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c A MODERN SAMSON'S FEAT. -OEOBQE MOATS' TRXrAXEBDOTJS V1X D EBTAXIH Q. Carrying- 200 Pound a Distance of One mile Without a Single II est Mialiap on the Wajr. "A wtmderful act, isn't it?" remarked -a gentleman in the audience at the mu seum, as the " iron-jawed " man raised the barrel of water high in the air with '. his teeth. "How does it strike you, Uncle Jerry?" " Uncle Jerry " was a tall, gaunt man, whose sunburnt face, slouch hat, and ill fitting clothes gave him a decidedly pro vincial air. ' Waal, it's purty good." ; said he, reflectively, as he scratched his chin, " but it looks ter me like a trick -somethin' he hez practiced fer a long time. Git him away vfrum his bar'l an' I reckon he ain't so stout. But talkin' about weight-lifters, I know a feller in this State as is a weight-lifter, an' a weight-carrier, "too, uv which latter, I will remark, thar Ain't many. I knowed him when I used ter buy hogs down in Illinoy, nigh onter ten years ago. He lived in Princeville, a little town in Peoria county, which wuz allays jist as big as it is now, an' -allays will be. Moats wuz this feller's name George Moats. He was about fifty-five years old when I knowed him past his prime, but a hustler yet. He wuz built like the statutes ye see in the drug store winders uv ole Atlas a-holdin' up ,the world, an' wuz the only man I ever see that hed no armpits. They wuz rounded out with muscle, an' made him carry his arms bowed out like a dood. He weighed about 250 pounds, and I reckon wuz one uv of the slouchiest men on airth .at thet time: All the cloes he wore wuz a pair uv overhauls an' a cot ton shirt, an' he gen'ally had aboard a considerable dose uv liker; but George wuz one uv the best-natured men in the world, an', as he used to say, no man knowed his strength. "The best thing that I ever see George do wuz carrying 200 poun's a mile with out layin' it down er restin' on the way. Now, you fellers look as ef thet wasn't much uv a trick, bu let me tell yer it's a big thing. Any uv yer kin lift 200 poun't an' mebey carry it acrost this room, but whar will yer fine a man thet's got the nerve ter pack it a mile without weaknin' t "It happened this way : I hed ben a tayin' aroun' Princeville some time a buyin' up shoats for winter fatnin', an' one arternoon wus a-settin' on the hotel porch with a lot uv other fellers, George amongst the rest. George Vuz full of liker, as usual. He wus mashed down inter a chair, half asleep, his head on his breast, an' his big, bare feet turned up ter the sun aginst a post. A little .sport uv a feller, named Charlie Fast, wuz a-readin' in a Chicago newspaper how a feller here hed tried ter carry 200 poun's uv shot a mile in the expersition, an' hed fell down on it. George grunted like a fat hog, an', scz he, 'That feller mus' be a chump; my ole woman can do it.' " Til bet ten dollars you can't do it,' sez Charlie, a-winkin' at the boys. "This kinder riled George, an' sez he: 4Ye wouldn't say that, Charlie, if ye knowed I hed ten dollars.' " Jist then Fred Beach come outen the .saloon, an sez he: Til take the bef, if George sez he kin do it.' "An' then ole Jim Rice, the landlord uv the house, sez ' Til take $3 of the same, fur I know George kin pack any thing he kin lift.' So Charlie tub 'em both an' the money wuz . put up in my han's. George wuz ter git half the bet if he done it, an' Cliarlie wuz ter pick the mile ter be traveled and the weight. "We went acrost the road ter the -drug store an' got two 100-pound kegs uv white lead. Each one wuz put into a grain sack, the two tied together and .slung acrost George's neck. The whole thing weighed 200 poun's and wuz put on him the wust way possible. "It wuz a blazin' hot day an' the black Illinoy mud wuz six inches deep. Charlie hed picked out the south road from town, 'cause it wuz up-hill an' down. As the roacb wuz purty slippy, an' George wuz purty drunk, it wuz de cided thet he shud hev a minute ter git up in case he fell down. So, arter con sidable wranglin' about one thing an' an other, which wuz a pint made by Charlie ter tucker George out afore the walk be gun, the hull town started down the road, George a-leadin'. The knot on the back uv his neck kep' a-botherin' him a good deal, so he kep' a-shif tin' the kegs, sometimes on his back, sometimes on his breast, an' agin carryin' one on each arm, an' all the time a-staggerin' under his whisky, an' a-slippin' an slidin' aroun' in the mud, like he wud fall every minit "The mile ended with the fust cross roads, and the last stretch uv it wuz up -a steep hill. George kep' up all right till he started up this hill, when the kegs, the mud 'an' the liker got the best uv him and down he went. He hed got the idee in Ms head thet he musn't put his han's -on the groun' ef he fell, cr he wud lose the bet. So, instid uv breakin' the fall with his han's, he throwed 'em aroun' on his back, an' the 200 poun's aroun' his neck shot him inter the mud like he'd ben throwed off en a house. He spattered mud on the hull party when he lit, an' thar he lay, his head half buried in the mud, an' one blear eye a-blinkin' up at ni3 like a dyin' coal in the ashes. Charlie Fast got out his watch, an' purty soon he sed: 'Half a minit, George.' But George sed nothin' an' we thot he wuz -dun up. Jist then ole Vaughn Williams jmlled out his wallet, kind-a-solemn like, unwrapped the shoestring from it, wet his finger, an' sed: 'Genelmen, I'll bet .$30 he gits up with it on time." "The boys all yelled an' looked et George, an' Charlie sez: ''You've got jist ten secuns more.' And then George spit the mud outen his mouth, an' sez he: 'If ye think fifty dollar's worth thet I kin git up' with this here, Vaughn, I'm a-goin' ter git up t An' he did. He rose right up often his stumak without movin' his han's, an' them two kegs a-danglin' over his face like two big ear-drops, an' while the boys wuz a-yellin' he walked up ter the top uv the hill an' throwed them kegs over a stake-en'-rider fence 'leven-rail high. We hed ter let the fence down ter git the kegs back inter the road, an' thar wuzn't a man in the crowd as cud lift both uv 'em, an' put 'em in the wagon we hed fetched along ter haul 'em back. Fred Beach laffed, an' sed he reckoned as how he wuz a jedge uv manflesh as well as hoss-flesh. An Charlie Fast he sed he'd seen luck like his'n run on for a year et a time, an' then turn 'roun' an' git wuss; but he sed he never lost $15 easier, an George hed earnt his half uv it, sure. But ole Vaughn Williams he chuckled kind-a low like, an' sed he acted like George wuz a pow'rful man, but he knowd thet George's son Os cud carry the ole man an' his load. C htcago News. Curing a Catarrh. Cold is a tonic that invigorates the re spiratory organs when all other stimulants fail, and, combined with arm-exercise and certain dietetic alternatives, fresh, cold air is the best remedy for all the dis orders of the lungs and upper air-passages. As soon as the oppression of the chest, obstruction of the nasal ducts, and unusual lassitude indicate that a "cold has been taken" in other words, that an air-poison has fastened upon the bronchi ijs influence should at once be counter acted by the purest and coldest air avail able, and the patfcnt should not stop to weigh the costs of a day's furlough against the danger of a chronic catarrh. In case imperative duties should interfere, the enemy must be met after dark, by de voting the first half of the night to an outdoor campaign, and the second half to an encampment before a wide-open window. If the fight is to be short and decisive, the resources of the adversary must be diminished by a strict fast. De nutrition, or the temporary abstinence from food, is the most effective, and at the same time the safest, method for elim inating the morbid elements of the sys tem; and there is little doubt that the proximate cause of a catarrh consists in the action of some microscopic , parasite that develops its germs while the resistive power of the respiratory organs is dimin ished by the influence of impure air. Cold air arrests that development by di rect paralysis. Toward the end of the year a damp, sultry day the catarrh weather par excellence is sometimes f ol- lowea by a sudden irost, ana at sucn, times I have often found that a six hours' inhalation of pure, cold night-air will free the obstructed air-passages so effec tually that on the following morning hardly a slight huskiness of the voice suggests the narrowness of the escape from a two weeks' respiratory misery. But, aided by exercise, out-door air of any temperature will accomplish the same effect. In two days a resolute pedestrian can walk away from a summer catarrh of that malignant type that is apt to defy half-open windows. But the specific of the movement-cure is arm-exercise dumb-bell swinging, grapple-swing prac tice, and woocUchopping. On a cold morning (for, after all, there are ten win ter catarrhs to one in summer), a wood shed matinee seems to reach the seat of the disease by an air-line. . As the chest begins to heave under the stimulus of the exercise, respiration becomes freer as. it becomes deeper and fuller, expectoration ceases to be painful, and the mucus is at last discharged en masse, as if the system had only waited for that amount of en couragement to rid itself of the incubus. A catarrh can thus be broken up in a sin gle day. For the next half-week the diet should be frugal and cooling. Fruit, light bread and a little cold, sweet milk, is the best catarrh-diet. A fast-day, though, is still better. Fasting elects in a perfectly safe way what the old-school practitioners tried to accomplish by bleeding; it reduces the semi-febrile con dition which accompanies every severe cold. There is no doubt that by exercise alone a catarrh can gradually be "worked off. " But in-doors it is apt to be steep, up hill work, while cold air even before the season of actual frosts acts upon pulmo nary disorders as it does upon malarial fevers ; it reduces them to a less malig nant type. Dr. Oswald,in Popular Science Monthly. What Job Never Experienced. Job was a man possessed of a great deal of patience, and he was capable of stand ing almost anything that came along in the way of annoyance ; but we'll venture to say that he never had a porous-plaster on his back, right between the shoulder blades, where he couldn't possibly reach it with his hands, and where it was so troublesome that he had to rasp his spine on the edge of the door. Puck. A correspondent who noticed an ac count of a remarkable case of hereditary longevity of life in a Scottish family, recently printed, gives the record of the Bigelow family, of Peru, Vt. In the in stance reported from Scotland the united ages of nine children amounted to 572 years ; but the correspondent states the united ages of the seven daughters of Mr. Asa Bigelow made a total of G08 years. These seven sisters were born in 1791, 1801, 1803, 1805, 1810, 1812 and 1816. . Russia produces annually about $4,. 000,000 worth of honey, or over 18,000 tons, beside 5,000 pounds of wax worth $2,000,000. It is nearly all consumed in the empire, however. The dead-letter office gets over 4,000, 000 letters a year. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Seed Potatce. now to cut potatoes for planting has been a subject of continual interest for discussion in the farmers' clubs and the meetings of the agricultural associations, and the subject also of no little experi ment; but unfortunately in this connec tion as well as others, there is no definite record of all the conditions prevailing at the time of the experiments, 'or of the quantitative results secured. The sub ject is an important one, and has within the last year or two been made a matter of experiment. In Germany Lydecker has directed his attention especially to the value of the eyes ' on different parts of the tuber, and the depth of planting upon the quantity of the crop. He finds that the end eyes are more prolific than the side ones ; and that a better crop is secured by shallow than by deep plant ing. Woolny experimented with pota toes that were uncut, those cut in the direction of the long diameter through the center, and those cut through the short diameter, and his crops showed that uncut potatoes furnish the best seed, while of the parts of' cut potatoes' the pointed ends were more prolific than the other halves or the tubers, ne found also that the pointed ends gave larger tubers than the medium-sized whole po tatoes. Except to increase the seed, therefore, it is better, in view of the quantity .and quality of the crop, to plant whole uncut potatoes. On the other hand, Forbisch finds that there is a limit to the weight or size of the pota toes to be used for seed, but he does not state what this limit may be. Yet he finds that the extension of disease in the crop tends to increase with the increased size of the seed. The Care of a Colt. Every farmer may rear a colt, or a pair of them. And if he will do this and turn the colts over to his boys for their special care, and as their property, it will be one excellent way of interesting them in the farm work. And in the remarks we now propose to make we intend them specially for the boys' use. A boy and a colt may get on very well together, for as a rule a colt will do more for a boy than it will for a man. A boy will pet the colt and not kick it with a rough boot if it is a little stupid at times, and a colt knows what kindness is as well as a boy does. The way to a colt's heart is through its mouth, and it soon learns to love and obey the hand that feeds it or gives it sugar. But it needs training from the very first and will learn all the more and all the better the sooner its training begins. The first lesson in training a colt is to put on a halter, a soft, easily fitting one, but it must be 6trong and securely fastened. The worst thing that can be done in the training is to make mistakes and put the colt off the right track. So that if a colt's halter once breaks it may teach him to become a confirmed halter-breaker when a horse. After the halter had been worn a day or two the colt should be taught to . lead by it and to be tied up. In leading the colt it should be taught to walk along quickly, but not to run. Walking is the first pace to be taught, and a fast walking horse is worth a good deal more to a fanner for his work than one that could run a mile in a minute. It makes a difference of one acre's plow ing in a week, and of a mile an hour on the road with a load. The next lesson is to teach the colt to be handled all over, to be rubbed with a soft wisp of straw, to lift its feet, to stand over, to back, and have its head handled. After every lesson a little sugar should be given, or a piece of bread with some sugar rubbed on it. This will cause it to come to hand when called, which is a very important lesson to be taught well. Overfeeding a colt is very hurtful. At first, when a month old, the colt may be taught to lick a little fine oatmeal with a little sugar in it. A teaspoonful at first is enough, and in a week it may have, a tablespoonf ul. When it is three months old a few oats may be given, but no corn or cornmeal. A pint of oats a day will be enough for another month or two, and when a colt is six months old it may have a ouart a day. If anything should hap pen to the mare and a young colt is left a helpless orphan it may be reared on cows' milk by adding one-third warm water and as much sugar as will make it slightly sweet. Mare's milk has about half as much fat and twice as much sugar in it as a cow's milk, and cow's milk is, therefore, not healthful for a colt unless watered and sweetened. It is quite easy to teach a colt to drink as a calf does; but if it is weak at first it will suck from a common nursing bottle or from a small can with a spout or a coffee-pot with a rag tied on the end of the spout. The greatest care should be taken not to make a colt angry, and never to whip it. - In leading it it may be touched be hind with a little switch if it pulls back, and in leading it it should be held by the halter and never by the end of a rope, as then one has better control over it. Lastly, kindness, patience, and firm ness will enable a boy to teach a colt any thing, just as a boy knows these will en able a man to teach a boy anything. New York Times. Farm and Garden Notes. Apricot .trees mayv be transplanted at any age without suffering from the change. A large area of the poorer land and of the hill and mountain country, of no agricultural value, is fitted for the profit able growth of timber. Lima beans are grown more success fully if planted in rows, seed six inches apart, than if planted in hills. .The rows should be about three feet apart. Mr. J. S. Woodward, of Lockport, N. Y., grew last year a crop of six rowed barley, estimated at eighty bushels per acre. It was grown on land that had been heavily manured for mangels the previous season. . Very good results have been obtained from the application of from six to seven hundred pounds of gypsum to an acre of potatoes. Many farmers prefer to use that amount in three applications during the growing season. The New York Times suggests that farmers teep their seed wheat in some caustic solution that will destroy the germs of rust and smut. These sub stances destroy the spores of seeds of the minute " plants that produce the dis eases. Smut is rapidly increasing, and precautions should be taken to prevent it; Drainage not only deepens the soil but improves its texture and quality. The roots of crops will penetrate only to the depth at which the soil is drained. The land that i3 well drained can be worked sooner after rains and endures the drought better, while the ground warms earlier ic spring and permits of more abundant crops and better tillage. In the American Farmer Mr. D. Carter, in giving an account of the growth of a tomato on a pile of slaked shell lime, states that it was four feet long and abounded with tomatoes. He was sur prised at its growth and fruitfulness un der the conditions, and considered it demonstrated that slaked shell lime was the fertilizer for that plant, when heavily applied, it seeming to answer all pur poses. There is a point to be noticed in regard to the introduction of new varieties ol strawberries, which is that when grown in localities different from that in which they originated they sometimes disap point the buyer. Very often an origi nator manures highly, mutches well,keep9 down suplur blossoms and runners, and cultivates carefully before displaying his crop, while the variety may be really no better than some other well-known variety if given the same good treatment. Salt has been greatly recommended as a specific manure for the quince. It is undoubtedly helpful, but it owes its good effect more to its influence in keep ing the soil moist and preventing its freezing, than to any inherent manurial properties. There are undoubtedly times when salt is absolutely hurtful to quince trees, applied in large quantities aftei deep cultivation, which has broken, torn and bruised the slender roots. Of the mineral manures, potash in the form ol wood ashes, leached or unleached, we have found most beneficial. One of the most successful persons in raising peaches is Mr. Andrew Sweeten, ot JNew Jersey, according to the Farm Journal. The land is sandy but he plants the trees deeper than they were in the nursery. At time of planting he places two quarts of lime and a small quantity of manure on the surface about each tree, cultivates well and raises truck on the land until the trees are large. He removes the surface earth around the trees for two or three feet when manur ing, making the depth about three inches, and after filling the manure in covers it with earth. In a well-planned system of farming the subject of crop rotations should be carefully considered, as one of the essen tial elements of success in its highest and best sense. Early writers on agriculture, even from the times of the Greeks and Romans, have quite uniformly urged the advantages of a succession of crops from the teachings of experience. That these practical rules of alternating crops of different habits and modes of growth are based on correct but not fully explained principles has been shown by direct ex periment. At Rothamsted. England. Drs. Lawes and Gilbert obtained nearly as much wheat in eight crops, attended with eight crops of beans, as in sixteen crops of wheat grown consecutively without manure in anothcr'field ; and also nearly as much wheat as in eight crops alter nated with ba refallow. Ileinoringr Stains from Cotton or liinen Goods, etc , Grease spots are best removed by soap; stains from oil colors, as a rule, do not resist the action of a mixture of soap and caustic potash. If spots of tar or axle grease are unaffected by soap, they will usually yield to the solvent action of benzine (ordinary ether, or of butter, which may afterward be removed with soap and water. For ink stains, dilute hydrochloric acid, which must subse quently be carefully washed out, will generally be found effectual. For the same purpose oxalic acid or salts of sor rel (hydrogen pottassium oxalate) may also be employed, and that most eco nomically, in fine powder to be sprinkled over the stains and moistened with boil ing water. The action of these solvents may be hastened by gently rubbing, or still bet ter, by placing the stained portion of the fabric in contact with metallic tin. If there is much iron rust to be removed, dyer's tin salt (stannous chloride) will perform the work at less expense than the oxalic acid compound. Another solvent for such stains consists of a mix ture of two parts argol with one part powdered alum. Bilberry stains usually yield to the stains of burning sulphur. Stains caused by red wine, white wine, and fruit juices in general are treated successfully with salts of sorrel or with solution of hypo chlorite of soda. The latter especially must be carefully removed when the ends have been attained. Another well-tried plan, when space is available, is to spread the stained fabric on the ground, in the open air, smear the spots with soap, and sprinkle ground pot ash or common salt upon them. Water is added and replaced when lost by evaporation. After two or three hours' exposure the whole fabric maybe washed, and will be usually freed from its stains. Industrial Record. Large Fortunes in Germany. "Large fortunes are rare in Germany, says Vanity Fair. The London World replies that, on the contrary, there is. no country where there are so many large fortunes among "the territorial aris tocracy." Tfa. Germany proper there are twenty-six estates which are larger than any in, Great Britain with the exception of the Duke of Sutherland's domain; but an enormous number of acres of his Scotch estate are a trackless waste. The landed possessions of Prince Schwartzenberg cover 120 German square miles, those of Prince Lichtenstein extend over 104; square miles, Prince Esterhazy's eighty, and Count Schonborn's sixty. There are numerous estates of fifty square miles. A Sharper's Trick. A man, for having successfully played this trick in Chicago, is now in prison : Enter a grocery or drugstore and ask for a cake of soap and tender a $10 bill in payment. The clert returns a $5 bill and $4.90 in change. Then discover that you already had ten cents in change, which you put with the $4.00, asking the clerk at the same time to give you a $3 bill for the change. After getting the bill pull out the first $5 bill and say to the clerk: "Here is $5 more just give me back the $10." Simple as this plan is, it frequently fools the confused clerk, and leaves the customer $4.90 and a cake of soap ahead. New York Eceninq Post. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was first prepared in liquid form only; but now it can be sent in dry forms by mail to points where no druggist can readily be reached, and to-day the Compound in lozen ges and pills finds its way even to the foreign climes of Europe and Asia. The government wiil spend $100,000 in im provements at Hell Gate, New York. Heart disease has brought many to an un timely grave. The heart is as liable as other ' organs ta disease; if you have it even in tho slightest form use Dr. Graves' Heart Regu lator. $1 per bottle at druggists. There are 90,000 acres given up to oyster culture in Connecticut. Have you heart disease in any forM? if so, use Dr. Graves' Heart Regulator: SO years have proved it a ture remedy for organic or sympathetic heart disease. $1 per bottle. Many Iowa farmers are emigrating to Dakota. I can safely recommend Ely's Cream Balm for the cure of catarrh, cold in the head, etc Before I have used the first bottle-1 purchased I find myself cured. At times I could scarcely , smell anything aud had a headache most of tune.-Henry Eilly, Act Sir the American Ex press urana naven, Mien, trace ouc.) Last winter I found positive relief from Catarrh with Ely's Cream Balm. Was troubled foryears. I have no doubt a thor ough use of Cream Bairn will cure a majority of cases. E. D. Norton, Ithaca, N. Y. Seeadu Quantity and quality, in the Diamond Dyes more coloring Is given than in any known dyes, and they give faster and mora brilliant colors. 10c. at all druggists. Wells, Richardson & Co., Burlington, Vt. Sample card, 83 colors; book of directions, 2c. stamp. Bald Heads when you have tried everything else and failed, try our Carboline and be happy; it will prove its merits. One dollar a bottle, and sold by all druggists. PtTBEST AND BEST OOD-LITEB OIL, from Selected livers, on the seashore, by Caswell, Hazard & Co., N.Y. Absolutely pure and sweet Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians declare it superior to all other oils. Chaffed hands, face, pimples and rough skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by Caswell, Hazard & Co.L New York. Bucbn-Palba." Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Diseases. $1. Druggists. The Teattmoa y or a Physician. James Beecher, M. D., of Sigourney, iowa, says: " For several years I have been usin a Cugh Balsam, called Dr. Wm. Hall'i Balsam for the Lungs, and in almost ever case through my practice I have had entin SUCC3SS. I have used and prescribed hundred! of bottles since the days of my army practict (183), when I was surgeon of Hospital No. Louisville, Kj.n Officeholders. The office held by the kidneys is one of im portance. They act as nature's sluice-ways to carry off the extra liquids from the sys tem and with them the impurities, both those that are taken into the stomach and thoso that are formed in the blood. Any clogging or inaction of these organs is therefore im portant. Kidney-Wort is Nature's efficient assistant in keeping the kidneys in good workine order, strengthening them and in ducing healthy action.. If you would get well and keep well, take Kidney-W ort. Rouru on C'ontas." Knocks a Cough or Cola endwise. For children or adults.Troches, 15c. Liquid, 50c l,ow Prices For Butter. The New York Tribune in its market re port, explained why some butter is sold for such low prices, in speaking of butter, it said : "Light colored goo is are very bard to dispose of and several lots were thought well 6old at 8 to 10 cents. " If butter makers would get the top price, they should use the Im proved Butter Color, made by Wells, Rich ardson & Co., Burlington, Yt. 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