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THE) AMKRICA-N GARPE)N^ 
SAVOBS OP THE SOIL. 
HOOKED, HAKROWBD AND HAKVE8TED. 
Jack Frost always goes cross-lots. 
The best fai-m is the one that is best tilled. 
Piety iz like Beans, it seems to do the best 
on poor sile. 
There is lots of folks who can’t let bad 
Every dime’s worth of paint saves a dol¬ 
lar’s worth of wood. 
Show me a tidy fai'm and I’ll show you a 
successful farmer. 
’Stead of praying for rain, wh}' don’t the 
parson ask for a full crop in the barns ? 
Contentment wuz a f.au' maid, but did not 
bear increase until she wedded with Hope. 
Going to law iz like skinning a new milk 
cow for her hide and giving the beef tew the 
lawyers. 
o 
Tliis is the race track 
Kounded and smoothed with care, 
Thronged with horses and people 
Every day of the fan-. 
o o o 
These are the farmer’s’ products. 
Few and far between. 
Viewed by reporters and committeemen. 
Cared for by farmers gi-een. 
—Stoughton Sentinel. 
Our Book Table. 
Trumbull County, Ohio, Horticultural Soci¬ 
ety. Annual report of the proceedings of this 
vigorous and prosperous societj-. .James Wilson, 
.Jr., president; E. W. Turner, Xewton Faiis, secre- 
tarj-. 
The Goldfish and its Culture, bg Hugo Mulerll, 
Cincinnati, 0. This elegantbookofoverlOOpages, 
profusely illustrated, itresents all the important 
and essential point.s concerning the treatment 
and best methods of propagating goldfish; its his- 
tor}-; con-stmetion of fish ponds and aquaria; 
enemies .and diseases of the fish, and other useful 
information pertaining to fish culture. 
New .Jersey Hoard of Agriculture. Twelflh 
Annual Keport; V. T. Quinn, secretary. An extra- 
ordhiary rich and varied amount of iiHeful infor¬ 
mation is herein presented to the reader. Ijur- 
ing one ol the di.scussions -\Ir. .Sela.onmaker, a 
Longlslantl farmer, made the aslonisiiing stale. 
raentthatlheu.se ol concentrated si.ecial ferliliz- 
ers had driven yard manures otii of the mai kel, 
and that farmers found it to their advantage to 
seli tite mtiniire made ou their fartus and huv 
special fertilizers instead. I'rof. Cook had visited 
their fanns and vouched for thecorreetness of liie 
statements made. 
The Bee-Keeper’s Guide, b// I’rof. A, ,/, f V/e/.-, 
hamtlng, Mich. The science ami art of modm-n' 
bee-keeping has been brought to sucii a stale of 
exactness and perfection that those possessed of 
the nceessary qualifications, if they will avail 
tliemselvcs of the excellent ju-iictical instructions 
and masteriy teachings laid down in this book, 
can hardly fall to meet with success. N’otliing 
illrectly or remotely connected witli the keeping 
and management of bees is omitted or sllgliteil In 
this work; it is perfect in every (bdall, and many 
parts of itare written in so fawelnallng a style as 
to Infuse apicultiiral enthnsiasm even iido intllf. 
feront minds. As a teachers’ .Manual for the 
treatment of arty applied natural science I lic work 
may justly serve as a model. 
"IlfDUOING PHTBIOIANS NOT TO 
PEESOBIBE ALOOHOLIOS.” 
The above was the title of a paper read before 
tlie National Convention of the Women’s Christian 
Temperance Union on Novembor 2cl» 1885» In As 
sooiation Hall, Philadelphia. It may therefore 
please the members of that splendid organization 
to Itnow of the great—the wonderful—success of a 
new treatment of disease which entirely supci- 
sedes the necessity of alcoholics. For sixteen 
years the “Compound Oxygon Treatment” of 
Drs. Starkey & Palon (who have more patients on 
their I’eoords than any other regular physicians 
of Philadelphia) has been used successtully in the 
cure of various fonns of chronic maladies, and in 
no case has the use of alcoholics been a necessity. 
From every one of the States and ’Territories 
from which the delegates in that Convention came 
have come testimonials from iialionts to the 
wonderlhl etfoctlvoncss of this now remedy in 
curing them. And all wore cured without the 
proscription of alcoholics! Some of them speak 
of the removal of a desire for stimulants, and in a 
few cases the entire release from bondage to 
morphine has been one of the results. The fol¬ 
lowing-named persons are among those who re¬ 
port cures: 
Mr. John Armstrong, ofJjyons, Nebraska, agedVO, 
curcti of dropsy; Itev. Charles F. Bird,’Wentworth, 
Nova Scotia, cured of nervous prostration alter 
bemg disabled from preaching four years; licv. 
John H. Cliandler and wife, niission.aries tliirty 
eight years in Siam, cured(after return)of malaria 
and nervous derangements; they are now living 
in Camden, N. J.; Jlr. Alonzo Clark, of the firm of 
Davis, Collamore & Co., of Now York city, cured 
of inflammation of lungs, after given up by phy¬ 
sicians to die; Kev. Charles W. Cushing, D. D., ed¬ 
itor of the American Reformer, New York, cured 
of nervous prostration; 3Irs. .Mary A. Doughty, ol 
Jamaica, J^ong Island, cured of nervousness and 
sleeplessness and dyspepsia; Jlr. George W. Ed¬ 
wards, St. George’s Hotel, Philadelphia, cured of 
Bright's disease; Mr. F. A. Fieldcn, of Salem, 
Mass., cured of nervous prostration;.Judge Fland¬ 
ers, ol New York city, cured of dyspepsia and ner¬ 
vous prostration; Mr. Martin JIancock, Lake 
City, Florida, cured of dyspepsia and catarrh; 
Hon. William D. Kelley, of Philadelphia, cured of 
herod itary catarrh; Mrs. Mary A .Livermore,the cel¬ 
ebrated lecturer, rcstoreil to “nearly uninterruiit- 
ed perfect health and vigor aller breaking down 
from overwork;” her address is Melrose, Jlass.; 
Rev. George C. Needham, evangelist, and wife, 
send letters giving testimony of advantages re¬ 
sulting from 'Treatment used by their friends and 
acquaintances; Hon. William Penn Nixon, of In¬ 
ter-Ocean, Chicago, Ill., cured of disctise of lungs; 
Frank .Siddall, of Philadelphia, cured of nervous 
and physical prostration; W. II. WInleley, Phihi 
delphia, cured ol seiaticji and nerve prostration. 
We have printeil statements from each of the 
foregoing, which will be sent to any addrc.ss on 
apjdication. 
R(?V. Edwaril J. Fisher, pastor of a I’resbyleriau 
church at Bristol, .Morgan County, Ohio, writes; 
“A 'Trcatmenl cured me entirely of a severe 
allack of pneumonia, and 1 used only two-thirds. 
The remainder cin-ed a neighbor of pneumonia in 
its last slag(;s.” 
Rev. AnIlionyAlwood, awidely known snperan. 
nualtal-Mellioflisl elergyman, of the Plillmlelplda 
Conference, at the age of eighty.four, writes: “A 
swallow ol the ttxygenaqna will sto)) the irrita¬ 
tion. .So much it has done for an old man. A 
young man might bi^ enrfal perummudly. | re. 
comimmd Compound O.vygeu lo all who sulJer 
J’roin Ilii’on.I rliHi'jiHi'H.” 
Rev. A. W. Moore, editor of the Crnfenar//, Dm-, 
linglou, .S. C., says: "I feel more life—more vigor 
—than I liave for years, I believer Cou]|mnml 
Gxygeii a bli!Msed, providential discovery.” 
Rev. Cyrus llanilin, I), It., LL. I)., President of 
.Mlddlebui-y College, Vei’iuoiil, wrlles, "‘l derivial 
so mneli benefit Ironi yonr Compound Oxygen 
Trealmenl, lastyear, lliatl will ask you lo 'send 
me the Slime supply for home trealmeiit, with the 
Inhaler, for wlileh I Inclose price. By my adviee 
ollutrs have tried II, ami never wllhoiil bemillt.” 
In the use of the (ioinpouml Oxygen Ihe patient 
lakes Nature’s simple plan and follows It. Let ns 
see wlial I lull |dan Is; 
When IJie life-blood has made the elrenll. of the 
arteries and vdiis—befoi'e re-entering the hearl 
I to be slarlod on lls elrenit anew-lt Hjircads over 
the surface of the air-cells of the lungs, a surface 
gi’cater in area than the entire exterior covering 
of the body. Here the air inhaled by the lungs 
meets It, changing its color to crimson, and im- 
parting to it ne-w vitality. Here Mndly Nature has 
been, ever a Healer and Repairer; hero modern soi- 
enoe finds the proper place to help Nature in the 
most effective way. Taking the fact that the 
usual proportions of the mixture of the elements 
of the atmosphere arc tho proportions exactly 
odaptod to tho needs of the average man in health, 
and seeing that an extra effort is needed for the 
sick to repair tho waste of vital force in tho blood, 
a different proportion is made in a mixture of the 
atmospheric elements—a lesser quantity of Nlti’o- 
gen is put with a larger portion of Oxygon. 
VYhen this “Compound Ox.vgen” Isused, the blood 
cnforslhelicnrtwdth Increased vitality. Thatorgan 
receives a portion of that vitality from the blood 
in its passage, and sends it forth with more force 
and les.s wear to itself; the vital currents leave on 
their circuitncH'deposits of vital force in every, 
cell of ti.ssuo over which they pass, and retuni 
again to tlic lungs for a new supply. This simple 
story is the rational explanation of the greatest 
advance that medical science has yet made. 
“Tlie Compound Ox.ygcn Treatment,” which 
Dr.s.Starkey&Palen, 1.Y29 Arch St., Philailelphia, 
have been using for the last sLxtecn years, is a 
scientific adjustment of the eiements of Oxygen 
and Nitrogen magnetized, and the compound is so 
condensed and made portable that it is caiTied 
by cx])ress to every portion of the ooimti’y-hi. 
deed, it is sent all over the world.— Adv. 
Bit VINO Seeds requires greater confidence in 
the integi’itj’ of the seller than any other article 
of merchandise. Perhaps no gi’ower or dealer in 
America is more rapidly gaining the confidence 
of the public for strict reliability than is Mr. Til- 
linghast with his “Puget Sound” brand of Cab¬ 
bage Seeds. He has customers who plant out 23 
to 50 pounds of seeds, the product, aggregating 
hundreds of thousands of dollars, being at stake. 
Any grower desiring home-proof that these seeds 
are tho best, will he referred to persons in his 
own Stale who have fully tested them, by address¬ 
ing Isaac F. Tillinghast, La Plume, Lackawanna 
Co., Pa.—.■bl’r. 
THE HELPING HAND. 
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open di.sciission of .subjects of interest to women, 
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department TiiE Press oll'crs the magnifleem 
book, “Great Truths by Great Authors,”Thcbook 
and Tut; Weekia’ Pres.s for one year being sent 
lor .*1.75, Tho publishers’ price of the book alone 
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.Send for premium list.—.1 Jr. 
A NEW METHOD OF FARMING AND GARDENING. 
The lion. A. N. Cole of tYollsvllle, N. Y., has dis 
covered a system of suh-surlace drainage and Ir- 
gallon by which crops are said to bo wonder- 
.1 ly increased-e.sMmated at tlvo-fold or more. 
His dascoverles have been embodied in a hand- 
i.v't'i r \ VO "■'* PbLUshed 
New Ym-l ” ‘ «^-0‘"lway. 
A GREAT OPFK^^ 
''‘■oognlzlng 11,0 superior e.xeoIleuee of the St. 
■outs ,1/10 ,,,we have arranged lo furulsU it 
tt comm,.lion with The AMEweAN Garden at the 
low prico ol $1.75 a year for hot.li puhUealious, the 
. “W.oir. uit.liu’its enlarged and Improved con- 
n.lmliig $L,3Ua year alone. Those wishing 
“.'i i:., ..r*; "r 
.-. 
I III'. Ameiiioan Garden.—.1 ,/,.. 
GOOD WATER, 
like “ciirrvlmo mid bowels. It seems 
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Il't'N III all seetli)ns,~..|,/,.. ‘ 
' eouverts to its vir. 
