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The Exeter Advocate, 1894-5-17, Page 3"'ITE FARM AND GARDEN, AMATEURS IN TUE GARDEN! Notes. of Interest to the Flower, *?ruit and Vegetable Grower, and 'albs on Tree's and. Shrubs.. The ]flower Garden. In the greenhouses and frames keep the 'ventilators well opened, and the sash re- moved on all mild days. 'Where plants are crowded topothor do not got them too wet during mild, damp weather. At rl:lt;iANTstenA,—Good strong plants may be divided if more stock is needed. Keep thein in the warmest part of your :greenhouse. Coleus, aohyranthes, ageratum. helio- trope, lemon, verbena, fuchsias, mesetn- bryanthenturn, need only to be kept in healthy condition, and free from insects, until planting time, Cuttings may yet be pat in., but the plants will be small at planting time. Cannes, caladium esculentum, tube - :roses, dahlias and madeira vine, that have been potted up during the winter and stood under benches, should now be bought into more heat and light. TUt3EltOns BEGONIA..—Tabors that are not already started for bedding purposes had better be as soon as possible, to get good results. Seedings should now have their last shift. Either tubers or seed- ings may bo grown in flats until planting time. GERAN.IUMs for bedding should now be in cold frames, and the 'sash entirely re- moved on all mild days. Don't forget to throw mats or loose straw over the frames, when there is danger of frost. IVY -LEAVED GERA QIU,'1IS that are in- tended for vases or window boxes, had better be kept in the houses for awhile. SEEDLINGS of ageratum, asters, ealen- .dlulas, eeutaureas, cerastum, dahlias, for- get-me-nots, gaillarclias. lobelia, salvias, snapdragons, stocks, verbenas, zinnias, etc., from. seed. sown last month, must be pricked out as they become crowded, or they will "damp oft." OUT OF Doone, -Continue cleaning up lawns, walks, drives, beds ane. borders. Edging should be done and walks and drives repaired if needed. Fork up beds sand borders, shift and divide all herba- .eeous plants that need it. Get all hardy ,plants planted as soon as possible. Start the lawn mower. GLADIOLI and moutbretias may be planted, DAHLIAS.—Dormant tubers may be planted in any well drained soil. SwEtev PEAS should be sown, if not clone already. Current Work in the Fruit Garden. HAttuv ANNUALS may be sown if the soil is dry enough to work well. APPLES.—To prevent scab try spraying the trees with an iron sulphate solution. PJJiAn ti:.'ti,—Newly planted trees need thorough • triunning. Try potash ferti- lizer for this fruit. QUlxe s are almost as sorely in need of thorough pruning as grapes. They re- juire good. feeding, too, 011UL ltD,—Clean out the trimmings 'and other rubbish and burn them up. Return the ashes to the fruit. CURRANT -8 AND GOOSERERRIES.—Prune by cutting out old canes. Olcl manure ,and a heavy mulch always come accep- table. If you have a half shady spot, try a Columbus gooseberry or two. very best of suceoss, and which we oan r000xnmend with all eollfldezioo to every gardener. Of course ib will do just as well to start plants in hotbed or cold frame. Ripe melons may be lied fully a week or more earlier by this Plan than by sowing seed in open ground after mid- dle of. May,the usual time that this job eon be safely done, Annuals, Their Uses, and QUltiutition, To the lovers of flowers, whose display of affection for thein must be gauged by both limited time and means, the many species that may be grown from seed annually afford a means of. gratifying. their tastes. A. dollar's worth of seeds, bought from some r4iable seodsntan, varieties properly selected and properly sown and eared for, will give a wealth of bloom that will delight the eye of any enthusiast. There is no home that will not be made the happier and its sur- roundings more beautiful by -the addition of some dowers to its possessions. And no life is so busy that- time cannot be profitably given to the caro of some of the many beautiful species of annuals. Very simple methods of cultivation will suffice them, and success in growing them is almost certain, Nearly all of them may be grown from seeds sown in the open ground where the plants are to re- main, and the seedlings' thinned out whop large enough. The season of bloom may be considerably lengthened and bet- ter results obtained by sowing seeds of some of the species in a hotbed, cold frame, or even a simple box frame, stood in a sheltered, southern, exposed situa- tion, and covered with boards and cloth during cold nights, the plants being transplanted to their permanent quarters. This will be found the most satisfactory plan, as the seeds and seedlings may be given better care if congregatect together in a seed bed, than as though they wore sown broadcast over the beds in which they are to bloom. Wherever the seeds are sown the soil should bo thoroughly and finely worked and enriched by some fine, well rotted manure. If the soil is at all stiff in char- acter it should be made light and porous by the addition of some sand and leaf mold. These preparations of the soil should be particularly well carried out where fine seeds are to be sown. In sowing such small seeds as petunias, for instance, the seeds should not be covered, but simply pressed firmly into the soil and watered with a fine spray, the soil then being shaded by some means to prevent drying out, the surface being kept continually moist until the seeds are germinated and the seedlings well established. After planting in their permanent quarters, the surface of the soil should be kept stirred and free from weeds. Bordeaux Mixture. There are several .formulas, the most approved being that of Dr. Riley, of the Maryland Experimental Station, which is as follows : Unslaked lime, 7 lbs,; copper sulphate (blue stone), G lbs.; London purple, lb.; water, 75 gallons. It has bean found best to slack the lime in half a barrel of water, separately. The cop- per sulphate should be put in some coarse bags, and suspended at the top of the cask, as it dissolves much quicker than if put in the bottom of the cask. .After the lithe is thoroughly slacked, carefully pour it off ; to avoid the sediment getting into the spraying syringe or pump, better strain it through a fine cloth. Add the two liquids together, then stir in the Lon- don purple. When used it must be con- stantly stirred, to keep the latter from settling. These chemicals cannot be ef- fectually used dry. GnAP.ES.—.Finish pruning without fur- ther delay. Out close. Spray or wash the vines with a strong iron sulphate so- lution. Don't neglect to plant a Green Mountain grape. It is the most valuable .of all varieties of recent introduction, .early and good. MANURING.—Try bone and potash for tree fruite, say five to ten pounds each, of muriate of potash and bone meal, to the tree; scatter around the tree as far as the branches extend or further. Wood ashes, where it can be had, are still better than ultndate of potash. Binmuse About this time we rake the mulclt itt the strawberry patch into every second or third row; then cultivate or hoe the cleaned. rows, rake or pitch the mulch back into the rows already cultivated, •and cultivate the remnaining rows, Screeds .among the plants should be out or palled :out. Chan np the raspberry and black- berry patches. Lift up canes laid down in autumn for winter protection. Give bushes support by stake or wire, if pos- sible. A new bed of strawberries should be set out every spring. Make the ground rich for them ; for raspberries and espec- ially blackberries ordinary soil and light manuring, will answer. Setting Out Raspberry Plants. As soon as I receive my raspberry plants from the nursery, I dig a trench about a foot wide and six inches deep, and unbind the plants, spread. them out in the trench with the tops above ground, .and turn in water and mix with just enough earth to make it the consistency of thin mortar. Let the plants remain in this mixture about six hours, and then set them out six feet apart and five feet apart in the rows. I have set out a great many plants by this method for myself -and. neighbors, and have never lost one. To large growers this method :would cause a considerable amount of labor, but for the home garden it is a most excellent plan. Starting Melon Plants. About as good. a way as ever I found to start melon, squash and oueumber plants Under glass for transferring to open ground later, is in strawberry boxes which, having once been used and be- -come soiled, are worthless for their origi- nal purpose. During the latter half of April we clear otic of the benches of soil and.set strawberry boxes in it closely to- gether. Usually we put a little bit of well decayed spent hops, a piece of half rotten sod, or some other fibrous material in the bottom of each box, and all the boxes covered with another half inch of nice soil, so that the 'whole bench looks like a solidi bed. Firming and. watering is attended to in the usual manner. 'The plants soon appear above ground, are thinned to two plants to the box, and well taken care of until about June first,. when the boxes are taken out of the bench, placed in trays and caref ally car- ried (not carted) to the patch reserved for I, them. Hills are prepared; by mixing a good lot of fine old manure with the soil, and the plants, box and all, firmly plant- ed in their proper places. If a little shad- ing can be given to the plants by placing an inverted strawberry box over them, all the better; bub heavy applications of tobacco (lust, bone meal or bath, to keep off bugsretc., should nob be omitted.. This i.aplan which we have practieed -at Woodbanks for some seasons with the FOR SABBATH READING-. DING-., CURRENT REt,IG1OUS TALK. • Trite and Wiso Selections of the Ablest Mon of the Day on lllortality anis lto- flgion for Houle heading. The Preacher's Vacation. The oid man went to meotin', for the day, was bright and fair, Though This limbs were very totterin', and 'twee hard to travel mere; 13ut he hungered for the Gospel,. AS he trudged the weary way On the road so rough and dusty, '.oath the sum- mer's burning um-mer'sburning ray, By-and-by he reached the building, to his soul a holy place; Thea he paused, and wiped the sweat -drops off ;tis thin. and Wrinkled face. But he looked around bewildered, for tite oldbell did not toll; And the doors were shut and bolted, and he clic not see a soul. So he leaned upon his crutches, and he said " What does it mean ?" And he looked this way and that, till it seemed almost a dream.; Be had walked the dusty highway, and he breathed a hoavy sigh— Just once more to go to meetin', ere the summous name to dia. Liquid Manure for House Plants. Le Jardin recommends the following formula for this purpose: "Carbonate of potassium about 15i grains. troy; phos- phate of potassium, 151. grains; carbon- ate of magnesia, 15i grains ; silicate of soda, 154,grains; nitrate of potassium, 31 grains • and sulphate of iron, 46 grains. Those materials should be mixed in the proportions given and dissolved. in 3 pints of water, Table and window plants should be watered with this once a week." But won't a teaspoonful each of super- phosphate and ordinary saltpeter in a gallon of water do just as well? But he saw a little notice, tacked upon the meet - in' door, So he limped along to road it, and lie read it o'er and o'er. Then he wiped his dusty glasses, and he react it o'er again, Till his limbs began to tremble and his oyes be- gan to pain. As the old man read the notice, how it made his spirit barn I "Pastor absent on vacation—ehureh elosed:till his return." Then he staggered slowly oaekward, and he sat him clown to think, For 1iis;soul was stirred within him, till he thought his heart would sink. So lie mused and wondered, to himself 801110- quized— " I've lived to almost eighty, and was never so surprised As I read that oddest notice, sticicin' on the Matta'. door, ' Pastor on vacation'—never hearts the like be- fore, A Woman's Love. A woman's • love ! Perhaps in the whole length and breadth of this grand old country there is nothing more glori- ous than a woman in whose breast the first fire of love is burning. She is a poem, written in golden curls, "Liberty" silks and maguammmtons principles. Iter path is one of delicate roses ; her words float upon the ear like music from a seraphic piano -organ. Her influence and generosity restrain the vicious, strengthen the weak, heal the sick, raise the lowly, flannel -shirt the heathen and buck up the faint-hearted.. Wherever you find the woman that loves you will also find a welcome fireside, shirts with buttons on then, music, tender influences and milk puddings. , She is the flower of humanity. a '(genus in divinity, and her inspiration is the breath of heaven. Open -Aar Ethics. "Deep in the open air as much as pos- sible," is the first and great command- ment that should be urged in the spring. During the winter the necessarily. live -a more or less unnatural life. Wo breathe the air vitiated by furnace haat, with all the vital qualities baked out of it, and hence during the winter we subject our- selves to a gradual process of slow poi- soning. The antidote for this poisoning is fresh alt. So this universal instinct to get out of doors clurin.g the spring of the year is a natural. instinct which, like all natural instincts, has a cause based on the eter- nal condition of things. It is nature's effort to expel the stored -up poison accu- mulated during the winter. Man is naturally an open-air animal. But climatic conditions render open-air life sometimes impossible. As soon, how- ever, as these conditions are removed the old primal instinct to get out beneath the sky asserts itself, and this instinct can- not be disregarded except at the peril of health. Get out in the open air every clay and stay there as long as possible. It will make you better physically, mentally and morally. Love .and appreeiation are to a WOIOAll what dew and sunshine are to the flowers, they fresh and brighten her whole life ; they enable her to cheer her husband when the .cares of life press heavily upon him and make her a providence to her children. To know that her husband honors and lovers her, that he cherishes her virtues and looks tenderly even upon her faults; that to him her face is the fairest in the world; that his heart holds her sacred above all other, women, gizes her strength, courage, sweetness and vi- vanity, which the wealth of the world c,oulcl not bestow. Let a woman's life be pervaded by such an influence and her heart and mind will never grow old, but will sweeten and brighten and blossom into eternal youth. There aro many living in these later days, who, if they would only be guided by experience, both that of others and that of their own lives, would keep out of much trouble into which now they fall. If experience were all that is needed to keep people from troubles, we should have much less of sorrow and pain than we now have. But the hearts of men are set to do evil so often that they set aside all the teachings of experience and push ahead wilfully. They then get into trou- ble, and wonder haw it has all:happened. Look into your own life and see how many trials you might have escaped if you had been ;willing to be guided by your own bitter experience, or by that of your pa- rents or friends. If only we were to judge ourselves justly, we should have to write against the story of many of our woes, " This is my own fault." •' -Why, whenIfirst jived tate meetin', very many years ago, Preachers travelled on the circuit, 10 the heat and through the snow; If they got their clothes and wittals ('twas but little cash they gut), They said. nothing 'bout vacation, but were happy in their lot. " Would the farmer leave his cattle, or the shep- herd leave Ins sheep ? \VIto would give them care and shelter, or pro- vide tltcm food to eat ? Sa it strikes tae very sing'Jar when a man of holy hands Thinks he needs to have vacation, and forsakes his tender lambs, "Did St. Pani get such a notion? did a Wesley or a Knox ? Diel they itt the heat us summer turn away their needy Bucks? DPI they shut their meetin'-house just to go and • lounge about? Why, they ;.new that if they diel, Satan certain- ly would shout. "Do the taverns close their doors, just to take a little rest ? Why, 'twould be the height of nonsense, for ther trade would be. distressed. Did you ever know it happen, or hear anybody tell, Satan taidn' a vacation, shut -tin' up the doors of lull? " And shall preaehers of the Gospel pack their trunks and go away, Leaving saints and dying sinners to get along as best they may ? Are the souls of saints and sinners valued less than seism' beer? Or do preachers tire quicker than the rest of ' Mortals here ? - " \Vhy it is I cannot answer, but my feelings they are stirred; Here I've dragged my totterin' footsteps for to hear the Gospel word, But the preacher is a-travellin' and the meetiii'- itonso is closed ; I confess it's very tryin', ]card, indeed, to keels composed. " Tell me, when I tread the valley, and go up the shinin' height, 1\'ill T lienar no angels singin'—will I see no gleamin' light ? Will the golden harps be silent? Will I meet no welcome there ? Why, the thought is most distressin', would be mare than I could bear, "Tellme, when I reach the city over on the other shore, Will I.lind a little notice tacked upon the golden door Tellin' me 'mid dreadful silence, writ in words that cut and burn • Jesus absent on vacation, heaven closed tilt His return ? Blasts from the haul's Horn. The less one wants religion the longer it takes him to say so. • .Some (lurches are no respecters of col- ored persons• Virtue is most valuable when it doesn't pay. An oath means that a ntan who makes it loves the devil. Boon '1'1'iere, Sing a song of penitence, a fellow full of rye; :tour and twenty serpents danced before his eye. When his eye was open- ed, he shouted for his lite; wasn't he a pretty chump to go before his wife? His hat was in the parlor, underneath a chair, his boots were in the hallway, his coat was on the stair. His trousers in the kitchen, his collar on the shelf.. But he hadn't any notion where he was himself. When the moon was breaking, someone heard him call, his head was on the iceboat, and that was best of all. To preach the Gospel is not merely to tell the story of the cross ; it is to live the life of the Dross. I can tell the story of Farragut, and if I can tell it with elo- quence I shall stir some hearts to bravery; but does that compare with having lived the life of Parragnt? Does talking here about him compare with having tied one- self to the mast and steamed up, a mark for shot and shell, into Mobile harbor ? I was looking yesterday at Barye's statue of " Theseus and the Centaur," and at first I was inclined to criticize it ; the face of Theseus was too calm, too peace- ful; but as we studied the artist's work, the club raised in one hand and the other hand on the throat of the Centaur, we could see even in that bronze face a steady determination growing, a strength of courage and a peace, because Theseus was in the midst of the battle, too absorbed in it to be anxious. What, in imagina- tion, you can see in the bronze face of Barye's Theseus, we all have seen in the faces of noble men and noble women, growing peaceful, not because they were in the harbor, but because they were in- spired by a noble sense of duty in the storm; not because there was no trumpet call, but because answering the call they were in the midst of the battle, too bravely fighting to be double -minded and harassed. Every whisky barrel a long and deep river of death. Ono reason, why some men swear is be- cause it does not take any courage or manliness to do it. Ministers who aro more concerned about salary than souls never get the Bible wide open for anybody when they preach. If no preaching were done outside of ohureh buildings angels would stop hop- ing that the world would ever be brought to Christ, '' !Call oaks Creel little acorns ;row," if the acorns aro not worm. eaten. Some people have one foot in the grave and. the other in their mouth. ,Tudge Sago, of Cincinnati, is learning ail " The Death of the Devil," and ninny orphans attend their father's funeral. A lie in business is as black as it is anywhere else. The gravedigger would have more time to rest if some other people would learn to live without being always in a hurr,y,. Every preacher ought to remember that the sinners on the front s^fiats aro the • hardest to hit contains "I never let bairns or fools see my pic- tures until they are done," said a Scotch artist to me once. As no artist is willing to have a judgment pronounced on paint- ing or statue until the work is completed, so our heavenly teacher bids us possess our souls in patience, "What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter." "Why the pleasantest room in our house is turned into a hospital ; why that coffin was carried like a spectre up our stairway ; why the pillow in that empty erlb is impressed to -day ; why that income on which so many mouths de- pended is dried up ; why this and that staff was broken—our poor, blind, aching hearts cannot understand. Impatient and rebellious as we may be now, we cannot displace God's hand from the can- vas. There is no help for us but to wait until the picture is completed. Some of the colors he is laying into our lives are frightfully somber, but lay and by, in the revealing light of the last day they may be only a background on which faith and submissive trust will stand out in hues of gulden glory. Let us wait and see. The liberty that goes too far is sin, and therefore justly censurable. Many vices are simply excesses in the use of things innocent and lawful.. Too great liberal- ity, for example, is prodigality ; too great economy is parsimony. Liberality and economy are virtues ; prodigality and parsimony are vices. But who is to judge where the one ends and the other begins ? "Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind," but let him .exercise his liberty with due regard to the interests of others. The censoriousness that puts an uncharitable construction upon the lib- erty of another is perhaps the greater sin, not only because its lack of the charity that " thinketh no evil," but because it assumes the prerogative of God, to whom alone belongeth judgment. Varicocele, Emissions, Nervous Debility, Seminal Weakness, Gleet, Stricture, Syphilis, Unnatural Discharges, Self Abuse, Kidney and Bladder Diseases Positively Cured by,. TH.a New etoij Tr tgsJI e1tLIrtffl lliscocrij TabepapuitroritUen rteYuPostmaster to paid yuae1D Dank a witnGara SSexfAbuse, .Cxcovee and Blood •DGyeases have wrecked the 117(01 d•.' !unronils of young .ren and middle aged men, The farm, the workshop, the Sunda: school, the office,the profes- sions—all have its victims. Yea p wag, ifyou have been indiscreet, beware othe future. se MOddln aged en, yoµ are growing lrornaturelyY weak and old, both sexually and phyysically. Consult us before too late. NO NAMES USED Wil HOUT WRITTEN CONSENT. Confidential, VARICOCELE, EMISSIONS AND SYPHILIS CURED. W. S. COLLINS. W. S. Collins, of Sag;naW, Speaks. W. S. COLLINi . "Y am 29. At 15 I learned a bud habit which I contin- ued till 19. I then became "one of the boys" and led n g ty life. Exposure produced tt'jpltltis, I became nerv- ous and despondent; no ambition; memory poor; oyes red, sunken and blur; pimples on face; hair loose, bone pains; weak back; varicocele; dreams and losses at night; moan parrs; deposit in urine etc, I spent hun- dreds of dollars without help, and WAS contemplating suicide when a friend. recommended Drs, Kennedy & Itergan's how Method Treatment. Thank God I tried it. la two monthe I was cured. This was six p) �, roars ago, and never had a return. Was married two • r;ll hap py. Idose, try Drs, Kennedy & Ker - years ago and BEFORE TREATpf. `i` gan before giving ntr hope." Arrsn %IMATnt'T 8. A. TONTON. Seminal Weakness, Impotency and Varicocele Cured. "When I consulted Drs. Kennedy & 'Korean, I had little hope. I was surprised. Their now Method Treat- ment improved mo the first week. Emissions ceased, nerves became strong, pains disappeared, hair grew in ( • 'r� again, eyes became bright, cheerful in company and strong sexually. Having tried many Quacks, I can heartily recommend Drs. Kennedy Ix Kaman as reliable \% I EEFomxmb TmiEA'rAi'7 Specialists. They treated me honorably and skillfully." Aa CLR 'rt:kATllm'T. T. P. L11.151RSOPt. A Nervous Wreck --A Happy Life. T. P. EMp1RSON. - 't T. P. Emerson Has a Narrow Escape. "I live an the farm. At school I learned an early habit. whiuh weakened me physically, sexually and mentally. family Doctors said I was golxig into `decline" (Consumptions, l:inally "Tho Golden Monitor," edited by Drs, lionnnds tL Kergan fell in- to my hands. I learned the Truth and Cause. Self abuse had sapped my vitality. I took the .New Nathod T'reatrenl and was cured. My friends think I was cured of Consumption. I have sent them many ( 3i; j� patients,all of whowere cured. Their New a ' `�(a Method lm Treatment supplies vigor, vitality and man_ �, .t BEFORE TREATM'T. hood." AFmr.rt TREATMENT. 8. A. TONTQN. READER Are you a victim? Have. you lost hope? Are you. contemplatingmar- . nage? Has your Blood been diseased? Have you any weakness? Oar Now Method Treatment will cure you. What it has done for others it will do for your C7TJ'R131ei GTJ8 W EX OR 1N.7 0 1='�.Y (6 Years in Detroit, 160,000 Cured.. No Risk, Consultation Free. No matter who has treated you, write for an honest opinion Free of charge. Charges reasonable. Books Free — 'The Golden Monitor" (illus- trated), on Diseases of men. Inclose postage 2 cents. Sealed. -M-1‘10 NAMES USED WITHOUT WRITTEN CONSENT. PRI- VATE. No medicine sent C. O. D. No names on boxes or envel- opes. Everything confidential. Question list and cost of Treat- ment, FREE. DRS KENNEDY & KERDAN, No.148 SHELBY T, M CH.ST. Machinery is not in itself power. At the best it only furnishes the means of power, when connected with the source of supply. A. steam-engine is useless with- out fire and water. An eleotrie motor amounts to nothing unless it secures a current from the dynamo. Gas pipes and fixtures give no more light than black lead, without a working connection with a supply of gas. A fountain pen cannot write a word when the ink is gone from it. The wisest mart in the world has in himself no spiritual power, save as ho is in free comemnion. with the sources ot all. spiritual power. Preacher and teacher and private Christian alike must remem- ber that they are nob in themselves vines, but branches of the one Vine—apart from which they cannot bear fruit. It is estimated that the annual salt inn - duet of the world'Az fully 0300,000 tons. Syw•,s.Pzv:�t'+:,5,un'PZu`'i�'e4T%1+Ftt:�kfiir,� •_� for infants and Children. TIIIRTY years' observation of Castoria with the patronage of millions of persons, permit us to speak of it without guessing_ It is unquestionably the best remedy for Infants and Children the world has ever known. It is harmless. Children like ft. It gives them health. It will save their lives. In it Mothers have something which is absol*,tely safe and practically perfect as at child's medicine. Castoriadestro s 'Worms. Castoria allays Feverishness. Castoria, prevents vomiting Sour Curd. Castoria cures Diarrhoea and Wind Collo. Castoria relieves Teething Troubles. Castoria cures Constipation and Flatulency. Castoria neutralizes the effects of carbonic acid gas or poisonous air. Castoria does not contain morphine, ilium, or other narcotic property. Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Castoria is put up in one -size bottles only. It is not sold in tbulk. Don't allow any one to sell you anything else on the plea or promise that it is "just as good" and" will answer e'*bry yurpnose." See that yniz Bret C-Fa.-S-TaOmR-I A. The fan-similo signature of Children ,y ,' is on every' wrapper. Pitcher's Castoria. imp ,f . Eating Before Sleep. Fasting curing the long intervals be- tween supper and breakfast, and especi- ally the complete emptiness of the stein - a ih during sleep, acids greatly to the amount of emaciation, sleeplessness and general weakness so often met with. It s well known that in the body there is a perpetual disintegration of tissue, sleep- ing or waking; it is, therefore, natural. to nelieve that the supply of nourishment should be somewhat continuous, especi- ally in those in whom the vitality is low- ered. As bodily exercise is suspended during sleep, with wear and tear eorre- spondtngly diminished, while digestion, assimilation and nutritive activity con- tinue as usual, the food furnished during this period adds more than is destroyed, and increased weight and unproved gen- eral vigor is the result. All animals except man eat before sleep, and there is no reason why mean should form an exception to the rule. 1 am satisfied that were the weakly, the emaciated and the sleepless nightly to take a light meal of simple, nutritious food before going to bed, for a prolonged period, nine in ten of them would be thereby raised to a better standard of health. Re has found that after digest- ing a bowl of bread and milk, ora saucer of oatmeal and cream, before ming to bed for a few Months, a surprising in - Crease in weight, strength and general tone has resulted. Perseus who aro stout and plethoric, aro recommended to follow an opposite course. Soxios, the public hangman of Victoria. Australia, has killed himself, because lie had boon ordered to hang Mrs. 1:norr, oonvieted.of murdering infants ona baby #arrrl. 1 ST OR FAILING MANHOOD, General and Nervous Debility, Weakness of Body and Mind, Effects o. Errors or. Excesses in Old or •S Dung. 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