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AGRICULTURAL. Detaaselling Oorn. As has already IM-.-H noted in tlni journal u . ( H,I,, ,.,|,,.| uncut station has been invest tnting UM dhoto o< cutting otf the t ,-,!- of corn In ascci tain '. "iw tlie crop was arlect- i -i thereby. In tlu> experiment, the tassels ire r.-m,i\cd (nun alternate rows in the k*n;e Hold, mill a* a genera! result ;t may lie stated thatthe yield of the rows from win-h the tassels were ICIII.IM- I waa rifty per ceut. greater than that of the ro*.s |*rmitte.l to giow in the usual way. The theory of this -nil 11, tir>t, that in the MMMiV "t nature, pollcnuttion UMIIU left to a i lent, pollen IH piodncrd t.u In i . -s nt what would IH.- tli,- necessity : r .: it all utilized for tin- put |x>!i-.jf fertilirat'.'m ; .in. I, ml, that then- u a tiled amount of vitality or strsjngtk in a givei '.ill of eon, ami that if a portion ;>f tins is employed in the production of i,iineoeii*ary |KI||I-II, juit K' in null 11 ilivi-rteil from the production of grain! A* in well known, no process in nature it more rxhaiiMit -e or causes a _ ili.un upon the vital power than the pro i clipped from breeds which havu been for centime! similar to what tli-v are to-day, l>ecame they hare l>een raised hy the farm- log population of the Orient, who are the mm! unprojfreasi\ < of uli Caucasian people. Some lire-iln 111 tin- K-ist are notcil lot tin- immense HI/.C to whi'-h the tail n devclupcd. II ,1'itus telUiiB 'hit tli.- | |ih- .! tlmt TIT BITS. Gold Comfort. A couple from the humbler walks of life came before a justice of the peace to ! mar- rieil, when, the ceremony Itemg over, the H lotus UU US hat tin- peopli ot that r en, wi en, ony oeu ivpl.i. i-.lliltl.- two -wh.-.-:.'il nils at bii-1,! began to weep copiously. the servic.- of H..-HC Ut nini|-,l .she,-,, lofl ""Ufa the matter? as I the purpone o[ currying tin- immense tail. OiK-nUl wine'- iiil'oriu nit tlmt it custom to this May. Kat me it U-ing nn.it- higliK pti/fl tli'tn If. in, i |r. -1. -in ut the tail is coiiHidereil n great ih-li,-,i, y I'"' '"ilk ut' the ' <l |i.-' v, ,1.1' -, n:i|Ni'!i-.| Hit i tlli.l i -null try come from I'ussia anil are ^IOWM on I >. ,nskoi nheeji. The wool in hairy, coarse, an. I aUmt tin- im-hes long. The sheep seldom \ lelil one h tlf to (Muiii'ls of wool it in scorn ' mure than one and i. n.- and three quarter the dirt. The shrinkage least of any breed, Iwing as low aa ten to Mxtccii per cent. Tin- wool grown on the native sheep of India is aUo very i:nar*e. Tin highest grades cf I carpet wools comes frnm<>n-at III Hum and South Ann-lie.!. Iiilin-at Itritain the car asked the new husband. " 1 never told you that I don't know how t.. i "nk," .sol, lie, 1 the bride. " Don't fret. I'll not have anything to <-i>ok. I'm a poet." A Moral Certainty. Caraway Kire years fr.Jin now, old man, yon won't find any liars among the Indians. Honks \VliMt makes you thinkso? Caraway Why, by that tinifl the gov- ernment won't allow what i left of them to retain even a mental reservation. [Wasp. GoTerinjr it Up. You bail IK')-, yon have made a (crease 4u tion'of the fcrtilm'nK principle, snd tl.U p,-t wool i, grown on the S.-otd, Highland Pt on the new sofa with your bread and is true both in the animal and vcgetalih- liUck -Faced and the \Vcb-h Mountain | ,_,_! v , _.- kin.iloinn. In wto.-k and poultry growing be<-p, and i* mainly unfit for any other the truth finds pra.-tii -a I i. 11^1.111011 in the purpose tli, in the manufacture "f carpi tt practice of caitratingandcaponi/ing animals I and thu coarser rugs androlx-s. The intro and fow In in-.en.l, ,1 toi fattening. Hie Ohio duction nf Mi-rino raint into S,.:th Amen experiment is merely an extension of the I ca is improving the gr ' "f the wools from piin.-iple to tin- M-gi-t.kble world and a re- J the province of C'ordin ... until the majority cognition of the truth thatthe production of the wool from that country is now -above of corn |Millen in excess of the needs of a the grade of carpet wools, and the fleeces giwn field i* at the expense of the corn from that country will ntcadily improve production. until little or no coarse wool is grown We venture to suggest that it would be a there. m good idea for some </f our wide-awake ca.lert of MI investiisatini.' turn of nun, I ,_ n v fanners who want to learn themselves and > Ctm8 up Higher, who desire to advance the interests of agri- i A celebrated lawyer once advised a culture to try the experiment this year ' young aspirant that there was "room a' snder ordinary farm conditions by removing the tasse's from alternate rows of corn and keep.ng a careful record of the result. V\ ha'. it is desirable to ascertain in this connec- tion 19, first, whether under the usu il con- ditions of farm culture an appreciable in crease- of the detasseltd corn over that lie- snb-i.n which the tossels are allowed to re lain, may lie relied on, and, M- nnd, what pro|K>rlion of the stalks in the field can lie said Mrs. FUzletop t<> her son Johnny. Never mind, ma, you can sit oo it when there is company in the parlor. " Ha Hal Heard the Lectme. " Why isn't something done to save that ship in distress ?" cried an excited lady oo the beach. " We have sent the crew a line to come iibnif, mum," said a lifu-saver, hurriedlv. " ot all iliin^i ! Wure they waiting for a formal invitation ?" Postage on foreign letters was not in- cluded HI the charge of rates by which a full ounce ln-came the domestic single unit of weight. Many people forget this, and post heavy letters to friends travelling abroad, prepaying them with only on ti ve-cent stamp, ami subjecting the recipients to annoyance, expense and delay. It shonld be borne in mind that outside of the United States and i i.'i.iia, a half ounce is mill the unit of weight, and everything heavier requires additional postage. In Ixl Japan Had only torty-aix ships of Kuropean construct ion ; now it haa 1,4'Ji*'. The number of pieces handled by the.I.tpitn- ese mail service swell- -d from ril,<JUO,l () in I IM9 to 180,000^600 < HS. Thereare m>w '.'T.ir.'.'! educational institutions, with lilt, OX' teachers and .'{.K.Vi .VW students, against I 1 .',. ">:i7 iiHtitutions. 'JT.WW teachers, and 1. .'{"', 1*0 itudents in I :;{. Berlin i population was first counted in about HiUO, and it had then I-. 1 "* 1 inhabit- ants. In IIJ4O the thirty years' war had ci't d.twn the number to'T.ijKl. L'mler the " Then when you have finished your lee- [great elector the population swelled to -Jl.. lure," said the professor of elocution and <NIO, and under Frederick II. to IT.'I.OOO. In I s.Vi the population was OM.UOO. Sow it is deportment to young Dnlle, "bow grace fully and leave the platform on tiptoe*." " Why on tiptoes?" ijucried Dulle. " So as not to wake the audience, "replied the professor. Too Much of a free-Thinker the top" in the pmfrvtinn, ttinl the. siiym^ | Keiident "You're looking rather bine, might lie well paraphrased ami applied to Klx-ne/er : what's the matter?" Key. Kbe- all kinds of farm production. The top it ne/rr Shidhone " I'se in trouble, sah. I where whatever of profit there is in farming prvaclied a sermon la.st Sunday agin chicken is to lie found. Stock growers have learned without reducing the supply of o In-low tin- i|unntity required by the ti 1.1. The ( Iliinexperiineiit shows a gain of titty fx-r cent, in the yield of detasseled over tatseled stalks. It would therfc.n U- advantageous to exUnd the gam to tin- largest number of stalks possible consistent itli full ferliliyution of the field IiiM-ntion und manufacture never fail to r- -JM'II.I t'l dell:. Hi. I II. f.. .Ill p',. inter .Ill'l 'ieck louerare their II-,HIIIW to ') I i. |iiiri-iiit-nt* of prairie i orn i iiltnre. i AIM| iii..wt i an- I..-H.IHI n nf the H. ni.iml . rcHli-'l by l.i.i;i.l. |i-vel fields free trt'in i. Intnl. -1101111. Twine binding device* result from niiii.ense wheat areas whose cultivation would IH- .liiln-ult, if nut im|>ot I'-li . wen- it not for kins aid at a criti. al pi. int in the liarvt <tin^ of tin- crop. In like si..nnrr let it be fully deiiionstrati-d that dctasselling a gueii |iio|i<irtion of a com held M foil. .we, I li\ ,i miili -leiitly remunera- .' .11 ie..| M.I, I. an, I invention and tin let-on pretty w.-ll that " early maturity" is essentinl to profitable mai k'-tln ; and that they cannot afford to Uianl and Iml^e a hog or steer an ex tra nix months or a year just for the- sake of having his company. stealm', an' the congregation am gwine to try me for heresy, sail. " Ki^hty bualii-ls of corn taist-d on one < M ,,; ground takes less plow ing, harrowing, seed- ing, fencing, harvest it u, interest, taxes, etc. , than ,loe eighty bushels on tuo acres, and therefore a larger portion of the value of the '"' crop is profit. The most generally nuccessful corn growers are those who never b-t the ground rent from the time the seed is in until the turn is HO big that they i .in no i A Fable With an Application A swallow H pii-ce of wool from the hack o' a sheep nine. i wen- vi ry indignant and denounced the swallow in scathing terms. Why do you make such a f uss V a'keil swiilow. " You never nay any.hu>;,' win n the obepard takes all tbe wool you have nn your back s " " That's aditlerent thing entirely, "replied Finland, the most northwestern province of Kiiftn, is a country seven hundred miles long and, on an average, two hundred miles wide, embracing an area nearly one and a fo-.irth times that of the British Isles. It hast a commerce of considerable importance, several interextinir towns, a university n rolling I, Tuo students annually, a hardy, thrifty peasant population, and scenery peculiarly and characteristically its own. The persons who make mistakes in direc- ting lettersorwhosend to fictitious addresses are apparently leitinn. according to a recent ,wnan,'r P l''cke<lasmall'r e P ortfrol "'^ r J *'" 1 -. Ietter "<* I" th< - ,e hack a sheep. The I U<tt > ear '<"."<' P'ces of mad matter were sent to the dead letter office at \\ ash- ington. Four h>!!;.ii< 1 and (iffy-one thou- sand letters were misdirected or only part il- ly addressed : .M.UfiOenvelopes wereentin-Iy blank, containing no address at all. One hundred and nixty-five letters were addressed to persons in care of hotels, who hand Makes the Weak Strong The marked benefit which people In run down or weakened state of health derive In-iii Hood's Siirvij.. u ill>i. conclusively proves tlii-cl.iinith.it tins in,-, In in.- makes the weak stronfc." It does not art like a stimulant, Imparting firm mus ttn-nntli from which thera must folliiw a reaction of greater weakness than before, but In Hie most natural way Hood's Sampurllla overcomes That Tired Feeling creates an jppeti:.-. j.ur;tl>-- !: I.I-M..I. an,l, in short, gives great lMlil}-. nerve, mental and digestive cngth. "I derived \ .;. much In-nellt from Hood's Siriipanlla. winch 1 1,>, ,k for general debility. 1: l.r.ilt me rulit up, anil i excel- lent appetite." KD../ENKIS- Mt.: rcivage. MJ. Fagged Out "Last sprint! I was completely fagged out. My strength left me .in, I I felt sick and mis- erable all the time, vi tli.it I could hardly .ittenil to my t.usliiesv I took one bottle of It, M|'S Saitaparilla, and " cnr.-.l me. Th.-ru t ii'ttliine like It." R. C. BKGHLK. Editor Enterprise. Hi il-ii::, . ?,Iich. Worn Out "Hood's 8arsapurili:i r.->t,.ied me to good health. Indeed. I migiit say truthfully It - u 1 my lit". To one feeling tired and worn nut I wonld i- -r-iestly rerouiineml a tn:i: ol Il.i.Kl'sSu. " Mus. PHKBK Mosul*. : Urook- -,: ' -t Boston. Mass. N. II. If joi. ifei .! In take Hixid'H San- panlla d.i nut lit- lmlr<-fd to buy anything lae i:i-tc.ul. Insist il' ,ii having Hood's Sarsaparilla va!l,| ". , I il.Kilt ,v i ii . Apnlhn->n). iOO Doses One .I>iwill. Xaw. Dollar longer get into it, and this thorough cul- tivation implies that two acres should n. M r be seeded when the labor available to cultivate it could have been put ..none. To feed, milk and care for the cowa that oiiU do ui nun h work when brought to the crucial test of the churn that one good milk- er will do is manifestly a waste of feed and lalxir, and yet many farmers are guilty of it, although it is ik point which the grow- ing use of milk testing apparatus i- impiew MIL; upon tbe owners ol ilairy cattle to an extent undreamed of only iwoorthree years a^o Thr farmer who ban but a single niareor I the hei-|i, " if you knew how to take my wool without hurting me, as the shepherd diM-s, 1 would not object so mui-h." Thin f kid? U merely intended to explain why millions can lie stolen with impunity, while the ! lii-tt of a pair of lioots, or a loat ut lue.i I is punished with such severity. The Use of the Curtain. ,I.-I. ..i t.-d without fen ing their addrr.se, or forw.,rdingorden. Forty-two thousand were ! Sunshine, have you your Clara- -Darling, fathei ' Charles Yes, and he gave me a cool thou- sand. ' Hou lovely ; everything is brighter tin, will follow close on the demand team of working mares is growing more and of course it is. Brightness is sure to 'll, * machine that will accomplish '.he mutt ofceaply with horse |y>wer. Moiitnre and Manure. From the earliest ages farmi"-* h. net-very- lure recogni/e.l tin- fact that their sin HSJ il, rt ntleil innre on al>iuidanl rains or else on irrigation to furnish moisture than on any r*\ i o ue cause. It is ijuite common to say lh.it manure is the firmer'" mainstay. Ki f ' ihiy I', ot course, a necessity, but even plant food, iiiilem in condition t.i be sp |trupi lad '1 I -. , rops, availetb notliing. The only way that cmp can feed through theirt more particular as to the horse he lirerds to. U-, .aise hi- if all /m that while there are colts and colts, the good ones cn-t no more In laine than tin- scrubs, and they will return H nrori! when the sciubs will net a loss. All al'ini: ih- line and in all kinds of pro'birtH " room at the top " is uecom- ing lecogni/iil us tbe rule, ikinl those who learn it latest ami apply it least broadly are lucky. The constant effort should ne to " come up higher. " f-dbiw the raise of the son." Youth In Old A?e. '* a pretty n\A lhs>*nr^ VIB, ' remarkeil one tourist to another as a huge .i\ in. ui npi-ned lu.s cavernous jaws and to.-k in a young darkey that had recklessly ven- tuie.l into the river. "He may lie old," returned the other," but he's evidently got a good deal of the Ixiy in him yet." svr >,. Irursril In Walk T \ in. 1 1 in- are bud walkt-rs, says a writer rot, t- is by having plant food in mdiitiuii in tlie New York H'nr'-l. It is rue totind ay is i>i with water. A solid maun of manure, now nil except mn, c\-ii in our army. Am ver much fertility it IIIAV contain, in nn Kuropcium, and the aborii;iue ,,i oui own (triii.-tionaii'l mjui y nitlicr than a U-n.-ti-. continent, n noble mien is not uin-mniii'iii. Manure may in excen.t kill the plants to 1 undeistiiml the causesof this ugly defect lu.-b it is applied, and H does this more among our people, and my iiiewnt purpose 111 til the ynnngand strung of both si-xesemigrate, I A Reminiscence of Art sains ffard. Artemns Ward and a friend were mice traveling through I.owerCaliforniaand were ,.,.,.,,. pT.p.jU,,,,,; h.ul U-en ,-arne.i otr In compelled one night to^mt U P J 1 ,^, '_; j war, leaving only the physically worthless". As the curtain slowly descended between the acts he said : " I don't see why they call that a drop curtain. It don't drop, it just rolls down.' " Ah, yes :" she returned. " but you see sent to fictitionsaddre./es, and were princip- '< "'K 1 .'" 1 f " r . the m . en to 8 out ' ul tttke ally letters concerning green |04i or 'Irop of somethmc mwdust swindles. A large proportion of the " packages received at the dead-letter , was tnaile of those upon which the re>.- amount of postage had not been placed. Twenty-eight thousand letters and packages nr. uned monev amounting to ?4s.i>4'.', and .7. <i contained drafts and checks, note* and commercial pnpcr worth in the H7I.>7I. Klrven thousand had lottery- tickets within the envelopes. Tne depart ment ivomniemli to correspondent* to write the full name of the state to which a letter or package and is to lie neut, in the ca*r of package to add thesender'aname, while ;arei.s taken as to the proper postage. A Stockholm dispatch says the govern- ment of Sweden has ordercdan inquiry as to the condition in parts of that country said to be almost denuded of young men In im- migration to America. Young women of tin- domestic service are alaa very scarce, and the wages demanded by servants have risen to double the figure of a few years ago. The supply of conscripts is running short, and the burden of military lervice falls more remain. As the aged August Flower There is a gentle- Dyspepsia. man at Malden-on- the- Hudson, N. Y.. named Captain A. G. Pareis, who has written us a letter in which it U evident that he has made up his mind concerning some things, and this is what he says: " I have used your preparation called August Flower in my family for seven or eight years. It is con- stantly in my house, and we consider ** gh to fiee/e often tha;i in any other w.iy by absorbing is to call attention to it, an tin- moisture which the plants in -ed. All Htable manure is no largely composed sf i ailnm that it will absorb a urcat deal ,,t .i-.i without giving any of it out mil. - , !. If th>- niamiie ferments ill the soil it Ix'-onies moiht, but it is from water that HI r or soil has furnished. Often wh-n applied late ill spring it .Iocs not ferment during the summer, and especially if it is so i .-- .in.l straw y llmt ii . ontHiiiiiaciiiiaider- amount of air. It ci|iiires really an enormous amount of water to make coarse. _ point out the n-iin-iK. In Knglith and I'rcii- h U>oks on the mili- tary drill uml physical training whole chap- tt-is .lisru.su tlie subject of walking. \\ e are told that this or that part ,( tin- foot must touch the ground litst that the angles must In- so tin. I so, etc. I will nut nay this advice is not right, but I will ay that very- few have l>een helped by it. Look at u ijiiod walker. Shoulders, head and hips drawn well luck and the chest thrown foiward. What a firm, vigorous the refrigerating almospheie of the bo t lie imli>wpancsliadl>cr ii horribly fractured. In t'.e middle of the night tbe triend was awakened by hearing Ward stumbling about the room. He had found an old hoop-skirt in the 1 mi-t and I e was in the act of IIIIIIL' this into the shattered panes. Indigestion, and Constipation we tli- [iinnt ry in many places looks as if the Indigestion, have ever Used Of known. My wife is troubled with Dyspepsia, and at times suffers very much after eating. Thfe August Flower, however, re- lieves the difficulty. My wife fre- . \nother fact that causes anxiety to tin- ~ > It was cold enough the nose off a brass monkey ami ^o add to j j uh ,.,,,.,, j, tne U^e proportion of 1 (lire, light-haired Swedes among the enn grants, thi*l>eing tbe class akin to the North c.-rman and Knglish that has her. i .,f ,,re quently says to me when I am going upheld tin- country lioth in war and in ! peace. Their places in Northern Sweden What in thunder are you doing V asked mannre applied early in the spring available I treail ! Such a walk may easily lie secured the tii st season, especially as U is generally rit-d out by exposure to the air before be- ui; plowed under the furrow. Take one of these coarse, dry clods of manure and drop water slowly "|MHI it until it is thoroughly sat umted and moist on the under side Anyone who has not tried this will In- sur- prised at the amount of wator a singlo clod nl manure I wo in, lies ,|iuire will atnorh. N'.w suppose this manure is turned under ti\e or sis inches of soil. Ilcgin to sprinkle a foot square of newly plowed land, and if done slowly an that none runs II, an inch depth of water will xcarcoly ret down two or three inches. In other words, a full inch of water might fall, and a tup ilreming of dry statue manure plowed undei MM- or six inches dep would not get fi 'he rain a parti, le ,,f moi.sture to make its fertility available. lit lein , ounints, as we. believe, the enor- mous advantage nf top dressing early in spi ing, or even during the winter. Afresh w,|i ilietsiug is not pressed d'.wn into the s-.il. nix! ,|iii> kl\ ilnrn b..ih belou and alxive. 1 I,, earlier top dressing has. been beaten <ii.\vn into the soil by nun-, and its viitiics kav U-i n soaked out of it by melting snows. The oi| licncalli a winter top dressing mal wnymnoisl. .V> also is generally tin -lown kalt of the manure itself. It is thus in oon* slit ion to ferment aasoon as turned un,lei, ami thus draw some moisture from the air, especially if the soil is kept well cultivated ali<ive. Often, in, be, I, if the manure is |.i.,id early in the winter, it is saturated I times before spring, and its soluble part .ire iiicoriMtratcd in the soil, where ainn. they can do much good. The root of no plant will (tenetrate even a small clod of fresh manure. What it gets is from parti le* of plant lo.idih.it have been detached fr.'iii the manure, bid. Hence it in ex treinu- Iy important to make the manure whenever applied as fine as ponnible, that thus a great r |n.i|Hirtion nf it may IH- exposed 10 feed snk{ the roots of ciops. The Coaner Wools. The bulk ol the coarse wool of commerce by carryiiiz a weight upon t he head. An iron crown has been devi'ed for tbi< puriMise It consists of three crowns one within the other, each weighing about liine pounds. Une or all three may be worn at a time. The water carriers nf. Southern Kurope, although Iwlonging to the lowest class, have a nolde bearing. Certain negroes in the South, who " tote" burdens upon the head as a business, can readily lie pointed out in a crowd. The effort required to keep the liurdcn directly over the spine so develops the muscles of the back ami neck that in the absence of the burden. the head is carried in a noble, erect atti tu,b-. Hy carrying one of these crowns upon the bead half nn hour two or three times a day Inle walking in the garden or through the halls of the house, one may soon Income a j line walker. One-tenth of the tnin a , ii|in,l in learning a few tunes on tin- pun,.. gi\ci:to this c\t-r<ise, wouhl insure any girl a noldu carriage. Tl.e crown is not necessary. Any weight which does not press upon the very crown of the bead, but .iU, i;t it, will answer the purpose eqdally well. n.,. . i Is irt. Doctors are sometimes more considerate of their putients needs than they are of their , n, iinmtaii,T.v It is easier to prescribe a journey to KI.I ,[ nr lici niiida than it is to till the prescription. A gent email whose affairs had I .e, Mini- very much emliarrasseil, and who was over- worked ami overworiied, went to a cele- brated specialist, broken down with nervous exhaust n ui " Now, "said the docter, "there it only one thing that you must have ; that is, aluu'iicr nf woiry, ab.sen, ,if ,ir, ami fiee- d'Hn fro ii all pre.iccurations." ".Much obliged for your prescription," said the gentleman, "but you've left out one important thing mil." "What is that?" "You haven't put in the apothecary's Itrect and number!" the shivering companion. " Tryin' to stop up the c-crack !" shiver- ed Ward. " That won't do any good. " " Ve-yes it will," stuttered Ward, as h* continued his work. " It'll k-keepout the c-c coai sesl of the c-c-cold '. Then he wrapped his nighties about him and slid under the covers. He Envied Hit Foot '1 are largely taken by immigrant Lapps, who are akin to the MssJOst In Vermland, people called the cradle of the Swedes, the are leaving in throngs, ami nearly every young person wants to emigrate. Ilorua was reading a chapter from his forthcoming book to his friend, the literary editor. Suddenly he stopped, straightened his leg out with a jerk and said : " It's a dismal feeling, Naggus, to have your foot go to sleep. " " Yes," replied the lit.rary editor. " but , { of IMlUlIlgi (>I1 | y , get t | le butermilk out you ought to let It sleep, do on, liorus. i, n ,,,..i,i n,.., . ..,,,,1.. k. . . Tws DrllraU l>i-i>. - BrTTKK. Put thick, sweet, rich cream into a large, wide mouth glass buttle or jar, and cork tightly. I have often u*ed one of those bottles that ground coffee comes in -. they hold about a quart. Let one of the children vigorously shake the bottle, which should not be half full, and generally in a few minutes the butter has came. Then work out the buttermilk and make up into pats. Some people salt very slightly, but, as a rule, this butter is not Halted at all. Unless as a matter of taste, neither the French nor tbe Devonshire butter requires either wash- to town, 'We are out Constipation of August Flower, and I think you had better get another bottle c I am also troubled with Indigestion, and when- ever I am, I take one or two tea- spoonfuls t>efore eating, for a day or two. and all trouble is removed. ' ' A How She Brought Him Round. Mr. Cbugwater "The idea of shutting up the front of the house to make folks think uc . ve gone to some fashionable watering- placo foi I be Summer isall blanu-it nonaente nnd I won't have it done." Mis C'bugwuter (changing his tactics) " All right .losi ill. I'll gi.\e up the idea. The girls need the piano practice, anyhow, i Does tbe piano go with the front of the house win u they do this sort of thing?" Of course." thoroughly. They are made to be eaten at mice the fresher the better. If unexpected friends come to see you, ai.d you wish to .111 prise them with a country treat, thix French butter car l>e made with a meal is IM-IHK prepare,!, nnd to city people u U al- ways acceptible, and generally new. tmn*>.HMiK\ Fool., -h also easily and ("lickly made, uid, ik an impromptu addi- tion to the t i If, till a place of its own. Make a simxitli !- '. .' .-isiard, and set on ice to cool. Have .... i -Mai c|iiantity of stewed gooseberries, well sweetened, and also cold. Mix the custard and uooselx-t i n t together, put in a liowl or glass dish, snd set mi ice till wanted, and then serve, with a v^ueen Victoria's family circle now num- bers fifty living descendants, including sona and daughters, grandsons and granddaugh- ters, great-grandsons and grcat-grauddaugh ters. Besides these she haa four sons- in law, four daughters ill-law, five grandsons in-law, and one granddaughter-in-law. The queen has lost one son, one daughter, five grand- sons, one granddaughter, one great-grand- son, and one son in law. W5BS , .. , , "ti tvw tut nwtiwvn, <Bit>t IIIITII n "Thar .Hut er up, up, Samantha-shul er , (ttgkct o( freghcjke . T(1 ,. , , u pBr , e< . tioni "P- this dish houlil be made of fresh gooseber- ries, but it is almost as good if made witli Youth anu Age. \\ I..T i',l ;' e world is young, lai'., and all the trees are green, Ami every guoae a swan, lad, and every lass ai|UI ell ; Then, hey for boot and horse, lad. and ride the world away Young bb.od must have its course, lad, and every dog his day. When all the world is old, lad, land all the tiecs arc brown, Ami all the sport is stale, lad, and all 1st wheels run down ; Oeep home and take thy place then-, thy early friends among ; < lutl grant you find one face there you lov',1 when all was young. is nlmott as good the canned fruit, and it is thus available at all seatons of the year. Kl !/. \ M. JoXKs. ' ' la Ike "Four years ago," writes Col. David Wylie, Urockville. Ont., May, 1SSH, " I had a severe attack of rheumatiam, and could not stand on my feet. The pain was excru ciating. I was blistered and purged in true orthodox style, but all to no purpose. I was advised to try St. .lacobs Oil, which I did. I had my anklus well rubbed and then wrapped with flannel saturated with the remedy. In the morning I could walk without pain." Many get up and walk in th' same way. DIAMOND YERA CUBA CURES CYSPEPSIA AND INDIGESTION If you cannot get Diamond Vera Cura from your Druggist, send 250. for sample box to CANADIAN DtPOT 44 and 46 Lombard St. TORONTO, ONT.