AGRICULTURili NEWS tlvatlon have been made at the Michigan and Utah stations,, with" very dif ferent results. In forty-five trials at thie Michigan station the yield of mar ketable tuber? was in forty cases in favor of deep culture, while in Utah shallow culture gave a greater yield than deep. Results §re so conflicting that no conclusions catf as yet be drawn. Highest Of ali LvLeavenitt^ tower.--Latest U. S. Gov't Report THINGS .PERTAINING TO THE FARM AND HOME. OHIO LYNCHERS MEET WITH DEADLY BULLETS. acYvea^wess \\w=> -> v^AtvtVj wtvrvv&Wed Powder Care 8hould Be Taken in the Selection of Seed Corn--White Clover Fed to Cows Greatly Increases the Yield of Milk and Butter. Rioters Break Into the Jail «t Tiffin and Two Are Shot Down by Guards-- The Offensive Prisoner Had Mur dered a Marshal. THE RISING SUN STOVE ROLtEH io I j - - ' c a l c e s f o r g e n e r a l A •> blacking of a utbve. THE SUN PASTB i POLISH for a quick laBORs*!n# after-dinner shine, THE applied and pol- ished with a cloth. Bona Bros., Props., Canton, Mass.. U-H- Aa. The Good and Bad of Inbreeding. Inbreeding is the only possible wa£ of fixing a strong, prepotent type, capa ble of reproducing itself every time. If properly done, says the New York W orld, it will not have a tendency to Regenerate any liue of blood, but it is essential for the breeder to understand the strong and weak points of his ani mals and to be particular never to breed *weakness to weakness. In fact, weak ness should never be bred at all. All such animals should be sent to the butcher, no matter how promising the pedigree. {Whlle mediocrity bred to strength will give fair returns, yet the best only are obtained by breeding health and strength to health and strength. These are the first consid erations, but next to them I value in breeding, because of its concentration of the blood, and, if carefully prac ticed, there will be no decay or de generacy.;' , • ' • " . Gathering Seed Corn. I am satisfied, from several years' ex perience, that the best seed corn is that grown upon the farm when proper pains are taken in its selection. Of all the general crops grown upon the farm, there are few, if any, that show or feel the effects of a change in the conditions of growth more readily than corn. It is often the case that when a /new variety is brought on the farm one year's test is not sufficient to determine its value, largely on account that the change in conditions in growth is so great that the effect is felt, and in a majority of cases the longer a va riety is grown on the farm, provided good care is taken in the selection of the seed, the better the variety will be adapted to that particular farm. Neg lect or carelessness in selecting will soon show in the deterioration of the crop, _ t But to get the best and have it in the- best condition, care must be taken, to select in good season. The best plan I have ever seen tried is to go through the field as soon as the. grains have be gun to harden well Just before com mencing to cut for fodder is a good time, and then select the best ears from the most perfect stalks, leave the husks on and spread out where it can dry thoroughly; then it can be shocked and stored away in a dry place. When this cannot be done convehiently, another way is to select the seed corn when the shucking out is being done. The dis advantage with tbis is that there is not as good an opportunity for deter mining what the stalk was. I find that an important item in saving the seed corn is to dry well before storing away, and to keen dry all through the winter. Another item is to select and store away before the corn has been frozen In the field. This is necessary if the vitality is maintained, and good seed Is an important item in growing a good crop.--Nebraska Farmer. White Clover for Cows. One of the most valuable plants for pasture when sown with other kinds is white clover. Its nutritive qualities are considerably better than those of red clover, and it is a hardy, persistent plant. It will grow under the shade of the stronger grass and clover, making a dense bottom that, while it is not available for hay, yet affords a large ad dition to the feed for pasturing ani mals. It is beyond reproach for cows and sheep, but for horses has the effect in late summer of salivating them pro fusely, so much so as to make them quite thin. It has the same effect upon mules, and these animals should, there fore, be kept out of the fields in which it grows to any extent. It will be a useful occupation for a spare hour or two to scatter a pound of this seed over the pasture, especially where the grass is thin.1 It will show next season, and once having posses sion of the ground, it will keep it for several years. It is the best of all honey-producing plants known, and having a long blooming season; the bees make more honey from it than any other source. Its effect upon the yield of milk and butter of the cows is so ap parent as to draw from the butter- n'laker the remark: "The cows are get ting the white clover now." And this is always the case when, at this time, the cows are turned into the newly- mown meadows where this plant is abundant. Granular Butter. It is just at this granular stage of the work of making butter that, the im portant preliminary process, and, there fore, the skill and the judgment, of the operator are first tested and shown. First-class butter is not made, and can not be made, unless the granulation in the churn is of the right standard, and this standard condition cannot be brought out in perfection unless all the preliminary processes have been right ly conducted, and the proper condition secured at every stage of progress. De fects-here cannot be corrected in any subsequent process. While, then, it may "require no great skill to make granular butter," regardless of quality, yet a perfect granulation is only secur ed by the application of the highest, knowledge known to the business. So long as this is the case, it seems a proper thing to do to invite butter mak ers to compare their skill at securing re sults at this way station of their pro gress. as well as on the finished pro duct. With a competent maker for a judge, exhibitors will find that seeuriug the highest award will not be a "very easy" thing to do.--Maine Farmer. Killing a Bird. To one who reads the signs of the times it is apparent that a broader sympathy is taking possession of men's minds; a feeling of kinship with every living creature; a conception that even the lowest animal has a right to life and tb its place in the universe. That relic of barbarism known as the "hunter's instinct," which means noth ing more than a savage's desire to kill something, is no longer held up to the childish mind as a trait to be ad mired and copied. The effect of this nobler teaching is illustrated by an incident which occurred in a suburban town near Boston. ?- A ten-year-old boy of Newlonvlile was given a toy gun by his fat Inn-, who laughingly promised him a dollar for every crow he would shoot. Highly"elated with his gun, and san guine- of earning a small fortune by shooting crows, the young sportsman" spent; the greater part of two days in a field watching for the black birds. Not a crow came near him, greafly to his disappointment, and he reported his ill-success to his father, who said, to Comfort him: "Well, never mind the cfows. I'll' give you half a dollar for any kind of a bird you can shoot." Early-the next morning the Iwy, gun in hand, took up his position in the back yard to watch for sparrows. A half dozen or more unwary birds foon ap peared to pick up the crumbs \thieh he had thrown out to lure them within the reach of a shot. At a movement on his part the sparrows rose, and the boy fired. One of the birds was hit and fell to the ground, wlrore it lay for a minute fluttering its wings and then became motionless. The boy went forward, picked it up and looked at it. The poor little head hung limp---the shot had broken the sparrow's neck. For a mo ment the boy stood contemplating the dead creature in his hand; then he turned and tied to the house. "Oh, I've killed it! I've killed it, mamma!" lie cried, in a shocked tone. "It can't fly any more!" tnd all that day his lament was. "Oh, I wish I hadn't done it! 1 wish I hadn't done it!" His father, who had not supposed the boy in any danger of hitting a bird, tried to solace him with the half dollar and suggestions of what could be bought with it. "No, papa,!' was his sorrowful an swer, "I don't want it. 1 wish it could make the sparrow alive again. I never thought it would be like that to kill a bird!" . "And." said his father, in concluding the story, "I was more pleased at the tender feeling my boy displayed than I should have been had he become the best shot in the State."--Youth's Com panion. I Trips Undertaken for Health's Sake t Will bo rendered more beneficial, and the I fatigues of travel counteracted, If the voy ager will take along with him Hostetter's Stomach Hitters, and use that protective and enabling tonic, nerve invigorant and appetizer regularly. Impurities in air and which are neutralized by it, and it is a match less tranquillizer and regulator'of the stom ach, liver and bowels. It counteracts ma laria, rheumatism, and a tendency to kid ney and bladder ailments. * A Chicago Opera House. "The Merry World" returns to Chi cago for one week, beginning Sunday next. Oct. 27, at the Chicago Opera House. The present individual comple ment of the organization is practically the same as when last seen here. The trav esty of "Trilby" contains the piece de resistance, while those on Mine. Sans Gene, "Wang." "Robin Hood," "Devil's Deputy," "Dr. Syntax," and other lead ing successes are not much less in popu larity. Amelia Summerville is yet cast for the roles of Trilby and Sans Gene, Frank Blaire is the Taffy and de Neip- berg, Louis Mann the Svengali, Willard Simms is de Febre. The Laird and Fouche are still in the hands of David Warfield. who has since added a new bit in his characterization in the composite comic opera. Marie Laurens as Made leine and May Howard as Robin Hood remain as features in the comic operas. In addition to the above are Janette Bargeard, the clever Little BilJee and Vaseline. Lee Harrison as Napoleon, and Joeks, Wallace Black, W. A. McCormiek, Randolph Curry, Hattie Moore, John Keefe, and seventy-five others. 8100 Reward, 8100. The reader of tills paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to ctire in all Its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis ease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, acting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the dis ease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing Its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send tor list of testimonials. Adilress, F. .T. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. CS^Sold by Druggists, 75c. Looking Glass in a Coflin. One of the ancient customs connect ed with Swedish funerals was to place a small looking-glass in the coffin of an ' unmarried female, so that when the last trumpet sounds she might be able to arrange her tresses. It was the prac- ice for Scandinavian maidens to wear heir hair flowing loosely, while the "matrons wore it bound about the head and generally covered with some form of cap. Hence the unmarried woman was imagined as awakening at the judgment day with more untidy locks than her wedded sisters and more in need of a glass. It is well to get clear of a Cold the first week, but it is much better and safer to rid yourself of it the first forty-eight hours--the proper remedy for the pur pose being Dr. D. Jayne'g Expectorant The destruction of life in modern warfare is something frightful. In the Franco-Prussian war from August 4, 1S70, to August IS, 100,000 Germans and French were killed outright, to say nothing of the many thousands more who afterwards died in the hospitals from.their wounds. Whatever may be the-cause of blanch ing, the hair may be restored to its origi nal color hi' the use of that potent remedy Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer. In the war of the revolution Massa chusetts furnished more troops to the army than any other State.- x A Night on the Way. We knQW of many business men who have traveled between Chicago and St Paul over fifty times within the past five years and have never seen an inch of the track between Milwaukee, La Crosse, and Winona, yet notwithstanding, they will assert, that the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul is the best and most attrac tive railway between the great lakes and the twin cities (St. Paul and Minneap olis). They know nothing, beyond hear say, of the beautiful scenery through the lake region of Wisconsin or along the Upper Mississippi River, which a day light ride over this great railway affords;, but they back their judgment on their experience with the njght train service, which enables them to start from one terminal in the evening and arrive, at the other terminal in ,the morning. The trav eler knows instinctively- that the track is perfect, because there is no apprecia ble jolt or jar. He knows that there is not in Europe or America a more com plete and satisfactory train . thun the- electric-lighted; stean^-heated, vestibule limited, with its berth reading lamps and other magnificent appointments. The dining car service is superb. Supper is served on the train leaving Chicago each evening, breakfast on the train arriving ,at Chicago each morning. Is it any wonder that business men and tourists prefer this--the best--route be tween Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Minneapolis? Ticket office, 95 Adams street, Chicago, 111. I had that distressing disease, catarrh of the stomach. • It proved most troublesome in the summer, and was accompanied by • that tired feeling.' I took Hood's Sarsaparilla and have not had a single attack of my old complaint even during the extreme hot weather. My general health is also much better.", Miss MINNIE A. BEERS, Concord, Nebraska. $1; six lor $5. Mr. W. C. Lewis, who is con nected with the artistic advertising department of the Youth's Com panion. and resides at 33 Dwight street, Boston, relates that he had his~attention called to Ripans Tabules by a business acquaintance who expressed a high "opinion t>f ; them. Mr. Lewis was a good deal troubled with what he describ&fas .• a nervous, biliotis condition that appeared to be Jjsojaght On f ront . | time to time by high pressure work or special mental activity, or. excitement, such as would be .. . common at periods Of .unusual . nervous tension. It has become hto practice at such times to take a Tabule--just one--at the moment that he observes the difficulty "^approaching. It makes no difference when it is. A favorable result is Invariably apparent within twenty minutes. The only noticeable 6. effect is that he feels all right in ? twenty minutes if lie takes the Tabule; while if he does not the , nervous, uncomfortable feeling intensifies and leads to a bad afternoon and tired evening. He carries one of the little vials with him all the time now, but doesn't have occasion to apply to it any thing like as often as he did at first Nowadays there are frequent periods of from a week to ten days or even two weeks during which he finds that he has no occasion .* whatever to make use of the Tabules, but Still carries them In hla pocket, just the same, so that they ' may be ready if an occasion occurs. Ripans rstralpe «tp sold hy druggists, orby mall If So prim '60 cents a box) Is sent to The Hi pans Clioinl- al Comjrui.v, No. 10 Spruce Street, Hew York. Sample act harmoniously with. Hood's Sarsaparilla, 25c. Shoprnans'sCIever Reply. An English lady is t.ofil of, in the Spectator, who complained to a shop keeper that, in sending parcels to her, he would address her as "The Honor able." "Don't mention it, ma'am. It doesn't signify at. all." "But it does signify. My -parcels may go to the wrong person. I. am not 'Honorable!"" "We* madani, •have always found you A Point in Priming. Never prune to a crotch ijke that tree. Thus pruned, trees are very lia ble to split down with a heavy load or in a high wind, or under stress of both combined, and the time to shape the tree so as not to leave a crotch is be fore or when they leave the nursery. I have, perhaps,, fifty trees thus wrongly pruned, because I did not, twenty years ago, so fully understand and feel the uecessity of avoiding a crotch from the first, says W. I. Cham berlain in the Ohio Farmer. - Trees often come from the nursery that divide into two and sometimes three almost exactly equal branches, about four feet from the ground and at a pretty sharp angle. You dislike to remove either of the limbs. Still, it should be done, or you will have, as I now have, many large trees dividing in a crotch of two or three nearly equal limbs; well-shap ed and symmetrical trees, but alnlost sure to split down unless they are bolt ed, and the latter injures the trees. A Remarkable Offer. The publishers of the Youth's Com panion have just made a remarkable offer to the readers of this paper. New sub scribers who will send at once their name and address and $1.75, will receive free a handsome four-page calendar, 7x 1-0 inches, lithographed in nine "colors, re tail price 50 cents, the Youth's Compan ion free every week to .Tan. L 1806, the Thanksgiving,Christmas and New Year's double 'numbers free, and the Youth's "Companion fifty-two weeks, a full year, to Jan. 1, 1SS)7. Address the Youth's 'Companion, 199 'Columbus avenue, Bos ton, Easy. Some questions are not half so hard as they sound. "Doctor, I have an important physio logical question to ask you. When I stand on my head the blood rushes into my head. Now, when 1 stand on my feet why doesn't it rush into my feet?" "Because your feet are not hollow."-- New York World. A Child Enjoys The pleasant flavor, gentle action and soothing effects of Syrup of Figs, when in need of S. laxative, and if the father or mother be costive or bilious, the most gratifying results follow Its use; so that It is the best family remedy known, and every family should have a bottle on hand. As it is characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so it is at small wits to talk much and say noth ing. • Piso'S! Remedy for Catarrh is not t liquid or a snuff. It quickly relieves Cchl in the Head, Headache, etc., and reairy cures Catarrh. 50e. -- Virginia is not so wealthy as before the war, at least in the estimate of the first families, but still has a valuation of $318,331,441. Don't anoint the cuticle, but use Glenn's Sulphur Soap for eruptive disorders. "Hill's Hair and Whisker Dye," Black or Brown. 50c. Trifles make perfection; tint perfec tion itself is no trifle. FITS.--All Fits stopped free by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve llestoi er. No Fits after first day's use. Mar velous cures. Treatise and $2.00 trial battle free to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St., PliilajsfisT Mrs. tvinslow's Soothing syrup for Children teething; sottens the turns, reduces inflammation, allays pain, euros wind coiic. 2S cents a bottle. Mrs. liurnett's Frivolity. "I was a great admirer of Mrs. Fran ces Hodgson Burnett," says a Chicago woman. "I had read all her books and was actually crazy to meet her; so while I was in Boston I was offered the op portunity I long had sought I think 1 was the most disappointed person in all the world. .Mrs. Burnett impressed me as being wholly absorbed with society; she was overdressed, and it was clear to me that she used cosmetics freely. During the half hour I spent with her she talked only of herself and of the little society frivolities of which she seemed to be completely enamored."-- .Chicago Record. World's Fair I HIGHEST AWARD. •(arRANUMi Prescribed by Physicians! Relied on in Hospitals! Depended on by Nurses; Endorsed by! HE-PRESS iiheBEST prepared FOOD TOiy So Women liave the Bines more than Men 2 TBrKCIAl. TO Ot'tt LADY HEADERS.] Are not women naturally as light- hearted, brave, and hopeful as men ? Yes ; 'but woman's Organism , is dif ferent^ i^an's. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ When the woman does not understand what the matter is, and her doctor can not or will not tell her, she grows morose «nd melancholy; that's the blues. Mrs. Newton Cobb, of Manchester, 0.„ •Bays: " Lydia E. Pinkharri's Vegetable •Compound will correct all this trouble. I cannot praise it enough. I am pleased to tell every one that it cured me; and if it will cure me, why not others ? I am ®.ure my case was severe enough." It wilL <G.et it of your druggist at once. The Greatest Medical Discovery of the Age. Sold by DRUQQISTS EVERYWHERE! John Carle & Sons, New York. "see RHEUMATISM • Use I All tf yoa want to feel It con- • once ST, JACOBS OIL wa healine 111 Apple Tree Borers. . <, The apple tree borer attacks the tree near the ground. The insect may be punched out with a wire in the same manner as the peach borer. If the rou^li bark is scraped off and the tree washed with some preparation like lye or whitewash, the eggs of the moth, which produce the worm, will be de stroyed. Manure for Frnits. A food mixture approved by fruit growers is (WO pounds kainit, 800 pounds acid phosphate or dissolved bone and 200 pounds nitrate of soda. After being thoroughly mixed, this is broadcasted .in the fall for orchards and vineyards. For small fruits it is used, one-tliird as top dressing late in the fall, one-third very early in the spring, and one-third in the drill before planting. Precautions Asrainst Smut. * The spores of smut will live a long time in the ground, or in manure, and every care should be taken to destroy thein. Cut out every diseased stalk before it has time to ripen and resow itself. One preventive is to select the seed before husking time; taken from the crib, it will very likely have come in contact with infected corn. KENNEDY'S MEDICAL DISCOVERY. EAST, WEST, HOME IS BEST, IF KEPT CLEAN " WITH UUIUU.U IVI.Hni.Ulf UJ UUAUUIl 11 IDHOO., 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 of 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 whei\ 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 tabiespoonful.in water at bed time. Sold by all Druggists. The Treasury shows an available cash balance of $182,183,698 and a gold re serve of $93,291,087. Yancey Lewis, of Ardmore, I. T., is ap pointed United States Judge of the Cen tral District of the Territory, to succeed Judge Stuart. In the presence of a gathering, that filled the edifice Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage was installed as co-pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. It is expected that appointments will be made soon to fill the vacant positions of solicitor of the Treasury and United States Judge in Alaska. The State Department has received from Ambassador Patenotre, of France, the invitation of the French republic to take part in the French exppsitioif of 1900, which is to usher in the twentieth century. The Postoffice Department has com piled the receipts of the thirty' leading cities of,the United States for the third quarter of the year 1895. The receipts were $7,400,449, against $0,733,719 for the same quarter in 1894, an increase of 9.9 per cent. Attorney General Harmon made his initial appearance in his official capacity before the United.'States Supreme Court Wednesday, making the opening argu ment in the Greer County case, involving the question of the boundary line between the State of Texas and the territory of Oklahoma. The Detroit Dry Dock Company, which the Naval Bureau chiefs recommended be awarded the contract for building two of the six new gunboats, now wishes to withdraw that part of its proposition, which looked to the assembling of the parts for the ships at Seattle on the Pa cific coast. Shipping Celery. In shipping celery there is no advan tage in leaving earth on the roots; shake it off and pack in boxes of moderate size, so that the roots shall not be more than two or three tiers deep, otherwise there is danger of heating in warm weather. Let the cover have open spaces between the boards for ventila tion in warm weather, but when there is danger of severe frost it may be cov ered tightly. Tests of Potatoes. In a large number of experiments at twelve different stations comparisons have-been made of methods of cultivat ing potatoes. Seasons vary so much that the results of different methods are continually contradicting each other. Ong season potatoes mulched will yield tw'O or three times as much as those grown in the ordinary way. and the next year the results \fill be al most the opposite. In trials where direct comparisons were made, results from Alabama, Kansas and Utahgfavor flat, while In diana favors ridge cultivation. Mary- laud, New York and Ohio report prac tically no difference in yield between flat > and ridge culture. Vermont re ports that in oue season's trial mulch ing when four inches high gave better results than ridging. Results obtained at the stations in Colorado,^Indiana, Michigan and New York are against mulching. The general pendency seems to be toward thorough preparation of soil and level culture. » . V v. v' Companions of deep and shallow cnl- SAPOLIO Feeding Purslane. The best way of getting rid of "purs- ley," or purslane, is to feed it to the pigs. It is difficult to destroy, and re sists heat and dry air for a while, even when the roots are turned up. When used as food for pigs, and some one employed to provide it, the crop of purs- ley soon begins to run short, like any other desirable food. Cabbage Unharmed by Freezing. Cabbages are Unharmed by freezing if of hardy varieties, but Early Win- negstadt. a tender sort, is nearly spoil ed by freezing. While burying cab bage top down , may have its advan tages, mine are set in a cellar bottom on their roots, and keep well into spring. Pure-Bred Stock. The nearer you can get to full blood iu breeding, no mattgr what purpose you have in view, the more certain you are of securing good results. If you doubt this, keep an,eye on the most suc cessful stock farmers of your acquaint ance.. You know this is true, and, in finding successful stockmen, always turn to breeders of high-grade "and p.ure-bred stock. We have discarded the agency plan and now sell di rect to consumers at wholesale prices. Let no agent fool you about this. The most pleuant 7-drawer SEW1NO .MACHINE In bent oak you ever saw Is now only S22.6«». We doubt the statement that coun try folks don't want the best, when they can set It cheap enough. The lady of the farm seldom has a chance to gqt the beautiful things at a bargain, that's all. But If money Is scarce we have plain machines, too. and they are very cheap. Write for our handsome pictures, with descrlpUon, and do It now. This otfer won't come again. Address ECONOMY MFC. CO., 154 LAKE STREET. CHICAGO, ILL. This Great Soap mates home, home indeed. Keeps everything clean. Keeps the housewife and everybody, 1 happy. Try it. Sold everywhere Made only by | THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chio^«. ! --»fta0«a«B0ftg0aa»aaf if if •ainfitl