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TIE FARMING WORLD.
DUST FOR POULTRY:
Its vslue % Medium for Freeing Fowl
$500 from Tlrn 80

Il
Its vslue % . Medium for Freeing Fowls
from Lice
When first commenced on the farm
on my own account built small poul-.
try house OF logs. Not having much
capital or much experience in the poul-
try business, thought that if 1 could
have place for the poultry to roost at
night out of the storm, and plenty OF
corn for feed they would do we'll
enough, and could save time and
money by getting along thus. Itwould
have been better to let the poultry
roost In the trees l find that one of
the greatest evils to contend with in
poultry business is parasites. believe
that the cholera, so prevalent among
our fowls, is caused chiefly by parasites.
The body louise gives them no rest BY
day and the spider louise, that hides in
their roosts, comes out to torment them
by night, and to finish their purga.
tory, the scaly leg attacks them, and
finally the cholera comes along as a
speedy relief from all their troubles.
This Is some of the experience that r
have had with poultry. I tried all
remedies advertised, but road dust,
with my small, cheap roost, couldn't
try. I creased with lard, with lamp
oil, mixed the two and greased-greased
big and little-greased, creased, creased,
and finally my wife became desperate
and creased couple of dozen young
ster so thoroughly that the next morn
ing she foundboth lice and chickens
dead. So
Then we tried the sulphur cure. We
mixed sulphur with their feed, accord
ing to directions; sprinkled sulphur in
their nests, etc. The consequence was
(the weather became cold) they caught
cold, got the Group, and the lice died,
and so did the chickens. Then 1 built
q larger and better house, thinking that
filth was the trouble. I wanted one
large enough so I could keep it clean,
and whitewash occasionally. But I
didn't get it large enough for the one
most essential thing-road husband
we continued to grease occasionally and
the lice continued with us, and the
cholera came along each spring and re.
lieved the chickens of their misery and
us of our chickens and our profits. But
practice makes perfect, and concluded
to build another poultry house. Imade
due allowance for dust enough to do
them the year round. Now on cold
days when the chickens are confined in
their quarters, you can hear a regular
pandemonium' of crows, cackles and
singing from the poultry house, and If
you take pains to look in you will find
them wallowing in the dust to their
hearts content, and the house so full of
flying dust that it is impossible for a
parasite to enjoy life. Since we have
made these arrangements the lice, the
scaiy leg and the cholera have disap.
peared. We have no need of feeding
sulphur and so the roup doesn't bother
us any more. In fact, things are so sat-
isfactory that am thinking of building
another poultry house and adding an
other poultry house and adding another
hundred chickens to the capital stock of
our farms. NJ. Hartford, in Ohio
Farmer
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Too Iona

Too long
deluded - the unhappy victim Of
catarrh in the head. He's been
told that it can't be cured. Don't
you believe it. It can be, and it
is-no. matter how bad or of how
long standing. It has been done
for thousands by DR.. Sage's Ca
tarrh Remedy. Other so called
remedies may palziate for time !;
this cures for all time. By its mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing
properties, it conquers the worst
cases. Its makers offer, in good
faith, a reward of $500 for case
of catarrh which they cannot cure.
They are able to pay it. Are you
able to take it?
The symptoms of catarrh are,
headache, obstruction of nose, dis
charges falling into throat, some
times plofuse, watery, and acrid, at
others, thick, tenacious, mucous,
purulent, bloody, putrid and often
sive; eyes weak, ringing in ears,
deafness !; offensive breath smell
and taste impaired, and general
debility. Only a few of these
symptoms likely to be present at
once. Thousands of cases termi-
nate in Consumption and end in the
grave, without ever having mani
tested all these symptoms. DR..
Sage's Remedy cures the worst
cases. so cents, by druggists.
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! UTTERED SHREK AFTER SHREK.
sharp curve, whence it bore of toward
the few glimmering lights of the village,
situated on hill half mile west of
the railroad. l walked rapidly along,
and descended the hill to cross the
track. Hardly had taken the first step
on the plank crossing, when the heel of
my shoe, by some unlucky chance, sank
tightly into the space between rail and
timber, and l was thrown heavily to
tho ground. E...t.~.,s ..-.- ~. -. ---.
Although shaken up considerably, l
was not badly hurt and attempted to
run at once; but my foot was firmly
held and only partially succeeded in
AHg so. l now turned my attention
to freeing myself from my uncomfort-
able position, thinking it an easy mat
ter that could be accomplished by .
simple turn Of the foot. To nv con-
: sterpation I found it absolutely impos.
!. possible to draw my foot away, so &C.
curely was It wedged between the rail
and plank.
began to grow excited, and twisted
snd pulled MY foot xscklessly and VIC.
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A BurdOck Cutter,

Any one can kill burdocks with the
instrument shown in cut. 1t is made by
country blacksmith, using that old
spade-handle which has been so long in
the way under the woodshed, and a
piece of old wagon-spring. Cut off the
handle just above the iron strops of the
old spade, and band the end; then to
about eight inches of the old spring
weld on strong shank about foot
long; drive this into the handle just
above the blade; weld the V projection
on the right hand side, by which to
push the instrument into the ground
with the foot, and you have burdock
cutter that is sure death, if properly
used, to all burdocks. Set the cutter
about two inches from the burdock, at al,
angle of about 80 degrees from the per-
pendicular; with the foot press the cut
ter down far enough to cut off the root.
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go ORIGIN OF THE WAKE.
English Festivals Which Have Been He
for Many Centuries.

En&l1Sh Festivals winch have Been HOLD
for Many Centuries.
The wake is the popular English
equivalent for the ecclesiastical term
vigil. The ''wake" or ''revel" of q
cou ntry parish was of old the day of
the week, and, afterward, the day of
the year, on which the church had been
dedicated. On these occasions the popu-
lation gave themselves up to wholesale
reyelry, and the people disported them
selves in all kinds of games and athletic
exercises. These amusements occasion.
ally drew together large crowds, and
the large crowds attracted the legion of
hawkers and merchants, until the
'''wake," or dedication festival, degen-
Grated into a common fair without any
religious elements in it.
To remedy some of the more glazing
evils, Edward l., in 1885, passed a statute
forbidding them to be held in church
yards; and in 144s Henry vi. enacted
that no display of wares and merchan.
disc should be allowed on the great
festivals Of the church. A further at
tempt was made to regulate them in
1886 by Henry VIII. who appointed that
the wake" should be held in every
parish on the same day, the first Sum
day in October, but this was never gen.
orally observed. In the "Book OF
Sports" of Charles /. wakes" are ex-
pressly mentioned among the feasts
which should be observed, and though
the custom since the Restoration has
gradually declined, it still holds good
in some rural parishes. g..
A "lyke' or '1iche wake" is = watch
ing of corpse all night by the de-
ceased persons friends It is now dis
used except In parts of 1reland.-New-
castle ENG Chronicle.
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BURDOCK CUTTER

Now lift the burdock by the hand from
its place, and the work for that burdock
is done. This instrument and process
sewers the roots below the crown, and
it will not sprout again; but if the root
is severed above the crown Tor black
root) the plant will throw up new
shoots or suckers and go to seed the
same year. find that'if cut in the first
method no salt is needed. AS the bur-
dock plant is biennial, and as the seed
terminates the spring after growth, two
years of clean work in removing the
plants will thoroughly eradicate them.
The secret is, not to let any 20 to seed
for two years, and they will, perforce,
run out. Charles Couch, in Country
Gentleman
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OPPRESSED HERolNEs:
Why They Figure so frequently In Lite
at1ro of Young Women.

Why They Figure so Frequently In Liter
ature of Young Women.
Probably most men, and certainly
most young men, feel that they are
good fellows wronged, that the world
has not treated them exactly right, that
they are harassed and impeded by the
disadvantages OF their environment
that their immediate circle does not APP
preciate them. at their full value. But
women, because they are more sensi-
tive, and have moro leisure to think
over the snubs and Sights that are the
tragedies of everyday life, entertain
this feeling far more acutely. That is
why the oppressed heroine, the homely
heroine, the poor and humble heroine,
are such frequent and familiar and fav-
orite characters in young women's liter
ature. Probably the authors of these in
because at some time Of their career
they had been thrown back upon them
selves. They began to write when cir
cumstances made them feel isolated
from the rest of the world, and in
spirit of morbid concentration upon their
own thoughts. A woman with a turn
for literary work, who notices that she
is distanced, as far as success and adj
miration goes, by rivals inferior in men,
tai capacity to herself, flies eagerly to
the society of her own fancies, and
makes her pen her greatest friend. It is
the lot of many girls to pass their
childhood or youth in somewhat
monotonous round of domestic duties,
and frequently in narrow domestic
circle with which they may have no
great in tellectual sympathy. It is de-
lightful consolation for the shortcom.
ings of the social life around them to
build up an imaginary picture of social
life as it might be-full of romantic
adventures and pleasant conquests. In
manufacturing her heroine the young
recluse puts on paper what she would
herself like to be, and what she thinks
might be if only she had golden hair
and wider sphere of action, or if men
were wiser and more discerning. In
the Sights offered to her favorite ideal
she paints the Sights that might be or
have been offered to herself, and she
glories in imagining the triumphant
way in which (under more suspicious
circumstances she would turn upon
her enemies and trample them under
foot. The vexations and annoyances
she is usually able to describe with
spirit and accuracy. The triumph, be
ing the representation of her own delic-
ious dreams, is apt to be a little too
spectacular; it is too completes; rivals
and enemies are too effectually crushed;
the world looks on and applauds with
rather unnecessary vehemence; the un.
derrated martyr of the first portion of
the book has somewhat too magnificent
an apotheosis at its close. Sometimes,
indeed, she dies in the last chapter, but
even then she has her revenge-she ex-
pires in the calm consciousness that her
family circle has found out, when too
late, all the mistakes and injustice it
has committed toward her, and that
the world at large perceives that it has
been entertaining unawares an angel
just as the angel has taken flight up
ward to another sphere. --1llustrated
49,. -,
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A Substitute.

Mr.. Hoffman Howes-How dweadfuli
l hear that the walters are going to
strike.
His end-Gracious! We won't have
anybody to tip, will We?
Mr.. Hoffman Howes-O, we can tip
the landlord-it's just the same.-Mun-
seY's Weekly.
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If you are tired taking the large old fash
Toned gripping pills, try Carter's Little Liver
Pills and take some comfort. A man can't
stand everything. One pill q dose Try theuD
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Confirmed.
The favorable impression produced on the
first appearance Of the agreeable liquid fruit
remedy Syrup Of Figs q few years ago has
been more than confirmed by the pleasant
experience Of all who have used it, and the
success Of the proprietors and manufacture
ers the California Fig Syrup Company.
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AMMlDowS is q mans given name, sug-
proper response frequently is: II am"
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HAVE you ever tried Dobbins' Electric
Soap? It don't cost much for you to get ono
bar of your grocer, and see for yourself why
it is praised b., 20 many, after "a years steady
sale: Be sure to get no imitation. There
are lots of them