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Refined Cruelty In France. The humanitarian lady who will not wear birds in her bonnet or eat flesh meat or permit down pillows to soften ner lot in life should turn her attention to a refined cruelty that is at the moment a vague in certain districts in 1' ranee. For the manufacture of a certain superfine cloth called zibeline rabbits are plucked alive, and the long fur thus obtained is woven into the aforesaid texture. A particular breed of rabbits is only suitable, and these hapleSs creatures are carefully tended after the plucking process until their fur grows again. The thing is inexcusably cruel, and no woman would surely encourage the sale or manufacture of such cloth if her heart, not to say sensibility, is in the right Post The Hotel Night Clerk.

Hotel Mail: It has always been a source of wonder among outsiders that the night clerk should not be one of the highest salaried officials of a hotel, instead of being, as he actually is, one of the worst paid. Certainly no day functionary, except the manager, has so much responsibility, and even the manager is less likely to be caught without adequate means to act. The night clerk is proprietor, manager and superintendent combined during the most critical hours of the twenty-four, and yet ranks in pay and preferment far below the room clerks. Inquiries of practical men have never elicited any satis factory explanion of this, the stock answer being that the night clerk is often regarded merely as a' watchman. The Keystone of the Arch In the edifice of health Is vigor, which means not merely muscular energy, but an active discharge of the various functions of tho body, such as digestion, secretion of the bile, the action ot the bowels, the circulation of the blood.

Nothing more actively and thoroughly contributes to the united performance of these functions than the renowned tonic and regulator, Hosteller's Slomach Bilters. The result of its use Is a speedy gain In strength, together with the agreeable consciousness that the tenure ot life is being one is laying up a store of vitality against the unavoidable draughts which old age makes upon the system. The fortifying influence of the Bitters constitute it a reliable safeguard against malaria, rheumatism and kidney trouble. Appetite and sleep improve through'its use, and It protects the system from the effects of cold and damp. Queer Ways of the Toad.

Paternal affection is not perhaps the precise emotion that we should be disposed to look for in the cold blooded frog. But the Surinam toad appears to exhibit this praisworthy attitude of mind toward its numerous progeny. When his mate lays her eggs, the solicitous father places them carefully upon her back, where in due time their presence causes an irritation that pro duces numerous small holes, into which the eggs forthwith drop. In these cells, which, from mutual pressure, get to be hexagonal, like honeycomb, the young frogs are finally hatched, and for a bit scramble about their mother's back, hiding in their nurseries when danger threatens. London News.

A Modern Invalid Has tastes medicinally, in keeping with other luxuries. A remedy must be pleasantly acceptable in form, purely wholesome in composition, truly beneficial in effect and entirely free from every Objectionable quality. If really ill he consults a physician; if constipated he uses the gentle family laxative Syrup of Figs. For wpry fault we see in others we have two of our own which we overlook. FAEM AND GARDEN.

MATTERS OF INTEREST AGRICULTURISTS. TO Some Up to Date liints About Cultivation of the Soil and Yields Horticulture, Viticulture and Floriculture. Broom Corn. Mr. W.

F. Williams of Kentucky writes asking information on the cultivation of broom corn. The Farmers' Review will give a few of the leading principles involved in the culture, but would like to hear from any of its readers engaged in this line. THE PLANT. The plant itself is a variety of sorghum and was formerly found only in Bast Indies.

There it is grown both for forage and the making of brooms, for which object it is the most useful. Its introduction into the United States is said to have been due to the restless investigations of Dr. Franklin. On an imported whisk broom he found a little seed and wanted to know" if it would grow. It did grow, and produced a plant.

He took the seed from that plant and planting them got more plants. That was the beginning. Now the raising of broom corn and making of brooms is an important branch of our economy. For a long time this crop was cultivated only in New England. Later it spread to the western states, where the soil seems well fitted for ifc.

The average yield is put at about 500 pounds per acre. riiEPAHATION OF SOIL. Soil is an important factor, and that soil best adapted to Indian corn will minate. Therefore a liberal supply 'ti seed should be used and after the plants.are\ip they should be thinned out; in the case of hill culture only five or six should be left to the hill. On the other hand care must be taken not to sow too many seeds, as the young plants will then be in danger of overcrowding and being stunted before being thinned out.

Some planters put from fifteen to twenty seeds in the hill, having them quite well separated even. then. The usual allowance of seed per acre is about two quarts. This is of course if the see is good. When much of it is obviously poor an increased amount will have to be used.

More seed is usually used in drill planting than in hill planting. The time for planting is about the same as Indian corn, sometimes a little later, at least not till the soil is warm and dry. Machine planting is quite generally resorted to, though some even now plant by hand. If the area is small there may be little objection to this method. Cover seed to depth of one inch, unless the soil is unusually light and dry, in which case it should be planted deeper.

Put in the seed as soon as the ground is ready, that the moisture in the newly turned soil may hasten germination. It is claimed that thick planting produces the finest and toughest brush. Cultivators also express a preference for old soil that has been a long time in broom corn crops. CULTIVATION. Cultivate at first as soon as the plants are This will loosen the soil and check the growth of weeds.

Frequent cultivation at this time is advocated, as the stirring helps accelerate the growth of the plants, and sets back the weeds. The latter must not get the upper hand even for a lit What Not to Do, Don't expect snow and liens to lay In same house at the same time, if you do biddy will leave the race. As egijs ure a big per cent water, surely the len must get it, if you get many eggs. This is a point that many people for- jet in cold weather. Don't expect the ions to lay without material with which to build the eggs.

As she can't jet bugs and worms, she must have a little raw meat two or three times a week. Don't expect the liee to freeze out in winter, unless you are willing biddy should go the same trip. So use the dust bath or insect powder. As to temperature, just above freezing is the best for a chicken house. Then throw in plenty of straw for the hens to scratch in.

Don't make your house without any ventilators. Fowls need fresh air as well as we do. True, most of them get too much ventilation in the beak and comb. Just a small hole or two will do. Never let the cold, especially wet, wind, hit your birds at night, if you do, roup will hit them next.

I have used about all the remedies for roup and colds, more than twenty in all, but the best thing of all I expected to put up and sell. I will give the receipe free. It is simply skunk oil. Skin a fat skunk; throw it into your hen house; throw in corn at the same time, and see which they will eat first. If they are so bad oil they will not eat, force a little down them.

Id such cases I put a little coal oil with it and grease their heads, I will guarantee a cure nine times out of ten, if the bird is able to eat at all. Three or four doses will fetch them out all right. This has been my remedy for three years. "Oh, yes!" I hear some one say, "who would like to handle the dirty thing?" Friends, we can't always do as Do You Wish the Finest Bread and Cake? It is conceded that the Royal Baking Powder is the purest and strongest of all the baking powders. The purest baking powder makes the finest, sweetest, most delicious food.

The strongest baking powder makes the lightest food. That baking powder which is both purest and strongest makes the most digestible and wholesome food. Why should not every housekeeper avail herself of the baking powder which will give her the best food with the least trouble Avoid all baking powders sold with, a gift or prize, or at a lower price than the Royal, as they invariably contain alum, lime or sulphuric acid, and render the food unwholesome. Certain protection from alum baking powders can. be had by declining to accept any substitute for the Royal, which is absolutely pure.

Paper plates are restaurants. used in some German THE ONWARD flARCH of Consumption is stopped short by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. If yon haven't waited beyond reason, there's complete recovery and cure. Although by many believed to be incurable, there is the evidence of hundreds of living witnesses to the fact that, in all its earlier stages, consumption is a curable disease.

Not every case, but a large per. centage of cases, and we believe, fully 98 per are cured by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, even after the disease has progressed so far as to induce repeated bleedings from the lungs, severe lingering cough with copious expectoration (including tubercular matter), great loss of flesh and extreme emaciation and weakness. Do you doubt that hundreds of such cases reported to us as cured by Goldeti Medical Discovery were genuine cases of that dread and fatal disease You need not take our word for it. They have, in nearly every instance, been so pronounced by the best and most experienced home physicians, who have no interest whatever in misrepresenting them, and who were often strongly prejudiced and advised against a trial of "Golden Medical Discovery," but who liave been forced to confess that it surpasses, in curative power over this fatal malady, all other medicines with which they are acquainted.

Nasty cod- liver oil and its filthy "emulsions" and mixtures, had been tried in nearly all these cases and had either utterly failed to bene fit, or had only seemed to benefit a little for a short time. Extract of malt, whiskey, and various preparations of the liypophos- phiteshad also been faithfully tiled in vain. The photographs of a large number of those cured of consumption, bronchitis. lingering coughs, asthma, chronic nasal catarrh and kindred maladies, have been skillfully reproduced in a book of 160 pages which will be mailed to you, on receipt of address and six cents in stamps. You can then write those cured and learn their experience.

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be found most suitable for broom corn. It should be well drained and mellow, and not so wet as to subject it to early frosts in the fall or late frosts in the spring. Wet, soggy lands will not do. Even if the upper soil is right the subsoil may be so hard and retentive of water that it will need draining to do the work needed of it. Low lands along- rivers are well adapted for the crop, provided they slope enough to allow of good drainage.

Some of these lands with a gravel subsoil have a natural drainage. But we do not wish to indicate that the crop is very particular as to the kind of soil allotted to it. It will, generally speaking, grow on land where Indian corn will grow. MANURING. It goes without saying that on most lands this crop should be manured.

Best results can not be obtained without giving the plant all the food it can utilize. The most available manure is that raised on the farm, and when a farmer runs short of this kind of fertilizer he should endeavor to keep more stock, if only to give him a cheap fertilizer. The manures made iu the barn yard, pigsty and sheep pen should be well rotted, and if possible the weed seeds should be absent, for of course the land needs to be kept free from weeds for this as well as other crops. Some use commercial fertilizers, such as guano, while ashes, plaster and lime are applied in some cases where the land is deficient in calcareous matter. But it should be remembered that lime and plaster are not mamires in themselves, and are only to be used in certain cases.

Manure is generally applied sometimes an additional amount is put in the hills or drills. PLANTING. Two methods of cultivating are in vogue, in hills and drills. Probably neither has mnch advantage over the other. Those that advocate hills say it is easier to keep the fields clean, as the cultivator can be run both ways.

The rows are usually from three and one half to four feet apart, and when the planting is in hills, they are two and one half or three feet apart, but this depends much on the variety grown. This question can not be settled by any invariable rule, everything depending on the richness of the soil, moisture and consequent luxuriance of growth. The richer the ground the fui'lber apart should be the rows or hills. Care must be taken to get good seed, as immature seed will give but poor results, even if it grows at all. Even with good seed many will fail to ger- tle season.

The plants should be allowed to get a growth of four or five inches before being thinned. In drill culture the stalks should be left three or four inches apart. The work of thinning is very hard, but is a work that gives good results. It should never be planted near sorgrlmm or Chinese sugar cane, if the seed is to bo preserved, as the varieties will mix. HARVESTING.

Time of harvesting will depend on the or seed. Of course, if seed is desired, harvest must be delayed till the seed has matured. Otherwise the work may begin as soon as the blossoms begin to fall. The quality of the brush is better at this period than Its color will be greenish, and the fiber will be tough. Harvest should always be before frost comes.

OUKING. When only small quantities are grown, broom corn may be cured in barns or shed lofts, where it is spread out thinly, not exposed to rain or moisture. Where large quantities are produced special buildings are necessary, where the crop may be spread out thin on numerous racks. The racks should be from eight to ten inches apart, so as to allow a free circulation of air. VALUE OF is called "peat" in Europe, and in America, is the result of an imperfect decomposition of vegetable matter, such as marsh- plants, leaves, sticks, roots, have been most of the time with stagnant water.

Here at the north we find such mucky deposits quite common. Often they cover large areas, miles in extent. I have always looked upon a muck swamp as a valuable adjunct to a farm, and I feel that it is not always appreciated according to its merits. In most cases there is a way to let off the surface water. If ditching has to be done, there are always days during fall or winter for such work, when other work is not pressing; and even if it involves considerable expense, it will pay in more than one way.

I like to work mucky soils after they have been thoroughly reclaimed. It is satisfactory soil to work, and well suited to many of our most profitable garden crops, especially onions and celery, and often early potatoes. Indeed, it is fun to work such loose soil which offers so little resistance to tools or fingers. Vegetables always grow smooth, regular and clean in muck land, as their growth finds no mechanical impediment. Indianapolis Journal: ''What would you think." asked the inquisitive young person, "what would you think if Bob Ingersoll were to get religion and die- converted?" would I 1 echoed Dea- 1 con Podberry, with much warmth.

"I Bryant's birthday was would think it was a darn swindle, that's what I'd think!" A I.c'sson From Holmes' Life. i This habit of always doing his best is surely one of the fine lessons of his life, i has given his prose a perfection which will carry it far down the shores of time. The letter sent during the! ast summer of his life to be read at the celebration of model of simplicity in the expression of feeling. It was brief, and at another time would have been written and revised in half a day: but in his enfeebled condition it was with the utmost difficulty that he could satisfy himself. He worked at it patiently day after, day, until his labor became a pain; nevertheless, he continued, iind won what he applause of men practiced in his art who were there to listen and Annie Fields in the Century for Fob-j ruary.

An Old Lawsuit. Coe'H Coilgll Haiaaiii Is the oldest and best. It will break 'old er than anything else. It Is always relluiiK Try it. Cultivation to the mind as food to the body.

is as necessary The man gains nothing who loses his. character and saves his money. "Hanson's Magfic Corn Salve." "Warranted to cure or money refuiuleil, year druggist for it. Price Iii Every production of genius must be the. production of enthusiasm.

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A. inu Mine. Wagner has just won one of cme Vf, Pimvm the oddest of lawsuits. At Baircuth last a piece of pleasantry on the anniversary of the birth of her son Siegfried, she composed some verses and I tied them to the necks of her five pet dogs. These verses got into the possession of a Baireuth newspaper, and they were published, provoking much amusement, particularly when the lines were printed in the French newspapers.

Mme. Wagner's only remedy was to sue for breach of copyright The courts assessed the damages at $0. II the Baby is Cutting TeotU. 3e sure and use that old and well-tried remedy, MHS. WINSLOW'S Svuup for Children Teethine- Neces-'sity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength.

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For my part, I prefer it to the cholera or the roup. Any trapper can tell yon how to manage that part so one would not know you had handled an animal more odoriferous than a rabbit. Skunks have faverl me more birds than they have so 1 am a little lenient on them. Also this 1 give you without charge, so don't charge me, for it has veil me several 85 birds, and 1 praise the boat that carries Jrae to C. Hunt in Farme.is' Review.

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Apply to or address, H. C. AKIX, I S. 12th Ouiahu, ttie bigger If we know how to aim, game the better the mark. is money in this very popular and quick selling vegetable.

The wholesale price on early shipments runs as high as -0 cents per pound on the Chicago markets, but even taking 5 cents per pound as an average, 1 know of nothing that will turn more clean cash net, per acre. Tomatoes at even 1 cent per pound beats wheat at $3. Tomato seed may be sown in hot beds at once and grown in heat until the second leaf appears. Then transplant same into cold frames 2x3 inches apart, and hold in good stock condition till the time for outside planting arrives, takiug care not to over-water, and giving all the air and light possible. When the tiuie for transplanting arrives, set them so as to admit of horse cultivation both ways, which will save all hand hoeing and other needless expense.

They should be given good cultivation while growing. Packing for boxes for packing should be light, neat and attractive. Nothing but first class stock should be packed. By dealing honestly and furnishing fine stock only, you will stimulate a demand for your goods, for when a buyer can depend upon a grower, his goods will always find a ready market. I would recommend as a few of the best varieties the following first class sorts: Buckeye State, Atlantic Prize, Buckbee's Tree, Favorite, Beauty and Dwarf W.

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No farmer need expect to succeed without putting most of his time on his farm. All successful business men work nearly every day in the year. No man should hang to one crop because it is a "lazy man's crop." Apples will pay one year, onions the next, and so on, but all things do not have a margin of profit every year. is made from the best leaf, in the best way, and by the best why IT'S MUCH THE BEST. Sold everywhere.

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