A Bank Greenhouse.
Where the "lay" of the land Is favor
able, a very convenient greenhouse or
forcing house can be constructed after
the plun Bhown In the accompanyiny
Illustration. The basement is carried
Into the bank only far enough to give
room for a heating apparatus and the
storing of necessary fuel. The green
house floor is partly below the surface,
the walls here, as well as In the case
of the basement, being laid up with
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mm
v.i v.suw -
THE BASK OKKKNIIOUSK.
rough field stones. The entrance is at
,tlie further end, steps dowu from the
doorway to the greenhouse floor being
provided. Such a building will be ex
ceedingly warm In whiter, not only be
cause of the earth bank, but because
heat can be generated and sent to a
floor above much more readily than It
can be generated upon and diffused
over a single floor. American Agricul
turist. Farm Ivconomy,
rroflts on the farm are much greater
when the averages for several years
are compared, as each year must bear
Its proportion of expense, and a failure
to secure a profit this year may not be
a loss, because there may be a corre
sponding reduction of expense next
year. Nor must we overlook the ad
vantage of the opportunity offered the
farmer of selliug his own labor In the
form of some product. Where a farm
er makes only a small profit, but has
derived a fair sum for the labor he per
sonally bestowed, his gain Is greater
than the actual profit. The farm has
Increased In value as the labor or
manure or other accretion has failed to
yield a reasonable cash profit. On the
farm the Item of labor must be consid
ered according to Its actual cost as an
expenditure. Though the labor of the
farmer himself Is an Item of cost, and
must be paid for, yet he pays It to him
self, and It really is profit because of
the employment secured by him on the
farm. For that reason a small farm, or
a small flock or herd, will always pay
more, Id proportion to expense Incurred,
than larger areas or an increase of
stock. Grange Homes.
A Winter Feed Conker,
Warm mashes are desirable for fowls
and hogs In winter. To cook the food
with but little labor, take half a barrel
and set it In a grocery box, filling in
about It with chaff. Make two covers,
one to fit Inside the barrel, the other
to shut tightly down over the box. Tut
in the meal and wet It soft with one or
more palls of boiling water. Do this
at night and close tightly. The mass
will cook all night long and be nice and
CIIKAP FKED COOKKK.
warm for feeding iu the morning.
Orange Judd Farmer.
Sparrow Destroying Grapes.
It Is becoming extremely difficult
near cities to grow aud ripen grapes,
because of the attacks of sparrows on
this fruit so soou as It begins to color.
Fortunately this pest does uot go far
from cities aud large villages, where It
Buds plenty of feed scattered In the
streets, aud where the warmth from
city houses affords It partial shelter.
But we have learned enough about
the habits of the sparrow to know that
It Is a pest that should be destroyed
wherever seen. In England thousands
of lwyg are employed to Watch grain
fields and drive the sparrows away.
But even after all this care millions of
dollars' worth of grain Is destroyed by
them every year. Exchange.
Barreling Pork.
When the time for putting up pork
approaches the barrels for that purpose
should be got out of the cellar and thor
oughly scalded. No beef barrel should
ever be used for pork, for no matter
how thorough the scalding It gets, some
genua will remain and taint the pork.
Where pork has been kept In good con
dition the brine Is often used a second
time, after thoroughly boiling It and
skimming off the refuse so long as any
appears. But It Is perhaps better to use
the pork brine as a fertilizer for quince
trees, putting one or two quarts only
around each tree. There la much nutrl
tiou taken from lean pork by the brine
-when the pork is salted, and this ia ex
cellent fertilizer for the quince. Am for
jlllllll!
I lt.il 'II V
the salt Is the brine, that Is a solvent
of mineral matters in the soil, and thm
helps the quince tree.
Feeding the Work Horse. '
In feding the working horse I would
feed corn und o:its, equal parts, either
ground or whole, and if convenient
change from marsh hay to clover. Corn
meal should not be fed without some
dllutent. The bran of oats Is sufficient
to proven: It becoming a pasty mass In
the stomaci.. If meal is not mixed
with ground oats or with bran. It
should be fed with dampened cut hay
or cut sheaf oats. With a ration of
corn, oats and timothy hay or marsh
bay, either bran or oil meal or sprouts
should be added, say six pounds of
bran a day, or if oil meal two pounds a
day, or three to five pounds of sprouts.
If fed In the ear, corn may be fed three
times a day, with oats and bran added
at noon and night, with less corn. A
good day's feed for a 1,200-pound horse
Is 14 pounds of hay, 10 pounds of corn
meal, 0 pounds of oats and 6 of bran.
In place of bran one may use two
pounds of oil meal. If he feeds clover
hay he does not need either bran or oil
meal. Corn should never be omitted
from the ration of a horse at hard
work, just as meat Is essential in the
food for laboring men. I once knew a
teamster hauling gravel to say that ten
ears of corn at a feed (thirty ears a
day) did not keep his horses up. He
was told to quit counting corn, and
feed with a scoop shovel. This he did,
and stopped losing flesh. This was, of
course, in the severest kind of work,
long continued. Rural New Yorker.
Lime the Land.
Lime is not used as much as former
ly, aud yet It Is one of the most essen
tial substances entering into the com
position of plants. Jt Is not only plant
food, but It exerts a chemical effect on
the soil, which brings Into use other
materials whlcn are beyond the capaci
ty of plants to reduce. When green food
is turned under, lime will be found a
valuable adjunct, as It combines with
them. It Is a heavy substance and has
a tendency to go down, hence. If broad
casted on the surface of a field, It will
sooner or later be within the reach of
plants. Some lime that has been air
slacked until It Is fine is better than any
other form, and that from the gas
works (mostly sulphites and sulphides)
should not be procured. Every farm
should be limed occasionally, as the
benefit Is sure to be much more than
the cost and no harm can result.
Cures a Home's Rheumatism,
Horses troubled with rheumatism
have been treated successfully with
Turkish baths. Trainer Patterson gave
Hamburg one a few weeks ago and the
king of 2-year-olds came out of the
bath as supple as a youngster. The
TAKING A TUKKISH BATH.
rheumatism had disappeared. He sub
sequently led his field under the wire.
Salt for Apple Orchards.
While It Is well understood that salt
Is not a manure, It Is so good a solvent
of other minerals that where they ex
ist In the soil it may always be used
with advantage We have often ad
vised farmers to apply both potash and
phosphate to apple orchards. But if
this Is done every year it Is probable
that some of these minerals revert to
an Insoluble condition. Whenever the
apple trees set full for bearing it will
pay while giving the usual annual
dressing of potash and phosphate to
add some salt to It, which will be much
cheaper and probably more effective
than supplying directly the minerals
which the salt will Indirectly furnish.
Exchange.
, Beef and Hutter Breeds.
If a beef breed of cattle is preferred
make beef production a specialty, and
not look upon cows of such breeds to be
perfect as producers of milk and but
ter. There may be a few good butter
cows among the beef-producing breeds,
but where a certain article Is desired It
should be the prime object. If milk
and butter are specialties the breeds
used should be those that excel In those
products. Too many good points can
not be had In cows. Each cow will ex
cel In one line only, and should be made
to do duty where the most profitable.
Clover Meal.
Clover hay Is now on the market In
the form of clover meal. It Is scalded
and used for calves, but finds more
favor with those who fed pigs, It be
ing found excellent as an addition to
skim milk. The clover meal, If scalded,
becomes soft and swells and has been
found very wholesome and nutritious,
as well as highly relished by young
stock. .
No Alderneys,
Farmers snd dairymen are not as
particular In making known their
goods la a manner to Impress the fact
that they 'horouguly understand tbelr
calling. "Alderuey milk" Is a frequent
sign on milk wagons, says the Philadel
phia Record, yet there-Is no such arti
cle, as there Is not an Alderney cow In
the United States. "Durham" cattle is
used for designating the shorthorns,
although the term Is one that does not
now apply to any particular breed.
IHh Priced Kama.
A merino ram sold for (8,000 at Syd
ney, and at other points In Australia
from $2,000 to $0,000 have been paid
for rams. These prices are high, but
the sheep breeders did pot make any
considerable profit until they began t
buy tha beat rami In other countries.
DEFECTS IN ELEVATORS.
An Air Cushion the Latest Scheme t
Prevent Injury If the Car Falls.
The elevator is a labor and time sav
ing device In such common use that
no consideration should stand In the
way of reducing to
a minimum the
element of danger.
Yet accidents occur
so frequently that
It would seem as If
progress toward
safety had stopped.
Only in very rare
cases does a car
"drop." This could
happen only if all
the cables support
ing It should part.
In the great major
ity of accidents the
car "runs away,"
or gets beyond the
control of the ope
rator, and nothing
can prevent disas
ter but an automat
ic device which will
stop the car gradu
ally. No such de
vice which can be
absolutely depend
ed upon Is now In
Use.
M a n u facturers
are unanimous In
declaring the aver
to
age "elevator man"
or "boy" Is Incapa-
aib cuTi( for ble ot properly ope-
klkvators. rating an elevator.
No elevator Is simple. The passenger
does not see and could not understand
the complicated mechanism necessary
to Its working. Yet these delicate ma
chines are often placed In charge of Ig
norant boys or men whose qualifica
tions are limited to a superficial under
standing of the working power and
safety devices.
The engineer of a locomotive must
pass a severe examination and serve
an apprenticeship before he Is Intrust
ed with the lives of passengers, aud
even grlpmen and motormen operate
their cars for a long time under the eye
of an experienced man. A 16-year-old
engineer or motorola n would never be
employed. It Is suggested that cars
should be placed In charge only of men
who are old enough to be clear-headed,
who have passed a suitable examina
tion as to knowledge and general fit
ness. A scheme which Is In use in a few
buildings and has given good satisfac
tion is an air cushion In the bottom of
the shaft. The lower part of the shaft
for a distance of several feet Is made
air tight. When a falling car drops
into this "tube" the air below It acts as
a cushion, and the stop Is made gradual
by the escape of the air around the
sides of the car. For experiment a car
has been dropped repeatedly 125 feet
Into one of these cushions, and stop
page was not of sufficient abruptness
to break eggs on the car floor.
THREt NOW USED.
The TntercoUesrlate, the Gaelic and
the Association Footballs.
Three kinds of footballs nro used
,by foot-ball players. The official Inter
collegiate root-ball Is an ellipse. Thnt
used In the Gaelic game Is almost a
THESE CAUSE LOTS OF TBOrjBI.K.
perfect globe and the association foot
ball is perfectly round. The Intercol
legiate foot-ball Is the only one which
can be picked up and carried.
The Jack Itabblt.
Kansas dealers In hides have at
length awakened to the fact that Jack
rabbit hides, known In commerce as
American hare pelts, are In great de
mand In the Eastern market, and no
tices similar to the following are ap
pearing In many papers throughout the
State:
"We will buy nicely handled cased
Jack rabbit skins at 3 cents each; open
ed or damaged, half price; culls and
pieces 3 cents a pound; cottontails at
5Va cents a pound. Must be perfectly
dry and free of meat."
The skins of the Jack rabbits are
used for making hats. The best qual
ity of bats, says the New York Times,
are made from fur, and the fur has
heretofore been obtained from Aus
tralia, where the rabbits are success
fully disputing the possession of the
country with the human Inhabitants.
The Halt bpltler.
' What la known as the raft spider la
the largest of the British apeclei. It
recelvea lta name from the fact that It
constructs a raft of dried leaves and
rubbish united by threads of silk, and
thus pursues Its prey on the water.
The wind has a great deal to do with
, making the weather vane.
To Still the Ocean' Waves.
A scheme to increase the efficiency
of oil to still the waves of the ocean in
a storm has been thought out by Wil
liam Guthrie, of Chicago. His notion
is based on the argument that if oil has
a pacifying effect whan distributed on
the water in the immediate neighbor
hood of the ship in trouble, its effect
would be magnified if the oil could be
applied at adistanoe all about the ship,
thus creating a calm circle, in which
the ship could ride in safety until the
storm had spent its fury. His proposi
tion is to shoot saturated sponges or cot
ton from a pneumatic gun, that being
preferable to a powder gun, as there
would be no danger of igniting the oil
soaked sponge. Some people interested
in shipping have been impressed with
the idea and application is to be made
to congress for an appropriation to test
its efficiency.
In the publication of the Berlin
Academy of Sciences, Professor Roent
gen has an article in which he confirms
the observation of Dr. Brandes that it
is possible to make the X-rays visible
to the eye.
KNOCKED OUT.
It knocks out all calculations of attend
ing to business in the right way for a day
when we wake up in the morning sore and
stiff. The disappointment lies in going to
bed all right and waking up all wrong.
There is a short and sure wav out of it. Go
to bed after a good rub with St. Jacobs Oil
and you wake up all right; soreness and
stiffness all gone. So sure is this, that men
niuch exposed in changeful weather keep
a bottle of it on the mantel for use at night
to make sure of going to work in good hi.
A floral curiosity is on exhibition in
the Temple Gardens, London. It is a
$5,000 orchid from Venezuela. It has
a white flower which in shape resem
bles a sea-gull with outspread wings.
THE rUKSUlT OF HAPPINESS.
When the Declaration of Independence as
serted man's right to this, it enunciated an
Immortal truth. The bilious sufferer Is on the
road to happiness when he begtiiB to take Hos
tetter's Bitters, the most efticaeiouB regulator
ot the liver in existence. Equally reliable is It
tit chills and fever, constipation, dvspepsia,
rheumatism, kidney trouble and nervousness.
Use it regularly and not at odd intervals.
If you look at the map you will find
that the mountain chains of the Old
World lie east and west, while those of
the New World lie north and south.
AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS.
We are asserting In the court our right to the
exclusive use ol the word "CASTORIA," and
PITCHER SCASTORIA," as our Trade Mark.
I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannts, Massachusetts,
was the originator of " PITCHER'S CAS TORIA,"
the same that has borne and does now bear the
fac simile signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on
every wrapper. This is theoriginal " PITCHER'S
CASTORI A " which has been used In the homes
Of the mothers of America for over thirty veara.
Look Carefully at the wrapper and see that it la
I the kind you have always bought, and has the
signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the
wrapper. No one has authority from me to use
my name except The Centaur Company of which
Chas. H. Fletcher is President.
March S, 1S9J. SAMUEL PITCHER, M.Q.
Benjamin Bissell, who lives near
Pallston Spa., K. Y., saya he has voted
lor eighteen presidential candidates,
not one of whom was elected.
UOMK PRODUCTS AND PUHK FOOD.
All Eastern Syrup, so-called, usually verv
hunt colored and o( heavy body, Is made from
kiueose. (inrrint Inivt" is made from
kutiar Cane and Is strictly pure. It is lor sale
by first-class grocers, in cans only. Manufac
tured by the Pacific Coast Kyri'p Co. All iren
uine "T'a (iarilrn Win" have the manufac
turer's name lithographed on every can.
Piso's Cure for Consumption is the only
rough medicine used in mv house. 1), 0.
Albright, Miininburg, Pa., bee. 11, '95.
Try Schilling'! Best tea and baking powder.
Diamonds have been discovered, in
rare instances, in. the meteoiic stones
which have fallen to the earth.
"King Solomon's Treasure," only Aphrndislacal
Tunic known. (See Dictionary.) ."..uu a box, a
weeks' treatment. Mason Chemical Co., P. O. Box
U7, Philadelphia, Pa.
In every mile of railway there are
leven feet four inches not covered by
the rails, the space left for expansion.
The number of stars pictured on the
latest English and Gorman photo
graphic ut lasses is about G8,000,U0.
There are no rats, mice or cats in
Panta Fe, N. M. The air there ia too
raritied for them to exist.
YOUNG WOMANHOOD.
Sweet young girls I ITdw often they
Icve lop In to worn, listless, and hopelesa
women because mother has not. im
pressed upon them the 1m porta n of
attending to physical development.
No woman Is exempt from physical
weakness ana penoatcai pain, jcx
and youngglrls Just . ,, smiiVL
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" " n
h woman
hood should
be guided
physically
as well as
morally. If
you know of
any young
lady who is
sick and
needs moth
erly advice,
ask her to ad
dress Mrs. rink
ham at Lynn,
Mass., and tell every detail of
her symptoms, surroundings aud occu
pation. She will get advice from ft source
that has no rival In experience of wo
men's ills. Tell her to keep nothing
back. Her story will be told to a wo
man, not to a man. She need not hesi
tate in stating details that she may
not wish to mention, but which are
essential to a full understanding of her
case, and if she is frank, help is certain
to come I ,
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Get Schilling's Best baking powder or tea at your grocers'; take out tha
ticket (brown ticket in every package of baking powder; yellow ticket In the
tea); send a ticket with each word to address below before December 3rst. ;
Until October 15th two words allowed for every ticket ; after that only on
word for every ticket.
If only one person finds the word, that person gets f 2000.00; if several find
it, rooo.oo will be equally divided among them.
Every one sending a brown or yellow ticket will receive a set of cardboard
creeping babies at the end of the contest. Those sending three or more in one
envelope will receive an 1SS98 pocket calendar no advertising on it. These
creeping babies and pocket calendars will be diilerent from the ones offered in
the last contest.
Better cut these rules out.
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By local applications as they eannnt reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is onlv one
way to cure deafness, and that Is bv constitu
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flamed condition of Hie mucous llnliiK of the
Kumachfan Tube. When this tube Is Inflamed
you have a runibllnK round or Imperfect hear
lug, and when it is entirely closed, deafness Is
the result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken nut and this tube restored to Its normal
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nine cases out of ten are caused bv Caiarrh,
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Recent French exuerfinents have de
veloped the curious and unexpected fact
that certain persons possess a magnetic
polarity that is, they act as magnets,
having north and south poles. Suoh a
person, when completely undressed
and placed near a sensitive galvanome
ter, will, when turned on a vertical
axis, cause a deflection first in one di
rection and then in the opposite, Just
as a magnet would. All persons do not
possess this polarity. Professor Mil
rani, an Italian, upon whom the experi
ment was tried, exhibited this phenom
enon, and it is was found that his
breast corresponded to a north pole and
his back to a south pole,
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A fat men's club has been instituted
in Paris, with the novel aim of in
creasing the weight of the members,
the rules enjoining all the comrades to
sleep, eat and drink as much as pos
sible. YOUR LIVERS
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