HER HAPPY DAT, large qii&ntlties! They are best as a fattening- ration for pigs or. other fat- "telttihg animals. . _ PruninR Tree^ Before Transplanting. In ordering trees from a nursery it should be remembered that the pruning is never completed as it should be when the trees are put into the ground. There is usually a quantity of top with per haps 50 to 100 buds, each of which if left to grow will produce a feeble shoot. Cut the top back to three or four buda and leave these to grow into the future branches of the tree. Thus started the tree will begin to make its top the first season after setting out. The roots also will need to be cut back as well as the tops. In most cases, if the trees have been sent far and have been long on their journey, the small feeding roots, will be dried up and of no use. Cut the large roots with a knife that will make a clean cut, and the new roots will spring from these. Feeding Pig« for Growth, Not Fat. Except for the pigs that are to be kept for breeding purposes, liberal feeding, so as to keep the animals con stantly in a thrifty condition, should be. the rule. As an old farmer used to say, lie could go to his pen at any time and find most, if not all, its occupants fit . to make good, marketable pork: Care should, be taken -not to overfeed, and especially With corn, which is too fattening and does not promote growth as do milk and other grains. If oats and peas are ground together, they will make with water an excellent.su!> stitutc for milk. The breeding sow should have milk if possible, and little other feed except in winter some roots, and in summer what they can get at pasture or in orchard.. AMUSING HOTEL GUESTS. THE FARM AND HOME ASK YOUR DEALER FOR Wanted a Gic and a Saddle. "The most peculiar call I have had in my experience behiud hotel desks," said A1 Koliler, - the clerk of the Clifton House, to the Daily National Hotel Re porter scribe, "came one night last week from an old lady in room --. She rang I at about 2 o'clock in. the morning, and the bell boy, a bright little datky, re turned and said: "She done want a cat, sah.' I said: 'You mean a cap, I guess; a night cap." 'No, sah; she done said cat, e-a-t, fo' suah.' "Tom, the hotel cat, was lying in one of the big chairs, and I sent the bo^ up to the old lady with Tom under his arm | and sat down to try to figure out what shg could possibly want -frith a cat in her room. The boy returned, his face wreathed in smiles, and said that she had merely taken the cat, tipped him j and shut the uoor. •The next morning the old lady came ! to the desk and thanked me for fulfill- j ing iter request,- sayitig that site had beep bothered so by mice tliat: she wqs, ii nable' to sleep, but tliat Tom had dis posed of her aiinoyers and enabled her i tp .ehjoy a night's rest." "You meet many odd characters,. I | suppose,'" ventured tlie. reporter.' - | "Yes. indeed. One .came in here one | rare.J line day--in tiict. it was. more ? t'han rare, it :was raw. with a .cold', '! damp breeze blowing in fmm the lake.. A. young .Tow stepped to the,desk and I asked for a room. I, said that I was •j unable just* then to aei ouiinodate him, but I could fix him up all right before night. He was from St- I-ouis. where the weather at that season was balmy, and wore a suit of very light color and material. He remarked that it was rather cold in Chicago, and said that he. would wait awliile for a room. He started for the Wabash avenue en trance ajid.-we thought he had gone out to sit down. An hour later a man dress ed in a, heavy suit of dark clothes step-, ped up to the desk and asked it' I could give him the room he was waiting for. I looked more closely and discovered that he was my Jewish friend from St. Louis. He had stepped into an alcove j opposite the elevator and had actually j changed his clothes there, where at I least a score of people must have'fiussed j him. ! "A few weeks ago we took on a new bell boy, a bright-eyed little nigger who had never 'hopped' before. The first time I had occasion to i^se him I sent him up with a list of changes and also a pitcher of water for No. 135. The changes are in the form of a double list showing the old room numbers and the rooms to which the guests were go ing. The boy came back in a few min utes, and, pushing his way through the crowd of guests at the desk, he laid down the list and said: 'A gig and a sad dle. sail.' "I told him that this was not a policy sliop, but he said that the gentleman in l.io had said it was a gig and a saddle. The guest had crossed off a number in eafch list and sent the boy back, think ing to have some fun." A CHARMING STORY OF MEDICINE _^ANJ3JdM^AQE, ®3. SHOE BEVJorIL MATTERS OF INTEREST Tb FARM ER AND HOUSEWIFE. If you pay 84 to 96 for sho&i, ex- £• amine the \V. L. Douglas Shoe, and see what, a good Ifioe you can buy for B OVElf ,100 STYLES AND WIDTHS, I ' CONGKESS- BUTTON, g&v andLACE, made In nil fjfef'r'rim r , kind# of the lwst selected leather by skilled -work" Igli" men. "We * manufacturer in the world. CajJpLA None genuine unless name and /)INr price is stamped on the bottom. I JSfl IM Ask your dealer for our 85, /3&i v m ®4, S-S.r.f). S2.50, S~.25 Shoes- 82.u0, 8* and 81.75 for boys. ' g TAKE ND SUBSTITUTE. Ifvourdealer / M canqot supply you, send to fac- tory, enclosing price and 36 cents to pay carriage. State kind.stvle f jjy of toe (cap or plain), size and I JB' width. Our Custom Dept. will fill frajy yoiir order. Send for new lllus- trated Catalogue to, Boot R. i::,, W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass* 9vco Open letters From a Chicago Girl '-How Happiness Came t;o Her. Among- the tens of thousands of women who apply to Mrs. Pinkham for, advice and are cured, are many who wish the facts in their cases made public, but do not Pgive permission to C ^ ^ P ^ P u b l i s h t h e i r 0 names for reasons as obvious as in the '-following-, iffliiW anc^ no name is Wa ever published without the writer's au- 1% I \ I w thoritv; this \ J is a bond of faith which / Mrs. Pinkham I I has never I -• I ' broken. V / JM Chicago, Jan. Economics io Be Practiced in Erect- t. ing and Maintaining a Hot House-- Caustic Potash the Best Chemical Dehorner--Ho-w to Test Butter. Concerniiis: a Hothouse. •V A hothouse need hot be an expensive affair to be useful. It is economy to make it so-tight by battening cracks and a layer of building paper that no wind can get through. I find that a building simply wide enough to accom modate a seven-foot sash does very well, says Howard B. Cannon, in the Grange Visitor": Such a building may be heated inexpensively by a stove, sunk well down and delivering its smoke into a flue made of sewer-pipes. The stove should be placed at the end where you enter, and the chimney should rise from the far end. A house to start onion or tomato plants can be constructed for perhaps 12% cents, a square foot of glass area, by one doing his own work. When your spring crop of plants is out, if you are a small farm er, you may find your house, useful to store some flats, etc., under the bench es. I should advise putting on a tem porary roof, that the sash be not warp ed by the heat of summer. When fall comes one finds a hothouse handy for during seed corn, onion sets. etc. I used, mine to ripen tomatoes in after frosts came, and followed these by bushels of seed corn. The last use of the. year for the sash, however; will please many who perhaps have not seen such. We built rough sheds into which our hen- bouses open, and left an opening at the south end in each shed seven by six feet. Across these openings "chicken wire" was stretched. On the approach of blustering weather two sashes were slipped into each opening, one above the other, and secured fti place. This gives a sheltered and warm place for the hens to scratch. I hope we will find our scratching sheds to be egg-fac- tories during the cold weather. & ' »^Sv My.deap Sirs.,. ; ,v\. Pinjcham;-- K \ a&w&M )y «. A friend of § x mine, Mrs. HHSsKsSSr-->J ( ' " '• ^ nit teTwjit;. \ , Ayr < you, because V. she says:" you ' '-MB her so mtich good." 'Br 186#, I am desperate. Am jiine-. ' - ' ;teen yearsof age,„tal.lvarid weighed 138-pptinds a'year ago. I ani;. now a mere skeleton. From your little book I think my trouble is "profuse menstruation. My symptoms are- * * * * etc: Our doctor (my uncle) tells father, that I am in consumption, and wants to take me to Florida. Please help me! Tell me what to do, and tell me quickly. I am engaged to be mar ried in September. Shall I live to see the day? • • » • " LUCY E. W. Chicago, June 16th, '95. My dear Mrs. Pinkham:-- This is a happy day. I am well and gaining weight daily, but shall continue the treatment and Vegetable Compound during the summer, as you suggest. Uncle knows nothing about •what you have done for me, because it wouid make things very unpleasant in the family. I would like to give you a testimonial to publish, but father would not allow it. * * * * I shall be married in September, "and as we go to Boston, will call upon you. How can I prove my gratitude? * * » • LUCY E. W. Just such cases as the above leak out in women's circles, and that is why the confidence of the women of America is bestowed upon Mrs. Pinkham. Why are not physicians more candid with women when suffering from such ailments ? Women want the truth, and if they cannot get it from their doctor, will Eeek it elsewhere. The Greatest riedical Discovery of the Age. The Kxpensivencss of Pasturing. Wherever land Ls dear the pasture provides for stock that, considering its nutritive value, is much dearer than that grown by cultivation. In the first place, the grass, even if undisturbed, does not yield as heavy a crop as will most of the grains and corn drilled for fodder. In the pasture the constant trampling of stock lessens the yield still further. What the stock waste in a clover field will in most places pay for the labor of cutting and carrying the clover to them, provided the field ls near where the stock is kept, and the cutting of the clover can be done by horse power. Yet there are many places where cultivation is impossible, apd using these as permanent pastures is the only way to make the land use ful and profitable. How Lon«: Cows Shall Be Kept. Unless a cow has a remarkable indi vidual value as a milk and butter pro ducer, and has sho\v$t"f»bility to perpet uate these qualities in her progeny, ten to twelve years old is long enough to keep her, says an exchange. A good many cows condemn themselves long before that time. We have known cows to breed up to eighteen or nineteen' years old, but they had to be fed ground grain and bran, mixed with moistened cut hay. There was no profit in milk and butter made this way, for the old cow gradually lessened her yield. The object was to produce calves from this cow to be used for breeding. But as the cow decreased in value, so also did her calves. Those last born were feeble and not very good milkers, either. A cow whose milk production has been artificially forced for two or three years is apt never thereafter to come up to the standards she had before, as the production of an excessive amount of milk impairs the animal's constitution al vigor. To Test Butter. A possible way to test butter Is to get a clean piece of white paper, smear it with the suspected article, then roll it up and set it on lire. If the butter Is good, the smell of burning will be decid edly pleasant, but if there is artificial animal fat in the composition, there is no mistake about the tallowy odor. Greatest Quantity. Highest Smallest Quality. Price. Selling Ability Necessary. The American Dairyman remarks that selling ability is just now more de sirable to farmers than producing abil ity, and that the place to display it is in packing. The farmer must lead the consumer into temptation, which may be contrary to Scripture, but is neces sary to sell goods. Even a cabbage is trimmed up by the skillful salesman to attract the customer. The Dairy man illustrates by the sale of a large consignment of California fresh fruit which was beautifully packed, and brought prices to delight the owner's soul, while other fruit, not opening up well, went for a song. KENNEDY'S Hall's Catarrh Cure, taken internally. Price 75 cents. _ Woodwork and floors are now stain ed with a color called lorest green. It harmonizes with draperies and cover ings of almost any color. What is more fascinating than a com plexion tinted like the rarest seashell and purified by the use of Glenn's Sulphur Soap? Of druggists. The l{ite Lord Leighton's personal es tate, appraised at two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars, goes by will to his two sisters. DONALD KENNEDY, OF ROXflURY, MASS., Has discovered in one of our common, pasture weeds a remedy that cures every kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula down to a common Pimple. He has tried it in over eleven hundred cases, and never failed except in two cases (both thunder humor). He has now in his possession over two hundred certificates ot its value, all within twenty miles of Boston. Send postal card for book. A benefit is always experienced from the first bottle, and a perfect cure is war ranted when the right quantity is taken. When the lungs are affected it causes shooting pains, like needles passing through them; the same with the Liver or Bowels. This is caused by the ducts being stopped, and always disappears in a week after taking it. Read the label. If the stomach is foul or bilious it will cause squeamish feelings at first. No change of diet ever necessary. Eat the best you can get, and enough of it. Dose, one tablespoonful in water at bed time. Sold by all Druggists, WOMAN The only brand' of strictly high grade tobacco ever sold for a low price* Not the large size of the piece alone that has made "Battle Ax" the most popular brand on the market for 5 cents, QUALITY; SIZE; PRICE. After Great Annoyance from Sciatic Rheumatism, at Last Filtids Relief and To-day Is Enjoying Full Use of Her Once Afflicted Limbs. . From the Journal, Muscatine, loira. ,On the second floor of cue of our neat est business buildings, located at No. 1125 West Front street, is the home of Consta ble and Mrs. M. C. Briggs, and it was visited to-day for the purpose of speaking to Mrs. Brings on a question of considera ble weight\o her. Th% reporter upon calling fountHMrs. Briggs a little indis posed (not, however, with her former com plaint), but nevertheless in a very con genial mood. Upon inquiry as to tlie ben efit she derived from the use of Dr. Wil liams' Pink Pills for Pale People, she said: "About eighteen months since 1 was taken down with sciatic rheumatism in my lower limbs, especially my right leg, and so fierce was the attack that I could not walk at all. After trying various remedies, all without avail, a lady neigh bor of mine, Mrs. John Yoder, who, I think, is now living in Eldon, mentioned Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People and said she had used them for similar trouble and had found them very benefi cial. I purchased a box of pills at F. ^"esper & Co.'s drug store, and before I had taken all of the first box I began to feel much improved and the pain began to ease. I continued to take them, buying a second box, and when I had nearly fin ished the second box I was able to walk about as ably as ever aud have not had an attack since. "I heartily endorse Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People and feel confident that anyone afHieted as I was could be easily restored to their usual health by their use." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements neces sary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheuma tism, nervous headache, the after effect of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price. .">0 cent#; a box, or six boxei far $2.50, by addressing Dr. JVilliams' Med. Co.,Schenectady,N.Y. Best Chemical Dchorncr. The best chemical dehorner, accord ing to Hoard's Dairyman, is caustic pot> ash, to be had in sticks for a few cents at any druggist's. When .the calf is a few days old, clip off the hair over the horn button, moisten one end of the caustic (hold the other end wrapped in paper) and rub it on the button until the skin ls very fed and highly in flamed. When the scab conies off, if the least trace of the horn nut remains, repeat the application. Put the caustic only on the nut button, as it burus in tensely. When the scalp is atrophied, or shiny- bald. no preparation will restore the hair; in all other cases. Hall's Hair Iienewer will start a growth. Love and laughter, walking hand in hand through sorrow and misfortune, keep alive belief in the eternal. Piso's ('ure for Consumption is the only cough medicine used in my house.--I). C. Albright, Mifflinburg, Pa., Dec. 11. '95. An opportunity missed may be an eternity lost. About Plowing;. Plowing is hard work for the team, but it is comparatively easy work for the plowman, except on rocky or stumpy land, where the plowr has fre quently to be pulled back and lifted up to avoid some obstruction. For these reasons a strong, active team that will walk right along with a good furrow behind it should always bo secured if possible. It Is not easy to make good work with a poor team, and If it is not equal to Its task there is much unneces sary waiting at the end of the furrow and resting. The work of holding the plow is so easy on level land free from stone, that even a child can do it, while holding the handles makes it easier work to walk in the furrow than to fol low the same team with a drag over plowed ground. That is bard, dragging work for both man and. teams, and It needs an able-bodied man instead of the young boy Who is usually put at this job, while the man takes as his part the far easier task of holding the plow, Which on level, clean land is no task at all. Wheat Bran for Cows. No kind of feed Is so handy for feed ing milch cows as wheat bran; it is light and bulky in proportion to its nutrition, and it has the elements needed to make a large milk flow. But It does not make rich mlllc, and needs to be supplemented with grain meal, or the cow will give so much from her own fat that she will become thin in flesh, and be of little use for butter-making the following season. These stopped \ using soap, long ago. This one stopped because--well, we'll J' have to guess why. Perhaps, because pf-r- N it gave him too much work to do. That's what everybody thinks, for that matter, when there's nothing but soap at hand, \\ * anc^ there s a good deal ot dirt to be \ removed from anything. J W |) \\ But this one stopped because she had )^\ found something better.than soap--Pearline. jfn Something easier, quicker, simpler, more c J•yJr economical. No rubbing to speak of, no y 4 wear--easy work and money saved, whether ^ it's washing clothes, cleaning house, or any Extreme tired feeling afflict* nearly every body at this season. The hustlers cease to push, the tireless grow weary, the en ergetic become enervated. You know just what we mean. Some men and women endeavor temporarily to overcome that Checks Bleeding, Reduces Inflammation,Quiets Pain, Is the Bicycler's Necessity. Sores, f*unCO Burns> Piles, C/C/ffCd Colds, Rheumatism, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, Chilblains, Catarrh, Inflamed Eyes, Wounds, Bruises, Sprains, Headache, Toothache, etc. USE POND'S EXTRACT after Shaving--No Irritation, after Exercising--No Lameness. POND'S EXTRACT OINTMENT is a specific for Piles, socts. POND'S EXTRACT '0..76 5th Av., N.Y. Testing a Thermometer. Before purchasing a thermometer in vert the instrument; the mercury'should fall to the end in a solid "stick." If it separates into several small columns, the tube contains air, and will not register accurately. Nine persons out of ten think the mercurial column is round, but this Is not the case; It is flat, and the opening in the tube is as small as the finest thread. Fee'ing by great force of will. But this is unsafe, as it puljs powerfully upon tlie nervous system, which will not long stand jsuch strain. Too many people "work on their nerves," and the result is seen in un fortunate wrecks marked "nervous pros tration," in every direction. That tired Ashes with Stable Manure. Whoever has ever mixed fresh caus tic ashes with manure from the stable knows bow quickly a strong odor of ammonia is given off. It is wasteful of the fertilizer to do this while the manure is exposed to the air, but when it is to be plowed under very soon the loss is not great. In the soil the ashes will not only make the manure ferment more rapidly, but Ihey will themselves become a much more valuable fertilizer through absorption of the ammonia. This will quickly convert caustic potash into the nitrate of potash, which is the most powerful fertilizer known, and is good for any kind of crop. We have sometimes applied hen manure in hills for melons and cucumbers, mix ing it with the earth, and after mixing sprinkling a few hard-wood ashes in the bed and covering with earth before planting the seeds. Vines thus treated did better than with any other kind of manure we ever used. kind of washing and cleaning. 492 . /\/ff Farm Notes. The way that hogs have been going in the face of the low rates for cattle, sheep and horses has been very cheer ing to swine producers. The price compared with the price of grain Is one of profitable production. Never be satisfied with what the farm does, but endeavor to still further improve it. The farmer who concludes that he has reached the best that can be obtained from his farm will find himself going backward. Successful farmers are those who are striving to obtain more. 4 Farm, Stock and Home holds that under present conditions the sum paid for hired help must be the smallest possible, and only concentrated prod ucts--butter, beef, pork, wool, poultry, etc.--should be shipped by rail. Along these lines lay large doses of agri cultural salvation. It is much easier to feed whole grain than" to grind it. but it is better to put the labor to it than to lose in the feed. Grouhd grain can be more in-~ timately mixed with coarse food, and in that respect it not only serves to balance the ration, but the combina tion of foods cheapens the whole and more perfect digestion results. Here is a point on asparagus. A great many persons who grow it do so with flat culture. The proper mode for the best results is to hill up the rows. Apply fertilizer on the rows now while thejr are flat, and then turn a furrow on the row from each side. If the row is hilled up two feet it is all the better. Cut the stalks just as they are peeping out of the ground. They will then be tender from the tips to the butts, and as white as celery- If allowed to grow , out of the ground the tips will be tender and the butts tough. Ing is a positive proof of thin, weak, impure blood; for, if the blood is rich, red, vitalized and vigorous, it imparts life and energy to every nerve, organ and tissue of the body. The necessity of taking Hood's Sarsaparilla for that tired feeling is, therefore, apparent to every one, and the good it will do you is equally beyond question. Remember that Poisonous Plants. Swamp sumach is the most dreaded or poisonous plants. Curiously enough the cure for this poison grows closely beside it in the swamp districts, and its name, "Impatieus," suggests the feeling one has when afflicted by the pain it cures, for if ever one is im patient it is when attacked by this enemy of physical comfort. .Tewel- need is. another name for this p-ison antidote. It is a plant growing auout two feet high,' bearing a pale yellow flower, spotted with brown, with a hanging sac. broader thaaKong. The leaves and blossoms shotild be steeped and the poisoned parts bathed with the tea. Two Lawyers. A Western judge, sitting in cham bers. rseeing from -the' piles of papers in the lawyers' hands that the first case was likely to be hotly contested, "asked: "What is the amount in ques tion?" "Two dollars," said the plaint iff's counsel. "I'll pay it," said the judge, handing over the money; "call the next case." He had not the pa tience of Sir William Grant, who, after listening for two days to the arguments of counsel as to the construction of a certaiii act, quietly observed when they had doner "That act has been repeal ed." . How Past People Write. • Persons usually write at about tlie rate of thirty words ,a minute, but read at the rate pf 400 words a minute when not reading aloud. - :* Unscrupulous Merchant who tries to make you believe some other skirt binding is as good as ^ To introduce aalckly, on re ceipt of *.'5 will seat! any two sections yon may select. Ex ample, for JjS--fOOO house Mend $3 for \os. 3 and 4, etc., etc. Returnable if not satisfactory. Sarsaparilla Ifl the One Truo Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1. Preparbd only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. .*. Hood's Pills ^seasyt0 Bias Velveteen Skirt Binding should be flight a lesson-- buy it elsewhere. Look for ** S. H. & M.," on the Label, and take no other. If your deafer will not supply you we will. Send (6r samples showing labels and materials lot he S. H &M. Co.. P. O. Box 699, New York Oitv Feedinc A'alue of Manure. Concerning the feeding value of raw potatoes for milch cows, Joha Gould, the well-known Western dairyman, says: "Compared with ordinary foods at present prices they are worth from 6 to 7 cents per bushel. When fed raw to a cow the potato influences her milk. The milk will not cream so well, and the butter will lack in grain and tex ture. I would not feed more than a peck per day to a cow. A creamery in Clinton County lost their entire trade because the patrons fed an excesg of raw potatoes to their cows. Some of them fed a bushel or more per day to a cow. The New York expert butter men who handled the butter wrote the patrons, telling them they were feeding potatoes in too large quantities, and if their trade was recovered potatoes must be abandoned. When cooked and mixed with some nitrogenous grains they are a eood ration, if not fed in too Forbid a Fool a Thing and That He Will Do." Don't Use Mansfield, Ohio, May 27, 1895.-- "Ripans Chemical Co.--Gentlemen: I recently had an interview with Arthur Swendal, who ls very enthu siastic about Ripans Tabules, an0 could hardly saj7 enough in their favor, because they have made him feel as good as he ever did in his life. Very truly yours. "A. E. BELL." HIpaiis Tabules are sold by druggists, or by mall It lie price (50 cents a box) Is sent to Tbe Hlpans Cheml- *1 Company, No. 10 Spruce Street, New Y«fc Sample One of the health-giving ele ments of HIRES Rootbeer is sarsaparilla* It contains more sarsaparilla than many of the preparations called by that name. HIRES--the best by any tesi. Made only by The Charles E. Hires Co., Philadelphia. A 25c. package makes 5 gallon*. .Sold everywhere. n • I _ n* Mil tk* knt ITkMte at «*• Im«( DlCyCieS Tools, Enrtm, BoUrn. Lathe* Sl.tM. "Ir» rtUM Orpu, Wiltlin. Cm* Dr*w»r* WlM Pi Work f.r iffBl.. I'nUUfuerrw. UUCieO 9t*Ut tU. CUM**. " CURES WHERE AIL ELSE FAILS. Beet Cough Syrup. Tastes Good, t In time. Sold by druggists. EEBEBEaaSEffl MAOE NEW--Away with spectacles. By maU 10c. lock Box 788, N. York. 0#