DESIGN FOR NEW SKIRT. IDnly Soft Material* Are Employed In lta Development, anil tlie Ef fect la Man elttuv. There is ushered into fashion's do tnain this winter a very pretty skirt ■which is divided into four parts —in (act it is called the four-pieced skirt. Henrietta, cashmere and lightweight ladies' cloth are the accepted materials for its development, for the heavier j fabrics make up clumsily and without grace. About six yards of material, double '■ of course, are required to m'ike j the four-pieced skirt, if full directions »re carried out; but with a little decep l§t% ymii NEW FOUR PIECED SKIRT. tlon it can be accomplished with just a little more than hulf as many. In the former case, four little over- Blurts are made separately and put on the same band. In the latter a founda tion skirt of silk or imitation silk is made and the miniature skirts sewed upon it, each overlapping the other enough to hide the heading so that a separate effect is maintained. The skirt has an abbreviated train and slightly sweeps the ground all around. There are no gathers nor plaits at the back and the opening is made upon the side to preserve an unbroken beauty of out line. Any bodice can be worn with the four-pieced skirt, and it is particularly dressy with the novel new silk waists that are so much the vogue. SONGBIRDS FOR FOOD. Thonxnnila of Holilna Shot livery Kail for tlie Mornel of Meat on Tlielr Tiny llrenwtM. In November the robins In flocks of hundreds make their way into the gar dens of towns, as well as into the parks and fields, and orchards about the bay of San Francisco, where many of the blessed wanderers are shot for sport and the morsel of meat on their brea-ffts, says John Muir in the Atlantic. Man then seems n beast of prey, pray as he may. Not even genuine piety cm make the robin-killer quite respect able. Saturdays are the great slaugh ter days in the bay region. Then tlie city pot-hunters, good and bad, with a ragtag of boys, go forth to kill, kept In countenance by a sprinkling of regu lar sportsmen arrayed in self-conscious majesty and leggings, leading dogs and carrying hammerless, breech-loading guns of famous makers. Over the tint landscapes the killing goes forward with shameful enthusiasm. After es caping countless dangers, thousands fall, big bagfuls are gathered, many ere left wounded to die slowly, no Red Cross society to help them. Next day Sunday, the blood and leggings vanish from the most devout of the bird butch ers. find they goto church, carrying gold-headed canes instead of guiVs After hymns, prayers and sermon ttity go home to feast, to put God's song birds to use, put them in Iheir dinners instead of in their hearts, eat them, suck the pitiful little drumsticks. It is only race living on raee, to be sure, but Christians singing Divine love need not be driven to such straits, while wheat and apples grow, and the shops are full of dead cattle. Songbirds for food! Compared with this, to make kindling of our pianos and violins would i>e pious economy. Nut* (INn Popular Food. Nuts have often been considered to be very indigestible, but doubtless much of this prejudice against them comes from the fact that they are very rarely properly masticated. They are rich in nutritive elements, and we know of no reason why they should not be a healthful article of food if properly prepared. They should be masticated very thoroughly, and oftentimes if they were baked and ground into a meal they would be used to much greater advantage. We believe that they would be a useful article of diet If prepared In this way and judiciously used with other Vines of diet. She Kelt Hurt. He—But, my dear, if she told it to you n. confidence, you shouidu't t«?ll Hie. She (pouting) —Oh! well, if you don't to hear it. n*ver mind! —Puck. HABITUAL BOARDERS. The Kind Old Bachelor (irowi Very Hitter In Dlaruaalnir Their Al leged Short eomiiitfft- A dear old bachelor friend who comes to see us frequently broke forth tho other day in a tirade against boarding house women. Not the landladies, but the guests. "Of all the useless, inex cusable cumberers of the ground," said he, "they are the worst. The landlady is to be respected. She has a home and an occupation in this world, but her boarders have none. I don't speak of single women or business women —they have some excuse for boarding, though I think the wisest among them combine to keep house together—but the mar ried women. Their husbands' duty in life is to earn money for the sajiport of a home, and the men do It. The wives' duty is to make the home, but they shirk it. They spend their en ergies in dressing with as much ele gance as they can command. They wear pretty breakfast sacks and put on silk gowns for dinner. "They dress their hair elaborately; sometimes they dye it. At the table their idea of rational conversation is to find fault with the food. They are adepts »*. quickly and quietly seizing on celery, olives or any little delicacy which may rot quite go round. After dinner they sit in rocking chairs, where they can command a view of the front steps, or of who goes out and comes in the hall. In the daytime, when they are not fussing over their wardrobes, they are haunting the shops and the bargain sales or visiting round in one another's rooms and abusing the landlady. "They goto all the matinees they can find worship actors. Rome of them study elocution or china painting or Delsarte or any other useless thing to fill up their time. They have r.o time or energy for charitable work; they have no money to take a pew in church. Besides, they generally don't believe in church. They like togo out Christmas or Raster to hear the music and find fault with the poor, fallible human be ings who support such institutions. Their favorite literature is the society columns of the paper. They can tell all that the fine folk are doing as well as If they were intimate friends. They have themselves no circle of friends, only chance acquaintances —here to day and gone to-morrow, wanderers from one boarding house to another, like themselves. They have no duties, no responsibilities. They'd be afraii to take a S2O flat and wear a print wrap per and do their own work, and make homes for their husbands and children. Is there anything more wretched than children brought up In a boarding house? Those idiot women would not be capable of it. Besides, they would think themselves coming down in the world. They actually believe the kind of life they lead to be superior. Tf they started out with a normal allowance of heart and brain, ten years of boarding house life bankrupts them."—Chicago Post. BAG FOR STOCKINGS. An Eaxlly Made Article That Will Suve the IlouMeki'c |m>r Much Worry and Trouble. A stocking bag is a useful thing for the housewife who has to darn the hose of her family. It is as easily made aa it is convenient. Take a yard of pretty cretonne, with a small figure; three yard® of satin rib lion an inch wide, to match the cre tonne in color, a small piece of white flannel, some stiff pasteboard and a spool of silk. Cut four circular pieces of the pasteboard, each one seven STOCKING BAGS. inches in diameter. You may cut them out by a large saucer, or a bread and butter plate. Cover these pieces snnoothly with cretonne and overhang them two together, as if for a pocket pin cushion, with the sewing silk. Tim puff should be a straight piece of cre tonne GO inche.si long and 12 inches wide. Turn in the edges on the sides of this strip and gather to fit the circular pieces, to which the strip must be neat ly overhanded. Lea\e the ends opeu for the mouth of your bag, which if a full puff, with a circular dis-k in the cen ter of each side. Make for the outside of one of these disks a piece of the same size and shape. Cut from the flan nel several leaves of the snme s'hape but smaller by an inch in diameter, but tonhole stitch the edge of each leaf with sewing silk and fasten them to the circle on the bag. They are to form u needle book for darning needles. Fasten the embroidered cover over this and sew a bow of ribbon where it Is fastened. On the opposite side of the bag r piece of cretonne is set for a pocket, gathered at the top by an elastic rue j in a casing, and at the bottom by two shir rings. This pocket is to hold darn ing cotton. Ilem the ends of the pufT for a casing and run two pieces of rib bon in for strings to draw the bag up. The interior is the receptacle for the stockings.—Chicago Times-Herald. Xlit rl I lon in Oyatcm. A quart of oysters contains, on the average, about the same quantity of I nutritive substance as a quart of milk 1 or a pound of very lean beef. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1899 AN EXCELLENT IDEA Roostlnir and .Xestlnir Device for!.»»■ horn Fowl* Whleh I'revents Frreilm of Combs. The cut shows a very excellent roost ing and nesting device that has done fluty in the cold of a Maine winter. It !• in use for a small pen of Leghorns— a breed that must be kept warm at night, if eggs are to be bad at this sea son of the year. The roost is put across the corner of the pen. and a piece of ~" r - - 1 111 i i { 1/ I, 4 . ; W 'hß^ 1 , —■ — r V ' I ROOST PROTECTED BY NEST. burlap is stretched before it. A few crosspieces are laid across the corner at the curtain's upper edge, and on these is piled a lot of waste hay, mak ing a very warm roosting place. Tbe Leghorns delight to fly upon this hay and lay their eggs, under the impres sion thut they are stealing away their nests. Humoring a Leghorn in this way is conducive to laying, and the eggs can easily be reached. As the whole thing can be put up in five min ites' time, there is no excuse for frost sd combs on the Leghorns.—Webb Don nell, in Orange Judd Farmer. THE RENOVATED EGG. !Vew Grade of Hrn«' Fruit tins Just Made Its Appee.ranee in the Cheap Shops of l.ondon. The "family doctor" is responsible for a new terror. This is the renovated egg. We are all familiar with the ordi nary gradations of the egg —the new laid egg. the fresh egg. the breakfast egg, the family egg and the cooking egg. And, after these, used to come simply the "egg," of which the pur veyor could not even boast that it was good enough to cook with, but the pur chaser could not deny that it really was an egg. This was the class of egg used, so some aver, to give the gloss to con fectioners' pastry; and below even the rank of commercial utility there was still the election egg, a handy missile whose demerits as a comestible became virtues when exploded upon an opposi tion platform. Here, one might have thought, we had reached the very low est depths of eggdom; but it seems that there is yet another grade, namely, the renovated egg. This is an egg which has become too palpably stale, soiled and mildewy in appearance to be sold under any appellation what ever until a composition of diluted vit riol has been applied to it. Then the shell puts off its hues of decay and gleams with a maiden snow-white purity that tempts the too trustful passer-by. The vender will not exactly guaran tee that the eggs are new-laid, but "they've just come in, and you can see for yourself, ma'am, what they're like." So the purchaser purchases; but. alas! the virtues of the diluted vitriol have not penetrated beyond the shell, and it Is a distressed lodger who rings up the landlady to tell her that the breakfast egf? which she has provided ought to have been an election egg at least a month previously.—London Globe. Quality Detenu 1 nen Priee. Make it a point to have your poultry of the best quality before shipping to market, saVs the New York Produce Review. One who is not accustomed to visiting the large markets knows noth ing of the enormous amount of inferior poultry that is sold and which largely affects the prices, yet there is always a demand for that which is good and at a price above the regular quotations. The assorting of the carcasses before shipping also leads to better prices. Old ri.osters, which seldom sell at more than half price, should not be in the same boxes or Ixirrels with better stock, Rnd to ship poultry alive and have roosters in the coop with fat hens is simply to lower the price of the hens, as the buyer will estimate the value by the presence of the inferior stock. In fact, never send any poultry to market unless in first-class condition, and un der no circumstances ship the inferior with that which is better. Soft Fooil and Disease. There is a partiality for soft foods, be cause by their use many substances in a fine condition can be given; but 'tis a mistake to feed soft food oftener than once a day to three days in the week. Too much soft food causes the gizzard to be idle, and, being deprived of its use, tihe fowl becomes diseased. The giz zard is an organ that performs a cer tain duty, just as is required of the heart or liver, and any system of feed ii g that takes largely from the gizzard the duty which devolves upon it will in the end prove detrimental. It is not out of place to allow soft foods, but the larger proportion of the food should be unground, so as to keep the gizzard ac tive; hence whole grains are essential to success. When too much soft food Is allowed the crop frequently remain* full and food does not pass tihrougn tha giizard.—Farm tad Firwid*. SPECIALTY FARMING. It Drawn (omlnnll)' on the Fertility of the Moll Without I'erinit lluk li«no»atlon. Specialty farming' means devoting the larger part of the time to the pro duction of one crop. This crop may be wheat, corn or cotton and there are large sections in this country devoted almost wholly to one or another of ihese crops. One year's failure of the special crop of any of these sections means serious inconvenience to farm ers, and a failure for two or more suc cessive years leads to ruin. From the orange groves of Florida and the cane lands of Louisiana to the wheat fields of North Dakota the specialty farmer iB liable to work without profit because of barren years or low prices. It is true that each section is better for some one srop than for any other, and it is good policy to devote a considerable part of the time and the farm to that crop. The good farmer will endeavor to learn which crop is the most profitable, and that having been settled he will try to learn everything that is to be known about that particular crop. At the same time he will learn something concern ing every other crop which he can grow, in order that he may diversify his productions as much as possible. | Specialty farming is always destruc tive farming, as it makes a rotation of srops impossible and draws constantly on the fertility of the soil without per mitting renovation except by the direct application of fertilizers, a costly way of inaintaing fertility, no matter what is used for this purpose. The farmer who plants a variety of crops, keeps sheep, cattle and hogs and takes good care of everything, is al ways ready for any season or any pe culiar condition of the markets. lie may not have any especially fat years, but he will never have total loss to con tend with and on the whole will have greater profits and fewer losses.— Farmers' Voice. ANCHORING POSTS. An Important Item In the ConMrac* lion of Durable and SatiMfac tory Wire Fence*. The great secret of getting a satis factory "stand" of wire fence is to have the end and corner posts most firmly braced. There are various methods— with wooden braces, making a sort of truss between the end and the neigh boring posts, as well as by wires an chored to huge bowlders sunk in the ground outside the corner. There ii HOW TO ANCHOR POSTS. considerable work and more or less un certainty in these plans, while the one suggested herewith is easily putin force and makes a very firm corner. Stones are piled up against the post as shown —in both directions, or at right angles if the post be at a corner. Where stones are plenty, as they are all through the northern and eastern states, such a corner can quickly be es tablished.—Orange Judd Farmer. FACTS FOR FARMERS. Farm fewer acres and rent tie bal ance of the farm. Sawdust is a good absorbent when used as bedding. It is claimed that artichokes are a good conditioner and preventive of swine disease. Chicago commission men keep owls to keep rats and mice away. They are better than cats, it is said. Winter time affords an opportunity to make repairs of implements and ma chinery for next season's use. With a homemade wooden snowplow and a horse all the walks about the house could be cleaned of snow in a few minutes. Grow plenty of grass and keep all the slock that it will support. Farmers who have made money usually have made it through live stock. The wind that comes through a crack in window or door is biting cold in w in ter, and it is just as cold w here it comes through the cracjv of the stable.—West ern Plowman. Sink* for Kami Kitchens. Every farmer's kitchen should be fur nished with a sink, into which both hard and soft water should be brought l:y pumps. It is not always convenient to ht-ve the well water thus brought, but there is no reason why the cistern water should not be. The sank should connect with a drain for the carrying away of waste water. If water must be broug"? into the house in pails, it surely is too r iich to ask that it be carried out in the eamemannerand thrownonthe gTound to make a spot offensive to sight and smell and a breeding place for flies. At one end of the sink a long, broad shelf makes a good place to put dishes as they are wiped, and under this should be drawers for dish wipers and kitchen aprons, and a cupboard for teapot and coffee pot. FertlllxlnK Soar l.andi. The first object sought in fertilizing should be to correct the acidity of the soil and to set up the processes of de composition of the organic matter and nitrification so as to convert the Inert into valuable plant food. Liberal appli cations of decomposing manures, such as barnyard manure, in connection with dressings of iime, have usually been found effective for this purpose.—Farm- j •«' Review. A Doable Crop of Apple*. On a Long Island farm is an apple tret which bore two crops of fruit the past year, and the farmers are taking unusual interest in this peculiarity of nature. Just as much interest has been shown in Hostetter'sStom ach Hitters, which has t he peculiarity of cur ing dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation and blood disorders that other remedies fail to benefit. In chronic cases it rarely fails, and t cures whenever a cure is possible. Wanted a Cyelorama. Mrs. Fatpurse—You paint pictures to or der, don't you? Great Artist —Yes, madam. "Well, I want a landscape with lots of deer and bucks, and quail, and partridges, and pheasants, and cattle, and sheep, and pigs, and so on, you know; and put a lake and an ocean in—fresh and salt water, you know; and be sure to have plenty of fish swimming around, because it's for the din ing room."—Hoston Globe. Irom Iluby In tbe lllfch Chair to grandma in the rocker Grain-0 is good for the whole family. It is the long-desired sub stitute for coffee. Never upsets the nerves or injures the digestion. Made from pure grains it is a food in itself. Has the taste and appearance of the best coffee at i the price, it is a genuine and scientific article and is come to stay. It makes for health and strength. Ask your grocer for Grain-O. It All Depended. The General —I have stood unmoved when shells were bursting round me. Could you ? The Actor—Well, that would depend a great deal on the age of the eggs.—Stray Stories. Pleasant, Wholesome, Speedy, for coughs is Hale's Money of Horehound and Tar. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Feminine Slsterllness. "What made you lose your place in the line?" "Hecause I wasn't going to be kissed by Oie lieutenant right after he had smacked that odious, peppermint chewing Bagley girl!"— Cleveland Plain Dealer. We think Piso's Cure for Consumption is the only medicine for Coughs. Jennie Piockard, Springfield, 111., Oct. 1, 1894. Never be at your place of business when a person wants to borrow money of you, because if you are in you will be out, but if you are out you will be ia.—Town and Country Journal. We may listen, bat we generally think less of a man after he tells some family se crets.—Washington (la.) Democrat. "After all, in spite of what they say of the pace of this age killing, lots of millionaires seem to live to a good old age." "Yes ? it's their agents that do the dying."—Town Topics. They had been "keeping company" for eight years, and when he finally proposed arid was accepted in the ardor of his en thusiasm he exclaimed: "Darling, you are worth your weight in gold!" With almost cruel facetiousness she replied: "That is saying a good deal, for it was an awful long . watt.' —Richmond Dispatch. Richard —"Wonder if we can get a drink j at this place?" William —"Don'tknow. We' can find out by going in, I suppose." Rich- j aid —"Thanks; don't care if 1 do." —Larks. "Lemme get out," said the thin man who had been looking out of the window. "What's the matter?" "Here comes that friend who is always telling me how I'll un- i dermine my health if I keep on worrying. He scares me worse than the grip."—Wash ington Star. "He called me a lobster," said the man with the short ha ; r and the hard face. "What did you do?" said the man with the cigarette fingers. "I made him crawfish."— Cincinnati Enquirer. —— • Mrs. Foleigh—"Oh, John, the paper is of fering a prize for a description of a model husband. ' Mr. Foleigh—"You want to take a try at it." "Yes, please." "All right, .lust get the pen. ink and paper,and I'll dic tate to you.' —Cincinnati Enquirer. Tastes.—Moth —"I overheard some callers saving this room is furnished in execrable taste." Other Moth —"Why. the idea! I never ate more palatable upholstery in my life!"— Detroit Journal. Peaceable Red Men. —"Are the Indians near your ranch troublesome?" "Saw, They ain't got nuthin' we want." —Cleve- land Plain Dealer. For Infants Signature/^ Years £,sfuSM * 0 The Kind You Have Always Bought I "IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T \ I SUCCEED," TRY ( j SAPOLIO j L T & R M P NATURAL LEAF PLUG \ l\lot t>V CLIPPER PLUG I * CORNER STONE PLUG \ <= » TP I~~* 112 T C T SLEDGE PLUG (CX 11 V O 1 SCALPING KNIFE PLUG \ , . SLEDGE MIXTURE SMOKING / O /V\ BIINE ! LIGGETT & MYEHS TOBACCO COMP'Y, Miinufrnturw. All •' Off PI AYS Largest Assortment in the World ™ I w# All kind* «>f Books for Homo Ainuxemcnti, Including 100 New Plays Just Issued. Charades. Reciters, Ctail- I dreri v Plays, Negro Plays, Dialogues, Mr*. Jarley s > Wax Works, Fairy Plavs, Paper Scenery. Plays for 1 Mnle Characters only, Tableaux Vimnts, Make-Up Materials Amateur s (iuide to the Stage. Guide to j Selecting Plays. "How to M*ke Up." NAM IEL FKFNCH, «« W. te«l Ml.. New York. City. Allen's flrerlnc fetalve is tlie only sure cure iu the world for Chronic I'lrera, Bone I'leers, MtTofulous Ulcere, Varicose llrfri, White ■ welllnf, Fefrr lores, and all Old Mures. It neverfalls. Draws out all poison Hayes exoense and suffering Cures permanent. Best salve n»r It oils. Carbuncles, Piles, Malt Kheun, If urna. Cuts andall Fresh Woun<ls. By mail, suial 1 ;iic: large. Wc Book free J. I». ALI.KN MMIICINE CO., Mt. Punl, Minn. Mold by Oronls s. HDHDQ V NEW DISCOVERY; gives l/IsWI W ■ quick relief and cures worst v-ases. benu for book of teutimoniais and lO days' treatment Free. Vr. M. 44. fcMkkVtt *OMt,Aii*aia,Ms» j f Keep coughing Ve know of nothing better to tear the lining of your throat and lungs. It is better than wet feet to cause bronchitis and pneumonia. Only keep it up long enough and yoo will succeed in reducing your weight, losing your appetite, bringing on a slow fever ana making everything exactly right for the germs of con sumption. I Stop coughing and you | will get well. Ayer's , Cherry [ pectoral r a cures coughs of every kind. An ordinary cough disap pears in a single night. The racking coughs of bronchitis are soon completely mas tered. And, if not too far along, the coughs of con sumption are completely cured. Ask your druggist for one Of ' Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Plaster. It will aid the action of the Cherry Pectoral. If you have any complaint what" ever and desire the b#-»t medical advice you ran possibly obtain, write us freely. You will receive a prompt reply that may be of great I Valu«- to you. Ad»ire*H. ft DIL J. C. AYEIt, Lowell, Mass. t i JSOOm It Cures Colds Coughs, Sore Throat, Croup* Xaflv enta. Whooping Couth, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at ofiua. Tou will aee the excellent effect after taki&f tfce first dose. Bold by dealers everywhere. Price* 85 and 50 cents per bottle. l J| Meat nmoked in a few hours with KRAUSERS' LIQUID EXTRACT OF SMOKf. 41 Made from hickory wood. Cheaper, cteaoaft II sweeter, and surer than the old way. Sand fa* ML Circular, t. kUAIhtH X UUU., Mlinu, Pa Wheat Wheat *'Nothing' but whttt 112 1 What you might oaJI » 11 lecturer said white I TlloTl tUa speaking of WBBTBM I iio K | fIHJ C A NAI )A For partiou larsasto routes, rail war | 1M " iNvfid fares, etc.. apnly to Rup««* ] w M liitenili-nt of Iraraigm tlon. DKPAKTMKNT «• * TEiaOH.<>ttawa,Ca.ood^ or to M V. McINNES, No. 1 Merrili Block, Detroit. Mich. A. W. K.-C 1743 SljffcMHl I'M iij. Jh CUKES WHERE AIL ELSE FAILS. ET Beet Cough Syrup. Tantes Good. Un Cfl In time. Sold by druggist*. pf 7
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