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cts, the seeds to be tested, numbering
rs, 50 or 100 of each sort, are placed
within the muslin trough and the bot
tom of the pan covered to the depth OF
half an inch with water slightly
warmed. The lower edges of the peck
cts coming in contact with water keeps
the seed sufficiently moist by means OF
capillary attraction. The pan is then
covered with thick pane of glass and
set close to window. The date that the
test is begun and closed is carefully
noted, as well as the per cent. of the
seeds that have terminated. In this
way the number of seeds required to
produce a good stand can be deter.
mined.
For use on the farm for determining
the vitality of corn, grass, clover and
other seeds, any comparatively shallow
pan or an ordinary bread pan will an.
swer the purpose. When using a pan
of this kind the ends of the galvanized
or painted iron wires can rest on the
upper edges of the sides. An ordinary
pane of glass will answer for the cover.
The necessary ventilation will then be
secured and the proper degree of heat
and moisture retained.
If the pan is supplied with tepid
water occasionally the plants will con.
tinue to grow, and the pockets through
which the roots will have penetrated
before the season for planting has ar
rived can, after the wires are with.
drawn, be subdivided with a pair Of
scissors and be transplanted with
pieces of cloth, and their growth will
thereafter be continuous, if the season
and other necessary conditions are al
all favorable. BY this method the pur
chase of worthless and inferior seeds
can be obviated and the proper amount
of grass and other seeds to SOW to the
acre may be determined definitely, al
though one-quarter or one third the
seed possesses no vitality whatever.
simple seed-testing apparatus of thi.
character would in many instance.
save the replanting of field of corn
when the germ in ehe seed had been de
stroyed by the sudden and extreme
changes from mild damp weather t.
that of extremely dry and intensely
cold.
The failure to obtain a good "catch'
or ''stand" is almost Invariably attrib
uted to the season or other causes thar
the real one, which in many cases i.
that of injured or worthless seed
Farm and FireSide.
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August
Flower

"For two years l suffered terribly
with stomach trouble, and was for
all that time under treatment by a
physician. He finally, after trying
everything, said my stomach was
worn out, and that I would have to
cease eating solid food. On the rec
ommendation of a friend I procured
abottle Of August Flower. Itseem-
ed to do me good at once. I gained
strength and flesh rapidly. feel
now like a new man, and consider
that August Flower has cured me-"
Jas. =. Dsderick, Saugerties. N.Y.0
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ALCOHOL IN THERAPEUTICS.

Extract from Lecture by DR.. j. H. KEEL
logg. of the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
In my estimation alcohol need occu-
Ply but a very small place in thera-
peutics-a little place on the top shelf,
out of the way, where it can hardly
ever be discovered and not often
brought down. ] think it could be dis
pensed with altogether. 1t is not
needed as a medicine, and certainly un-
necessary as beverage. We some
times use it as a matter of convenience,
when dissolved with other medicines,
but in those cases we need to exercise
care that we do not give it in such
doses that we get the effect of the al
cohol instead of the medicine. AS an
outward application it is a very good
astringent to the skin, but internally it
is neither a food nor a stimulant, but
rather a narcotic. If alcohol were a
stimulant you would never find man
sound asleep on the sidewalk from its
effects. You might give a man any
amount of red pepper and it would not
put him to sleep, but alcohol makes
him first stupid and dull and then he
goes to sleep, dead drunk" We might
call alcohol an an@sthetic, for it puts a
person to sleep, just as opium or NOR
phine first produces supplying effects,
and then sleep.
But" you say, lis not alcohol q
tonic? Does not a man feel stronger
when he has taken drink of it than
he did before?' Yes, he feels stronger
and thinks he is stronger, but when
you test him by making him lift it
will appear that he cannot lift as much
as he could before. He feels warmer
after a drink of alcohol, but his tenn
peratnre is really lowered, as can be
demonstrated any time by use of a
clinical thermometer. A few drinks
may make him think he is rich, when
he is very poor indeed. Alcohol is in
every way deceiver. Shun ire
ported by Helen L. Manning.
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beneath his square chin and bald
crani,1m.
Nancy was fresh-colored and bright
eyed, with silky tendrils of auburn hair
dropping over her freckled forehead
and certain dimple perpetually play
ing ut hide and seek on her left cheek.
The two completely realized Shake
speare's ideal of Grabbed age and
youth"
I'm a-going to town." said Mr.. Mop
pet. You won't need to bile no pot
victuals for dinner. Waste makes want.
A cup O. tea and a billed egg and what's
left O. yesterdays pork and green's
that'll be all you'll need.''
Eyes, father" acquiesced Nancy.
And, talkin' bout eyes, added Mr..
Moppet, you may take four dozen up
to Peach farm. Mrs. Wixon wants
plenty on 'em to make cake for her
niece's party. Better 60 early this
morning."
Cant send 'em up by little Bill
Becker, father?" said she. webster
Wixon will be there, and-and I don't
like Webster Wixon, with his red nose
and his compliments.
Mr.. Moppet frowned.
Nancy" said he, ''don't be fool.
can see through We, like We was pane
q glass. Webster Wixon is a well-to-do
man, with money out at interest, and
you'd oughter be ticlzled to death that
he'd took a notion to you.
~ know jest exactly what's comm.
It's that foolish nonsense about Absa-
lom Parker. No daughter O. mine amt
goin' to marry your Grandfather At
kins' hired man, not if know it.
Take them eggs straight up to the
Peach farm" reiterated Mr.. Moppet.
Webster Wixon, q fat, middle-aged
bachelor, was out helping to gather the
October apples on the north side of the
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doorway. "Wants to see you-right
off,
Grandfather Atkins lay among the
pillows, like wrinkled old ghost.
john" said he, ''all I've got in the
tell you where I've hid it sense the bank
robbery gave me such a scare"
1--WE hid it away
John Moppet placed his ear close to
the pallid lips.
''Six observation-disclosures bills, folded
up in an old number of the Horn Hill
Gazette! In the old stove out in the
shed!' gasped the old man. II knowed
nobody wouldn't be likely to look TO,
'em there! It's yours. John Moppet-
every cent of it,"
SO speaking, the old miser closed his
dim eyes and went where there is nei
their money nor counting of money.
John Moppet uttered an exceedingly
bitter cry as he remembered the lighted
match he had put to the crumpled ole
papers in the stove to make sure of q
draught when it was put up in the
church.
AAO "CAO AOAAC G1Ilu SStt oil evening II
a sort of stupor, with his head in hi.
hands.
AS the old kitchen clock struck nine
Absalom Parker came in, bringing
with him gust of fresh, frosty wind.
"Evenin' squire" he said. I'm sort
O. looking up the watchers. S'pose
you'd like to be one of 'em? But l'c
like to speak a word to you first.''
IF lis about Nancy, it amt no use, >
said Mr.. Moppet, rousing himself t.
the affairs of the world with some pet
| ulance.
ut amt about Nancy" Absalom an
swered, with smile. ''It's about Mr.
Atkins money.
"Oh! you needn't jump So" treasured
| Absalom. Its all safe. ~
He took a fiat parcel out of his pocket
Count 'em," he said. six, ain
there?"
Mr.. Moppet stared at Absalom Parke,
as Aladdin might have stared at thu
genii.
Absalom gave a low chuc!<le.
"Hush!" said he. Don't speak aloud
l seen the old man hide 'em there.
knowed it wasn't safe, SD took 'en
out. And you may thank me the,
wasn't all burned up in the first fire 70,
lighted in that identical stove."
"You know about the stove?" sal.
Mr.. Moppet, with a gasp.
'It wasn't likely no such conjurin.
would 60 on about Mr.. Atkins place
and me not know it," said Parker, dry
ly. II guess the church folks'n ge
sick of it before great while.''
when they do I'll make 'em presen
of a brand new one. And, Absalom-'
Eyes, Mr.. Moppet?"
"Since you and Nancy really are at
tached to each other
"We're just that, Mr.. Moppet.'
II don't see no objection to your get
tin married this fall said Mr.. Moppet
with an etfort.-St. Louis Star-Sayings
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Ter, the economist, says: Among our
working people the conditions Of do
nestle life, Of education, Of prosperity,
of progress or degradation, all are de !.
pendent on the proportion of income
which flows down the fathers throat.
The whole condition of our lower and
middle classes-one may, even without
exaggeration, say the future of the na-
tion-depends on this question. If it is
true that half our paupers become 50
through drink, it gives us some esti-
mate of the costly burden we tolerate.
No other of our vices bears comparison
with this.'-Chicago Herald.
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PIGEONS IN WAR.

Governments That Hold Them In Reserve
for Emergency.
To one not previously acquainted
with the FACTS the amount of scientific
study that has been devoted to the birds
known as homing pigeons must appea,
surprising. The true hOming pigeons
are not identical with the ordinary car
rier pigeons, butare almost all descend
ants of a specially trained and de-
veloped race of birds in Belgium, where
they are called passenger pigeons, o,
traveller pigeons pigeons voyageurs
These pigeons have been enrolled, sc
to speak, in the armies of Europe, OF
which they form really important mem
bers. A map recently published in La
Nature shows the many lines of pigeon
communication running from the front
Ter fortresses of France, Germany
Italy, Spain and Portugal to the CAPT
tails of these countries.
Pigeons are kept trained to fly along
these routes, and they could carry the
news of an invasion when all the tele-
graph lines and other ordinary means
of com munication were cut off,
The ability of a pigeon to find it's way
home across many hundred miles OF
country is frequently ascribed to in.
stinct. But Mr.. w. b. Tegetmeyer,
writing on this subject in Nature,
points out that this theory has been en-.
tirely disproved by the pigeon races
that have taken place between Rome
and Belgium. The distance is eight hun.
4.
eors used had been trained to fly from
the south of France to Belgium, but
about half of the country lying be-
tween Rome and Belgium was un.
familiar to them. Hundreds were
started from Rome, but only a very few
got to their homes IN Belgium, and
they occupi led from eleven days to two
weeks.
The explanation is that the lofty
chain of the Alps cut off their view Of
the country farther north that was
familiar to them, and so they were lost,
only those which flew along the coast
until they reached southern France be-
ing able to find their way.
When fog and mist concealed the face
of the country the pigeons make very
slow progress. Under ordinarily favora-
BILE circumstances pigeons fly from
southern France to Brussels, distance
of about FIVE hundred miles, between
sunrise and early evening. Their
average rate of fight varies from
twenty-seven to forty-seven miles an
hour. OF course they, can fly much
faster with the wind than against it.
They do not fly after eight o'clock in
the evening.-Youth's Companion.
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THEN TAKE MY ANsWER-NO!'
house when Nancy came up. lie made
haste to welcome her.
Good mornin', Miss Nancy said he.
''As bloomin' as ever, see."
Here's your eggs" spoke Nancy,
CURLY.
"Sit down:a spell, won't yep sim.
pered Mr.. Wixon.
I'm in q hurry" said Nancy.
But, Nancy
"My name is Miss Moppet, sir"
Nancy - Miss Moppet II must
speak!' buried out the old fellow. 81
love you better'n all the world. There,
that's what had on my mind. And
your good, Christian-minded father, he
says it would suit him exactly, and
Nancy wheeled around and faced her
eager swain
us it me" or father you're a-courting?''
said she:
"Why, you, .otacourse."
Then take my answer-no!'
And without waiting for the return OF
her basket she hurried away, her
cheeks blazing, her breath coming very
quick and fast.
Mr.. Moppet drove leisurely to Horn
Hill, drove On excellent bargain for a
highly otaanented wood stove and set
forth with it'in his wagon just after
dusk.
tits q warm day for: this time of
year." said he. and It's easier travelling
for the horse after sdark. =
1T amt bad lays work, come to
think ont. 1 beat Brother Piper down
pretty we'll on the price and it's worth
one dollar and a-hah to cart the things
home over these buinpy roads. They
lowed twenty dollars for it and Igot it
for fifteen dollars: s:.'> q,
'"Takln' my time and trouble and
wheel wear and horsehesh into consid-
Grafton, guess l won't say nothin'
bout the oddafve dollars I'd like one
he same fashion in my best room, and''
with a long whistle-''why shouldn't
have it? ..>- .2..~s~..
''There's that second handed stove
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R. MOPPET was
coming in from
the ard e n
pat h. Nancy,
with pl u m p,
W h tie arm s
barred TO the ell
bow, was wash
ing the break
fast dishes in q
deep pan of hot
soapsuds.
NJ r. Moppet
w a s a ard
featured elder
~ man, w l t h
whitish blue
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FACTS AND FINDINGS.

THOSE who advocate the use of light
wine as a preventive for drunkenness,
and point to France as an illustration,
should read an article in recent issue
of Petit Journal, Paris, which declares
that of all the dangers menacing the
agricultural population of France the
gravest and most difficult to fight is the
alcohol power
The Massachusetts anti-saloon league
Is new temperance organization
which proposes to unite the forces of
all the churches whose aim is by q de-
termined enforcement of existing laws,
and by the ballot, to destroy the sa-
loon. The organization has enlisted
mady of the most prominent clerymen
and laymen throughout the state.
SUPPRESS the liquor traffic and every
honest industry will reap the benefit.
The butcher will sell more beef when
his customers consume less beer. Tho
drinking man will buy more and better
food for his family, his wife and chill
dren will be better housed and clothed
and fed, and all reputable business will
feel the impetus of increased activity
when the vast sum now wasted in
drink shall go for the necessities and
comforts of life.
AN exchange tells of the dreadful
mistake" made by an "honored citizen"
who, when reaching for his whisky
bottle in the night, got bottle of poi
son by mistake. and was found dead
with it beside him. Another exchange
of the same date tells of another man,
not an honored citizen, but tramp,
who was found dead, and beside him a
bottle. He had made no mistake in the
bottle. 1t had whisky in it, but he had
mistaken, just as the honored citizen
had, in yielding to habit which led to
his death.
THE United Kingdom Alliance, &C.
cording to its annual custom, published
statement of the amount of wines,
spirituous liquors and beer consumed
in Great Britain and Ireland during the
year 1891, and it shows the bill for in.
toxicants to be v"ry stiff one. The
total spent in intoA 1cating drinks dur.
ing the twelve months was consider.
ably over seven hundred millions OF
dollars, an average of $1S for every man,
woman and child in the country, or
$500 for every family in the course OF
the year. The bill for 1891 was nearly
So, 600, 900 greater than the bill for 1890,
but this increase was not more than
the natural increase of population.
THE Russian peasant is undoubtedly
Incorporate" said Mr.. KEENAN, in q
late interview, but this evil, too, is
due to considerable degree to the
government, and, I may add, to the
church also. A large proportion of the
governments revenue comes from the
tax on spirits. AS there is always a
greater demand for money than can be
supplied. the government has no in.
centive to encourage temperance; on
the contrary, it does what it can to en-.
courage intemperance, for the more
vodka consumed the greater the rev.
enue. The church likewise does moth.
ing to promote sobricty. In fact, it as.
sists materially to increase the con.
sumption of spirits. On feast days the
: priests encourage the peasants to drink,
and on such an occasion have seen a
whole village drunk. Is it any wonde,
that they are intemperate?'
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-Wife-''I wish / had taken the ad-
vice Of my friends when married you.
They all said you were = fool" Hus-
band-"Yes, that's what my friends told
mo."-Boston HArald. ~ 5.*.
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ONE ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup Of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn ef1ectual!y, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
ollleoou,a e,n ovo.,o m
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raised and receiving pan out) by an up.
ward sliding door. Here slat shelf is
made to receive meats, etc. The space
below the slat shelf and receiving pan
is for jars of butter, etc. The door for
filling the icehouse is above the brick
work. On each side of the ice door are
brackets for holding table-shelf, hinged
to lefthand bracket, and easily turned
up out of the way. In building the up
per part if possible have the icehouse
proper built of brick, cemented; the top
ceiled, painted and cracks puttied. Then
build an outer space around leaving an
air chamber.
The roof goes on, leaving an air cham
Der over the ceiled top. A double wall
of boards filed with sawdust does very
we'll in place of brick and cement, but
the air chamber is always needed. The
receiving pan keeps our great American
fruit, the pie, finer than any place ever
tried, and is SO handy for the hungry
milk boy.-Prairic Farmer.
To Tan = sheepskin.
As soon as the skin is removed from
the carcass spread 1T out smoothly on
the ground, hair side down; rub in a
mixture of powdered alum and table
salt. This mixture should consist of
one-third alum and two-thirds salt.
After thorough rubbing sprinkle
'uixture over the skin to the depth of a
quarter of an inch, then fold the skin
mp carefully and put in cellar or some
tolerably dampplace, where it should re-
main for ten or twelve days. uAt the end
of this time take it out, and while moist
stretch it tightly to an old door or a
table of boards, being careful to tack it
at every point and corner; now give it
a hard rubbing with corn meal for half
an hour daily for four or five days. II
corn meal cannot be procured use per-
fectly dry sand, but be very careful to
lift it so that only the finest may be
used on the skin. BY this rubbing the
kin is made as soft a. wished; the
more it is rubbed the softer It will BE-
come. Colman's Rural World. : :.
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The 0nly One Ever Printsd-caa Yoa Ii.d
~ - the Word3 -. =
There y inch display advertisement
words alike except one word Tho sama Il
true OF each new one appearing each week,
from The DR.. tHarter Medicine ca. This
house places . .Crescent' on everything
they make and publish. Look for ii, send
tnem tne name OF the word and they will
samples free. ~ =
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THE CHURCH STOVE.

Why a Schemin1 Parent Gave His
Consent.
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Who WOULD be free from earthly ills
must buy box of Beecham's Pulls. Is
cents box. Worth a guinea.
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CAtarrh Cannot he Cured
With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot
reach the seat Of the disease. Catarrh is q
blood or constitutional disease, and in order
to cure it you must take internal remedies
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces. Halls Catarrh Cure is not a quack
medicine. 1t was prescribed by one OF the
best physicians in this country for years,
and is q regular prescription. 1t is COM
posed of the best tonics known, com biued
with the best blood purifiers, acting direct
ly on the mucous surfaces The perfect
combination Of the two ingredients Is what
produces such wonderful results in curing
Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY Il Co., Props, Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, price Is cents
THE girl who will not chew gum haa
some gum-shun about her-Boston Trans
cript
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CAtarrh Cannot BE Cured

The trouble with the man who knows
nothng "a that he is always the last to find
it out.-Ram's Horn
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GLENx;s Sulphur Soap is q genuine rem
Hills Hair and Whisker Dive. 20 cents
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LIFE is short, and most people arc short
all through life-Somerville Journal.
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TIE most elastic fabric is the trout yarn
Sun.
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Do You Admire John Chinaman's Com
plexlon?

Do You Admire John China mans Com
Probably not Even were Johns eyes
not cut on the bias and his nose broad III
the beam, his tint would stamp him as the
reverse Of beautiful. Yet o white man
with the jaundice is of the same hue, only
moro pronounced Biliousness, with its
symptoms of 1urred tongue, yellowish
skin and eyeballs, pains In the right side,
sick headaches, vertigo, must il unchecked
eliminate in jaundice and congestion of the
liver. Remedy this trouble and remove its
attendant symptoms, dyspepsia and c0nsti.
patton, with Hoste er's Stomach Bitters,
which also cures malaria, rheumatic and
kidney troubles.
MAN is not merely the architect of his
own fortune, but he must lay the bricks
himself
LADIES, ladies, think of the engagements
you have broken and the disappointment,
consequent to others and perhaps also t.
yourselves, all on account Of headache
Bradycrotine will cure you in fifteen min
utes. All druggists. 80 cents.
Her PREFERENcE-Ay young woman. beiuP
asked by: politician which party she was
most In favor of, replied that she preferred
wedding party.-Once Week.
The tax collector is always sure to come
around in due time to every man.
The Rams Horn is published at Indian
apolis, Indiana, ut 81 so per year.
In the flutter Of excitement the fight Of
time is uNheeded.
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Can you not see that such cal nest and
outspoken statements as the above come
from the heart, that they are sincere, and
that they IRE made because these ministers
Of the Gospel, know beyond question of what
they speak! And does it not show how
valuable this great cure becomes to those
who are In need!