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IMPORTANT FOOD TESTS. How to Produce More Economical arid Healthful Articles for trie Table. The official food analyses ny the Unit­ ed States ami Canadian governments have been studied^ with interest. The United States government report gives the names of eighteen well-known bak­ ing powders, some of them advertised as pure, cream-of-tartar powders, which contain alum. The report shows the Royal to be a pure cream-of-tartar baking powder, the highest in strength^ evolving 160.6 cubic inches of leavening gas per single ounce of powder. There were eight other brands of eream-of-tartar pow­ ders tested, and their average strength was 111.5 cubic inches of gas per ounce of powder.. The Canadian government investiga­ tions were of a still larger number of powders. The Royal Baking Powder was here also shown the purest and highest in strength, containing forty-' five per cent, more 'leavening gas per ounce than the average of all the other cream-of-tartar powders. > These figures are very instructive to the practical housekeeper. They indi­ cate that, the Royal Baking Powder goes more than 33 per cent, further in use than the others, or is one-third more economical. Still more important than this, howeyejr, they prove this popular article lias been brought to the highest degree Of purity--for to -its su­ perlative purity tliis superiority in strength is due--andicon^equently. that i»y its'use we may be insured the purest and most wholesome food. The powders of lower-strength are found to leave large amounts of ion- purities in the food. This fact is em­ phasized by thej-eport of the Ohio State Food ComttwlSsIbner, who, while find­ ing thq/Koyal practically pure, found no other powder to contain less than 10 per cent, of inert or foreign matters. The statistics show' that there is used In the manufacture of tlfe Royal Baking Powder more than half of all the cream- of-tartar consumed in the United States for all purposes. The wonder­ ful sale thus indicated for the Royal Baking Powder--greater than that of all other baking powders combined--is perhaps e^jen a higher evidence than that already quoted of the superiority of this article, and of its indispensable- ness to modern cookery. Highest of all in Leavening Pdwer.--Latest U. MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FAF^M ER AND HOUSEWIFE. % v-, \x\A\j viT\tw&Wt& Powder at^lc Without Horns Are Much Hfore Quiet--Hoeing Isr Now Done with the Cultivator -- Balanced Ration Will Prevent Dyspepsia in Hons. THE SUN PASW& \ POUSH toT a omrfk >£s§6<;»SS LABOPs„lO^' after;-dinner eofceR. THE applied • and j^3- ^^^=====^» ,s^ ished •with a Horn Bros.. Props., Canton, XT""~ , T The Dehorning Question. In the cattle they are to handle people seem to have a leaping of late years to the idea of no horns. It is a conceded fact tljat cattle are much more quiet without horns than with them, says the Nebraska Farmer. It is a fact, too, that this disposition to be quiet among themselves goes a long Way toward se­ curing the'comfort and good condition that leads to profit ip the handling of cattle. This preference for cattle with the horns off is evidenced in the grow­ ing popularity of the hornless breeds of beef cattle, and also in the disposi­ tion to remoye the liorns from steers that are to be fed in bunches for the market: We may be allowed to ven­ ture the opinion, too, that this new de­ parture would have taken a still faster hold upon feeders in the last few years if low prices had not cast1 a gloom upon the feeding industry. With better prices and a better 'feeling pervading cattle cireles. We prediet that the de­ horning practice will receive a new im­ petus. The question does not resolve itself into one of breeds, but Into one of methods only. If it be true that cat­ tle, do better with their horns off, it has been demonstrated to be a thoroughly practical business transaction 'to re­ move them, and at small cost, so that we may expect to see the practice more than ever popularized in the next few years to come. Elks in Harness. Elks broken to harness may soon Cease to be a novelty in the Northwest, and perhaps even in the East. Several years ago a wealthy rancher in Mon­ tana had a team of the creatures which he used to drive to his buggy, and when the factlbecame known other folk ex^ perimented in taming elks for a like purpose./ Such a team was brought East last year and caused much inter­ est. A rancher on the llumptulipS fiv­ er, Washington, is the last to experi­ ment with elks' for work purposes. He has a fine team recently broken to har­ ness, which, he says, will haul as heavy a load as any pair of horses, are as do­ cile, and much handsomer. It may be that the elk will hold back for a while the electrical and mechanical tide that is sweeping the horse from the high­ ways, and preserve the pleasures of the road that come from riding behind a thing of life, while adding a. pictur­ esque element. The second edition of "All Baba"' is .•mnounced at the Chicago Opera Hinisc. I The famous extravaganza is rapidly near- ing its 700th performance, and the size and enthusiasm of the audiences is such as to encourage the expectation that it will go to 1.000. The heated term does not act as a drawback, for the outside temperature is pleasantly offset by the artificial cooling apparatus and the lib- eral^listribution ... of cooling beverages without charge; So the big and beatitiful show dances along merrily and increases its prestige as the greatest of all of Mana­ ger Henderson's successes. Among the new features for the second' edition are two lovely songs by Miss Maud Ulmer. Sig. Biancifiori, a male dancer of phe­ nomenal agility, appears in the ballet with great success. A humorous Spanish ser­ enade and fandango is given by Messrs. Kendall and Cain. The "Trilby" quad­ rille, which was withdrawn because of an accident to Mr. Ali, who^plays the part of Svengali, is now being again given. New songs, new jokes, new dialogue and new business-generally is introduced in the second edition of "Ali Baba." Bicy­ cles are now stored and checked during the performance without charge, ' Tp Cleanse' the System Effectually yet gently, when costive or bilious, or when the blood is impure or sluggish, to permanently cure habitual constipation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity, without irritating or weakening them, to dispel headaches, colds or fevers use Syrup of Figs. William Pitt was called the Bottom­ less Pitt, because of-the s'kill with which he concealed his plans until ready to reveal them. At the Office you may have a sudden bilious attack or headache when it is impossible for you to leave your work. If you have a box of Ripans Tabules in your desk a tubule taken at the first symptom will relieve you. nix'S. Winsiow'G SOOTHING SIBUP for Children teething: Bottens the Hums, roaucus Inflammation. allas s pain, cures wlna colic. 25 cents a bottle. * H I G H E S T A W A R D * W O R L D ' S F A I R . Hints on Road Improvement. Says% writer in the Michigan Trades­ man: ' I shall endeavor to give some prac­ tical hints or. suggestions as to the de­ sirability and practicability of the per­ manent improvement of highways. My interest in this subject extends back to my earliest experience in farm life. The limitation of value of the farms of the locality in which my boyhood was spent was. the distance and inaccessi­ bility of .market, and while the region was fertile, with favorable climate, the farms were almost worthless as, to im­ mediate remuneration for the labor ex­ pended upon them on account of the Impossibility of selling the produce. In the case of the farm on which my ex­ perience was obtained it was found that the most valuable- crops; as to money" returns, that could be raised, were wool and maple sugar. These had the most value as to quantity, and the former was ready to market when the roads were most passable and the latter^could be kept for the most convenient sea­ son. As tliese were scarcely sufficient to make a promising outlook for the time to come, better prospects were sought by emigration to a locality more accessible to markets. The interest caused by this early experience has led me to give considerable attention to the subject, and my familiarity with the operations of the old methods of road tax work has kept me on the lookout for practical methods of doing the work those did not do. The magnitude of the undertaking or securing permanent or easily maintain­ ed highways is beyond comprehension. In European countries the task may be said to be well advanced, but it is rela­ tively much smaller there on account of the much greater density of popula­ tion; and again, the work has been much longer in progress. This under­ taking in this country is far greater than any other economic ̂ undertaking before us. " The idea has obtained quite largely that the older portions of our countyare becoming worked out, that opportuni­ ties for work, for improvements, for industrial enterprises, are becoming scarce. It was in the light of this idea that the capable, though at times some­ what erratic, economist, Horace Gree­ ley. advised the young man to go West and grow up with the country. He tas taken the advice and done so with a vengeance. The best opportunities of the East have been left scarcely skim­ med, while the new and untried enter­ prises of the far West, irrigation and development of arid regions, receive the attention that should have been given to the far more practicable re­ sources of the East. It is a fact well known but scarcely realized that in many localities in the so-called garden of the country, the Eastern prairie States, as Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and even in^sfff^w^uhern counties of out- own Sta^e of Michigan, the larger por­ tions of small towns and villages have declined In population and have lost most of their manufacturing indus­ tries, as shown „by the Federal census. The rush to the West accounts for some of this decline, but the greater cause is the lack of highways to make the sur­ rounding .regions tributary to these towns. The all too great supply of railroad facilities has reduced the more accessible ones to shipping points from which to send the products to the great centers, while the less accessible have not even the consolation, if such it be, of seeing their rightful tributes pass their doors. The quality of a prairie road is proverbial and in the country, tributary to the towns referred to, they are still deserving of their reputation. Had these towns been provided with suitable roads in place of the region being so overdone by railways they would haVe continued to be centers of prosperous trade and manufacture. Now these conditions as to develop­ ment of the resources of the East are temporary. The tide of emigration to the West will stop and roll back from the foot of the Rocky Mountains and the increase in population will demand that the neglected resources of the East shall be exploited and this question of roads will be the first and most impor­ tant one. Reference has been made in recent numbers of The Tradesman to the im­ portance of this subject to the country merchant. This feature of the question cannot be too much emphasized. The condition of trade in the towns referred to above is a sufficient indication of this. Examples of merchants who have embarked in trade in new and promis­ ing localities who have met disappoint­ ment and failure simply because the town failed to become a center of trade for want of roads are familiar to every­ one. In varying, but not small, degrees, this question Is a factor in the problem of success or failure of every country merchant. ^ T H E BEST* PREPARED SOLD EVERYWHERE. * JOHN CARLE & SONS, New Yorfc. Beecham's pilis are fc«f 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^ wfacs caused by constipation; andl constipation is the most fre­ quent cause of all of tliem* 4 - (.One of the most important things few everybody to learn is that constjpaiso® causes more than half the sickness is» ifee world,especially ot women; and it can *£3 be prevented. Go by the book,freeaiytnu firuggist's.or write B.F.AllenCo..365C*n«£ St., New York. Pills,io$ and 25$ & hoac. Annual salss mora than 6.000.(faJ 6ox«s. ( Open the Safety Valve When there Is too big a head of steam.on, or you will be In danger. Similarly, when that Important safety valve of the system, the bowels, becomes obstructed, open It prompt­ ly with Hostetter's Stomuch Hitters, and guard against the consequences of its clos­ ure. Biliousness, dyspepsia, malarial, rheu­ matic and kidney complaint, nervousness and neuralgia are all subjugated by this pleasant but, potent conqueror of disease. An Ancient Practice. Bottled ale, rendered mellow by long keeping, was an accidental discovery. It was made by Alexander Newell, dean of St. Paul, in the reign of Queen Mary. Tobacco-Weakened Resolutions. Nerves irritated by tobacco, always crav­ ing for stimulants, explains why "it is so hard to swear off. No-To-Bae is the only guaranteed tobacco habit cure because it nets directly on affected nerve centers, de­ stroys irritation, promotes digestion and healthy, refreshing sleep. Many gain ten pounds In ten days. You run no risk. No- To-Bac is sold and guaranteed by Druggists everywhere. Hook free. Ad. -Sterling Rem­ edy Co., New York City or Chicago. .. Hoeing to Kill Weeds. We hoe merely to kill the weeds. The land has been, or should have been, properly and thoroughly prepared be­ fore the seed was planted. Now nothing of that is to be dorie. no digging, no pul­ verizing. no making of hills, only kill­ ing the weeds, says the Maine Farmer. Much of the hoeing is now done with team and cultivator, though there is still some work to be done with the hoe. Simply stirring the surface soil and cut-. ting up any stray weed that may have become rooted is all that is called for. Do this early and often, and the weeds will be mastered. Never wait for a field to get weedy. It is just as effective to stir the soil before the weeds have had time to get rooted,, and it is much easier doing it. It lias been a pet theory to run the cultivator through the field of­ ten and keep it up as long as practicable. Experiments at the stations, however, have shown that frequent cultivation, unless needed for the destruction of weeds, is no advantage to the growing crop in an ordinary season. Work the field, then, as often as needed to kill the weeds, and no more. Clean culture should be the aim. The weeds must be destroyed. Dyspeptic Hogs. The acidity of the stomach, which is the result of feeding hogs exclusively on corn, may be temporarily corrected by feeding charcoal. But in this case, as in most others, prevention is better than cure. Tue hogs fed with a prop­ erly balanced ration, including some fine wheat middlings and a few roots each "day. says Column's Rural World, will not be troubled by acid stomach. Acidity is a sij;n that fermentation has progressed to its second stage! the first being alcoholic. It is not possible.to cause food to ferment in even the slightest degree without some waste of its nutrition. When fermentation pro­ gresses so far as to make acidity of the stomach the loss is much more consid­ erable. This is in addition to the loss by impaired digestion. The Market Was Active. "Gentleman wants to know what this poem's worthV" said the office boy. "Don't know," mused the editor, in an absent-minded way, "I haven't fiad a late quotation from the paper dealers to-day, and I'd hate to make a price without knowing."--Atlanta Constitu­ tion. A New Protecter. Tin foil is now used extensively on gas fixtures in barrooms. It looks well and keeps off fiies. W. C. Lloyd, a workiugman, liv­ ing at No. 66 White av., in the Eighteenth ward, Cleveland, O-, first bought Ripans Tabules of Ben- field, the druggist. In an interricjK had with him on the Stli of 1S95, by a reporter named A_ El ^CalhoHn, residing at 1747 East MlatP- ison a v., Cleveland, Mr. Lloyci. said that he was at present out of. a. Jobj, but expected to go to work next week at the Bridge works. "Any­ way I have the promise of a jol* there," were his words. He ha5 been out of employment since last, fall. We will let him tell his sSeucy in his own words: "Work was-a little slack, aud I was feeling: so bad that I concluded to lay off for a few days, and when I returned my piaca was filled, so I've been out ever since. I don't care much, though- I've been gaining right along by iny rest and treatment. Last fall 1 went to a doctor who was mxms- mended to me as a good one and with quite a reputation. He gave UUL medicines of all kinds for nearly six weeks and I got no benefit that: I could see. I11 fact I don't ReSere he knows what is the matter witJSfflj me. A friend of mine caEfedjcae jjugj evening and told me he had using Ripans Tabules for a/J^j™3| time, and had never foutt&jflH thing that helped liver troubles as UM| did. He handiMiJge t- tnem, which I read,. t h r u t h e y w n e e d e d 1 and would fit ^^.p^^exavtljr- I- dropped Dr. --*at once, went over to the drug store and got a 50-eeut box of them, out of which I toofc two a day for a while, and within three days noticed and felt rncscb improvement. That was about the middle of December. Last Feb­ ruary I got another small bps ©fi" the Tabules and took part of thenar only, as I was feeling so mtrcfit better that I didn't think I r*pedo& any more. The rest of the box I gave to John C-- the other day. If I had heard of them at the tiase 1 stopped work I could have saved nay doctor bill. and, better than ali, probably kept right on with my work. But I do not begrudge ?he- time lost nor the doctor bill, as 1 feel I am well paid for havingr learned of the Tabules. I now feel t no pain whatever in my stomach, 1 liver and bowels active and regri&Hi. ] and eat like a well man shoo!<3 eat.** J RJliaiiK Tabnles are .sold by drugrcrlsts. or itj sadl b the price (50 cents a bo\) Is 6ent to The ESp.txis Vlioca cal Company. No. 10 Spruce Street, New tutk. vial. 10 cents. J , Flail's Catarrh Cure, Is taken Internally. Price <5 cents. Bank holidays in Scotland are New Year's Day, Christmas Day. Good Fri­ day and the first Mondays in May and August. Egyptians Must "Step Lively." The trolley has invaded the land of the Pharaohs. Cairo is to have a sys­ tem. It is better to remove than to hide com- plexionnl blemishes. Use Glenn's Sul­ phur Soap, not cosmetic. "Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye," Black or Brown. 50c. < The Prince of Wales is insured for £3,250,000. Piso's CCHK for Consumption has saved me manv a doctor's bill.--8. F. IIAKDY, Hopkins' Place, Baltimore, Md„ Dec. 2, '94. A character is a completely fashioned will. LEAVES ITS HARK --every one of the painful irregularities and weaknesses that prey upon women. They fade the fq.ee, waste the figure, ruin the temper, wither you up, make you old before your time. Get well: That's the way to look well. Cure the disorders and ailments that beset you, with Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip­ tion. It regulates and promotes all the womanly functions, improves digestion, enriches the blood, dispels aches and pains, melancholy and nervousness, brings refreshing sleep, and restores health and strength. SAXES OF LTDIA E. PINKIIAH'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND. Unequalled in the History of Medicine. Honesty, Excellence, Faithfulness Fitly Rewarded. .6PECIAI, TO OCB LADY EEAPERS.] Never in the history of medicine has the demand for one particular remedy for fema'° diseases is today. California, from the Gulf to the St. Lawrence, come the glad tidings of woman's suffering relieved by it; and thousands "upon thou­ sands of letters are pouring in from g r a t e f u l w o m e n , s a y i n g t h a t i t W I L L and does positively cure those painful Ailments of Women. It will cure the worst forms of female complaints, all ovarian troubles, inflam­ mation and ulceration, falling and dis­ placements of the womb, and consequent spinal weakness, and is peculiarly adapted to the change of life. Every time it will cure Backache. It has cured more cases of leucorrhcea by removing the cause, than any remedy the world has ever known; it is almostx infallible in such cases. It dissolves and expels tumors from the uterus hi an early stage of development, and checks any tendency to cancerous humors, Lydia E. Pinkham's Liver Pills work in unison with the Compound, and are a sure cure for constipation and sick- headache Mrs. Pinkham's Sanative Wash is irequently found of great value for local application. Correspondence is freely solicited by the Lydia E. Pink- liam Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., and the strictest confidence assured. All drug­ gists sell the Pinkham's remedies. The .Vegetable Compound in three forms^ - T >nuid, Pills, and Lozenges. The Greatest Medical Discovery < of the Age. Summer Weakness Is caused by thin, weak, impure blood. To have pure blood which will properly sustain your health and give nerve strength, take THE BABY'S LIFE depends 011 the food It gets. Insufficient nourishment is the cause of much of the fatality among infants. Improper food brings on indigestion. If the food is right the digestion will he good, and "Kldge's Food is the best. There Is nothing "just as good" or "nearly- as good." It Is the liest in the whole world. Have you a baby? Its life depends upon how it is fed. Sold by Druggists. 35c up tq $1.76. WOOL RICH & CO.. l'AL MKR, MASS. MoocTs Sarsaparil ia Repairs for Harvesting: Machinery. All kinds of mowing aud reaping ma­ chinery are much cheaper than they were a few jiears ago. But in some cases the manufacturers put inferior material into their work, so that more repairs are needed, and these always come very high. The separate pieces cost enough more than they should to make up the deficiency in price of the complete machine, which competition obliges them to submit to. When they have sold a machine the buyer can get his repairs from no one else, and they can make charges without limit. Worse than this, the buyer often finds that he must send for repairs hundreds of miles and wait perhaps two or three days while they arc coming. If the machine Is out of date it is sometimes difficult to get repairs at any rate. This is a matter that farmers should think of in buying harvesting machinery. Find out, if,possible, whether repairs will be sold reasonably, and deal only with houses of such established reputation that there need be 110 fear that they will go out of business. fay with Pearline. 'Twould be absurd. It Jf isn't necessary. Pearline contains every- thing of a soapy nature that's needed or that's good to go with it. And Pearline is so much better than soap that it has the work all done before the soap begins to take any part. You're simply throwing away money. It's a clear waste of soap--and soap may be good for something, though it isn't much use in wasji- inQf and cleaning, when Pearline's around. Forbid a Fooi a Thing and That He< Will Do." Don't Use SAPOLIO Sprouted Potatoes. It is well known that seed potatoes which are stored for late planting often become soft, while much of their nutri­ tive matter is exhausted in developing sprouts which must be broken off in planting. The first sprout is always the strongest and thriftiest, but it of­ ten happens that these sprouts have to be 'removed several times before the potatoes are planted, and each time some of the vitality of the tubers is lost. A comparative test was made by Prof. Tatt at the Michigan Experiment Station last year, when two equal lots of potatoes were taken, one being left in the cellar, the other spread in a dry, well-lighted^, moderately warm rooul. On April 20 both lots were planted side by side, and^-fTle plants from the tin- sprouted setul came up first, looked the best throughout the season, and pro­ duced a jrfeater amount of potatoes and a greater proportion of large ones with fewer ill-shaped tubers. Of course, it hardly needed'an experiment to dem­ onstrate the superiority of uusprouted see;d, but since no one can afford to grow anything but the very best crops it would seem to be worth while to take every precaution to prevent sprouting, or to secure second crop ^eed from the South, which is rarely affected in this way.--Garden and Forest. Evaporated Apples. In Wayne County, "New York, which is not a very large county, says the American Cultivator, something like a million bushels of apples were evap­ orated. last year, yielding a product worth $500,000. As most of this was from fruit that could not very well have been marketed in any other lorm, and KENNEDY'S MEDICAL DISCOVERY. that you have read that Santa Claus Soap is one of the greatest labor- saving inven­ tions of the Boring for Heat. Some one has suggested the sinking of a shaft 12,000 or 1G,000 feet into the earth for the purpose of utilizing the central heat of the globe. It is said that such a depth is by no means iimpossible, with the improved machinery and ad­ vanced methods of the coming engineer. Water at a temperature of 200 degrees centigrade,- which can, it is 1aidx be obtained from these deep boriftibs. would not only heat houses and public buildings, but would furnish power that could be utilized for many pur­ poses. r et reasonable rates anffll ron PARTICULARS. CH UKION. 93 south J el •Fu terms. Wnxa WO NKU St'AFK® >11 Strest.. UkljcAjBCk time. Tell her that it will save her strength, save her time, save her clothes. The merits of IX writing to Advert.tiers, plrass rioaaafe: to mention tills paper. Atlvertissa* J to know vrhat mediums pay thexu boST- - appeal at once to every thoughtful woman. It's the best, purest, and most economical soap to be procured. Sold everywhere. Made only by The N. K. Fairbanh Company, - Chicago. Best Cough Sji I . tQtlroe. S|i