AT A GHOST PICNIC. A Form of Sciiittuer Enteptnlnmenf Which AfYordu More Fun Than Anything Ever Tried. A fine moonlight evening with the barometer at a satisfactory altitude is one of the essentials for this form of entertainment. On the invitation cards guests should be notitied that a ■white costume of some description is liecessary. It may be silk, satin or cot ton. according to the fancy or means c,f the wearer, but pure white, without spot or blemish, it must lie. Since it is not every one, especially among the matrons, and of course all the men, who is in possession of a white costume, some of the shifts to which tfce guests will resort will be Hire to add immeasurably to the mer riment of the occasion. So much the better; a "ghost" picnic should be wildly hilarious. The scene of the gathering should not be fixed too far Irom home, and should be chosen, to pome extent, on account of its easy access. Instead of arranging a pre liminary meet, as at the ordinary pic nic, the guests should find their way to the place in family groups or singly, as the case may be. It will, of course, depend upon the individual humor of each guest to make his or her appear ance on the scene as "ghostly" as may A REALLY CHARMING AFTERNOON GOWN. Vary E-Toctiva, Especially in White Lawn and Insertion, It Is Not Very Expensive. Here Is a very pretty afternoon toilette which can be made with very little ex penditure of time or money. The materials employed in its design are lawn and plain embroidered Insertion about three Inches wide The seams in the skirt are Joined with the insertion and the waist is made cf plain lawn. Around the waist is a girdle ci old ro»e satin ribbon, which fastens without bow or other trimming, at the left s;de. Tf.<f attractive feature of the toilette is an Eton jacket which V. made of wider liiinrrtion. This Insertion is purchased for 60 or 75 cents a yard tl the most, aiid runs Ji ■ 11 w 111 I II H / I i i I. _ J£P~ upward of 22 Inches wide The front of the Jacket is cut wide enough to be turner back to form lapels, Jn this case the lape s are lined with very fine old rose lawn, but plain white can be used with almost the si.me effect. The sleeves are tight fitting almost to the shoulders and finished with a little ruffle of fine embroidery. The pattern which combines sleeye and puff in one piece is quite the vogue and will be seen on gowns for a 1 occasions during the summer season. The collar of the Eton jacket is very ii gh, and the front ends in such a narrow point that it blouses in equal proportions with the front of the waist. If the Eton Jacket is not worn the front can be finish, d with a jabot of embroidery and still the gown will be quite a la mode. HELEN GKEY-PAGE. be. Some will ride cannily by hedge and bridge uud take the assemblage unawares. Some will vvrjrk wonders on old machines with white paint, and Japanese lanterns at the handlebar will proclaim their advent to sill and sundry. The chief item of the programme should be the supper and this should be as dainty as possible, and as vir ginal in hue as the culinary art can be. Aerated waters, white meat sand wiches. cakes, sweets and fruits, the latter in »ny hue obtainable, should be served by white-robed handmaids, on white ware. The glamour of a moon light night in a sylvan glade will be likely to suggest its own method of killing time, therefore active 112 rms of entertainment need not be suggested. Dumb charades would probably sug gest themselves to the more histrion ically disposed, and if enacted in u. su perstitious neighborhood would prob ably tend to enrich the local folk-lore and dissipate the popular belief that the "little people" have ceased to re veal themselves to mortal eyes -Chi cago Daily News. lvlnj£ llambert'M AliKteniioim llnbltN. The king of Italy, like his famous father, \ ictor Emmanuel, takes only one meal a day when he takes a holi day from court points and ceremonies. COMBINATION CASE. I'arfiil 1.11 tie Artlolf Which WIT« ami Mother* C'nn Muke for the Uo)M HI the Front. A great deal of anxious thought ia given just now by the women of our country to the necessarily small com bination eases for their soldiers, con taining as many necessaries and com forts as can be held in sueh small space. To take the best ideas from each pattern and to combine them into a useful whole is perhaps the best plan to follow, as each pnrtlcular one seemt U ® mm m I 16 <=FI SOLDIER S TRAVELING CASE. to have its especial virtues and rad icaldefects. The accompanying'sketch, taken from a French "multum in parvo," seems to have at least one necessary article that is generally omitted, and that is a couple of small towels. The rest of the articles con- sist of a comb, razor, case and strop, whisk broom, hair brush, flat tumbler, with apothecary's measures, which may be used for medicine or drinking water, scissors, fountain pen, two fiat aluminum boxes, one containing writing paper, stamped envelopes and postals, and the other soap, court plaster and any medicinei desired, and a package of mus tard leaves. Above these, white and black thread, a needlebook, with needles, safety-pins and pins, and a button bag. This rolls up in a wallet, as shown above, on the outside ol which is a large flat poeketbook for money and letters, which locks with a combination lock.—X. V. Tribune. Itnlnty Siiliul for Luni'lirun, A Marguerite salad is the appropri ate title of a preparation of eggs and lettuce leaves, which is an ornamental dish certainly and one that is also ap petizing. The inner leavesof the heads of lettuce are arranged in the shape ol very small nests. Several eggs are boiled hard and firm and the yolks re moved. The whites are cut in thin cir cles and arranged in the lettuce cup:;, the ceuter.being then filled with the yolk of the egg mixed with golden mayonnaise. Kestaurant dir ing is becoming uiori than ever the rage is London. CAMERON COUNTY TRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER i, 1898. HAY-FORK RIGGING. An Extrmporliird Aft'itlr Which All mtcra hh Well a* the Moat t'oNtlj' Conlrlvauce. Many farmers fail to make use ol that great labor-saver, the hay fork because their barns, they think, are not properly arranged to accommo date the usual hayfork rigging-. Many old barns have the timbers framed in a way to cause some difficulty in this respect. Still there are many barns now without this help that with a little % I I I HAY FORK RIGGING. planning might make tise of the fork. The cut shows a plan for using an ex temporized rigging between the "bents" having crosswise timbers. A pulley is located above the mow to be filled. The rope from it (A) has thf fork at its end. The hay is lifted straight up from the load because he'd by the rope and pulley (li), operated by the man on the load. When the forkful will clear the edge of the mow, the rope (B) is put out as required either to drop the forkful at the front, the middle or the rear of the mow. The rope (A), after passing over the pulley above the mow, is tarried down as directly as possible tg the horse, which draws it out. The direction may. of course, have to be changed by a pul ley in the barn below. The cut is ghen as a suggestion, to be modified as cir cumstances demand. Orange Judd Farmer . LIVE STOCK POINTERS. Corn smut will not injure cattle un less they eat too much of it. Hogs will fatten on alfalfa, but should be finished off with some grain. Infuse some new blood into the swine herd and you will find that it pays. At night in hot weather animals should be kept out of doors as much as possible. Is the animal panting and no shade or water to partially relieve the dis tress? Bad, very bad. The idiot who says that a horse should never be shod is abroad again and writing for the papers. If the pig- is overfed anil does not g,»t sufficient t xercise, it may have thumps. Reduce the feed and compel exercise. The mule is more healthy than the horse, eats less, requires less care, will do as much work and some mules are good drivers. Flies do not like kerosene oil, and just touching the hair of the animal with spong-e .-aturated with the oil will help keep the files off. The country butcher is an advantage to the farmer because he will buy an animal occasionally and furnish fresh meat for the farmer's table. Oxen are not much used in the west, but you will sometimes see them in the far west. They are not profitable for team service, but the bull could be worked with profit. An alarming report from swine breeders is that there is not much buy ing of pure bred swine. This is a detri ment to the farm breeders, we fear, Keep the standard high, and that can unly be done by an occasional intro duction of new blood.—Western Plow man. Guinea Fowln on Pnriiin. Every farmer ought to have a few guinea fowls to add to the variety of feathered life on the farm. They are also a good protection against such depredators as hawks and other ene mies of young chickens, their loud eries on the approach of any such in truders giving signal to the weaker fowl to make its escape. Guineas are a rather wild fowl and will not bear confinement well. It is not best to keep them unless there is good range. The hens are great layers, but will mostly steal their nests, and w ill bring off very large broods. The young guinea fowl are very hardy, and not so subject to disease as are other fowl. I.»lve Stock Our Salvation. Henry Wallace says a correct theory Df farming requires that the fertility of the land be maintained. This is the farmer's capital, not the land itself but the valuable fertility of the land The exhaustion of this is the exhaus tion of the farmer's capital stock. In selling grain we simply sell our lar.d by pieemeal, not the profits, but the land itself. The correct theory, there fore, of farming involves not merely jrain production, but meat produc tion, and meat production primarily because in producing it we are selling our grain to the best market and can thereby keep up the fertility of the !tnu. CLEANING UP IHIftOS. No Time of the Year la Hotter Suite* for Thin Kind of Work Ttiun the Prenent. During the next two months is one of the best seasons for cleaning up the farm, and in the majority of farim there is plenty of opportunity or need for this kind of work. After the plow ing for wheat is done the manure cau all be cleaned out of the stables, sheds and feed lots and haulc ' out and scat; tered broadcast on the land intended for wheat. The work of properly pre paring the land for the reception of the seed will incorporate sufficiently with the soil. Weeds may be cut dowr. in the meadows and pastures and along the fence rows to a good advan tage. Many of them, if cut down be fore they mature seeds, will be effect ually killed out. This is one of the best reasons for killing out sprouts and briars. With the exception of sassafras and per simmon almost all kinds may be ef fectually killed out by cutting down reasonably close to the ground almost any time in August. With these two in nearly all cases the only safe plan is to grub out, cutting them off at least six inches below the surface. While this plan requires considerable work, in the end it will prove much the more economical. This is so much the ease that generally it will be better to thoroughly clean an acre in this way than to spend the same amount of time and labor cutting off and burn ing a larger acreage, but doing less ef fective work. Cutting close to the ground and let ting lay until dry and then burning will kill out many weeds, moss and sprouts, but with persimmon and sas safras the tops will rarely be killed down so deep but that the roots will send up shoots next year, and in a short time they will be as much in the way as ever. By keeping the farm clear the value is materially increased to say noth ing of the better satisfaction in work ins it.—N. J. Shepherd, in Farmers' Voice. HOT WATER FOR LICE. \n I n nee I I>c*tro>cr Which Doc* Ita Work 'I horouftlily it ml Cu n He find for Nothing:, The Messenger very sensibly says that boiling hot water is a lice killer about which we read very little in the poultry papers; but it does the work very thoroughly, and is very cheap. In a poultry house where the pests have obtained a foothold hot water will greatly assist in their extermination. The waste water on wash day can Vie used for this purpose, being returned to the stove after it has served its end at the washtub and reheated. Jf the walls, roosts and nesting boxes art drenched with this the larger propor tion of the lie; will be destroyed in stantly, and those which escape will meet their fate in the coat of white wash which should follow within a day or two. If the nursery coops are turned upside down and hot water sprinkled over the inner surface until it flows into and through every crevice, not a single louse will survive the treatment. This should be done in the forenoon of a bright day in order that all dampness may be dissipated before the brood returns to it at night. We have nothing iaid up against the lice killer makers, and have no desi,e to injure their business, but every body cannot buy these things; and while they are a convenience, it is just as w ell to admit the fact that they are not a necessity. The lice can be conquered more cheaply, but to do this involves the expenditure of more time and la bor. HANDY DUCK HOUSE. How to Ilvilld tlunrterN Which Are Inexpensive, Hut Anawer Kvery Puriiime. Ducks are easily the most profitable of all poultry, if the flesh product simply is considered, while as layers of eggs the Pekin duck is exceedingly profitable. There can be no doubt that it would be wise for more farmers ' HANDY DUCK HOUSE. <o keep a flock of breeding and laying ducks, and for this purpose there is no better breed than the large white Pekin. As ducks roost on the floor, only low quarters are needed. A low shed rot fed affair can be put onto the side of the barn or other farm building in the manner shown in the cut, three feet of height being sufficient. Let the pen open into the large building, the partition between being hinged at the top, so that by raising it one can clean out the pen and putin dry bedding. One can thus build duck quarters very inexpensively.—Orange Judd Farmer. .Mniiy VitrictlcM of I'lkcoiin, The following varieties of pigeons appear in the last premium list of the Boston pigeon show: Carriers, pout eis, pigmy pouters, barbs, tumblers, short-face tumblers, inside tumblers, long-face clean-leg tumblers, long face bald or beard tumblers, sadle tumblers, muffled beard tumblers, muf fled barred tumblers, jacobines, owls, Afr'"»-« *>'vls, Chinese owls, trumpeters, fantails, oriental, frills, biondinettes, satincttes, blucttes, silverettes. turbi teens, turbits, magpies, swallows, fairy swallows, dragoons, nuns, arch angels, tipplers and homers. Each of these varieties is divided into several «iu&t>es, chiefly on the score of coloring. rkf Ennrnnaa Cold Product of IKOH. Tins will be the greatest gold year in his !ory. From South Africa, the Klondike and Au»tralia the precious metal in being shipped n large quantities. It is believed that this pear's output will be nearly double that of iny previous twelve months. The sales of Hostetter's Stomach Bitter* are also increas ing very fast, and this year that famous remedy will cure more people of dyspepsia, jidigestion, constipation, nervousness and weakness than ever before. True to Its Miulon. F.lsie—T wonder what it was that caused the explosion between Mamie and Mr. Price? Emma- I've understood that Ensign Worth gave her a miniature torpedo to be worn as a brooch.—Jeweler's Weekly. G. A. R. Encampment Sept. 5 10. $5.00 Queen & Crescent Route, Cincinnati, Chat tanooga and return. W. C. Rinearson, Geu'l Pass'r Agt., Cin'ti, O. The Greatest in History.—"Spain has learned one thing, at least." "What is that?" "That the explosion of the Maine was a terrible catastrophe for her coun try."—Detroit Free Press. I have found Piso's Cure for Consumption nn unfailing medicine.—F. R. Lotz, 1305 Scott St., Covington, Ky., Oct. 1, 1894. No pocket is well lined that lias no money in it.—L. A. W. Bulletin. Fits stopped free and permanently cured. No fits after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. Free $2 trial bottle & treatise. Dr. Kline, 933 Arch st., Phila.. Pa. Even a good dog is appreciated.—Atchison Globe. G. A. R. $5.00 rate Sept. 8, !) and 10. Cin cinnati to Chickamauga, i). &, C. Route. Men are like rivers; the deeper thev are the Jess noise they make.—Chicago Daily News. Ilnll'm Catarrh Cure I* a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c. You never know some people until you have had a money transaction with them.— Atchison Globe. A man who is always ready to suspect others is generally not any too sale himself. —Washington (la.) Democrat. For Infants and Children ' The Kind You Have Always Bought STOP, WOMEN! You Are Asked to Consider an All-Important Fact. You Can Talk Freely to Mrs. Pinkham, But It Is Revolting to Tell Your Troubles to Any Man. In addressing Mrs. Pinkham you are confiding your private ills to a woman—a woman whose experience in treating woman's diseases is greater than that of any living physician—male or female. f.'oman when it is revolting to les to a man—besides, a man iderstand—simply because ho >men suffer in silence and drift bad to worse, knowing full well t they ought to have imrncdi assistance, but a natural mod esty impels them to shrink from exposing themselves to the questions and probably ex aminations of even their fam ily physician. It is unneces sary. Without money or price you can consult a woman, whose knowledge from actual experience is greater than any local physician. The follow ing invitation is freely offered; M /■ - accept it in the same spirit: / MRS. PINKHAM'S 112 STANDING INVITATION. Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs, Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. All letters are received, opened, read and answered by women only. A woman can freely talk of her private illness to a woman; thus has been established the eternal confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America which has never been broken. Out of the vast volume of experience which she has to draw from, it is more than possible that she has gained the very knowledge that will help your case. She asks nothing in return ex cept your good-will, and her advice has relieved thousands. Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take advan tage of this generous offer of assistance.—Lydia E. Pinkham Medi cine Co., Lvnn, Mass. r»r le ELECTRIC CAR? Hundreds of men are being employed on the electric railways as motoriuen, ut good waxen. Kxperi f.'lSKr 'i^' n havo preference. Send M.oo for rtie Moforinim MIMI lll« Duties" and learn u# M £-n ~« bl . £l9l1 s .i 141 pages; 84 Illustrations. SiliiShP lc\ . KKV IKVV. Uld Colony UldK . Chicago. nDHDQV Nli W DISCOVERY; give. 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