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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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railways as motoriuen, ut good waxen. Kxperi
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within the last couple of years."
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