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wm&m tacks, and you will get a crop regard less of whether the moon was on the wax or the wane when the 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 causes will be found in some un­ favorable climatic condition, as severe drouth or excessive rainfall, for which the moon 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. f t t 4 • •* f * 1' • • ; £ ; ¥? : " : • " " i COOK BOOK FREE. * T r*'- • ^ Every housekeeper wants to know the best ^ ^ things to eat, and how to prepare them. ^ f "The Royal Baker and Pastry Cook/f * T "V • - \ ? *fy -J. Contains One thousand useful recipes for f • • every kind of cooking. Edited by Prof. • $ Rudmani, New-York' Cooking School. ^ Free by mail. Address (writing plainly), & % mentioning this paper, * $ ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. ^ «$» , / 106 Wall Street, N.Y. &> Boston Eassenger Officials Complain of the New Competitor. The passenger earnings of many roads a re not only being cut into locally by trolley lines, but by 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 tin; bicycle. Indianapolis lines have not yet felt the bicycle craze very seriously, aut 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 has just returned from Boston states that within a radius of eight to ten miles hundreds now come in ion bicycles On pleasant mornings and return in the evening in the, same man­ ner, and hundreds uiore find the electric car quite an attraction, so that alto­ gether the Boston steam roads-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 have been taken off, and those kept on are hauling fewer Coaches.--Indianhpolis Journal. A DEPARTMENT PREPARED FOR OUR RURAL FRIENDS. cvtfiWttSs W\\s :a\mvb \yw\V^ wnvaWefr 'August, September, and October, the Best Months in Which to Cut Tim­ ber--Value of Mineral Fertilizers-- Plea for ^^tter Stock--Farm Notes. -i.- --' When to Cut Timber. > A correspondent of the English Me­ chanic writes on this subject as follows: "For strength, beauty and durability, I have found August, September and October the best,-and February, Marcht and April the worst months to cut wood.' A red maple cut in September will keep in a round log perfectly white and sound until the next August; while one cut in March' will 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 fouud 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 in the same way it will be nearly worthless by August 1--at least, such is the result on toy 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 out in autumn, it having-the-eold winter-1<» dry in=V" THE RISING SUN \V STOVE POLISH in Emfirnim n cakes for general PAST E. A Vbiacking of a stove. the sun pastb A POLISH for a quick Css labor &fter -diuner shine;/ ^ IN THE applied and pol- ished with a cloth. Biros., Props., Canton, Mass.. U.S.A. Healthy HeUS. ' I wish to say to those who have birds, even if only the every-day scratch- around-the-barn kind, that it will fully repay them to lay out a few dollars for a nice, comfortable place fpr the birds to stay in, with a few rods of fence that will hold them in a clean, dry pla'ce, and a few hours each week to keep the place scrupulously clean. No one should be so penurious and selfish, says the Massachusetts Ploughman, as to deny them their rights after they have supplied the family with groceries year after year. Buy a thoroughbred cock to head the flock, and furnish them With clean, sound food.. 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"toy. neighbors have had all their poultry die with thar dread disease. Too touch 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 says that fully seven-eighths of the mor­ tality "amoTTgyolng'cfifc^s^S caused by filthy water and lice. The Army's Size. v |Me size~of-the army varies occasion- lly, but 0it is always about 27,000 Ifog. In 1891 we had 2.170 officers H 25,220 men. Our militia does not Hn part of the army,Jmt it could be pnted in if needed, and in 1891 it Imbered,9,311 officers and 101,9S1 en- |ted men. Not a great showing this. |mpared with the European armies, for example, Great Britain has the pallest peace strength in Europe, and le lias 141,500. men. Italy has 250.000 t<to.Austria:Hungary has 325,000 A en, Vance 525,000, and Russia \ 835,000 ien always under arms. Triumph erf 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 has 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 1891. The first of the Chicago road races, for in- _s tance, was held in 1SS7 with forty-one entries. In 1S92 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 ceuter 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 colistant succession of races, "cen­ tury runs" aud overland tours and the procession of wheelmen observable in the streets of every city aud town. It is safe to say that there is hardly a part or the country having decent roads which will ^not be invaded this year, by the enoijmous procession of summer bicycle murists taking their annual outings. The influence which this must, have on the good-roads move­ ment will be readily understood. Women Not Called " Professor." While Smith College has both men and Women in its faculty, it. does not confer the well-earned dignity of the professional, title upon the latter, even When they fill positions as heads of de­ partments in every,respect as responsi­ ble and onerous as* those held by, the other sex. There were 746 students en­ rolled last year, with a teaching force of only thirty-six, nearly two-thirds of -wfaonrare'wom^rbtit-not-yrefessorsr--^ Cupid is a physician who never takea his own medicine, , ; Sehrage's $2,000,000 Rheumatic Cure • Is a. liquid internal medicine maae; ex­ pressly to cure permanently all kinds o£ • lout, Rheumatism and Neuralgia. Not n "cure all." Pleasant, harmless, certain- Will not cure in two or three days. If you are a sensible person you know it takes time to cure a deep-seated disorder like Rheumatism. A remedy for sensible* lT6 ê̂ h7>^do7ft̂ sp êTXTnttiit̂ ~f?5r" ̂ cents. Prompt relief always. "Squar® dealing and' satisfaction" our motto. Perhaps you don't fancy our style. If not, don't write to us; 00-000 bottles sold this year and 25,000 people cured: 10.000 true testimonials. Cost. $1.50 per bottle; enough for eighteen days. Highest refer­ ences. Advice free. Remember your druggist will sell yon what pays him best- A few good agencies left SYVANSON RHEUMATIC CURE CO., Owners, 167 Dearborn St., Chicago, The corner-stone of sin is unbelief. I cannot speak too highly of Piso'sOura for Consumption.--Mrs. Frank Mobbs, 215 W. 22d St.. New York, Oct. 21), 1894. airs, Winslow's Soothino Sybup for CMldraA teething: sottens the cums, reauces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25 cents ft botUa, LYBIA E. PINK HAM'S YEGETABLE I •;••• COMPOUND THE GUNMAKEIl OF 1LIGN Benefits Three Generations. JEFFERSON M.. CLOUGH RE FUSES A TEMPTING OFFER FROM THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT. [SPECIAL TO ODE LADY KEA-DHtS.}, " j have used Lydiu E. •Pinkhcato's Vegetable Compound in my family ten years with the best of results. His Health Was Too Toor 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 .leffer- son M. Clough, and why? Because he has been intimately associated all his life with the development of the "two best American rifles, the Keniington 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 by baths at celebrated springs without receiving any benefit worth no­ tice. During the summer of 1S1KI and the winter of 18'J4 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 tdeep. Early in the year 1894 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 ticed was a better appetite, and he began t<t 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 lOo acres on (irenadier 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 t|ie farm to direct the men employed,thefo. and lie is thankful for what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have done for him. These pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenec­ tady, X. Y., and are sold only in boxes bearing the firm's trade mark and wrap­ per. at 50 cents a box or six boxes For $2.50, and are never sold in bulk. They may be had of all druggists or direct by, mail from Dr. Williams'1 Medicine Co. IV iseonsin Resorts. Excursion tickets are now on sale by the- Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail­ way to Burlington, Elkhorn, Delawn, Milwaukee, Waukesha. INlnivra, Hart- land, Xashotah, Oconomowoc. Kilbourn. Sparta, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Lake Min- netonka, Tomahawk, Minocqna, 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 Adam^ street, or Onion Passenger Station, Caifty, Adams and Madison streets. \ Out of Sorts. , That is the way you feel as a resu«~f)f the headache you had when you awoke this morning. Get in your usual frame of mind and body by using Ripans Tabu lea, the standard remedy for all stomach and liver complaints. Faith can be seen in the dark. "Aladdin Jr.," with its brilliant record of 450 performances in every leading American city, closes its career this week at the Chicago Opera House, and is to be succeeded by a magnificent revival of 'vAli Baba," which scored so tremen­ dous a success in the season of 1S92-9". Local theater-goers will be gratified at the prospect of seeing this splendid extrava­ ganza once more, for it is, perhaps, the most entertaining of all the Henderson- ian series. It is especially sumptuous in its scenic equipment, right to the point of prodigality in costumes, bright and jolly in plot and incident, humorous in dia­ logue and situation, and musically very strong. Mr. Henderson was never known to do anything by halves, and he has no intention of abandoning the supre­ macy. which he has gained by nine years of enterprise and good management. He easily outclasses all American managers in the spectacular and extravaganza field, and not even in London or Paris is he surpassed iii the elaborate perfection of stage productions. Taken altogether, the revival of. "Ali Baba" is going to be a' stunning affair--a veritable sensation of the first magnitude. The first perform­ ance will occur Monday night, June 24. Mineral Fertilizers for Beans. Beans are of the leguminous 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. Beans do not heed 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 on 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 used ou the bean crop.--American Cultivator. The Vineleos Sweet Potato. Practical Faquer speaks of a variety of "vineless" sweet potato suitable for growth in the Eastern, Northern and Northwestern States, with short chunky vines that, planted at about the usual distance apart for ordinary potatoes, liy> feet of rows and 1V> feet in the row, yield 150 to 200 bushels per acre, and would Wear putting much closer and seem toVbe 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 go > l. Yet now, according to the authority quoted, the Jersey sweet potato takes higher rank than those grown farther South. 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 He should not charge 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 cast, 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. "Beforetaking 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. Pinkliam's Vege­ table Compound and Javcr 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, and it cured her. I send you my picture with my grandson, whose mother was cured by yotir remedies, I will recommend your Compound.,to every/body." -- Mes. L. Kei.i.v, Pa|§o.gife, L%: «• Special Car Partieo, Personally Conducted To COLORADO YELLOWSTONE PARK More and Better Stock. The majority of farmers keep too many horses for the work they have to do, too many <x>ws 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 AH Unstrung, Is the remark of many a nervous Individual. He or she will soon cease to talk that way after beginning aud persisting in a course of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Nothing like It to renew strength and appetite and good digestion. It checks the Inroads of malaria, and remedies liver complaint, constipation, djspepsia, 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 them, can not bring about this improvement, it vjill be extraor­ dinary. The Examiner's advice to the wheelmen is excelleut--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 better than the wheelmen. The pavement here lias 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 tliiu- ning, cutting out those speciixens least desirable, „that ' the best may obtain larger growth. Tobacco User's Sore Throat. It's so common tbat every tobacco user has an irritated throat that gradually develops into a serious condition, frequently consump­ tion, and it ' sr-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-Iiac. Sold and guar­ anteed to cure by Druggists everywhere, llook, titled "Don't Tobacco Spit or Sinoke Your Life Away," free. Ad. Sterling Rem­ edy Co., New l'ork City or Chicago. Compost the Farmer's Gold. It is well for farmers to look after their gold; not only the gold they pos­ sess, but the gold they 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 in my hennery, which 1 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 laud, the more gold he will possess, for it is truly "The Farmer's Cold." i Cure. :e Til cents. Hall's Is a constitutional cure. 1' \ flrecovering from fects disorders, ' derangements nmL&iy/ anc* displace- ^ P J nients of the wo- will find relief and a permanent cure in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Taken during pregnane)', 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'needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in tho remedy. Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most, n^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 and permanently curing 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 SI bottles, but it is man­ ufactured by tfca 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 oiiered. Raphael, Angela, Rubeas, 1: Tho "titNENE REVERSIBLE" ars the Beet and Most Economic*! Co liars and Cuffs woru; tHey are made aST fine cloth, both sides finished slike, and. bsing i»- *en.lbl«. one collar is equal to cno of any other MncL They fit tcell t cear well and loot well. A box ol T«# Collars or Five Pairs of Cuffs for Tw«nty-nve Cent*. A Sample Collar aud Pairot Cufife by mail for St® Cents. Name style and size. Address KKVKKSIBLE COLLAR COMFAXT,. 17 riAHKUR SI.. HEW YORK. ?T KILBT ST_ B0STB& g EWIS'88°oLYE Powdered and Perfumed! Dickens Omitted Butchers. Not even Dickens, I think, found room for a butcher amid his Babylon of trades. A bailiff he has 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^is a trades directory. 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, wreavers, wharfinger's, 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. Your Health Depends Upon pure, rich, healthy blood. There­ fore, see that your blood is made pure by I X writing; to Advertisers, pleaso do not fall to mention this paper. Advertisers like* 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 !|aoaeoixroM«H3«CTEooxao5aooocejoogoi,«fic« ASK YOUR DRUGGIST FOR , Elegant in Design ' & Superior in "Workmanship Strong and Easy Running Hartfords are the sort of bi- cycl5s<most makers ask $100 for, ' Columbias are far superior Jo so-called " specials," for which $125 or even $150 is asked. It is well to be posted upon the biSycle price situation.. The great Columbia plant is work­ ing for the rider's benefit, as ̂ ual. An Awful Mistake. Chollie--"Say, Fweddy, I had an aw­ ful scare lawst night." Fweddy--"Deed, deah boy! What was it?" s Chollie--"By mistake I mistook a cuff faw a collaw and, doncherknow, it was so widiculously 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 min­ utes. Why, that is even faster than Tommy can wear them out.",--Tit-Bits. •when you buy inferior soap instead of the genuine _ > .FOR . Dyspeptic,Delicate,Infirm and AGED PERSONS • JOHN CARLE, & SONS, New York. \* The favorite of every woman who ever used it j feither in the lauiiury or for all around the house j *• cleaning. Sold everywhere. Made only by H; THE N. K. FAJRBANK COMPANY. Chicago. ••^HiiHirmw'wniwnnoeiaBnnnaBna Best Cough Syrup. Tastes In time. Sold by drug Long and Short of It. ^ The Patagonians are the tallest peo­ ple in the world and the Laplanders shortest