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DON'T TurN.oUr THE wooDLoT.

When a woodlot is once broken into
BY cutting out the most valuable timber,
it is rarely worth much afterward. Trees
used to stand together thickly are pro-
lection to each other in various ways.
They prevent violent winds from uproot-
ing them, and By the shelter they afford
they keep snow on the ground, which
makes the soil moist for the roots in
GUNNER, and prevents deep freezing in
winter. Whenever portion of the for
est is denuded, the trees unused to the
sweep of winds topple over within a
year or two, or if they do not the trees
begin to die at the top. Trees soon ac-
custom themselves to new conditions if
they are not too old when the change is
begun, bat old trees that have stood in
virgin forest from the earliest settlement
of the country should be cleared out en-
tirely whenever any clearing is attempted.
This explains why attempts to make ma
pie sugar orchards by cutting oat all
trees generally result in failure. The
better plan is to clear off all and plant a
new orchard exclusively of naples, and
thickly enough so that they will protect
each other the same as in natural forest.
-Courier-Journul.
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lambs with plenty of milk. This is one

lambs with plenty of milk. This is one
advantage in feeding oil meal and bran;
combined they make an excellent ration,
aud with clover, hay and oats it is easy
not only to keep the ewes in good,
thrifty condition, but also maintain a
steady growth with the lambs. There is
no advantage in stinting the feed either
FOR the lambs or the wool. At this time,
while the weather is so changcable, care
must be taken to keep dry. Sheep need
considerable exercise, and do not bear
confinement we'll, yet it is not best to
allow them to remain out in windy or
stormy weather, bat it is very important
at the same time that they should be dry
under foot. Sheep should never he fed
4 large quantity al one time. Better re-
suits can be obtained By giving small
ration at a feed, and feeding oftcnsr.
The profit in sheep is in the early lambs
and in the wool. Both of these depend
largely upon the feed and care given
during the winter. A difference of
few days in marketing the lambs and
few pounds difference in the weight of q
fleece will make a considerable difference
in the profit that it is possible to realize.
Provide plenty of bedding to keep the
shelter clean and dry, good variety OF
food and plenty of it to keep in good,
thrifty condition, and sheep can be made
profitable. Louis Republic.
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Iener yillage In Colombia.

A strange community is that Of Aqua
di Dios, the leper village of Colombia, as
described by our Consul at Bogota.
Situated at about fourteen hundred feet
above the sea level, with a dry, sandy
soil and o temperature of eighty-two de-
grees to eighty-ive degrees Fahrenheit,
this SPOT has been chosen for the lazaretto
by the Government on account OF its
ancient reputation for the cure ofleprosy.
Some FIVE hundred and twenty sufferers
from this terrible visitation dwell here,
and form about one-third of the popula-
ton; but the most remarkable fact re-
carding the settlement is that lepers and
healthy persons are described as living on
terms of perfect intimacy, there being no
specific leper quarter, though every house
in the village stands apart in a garden.
Mr.. Wheeler states that there is no
case on record of the disease having been
contracted here by contagion. Even
where the lepers have married healthy
persons, the husband or wife has never
been known to take it from the other.
On the other hand, the mournful fact Is
admitted that children born of suct
unions are generally afflicted.
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Easier to Save Sight than Any Sense.

There is nothing so pitiful as aschooI-
room of children not one of whom has
seen the light of the sun. There is no
substitute for the loss of eyesight. And
so when excessive work, long hours of
toll under the Pickering lights that man
has made in the futile attempts to turn
night into day, or when approaching age
bas made inroads on the sight, there IS
nothing so necessary as the effort to re-
enforce the wanting strength in all posi-
BILE ways. Science has made this easier
in the case of failing sight than in that of
any other organ. AS time chills the
marrow in old bones, as time takes from
the nerves and muscles of the arm, and
as time saps somewhat from the pigments
of color and turns our hair plaintive
gray, so time lattens the lens of the ma
tural eye, draws its curves into more rigid
and straighter lines, and refuses the vi
tality that could once have repaired any
waste. The eye has grown weaker, just
as all other members of the body do when
they have seen the zenith of power come
and go.
All that is needed is that another lens
be placed before that older@aaa more
priceless one, and that all liuae ot Light;
be sent to the retina at just ths proper
angle. Opticians can tell aftef fths biaf.:
est of tests just what is needed; and they
are provided with glasses to meet all
needs. Men who deal in those instru-
ments say that nine out of ten of their
customers are those who find some diff
Guilty with their eyes, but dislike to be-
lieve it is advancing age. They think
all they need is something to tide them
over some present difficulty that has
made reading or sewing painful at night.
As matter of fact, however, they will
probably never be able to do without
glasses again. And they never should
want to. It is but natural that the body
should feel somewhat of the ravages of
time when one has seen forty years come
and 20, for few of US conserve as va
should the forces that have been given
u.s. Micn0o Herald,
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Mysteries of Geography.

In 1776 the uessian General, Knip-
hansen, sailing to help the English SUBJ
due the rebcllious colonies in America,
said anxiously to the captain of the YES.
sell: "Is it not possible, considering the
time that we have been under sail, that
in one of these dark nights we have
sailed by America, where these rebels
are?" Mistakes equally as absurd wero
made by those who pretented to be we'll
up in geography and to have a close
knowledge of America and the Ameri-
cans.
In 1770 Lorenzana, the Archbishop Of
Mexico, wrote history of that country
in which be expressed the opinion that
California bordered on Tartary and New
Mexico on Greenland!
Jacques Mareau in 1893 made map
"of the discovered and undiscovered
portions of the American continent"
which shows large river rising at about
the present site of Kansas City and flow
ing west to the "Gulph of California"
which is marked as running up nearly to
the latitude of Portland, Oregon.
The editor of 'sNotes for the Curious"
owns an original copy of Heylin's
"Cosmographic" 1852, containing a
map of North America which has Texas,
Louisiana and New Mexico (not by name,
but by location) marked as islands. A
great chain of mountains runs across
from Virginia to the Pacific at about the
latitude of Memphis, Tenn. The head
waters of the Mississippi are located at
about the same place; California is cut
off from the mainland, and the Rio
Grande rises in q big lake in Montana
and flows southwest into the Gulf OF
California, which is there called 'Mare
Vermiglio."
Smith never, during his lifetime, sue
ceeJcd in convincing the English that
Virginia was not an island; in vain he
wrote home, "Virginia is no isle, as
many doc imagine"
Henry Sellc's map does not show
single trace of the Great Lakes of North
America. Louis Republic.
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NOSE BLEEDING IN HORSES.

Bleeding at the nose in horses is US
ually the result of some injury or disease.
if the blood came from the stomach or
lungs it would flow through both nos
trils. Sometimes, however, feshy
swellings appear attached to the mucous
membrane of the nostrils, called polypi,
and when these break blood flows from
the opening. If polypus is present
sou may discoverit by q careful inspec-
ton, turning the colts head up to the
light. If you discover lump in the
nostril the services of veterinarian will
be needed in its removal. If you think
it necessary to check the bleeding, blow
matico powder of strong alum water in
a spray up the affected nostril. If the
flow of blood is only slight, better let it
uslops, merely, washing out the nostrils
4 llft alum water. FRY bathing the lump
Ia ia jaw common kerosehe oil,
flich Nill softeh Il if hard and cause it
8 % Be- sbsofbed unless the bone is af-
fected, as in the disease known as big
Jaw, which is very difficult to cure even
when taken in its earlier stages.-NeD
York Sun.
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TIE suApE OF POTATOES.

The experiments IN trying to grow
regular. shaped and smooth potatoes by
selection of seed do not always result
satisfactorily. If the field is heavily
manured, no matter what the seed may
be, the crop will be rough-shaped and
irregular. The potato tuber started out
perhaps to produce regular shape, but
the excess of plant food which its roots
provided forced it to grow into knots
and other excrescences. Yet we believe
there is advantage in selecting we'll
shaped tubers for the production of
smooth potatoes. 1t was thus that the
Snowflake potato was first bred, and it
yet retains this characteristic. So also
does the Early Ohio. If the originators
of new potatoes would reject monstrosi-
ties and plant only the eyes on the side
of the potato, rather than from its seed
end, their seedlings when offered in
market would possess advantages which
would long continue their popularity. A
smooth shape with few eyes, and those
on the surface rather than sunken, is
more important than productivcness, and
only less so than quality in making a
potato popular in the house as we'll as in
the field. All potatoes have ultimately
to be subjected to the housewives or
cooks test of merit, and what they want
is good quality, surface eyes, and an
oval rather than long or round shape
Boston Culti1ator.
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A Well That Flows Gold.

There is a wonderful vel! down in Del
Norte. 1t is an artcsian we'll with an
abundant flow of pure water, sufficient
to irrigate a considerable body of land.
That would be enough for any one but 4
San Luis man, but this is mineral water.
1t is c(fervescent, very palatablc and cx-
1rcmcly healthful. Nor is this all. The
force of the water brings up from the
depths an occasional lump of native sill
yer or gold nugget. The frugal farmer
has placed a sack of wire netting over
the mouth of the well to catch the metal
and prevent it from choking the COWS.
Local scientists claim that, alta great dis
tance down and under an enormous pres
sure, the water is washing away ledge
of rock, whose softer parts 60 into solu.
ton and give the water its mineral quail
ties, but whose gold and silver, not be.
ing dissolved, are brought to the surface
in a metallic state.-Pike's Peak (CoI.)
H.raM.
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BRAN AND CORN FOR PIGS.

Among the advantages which are
claimed for feeding pigs with bran and
corn over corn alone are greater economy
in the use of the feed, an increase in the
proportion of lean to fat meat, and q
more rapid and longer continued growth
It is we'll known that if corn is fed ex-
clusivcly pigs will fatten before they at
tain their full growth. But if bran is
given with the corn they will reach a
larger size, have stronger bones and be
more vigorous than they can be if kept
on corn alone. This applies 10 the feed
ing of pigs under seven or eight months
of age. After they reach this point they
can be finished off with corn alone or
with corn and a smaller proportion of
bran than had been previously used.-
american pairymaR.
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''Gernnan.I'
Syrup
- ~ ~

G. Gloger, Druggist, WatertoWn,
Wis. This is the opinion of a man
who keeps a drug store, sells all
medicines, comes in direct contact
with the patients and their families
and knows better than anyone else
how remedies sell, and what true
merit they have. He hears OF all Z
the failures and successes, and can
therefore Judge: II know of no.
medicine for Coughs, Sore Throat,
or Hoarseness that had done such eff
fective work in my
Coughs, family as Boschee'ss
.r..o,+ German Syrup. Last
oore 'h'oa' winter a lady called
Hoarseness, at my store, who was
suffering from very,
severe cold. She could hardly tall.
and I told her about German Syrup
and that a few doses would give 10
lief; but she had no confidence In.
patent medicines. told her to take
a bottl:, and if the results were nor
satisfactory would make no chaIgss
for it. A few days after she called
and paid for it, saying that she
would never be without it in future as
a few doses had given her relief" o.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

The reward of one duty done is the
power to fulfil another.
The test of every system, political or
educational, is the men it forms.
The fear of being called n coward
makes lots of towards act like brave
men.
The turn in the long road travelled by
r4ost men is usually the turn into tn
cemetery.
'Tis astonishing how soon the whole
conscience begins to ravel if a singles
stitch is dropped.
The sudden death of a friend of his
own age has greater effect on man
than 1000 sermons.
The world is getting on towards
o'clock in the morning, instead of 3
o'clock in the evening.
When you find two men in the same
business who claim to be friends, you
have two more hypocrites.
There probably never was a man so
good that he did not hope in his heart
that his successor would be failure.
.1Ae S, s,Ao1lom. o. IoJ e1sds1d o. qSnous
sslM eq upo quo ou aqua e4Bo!pu! o.
meos plnoA elnI oq4 o. suo!4deoxe ou em
eIoq4 aqua louJ oqL 10 peueqsB oq o.
Su!q4emos spq suo6leAe 7eq4 .! S! 6qA
.sssoons 10 eIom 90 pInoA eSs!IIru
'1eqlo qore u!A o. 4usue5eSus eq4 eIoI
90 PIP Aqua SO leq4o qore doeE o. eSu!I
-Irm g 1e3Js pleq So reNloA eldoed II
Good manners are the settled medium
of social life, as specie is OF commercial
life; returns are equally expected of
both; and people will no more advance
their civility to bear than they will
their nouey to q bankrupt.
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Beecham's Pills cure Bilious and Nervous
There's a good deal of
guarantee business in the store

There's a good deal of
guarantee business in the store
keeping of to-day. It's too
excessive. Or too reluctant.
Half the time it means moth
ing. Words only yoras.
This offer to refund the
money, or to pay a reward, is
made under the hope that you
won't want your money back,
and that you won't claim the
reward. Of course.
So, whoever is honest in
making it, and works-not on
his own reputation alone, but
through the local dealer whom
you know, must have some
thing he has faith in back of
the guarantee. The business
wouldn't stand a year with
out it.
What is lacking is conf
dence. Back of that, what is
lacking is that clear honesty
which is above the I" average
practice.'
DR.. Pierce's medicines are
guaranteed to accomplish what
they are intended to do, and
their makers give the money
back if the result isn't ap-
parent.
Doesn't it strike you that
a medicine which the makers
have so much confidence in,
is the medicine for you?
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Examples Of LOng Life.

The recent death of George Bancroft
in his seventy-frs year, and the con-
.inucd prominence and activity of Won
Moltkc in Germany at the age of ninety,
md Gladstone in Great Britain at the
age of eighty-one, recalls other examples
IF long life. Lophoclcs was ninety years
old when he was summoned before the
board having control Of the dramatic
performances at Athens on the charge
that his intellectual faculties had de-
cayed. His triumphant answer was the
reading there and then his just completed
and greatest tragedy, "Gdipus at Colo
AUS"
An esteemed contemporary gives the
following list of nonogenarians and cen
tenarians: Isecrates, the "old man elo-
,uent," was ninety-six when he wrote bis
celebrated "Pancgyric" oration, and he
lived to be over 100. Gorgias, the
famous sophist, died at 10s: Hierony-
mus, the historian lived to be 10i, with
out any loss Of mental energy. Zenoph-
anes wrote his memorable elegy at ninety
two. Theophrastus composed his "Char-
acters' at ninety:nine. Agatbocles,
tyrant of Syracuse, kept firm grasp on
on that city until he died at the age OF
ninety. FIVE.
Passing to the Romans, we find that
lJssenal died at 100; that, according to
Pint Lucia, tbe comic actress, acted on
fthe stagSNhen a centenarian, and that
Ia. Ysierjen porvus was IL full possession
lIof hss faSnltiaS when he died in his one
hundredth year. Coming to relatively )
modern times, we note that the pencil
fell from the hand of the immortia
Titan only when he was smittcn by th'
plague at the age Of nearly 100; and tina
no diminution OF Michael Angeles i'm
aginative capacity was observable at tht
age of nincty-fvc.
We might add that similar instance
are on record in ancient and moderr
French and English history; Will
Whittier and Oliver Wendell Holmes, il
America, are already walking close il
the steps of George Bancroft. L0ui
! RepuJlic.
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RaiIrOading in the Himalayas.

"The magnificent scenery in the Grand
Canon in Colorado is nothing when COM
pared with the view from n railroad
coach when passing over the Himalaya
Mountains" said Colonel Tanner, of CAL
cutta, to Chicago Tribune reporter, the
other day. 1.-THE Bolon railway runs
over the Himalaya Mountains 1000 feet
above the sea level, winds in and out Of
gorges and passes over bridges spaEslpg
streams flowing 1000 feet below. The
sight is enough to turn mans hair gray.
But accidents there are not frequent.
The road-bed is the best in the world,
and the engineering work is marvel" +"
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Roosrs AND LARGE BREEDS.

We noticed a certain breeder OF Brah-
mas provided no roosts for his flock, and
we have found his plan to have some
merits. The large breeds are liable to
leg weakness, when fat, to injury in get
ting on or off the roosts, and to too much
draught on the pcrches. When provided
with bedding of straw they escaped
these difficulties and seemed to be less
subject to ills and injuries. Itis point
worth considering, aud the plan of no
roosts for the large breeds should be
oiyen a trial.-Farns and Ftreside.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.

THE BEsT COWS FOR A CHEESE DAIRY.
The Holstein breed is no doubt the
best for cheese dairy and the Ayrshire
the second best. AS pure-bred COWS are
costly and not much better than half
breds, a good herd may soon be built up
by crossing wcll-selccted native cows
with a pure bull. A good Holstein bull
may be bought for 500 to 5000, and an
Ayrshire for half as much.-Neo YORK
Times.
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1t is very important in this age Of vast ma
terial progress that a remedy be pleasing to
the taste and to the eye, easily taken, accept.
able to the stomach and healthy inits nature
and effects. Possessing these qualities, Syrup
of Fizs is the one perfect laxative and most
gentle diuretic known.
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Money invested In cnoice one nundred dol:
lar building lots in suburbs Of Kansas City will
nav from five hundred to one THOUSAND per
cent. the next few years under our plan. ~
cash ana IS per month without interest con.
trolsad sslrablelos. Particulars oa ?licI Ieioa.
i H. Bauerlein & Co. KanSaS City. No.
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Children Tease For II.

DR.. Hoxsie's Certain Group Cure Is boon
to children who arc attacked witt Group or
acute congestive colds Sold by druggists OF OF
Hcysie Buffalo. Y. Y.
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SHEEP.


No infallible ruic can be given for
feeding sleep on the farms that can be
considered applicable under all con-
ditions. They need good variety, and
this can be readily secured with little
care on the average farm. Hay fodder,
if bright and clean, oats, bran,
some corn and oil meal will make up a
good variety, if properly managed.
Breeding ewes especially need good care
at this season, in order to secure the best
results with the lambs. A light ration
of bran and oil meal can nearly always
be given the breeding ewes now with
profit, especially if early lambs are ex-
pccted. In raising lambs for market
earliness is quite an item, and to secure
this in a majority of cases it will be
necessary to push them from the start,
and one of the best ways of doing this is
to feed the ewes literally with ratior
that will enable them to supply thei1
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Guaranteed five year e!xat per cant. Fteis
MORTGAGES on Kansas City pro3srty, inter.s
payable avery six months; principal aud Inter.
estcollected when due anil relnitted without
expense to lender. For sale BY j. b. Bauerleln
d Co, Kansas City, Mo. Write Tor plrGlcIlLcI >
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M You Ever Speculate.

Anv nerson sell lin us thsir nans aai .ad..
dresswill receive intor nation that will lead
to a fortune. Beaj. Lewis & Co, Security
building, Kansas City, Mo.
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MI, 1,a.,unnianeea afSnIid Trains.

The Erie is the only railway running soli{
trains over its own tracks letween New ORA
and Chicago. No change of cars for any clas
of passengers. Rates lower than va an.
other tirst-claSs line.
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beware OF Ointments for Catnrrn 1nat
Contain Mercury,
Az mercury will surely destroy the sense OF
smell and completely derangc the whole sys-
TEN when entering it through the mucous sur
faces Such articles should never be used eX.
cept on pre-: e:criptions from reputable physi-
clans, as lhe alnage they will do is ten fold to
the. good you can possibly derive from them.
Halls Catarrh Care, manufacture by +. j.
Cheney & Co., Toledo. o.. contains no mer-
curry, and is taken internally, anil acts direct
y upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be
sure to get the genuine. IT is taken Internal
y, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by j. Cheney
&Co
r. Sold by Druggists. price &c per bottle.
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FITS stopped free by DR.. KL1NE's GREAT
NERVE REsroRER. No Its after first day 8 use.
Maryelouscures. Treatise al 81 trial oottle
free. Dr. Kline. a3l Arch St., Pnll f., Pu.
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100 Doses One Dollar
EyfRYMo1HER

Should Have It In The HOuse.
Dropped on Sugar, Children Lore
10 take JoHIsoSs ANopYNE 1lN1xIsr for Group. Colds
Ieyes Summer Complaints, Cuts, Bruises Ike magic
THINK OF 1T.
In use over 40 YEARS in one family.
Dr. s. JOHNSON & Colt is sixty years since first
learned Of your JoHNsoss ASoDrSE LSaEsT Tor niors
than fortv years have used 1t in my family. regard
II as one OF best and safest family remedies that can
be found, used internal or external in all cases o. r.
INGALLS,, Deacon End Baptist Church, Bangor, Ne
Every Sufferer ssSs tssS%s:!s ass9P5ss S.
Asthma Cholera Gorbus Dnrrhoea, Lameness Soreness
in Body Limbs stf Jointe or strains WIZ nmd a
free Sold evcryp here Price IS cts, BY mall bottles
EItrees paid g. ]. S. JOHNSON & Co. Boston, MASS