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IBillilk tacks, and yon will get a crop regard­ less of whether tlie moon was on the wax or the wane whertthe planting was done. Where failures occur it is not necessary to look as far away as the! moon to find the source of the trouble. If carefully and intelligently sought, the eauses will be fotiud in some un­ favorable climatic condition, as severe drouth or excessive rainfall, for which the mooii is in no wise responsible, or else in some failure on the part of the farmer to do his work properly.--Prac­ tical Farmer. CUT RAILROAD EARNINGS. V Bostoa Passcnprer Officials Coiu.pfd.iii of the New Competitor.' The passenger earnings of many roads are not only being cut into locally by trolley lines, but bv the bicycles. Since the warmer weather set in peo­ ple living out a few miles from their places of business who have been pat­ ronizing suburban trains now ride the bics'cle. Indianapolis lines have nqt yet felt the bicycle craze very seriously,. out where there are cities but a few miles apart the passenger men say that between the electric roads and the bicy­ cle competition their local earnings are showing marked decrease. A passen­ ger official who"lias just rc turned-from- Bostou states that within a radius of eight to ten miles hundreds now come in on bicycles on pleasant mornings and return in the evening in the same man­ ner, and hundreds more find the electric car quite an attraction, so that alto­ gether the Boston steam t-oads are los­ ing quite heavily on this particular por­ tion of their income. He says that Bos­ ton passenger men told him that trains that were formerly crowded are now only fairly well, filled, and in some in­ stances a number of trains run for suburban business liave been taken off, and those kept on are hauling fewer coaches.---Indfanapblis JournaJ. v #.•% # % $ $ $$ %% £ $ $ $ <$• $ $ + ' " • • ' - J - w - . . . f | COOK BOOK FREE. • f . * iA&sIl \ | a\a\\\\v^ \ot m n VNVS / % \s \yu\V^ wwwaWeAlw THE RISING SUN \\ STOVE POLISH in |if I itAWi! itrriiii' ) 1 cakes for general IlV^^PAST a blackiug.of a stove. THE SUN PASTE ' POLISH for a quick ^^fc£L5SS LABORs^VjQ^ after-dinner shine, Ifj fKE applied arid pol* ^ i s h e d w i t h a c l o t h . Hone iBros., J?rhps.»Canton. Mass.. U.S.A. A DEPARTMENT PREF^SW^D OUR RURAL FRIENDS^ August, September, and October the Best Months in Whi^h tp Cut Tim­ ber--Value of Mineral Fertilizers- Plea for Butter Stock--Form Notes. * _ ' When to Cut Timber. A correspondent of tjie English Me­ chanic writes on this subject as foilows: i "For strength, beauty and durability, I have found Augtfst, September and -October the best,-and February. March and April the worst months to cut wood. A red tnaple cut in September will keep in a" round log perfectly white and sound uiitil the next August; while one cut in March Avill begin to blacken and decay by the middle or last of June. This is not copied from any scientific work, but is what I have found to be a fact by many practical tests. Gray birch cut, in September will keep in a good condition until the next September, if left in the woods cut in four-foot lengths; while if cut in March and left iii the same way it will b.e nearly worthless by5 August .1--at least, such is the result on -my land. White pine,., like red maple, keeps white much longer if cut in September than if cut in March, and is not injured by the worms; so much. I have found that wood dried'slowly in a low, cool place.is better than dried quickly in the hot sun, even though cut in summer. May this not in a measure account for wood being better cut in autumn, it ~ having the cold winter to dry In?" ' ~~ Healthy HeU9. , I wish to say to those who ha'Ve birds, even if only the every-day scratcli- around'the-barh kind, that It will fully - repay them to lay out a few dollars for a nice, comfortable place for the birds to stay in. with a few rods of fence that will hold them in a clean, dry place, and a, few hours each week to keep the place scrupulously clean. No one should be so penurious aud.selfisli, says the Massachusetts Ploughman, as to ,deny them, their rights after they have supplied the family with groceries year after year. 1 Buy a thoroughbred cock to head the flock, and furnish them with clean, sound fOOdi I have not lost a bird with the cholera during the past ten years, and I have used only one remedy---cleanliness. I• clean yard and house, feed and water, while many "of my neighbors have had all their poultry die with that dread disease.. Too much importance cannot be placed upon the quality of the drinking water. There is where nine-tenths of the disease germs are spread, and I be­ lieve I am low in my estimate when I savs that fully seven-eighths of the mor- Tbe Army's Size. "The size of tliSrarmy vaf!5s toccasi6'n-~ ally, but it is always about 27,000 strong. In 18.91 we had 2,170 officers and 25,-220 men. Our militia does not form part of the army, but it could be counted in if heeded, and in 1S91 it numbered 9,311 officers and 101,9S1 en­ listed men; Not a great showing this, compared with the European armies. For example, Great Britain has the smallest peace strength in Europe, and she has 141,500 men. Italy has-250,000 tnen, Austria-Hungary has 325,000 :*.en, France ,525,000, and Russia 835,000 men always under arms. - „ . •> Triumph of the Bicycle. ^ If the interest In wheeling' is to In­ crease at the present rate the time will come when a man will as soon think of going without his watch as of giving up his bicycle. The remarkable growth of interest in the pastime which, has been ob­ served during the\last five years in­ stead of diminishing this spring lias only been accelerated. The taste for wheeling has now invaded every known rank and condition of the civil­ ized human race. The number of those who make wheeling a profession has, increased amazingly, and the number of those who make it a pleasurable pas­ time or a convenient means of trans­ portation has grown . by' leaps and bounds. To take but one feature of the bicycle craze, road-racing is a more popular and widely followed sport, twice over, than it was in 1S91. The ficst of the Chicago road races, for in­ stance, was held in 1SS7 with forty-one entries. In 1892 there were 3S9 entries, and this year the number of entries was 500. This only reflects the general devel­ opment of the bicycle fever in every branch. The • bicycle-building industry has become but the center of a whole host of new special industries. There are manufacturing concerns devoted to the making of certain parts of the bicycle, and these, with their trade journals, constitute a complete new business world. Even more noticeable is the constant succession of races, "cen­ tury runs" and overland tours and the procession of wheelmen observable in the streets of every city and town. It, is safe to say that thefe is hardly a part of the country haying decent roads which will not be invaded this year by the enormous procession of summer bicycle tourists taking their annual outings. The influence which this must have on the good-roads move­ ment will be readily understood. LIBIA E. PIXKMAM'S VEGETABLE C02II'0cM) Benefits Three Generations, JEFFERSON M. CLOUGH RE. FUSES A TEMPTING OFFER FROM THE CHINESE ~ GOVERNMENT. [SPECIAL TO OBB I.ADY J "I have Used. Lydia E. Pinkharrfs Vegetable Compound in my family ten years with the best of results. tality among young chicks- is caused by filthy water and lice. His Health Was Too Poor to Permit Attention to Business--A Great Sufferer for Many Years, but Has Now Recovered. (From the Springfield. Mass., Union.) There isn't a gun manufacturer in the United States who does not know .1 offer- son M. Clough, and why? Because he has been intimately associated all his life with the development of the two best American rifles,.the Remington and Win­ chester, For years he was superintend­ ent of the E. Remington & Sons' great factory at llion. N. V. After leaving there he refured a tempting offer of the Chinese Government to go to China to superintend their Government factories--and accept­ ed instead the superintendency of the Winchester-Arms Co., at New Haven, at a salary of $7,500 a year. It was after this long term of active labor as a business man that he found himself incapacitated for further .service by the embargo which rheumatism had laid upon him and resigned his position more than two years ago, and returned to Belchertown, Mass., where lie now lives and own the Phelps farm, a retired spot where he has 500 acres of land. Being a man of means he did not spare the cost and was treated by leading phy­ sicians and bv baths at celebrated springs without receiving any benefit worth no­ tice, During the summer of 1S93 and the winter of 1894 Mr. Clough was confined to his house in Belchertown, being unable to rise from his bed without assistance, and suffering continually with acute pains and with no taste or desire for food, nor was he able to' obtain sufficient sleep. Early in the year 1S94 Mr. Clough heard of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. He began taking these pills about the first of March. 1894, and con­ tinued to do so until the first part of Sep­ tember following. The first effect no- ticcnl was a better appetite, and he began to note more ability to help himself off the bed and to be better generally. Last August (1894) he was able"to go alone to his summer residence and. farm of 103 acres on Grenadier Island, among the Thousand Islands, in the River St. Law­ rence, where from the highest land of his farm he commands a view for thirteen miles down the river, and sixty of the Thousand Islands.can be seen. Instead of being confined to his bed Mr. Clough is now and has been for some time able to be about the farm to direct the nieu enjployed. there, and he is thankful for what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have done for him. \ These pills are manufactured\y the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company. YSehenec- tady. X. Y., and are sold only In boxes bearing the firm's trade mark a Ad wrap­ per. at HO cents a box or six boxes for $2.50. and are never sold in bulk, --^llhcy-. may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams* Medicine Co. Wisconsin Resorts. Excursion tickets are now on sale by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail­ way to Burlington. Elkhorn, Dehnv.n, Milwaukee, Waukesha. Palmyra, llnrt- land, Xashotah, (Jeonomowoc. Kilhourrv Sparta, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Lake Min- nctoiika, Tomahawk, Minocqua, Elkhart Lake, Ontonagon, and all resorts of Wis­ consin, Minnesota, the Michigan Penin­ sula and the Northwest. Special low rates made on Friday, Saturday and Sun­ day of each week to Wisconsin resorts. For rates, time tables and further infor­ mation apply at ticket office, 95 Adams street, or Union Passenger Station, Cjinal, Adams and Madison streets. Out of Sorts. That is the way you feel as a result of the headache you had when you awoke this morning. Get in your usual frame of mind and body by using Iiipans Tabules, the standard remedy for all stomach and liver Jotnplaints. Faith can be seen in the dark. { Mineral Fertilizers for Beans. Beans are of the legumiuous order of plants. They not only take carbon through their leaves, as all plants do, but they also have in their roots the power of decomposing air in the soil, and using its nitrogen as clover does. Beaus do not need nitrogenous manure. It is likely to make the crop grow too much to straw and too little to seed. The mineral manures, especially potash and phosphate of lime, are very valu­ able for the bean crop; but gypsum or sulphate of lime should not be used, as it makes the stalk grow too large. Farmers sow gypsum oil clover, as in that the stalk and leaf are the parts where large growth is most wanted. But when the clover is grown for seed no gypsum should be sown, as it inter­ feres with seeding just as gypsum does when us'ed ou the beau crop.--American Cultivator. The Vineleos Sweet Potato. Practical Farmer speaks of a variety of "vineless" sweet potato suitable for growth in the Eastern, Northern and Xorthwestern States, with short chunky vines that, planted at about the usual distance apart for ordinary potatoes, 3y2 feet of rows and IV, feet in the row, yield 150 to 200 bushels per acre, and would bear putting much closer and seem to be hardy enough for the North­ ern States. A few years ago it was thought that a sweet potato grown north of the Carolinas was not good. Yet now, according to the authority quoted, the Jersey sweet potato takes higher rank than those grown farther South. " Before taking it I had falling of the Womb; such bearing-down pains, back­ ache, and kidney trouble. I had had eight children, and was approaching the change of life. " I«took the Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege­ table Compound and Liver Pills; was cured of all my troubles, and passed through the change all right, and now am fifty-four years old and well. My daughter had catarrh of the bladder, §nd it cured her. I send you my picture with my grandson, whose mother was cured by your remedies. I will recommend your Compound to every body." -- MRS. L. KELLY, Patohogue. L.I. The Home Price of Feed. In making a market at home for the grain and coarse fodder he grows the keeper of good stock saves himself a good deal of labor in finding a market for it He1 should not chsy-ge his stock all that the produce would bring if carried to market, as by feeding it at home he saves what marketing of it would cost, besides the value of the manure which the home feeding makes. This with many products is a large part of the price they would bring when marketed. To COLORADO .fiWD THE YELLOWSTONE PARK More and Better Stock. The majority of farmers keep too many horses for the work they have to do, too many cows for their dairy prod­ uct, too many hogs for the pork they have to put in the barrel and too many hens for the value of the eggs and poul­ try they have to sell. Are not these reasons enough why so many cannot make farming pay? If they can lessen the expense of keeping a large stock and yet get the same product there will be a profit instead of a loss on all their farming operations. ' I'm All Unstrung, Is the remark of many a nervous Individual. He or she will soon eeasc to talk that way after beginning and persisting in a course of Hostetter's Stomach IMtters. Nothing like It. to renew strength and appetite' and good digestion. It checks the inroads of malaria, and remedies liver complaint, constipation, djspepsla, rheumatism and kidney disorder. It Is In every sense a great household' Rem­ edy. People who have no charity for the faults of others are geuerally stone blind to their own. The Wheelmen a Power. The Examiner is doing most praise­ worthy work in urging the wheelmen of San Francisco to take up the im­ provement of our streets. It estimates that they can. individually and by their influence, control some 25,000 votes. With this mass of voters they can ac­ complish anything in reason. And it is certainly reasonable that San Fran­ cisco should have decently paved streets. It is our belief that a majority of the population desires and is willing to pay for civilized payments. That is half the battle. If the wheelmen, with a majority of the city and all of the press behind tliem, can not bring about this improvement, it \yill be extraor­ dinary. The Examiner's advice to the wheelmen is excellent--that they should not only work for improved pavements, but that they should personally see that the paving, when commenced, is honestly done. This is something quite within their powers, for there are few people who have come to know the pavements of San Francisco "fietter than the wheelmen. The pavement here h^fs made strong impressions upon their minds, for every irregularity in the street is transmitted directly through the spinal column to the base of the wheelman's brain. It would be a curious thing if the improvement in our streets, for which most, of us have so long sighed, should at last be brought about ' through the agency of what many people still believe to be a toy.-- Argonaut Cutting Off Woodlots. When a portion of the woodland is cleared off in the winter it is often fol­ lowed by the overturning of adjoining trees by the wind soon after the leaves come out. If a part of the wood lot is cleared the Whole should be, so that the new growth may start up evenly on all parts. But there are many woodlands that will be bettered by judicious thin­ ning, cutting out those specimens least desirable, that the best may obtain larger growth. Tobacco User's Sore Throat. It's so common that every tobacco user has an Irritated throat that gradually develops Into a serious condition, frequently consump­ tion, and it's the kind of a sore throat that never gets well as long as you use tobacco. The tobacco habit, sore throat and lost man­ hood cured by No-To-Hac. Sold and guar­ anteed to cfrre by Druggists everywhere. Hook, titled "Don't Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away." free. Ad. Sterling Kern- edy Co., New York City or Chicago. Compost the Farmer's Gold. It is well for farmers to look after their sold; not only the gold they pos­ sess, but the goid tliey may possess if they will but save the means of bring- ing it in. A small compost heap by the side of the garden, where weeds and waste- matter can be saved, will jingle out a gold dollar or two the following year, says the New York Tribune,, if used in your corn hills. A compost heap in the barnyard, where bedding from horses, straw from house beds, droppings from cattle, in the yard can be piled, will bring forth gold in your next year's hay crop. All the wood ashes from your fires are worth many dollars sown on your grassland. I use plenty of wood ashes inrmy hennery,, which I mix with the droppings, and find it a great gold producer in my vegetable garden and potato crop; it is also a great fertilizer for corn and grass. A compost heap under the hog- house window will not only produce golden-eared corn, but gold. The more compost the farmer can produce to en­ rich his land, the more gold lie will possess, for it is truly "The Farmer's Gold." Hall's Catarrh Cnre. Is a constitutional cure, l'rlce 75 cents. ^^ r̂CC0V-e"n ̂/r0nl ^ects disorders, _ i d e r a n g e m e n t s f and displace- ments of the wo-. / will find relief and a permanent cure in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Taken during pregnancy, the " Prescription " HAKES CHILDBIRTH EASY by preparing the system for parturition, thus assisting Nature and shortening "labor." The painful ordeal of child­ birth is robbed of its terrors, and the dangers thereof greatly lessened, to both mother and child. The period of con­ finement is also greatly shortened, the mother strengthened and built up, and an abundant secretion of nourishment for the child promoted. Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet­ ter than others and enjoy life more, with | less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's best products to the'neeas of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure> liquid laxative principles embraced in the | remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most. H-'ceptable and pleas­ ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax­ ative ; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers ana permanently curii% constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid­ neys, Liver and Bowels without weak­ ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug­ gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man­ ufactured by tha California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered. TheTANENE REVERSIBLE" arathe Best and Mort Economical Co liars and Cuffs worn; tisey are made at OHO cloth, both Rides finished, alike, and, b#ing *•> •^ernlble, one collar is equal to rn o ot any other M&4. They Jtt tcell wear toell and laoR well. A boi ol T«s Collars or Five i'airs of Cuffs tor Twenty-five Cent*. A Sample Collar and Pairot Cuffs by mail ior SSI® Cents. Name style and size. Address KKVKKSIBLE COLLAR COMPANY,. 17 riAKKtW ST.. NEW tORK V KllBY ST_ BDSTSK g EWES'98% LY& is Powdered and Perfumed; ' Dickens Omitted Batchers. Not even Dickens, I think, found room for a batcher amid his Babylon of trades. A bailiff he lias and eight sher­ iff's officers, half a dozen beadles, and half as many more brokers. The sher­ iff's. officer is, of course, a familiar enough figure from the days of our lit­ erary drama. An ingenious American has compiled a list of Dickens' characters, classified by calling, and it reads like nothing so much as a trades directory. f There are architects, auctioneers, bankers, bar­ bers. boarding-house keepers, black­ smiths. carpenters, carriers, chandlers, chemists, clerks (a perfect army of them), coachmen, coal merchants, con stables, corn chandlers, costumers, de tectives, doctors, domestic servants, dry-salters, engineers, engine drivers, farmers,- fishermen, game-keepers, gro­ cers, green grocers, haberdashers, hop growers, jailers and turnkeys, laborers, lamplighters, lawyers, law stationers, locksmiths, manufacturers, merchants, medical students, money lenders, no­ taries, ostlers, pawnbrokers, parish clerks, plasterers, porters, postmasters, pot boys,' reporters, robemakers, sad­ dlers, sailors, sextons, shipwrights, stewards, stokers, stonemasons, sugar bakers, tailors, teachers, tobacconists, toymakers and merchants, undertakers, watermen, weavers, wharfingers, wheelwrights. The list might be made longer, but that perhaps is long enough to make you realize how aptly provided with trades and tradesmen are the teeming streets of Dickens' imagination..--Mac- millan's Magazine.' Mulching the Strawberries. The ground between the strawberry rows should be mulched, if that work has not been done. Long rye straw is the best material to use; the next best is wheat straw or chaff. Fresh lawn grass is also excellent. Sawdust will stick to the fruit in wet weather, and should not be used. Whatever material is used, spread it on evenly, about half an inch in thickness, lifting up the vines and placing it by hand close to the plants. Whether the fruit is grown for market or for home use, the mulch should be applied. Dirty fruit will not sell. If eaten at home, the berries will have to be washed, which spoils their fla vor. The mulch also" increases the fruit yield, as it tends to keep the soil moist and cool, and the vines when fruiting require a large amount of moisture. Apply the mulch befot-e the plants are through fiowering.--Balti­ more American. n. B4 a TP B-- AGENTS TO SELL W A l V I Ell Ideal Cuff Holders. Everv crntleinaii buys a natr. Samples. 15o. Address (.'HAS. ROSE. 62 Columbia Street, Newark, New Jersey. Your Heailth Depends Upon pure, rich, healthy blood. There­ fore, see that your blood is made pure by Beecham's pills are for bil­ iousness, sick headache, diz­ ziness, dyspepsia, bad taste in the mouth, heartburn, tor­ pid liver, foul breath, sallow skin, coated tongue, pimples loss of appetite, etc., when caused by constipation; and constipation is the most fre­ quent cause of all of them. One of the most important things foj everybody to lea^u is that constipation cav.ses more thanfc-f the sickncss in the world,especially Of women; and it can all be prevented. Go by the book,free at your druggist's.or write B.F.AllenCo.,365Cana' St., New York. Pills,io^ and 25$ a box. Annual snles more than 6,000,000 boxoa. PATEHTS IN writing: to Advertisers, please tlo not fat! to mention this paper. Advertisers Uto to know what mediums pay them best. Hood's Sarsaparilla YOU WILL REALIZE THAT "THEY LIVE WELL WHO LIVE CLEAN­ LY," IF YOU USE SAPOLIO ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR Elegant in Design Superior in Workmanship Strong- and Easy Remind Hsrtfords are the sort of bi- cycles most makers ask $100 for. ' Columbias are far superior to so-called " specials," for which ,$125 or even $150 is asked. ; it is well to be posted upon , the bicycle price situation. The great Columbia plant is work­ ing for The-rider's benefit, as usual. An Awful Mistake. Cliollie--"Say, Fweddy, I had an aw­ ful scare latvst night." Fweddy--"Deed, deali boy! What was it?" Chollie--"By mistake I mistook a cuff faw a collaw and, doncherknow, it was so widieulously low."--Buffalo Times. Wonders of Science. _ . _ . .. . .. "It is wonderful what progress has been made in the way of machinery," said Mr. Figg. "I see that there has been a machine invented that can make a complete pair of shoes in sixteen miur utesn Why, that is even faster than Tommy can wear them out."--Tit-Bits. when you buy inferior soap instead of the genuine „ F O R Dyspeptic,Delicate.Infirrn and AGED PERSONS • JOHN CARLE & SONS, New York, * "IsTSTIT., -i No. 26-95 The favorite of every woman who ever used it feither in the laundry or for all around the house cleaning. Sold everywhere. Made only by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago. [_H H T r111" • • • * i Long and Short of It, The Patagonians are the tallest, peo­ ple in the world and the Laplanders the shortest . . Beet Cough Syrup. la time. Sold