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Americas Greatest Medicine.
cHIDED HER MOTHERS SPIRIT.
Practical Young Woman Didn't Want
to BE Aronsed Mt Night.

Kansas City has at least one young mar.
ried woman who takes a very prosaic view
of ghosts and so-called spirit manifestations.
She was forced to spend night alone in
St. Louis hotel, her husband being detained
elsewhere by business. In the dead of the
night she was awakened out of sound sleep
by tremendous noise in the wardrobe. It
was such sudden and unearthly uproar
that the woman, sensible and practical
though she was, was frightened. The noise
ceased, then returned. The woman jumped
up, lighted the gas, and made a thorough
search both of the wardrobe and the room.
There was nothing SO far as the evidence of
the senses went which could account for the
racket. The woman put out the light and
went back to bed. The noise was not re-
peated.
Six months -afterward, however, the
woman was in San Francisco, and for the
first time in her life, and solely out of Gu
riosity, she attended Spiritualistic meet
ing, Almost Immediately the medium,
perfect stranger, turned to her and said:
The spirit Of your mother is present, mad
am, and she says that six months ago mann
ing the precise date) she tried to commune
cate with you by means of the wardrobe in
the Blank hotel, St. Louis"
The woman's practical good sense did not
desert her.
..'Wel, you just tell my mother" she said,
that the next time she wants to commune
cate with me not to make such an awful rack
ct in the dead of night and brighten me half
out of my senses. "-Chicago Chronicle.
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THE GORGON'S HEAD.
A French Engineer Tells About the
Place from Which the ArgO-
nnuts Brought This Terror.

There is a great store Of iron at Eliza
vetpol, but it is so heavily associated
with titanium, and this is SO expensive
to cast off, that it is not believed it can
be profitably worked says Harper's
Magazine. A French engineer who
studied the Caucasus products in 1897
said that this ore is of so little value
that mountains of it in the United
States are considered worthless, and
passed over by capital. In order to
work it at all, coke is necessary, and
there is no cooking coal in the region. A
Russian engineer, interested in develop
ing the country. assures me that coal
that will produce coke has been found
at a place 80 versts from Eotais. but
this has yet to be demonstrated Ko-
tails, by the way, is the place to which
the Argonauts came, and whence they
brought back the Gorgeous head, with
its flaming eyes, its hair of snakes and
its appearance of fearful ferocitN, the
whole being symbolical of the fever.
producing climate and fierce wild beasts
which still render the locality one to be
avoided. The coal, which perhaps gave
fame to the Gorgeous eyes. is in char
actei something between Ignite and
anthracite-a high grade of Ignite,
am told
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AHunchback' Patriotism
By EDITH ALLANDALE.

THROUGH the withered fields of
grain rode the hunchback, Sandy
Hartog, on his blind old buckskin, Nell.
Rarely he descended from his mountain
home; keenly alive to his deformity,
he dreaded the rough good nature of
Vaquero Water.
"Ain't ben down lately" comment
ed the ''jedge"-postmaster, notary,
store-keeper, all in one-"not up to
date on war matters?"
"War!" cried the hunchback. 'Who
with? What for?"
''Reckoned as much," returned the
other, with a. complacent chuckle. "Set
right down in the store, Sandy, an read
yer papers. You'll find 'em real eye
openers. Hold on till the stage comes
in an git the latest news"
The hunchback hesitated, then turned
and entered the darkened store. TO his
relief, it was deserted by the usual fire.
quenters; neither lazy Jim Green, the
Man in Politics, nor Smouse, the Social
list of the Hills, was there. He strobe
to where the western light filtered
through the dingy pane, and there read
on, absorbed, breathless. For him no
waiting day by day for new develop
ments; relentlessly, from the sinking
of the Maine to the call for volunteers,
marched events to the inevitable end.
The evening loafers, unheeded,
dropped in by twos and threes, lounged
on the nail kegs near the door, and
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awaited their sole touch Of contact with
the outside world, the stage from Las
Pelitas. Sprawling on the counter was
the Man in Politics, person of impor-
tance in the village. His voice, raised
in lazy. scorn, broke ip upon the hunch-
backs reverie:
Eight! Not if know it! I've been
waiting ten years to get my hand into
the county treasury. It's in now, thank
the Lord, and l don't take tout for no
blamed war" .'
Bursts of obsequious laughter fol-
lowed. His hand in this same treasury
was worth a dollar day to many a
hanger-on.
might as well co. said another
voice; "nothin' else to do--dry year, an
no thrashin'."
"No," Smouse shouted, turning his
gauEt, unshaven face upon the speaker,
''for there amt nothin' in it. Look at
me- I'll be switched if I'm shot for S13
a month. I've never worked for less L
$3.50 day; I'd ruther starve on acorns
fust.'
Begun already, ain'i you? Times
pretty bad in the Brush Hills, eh?"
I'D kinder like to co. drawled Jim
Green, the village Hercules, diverting
attention from the angry Smouse, "but
the folks won't let me. My mommer
says amt big enough"
'.For shame!" cried the hoarse voice
of the hunchback; ''for shame, to loaf
at your mothers apron-strings, when
those"-he pointed to the papers
strewn upon the fioor-''when those cal
on you to fight"
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SPLENDID FOR STOCK.
Sugar Bcets Is an Excellent Feed for
Dairy Cows and for Ewes
with Lambs.

If the beet sugar factories do not
prove good market for the sugar beets,
we think those farmers who have dairy
herds and no silo will find the beets
actually worth more than the factories
have offered to pay for feeding out to
cows, young stock and stock hogs. Two
acres of sugar beets with a good crop
should be about right to use up for a
herd of 10 or ~ cows. Perhaps the
chemist may not find nutritive value
of SIS per ton, as compared with hay,
when prices are low, but no small part
of the actual value of the beet is its ef-
feet upon the digestion of other foods.
The coarse forage seems to be more
thoroughly digested, and more grain
can be fed without danger of any over
feeding.
In some sections where the best fac
tories are at work the large stock feed
ers have made arrangements to put the
refuse from the beets into silos, or to
pit it in some way for their cattle feed.
ing. AS waste material it is sold very
cheap, and one grower is reported as
say Ing liz SApCSeCu " AlcthC luO1 IL JILL
what he had bought of this material
than all the farmers would make upon
their beet crops. Yet we believe it
more valuable for mich COWS than for
fattening stock, or believe that the
whole beets are so, and how the ewes
with lambs would give milk upon such
food! ...-
Those who believe that roots are
more valuable for feeding stock when
they are cooked before being used,
would find this beet pomace, or refuse,
to their liking, but we do not think it
any better, or quite as good as the raw
roots, sliced to make them more easily
eaten, and with little meal scattered
over them to make them more palatable.
In fact, roots, like silage, contain so
much moisture that some grain should
always be fed with them, whether
cooked or raw.-Journal of Agricul-
ture,
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Dainty Butter. Packages.

Dairymen able to prepare their goods
in an attractive manner will find Gus
toners in even small village where
others cannot make sales. The appear
ance pleases, and when the quality is
found as good as the looks. the market
becomes permanent. a cake of good
butter. wrapped in fresh parchment
paper, with bright trademark and the
owners name upon it, will bring more
for the half pound or the pound than
chunk Of the same make cut out of
tub. \ red ribbon tied around the
wrapper will help to sell every cake so
wrapped before one of the same lot not
so wrapped can be disposed of. To
please the eye it is necessary to reach
the palate sometimes.-Prairie Farmer.
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AeratiOn of Milk PAYS.

Our personal practice for some years
in preparing milk for bottlng shows
conclusively that the passing of cur
rent of cold, pure air, washed in the
way suggested from every particle of
dust or impurity, did have good result,
which was proved by the fact tina: milk
so air washed, as we might say, kept
sweet in the equally well-prepared bot
ties for four days longer than the I'M
aerated milk. This practical evidence
of the advantage of proper aeration and
cooling by pure cold air goes to show
that if well done in scientific manner
the aeration Of milk is useful for this
purpose at least; and if so, it may we'll
be believed mat it will be found useful
to the butter maker.-Journal of A gri-
culture,
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His Relatives and Hers,

The Brides Aunt Ito cousin Of the
briGegroom)-She really ought to be
here by now. The last words | said to
her mother yesterday evening after din
ner-(they gave farewell dinner, you
know; oh. only to the immediate MEM
bers Of the tamily)-the last words l
said were: BE sure Mabel begins to get
ready IL time If the brides late it does
make the bridegroom look so foolish.
doesn't it?
The Bridegroom's Cousin--I don't
think Arthur looks foolish d: all. He
isn't that sort Of person. But l must
say it is too bad. Our family are all so
punctual.
"Of course. he got here a great deal
too early. said so. He's beginning to
fidget. Now Mabel's so composed. We
all are. She'll soon break him of nerv-
business. We haven't nerve among us.
l think the bridesmaids dresses are
lovely, don't you? Mabel has such good
taste"
eyes. We all said that when we heard
| of the engagement" boston Journal
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Cheese for Home Use.

1t is surprising that farmers do not
use more cheese. 1t is healthy and nu-
tritious article of food, and can be made
far more cheaply than heterogeneous nu-
triton can be supplied in any other
form. Another reason why farmers
should use more cheese is that it will
prevent the glut in prices of milk which
every year causes SO many farmers to
sell milk at loss. Such farmers do,
we think, get in the habit of making
more or less cheese, and their tables are
we'll supplied. 1t is the farmers with
only one or two cows who use least
cheese. We used to make cheese on a
farm when we had only two cows, put
ting night and mornings milk together
in a single cheese.-American Guilt
vatOr.
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Sent to Jail Mt Last,

An oleomargarine dealer of the city of
Washington, Joseph Wilkins by name,
has been compelled to pay fine of ST.
500 and go to Jail for six months for the
illegal sale of oleomargarine as butter.
He had been arrested several times be-
fore and always compromised the mat
ter. In the last prosecution he is re-
ported to have offered $4,000 to COM
promise the case, but through the influ-
ence Of the secretary of agriculture the
case was carried to the end and the Of
fender was convicted.-Dakota Field
and Farm.
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A GRAVEYARD cOLLOOUY.
Between Two Black Men on n Dark
Night,

At rare intervals the moon peeped
through the pillows of sea of feecy
clouds and cast sickly beams across the
path of form which was walking slowly
and steadily in a country graveyard. The
figure stole furtive glances about him as
he crept to the grave of man who had
died on the gallo>s on Friday. Just as the
clock was tolling the midnight hour the
form fell PROSTATE on the grave, uttering
not sound. Almost in an instant the
figure arose Taking a knife from his
pocket, he made a single, rapid cut, and
turned to leave the place. A moonbeam
revealed a look of ghoulish glee on his
countenance.
"Halt!"
The figure stopped.
"Who goes there?"
.!ist a poah niggah."
The figures met and the lanterns flash
discloses the identity Of the men.
"Sam Johnsing!"
"Hiram Jackson!"
"Whatcher don' heah, Hiram Jackson?
Lookin TO ghostes?"
"Naw. What yo' dom heah yo'se f."
"Come after dis rabbits lef' him foot.
Kotched him at II o'clock on a dahk night,
on de grave OBJ a man hung on Friday.
G'way, niggah! Wouldn't take thousand
dollahs TO- it. Yo' niggahs won't be in it
wild me at cake-walks an shootin' craps"
Louisville Courier-Journ
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CHAIN COW STANCHION.
Datrymen Who Have Tried 1t Have
Nothing But Good Words to
Say for 1t.

Having had various inquiries of late
as to the value of chain stanchion for
cattle and how it works, I beg to state
that the method is very highly approved
by the majority of dairymen. The chief
objection to it is its rigidity and wise
like grip; but in some respects this is
no worse than that of wooden stan
chions, while, on the other hand, the COW
has free motion of the head to either
side, can lie down and get up easily,
and having but very little motion for
ward or back. must remain on the plat
form where she will keep clean, as can
be seen in the illustration. Further
more, as she cannot reach over to either
neighbor, to quarrel or steal her for
age, each individual is kept perfectly
devoted to her own affairs.
AS shown in the cut, two round STAN
chions are first placed about three
feet apart for each stall, and are the
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CHAIN COW sTANCHIoN.

only indications of subdivisions or
stalls in the stable. Then chain about
IS inches long and having snap at one
end, is attached by ring to each
stanchion and the two made fast to the
ring in the ''necklace''-a sort of col
lar which goes around the animals
throat and fastens-having very little
slack. The stanchion should be of hard
wood, and round and smooth, so that
the rings will easily slide up and down,
but not down farther than within a
foot of the floor. Thus, by having feed
in the manager, the animals can be read
lily secured at their proper places on
coming into the stable.-Ohio Farmer.
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SINGULAR STATEMENT.
From Mrs. Rank to Mrs. Pinkham.

The following letter to Mrs. Pink
ham from Mrs. M. RANK, No. 1854
East Susquehanna Ave-, Philadelphia,
Pa, is remarkable statement of re-
lief from utter discouragement. She
says:
I never can find words with which
to thank you for what Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has done
for me.
"Some years ago had womb trouble
and doctored for long time, not see
ing any improvement. At times I
would feel well enough, and other
times was miserable. So it went on
until last October, I felt something
terrible creeping over me, knew not
what, but kept getting worse. can
hardly explain my feelings at that
time. 1 was so depressed in spirits
that did not wish to live, although
had everything to live for. Had hys-
terra, was very nervous; could not
sleep and was not safe to be left
alone.
Indeed, I thought would lose nv
mind. No one knows what endured.
81 continued this way until the last
OF February, when I saw in paper a
testimonial of lady whose case was
similar to mine, and who had been
cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound. determined to trv it.
and felt better after the first dose.
continued taking it, and to-day am a
we'll woman, and can say from nv
heart, Thank God for such medi-
cine"
Mrs. Pinkham invites all suffering
women to write to her at Lynn, Mass,
Tor advice. All such letters are seen
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FOR CUBA CALL THE ROLL.

Ready. all true sons Of Freedom. for the
fray!
Hear the drum-beat of the nation! March
away!
Who will go with daring courage, deep
and strong,
Striving nobly, though the struggle may be
long?
Who will face the crisis now with daunt-
less soul,
And accept without dismay its death or
dole?
Who with steel in hand and purpose now
will come?
Blow the bugle, sound the cymbals, beat
the drum!
Freedom long has called amid the Cuban
hills,
Where her flashing machete fells her foes
and kills;
Where poor concentrates suffer, sink and
die,
With their gaze toward our rainbow in the
sky.
Who will rally for relief with might and
main, ..
Striking down the blood-stained myrmidons
of Spain?
Who will snatch from them their red, ILL
gotten spoil,
And forever Danish them from Cuban soil ?
~ Call the Roll!
Who will make our starry banner proudly
wave,
Each Memorial day on every sailors
grave
Who was murdered by some coward slave
of Spain
In the tragedy which overwhelmed the
Maine?
Who will see that Cuba Libre floats her flag
Everywhere now Swallowed by the Spanish
rag.
That her people shall clank letters never
more, . .. ..-
Nor their tyrants find safe refuge near our
Shore?
Call the Roll . A..
Who will pledge their lives, if need be, for
the right? .
Tread, if duty calls, through sorrows dark
est night?
Fight that Freedom may be shrined for
endless years
On the soil now damp with Cuban blood
and tears?
The decisive day is dawning, heroes all,
Freedom sounds the final signal, hear her
CALI
Proudly waves our starry banner, war
drums play,
Sons of Freedom, up and at them, march
Call the Roll!
T. EDGAR JONES.
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AN IDEAL ROAD,

Zone Of the Best Suburban Streets of
Omaha, Neb)
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much more likely to come into intimate
personal contact with road surfaces
than he is at present. His observation
and experience soon convinced him that
highways were generally badly made
and poorly kept, and that their improve
ment would be distinct public gain.
The public at first regarded the
wheelman's advocacy of better roads
as purely selfish move, and this idea
has not even yet been wholly dissipated;
but so much investigation and discus
sion have followed in the wake of per-
sistent agitation by cyclists and other
good roads advocates, that it is now fair
~ evident to considerable part of the
community that the welfare of all class
es would be promoted in many ways
through the establishment and mainte-
nance of firm, permanent roadways.
The wheelman, for his part, is better
equipped to traverse poor roads now
than he was prior to 1890, for low bicy-
cles and pneumatic tires place him at
a great advantage as compared with
high machines and hard tires of the
earlier date. II he possessed no public
spirit, his interest in promoting further
improvements might anguish, but he
is still found in the forefront of the agi-
tation, and is sure to remain there.
It isjnot to be denied, however, that
the work he undertook, and is so active
in promoting, has its discouragements,
and that he is sometimes almost tempt
ed to leave it entirely to others, who
are, or should be, more deeply interest
ed in it. Nevertheless, he remains loyal
to it, and will continue to do so until
full success is achieved.
But, having gone thus far, and accom-
plished so much, in general way, it
cannot be considered strange, or dis
loyal to the good roads cause, if wheel
men give more heed to their imme.
diate interests, especially in places
in which it is thus far impossible to Sc
cure action on the highways. There
are still many localities in which roads
and paths are unfit for bicycles to travel
over through a good portion of the year,
and are at no time good, and it is not
only desirable, but eminently right and,
proper, that riders of cycles should en-
deavor to provide decent pathways for
themselves under such circumstances.
There is no conflict in the two ideas.
Hard highways are a natural necessity.
They must eventually come. Many
steps toward securing them have been
taken, but many more remain, and in
the undertaking there will be no harder
or more faithful workers than the
wheelmen of the country.
But smooth side-paths are the only
source of enjoyable riding for thou
sands of wheelmen scattered through
out the land, and are of deep impor-
lance to them. Their construction not
only confers upon such cyclists a
prompt and considerable benefit, but
gives to others permanent illustration
OF the advantages conferred by means
of rapid locomotion and transporta-
ton, thus intoxicating on observers one
OF the fundamental reasons for the ex-
istence of good roads.-L. A. w. Bull
letin
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ROADS AND SIDEPATHS.
The Latter Are a Permanent IllUstra-
ton of the Advantages Conferred
by Easy Transportation.

It is now about ~ years since wheel
men began the agitation for better high
ways. The subject then was of no gen
eral interest, and had, up 10 that time,
received no attention, except in few
favored localities where wealthy towns
had begun to improve their streets. 1t
is true that quite reputation had been
gained for these villages, but their ex-
ample had not melted others to make
similar improvements.
OF all travellers, the cyclist is best fit
ted to notice and appreciate the condi-
ton of the highways, and it may be
truly said that though, in 1886, his seat
on the high wheel elevated him above
the lowly position of to-day, he was
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Selection of Young SowA.

In selecting young sows to be used as
breeders, care should be taken to secure
those that are well developed and give
promise of making good feeders. They
should be we'll fed, and made to develop
as rapidly as good health will permit,
for the feeding habit and constitution of
the mother is supposed especially to
impart to the young her own digestive
system, and it is natural, therefore, to
conclude that the thrifty, rapidly grow
ing young sow will impart those char
acteristics to her offspring. Early ma
turity, together with a vigorous consti-
tuition, is now the desired end sought by
all swine breeders and feeders.-Prairie
Farmer.
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Try Aliens FoOt-Ease,

A powder to b, shaken into the shoes. At
this season your feet feel swollen, nervous
and hot, and get tired easily. If you have
smarting feet OF. tight shoes, try Aliens
Foot Ease. 1t cools the feet and makes walk
ing easy. Cures swollen and sweating feet,
blisters and calloussp spots. Relieves corns and
bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort
Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe
stores for 25c. Trial package FREE. Ad
dress, Allen S. Olmsted. LIE Roy, n. Y.
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The News Seeker.

II would be happier" quoth he,
IF things could be reversed
That rumors might come tardily
And combinations first"
Washington Star.
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SeYerul 0hicctiAnA.

$50 you are net going to marry Herr
Meissner?"
Hardly. Papa is not altogether sat-
isfied with his position; mamma doesn't
like his family; he doesn't strike me as
quite stylish enough-and, besides, he
hasn't asked me."-Der Floh.
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WandrOuA Wikc.

''He is one of the wisest men that ever
lived"
"What is his greatest accomplish
ment?"
"He can tell if a woman's hat is on
straight" Flown Topics.
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Cause for Rejoicing.

"The war will have one blessed result,
anyway"
..Nn119
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A Symbol of Starvation.

"Won't they let you stop at our boarding
house any more?" asked the Crcassian.
"No," answered the living skeleton. s'It
sn't my faqlt; either: The last time ! was rs
looked like he felt after one of her break.
fasts. "-Detroit Free Press.