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A Valnable New aadUK The lists of good, early radlhs are to mrge that all but expert may find it aimcuit to make a suitable (election French Breakfast, Early Starlet Tur nip, Scarlet Olive-Shaped and other have long been general favorites, but the new Henderson's Kose Turnip rad isn- life-like Illustration of which shown herewith Is second to none In and cultivated, and the appearance be so much Improved, that many dollars per acre would lie added to the value of the adjoining farms. Wo wish our readers v ould try It, see the results us we have seen them. TSY 1 iff! 7 beauty as well as quality and earll ness. It has a small, compact top and a miniature root, requires only twenty three days to mature and remains good condition for ten days. Its beau tiful rosy pink color renders It very at tractive when bunched. American Agriculturist. Qnlckty Made Hedge. American Gardening shows a short cut to a handsome hedge. A "form" Is made of wire netting, the sides and top also being covered. Along the base on either side of this quickly growing TO MAKE A HEDGE QU1CKT.T. vines are planted, which soon cover the wire with a mass of green that becomes more and more dense and beautiful each succeeding year if the proper sort of vines are used. The "proper sort" would Include our common woodbine. It is a quick grower, and its foliage ts remarkably handsome, both In the green state and when touched by autumn frosts. There are many other vines, however, that would answer ad mirably for this purpose, so that all tartes can be suited. Such a hedge needs only such annual clipping as will suffice to keep the vines growing even ly all over the wire as thickly In one place as In another. Keen the Fheep at Home, The Illustration, from Farm and Home, portrays a sheep poke made of a hickory stick (a) bent In the center, and a wire (b) fas tened about 10 Inches below the bend and another (c) after the poke Is slipped over the sheep's neck, 4 or 6 inches lower down to fasten the poke in place. This device will keep any sheep from go ing through a wire, rail or board fence, is a good thing for jumping sheep, and will prevent them from crowding Into bushes and briers, tearing the wool from the body. Graz ing or drinking Is not Interfered with. 4 or 5 feet long, m ft siteep poke. Thia Country'" Big Hotr Industry. The hog Industry In the United States has reached tremendous proportions. No less than 16,928,078 swine were slaughtered by the packers of the West alone last year. The whole number the country over would amount to half as much more, or about 25,000,000 alto gether. It was the greatest hog year In our history except 1890-1, when the pork packing business reached high water mark. In the region northwest of the Ohio river last year farmers and live stock men received for the hogs they raised $135,456,000. Good Roada, Good country roads are an Index of the thrift and prosperity of a commu nity. Smooth and well-kept roadsides are a necessary adjunct to a well-cnltl ated farm. This means that there most be no weedy fence corners nor fences overgrown with briars, thistles and vine. The lanes may be made to yield a laige amount of bay, If the sur face of the ground be properly leveled i A Rare of Apple Patera, Does any one kuow of any good rea son why we should not be a race of apple eaters? By this we refer to the habit or pmctlce of eating apples raw. The Bulletin of Pharmacy advances what we believe to bo a valuable sug gestion along this line of action. It says: "No harm can come even to a delicate system by eating of ripe and juicy apples Just before golug to bed." It also remarks that the apple is rich is phosphoric acid. What Is not so well known, however, observes the Nebras ka Farmer, It points out, Is that It thor oughly disinfects the mouth, excites action of the liver, promotes a sound aud healthful sleep, helps the kidney secretions and prevents ca!culus growths, obviates indigestion, aud is one of the bet-known preventives of diseases of tue throat. These are ben efits enough to make us all apple eat ers, furely. Beparate the Flocka. The first thing to do with flocks that are kept on farms rather than on ranches Is to separate the flock Into a number of small ones, each conioxed of one kind, and having a regard to sex, age and general condition. The weal; ones tiliould not be placed with the strong. The wether or stock flock should be In one flock, the breeding ewes In another, and the lambs In an other, if the best results are to be se cured. Save the Xonn Timltr. There ts always a demao-k for good timber, especially of the quick-growing kinds, such as pine, oa and birch. A piece of land cleared will In thirty-five or forty years have a new growth large enough for box boards, and spoolstrlps. and there should be more attention glV' en to this source of Income. Stronger and more systematic Uv.'" protecting timber should be passed. Turkey Food. The best feed for young turkeys Is a cake made of equal parts of ground on Is, corn and wheat baked m that It will crumble. They ought to have their freedom from yards as soon as possible, say when two weeks old, but should be housed at night. Nothing Is better than food, whole corn to fatten tur keys. Good for Hotr. To keep hogs thrifty when fattening mix two quarts of wood ashes or Que charcoal with one pint snlt and a quar ter of a pound of sulphur. Ten hogs will eat this mixture once a week.-Agriculturist. Ponltry Point. Dry earth Is a good material to scat ter under the roosts. On the average It will cost $1 to keep a laying ben one year. When a thrifty bird Is fully matured. It Is easily fattened. Stale bread soaked In milk is a good feed for young poultry. Early hatched, well developed pullets make good winter layers. Cleanliness and good feeding are the secrets of success with poultry. Leghorns and Black Spanish lay eggs with the whitest .shells of any breed. A cross of the Wyandottes and Lang shans combines many good qualities that make a fowl valuable for market. Oilmeal, sunflower seed, hemp seed and buckwheat can all be used to good advantage lu feeding fowls Intended for exhibition. Slaughter of Birds. One of the largest importers of feath ers in England, Mr. Weiler, is report ed to have made this statement: "Un til recently, millions of birds of para dise, sunbirds, bumming birds, etc., were slaughtered annually; In one for est In France alone one-half a million little songsters were caught every year; while, had It not been for State Inter ference, the nightingales of Germany would now have been practically ex tinct. In all, the Importation of feathr ers lately amounted to considerably more than 1,000,000 per annum." Many tons of feathers still annually change hands. "But our business," said Mr. Weiler, "with the exception of one line, has declined rapidly." And the reason of the decline, we are In formed, is "the activity displayed by a ladles' society established for the pur pose of boycotting hats, etc., for which small feathers are used for adorn ment" It Is added that the society, which was started only a year or two ago, has reduced the feather business to half Its dimensions. Of course, ail considerate women will be pleased to hear this; for now such species of birds as have not already been exterminated will have a chance of surviving and re vlvlng. Chinese Similes. Some of the ordinary expressions of the Chinese are pointedly sarcastic enough. A blustering, harmless fellow tney can "a paper tiger." nen a man values himself overmuch, they compare him to "a rat falling Into a scale, and weighing Itself." Overdo, lng a thing they call "a hunchback making a bow." A spendthrift tbey compare to a rocket which goes off at once. Those who expend their char ity on remote objects, but neglect their family, are said to "hang a lantern on pole, which is seen afar, bnt gives do light below." Every steamer that sails along the coast Is a refuge for birds that are blown to sea, mostly small and not strong of wing. When disturbed or frightened by people on deck, they fly Into the air and fall behind the ship. After several disturbances tbey be come so tired that tbey can no longer catch up, and after hopelessly chasing the vessel for several miles flutter Into the sea and are drowned. Will In a Crer.. Almost a parallel to the Jacob Z. Da vis will discovery turns up in Indiana, for after lying in a man's coffin for nearly 80 years, a will lias been ex burned at Leavenworth, in that state, and its terms are liable to increase a troublesome litigation among the heirs of the man who had the document bur ied with him. Jacob Kissingen was the man. The will was found by accident, because when Kissingen died, although the will was believed to have been made, no body could find it,. So the heirs went to lew and have be m at it for three decides. . A few days ago a dispute arose whioh could be cleared up by the family Bi ble. So the old grave was opened and the book taken out. It was in a good state of preservation, and, when opened, to the surprise of everyone, dia closed the old man's will. ' By the terms of the document found in the grave the property of Kissingen was divided equally among five chit dren, one of them a resident of Ger many, and born of Kissingen's first wife. And this is where the new trou ble begins. None of the four American heirs ever heard of the father's first marriage, and not one of them guessed that he hud a brother in Europe. The German heir, of course, has been in ignorance, too, of the exist ence of his Amtican brothers, and the property and money bequeathed to him. If he presses his claim now, it is said that the four brothers who live here will have quite a hole in their purses when they pay him what is his by his father's will. Hiiru Power of Lightning. A recent thunder storm in the neigh borhood of Berlin afforded an opportu nity of measuring precisely the power of a flash of lightning. The experi menters took as a basis the amount of iron fused by a flash of lightning, and aocording to the statement whiufh they have published, the power of a flash of lightning is on an average equivalent to 7,000 horsepower. HOITTS SCHOOL. One ot the best schools for boyi on this coast In In charge of ex-State Superintendent Ira O. Hoiti, I'll. P., at Burllngame.rjau Mateo county, accredited. A singlo polypus has been cnt into 134 parts, and each in time became a perfeot animal. Piso's Cure for Consumption has saved me large doctor bills. (1, L-. linker, 4U28 Regent 8q., Philadelphia,., Dec. 8, 'US A man in a balloon four miles above the earth can plainly hear the barking of a dog. HOW'S THIS? We offer One Hundred Doltr Reward for any ease of I'marrh that cannot be cured by UaU's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHUNKY 4 CO., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, hare known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 yearn, and believe him perfectly honorable tu all busincta trasactions, an,, financially title to carry out any obliga tion made by the r firm. vkst A TM'aX, Wholesale ImiKjclsts, Toledo, O. Vi'ai.dino, Kinnan A Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Tsledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, act IhK directly upon the blood and mm-nug aur facesof the svstem. 1 'rice 7nc. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonial tree. Hall's family pilla are the beat. Russia has 41,800 public schools, while Germany, with only half the population, has 60,000 schools, with nearly three times as many pupils as the Russian. A new method of testing the hard ness of steel balls has been devised. The balls are dropped from a fixed height on ajilate glass set at an angle; if properly tempered they rebound into one reeptaele, and if they are too soft, they drop into another. A GASOLINE HOISTING ENGINE. It Does the Work of the Steam Knglne lletter and With Less Cost. The use of gas and 'gasoline engines in mines and tor ull power purposes is very much on the increase. New us fur them are being found every dtij . They are being used quite extensively for pumping, for hoisting, and for other work in mining. Mr. V. Y. Putrick has an article In a recent number of the New York Engineering and Mining Journal giving experience with a gaso line hoisting engine at the Southern Eureka minus in Utah. Mr. Patrick suys: "We have had the engine in use for some time, and have found it highly satisfactory ami in the highest degree economical. We are engaged in sink ing, and of oourse only hoisting inter mittently. Our engine is rated at 25 horsepower, and hoists a load of 1,100 pounds from a depth of -375 feet in 45 Beoonds. Our consumption of gasoline has averaged only 0.7 gallons per hour. The amrunt of water used in cooling the cyiindors is very small, as large gui-.anized iron ooolmg tanks are pro vided with the engine, and only enough water is . squired to replenish what is iori uy evaporation, .in manv of our Western mining districts water for a steam plant would cost as much or more than the fuel. "The. engine is provided with eleo trie and torch igniters, both of which work very featisfnotorily. One man can, by means of the self-starter, easily start the engine alone; after starting it requires no attention, except to Bee that the oil cups are feeding properly. Uy means of the ooerating levers near the shaft, one man can hoist, dump the buokets, run out the waste, A Utrculn HoitHug Engine. Stop! Women, And consider that In addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are confiding your privats ilia to a woman a woman whose ex perience in treating woman's diseases is greater than that of any living phy sician, male or female. You can talk freely to a woman when it is revolting to relate your private troubles to a man; besides, a man does not understand, simply because be is a man. MBS. PIXKHAM'S STANDING INVITATION. Women suffering from any form of female weakness are Invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. All letters are re ceived, opened, read, and answered by women only. A woman can freely talk of her private illness to a woman. Thus has been established the eternal confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America which has never been broken. Out of the vast volume of experience which she has to draw from, it is more than possible that the has gained the very knowledge that will help your case. She asks nothing In return except your good will, and her advice has relieved thousands. Purely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take advantage of this generous offer of assistance. WHEAT Make money by suc cess! ul speculation in Chicago. We buy and sell wheat there on mar gins. Fortnnea hare been made on a small beginning by trading In futures. Write for fuil particulars. Best of reference given. Sev eral years' experience on the Chicago Hoard ot Trade, and a thoronrh knowledge of the busi ness, liownini, Hopkins A Co., Chicago Board of Trade Brokers. Offices in Portland, Oregon, Spokane and Seattle, Waah. and in such work as ours, or at small mines, have time to do the tool sharp ening and timber framing. The machinery is noifcelt'ss and safe. The gasoline tank is placed out side the engine loom, underground, and below the level of the engine bed, and the gasoline is drawn up as needed by small pump plaoed on one side of the engine, litis arrangement prevents all possibility of an explosion. In fact, I consider it safer and more economical than steam, ami when the hoisting is done, it can he shut down and thore is absolutely no consumption of fuel and no possible danger of explosion. The illustration given herewith shows a type of engine very much in use in mines throughout California, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, Mexico, Utah, Montana, Nevada, etu. It is bulit by the Hercules Oas Engine Works, of San Francisco, in all sizes, from two to two hundred horsepower. The engines are built extra heavy, the hoisting drum being the same base as the engine, and geared direct. The levers operating the hoist are positive in action, and are within easy control of the operator. About three thousand of these engines are in use in different parts of the country, and in every instance have demonstrated their superiority over anv other power for the purpose used. They are also made to bu.n distillate oil, which reduces the fuel cost very materially, and where water and fuel are scarce, the saving in these items quite often enables the property to bo worked where otherwise the expense at tendant upon operating a steam engine woald preclude it. D'AmiiHle's Three Wills. So rich was the Due d'Aumale that he had to make three wills to properly provide for the disposition of his prop erty. One of them relates exclusively to that part of nis pr0ierty which is in France, while the other deals with the wealth deposited in England, possibly from motives of precaution. The latest estimate of the population of the globe hus been made by M d' Amfreville, who places it at 1,479, 729, 000. The number of inhabitants to the square mile in Asia is 48; in Africa, 15; in America, 8; in Oceanica, I ml the polar regions, 3; in Australia, 1. The yearly increase of the population of the earth is about 5 to every 1,000. At this rate the population doubles every 139 years. A lady while traveling from Tyrone to Altoona, Pa., had her pocket picked in a car, and she was hustled off miles from her destination because she had not money to pay her fare. There were fourteen men who witnessed the act, and not one of them had the manliness to lend her fifty cents. The French minister of war recently offered a prize for the swiftest bird in a flight from Periguoux to Paris 310 miles. There were 2746 entries and the winner did the distance in seven hours and 84 minutes. f" "CHILDREN TEHTHINC.'' .3 a Kta wimilow s SooTMiao Brace should always he J S nvrwl for ehUdren teething-. 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Cromwell borrowed books from this institution and "forgot to return them." Influence of War H Toys. Within the past few weeks a Ger man factory which makes lead toy sol diers, Inn received so many orders for Turkish autl Greek soldiers for next (.'hristnutb that it announces through the European proHs its inability to till any more orders this year. The makers of toy uniforms, gutties, pictures and similar toys are also running overtime, making specialties illustrating tho Ttirca-Uroek war. Even the textile in dustries are preparing to repp the gold en harvest and material of every im aginable description in Turkish and Greek designs is being manufactured in large quantities. HOl'.ND ItKASONS I'OH A I'l'ltOVAL. There are several cogent reasons why the medical profession recommend and the public prefer Hosteller' Stoinan.; Bitters abovo the ordinary cathartics. 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