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Tailor.Made Grief.

According to one Of the authorities
the period of mourning for a father
in-law is twelve months, ten months
black, two months half mourning;
Grape is seldom worn, though the
Grape period was formerly six months.
For a parent the period is the same as
above. The longest period for 8
brother is six months, five months
black, one month half mourning; the
Grape period was formerly three
months; it is now almost discarded.
The shorter period is four months
black, no half mourning. The period
of mourning for father-in-law is
often shortened to six months when
relatives reside at considerable dis
tance from each other. All of which
prompts the remark that the world
would be made more cheerful and
sensible if mourning" garments
were discarded altogether. New York
Journal. ....
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benefits to be derived. As to durabil
ity, cedar stands at the head of the
list, with oak as second choice. Amer.
lean Agriculturist.
COLTS IN THE FALL AND WINTER.

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The one most important item with
colts during the fall and winter is to
maintain vigorous, healthy growth,
writes J. N. Shepherd. In doing this
it is of course quite an item to lessen
the cost as much as possible, but the
cost of keeping should never be less.
ened at the expense of the growth OF
the stock. More than any other class
of stock, growing colts need plenty OF
exercise. In no other way can they
make good growth and development
of bone and muscle. They will, in
majority of cases, fatten faster end
often will grow more rapidly if kept
closely confined, but with colts neither
rapid growth nor fat is as desirable
as good development of bone and
muscle. In the fall a good plan is to
shelter at night, and feed whatever
ration is necessary to keep thrifty, and
allow them to run out during the day
every day and as long as the weather
will permit. While it is an item to
allow them to run out all the time that
is possible, it is of no possible adyan-
tage to expose them to cold or storms.
It is usually best to commence feeding
them in good season in the fall, giving
q light ration at first, and gradually
increasing as their condition may re-
quire. There are two advantages in
this; one is that they can be kept in
a good, thrifty condition much easier,
and the other is that the change from
green to dry food being made gradual
ly will not produce any i'll effects. But
there will be only a few days during
the fall and winter. but that it will be
desirable to have the colts run out at
least two or three hours during the
day. On account of their incinations
to romp and play when turned out, a
lot should be provided separate from
the COWS and sheep, at least where they
could have free run, and there will
be no risks of their injuring other
stock. Their quarters should be warm
and dry-arrsnged conveniently so
that they can be fed economically and
conveniently. The ration should be
largely of good roughness. Unthreshed
oats makes one OF the very best rations
that can be supplied to growing colts,
as it supplies both grain and rough
ness, and the grain supplies the mate
rials most needed by them. Good
fodder, with middlings and oil meal,
can be used as change, with an occa-
sional feed of corn to make up va
riety. Water regularly and keep salt
where they can help themselves. In
this way they can be kept growing and
thrifty with very little trouble, and
this with colts is what is necessary
Nebraska Farmer.
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Air-slacked lime is good for gals.
Provide the horses with low managers.
Beef scraps are excellent for fatten-
ing.
With fowls grit takes the place Of
teeth.
Impure water will cause chicken
cholera.
1t pays to shock well the corn cut
for fodder.
Fowls enjoy change of diet and
pay well for it.
Never give young chickens water
before feeding.
Do not try to keep too many varie-
ties of poultry.
Gather up the sorghum seed to give
the poultry this winter.
A duck-legged breed of chickens
would not be bad idea.
Do not feed your fowls for twenty
four hours before killing.
Do not allow the spurs on the
roosters to grow too long.
Chickens pay better than old fowls
which are past their usefulness.
Separate the pullets from the cock.
erels when three or four months old.
Fowls enjoy the dust bath and it
helps to keep them free from vermin.
1t pays well to develop the fast-walk.
ing gait of draught and farm horses.
Boiled beets make an excellent, sue.
culent food for chickens during the
winter.
Let every generation of your poultry
be an improvement on its prede-
cessors.
It is the way your ground is titled
rather than the number of acres that
counts.
If you have no range for poultry
cut little grass or clover every day
for them.
Wheat is an excellent food for laying
hens. Now that it is cheap 10y in q
good supply.
A scrub will hardly pay for the cost
of raising, but good draught horses
bring good prices.
Horses fed on early cut and well
cured hay will come out in good con-
dition next spring.
It is harder to find frst-class road
or carriage horse to-day than it has
been for many years.
Guinea fowls are said to be excel
lent for driving chicken hawks away
when nothing else will.
1t is o good plan to feed the moult-
ing hens literally now in order to
have them in good condition.
The small breeds begin to lay when
six months old. The large breeds do
not begin until they are eight.
Turnips will produce larger crops
when weeded, but will do we'll on the
average ground if not cultivated.
Every foal inherits equally from
both parents. 1t is important to look
to the mare as we'll as to the sire.
It is said that the water used by
blacksmiths for cooling iron is a good
tonic for fowl if given occasionally.
Look to the cleanliness of your
fowls and you will find they require
less food and give better results Tor 1t.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
CABBAGE INsECTIcIDE.

CABBAGE INSECTICIDE.
There has been considerable dis
cussion recently as to the best insecti-
eide for cabbage. The latest report is
from the Pays du Vaud, bulletin
from which says: Among numerous
insecticides tried, the best for de-.
stroying caterpillars on the cabbage
were soft soap and pyrethrum and
liver of sulphur and soft soap. The
last is made by dissolving 800 grams
of soap and fifty grams of liver of
sulphur in ten liters Of water. The
cabbage must be repeatedly sprayed,
as new caterpillars are hatched every
day. On account of its corrosive
action it is not possible to employ this
insecticide on tender plants or on the
grape in bloom, but on the cabbage its
effect is entirely satisfactory New
York World.
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The Army Worm.

This year has been rendered a mem
orable one by the appearance OF the
army worm in the grain fields OF the
West and Northwest. Thousands OF
acres of wheat have been wholly ruined
by this pest and in many cases the
Weld is 80 small and is in such bad
condition as not to be worth harvest
ing. 80,
The army worm is cut-worm, with
ell the habits of that voracious pest.
This year has been a particularly bat'
one for these worms in various sections
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The AleXandrite.

The alexandria is quite a rare
stone, and hos been considerably af-
fected the past two years by fashion
able persons, perhaps because of this
quality. 1t is sometimes called the
black diamond, and its curious prop
erty of changing color enhances its
charm. By daylight it is a dark, al
most black, green, but, held to a
strong white light, it tones to sea
green; by gaslight the gem is blood
red. It is often set with white brill.
iants 7ery superbly.
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SOAP sUDs NOT INJURIOUS TO TREES.

SOAP sUDs NOT INJURIOUS TO TREES.
Soap suds are valuable as fertil-
izer, both for the potash or soda of
the soap and the matter. which is
washed from the skin or clothing. The
skin wears quite fast, and the soap dis
solves the exfoliated scales from it, as
we'll as some other animal matter of q
nitrogenous character. This soon de-
composes. and evolves ammonia, asany
one may discover by the odor of the
waste of the wash tubs if it is kept q
few days in the warm weather. Am
monia is one of the most valuable of
all fertilizers. II this waste of the
household is gathered in any convent
ent receptacle and deodorized by
means of plaster added to it, or by the
addition of some sulphate of iron dis
solved in it, it will make the best
liquid fertilizer for flowers. New
York Times.
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Chief Magistrates of Ancient Greece.

The chief magistrates of Athens were
called archons. At first the Office was
lifelong and hereditary; afterward for,
ten years, finally annual and elective.
There were nine annual archons, and
none were eligible hut citizens who
could prove three generations of free
ancestors. Every candidate must also
prove that he had no physical defect;
that he had been dutiful to his pa
rents, had served in the army and.
possessed property to support the Dig
nifty of the Office. Bribery was pm
ished by compelling the one bribed TO
dedicate to the gods statute of gold
equal in weight to his own body.
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Figures Concerning the Deluge.

In answer to a correspondent a
newspaper says: 'The deluge men
toned in the Bible was threatened IN
in the year 1856 B. c., and began De-
cember 7, 1856 B. c., and continued
377 days. The ark rested on Mount
Ararat on May 6, 1866, but Noah did
not leave it until December 18 follow
ing" Any reader who imagines that
it would be an easy task to figure these
details from a Biblical account can
find basis for his calculations in the
seventh and eighth chapters of Gene
sis.-St. Louis Republic.
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coast, as far as Liberia, entire cargoes
of these shells, the value of which runs
from twelve cents to forty cents per
thousand, according to the part of
Africa. Cauries are only used IN
countries where gold is scarce. lnthe
whole era between Kong, Bondaukau,
and the sea, cauries are not used; ma
lives settle their purchases with gold
dust or nuggets.
To weigh the gold they use as cur
rency they employ small copper scales
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have done it in style of their own;
their works are peculiarly humorous
and fanciful.
Each native who has pair of scales
has also special weights which he alone
understands how to use. lie knows,
for instance, that giraffe weighs one
or two mitkals of gold; that such a
weight in the shape of bird repre-:
sents one-half or one-third mitkal OF
gold, etc.
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Odd and Curious Weights.

Money used by natives in occidental
Soudan consists of small uniyalve
white shells called cauries, derived
from the Maldives and Laquedlves
islands, and also from Zanzibar.
For several centuries past ships
have brought to the mouth OF
the Niger, or to the Guinea
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The defensive armor of the Assyri-'
ans consisted of a metal helmet, .
leather coat of mail and shield the
weapons were spear, svord, bow snd
dagger. !. &!
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MODERN INDIAN HOME.

with per capita wealth of sl0ss, and
next to them are our own people in the
United States, whose wealth per capita
is set down at S1O29. The per capita
wealth of Germany is but 1852, and
that of Russia only 1925. Washington
Star.
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When Nature

Needs assistaI &c it may be best to render it
promptly, but one should remember to use even
the most perfect remedies only when needed.
The best and mos. simple and gentle rernedyis
the Syrup of Figs manufactured by the Cali
forn;o E;o c,r,n ~
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kidney and Liver
trouble. Doctor
after doctor treated
me with no avail. ]
grew worse and was
in despair Of ever be-
ing any better. What
agony I Iendured when
the attacks came on,
rolling on the floor,
screaming and half
crazy! Nothing but
morphine would quiet
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It is said that on All average every
champagne cork is utilized for three
separate bottles before it gets broken
or thrown aside as useless. English
walters get about fifty cents pail
for them from tho manufacturers and
twenty-five cents pail for soda water
corks
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Weights are extremely varied in shapes
and sizes. Most of them are in brass.
Many of the weights exhibiting human
figures, animals, tools, ludicrous
scenes, etc., as reproduced here from
the jewelers. Circular, are modelled
with wax and cast in brass. Africans may
have learned this process from Euro
peans who visited their country, but
their art exhibits native character
thoroughly novel. These black ar
fists have evidently reproduced what
they saw or imagined, and they
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Swamp.Ro Cured Ne.

After passing OF from my system fearful
amount Of poisonous matter, imagine my JOY
to find was decidedly better. My improve
ment after that was rapid and uninterrupted
and in six months I was completely cured.
Rev. VIM. H. Van Deusen.
At Druggists, so cent and Sl.OO Size.
-Invauds' Guide to Health" REORGANIZATION free..
DIR. Kilmer s. Co., Binghamton, n. Y.
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Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure Deafness, and that Is by constlttu-
famed condition Of the mucous lining OF the
lEustachian Tube. When this tube gets IN
famed you have rumbling sound or lmper;;
feet hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness is the result, and unless the infiam-
nation can be taken out and this tub. re-
stored to its normal condition, hearing will be
destroyed forever; nine cases out ten are
Caused by catarrh, which is nothing but al in
EfjaIned condition Of the mucous surfaces
| We will give One Hundred Dollars Tor any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cam
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. SEND 1or
circulars, free. n-,., n
~S Sold by Druggists, 75c.
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Minnesota has perhaps suffered more
than the other States. It is hoped that
these worms will not be troublesome
next year, as large numbers of them
we're destroyed by the maggot OF a fly
before the breeding stage was reached.
Our illustration shows the worm feast
ing on an ear of wheat. New York
World
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A great thing is great book, but
greater than all is the talk OF great
man.
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A Beautiful Souvenir spoon
, VIII he sent with every tottle Of DR.. HoTtes
Certain Group Ctre. Ordered by mail. post
Maid 70 cts Address Hoxsie, Buffalo, y. Y.
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''Gernan
Syrup"
H. ~

r I must say a word as to the ef-
ecacy Of German Syrup. I have
used it in my family for Bronchitis,
the result of Colds, with most ex-
cellent success. Ihave taken it my
self for Throat Troubles, and have
derived good results therefrom. I
therefore recommend it to my neigh
bo-s as an excellent remedy in such
cases. James T. Durette, Earlys-
vile, Va. Beware of dealers who
CHER you something just as good"
Always insist on having Boschee's
German Syrup. y
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me. It seemed death would be relief from
my suffering. Ny stomach was In terrible
condition, food, what little ate, distressed
me, my complexion, was yellow; bowels con-
stipated; was only able to walk as lar as tne
front porch. A friend recommended your
Sxgamp.Root. began to take 1t at once.
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Miracles Not Ended Yet.
WHAT A MINISTER SAYS OF
SWAMP-ROOT.

Sageville, N. Y. May Il, 1893. :,
en:-For years I suffered with
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! Beecham's Pills with a drink OF water morn
ings. Beecham's-no Others. 2S cents q oo1.
I Sore throat cured at once by Hatch's OnlVer'
,sal COUGH Syrup. 25 cents at druggists
z, r af1icted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp'
|sor's Eye-water. Druggists sell at S6c per bottle
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Lanes Family Medicine NJ owes the Bowels
Each day. In order to be healthy this is
necessary.
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Corner Grocery,
censre aud White SITS.
THIRD EDITION
ORED1rABLn EXHIBITION.


Tenth Annual Exhibition of Mrs 81.
Tempest Jenkins pup Is.
On Thursday evening last the tenth annual
exhibition of the work of the pupils in art Of
Mrs H. Tempest jenkins closed at Phiadel.
phia An the newspapers Of that city
commented very layorably upon the oxbibi.
zion and as Mrs. jenkins was formerly a
resident of this town and has many relatives
and warm acquaintances abstracts from some
of the comments may be interesting TO many
Of the HERALD readers.
The Philadelphia Public Leiger said: 1T
is varied ranging from cauvascs of high
merit to dainty bic-a-brac, illustrating the
most exquisite decorative art aud throughout
it ismarked by bolduess Of execution that
shows conscientious work united with YER
satile talent Of no mean order. The whole
exhibit represents the work of the pupils
from October last 10 the present time. That
hearts as well as heads have been in earnest
study is evident at glance. Modestly put
aside in an obscure corner Of the studio is a
small canvass which attracted much atten-
ton at the Paris Salon of 1883. 1t is the
work OF Mrs H. Tempest jenkins, and is
what the French call q study of Laughing
Potatoes" study so realistic and delicate
that il calls to mind the best pieces Of the
late Michael Hartnett. The same hand is
evident, at a glance, in some landscape
studies, whose authorship, but for inquiry
would go umcDtioucd. The exhibit OF
decorative art is, on the whole, exceptionally
good, and occupies a large place in the
studio. Mrs. Jenkins theory, in this par.
ticular branch of study, is that good dec.
orator must necessarily and primarily be a
good figure and color artist With this
axiom in mind she first graduates her pupil.
from the pencil and brush, and the sounduess
of her principles is amply justified in the
result
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Grand Display OF
FINE DRESS GOODS

4 - RESS GOODS is such bewdering topic !
III that will not attempt a full descrip-
@ ton, but give partial outline, which you
can fill in by personal inspection. There are
the plain and changable diagonals; plain, plaid, \
striped and invisible plaid serges; fancy mix
lures in all sorts of odd weaves dots, threads,
cross-threads hair-lines, lines here and there,
many at glance appearing alike, but upon ex-
animation found entirely different. Our N
4 assortment of silks is Complete-chna silks,
china surah plain surah, bengaline, plain, fg- Il
II ured and Changeabe silks, in all the new shot 4
effects. Full line of fancy brads to match any 4
color of dress goods.
.....In Wraps the prevailing mode 'ti" to be the the
\ Cape, in of its variations
SINGLE triple capes. plain others very
1 highly decorated, with fancy indeent braid, butterfly
full arrangement at the APP R
proved this season by the feminine fancy. To u
only the To those say coats n
equally fashionable and stylish many of having
capes attached sometimes three as the
inclination of the may DESIRE
\ We have this season. for the first time
added a Millinery Department, and have spared d
4 neither trouble expense to make it a sue
\ cess. The result exceeds our most sanguine
h expectations. This department will be under
4 the same management and conducted on the
4 same principles that have always characterized 4
our entire business. We shall keep everything u
4 in trimmed and untrimmed hats, novelties of \
n every description. Having secured trimmer
Y noted for her artistic and slillfu work. we are
enabled to suit all tastes. We invite careful
Y inspection of our entire store. All welcome.
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UouChinu Lesda SO consumption,
Kemp's Balsam win stop the cough at
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USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA, ITS
THE KIND THAT CURES"


Congratulations, Mr. Weiss
The church people are getting ready for
their strawberry festivals.
Ex-Chief Police Roads drew the handsome
chair at the fair last night.
Several deserving applicants for pensions
from town were rejected lately
Post l46, G. A. R., win be inspected on
Friday evening A nice lunch will be served
after.
The Board of Trustees Of the Presby-
terian church will meet this evening at $50
o'clock.
Main street is in horrible condition 1t
is to be hoped the weather will soon permit
the paving to go on.
Shenandoah, Pottsville, Mahanoy City,
Ashland and Tamaqua did not participate in
the election of the County School Superinten-
dent yesterday They are all independent
districts and elected their own superinten-
dents.
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ISo FOr a B0me-anadc Car.
TCO' pes that VIII wH>h, at
Ey1cke's Carpet store, Mo- IC
South Jardiu Street, heu"
RmdD IN,
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Use DANA's shEsAPARIILA, ITS
"THE KINDTHAT CURES.
Died

PRICE.-Ou the I'd inst, at Shenandoah
Pa, Thomas J.. Price, aged 66 years and
month. Funeral will take place on Thurs
day, 4th inst, at p. m, Services win be
held at the family residence, No. 100 North
White street. Iutement in the odd
Fellows cemetery. Relatives and friends
respectfully invited to attend. 5.22t
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Best work done at Brennan's Steam Laun-
dry. Everything white and spotless, Lace
curtains speciality. All work guaranteed
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Fresh Morris River Cove Oysters received
tally at Cosletts. s'Z2-u