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The Culture of Farm Crops, by Henry 
Stewart, is the latest addition to agricultural 
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Any farmer or fanner’s boy will bo able to 
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all who desire a simple yet accurate discus¬ 
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culture. Tt is published liy Duane H. Nash, 
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POST OFFICE CLUB. 
Sam Bateman is a new-comer in our neigh¬ 
borhood. He moved in from the uext. county ‘ 
and rented the old Drew place. We haven't 
had a real good chance to got acquainted 
with him yet. He comes to the store quite 
ofteu but doesn’t atop long, generally. One 
thing we have noticed about him is that he 
always buys something to eat when he comes. 
It’s a piece of salt fish or some cheese and crack¬ 
ers—always a luuehuf some kiud. Almost every 
other customer seems to get enough to eat 
at home. Uncle Jacob has noticed this habit. 
The other uight when Sam went out, Uurle 
Jacob pointed after him: "Ef I vas a baiting 
man I vould bait $ 10 dot dor wive otr dot man 
vas a very poor gook. Der marks off a poor 
gook vas show out eferywhere. Per gooks 
off the gountry vas responsible for der goot 
gofermuant uud order. Dey works out off 
sight, but dey bulls all der wires dot makes 
goutendmeut und beaee. It vas shust so 
much a woman’s duty to be a goot gook as 
it vas a man’s duty not to be one off dese 
Anargists, I haf always peon able to look 
ou der dark side off life nut gomblasance uud 
pe satislidu mit my lot off life. I gif der 
grodit to my wive. She made dot bleasant 
stade off tiugs ofer dor gook-stofo. 
Mit milk und eggs und Hour, shust dem 
three ingredients, my wive will gook 
new dish efery day in der year. 
V ben any part, off a meal is left ofer,my wive 
will gook it, out for der next meal so much 
better dan it vas pel'ore dot you wish efery- 
tkiug could pe sc rout band. A goot farm 
cannot be luoperly gondueted mi tour, a goot 
gook. When a man see* tint his meals vas pre¬ 
pared mit garu uud attention, be vas ashamed 
not to carry out, dem same briueiples. He 
takes more bains mit der food dot, be gifs to 
Ins stock, mixes it, out petterund feeds it. uiit 
more gare, uud finally begets so dot lie Maces 
more value ou manure uud dries harder to 
keeji der soil up. Dot all comes from dot 
good gook. Der huspand oil’ der vomans dot 
shust throws der ingredieuds together so dot 
n®.y comes out mi tout shape uud Hatbr, will 
loiMi his stock io uhust iiof< sjuik> garcloss wny 
uml lose his money und his good nature. Of 
der gofornment would baasa law dot uo young 
womans oouhl git married uutilshe could gook 
, 0 m y vv > vt ‘> Hennery George uml dem 
Anargists would uefer pe beaut from. 
PERSONAL CHARMS. 
IIow the Delnartinn Theory of Development 
llenutifien Women. 
W hat is the Delsartian method? 
If ladies can secure cultivation of the voice, 
so as to read and converse in sweetly modu¬ 
lated yet strong and deep tones, and by the 
same course of training acquire grace of car¬ 
riage and the development of chest and lungs 
that, ensures health and adds to personal 
charms, the methods employed are worthy 
investigation. 
So thought, our reporter, who called upon 
Mme. Gray, the noted teacher of Oratory aud 
Physical Culture at one of our leading hotels. 
As he entered the room a lady tnll but well 
proportioned came with graceful movement 
toward him, A well-shaped head, crowned 
with a wealth of iron gray hair, dark, brilliant 
eyes, beneath fiuely arched brows, were noted 
as she approached. When she spoke it was 
with a voice sweet and low, yet with a won¬ 
derful compass. 
“ What is the secret of this power of vocal 
expression you seem to have ?” 
“Secret? there is no secret,” laughed Mme. 
Gray. “Time was when I had one of the 
weakest and thinnest of voices. Any one can 
accomplish what I have done. It is so easy 
to acquire a full, resonant voice, that will 
never tire or grow hoarse. All vocal disabili¬ 
ties may lie overcome, hesitation, stammer¬ 
ing, stuttering, soon disappear under proper 
training.” 
“Dots this training affect the physical 
system ?” 
“Yes, it will develop the bust to almost 
ideal perfection. Gentlemen will add four or 
five iuebes ebest measurement in as many 
months.” 
“It is desirable from a point of beauty, 
then ?” 
“Yes, ladies gain the rounduess of waist, 
taper of arm and hand, aDd the perfect poise, 
ease and grace in movement, that add so 
much to personal charms.” 
“Health, I should think, would be benefit¬ 
ed, also?” 
“Indeed it is. Lung and throat troubles 
decrease, narrow chests and thin arms are 
developed, and female weaknesses largely 
overcome.” 
“It seems to be a regular panacea!” 
“No, 1 am sorry to say that some organs 
cannot be made good in this way after they 
have been injured as miue were by a sojouru 
near a Southern swamp. Before I tried phy¬ 
sical culture and Warner's safe cure I was a 
confirmed iuvalid. I was consumptive in 
early life, and it is only a few years since I 
overcame a serious liver trouble. I owe much 
to M aimer’s safe cure, and I do not hesitate 
to acknowledge it.” 
“Aud the consumption tendency?” 
“Disappeared after the use of this remedy, 
ami when I bad learned how to breathe. Not 
one in twenty breathe in such a way as to fill 
the air cells, to expand the strong muscles at 
the base of the lungs, which should do the 
labor of expelling air. Hence, if kidney dis¬ 
ease prevails, the lungs, affected by the kid- 
uey poisoned blood soon give way, 
“Is not your system the Delsartian theory?” 
“Yes, and I greatly rejoiced when this 
grand teacher gave to the world his ideas. 
They correspond to those I had long 
taught, for I am a pioneer in this work and 
have devoted life and energy to teaching the 
world that women may gain vocal accom¬ 
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the same time by these methods of cultiva¬ 
tion.” 
“You are yet teach iug?” 
“Yes, at the School of Orator}’ and Physi¬ 
cal Culture, at Syracuse, N. Y., a permanent 
institution, now in very successful progress. 
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