Bellefonte, Pa., June 12, 1908, CLAY FLEET. And Marjeson?'’ Steel asked; old “Chunky’’ Steel, as we osed to call him. I bad run down to see him, after ten years and we were calling the 10ll call of our old friends. “Married,” I said briefly. I did not mean to say more, for he had been the nearer friend of the two; bus Steel fixed bis eyes on me. ‘He married money,’ I added slowly. *‘And lived unhappily ever afterward?” Steel suggested. *‘I don’s know. I never go there.” “‘Husband’s friends not good enough for her?” ‘Oh, no! It isn’t that. She's civil enough. I shink she’s rather a good sort. It wasn’t her fault—I suppose it was my own for waking a little tin god of him.” ‘‘Ah!"’ Steel sighed. ‘‘Little tin gode always bave clay feet, Jobnny. I suppose he’s vo worse thau the rest of us.” ““The rest of us never pretended to be little tino gods. We were a little better than we made out, I think. Most decent men are."’ Steel nodded approvingly. “We were shy of our virtues,”’ he agreed. *‘Marjeson wasn’t. Do you remember bow he preached so us about ideals, and all that sort of thing? I can see him now, leaning forward in his chair.” Steel shaded his eyes with his hand, as if the memory hart him. ‘‘Most of us have ideals when we are young. I remember that yon and I were going to set the Thames on fire, Johnny. Thames is still wet; and Iam a comfortable country solicitor; and you are a comfortable stock-broker; and we're hoth growing stout, Johnny—confoundedly stout.” *‘Confoundedly stout.’’ I agreed, ‘‘but I'm going in lor golfing.” Steel notched a fresh cigar precisely, set it exactly in his mouth, and lit it carefully all round. It warmed my heart to see him do thiogs in the same old methodical ways. **A stout man was never a hero-worship- er yes,” he pronounced, with his whimsi- cal smile. ‘‘Perhaps the fault 1s in us.” ‘‘Perbaps. Do you remember how he declaimed against Galloway for saying that he meant to marry mouey? He mar- ried a governess in the end! It was worse than selling body and soul, Marjeson said. It was cheating the buyer as well. Hang it all, Chunky, we had a right to expect something better from Maijeson!” “We expect too much of our heroes,’ said Steel. ‘‘It's all very well to grumble about the clay feet, but —— Suppose they have clay feet. It's something to have the heroic bust, anyhow. If a hero had any sense—they never have!—he'd stick out his confounded clay feet first. Then we should worship him afterward for his bust. I knew a fellow who did that—un- consciously, of course. He wasn't the kind to play up for admiration. It was over marrying for money, too. I'll tell you about it after you've wet him. He's our doctor. You'll like the chap. Let's go and see if he's in.” We called on John Franklin, bachelor of sargery and doctor by courtesy, and found him at home; a handsome, happy-go-lucky giant, but shrewd for all his carelessness; a mao who had seen the world and knew women and men. I liked him, as Steel had predicted— who should know my likings if old Steel didn’t? —aund be seem to hike me. We'd go for a run in his motor on Sanday aod “have a spree,” he proposed. ‘‘While the cat's away!" he explained, with r nod at a photograph on the table; she porurait of a thin, pale-faced lady, with no pretensions to heauty. ‘‘Not that the mouse bas avy complaint to he make,” added, with a langh. *‘It isa good little cat!" Then a patient called to see him, and he excused himself for a few moments. While he was out of the room Steel told me about it. This 1s the story: She was Georgina Mason hefore she mar- ried; the only child of old Mason, the jam man. He left ber all hus money. A lot of fellows wanted to marry the money, hat Georgie saw through them and torned them all down. She was a clever girl, though she didu’t look it, and had a mind of her own; a little foo much wind, fora woman. I rather liked her myself, but most men didn’t. She bad a wonderfully sharp edge to her tongue, and it grew sharper as she grew older. I suppose she got a bitsoured. Women need a man to sweeten them—or children. She always told me that she would never marry, and I half-believed her. She ‘wouldn't be a mug thrown in with a pound of tea!” was the way she used to put it; and the rewark gives you a very fair idea of her style. Oue day abont a year ago she called to tell me thas she had changed her mind. She didn’s think any more of men, she in- formed we, but she thought less of herself. “I'm beginning to find myeell unhear- able,” she stated, ‘‘and 1'd rather quarrel with some one else! A husband is obvious- ly the proper person for the purpose.’ ‘Who is he, Georgie?’ I asked blonsly. It’s no nse wasting time over generalities | with a woman. “‘I thought of Doctor Franklin,” she said, ‘but I want your opinion, as my solicitor.” She spoke as coolly as if she was buying a house—or a horse. “Don’t be a fool!” I said—you had to epeak plainly to her in those days. ‘“‘My opinion as a friend is that you've gone mad.” I suppose you claim friendship so thas Iu can be rude,’’ she rejoined, tossing her ead. She had a lot of airs and graces that would bave been pretsy in a pretty woman. *‘What is the matter with him?" ‘“There’s nothing the matter with kim,’ I said. ‘He's one of the best fellows I know; bat he's an incorrigible flirt, and —— Look here, Georgie, I'm going to put it plaiuly. Is he in love with yon?" “I'll pus it to you plainly,” she retorted. ‘‘Are any of them? I suppose’’—she langh- ed bitterly—*I'm not an easy person to fall in love with.” “Umph!” I said. ‘You're all right, if you'd give yourself a chance. You know what I mean, you—you acid little ! Waters us e you ohoose Faanklin, of a ple OO ot him.” She shut her mouth with a snap. I knew farther argument was useless. Look at her mouth in the photograph! So I only told her not to be a bigger fool than she could help, and to let me tie up her money prop- erly. The next day I heard they were engaged. I must say that Franklin played the game with her. He was very attentive, and made a show of admiration; and he | never flirted a hit after the engagement, ! though he was very popular with the girls. He was wanly over it, 100, and showed that, if be bad sold himself, he badn’s sold bis self-respect. He keps Miss Georgie in order and curbed her tongue. It did ber a deal of good. She was (rightfully gone ou him, and would bave jumped into the water if be had told her to. She wouldn's even give me particulars of her property at first to draw up a settlement. What was hers would be his, she said, and it didn’s matter. And she called herself a business woman! However, I spoke to him about it, and be put down his foot, and said she muss. So she uodertnok to get the details from her stock-broker and she manager of the jam factory. She managed her business nerself, without consulting me. I believe she did it very well till ashe lost ber head over Franklin ; but a women in love is—a woman ! She had arranged to bring the particalars at two o'clock on Tuesday, but she came at noon. I never saw a plucky woman so cut up in my life. She had been swindled, is appeared, and lost practically the los. “1 don’t want any pity,’ she deolared, ‘‘but I want your help. Break it to—him ; and let me get away firss.”’ “‘But—"" I began ; and she snapped me up. ‘Youn mean that he would hold to his bargain,”’ she said scorufally. *‘Of course he would. He's aman! He'd even per- jure himself, and say be only wanted me. Me ! I—I'm vot worth having perhaps’’— she cried for a few seconds then ; it was the only time—‘‘but I'm hetter worsh baving than some people think. I'm wot bad enough to force myself on him without any—auy compensation. Tell him so to- worrow ; alter I’m gone.” I told him thas afternoon, and he went t0 bher—and perjored himesell | She wouldn't listen to him and rushed off to ber aunt's. She sent him a note asking him not to pain her by any further attempt at persuasion ; and she sent me a note ask- ing me to let people know that he had made the attempt, and bad made it ‘‘very strongly, sincerely, and kindly” ! She wanted every one to understand that he was ‘‘honorably free.’’ She wae leaving for the Continent on Friday, she wrore. I thought this was the end of it ; bus that was when the hero appeared. Frank - lin wens up to town on Toursday morning and got a special license and arranged with a parson. Ou Friday morning he went to ber aunt's house,aud carried off, her almost by phyesicial force and married her. When he brought her home he worked like a Trojan at his dootering, and now he's doing well. So perbaps it hasn't turned out #0 badly for him. Anyhow, the fellow’s a gentleman. I don’t know any man who is more attentive to his wile in public ; and I imagine he's pretty decent to her in private, for she seems contented enough. In fact marriage has iwproved her wonderfully, and she's grown almost popuolar. It's improved Franklin, too. Trouble always does im- prove a man ! Still, he could have married almost any girl in the town. And a man likes a pretty woman—even if he’s heroio. I wonder it Marjeson — He stopped abruptly, for Franklin re- tarned, and we covcluded the arrange- ments for Sunday. He bad been longing for *‘a breakout’ for ages, he declared, and we bachelors couldn’s realize tbe effect of ‘*a life sentence,’ ‘*Even when the jailoress is a model one’’ be added, with a vod at she portrait. He always took pains to speak well of his wife, Steel assared me. ‘The collar pinches a bis,” Steel re- marked, as we walk<d back to his house. “Georgie isn’t a bad sort, in her way, but —"' ‘‘But Fravnklin is a jolly good oue,” I pronounced. “‘I don't know that a man who marries for money is altogether to he envied, after all. I think I shall go and wee Marjeson sometimes, poor old chap. He'll be glad to have a spree, t00,n0 doubts, Tbere’s one comfort. He can’t preach to we now about bis ideals.” ‘Ideals are troublesome things,” Steel remarked, ‘‘hut your own are worse than other people's. I remember sometimes how vou and I—but we've ountgiown them, Johony. We're stousr— confoundedly stout.” ‘Comfortably stout,’’ I corrected ; aud we both laughed npioariously. It wade we feel young aud oheeifuil again to be with old Seeel. You have to pick up friends at the begiunivg of you: journey. They don’t lie about the road afterward. I'his was on Friday. On Saturday we went to see a leeal crickes-matoh. Frauk- lin was playing. He had given np cricket for motoring with his wife wince he mar- ried, Stee! said, and only played because she was away. He made sixty-swoand sook four wickets, and everybody was enthusi- astic about bis reappearance, and especially the girls. Pretty gitle some of them were, and one who talked to us called him *‘poor Doctor Fiankhn.” In the evening he came to Steel’s to play bridge, but she fourth failed us. So he sat and told us stories that made us hold our sides ; and he laughed as heartily as we did. “I baven’t told them for nearly a year,” | be said ‘‘so they amuse me. Now and then I try to Bowdlerize one for Georgie —that's my wife, you kuow'—he looked at me— “and she makes a gallant effort to be amused.” He roared at the recollection. ‘Bat, of course, she isn’t ! There's just one advanta-e that men have over women. They have a sense of humor. A woman basn’t. Did yon ever know one buy a comic paper, for example ? I never did.” Then he sat down to the piano avd sang comic songs—seongs that were really comio. ‘It brings back the old bachelor days,” he declared, when he had finished. “They’re awful rubbish, of course, but— well, they're a change. I've been singing classical musio lately. My wifeis a good rousician, and she thinks she has dis- covered that I havea voice. She's always discovering virtues in me. It’s a hard life living up to all the virtues. But I suppose they grow by exerocise.’’ Steel shook his head when Franklin bad gone ; and I shook mine. ‘Poor old fellow I" he said. ‘‘Poor old fellow | She means well hy him, too. It’s hard lines tor her, as well.” ‘‘He wou’s let her find out,” I said. *‘He’s too good a fellow.” Bat Steel shook his head again. ‘A woman always finds out that,”’ he insisted. ‘‘She doesn’s let him know that she has found ous. That's all. She's plucky. Poor old Georgie 1" I shook my head again. ‘Poor old Franklin !"’ I corrected. ‘‘Anyhow,” Steel observed, ‘he'll! he able to have a good time to-morrow. He'll know that we won't tell.” The next morning Franklin drove up in the snorting car punctually at nie, manag- ing it like a professional. He laughed, as usual, when we came out ; but it struck me that be was not quite at ease. “I say, you fellows,” he asked, rather sheepishly, ‘‘do vox care very much which way we go ¥' I nudged Steel and Steel nudged me. He bad some old flame to look up, we thooghat. “You shall choose,” I offered. ‘‘It’s your Sunday oas.’’ “Well,” he said slowly, “I was thinking that it's nota bad run to London. The roads are better, and —and my wife's auns would give you lunch. She—she’s staying there you know. My wife, I mean.” We stared at each other for ten fall seconds in blank amazement. *‘I—we thought—yon were going out for a apree ?'’ Steel said, at length. Fravklio flashed and laoghed uneasily. “Ye-es,”” he agreed, ‘‘bus—I thoughs is would be rather a surprise for her.” I looked at Steel again, and Steel looked edncation. It has been their aim to raise | Waists. A few morning mushins. A sailor at me. There was such a thing as carrying | the staudard of the schools, and they are bat for sports aud country wear. sell-sacrifice too far, we thought. ‘She hasn's been govea week,” Steel | advancement ba- heen made along this line. | D00D has with aigrette or flowers. eaid at length. “She won't miss you for one Sanday.” Fraoklin looked him quickly in the eyes and set his mouth firmly. What s strong | mooth it was ! Then he suddenly swiled. *‘It is I who miss her,’ he said simply ; and Steel drew a deep breath ; and they stared at each other. “I'm glad it’s like that, old man,” said Steel presently. ‘‘I—I thought— Let's shake hands.” They shook bands ; avd I shook hands; and then —we broke the speed limit ali the way to London. Mrs. Franklin was sitting at the window reading when we drove up. I thought her a pale, severe, unprepossessing woman, till he tooted the horn, and she looked up. Then she dropped the hook and langhed and ran. He jumped out of the car and ran, too. She wae flashed and smiling, and positively good-luoking when she came forward to greet us. ‘,How very kind you are to let Jim come and see me!" she said. ‘How very, very kind!" “I can understand now why he was so anxious to come,” I told her; and she laughed merrily. “I am not used to being flattered,’ she said. ‘So I like it very much! Mr. Steel thought that Jack was quite heroic to marry me."’ ‘‘And now I think he’s only—hbappy.” | caid Steel. There was a very kind look about bis eyes. When I returned to town I called to see Marjeson. with Steel; and that led us on to old times; and at Jast I asked him about his ideals; and he shrugged his shonlders. ‘‘Ideals are fragile things, Johuny,’’ he #aid. "They get broken. But'’—he leaned forward in his old impulsive way—‘‘there’s one for keeping; just one for every man, if he can find it. I've found mine, thank Heaven!" He picked up a little photograph of Mrs. Marjeson! Alter all, she is a pretty little woman; and a man might easily like her withous ber money. I ought to have thought of that before, knowing Marjeson. grasp when I shook hands with her, and smiled up at me quickly. She is a very bright little thing. “Yes?” she asked. “I have found out something, Mrs. Marjeson,” I owned, ‘‘but please don’t ask me!” **No," she agreed. ‘‘I won't ask yon. Some day you will meet some one; and then you will find out how little money is —I shall laugh if she has money!" ‘I shall be ahle to laugh, too,” I said, *!it she is like you.” She was. It was Mrs. Marjeson’s sister. I met her there that evening, and proposed within the week. She smiled at me when they told her thie story. ‘Iam glad you have clay feet,’”’ she said. ‘‘Enough of earth for loving !"’ she added, when we had walked away from the rest.—By Owen Oliver, in A inslee’s. Gun Powder, is made of nitre, charcoal, and sulphur in proper proportions intimately mingled with water. Nitre, charcoal and sulphur without that exact proportion and ocom- mingling have no more explosive value than common dirt. The nourishment of the body is made out of the food which is eaten ; bread, meat, potatoes, ete. Bat uu- less this food is perfectly mixed in the stomach with the dige<sive juices it in as incapable of nourishment as the unmixed elements of gon powder are of explosion. For this reason health cannot be gauged by appetite. To obtain the benefit of (00d, to have it converted into nourishment for blood, nerve and muscle, the organs of di gestion and vutrition must do their part. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery makes blood and flesh, bone and muscle by putting the digestive and nutritive organs into perfect working condition. It has no equal as a cure for diseases of the stomach and organe of digestion and nu- trition, ~=It is claimed that a normal 1000-pound cow consumes two tons of hay and one ton of feed during the year. These, too, in addition to the regular pasture feed. Japanese Women. We do mot deny that in the days of old Japan women were taught and trained to hold and did occupy a po- sition inferior to that of man, although as mothers they were regarded with the highest respect and devotion. But those days are gone, and today our daughters are given full freedom to live and act with perfect equality as their sisters of the west, while our mothers retain their old positions of honor und esteem.—Japan Times. Siege of Gibraltar. There have been many sieges of the famous rock of Gibraltar, but the greatest was the one sustained from the combined land and sea forces of France and Spain, 1779-83. For four years all the powers and resources of the science of the time were exhausted by the assailants without success. Un- der the inspiring leadership of Sir George Eliot the besieged more than held their own in one of the most memorable sieges in all history. Answered. “Do you dance on your toes, Miss Quickwit?”’ “Never, Mr. Clumsey, Other people do that for me.” And he didn't know just what she meant untill he tried to get another dance with her. Very Handy. Closefist—It cost me over $3,000 to give Harry that course in Industrial arts. Herdso—But he must be quite wandy with his tools now? Closefist— Yes, and the first job be did was to put up awnings on the shady side of the | house Itold him I had been down | High School Scholars as News Writers. Following are the remaining three items submitted by the pupils of the Bellefonte High school in the George R. Meek literary contest : | THE ADVANCEMENT MADE BY THE PUB. LIC SCHOOLS OF THE COUNTY. ANNA DAWSON. The question which bas been continually on the lips of the people of Centre Coanty | for the last few years, is the question of {certainly getting it accomplished. Great | Only ten years ago there were very few | High Schools in the county. These were ! in the largest towus such as Bellefonte and Philipsburg. These schools were not very | well equiped. They bad wot very many | teachers and bad only a few hooks. Then the yoaug people had to be contented with | a common school education ualess their | patents could aff rd to sevd thew to college. | But very few had the means to go to col- | lege, so thus there were a great many who | just got a taste of education. | Now besides there being only a few | High Schools, the Primary and Grammar | Schools were not nearly as far advanced as | they are to-day. There were only three or four months school iu some places. They | just taught a few branches and the child | teceived very little knowledge. Now in the last ten years a great step has { been taken aloug this line. Great progress | bas been made towards haviog a better school system through the county. Nearly | every townehip bas vow a High School which is well equiped with teachers. The | higher branches are taught here and the ; scholars bave a good chauce to ges an edu- cation, | Besides the progress made in town-ship | Behools, there has heen advancement made in the borough schools, especially, the High schools. Many improvements have | heen made. New High Schools have heen | huilt, A larger staff of teachers are em- | ployed by the schools. Recently a change | bas been in the line of studies in the High | Schools. Some of the higher branches of mathematics, snch as «olid geometry and trigonometry, have been pat into use in | these schoole. Every year these Schools | prepare many young people to enter col- | lege and also to secure a teacher's certifi- | cates. Then great improvement has heen made in the Primary and Grammar schools. | New studies have been introduced into | these schools. Some of the studies are | Painting and Nature Study. It certainly | | has been a good thing for the children. | They now take more interest in school | work and are profiting by is. | Now if the children of Centre County | grow up in ignorance, it certainly is their Mrs. Marjeson noticed the change in my | own { fault. Bat we most sincerely hope | that all children will have enough interest tn get a High School education. It, indeed, has heen a good step and the county should | prosper by is. Tre FrLoons oF THE SPRING OF 1908. MARY SHOWERS. The excess of snow and the heavy rains during this spring caused several floods which did a great deal of damage to Cen- tre and adjoining counties. There were many minor floods which did slighs dam- age to property but those which caused greatest havoc occured February 15, and March 19. These floods both destroyed a great deal of property aud rushed into factories and mills to sach an extent that in several of the mills of Bellefonte work was suspended until the water subsided. The first of these floods occurred Satar- day February 15, 1908. This flood was the least severe in Beliefonte but in the north eastern part of the county it was the most destructive of the two. In Bellefonte work was suspended in the Bellefonte lum- ber Co’s mill and at the [factory of the Bellefonte Match Co. daring the afteracon of the flood. The waters of Spring Creek rose ahout six feet in several hours. It sweps through Centre county carrying with it small hridges and any other small objects which could be caught by is. The second large flood occarred March 19, 1908 and caused greater damage than the one which occnrred February 15. On Wednesday evening March 18, the water was not much above its usual height but until the morning of the 19, the water had risen to a great height and several of the factories of Bellefonte were again ehat down. A great deal of property was de- stroyed by the high water. The wall un. derlying the stone walk on Water street was partially torn ous and the pavement rendered impassible for a time. Great daw- age was also done to the Centre County Fair Grounds. The stables which were on the Fair Grounds were carried ous of their places and deposited in a corner almost op- posite so where they had been. The fence was torn away from around the race track and the track was covered with sediment which had heen oarried by the water. Many pavements of Milesburg were taken away and much damage done to other property. The recent rains have raised the water to aslight height but not enough to do any damage. IMPROVEMENTS MADE IN AND AROUND BELLEFONTE. SARA F. BARNHART. Daring the last two years there have been great improvements made in and around Bellefonte. One of the greatest of these, was the building of the State Road between Belle- foute and Milesburg. Before the building of this, the road between the two places was very rough and uneven. It is a road on which a great deal of travel. ing is done, and now, since the building of this road it is very pleasant to go driving on this thoroughfare. Another great thing done for the oom- munity, was the laying of the underground drainage pi All but one or two streets are supplied with this drainage, and it is a great benefit to the town as it prevents the water from forming streams and run- ning down the middle of the street. r. Hughes, head master of the Belle- fonte Academy is also making a great im- provement. This is the building of the new athletic field which is located on the outskirts of the town. Weare also receiving improvement in the form of amusements. Within the last year a theatorium bas been started in the Petriken hall, which attracts large crowds, and an Electrio Theatre has been started in the Opera house, In these two places they have life mov. ing pictures, Bellefonte, as a whole is receiving great improvements in every line. | FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. | —The cranberry vine blossoms in Jase. : —Do not let the breeding sows get too at. DAILY THOUGHT. Let today suffice today, | For itself tomorrow may Fetch its loss, Aim and stumble, say its say, Watch and pray, And bear its cross.— C. G. Rossetti, —Sommer pinching is very satisfactory for raspberries. —Separate the brood sows as soou as they begin to get heavy. SHE'LL NEED FOR THE SUMMER. | —Always select the young sows from the A liven suit. Several pretty dancing | most prolific old ones. frocks. A gown for luacheon, church and | ; for bridge parties. A lightweight snit for | wary Pigs are more profitable if the chilly days and travel. About eight shirs. SPPliauces are right for good care. | —Never use a scrub sire. His pigs will A street ' always be sorubbier than he is himself. bat with quills and ribbon chou. An after- | —Keep a careful record of the date of ; breeding. This will be a guide in feeding | and care. —The principal dairy breeds are Hol- stein, Jersey, Guernsey, Ayrshire and | It is a season in brilliancy in footwear. | | Ail that can he thought of 1s she fashion. | Stockings of every bue to match the | t | marvelous colors used in costumes are | DFOWD Swiss. | worn, Strange tosay the colored shoe is | —Itdoes not pay to breed for early | not as much in fashion as last summer, | pigs, and then lose them all on account of | but the variety in black and tan makes ap | improper bandling. for its absence. Coral pumps as well as turquoise bine | ones are worn in the hoase or for dressy | afsernoon occasions with fine wuite frocks | | or ones of coral aud blue. —Keep a record of the number of pigs in each litter. It doesn’t pay to rely on mem- ory in these things. The dark green and the lapis lazail blue | that was so popular last year have nos | made their appearance. However, some | well-dressed women have these pumps | made to order to match suits of that color. For instance, a green linen coat and skirt looks very well with bottle green stockings aud pumps with leather buckles, and the sapphire blue linens and mobairs with stockings to match. ARTISTIC TAN SHOES, The popularity of the russes oxford and pump bas not waned. This fashion holds 1s own with the shittwaist. Every season one hears it is going out, and every season sees it fully intrenched. There are three favorite styles. The reg- ular oxtora which ties at she instep : the low oxford with only two eyelets and the three-cornered tongue, whioh ties just above the toes, and the pump with a tiny buckle avd a forked tongue above. The plain pump without the tongue is also worn, but it is pot quite as much in first style as the other. It is used for gen- eral walking and comfort wear. The toes of all three are moderately pointed and the heels of all are high, straight Spanish—the best heel yet made fashionable. While the pump is the coolest and the most hecoming low shoe, it cannot he worn with comfort by hosts of women. These have straight heels and thin heels, and she back of the shoe slips at every movement. Not only does walking become more dif- ficult ander this strain, for nne cannot he sure-footed when the foot is strained to keep the shoe on, but it also wears out the eniire heel of a pair of stockings in one day. The oxfords are the most comfortable shoes made, bus they are not dressy. They do very well for street an' morniog, for short skirts and linen suits, but they do not look well with a frock of thin material, whether or not the skirt is long. The low shoes with two eyelets and a broad ribbou how are more dress and can be worn with thin frocks, although, if one is correct, on: gets a pair of the pumps | with the elaborate buckles and pointed tongues. on as trimming, but they are not to be advocated for the woman who wears over a No. 4 shoe. While stylish they do make the foot look larger. The soft tan leather which is in style this season is far prettier to use without any ornamentation. Its softness gives it a dressy appearance, and makes it fit to wear for social occasions in the afternoons. WEARING COLORED STOCKINGS, Tau shoes still carry tan stockings, al- though women of fashion have no hesitancy iu wearivg oolored stockings to match the gown combined with tan shoes. It is not a very pretty fashion, hut it i= correot. With black pumps of all kinds colored stockings are widely worn. To be correct, however, they should match the color of the skirt. When this is white or linen colored then black stockings are best, al- though both green and blue ones are worn. The light tones should not be put with black slippers. They should be kept for low shoes of their own shade. For a long time now we have given a very lukewarm allegiance to one of our staunchest allies in the millinerial world, namely, the ostrich *‘tip,”’ which cost in- finitely less than the long Pine, and when recurled and steamed, did yeoman service long after the original hat is adorn- ed had heen consigned to the limbo of the past. Nowadays, however, it is once again coming to the fore, some of the new hats being entirely smothered iu these minia- ture feathers, which conceal both crown and brim alike, and render any additicoal decoration entirely superfluous. As a rule, the tips are dyed in a tone contrasting with the basis of the hat, avd all manner of striking schemes are evolved in this con- nection. Really, the new pocket handkerchiefs seem to be nothing less than scraps of fine gingham, hemmed. For there is not even a pretension of a horder in many cases, as he 'kerchief is just a bit of striped ging- am, Stripes are newer than checks, though handkerchiefs of the latter certainly bei- ter suggest the real thing. The iy however, are the hess sel- lers. These colored accessories can be bought as low as 75 cents the half dozen, while very dainty, sheer handkerchiefs showing button-holed, scalloped borders sell for 25 cents. It goes withont saying that colored handkerchiefs are not for dress wear. LUNCHEON HAM. Fill a mediam-sized baking dish with alternating layers of stale bread and cold chopped ham. Cover with two cupluls of milk well mixed with three beaten eggs. Salt to taste, and bake one-half hour. A DELICIOUS CUSTARD. Into each individual custard cup pat the yolk of one egg; add one heaping tea- spoonful of sugar, two gratings of nutmeg and five tablespoonfuls of sweet milk. In- corporate thoroughly, and set the cups in a pan of water. Bake in a moderate oven until firm. When cool, cover with a meringue, using the whites of the eggs for this purpose, and allow one tablespoonful of powderd sogar to each egg. Through | the very tiptop of each snowy mound drop | a teaspoonful of orange marmalade. | are equaily set off by the dark blue pumps, | Some of these have stitched bands out} —Each farm in the United States, ac- | eording to the Government census, averages i $10 for commercial! fertilizers. | —~In using a fertilizer tor fruit trees let it | contain a sufficient amount of potash. An ! apple is about one-half potash. | —The United States Government ex- | pends nearly a quarter of a million dollars | to gather the crop reports of the country. —By successive replantings and a little , extra attention, radishes, lettuce and va- | rious other vegetables can be had fresh all | summer. | —A nice full-bred hog gives the farmer | who takes care ofl ita great deal more pleasure than one that has nothing attrac- | tive about it. —Look well to it that the mother hogs | bave the driest, most comfortable quarters | ible. This often tells the story of the ittle rooters she is able to bring to mark es | for you. | | —Wood ashes not only help to keep | borers from the roots of trees, but the trees | make a bealthier and more vigorous | growth and bear much sounder fruit when they are used. | — Pregnant animale should receive laxa- tive, cooling feeds for a week before de- | livery. Bran is one of the very best feeds | to give to any animal for a few days before | she drops her young. —Beets and carrots for the winter supply | should be sown, according to locality, from | Jone 10 to July 1, and in some localities even a little later, and the culture is essen- tially the same as for parsnipe, eto. — Well sifted coal ashes are excellent as loosing material for clayey soil that is too i dense. They also convey a share of chem- | ical plant food to tbe roots. They are high- | ly obnoxious to earth-inbhabiting grubs. —Soapsuds will discourage caterpillars, rose aphis and scores of other bugs. Ap- | plied in a thick lather to the stems and leaves, they will often make is unnecessary | to resort to the more heroic remedies, such |. kerosene emulsions. —Do not work the life out of your land, your mules and yourself by thinking of {only the next crop ahead and not of the ! soil. Keep so much vegetable matter in | the soil that it will work easily and soak | up water and hold it for dry periods. —Never water trees in dry times by sim. ! ply pouting water on the surface of the | ground, as this hardens the surface and | causes the soil to dry out all the faster. A | hollow should be formed to receive the water, filling is up again when the water has soaked away. —A queen hee lays ahout 3000 eggs a day, and from the egg to the matured bee { is about 21 days. At the age of 37 days it | will gointo the fields, and the life of a worker is 45 dave, so that to have working colonies when flowers are in hloom is one | of the most important points in enccessful beekeeping. ® —Twenty vears ago there were only 100 silos in use in the United States. There are now nearly or quite 600,000. Silage feeding was at first limited to dairy cows. Now it is fed largely also to beef cattle, but the great increase has heen in the dairy line, as it bas been found that silage is al- most indispensable as cow feed. —The following garden orops can he sprayed with Paris green: Cabbage for cab- bage worms; cucumbers, squash, pampkins and melons for the striped cucumber bug; tomatoes for the tomato worm. Spray the potato with Paris green and Bordeaux for the Colorado beetle and flea beetle, when they appear. This spray will also prevent the potato blight. —The Secretary of Agricolture an- nounoce= that last year the poultry products of the United States were valued at $600,- 000,000. This is $100,000.000 greater than the value of the wheat crop for the same period, and exceeding the combined value of the oat crop, the potato crop, the rye crop, and the flaxseed crop by $1,000,000. Only three crops exceeded products in value -——corn, hay and cotton. —1It is said that the chestnut tree lives 860 years; the oak, 1600 years, and the yew, 2880 years. A white pine will measure 25 feet at 20 years and gain 25 feet more in the next 10 years. An oak of average size, with 700.000 leaves, lifts from the earth about 123 tons of water during the five months it is in leal. The smallest tree in the woild is the Greenland birch. [Its height is less than three inches, yet it covers a radius of éwo or three feet. —Milk weighs about 8} pounds to the gallon, varying a little according to the per- centage of solids. Cream will weigh about 8 pounds to the gallon, varying some ac- cording to the percentage of butter fat. The richer the cream the less it weighs. Pure butter fat weighs a little less than 7§ pounds to a gallon. Liquids expand when heated and contract when cooled. A gal- lon of milk or cream when heated will be less than a gallon when cooled. —If a sow has fever at farrowing time and eats her pigs, it is your own fault, not hers, Keep her active, give her a laxative diet, no corn, and plenty of pure, olean water to drink, and there will be no tronble. You will be the gainer by working for a good, big frame now. Let the aotual work of fastening go for a while, —till warmer weather comes. Yon can.make pork then a good deal faster than yon can now. What ! Sweep the hog pen ? Yes that is what one of the best hogmen does every single day. Do yon think he would keep it up if he did not think it paid ¢
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