The Banner-Democrat from Lake Providence, Louisiana • Page 4

First Th Ltmadal wa advrtised saatrueblood at. ler, the most wonderful cures on record ar gd made and the gratenst ss are won by Hood's a Sarsaparilla pen Hsood's Pis cure all liver ills, biliousness a to FASHION NOTES. cas The newest calling glove is of cream tha color, with narrow black stitching. th. Dress bonnets are made of tulle and on lace, but are larger than those worn ead last season.

def Black and white dress bonnets, with mock jewels among the trimming, are tha especial favorites at present. the All sleeves which do not terminate nox near the elbow are cut long enough to the fall over the hand in points or with a ent flaring cuff. as Many of the expensive imported h(1 skirts are deeply plated in shell shaped abc festoons with a row of lace at the edge anof each plaiting. thpn Old-fashioned silk handkerchiefs, of with plain centers and palm-leaf bor- ders, are worn as vests with cloth v'o and pique gowns. the Flowered liberty silks are made up her into blouse waists to wear with odd sth skirts, and are especially adapted for his )vening costumes.

dot Leghorn hats ar) crinkled and bent ena into fantastic shapes and decorated is with plaited chiffon frills, Venetian lla.e and roses that shaode from deepest acque red to faintest pink. go Newest satin and brocaded taffeta ai silk petticoats are made with founced re, lace-edged borders, four or five in ht: her or one-half a yard deep, above in three tiny ptnked ones. be Fichus of all kinds are made in silk re and cotton muslin, which must be of the finest texture, with no suspicion of ar starch or stiffening of any kind. Many ca of them are worked over with inaissance lace and bordered with a deep in trill. Grass linen lawn is being honored as hm seldom falls to simple stuffs.

re- ju cent waists show elaborate embroid- ri ery in colored silks and tinsel braids. They are made over silk foundations er and have belts and collars of satin rib- pn bon. The newest hose are of the finest es lisle thread openwork, having a wavy I effect, and worked with vertical lines of silk in a pretty shade. Gold, pink and lilac are the best liked on black so hose. Spun silk come In any color, and are fine as a spider's web.

td The deep old-fashioned rose color, as shot with white, is the height of fash. ion, and is used for the foundation of i bodices covered with arabesque em- broidery, in which black velvet is ap- pliqued and worked round with gold l' and mock jewels and chints floral Scolorings. ti A SUCCESSFUL WOMAN ARCHITECT. Miss Elise Mercur selected the profes- sion of architecture as soon as she 'J fouid it necessary for her to join the army of self-supporting women. Her early training was all in her favor.

She had been carefully educated in turope, was a fine mathematician and a student of languages. As a special I preparation for her work she studied for three years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, giving most of her time to thorough work in mathematics and design. Her careful drilling in the practical side of her profesalon she attributes to Thomas Boyd, aIt prominent architect of Pittsburg, with I whome she has been associated more or less for six years. Mise Mercur is at present Independ- 4 ently established In an office of her own in the Westinghouse Building, in Pittabunrg, Pa. She is an excellent busi- ness woman, prompt, keen, with a cool head and a warm heart.

She begins work at her obice at eight o'clock in the morning, sharp, and teldom gets away before six in the evenallg. She is fond I of society, and popular, as a successful, pretty woman should be; yet she never permits her social life to encroach upon a her business hours. Miss Mercur's first large work was the Woman's Building at the Atlanta Expositios. The success of this struc- I ture lis too well known to need special anention. It has made Miss Mercur's name a familiar one to all readers, and established her reputation as a practicql architect.

She has been especlally successful Inglesigning private houses and school buildings. Last summer she designed and superintended the erection of a college building at Beaver, and is now filling an order for a colonial residence in the same town. She is very enthusiastic about the work of superintending the con struction of her buildings. "I find," she says, "that as soon as men see that you really understand your busilnebs and know more than they do, and especially if you have proved yourself equal to climbing a ladtier, they will obey with all the cheerfulness and readiness you can ask, and respect you in the bargain." xY SISTERS. "I to youe what Lydia Pbdkham's tble Compound has done for me.

For twenty year I had sufered with of appetite, nausea, constipation, palpi tation of thi heart, head- ache and pains in nearly all parts of my body. My physian said it was only indigestion, but his medicine did not help me any. I began the useof the Remedies, LydE E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. I hare taken four bottles, and now those troubles are cured.

"I eannot praise it enaugh, and our draggist ays the medicine is doing a -mhas a s'seaseems, Nor Peasod REV.DR. TALMAGE south The Noted Divine's Sunday Sermon. wher Subject: We Have Another arOl Chance?" that this I TKET: "If the tree fall toward the south, clima or toward the north, toin the the No tree falleth, there it shall be." -EccL the There is a hovering hope in the minds of a Ale vast multitudeof people that there willU be an arout opportunity in the next world of correcting light, the mistakes of this; that however complete as tbi a shipwreck we may make of our earthly life, rnd it will be on a beach up which we my walk lot tb to a palace; that as a defendant may lose his woul case in a Circuit Court and appeal it and wont have it go up to the Supreme Court or Court Oh, of Chancery and all the costs thrown over on lo the other party, so a man may lose his ease to a 1 in this world, but in the higher jurisdiction quer( 3 of eternity have the decision of the earthly rend, case set aside, all the costs remitted and the great defendant be triumphant forever. by th 1 The object of nmy sermon is to show you again that common sene declares with the text row. that such an expectation is chimerical "If goes the tree fall toward the south, or toward the of mi north, in the l'ace where the tree falleth, Lord there it shall be." There are those who say that if the impenitent and unfortunate man ohan a enters the next world and sees the disaster, battl as a resut of that disaster he will turn, the the distress the cause of his reformation; but we The have ten thousand instances all around went about us of people who have done wrong beta anl disaster suddenly came upon them rnvi -did the disaster heal tnem? No, they went on.

There is a man flung safet C. of The doctor says to him: is ti. "Now, my friend, if you don't stop drinking offer and don stop this fast lile you are living, of hi you will die." The patient thanks unw the physician for his warning and gets bet- migi Ster; he begins to sit up, begins to walk around con the roomr, begins to go to business and takes cart the samne round of grog shops where he got and or his morning dram and his evening dram and us a the drama between. Down again. Same that doctor.

Same physical anguish. Same med- A It cal warcing. But now the sickness is more protracted. the liver more is ii obstinate, the stomach more irri- Whi table, the diemtive organs more rebellious. the C- But still, under medical skill, he gets better, you goes forth, commits the same sacrilege fron aganiunt h's physical health.

Sometimes he trot wakks up to see what he is doing, and he in A 'd realizes he is destroying his family and that gosj h- his life is a perpetual perjury against his in marriage vows. and that that broken-hearted at woman is so different from the roseate wife hou he married that her old schoolmates do not not l- recognize her on the street, and that his sons ing are going out in life under the taunt of a say: father's drunkenness and that his daughters of are going out in life under the scarifi- but ay cation of a disreputable ancestry. His and is- nerves are all a jungle. From crown of are head to sole of foot he is one aching, rasp- had ep ing, crucifying, damning torture. Where is gret he? He in hell on Does it stop whi him? Ah! no.

After awhile delirium tre- plie mons pours out upon his pillow a whole mum re- jungle of hissing reptiles. His screams hor- and Id- rify the neighbors as he dashes out of bed ferr cs erying, "Take these things off of me!" He nan is drinking down the comfort of his family, pov nus the education of his children, their pros- ter ib- pects for this life and perhaps their you prospects for the life to come. Pale cha and convalescent he sits up. Physician the est says to him, t'Now, my good fellow, doc vy I am going to have a plain talk with the eg you. If you ever have an attack of this "ar kind again you will die.

I can't save you, pas and all the doctors in creation can't HB LC save you." The patient gets up, starts out, tiol goes the same round of dissipation and is to down again; but this time medicines do not fro touch his case. Consultations of physicians tor or, say there is no hope. Death ends the scene. oth sh. That process of inebriation and physicaieuf- vid of fering and medical warning and dissolution vid is taking place within a stone's throw of vid where you sit and ih every neighborhood of wa ap- Christendom.

Pain does not reform. Suf- the old fering does not cure. What is true in re- wi gard to one sin is true in regard to loe all sins, and yet men are expecting dre in the next life there will be opportunity for is purgatorial regeneration. the HI. Again, I wash you to further notice that ing another chance in another world means the the ruin of this.

Now, suppose a wicked man is is assured that after a lifetime of wicked- the ness he can fix it all right in the future? He she That would be the demoralization of soci- thi the sty, that would be the demolition of the hu- tI man race. There are now men who are kept the ler on the limits of sin by their fear. The fear the ror. that it we are bad and unforgiven here it thi in will not be well for us in the next existence, inj is the chief influence that keeps civilization as, nd from rushing back into semi-barbarism, and He clal keeps semi-barbarism from rushing back Th iled into midnight savagery, and keeps midnight ev 'ine savagery from rushing back into extinction. Another chance in another world means the of demolition of this world.

the- Furthermore, my friends-for I am preach- Ec' rill- ing to myself as well as to you-we tare on sia the same level, and though the platform is il' a little higher than the pew, it is only for 1, a convenience, and that we may the better lr rith speak to the peorle; we are all on the same (i platform, and I am talking to my soul while or I talk to yours-my friends, why another ho chance in another world when we have deand- lined so many chances in this? Sup- co her pose you spread a banquet and you invite a vast number of friends, and among lot others you send an invitation to a man who ch ust- disregards it, or treats it in an obnoxious co cool way. During twenty years you gave twenty banquets, a banquet a year, you invite en your friends, and every time you invite this of the man, who disregards your invitaUon or ay back some indignity. After a while you th ond move into a larger house and amid more luxurious surroundings, and you invite your friends, but you do not invite that ver man to whom twenty times you sent pon an invitation to the smaller house. Are you to blame? You would only make yourself absurd before God and man to send 1 thr.a man another invitation. For twenty tuta years he has been declining your offers and ruc- sending insult for your kindnes and cour- te cl tesy, and can he blame you? Can he come up to your house on the night of the ban- cc ur's quet? Looking up and seeing it is a finuer in ers, house will he have any right tesay: "Let me in.

I have declined all those other offers, i but this is a larger house, a more luxuriant es abode. Let me in. Give me another rate chance." uum- God has spread a banquet of His grace before us. For three hundred and sixty-five ided days of every year, since we knew the differI at encebetween our right hand and our left, rder He has invited us by His Providence and by ame His Spirit Suppose we decline all these ti fers of kindness. Now the banquet is spread a boutin a large place, in the heavenly palace.

In- con- vitations are sent out. but no invitation is sent to us. Why? Because we declined a.l those other banquets. Will Godd as be to blame? Will we have any tand right to rap on the door of heaven and say; than "i ought not to be shut out of this place: have give me another chance?" Twelve gates of i lad- salvation standing wide for free admission all our life and then when the twelve gates eer- close we rush on the bosses of Jehovah's and buckler, saying: "Give me another chance." A ship is to sail for Hamburg. You want to go to Germany by that line.

You see the advertisement of the steamer's sailing. You see it for two weeks. You see it in the morning papers and you see it in the evening papers; you see it placarded on the walls. Cirulars are thrown into your office a 8, telling you all about that steamer. One has day you come down on the wharf and 1 the steamer has swung out into the stream.

had You say: "Oh, that Isn't fair. Come back, sea, swing up again to the docks. Throw the of planks ashore that I may ee on board. It isn't fair. I want to go ermany that steamer.

Givee me hr chance. parts Here is a magnificent offer heaven. It phy- has been anchored within od sight year onl after year, and all the benign ies of earth and heaven have urged us go on board, thi snee it may sail at any mom'nt. not Suppose we let that opportunity salt away, and then we look out and say: "Send back that opportunity; I want to take it; it treating me fairly. Give me another chance." Why, my brothSt, you might as well go out and stand on the Bighlands at the Navesink three days after the Majestic has gone.out, and shout.

"Captain, come back; I want to go to Liverpool on the Majestic. Comeback am' over the sea and through the Narrows and upto the docks. Give me another chance." ken You might as well do that as, after the lasi ubles opportunity of heaven has ipod away, try to getit back again. Just think of it' It Sor on me yesterday in my study with over' whelming lmprbsiveness. Just think of it.

ing All heaven, offered us as a gratuity for a er wholtllfetlmei add yet we wanting to rush haneel" hr oat to be, there Mwill be, You see commonsese agree wisth In saying that "if the tree fall towards south, or toward the north, in the pl where the tree falleth, there it shall fOP1 You see this idea lifts this world from as unimportant wa-estation to a platform of stu pendon Issues, and makes all eternity wr around this hour. Oh, my soul! my soul Only one trial, and all the preparation fo that trial to be made in this world, or nev made at all. Oh, my soul! my soul! You see this piles up all the emphasis and all the climaxes and all the destnies into this mil No other chance. Oh, how that intensilles; ible the value and the importance of this chance. This Alexander and his army used to come.

around a city and they would kindle a gre of light, with the understanding that as long this as that light was burning the clty might sur- in ti render, and all would be well, but if they lot that light go out, then the battering rams otr would swing against the waits and there at would come disaster and demolition. mor Oh, my friends, all yo'a and I need to ing, to prepare for eternal safety is just to surrender to the King and Conqueror, Christ. Surrender hearts, sur- render life, surranaer everything. The beh great light keeps burning, light kindled by the wood of the cross, light flaming up against the dark night of our sin and sorrow. Oh, let us surrender before the light TI goes out, and with it our last opportunity han of making our peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Oh my brother, talk mad about another chance; this is the supernal saw4 chance. In the time of Edward atthe smo battle of Musselourgh, a private soldier saw rod the Earl of Huntley had lost his helmet. The privalt soldier took off his helmet and end went up to the Earl of Huntley and put the helmet on his heal. Now, the head of the soldier uncovered, he was soon Fain, while his commander rode In safety through and out of the battle. But it is dlifferent in our case.

Instead of a private offering a helmet to an earl, it is the King of heaven and earth offering a crown to an unworthy subject, the Kins dying that we might live! Oh, tell it to the points of the compass, tell it to day and night, tell it to earth and heaven, tel: it to all the Centuries and all the millenniums that God has given us a magnificent chance in this world and that we need no other chance in another! the A dream. I am in the burnisher judgment bar on the last day. The great whitethronc thit is lifted, but the Judge has not yet taken It. While we are waiting for His arrival I hear thi the immortals in conversation. "What are nor you waiting fori' says a soul that went up and from Madagascar to a saul that went up from America.

The latter respondls: "I was In America forty years ago, and I heard the Net gospel preached, and I hat of Bibles In my house, and from the time that I knelt at my mother's knee in praye;" until my lest hour, I had great opportunilie'; but did not improve them, and I am here tc-day wait- fru ing foranotherchnce "Stranze, strange," says the soul jusi come up from Madagascar. I ma "Strange; why. I never heard the gospel call the but once in all my life, and I accepted it. as and I don't want another chance." "What are you waiting for?" says one who on earth so had very feeble intellect to one who had sev great brain and whose voice was silvery, and the who had scepters of power. The latter re- the plied: "I had great power on earth.

I must admit, and I mastered languages and I mastered libraries, and colleges con- mu ferred upon me learned titles. and my sue name was ea synonym for eloquence and thi power; but somehow I neglected the matters of my soul and I must confess to gre you I am here to-day waiting for another is I chance." Now, the ground trembles with the advancing chariot. The great folding doors of the burnished hall of judgment are OVt thrown open. "Stand back," cry the ushers, rip "and let the Judge of quick and dead pass through." He takes the throne. He looks off upon the throngs of nations come to the last judgment, come thi to the only judgment, and one flash be from the throne reveals each man's his- wo tory to himself, and reveals it to all the others.

And then the Judge says: "Dvide!" and the burnished walls echo it. be vide!" and the guides angelic aun'wer, kel vide!" and the immortals are rushing this way and until there If an aisle between them, a great aisle; and then a vacuum, fa widening and widening, until the Judge looks to one side of that vacaum, and ad- dresses the throne and says: "Let him that is righteous be righteous still, and let him that Is holy be holy still." And then, turn- m( ing to the throng on the other side of ab the vacuum, He says; "Let him that a is unjust be unjust still, and let him that is filthy be filthy still." And then sh He stretches out both hands, one toward the as throng on each side the vacuum, and says: tei "If the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall And then I hear some- of It thing jar with a great sound. It is the clos- cr ing of the Book of Judgment. The Judge an ascends the stairs behind the throne. The Hall of the last Assize is cleared and shut.

The High Court of Eternity adjourned for- i ever. A BODI AFTER DEATO. A post mortem examination of nearly e- seventy persons who had died from excesn sive use of ardent spirits showed the follow- On is lng facts: 1r 1. Congestion of the scalp and of themem- co 'r brano of the brain, with much serous 0 (watery) effusion. The substance of the Pl brain wuite and firm, as if it had lain in alco- co hol for one or two hours.

2- The lungs not always, but frequently i congested or inflamed. 3. The heart flabby, enlarged, dilated and f1 loaded with fat outside; the blood in it of a cherry-red color, and with no tendency to di is coagutlate. ty 4. The st(omach perfectly whlite, andthick- P1 ened in some cases; iun others having patches Ic of chronic Inflammation.

In the worst caset a large partion ortlhe stomach covered with that spec, of inlanmation which causes the blood to Do poured iromn the minute in Sveins. ol at 5. The liver enlarged-in old drunkards weighing from six to twelve pounds. 6. The omentumu-a sort of apron which i immediately covers the abdomen in front- Sloaded with a gray, slushy fat.

.1 S7. The kidneys flabby and infil- a Strated'in numerous spots with whitish matter. 8. The small intestines fllled with bile, and coated with a tenacious mucus. 9D.

The blood in a very fluid condition, have ing but little ilbrine, but much albumen and tat10. TIe whole blody, exccpt the brain, doi composing very rapidly. Is it any wonder that a drunkard has Companion, Eng, re c---nREFUSETD TO TET AN WAS ELECTED. It, 'I was elected to my present offmce," said by I. C.

Arnold, of Winston, at the Naf- tional, who is now serving his second term ad as AhlL rman, "because I would not buy a n- jug of liquor The contist was a very close is one, but I thought my election was aslured, ed when two before the voting was tobe od done a delt8 gation came to mo and wanted ny money with which to buy a couple of gallons of whisky. I refused to give it antl the next day my friends told me that my opponent of had furnishedfour gatllons and thirty men on who had been relied upon to support me had tee gone on a picnic and hat1 agreed to vote for h's the other man. This I iknew would defeat me, and alter carefully pohing my strength, toa comparatively easy matter in a community he where every voter is known, I concluded on that the liquor had setitled it against me. the Eletion dlay came and not a man who went og the picnic returned. The podls closed iand I was elected by ten votes.

We subseBe quently learned that tihe crowd had got drunk )ne and been arrested, them away from md town. Had.I given the liiliuor my friends rm would have gone and those of my opponent sk, remained at Star. the DUNtK'SxNESS In AUSrTIa. br In Autstria drunkards are treated under 3. the cur tel law that applies to persons menIt tally afflicted and to spendthrifts, their atfear fi's being in charge of an adminitrtb trator.

A suffering from excessive rd, indulgence in drink may be brought judictrintlly under the law. But in Galicia, Craow and Iukowirna there are specisal laws for hek ihi punishment of persons drunk in public p'acs, while persons convicted of druinkenca nes times in oune year are prohibited out from publi houses. A bill has boeen ink introhmesi in the Austrian Reichsrath proout viiling for the erection of public asylums for to drunkards. who' may be deltained for two back years on comptaint of their relatives or of the public Times. Ce." --last iS TLfonzE an 7 to The theory thsmt whisky is necessary in the sm treatment of pneumonia has recelve a blow.

Iver from Dr. Bull, of New York City, who disSt. covers that in the New York hospitalsl sixty- I a five per cePt. of the pinenmonia patients die was ith tratmtt, while in London, Object Lesson Tompertane i da alafuaor rOPIUS OF INTEREgST BRLAJTIYV tI al TO FARf3 AND GARDEB. coma tot MLK PROM sTrBPE rCOwS.

ing br When a caw has been long milking feet. and is not in calf the quality of the intuit milk changes, and at times it is impos- small, sible to get butter from the cream. these This is so pronounced a characteristio of such milk that one cow in a herd of this kind will be apt to cause trouble in the churning. The most satisfactory way to manage a herd is to have at least half of the cows within not more than two months of their ealving, or at most four months; then the effect of the long milking of the others is not apt to have any ill effect on the behavior of the cream in the churn. A HOMEMSAE GARDEN ROLLER.

The illustration herewith shows a handy garden contrivance that can be in as made in a few moment. A section is the sawed from a round log and its surface migri smoothed. Two round bits of iron the a rod are driven into the centre of each dead end, and the roller is ready to take Jour. trast once tinni find supe then HOIME BOLLER. will the the place of the wheel in the wheel- bred barrow, the latter being unshipped for ferns this purpose.

The special value of to ra this arrangement is that no new frame this nor handles are needed for the roller, "1 and that the barrow can be weighted give to give ju-t the pressure to I New Englaul Homestead. hogs hogs IUL' FOR THINNING FRUIT. bh First--No tree should have more bree fruit on it than it can hold up weli and this mature in pirftction-that is to say, you that the trees should be not so loaded to as to require their being propped, or pap so much that the blanches bend very it severely. This checks the growth of disp the fruit to such an extent as to injure pose the quality. fore Second-Every time a tree has too or much fruit it weakens its vitality to witl such an extent as to require two or able three years to recover, or so checks its now growth that it begins to decline, and beg is permanently injured.

any Third-In the production of an con overcrop it costs the tree more to if t1 ripen the seeds than to make the fruit. sole Fourth-If from a tree heavily load- not ed there is taken one-half or even sow three-fourths of the fruit, there will wot be more bushels of fruit than there goo would be if all was left on the trees. By Fifth-By this practice there will yea be less poor fruit put upon the mar- the ket, and the good will bring better req, prices and give infinitely better satis- exce faction. Sixth-Thinning makes the fruit of era much better quality, makes it keep nea longer and produces finer, handsomer, reel more attractive and much more desir- squ i able and salable fruit. wht Seventh-When our orchardists and shall look upon thinning as important sue as cultivation, pruning, care and at- tention, they will succeed in supply- this ing our markets with perfect fruit and stre of the very best quality, and thus in- cas crease the demand, enhance the value our and give vastly more satisfaction to as both the producer and the consumer, fati -Coleman's Rural World.

of I bre ABOUT COLD ch The cold storage business is taking kee on immense proportions. Its develop- yes ment in the principal cities of the pui country has been nothing less than pm phenomenal of late years. And now i -cold storage warehouses are being dec erected at country shipping points. wo SIn some cases they are put up by the be farmers themselves, who organize eo- pm a operative stock companies and con- Fo duct the business on the same general atm principle that is applied so success- vai fully in co-operative creameries. Most the Sof these cold storage plants in both the Scity and country use chemical se- br is frigeration or other artificial means so of creating and maintaining a low Stemperature.

understand that Srecent progress in this line makes it possible to build and equip a cold fib storage plant at comparatively reason- bi able cost. Of course, where the ice re crop is assured, no expensive re- ill i frigerating machinery is required, and in such localities cold storage can be sa Sprovided in connection with a neigh- th borhood ice house. The fact that cold Sstorage is coming into such extensive til use in the cities is the best possible sh evidence that it generally pays to thus hold perishable products until they to can be marked to the best advantage. di .1 Now, if this is such a good thing for a- marketmen, cold storage can be se Sequally useful to farmers, especially so as they can utilize its advantages by ax Id, the co-operative method. Almost any as be farmer can have a fruit retarding Shouse built on a side hill, which does xt not require ice, and a small cold stor- mt age room should be a feature of every farm or home Judd for Farmer.

at ity A FOE TO POTATO BUGS. ed There's a cure for everything, and Sat last a cure has been found for the ed potato bug. se- That red, persistent and gregarnous Ink creature has for years and years short- 4 oa ened the lives and the potato crops of at farmers all over the country. Paris green, in powder and in solution, scattered with a blower, or der showered from sprinkling pot, had not been able to prevaiLagainst him. at He has kept right on eating the tops nit- off the crops, and, in some years, has raised the price of potatoes to an al- ra- most prohibitive notch.

for But now, in the State of Indiana, at blio the smart town of Johnstown, has been found another bag, whose bright ien particular business in life is to smite pro- the ring-streaked and pestiferous Spotato bng, hip and thigh, and never of leave him nor forsaker him until he is dead. It is a green bug, diamond-shaped, 1 and equipped with a long and fahul th onsly sharp beak, with which he penedis trates the marks of the potato bug on y- sight. He does not do this because he i die wants all the potatoes himself. Aayet he has shown no inclination to do damage to crops of any knud. His throaned to Jdrasowt IIKR)t I comsaendale bago trasfr the ery ai to long sufferint rlttoe patele.

b.utAlready the benfSt of this bug-eat- ing bug's efforts have been made manu- bi ti feet. The potato bags seem to know intuitively of the presenee of their bdch small, but active enemy, and when these long-billed diamond-backs putre am in Ivo groun menthi tistic tibe and ii OUs a lief a way Huge ture in THE POTATO UG AWD iTrrs EIn. in an appearance in a potato patch, decko the potato bugs, in a body rise up and and I migrate to some other garden, with all sequl the agitation and headlong haste that seen deadly terror can York vest SJournal. pleas are GRADUS OP PUSE DRED HOG. full.

Observing farmers, when they con lbace trast ecrub stock with grades, see at buck once a vast improvement, and con- in pc tinuing their investigation further, jewe fiand the pure bred animal still much Ing superior to even the high grade. It or bI then becomes a question as to which per. will be the most profitable, sacrifice the present females and invest in pure if L. bred animals exclusively, or retain the females and trust to a pure bred male who rf to raise the quality of the herd. On Ilt i this subject.

George Newton writes: fron "I would be pleased if you would may cI give me a little information in regard cove to breeding up my present stook of rect hogs. I have a good average stock of if hogs. Would it pay best to procure a vi thoroughbred boar, or would it be mad best to get a thoroughbred sow and Te breed her to the best I can obtain in In this country? iease tell meins which only you consider the besot and quickest way The cto do. I am much pleased with your Iron paper in every way." itl if the intention is to raise hogs and i dispose of them for breeding pur- and re poses there is but one answer to the size foregoing, and that is to procure one bec( 0 or more pure bred sows and mate them BI 0o with the best pure bred boar obtain- sprl able. Competition among breeders is fitti ts now keen and it would be folly for a froi beginner to start in the business with wal any but the best stock that money No Ln could buy.

But on the other hand, side Sif the intention is to raise hogs to be are Lt. sold on the msrket for pork, we would son d- not advise sacriticing the present the en sows, if they are good breeders, but ban ill would purchase a pure bred male, as qar re good as our pocketbook would allow. By continuing this method fbr several nal years, invariably selecting the best of 'r- the young sows for breeders, it would Ind er require but a short time to secure an lyl excellent herd. pa The great object among swine breed- Pa er has been to produce an animal as oag ep near as possible in oqgnfirmation to aag rectangular box, with four legs set 5 r- squarely below for support. And now when they have succeeded the packers mi its and butchers unite in telling us that me nt such hogs are no longer desired.

pu t- The hog now in demand is somewhat y- thin and spare with the sides well ad streaked with lean, and this being the fl n- case the chances are that the aews of ne noe our correspondent would be equally to as well adapted for raising pigs to be fattened for slaughter as would some of the pure bred. If desired a pure bred sow, one or more might be parchased as means will allow, and by ig keeping the progeny separate a few 1p- years at most would suffice to have all he pure bred sows necessary for breeding an purposes. But as regards the boar, we have ng decided opinions on that subject, and ts. would earnestly urge every reader to he be satisfied with nothing short of a eo. pure bred animal of individual merit.

n. For a farmer in mo.terate circumral stances, and with present prices pres. vailing for hogs, we could not advise ost the sacrifice of good average sows and th the investment of the proceeds in pure e. bred stook, when the progeny is to be ns sold for Homestead. low hat FOE POULTBY isaIsit Always carefully look over you old flock once a day, and if you see any on- birds mopey or drooping their wings, ice remove them then and there, as one re- ill bird may effect all the rest.

and Always keep some Epsom salts and be sweet oil by you, as you may want gh. them at any moment. old Always give just enough food at one ive time, that it will all be eaten up; none ble should be left lying round. bus Always give as great a variety of hey food as possible; constant change of ge. diet is the way to get the chickens on.

for Always give your birds a little hemp be seed and cooked meat when moulting. ally Always keep the floors of the houses by and coops well covered with sand or any ashes. ing Always rake the droppings o' every loes morning. Cleanliness is a great pretor- ventive to sickness. ery Always keep a sharp lookout for veradd min, and eradicate them as quickly as possible.

Always do little odd jobs that want doing at once. "Proorastination is the thief of time," and often a nail Shere or a tack there will save an hour's work. Always buy your food in as large ort- quantity as possible, as you will then gof enerally be able to get it at a cheaper rate. n- Always keep a strict account of all or you buy or sell. By treating your had hobby in a thoroughly business way, him.

you will derive greater pleasure by seeing exactly how much profit you have earned. Always be particular when writing a description of what you have to sell to at an intending purchaser; this often ras saves a lot of unpleasantness. right Always remember that promptness mite in replying to letters is the way to secure customers. rev Always bear in mind that by conhe is tinually advertising you bring your name before the and thereby ped, build up a substantial business. pene- Mr.

Hamo Thorneycroft has been ig on five years in executing a statub of he Queen Victoria. It is now complete Lyet and will be erected in the interior. do court of the Bo al Exchange in LonHis don'rwhich she opened in 1844. nations of vartous rkes of hlacet bitations, these In snome by dainty tows and rosette.i Fichus of the Marie Aalfeoiets. A are much in evidence and saalal siawl shapes of fine black net la in Ivory, cream and white on the black ground, this being one of the latest inventions in lace, are caught into artistic fichu draperies by means of artis- tic bows and ends of satin ribbon.

Lace al and iisse ruffs for the throat are numerous and attractive, and black with a relief of cream, ivory or heliotrope in the It way of ribbon, Is very much in vogue. a Huge lace draperies for bodice garniture of the Renaissance order are much in evidence, and lace garnitures of many classes are picked out and bedecked by additions of jewel sequins. Bands of Jewel stones, sequins and the like are frequently seen intersecting yokes, neck puffs, and vest frontages, and these form a most pleasing change. Silk vest frontages are a feature, and are both plain and ti full. These are much bedecked with lace of all classes, and exhibit paste buckles and brooches to catch the lace in position on the collars.

Sequin and jewelled bands are also seen intersect- ing the frontages and as centers or top ti or base garnitures on the collars propper. JACKETS FOR SPRING. If money is no object to the woman who is planning her spring wardrobe, let her take $35 and order her Jacket a from the tailor. For that price she I may have a made-to-order coat of tan I covert cloth lined with taffeta silk, corf rect as to sleeves, revers and buttons. It money is an object she may purchase I a very presentable imitation of the a made-to-ordef coat for $12 or $15.

Tan coats this spring are much more in favor than gray ones. Gray is used 1 only when the coat is part of the uit. They are made rather short, with loose fronts fastening invisibly under a flap, with tight-fitting backs, small revers and sleeves, much more moderate in 0 size than those to which the public has a become assustomed. Black coats are also to be worn this L- spring. They are short and are tight is fitting in the back, with either loose a fronts or revers turned back from the waist.

7 Narrow belts, which slip through the i side seams and fasten under the revers, are worn with the latter. Young perd sons who do not fear to call attention to it the size of their waists wear narrow bands of gilt or silver for belts, but quiet tastes prefer black silk, satin, 1j leather, or even serge. The enormous growth of the bicycle Industry is indicated by the sale recentn ly of the Dunlop Pneumatic Tire Coml pany's property in Dublin, for $15,000,000. When first formed, a few years ago, the company's capital was it was subsequently increased to $520,000. The shareholders have received $3,295,015 in dividends and prere miums, and will receive $14,437,500 more from the proceeds of the sale.

Gt Greater New York consists of forty11five islands, just as many as there are new stars in our flat. Our 's and Othcr Eycs. Our I's are just as strong as they were fifty years agoe when we have cause to use them. But we have less and less cause to praise ourselves, since others do the praisi and we are more than willing for you to see us through other eyes. This is how we look to S.

F. Boyce, sale and retail druggist, Duluth, who after a quarter of a century of observation writes: "I have sold Ayer's Sarsaparilla for m6re than 25 years, both at wholesale and retail, and have never heard any thing but words of praise from my customers; not a single complaint has ever reached me. I believe Ayer's Sarsaparilla to be the best blood purifier that has been introduced to the general public." This, from a man who has sold thousands of dozens of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, is strong testimony. But it only echoes popular sentiment the world over, which has "Nothing but words of praiw for Ayer's Sarsaparilla." Any doubt about It? Send for the'' CMrebok. It kills doubts sad caes doubters.

S. ddm: C. Ayer Lowell, Mua. XoELREE'S WINE CARDUI WOw'S for monthly pains in the si, hips, bac, neck, shoulders, head and limbs. These pains are datkerous derangements pecul.

iar to women. McElre's Wine of Cardul r' rects these derangements, cmures Whitesand falltfg of the Womb, relieves Suppeed est tion and £ooding, quiets the nerves and bring happiness to ssitted women. o3 3e.L*3 A oTr I -Lr It has wreent besy soapsudt will answer the oil in the midst of a storm at a. The captain itW thp ScandQ a sanos cently to run short oftlhe latter lte, and bethought him of Ad lag, a large qunhtity of soap in Ihe forthwith discharged over the bows of the vessel The effect was lastah. If eetered Day and right With nervousnes, take Hoetettetr's Sto ch Bitter, which invigorJt10 had tranouliues the nervous system.

The bs of leea ie a reform in errors of di nerve and brain are unitedi the clioa hed of sympathy. so that dyspeptic symptoms In the gastrio region are always by hurtful reflex nervol action. Both are remedied by the Bitters. wrhealn i laa, -blUOakneu, rheumatllism nd ldey troubleThe only gem in therorid which cannot be counterifeited is the opal. Its delicate tints defy imitation.

To Cleosas the ISstem Effectually, yetgently, when oOetM i eebil or when the blood is impre er aslsh, to permanently overcome habitual eooseltloo. to awaken the kidneys ad liver to a healh activity, without or weakeinlag I to dispel headaches. colds or aevees a dyes of Figs. A Turkish turban of the largt tiae e0 talns from ten to twenty yards of the Snae and softest muslin. i100 Reward.

The readers of thispaper willt les to learn that there is atIt as remla that otresth bhas been able to cauili its staes and that is Catarrh. ta Core is the onl psitallv cur kow to the usedial for atern what had rs tional diseaser medicinequ a ontte made enat. Hall'sratarrh Ors taket actingbox madirectl on the ooa A woman i the syenravertem, thbof medl the foundation of thedins, but thLny tient strength by buidinmg np esa RWU and assistioap nature in above name is wr. proprietors have so much fa it its.l cuatie powers tht they ope Bed wrippre Dnl lorence, is proud bell. thi of dene of a humane lAdssy, who bout A Final Core.

I rumped it for tter which had bdon running for five yteas. Nothing could give relief unt. Viused your medcine, ad one boDr. madenne a final cure." rla. N.

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A woman is the engraver of models an the royal mint at Stockholm, Sweden, and hab been for many years. Dobbins' Flostin'nBcrIX is 1(0 pet tent. pWo and don't turn yellow with aM It is net en imitation of anything. hut better than any foatipy soap made. De sure above name is a each wrapper and cake.

Bed wrappe'rs aly. SFlorence, is proud of being th. refdence of a humane lady, who bought an esr.4 trumpet for her pet dog. lire, Winslow's Sootling Syrup for ki lMe teething, softens the gums, redness laflat. 0 Lion, allays pain, cues wndoolit ai Piso's Cure is a wonderful Cough medics.

-Mrs. W. Protanue Van herlen and St. Vitus' Dance. One bottle Dr.

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