I I I MIWJP" i%Jt$W*'-V^ W-W3M s&fc' 38K3SS THE FARM ILLUSTRATED. WSm Moving West.*&- r$ (Gamptosorus rhyzophyllus) and can be PEOPLE THAT OESAR KNEW. cultivated, if taken up with great care S Louis Age of Steel: Th migration Remains of the Inhabitants of Villages of and given similar surroundings it of Easter industries westward ^Pictures for Parmer and Tlorist to Look the Stone and Iron Ages. will fasten the apex of the long, tapering is significant, of course, but it ought leaf in a bit of soil, and grow "another ,The recent discovery of tombs of the Upon. plant a fashion by no means to be viewed from the trans-Allegheny lake dwellers has awakened a renewed common among ferns. For in-door standpoint with the evident interest in the people of prehistoric fiind of Carrots for Different Soils—Improved ferneries, evergreen kinds are preferable. alarm it is. I should be kept in mind Switzerland. Tourists will hardly be Chestnuts—The World of Ferns and For home decoration, through at industry distributes itself with content any more to pass through Flowers Preparation and Culture A the summer and fall, ferns are invaluable. Switzerland without visiting one or population, and since the latter is becoming A vase or flower-pot, filled with Handy Cora Marker The Anti-CowKicker. more of the museums where the coK more dense in the west with a variety of growing ferns, gives a delightful lections made from the excavated lake forest odor, suggestive of each passing year, its accompaniment dwellings are exhibited. purling brooks with ferny banks, without Carrot Culture. of manufacture and mining, Perhaps the most extensive exhibition A fact here to be notioed in regard the drawback—if truth must be as well as those expressive of agricula of these relics is the one at the /'Helm told—of troublesome mosquitoes with ftp the culture of one of the most useroots development, obtrud themselves House," in Zurich. There one sees officious, bills. of the farm is the lack of attention upon the view. Such "phases, what are in fact the greatest antiquities paid to the choice varities of To Restrain a Cow from Kicking. of the whole world. There are hundreds so called, are exceptional, carrots, for a £ivon soi', says a writer This illustration shows a method of and thousands of specimens of have been remarked ever since the in the American Agriculturist, than restraining a kicking cow. It is so stone, wood, cloth, weapons and ornaments,, the importance demands. For poor labo of converting the west fro.m simple and easy, and so quietly applied, of a people' whose towns were Boil that has been drawn upon for all wilderness and savager into an that the cows do not seem to re- old a thousand years before gray old its worth, the writer gives' from experience abode of peace and the a began. excavated Pompeii was ever thought a preference for the shorterTooted Possibly the movement bodily of industries of. varieties instead of the longorange hither as been rarely, if ever, To Professor Ferdinand Keller before so generally in use. says as large as now tin fragments a all o£hers the world is indebted for a that ihey also defy neglect. The halflong knowledge of what it probably was before stump-rooted carrot are "beautiful, parts—in all the elements necessary the time of history. All the later well-shaped, and as good a quality to he make-up of competitive western years of his life were devoted to the investigation as I have ever seen." The yield by manufacture—the a basin of dwellers1 of the lake actual measurement of this variety on the Mississippi has been surely a villages, and no man was so competent the writer's poor-soil farm last year &Kp*?i^''j£g22!i^ rapidly gaining in all these years as he to rejuvenate those dead old ijlgyaa 520 bushels per acre, which is agone. May hap its accretions have skulls and relics, lifting a thousand DEVICE FOR PREVENTING A COW FROM years from the forgotten past into the been visible at all times KICKING. middle of the nineteenth century. the blue smoke veiling the summit of sent it as they do if tied head and foot, Keller has translated the hieroglyphics the Alleghanies, they have been as some seem to think necessany. A of the dead ages. He has explained none the less positive and potential small rope or large cord is passed how the antiquarians have divided all on at account. around the body of the cow just in the prehistoric past into the ages of front of the udder and over the top of stone, of bronze, and of iron how the the hips. It need not be drawn tight, lake dwellings of Switzerland were first Young wives who have old husbands will just snug will do, and no cow to which discovered at Meilen, on the lake of be glad to know that a New York physician it is applied will even kick. Sometimes Zurich, in 1829, and more fully revealed offers to cure snoring for ten dollars but Dr. a cow thus tethered will lift a foot as if Bull's Cough Syrup will cure sore throats and in 1853-54 and how the world ),000 FOUND IN AN ASH BABEEL. to kick, but somehow she seems to colds for 25 cents. at large shut its eyes, almost, to the change her mind and puts it down great contribution made to history. He For neuralgia, rheumatism, gout, burns, A New York rag-picker is reported to Thoroughly cleanse and enrich the blood* again. wounds, etc., use Salvation Oil. Price 25 have found $10,000 greenbacks in an ash has told, too, how the patient, hardworking by the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical cents a bottle. barrel. This -was a rare piece of good luck, Chestnuts. investigators, of whom he is Discovery, and good digestion, a fair skin, but how much more fortunate is the sufferer buoyant spirits and bodily vigor and health To those not familiar with the recent chief, have uncovered and dug out from consumption who learns that, although Red Wing will send a carload of oats and a will bo established. improved varieties.of chestnuts, enough of these buried towns to prove the doctors may have pronounced his case large amount of provisions to the drought W a c. I J^ungs. Spitting of Blood,. an increase in size suggests a proportionate that our "best families" don't need to hopeless, Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery sufferers of Spink county, S. D. Shortness of Breath, Bronchitis, AsthmaT will cure him. Consumption is a deterioration in qualitv. break off their ancestral line with Severe Coughs, and kindred affections, it is 1— scrofulous disease of the lungs. The Discovery," While this may be true with the an efficient remedy: William the Couquerer, or with any A SLIGHT COLD, if neglected, often attacks which is the most potent bloodpurifier Japanese class, it does not apply to "Golden Medical Discovery" is the only other William. Those of us who think of the age, strikes right at the root the lungs. BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES blood and lung remedy, sold by druggists, some of our American seedlings, we might be proud of our far-off progenitors of the evil and there is no resisting it, if give sure and immediate relief. Sold only in and guaranteed by its manufacturers, to do prominent among which is that known taken in time' and given a fair trial In boxes. Price 25 cents. may yet be gratified to see all that it is claimed to accomplish, or the cure of all scrofulous and other blood as the paragon, an illustration of which ••a some shrewd Yankee following our money paid for it will be promptly refunded. taints, no matter from what cause arising, is given herewith as taken from the Dakota papers say the weather so far this line clear back to Orgetorix, the WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIA- scalp diseases, old sores and swellings, it season is more favorable for big crops than American Agriculturalist, and which TION, Manufacturers, No. 663 Main Streets youngest offspring of our Celtic grandfathers absolutely has no equal. 4, BUNCH OP HALF-LONG CARROTS. it has been for a number of years. Buffalo, N. Y. of the lake dwellers. more than double the yield which If our American tourist will take a could be expected in such soil from the Old smokers prefer "TansiU's Punch." little more time, jump on the cars, and long-rooted varieties. In such soils ride out to Robenhansen, on the lake oi Qjp-JK"jej3E1.3E3I3 for an Incurable case of heavier crops can be made from the The first department encampment of the "T™-mmTTaTT!!Z?m.T «*"""h Head by North Dakota G. A. R. will be held at Grand Pfaffikon, he will there witness withjiis long-rooted, but in thin soils, the the proprietors of DR. SAGE'S CATARRH REMEDY. •Forks April 2$ and 24. own eyes the turf beds and the lake shorter varieties gives far greater OF CATA KH fciifnlS^S??? '-Headache, obstruction of nose, discharges CI a giving up the. secrets of the age of yields. Sii^?,.. sometimes profusen, watery, and acrid, at others, thick. ALLEN'S IRON TONIC BITTERS CAUSE food to 8 PPr"len* bl?2dy a id dSfSEMSi?!? eyes weak, ringingin ear* stone. Robenhausen is a town of the assimilate. All genuine bear the signature of SSi«f^Wdlfl,-cultsr8o ,clearin& throat, expectoration of offensive matter: A Chapter on Ferns. 1 1 stone-age period. It was perhaps J. P. Allen, Druggist, St. Paul, Minn. $. and taste impaired, and general debility. Only a Much more attention might well be twelve hundred feet square, standing given to the cultivation and naturalization on a platform built on a hundred "While temporarily insane Dexton Carlton, of hardy ferns on lawns and in thousand piles driven into the bottom an old and respected citizen ofOwatonna, shady garden nooks. of the shallow lake, about three hundred blew his brains out with a revolver. As a rule, says G. A. Woodson, ferns yards from the shore. Like all tt*^oduces 9 rkSSSS^VSV* perfect and permanent cures I need shade they also prefer a welldrained More diseases are produced by using brown to%ZLf2E£?2 Cnronic Catarrn, as thousands can testify. "Cold in the a the other Swiss lake towns it was connected spot, and are most at home in is cured with a few applications. Catarrhal Headache is relieved and cured as ifb and perfumed soaps than by any thing else. with the land by a long bridge, magic. It removes offensive breath, loss or impairment of the wnieoC ta^ w£ell OT hear' soil composed largely of leaf-moid, but Why "run such terrible risks when you know also built on piles Of course the Dobbins' Electric Soap is pure and perfect. easily adapt themselves to other circum visitor now w^ill see little except Dobbins' prevents hands from chapping. stances. chopped-off piles sticking in the peat, PPIZE LOVE LETTER. For tall-growing ferns, so effective and among them the debris of the villages around the base of verandas, none ex•cel The Indians onthe Pine Ridge reservation aroused, within that have gone to ruin. Robenhausen are planting large numbers of iruit trees. the Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis) PARAGON CHESTNUT BURR. had been partly burned dowD 1 a»*'most\wl^ «D-o^oa»— To tiefirstfiftyTKHOMst&db*the correct solution to the followfog not only for its beauty, but for the hardiness was drawn from an actual burr. The letter, we will award FIFTf GOAND CA8H,FRIZES as fol-( and built up again on the samejsite, but of its roots. It takes kindly to on S Cured lowr For thefiratcorrect tolutlon, $25: for the aecond, $15 for theg tfurlcorreepria- spines on the burrs are very long, and third, (TO for the next fifty. $1 each. If you do not fet one of the" at intervals of ages, probably, apart, To THE EDITOR:—Please in'orm your readers cultivation. larger amount* yon harefiftychancel for one of the entailerawards. the nuts double the size of natives, so that the peat bed shows on being Competitors must lend 30 that I have a positive remedy for the while their quality is fully equal. *a9J to Chimney Corner, our & above named disease. By its timely use opened three sets of piles, one above HZ paper. Contest closes May t, The tree is a prolific bearer, and thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently will appear in the issue of Hay 15th. For only SO cents yon may] the other. The only way of judging get $25. Send at once. One cent stamps takes same as cssh. Address junhappy hardy in the vicinity of Now York. It is cured. I shall be glad to send two THE CHOUIEY COBHKR, to DsarWn 8L, ChlcagOi lit the probable age of these lake dwellings bottles of my remedy FREE to any o' your destined to become the parent of a new ifittlWithou* is by estimating the centuries required 4* i^hQias^undividel readers who have consumption if .they will strain of chestnuts superior to any for peat beds to form. Reckoned send meexpress and poRt-office address. ReBpectiully, I_nwj id nsy though [hope now in general cultivation. T. A. SLOCTJM, M. C, 181 Pearl in this manner, the age of the firs* btreer, New York. town built at the bottom of Robenhausen Homo-Made Corn-Marker. 3 must be prodigious. We illustrate herewith a very convenient In these lake villages once lived prmg corn-marker. Any farmer can A) is people as much civilized, possibly, at make it. It is free from the excessive are the Mexicans of to-day. They IH-VI W weight which makes many other similar 'a implements clumsy and difficult to tilled the soil, they dwelt in houses, otsr article4 handle. The largest stick in it is a they wove tine linen, they had edicinee N\° piece of scantling four inches square, of luxury, and traded more or less with ~4t O jjr eight and a half feet long. This is of other countries. Of them there are no Is a necessity with nearly everybody. Th run whitewood or pine. To this are bolted written annuals. History stops stockstill my down, tired condition at this season is due to impurities two peeled hemlock poles, ten feet long, with Switzerland only sixty year? galled/ beTia in the blood which have accumulated or suitable size for shafts. The large farther back than the birth of" Christ during the winter, and which must be expelled it P!»asev ends are beveled to give the correct The nearest reference there is in historj iflescri you wish to feel well. Hood's Sarsaparilla thoroughly AS PLENIUM TRICOMANES. the! paaai upward slant. A cross-bar of inchboard to these Swiss lake dwellers is where purifies and vitalizes the blood, creates a Ferns are pirticularly useful for ten inches wide is bolted to these Caesar tells how a quarter of a millior good appetite, cures biliousness and headache, rock-work. No special care need be observed shafts three feet from the lower ends. .will accept) armed Helvetians, under Divico, burnec ement«v gives healthy action to the kidneys and liver, and in the building of such structures, Two hooks are set into this, to which down their homes and marched into derate:.- for^ imparls to the whole body a feeling ofhealth and except that there be an abundance Zurich*: mighty pae «ll the horse may be attached. The runners Gaul. Ciesar himself, after grea' strength. Try it this spring. of pockets or crevices of different are each made of plank, two and battling, defeated them, and drovf izes, filled, if possible, with leafmold.. a half inches thick, six inches wide, (hem back into their own country. It is important, however, that There is now much reason to believe each should have a soil-connection -?&'' ^EL^ia that these Helvetians were the last ol with the earth beneath. Sarsaparilla the lake dwellers. It is known that DO YOU USE STEREOTYPE PLATES /The various Wood-Ferns (Aspiditims) most of the lake villages were destroyed and the Polypodiums are excellent by fire, and it is altogether for this purpose. The MaidenHair Sold by all druggists. $1: six for $5. Prepared only probable that when Caesar compelled IF SO WHY NOT USE THE BEST (Adiantum pedalum) grows nicely by C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar the people to return they established anywhere, and is an old-time favorite. uew homes on the shore, instead of rebuilding Do not forget to add to your collection their lake dwellings, which Onorlca sensibilis, the Sensitive they had left in search of .a sunnier Fern. Another much more graceful clime and a more grateful "soil than Positively cured tj{ fern Crystopinris bulbifcra, or Bladder eld? 3 these Little Pills. were found amid the Alps.—S. H. ,Fern, found in shady ravines the A SERVICEABLE CORN-MARKER. Thsy also relieve Dis Byers, in Harper's Magazine. fronds grow in tufts, are very long and and two feet long rounded up at the treas from DyepepBia.In-l digestion andTooHeartj| slender, and are exceedingly delicate front like a sled-runner. A notch, half Eating. A. perfect rem-r in texture nevertheless, it will grow an inch deep, admits the bed-piece. A edy for Dlzziness.Kartscal Made to Lioolt New. well on the north side of rock-work half-inch bolt is firmly driven into the Drowsiness, Bad Taster in the Mouth, Contort! the curious bulblets on the under side middle of each notch in the runner, Old clothing may be" made to look Tongue.Pam in the Side! ,.c£ the rachis and pinnse, falling off projecting five inches, with a screwthread '-,' fig nearly as good as new by pursuing the TORPID LIVEB. Thevl multiply rapidly. cut on the upper end. This regulate the Bowels.] following plan, says the Philadelphia Purely Vegetable. bolt is to project through a half-inch 'IThe Spleen worts (Asplenizirri) offer Record: Price 2 5 Cents An All Metal, Type High Plate, Weighing 17 Pounds to the Page/ hole bored for the purpose in the bedpiece, a little treasures among them Take for instance a shiny old coat, CASTES MEDICINE CO., NEW YOSS. and a nut and washer fastens it. v^e: A. trichomanes, or Maiden-Hair Spleenwort of Six Columns, When Ready to Lock up for the Press, vest, or pair of trousers of broadcloth, The middle marker is a cultivator-tootrh Small Pill. Small Dose. Small Price.) is a dainty little fern growing in cassimere, or diagonal. The scourer Eequiring no bases, a perfect plate in itself, is certainly the best pjate ever offered'to-'" set into a stick three by four inches, makes a strong, warm soapsud and publishers. ("_ twelve inches long, loosely bolted between plunges the garment into it,- rubs the The Northwestern Newspaper Union, furnishes these plates to publishers at rarnlar^ two pieces of similar size, each prices. The service will consist of Serial Stories, Short Stories, Miscellany, Wit and dirty places *"if necessary puts it eight inches long, which are halved 233 Humor, Farm and Garden. News Summaries, Paragraph, Illustrated, &c, &c. Every/ through a second suds, then rinses it and firmly bolted to the bed-piece. On department will be first class and the best that can be obtained. Write for particulars! through several waters and hangs it to each side is a tracker to aid the operator -.. NORTHWESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION, dry on the line. J- •', in maintaining uniform distance When nearly dry he take§1tf in, rolls .ST. PAUL, MINN. between the rows. Each tracker is of Sbleeding,HUMORS, it up for an hour or two, and then ———Lnv1, PRING whether itching, burning, pine or whitewood, five feet long, two presses it. An old cotton cloth is laid' scaly, crusted, pimply, or blotchy, PISO'S inches thick, and three inches wide 2* *l V3£ EEMEDY FOB CATAJBBH.—Best. Easiest to use. whether of the skin, scalp, or blood, with loss of on the outside of the coat and the iron 4 at the large end, tapered Cheapest. Belief is immediate. A cure is certain. For hair, whether simple, scrofulous, or hereditary, mm S.2 y„ passed over that until the wrinkles are Gold in the Head it has no equaL to two inches at the other from infancy to age, are NOW speedily, permanently out but the irou is removed before the and economically cured bjrthat greatest end. A half-inch hole is bored in the (yticura steam ceases to rise from the goods, of all known humor cures, the .'.v.K „-'«F ,• large end for the bolt which holds it to else they would be shiny. Wrinkles the bed-piece. At the small end is a that are obstinate are removed by laying row of five holes to permit the shoe to It is an Ointment, of which a small particle is applied to the a wet cloth over them and passing be adjusted at different intervals. The fa nostrils. Price, fjOc.' Soidbydru^h^OTsentbymaTl t^M c.-^^..^£. T.=^--r sent by mail. the iron over that. Address IU shoe is of any tough, hard wood, shaped If any shiny places are seen they are IELTINE, Warren, Pa. as shown in the engraving. Securely treated as the Avrinkles are the kd is bolted to the top of the bed CDCC for 5 cents to pay **-9sf- •&<--».•»«=.! lifted? while the full" cloud of steam piece are two sticks of hard wood, lilLC postage, we will ASPI.ENIUM RUTA-JIURARIA. S I 0 0 0 0 WEEK. rises and brings the nap up with it. I I I I I I ^W sencfour beautUui three and a half feet long, two and a tufts—or rootlets, one might call them 1 1 A Illustrated Catalogue Good cloth will bear many washings half by three and a half inches, beveled A skin and blood purifier of incomparable purity —on\ the shady side of damp cliffs. Agents Wanted I I and Price List, and look better every time because of and curative power. An acknowledged specificof at the lower end to admit of standing containing over S 0 0 The thread-like stipe is "purple-brown worldwide celebrity. Entirely vegetable, safe, them. ILLUSTRATIONS Qf every Tool known to a at the proper angle. Three inches and shining," contrasting prettily with woodworking mechanic. A rare opportunity to PortraitsEnlarged to any size. innocent, and palatable. Effects daily moregreat from the top of each is bored a hole, buy good tools at wholesale prices. the vivid green of the tiny rows of cures of skin, scalp, and blood bnmors than all Writs for Bswlsl Terms sad CstalafM. through which an old rake handle is i£t History will have to get up pretty F. G. DRAPER & CO., Chicago Shctric LSgto E=lwgnjg ft, pinnse rows on either side. It is shown other skin and blood remedies before the public. thrust, to serve JS a handle for the early in the morning and hustle until Sole greater than the combined sales of all other 245 to 253 E. Kandolph St. in Fig. 2. Another fine member of the 53 E. 3rd St., St. Paul, Minn. Chicago, Hit.' blood and skin remedies. marker. The two trackers and the away into the night to a slicker job of same family is A. ruia-muraria, shown I prescribe .\nd fully endorse Sold everywhere. Price, $1. POTTEB DKBG I GOR E FITS!mthapstootymerel middle marker can be turned over on revolutionizing than that just performed in Fig. 3. Although very sc-irce. Big as th« only ANH CHEMICAL COEPOBATION, BOSTON. specific forthecart&incurs the top when not in use. In the upper by the Brazilians. On the whole, lihere is no mistaking it, for there is of this disease. JO*Send for "How to Cure Spring Humor."* part of the engraving are shown at we begin to think that the Rio coffee is G. H. INGBAHAM, U. D., "nothing else which looks like it in the Amsterdam, K. T. When I saycore I donotmesa the left the marker used for handplanting, a better drink than that rfzvxfjaky sort [Fern Family in fact, its relationship foratimeandthen nave them return again, ixaoaam We have sold Big 6 for with a section of the hard of stuff the Russians, drink.— WasMnaton ttAieal eare. I hara mada the diseasa of FITS. EPILEPSY •ht be doubted, were it not for the many years, and Jt has or PALLING SICKWEgS «. life-W rtndr. 1 wood shoe beneath. At the right is Post. Z% given tbe best of satisfaction. i, or fruit-dots on the under side. warrant my remedy to coxa the woratcasea. BecMOtt othersharefailed isnoreasonfor not now Tecerrinra. the form of runner used to mark for (The Spleen worts are often found in D.B.IYCHBAOO.. core. Sendatanco far a treatise and a Free BoTtleofrn/_infallible Chicago, 111. remody. Grre Expressand Post Officev. machine planting. 'otinection with the Walking-Leaf The hair around a lion's neck is hi* a. &. KOUT,M,5..183 Pearl Stt. New YorfcT 'SarkVfil.OO. Sold by Druggist* mane protection. Ss&f fc'f*^ *KT