y'\ COCO 0UT 00 UUUUobUsTobonoY show to best advantage, the “1 have used It leaves the skin soft and cl glossy lather, the skin. BTU OTs U E0000 Uso 0ssTU00 k natural colors of the wool or furnishes life to the coat, . « « and leaves it smooth, I use it with luke-warm This forms a rich, oily Eo 29229299202R9R28 fhe Ascent of Woman. In an article in The Young Woman for February on “The Ascent of Wom- an" we are told that whereas the cen- gus taken six years bell Queen Vic- toria came to the throne contained no gccupations for women except domestic the date of the ire service there were at 188 census 70,000 employed in 4,500 in printing 4,721 in mines. ven the edged about with red-tapism as it is, the public egraphists, sorters, etc, and included in these figures no fewer postmistresses. Where there was one lady clerk in 1871 there are now four; and--to take two industries there are now 121 in the tolacco industry, per 100 in 1871; while in hemp and the women workers have from 67 men to There throughout the nearly men in teaching, three number of men; worked their partments as typi Een 4 195 per kingdom engaged times the and 200 women have into government de- gts. It is significant of the part that woman now plays in British commer that in a re- cent year there were 758 women bank~ rupts, aggregate amounted to £316,000 per 100 are 20.000 w almost way ial life whose DI 15555 Stole a Tooth as un Souvenir. “People off fragments from gravestones,” said a traveler, “to ear- ry away as souvenirs, and twigs and leaves from trees, and that sort of thing, so that it is sometimes neces- sary to protect these objects to save them. But the most curious thing I ever saw in the way of souvenir grab- bing was in the catacombs of Paris. where one of a party of sightseers, fol- lowing a guide along the passages lined with human bones, pulled out » tooth from a skull” ip REPARE for the turn of FINAL FATE Of Coup's Rolling Palaces, Once the That Were Rage. For a long time nearly everybody in the south knew about “Coup’s Rolling Palaces,” but probably none know ex- actiy what became of them. The roll- ing palaces consisted of a train of cars specially bullt so as to be connected at will into one long pavilion. Inside Was a museum, a huge aquarium, a congress of freaks and finally an audi- { torium department, where brief vaude- The whole thing was most elaborately got up, was brilliantly lighted by its own dynamos and cost $100000 to con- It was the idea of Coup, the circus man, and he had been gradually figuring it out for years When he had It perfected he had no money, and was obliged to take Ir what show people call “commercial j capital.” In other words, business men backed it, and were foolish enough to insist on doing the managing after Coup had taken it through the south for one extremely profitable season The thing was a huge moneymaker properly handled, be let in at one end and kept moving until they emerged at the other, and many would make the circuit two or three times. Under the business men's management it lost heavily, however, { ville performancves were given. struct. i veleran tudes, the train was brought to Chi- cago and sold to a variety theater manager for $7,000 cash up and peddled off the cars one at a time. Fragments of the old outfit are now wandering about through obscure country towns, plioted by fly-by-night showmen. with ail sorts of strange freaks, That was the end of the great rolling palaces that are still distinctly remembered In scores of smaller southern cities == EE ——— A mule costs §73 In Maita, 1t is a critical period. cal condition is good. Mrs. Pink- TALKS WITH WOMAN OF | MIDDLE AGE Read “DEAR Mrs. PiNkuHaMm The ing and became very weak. in bed, had not sat up for six months; was under a doctor's I had almost me feel like a new woman. I cannot thank you enough. | write to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass., and get her ad- vice and be cured as I have been.” —— 3 oo - of Lge Frag A ra braska Ave., writes: “Dear Mrs. PINKHAM fom Change of life was working on me. My kidneys and bladder were affected. confined to the house all sum- mer, not able to stand on my feet for any} length of time, Terri-f ble pains when urinat.| ing and an itching that nearly drove me wild, 1 had tried many reme- dies. 1 told my hus. band I had great faith I can work all day. Ic¢an hardly Don’t wait until you are dition known as *'C * GARM AND GARDEN NOTES. NOTES OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL | TOPICS. Lice Upon the Orange Leaves--Poorly Made | i Straw Stacks--Cauliflower Cultures~Bec | Growing and Dairying, Etc, Etc. Lice Upon the Orange Leaves, The Insects upon the orange leaves | are one of a number of species of scale | lice which are common upon house ! plants, They are all of similar gener. al nature, and call for similar treat ment. Ordinarily, sponging with strong soapsuds is suflicient, but if this | should prove insufficient the plants | should be sprayed with kerosene emul- | slon or kerosene and water, if the prop- er apparatus is at hand. The lice will then yield to sponging, and there will be no further trouble unless the plants are neglected, Wherever there are scale lice, oceaslonal sponging is una voldable, It has proven possible to completely rid plants of them.—Prof | W. A. Buckhout, Pennsylvania Exper- | iment Station. Poorly Made Straw Siacks, Except where the necessities of milk men require large barns, we fear those of good OT fo be when more fod used Eastern fariners are RO they grain was grown by ¢ Of average so commodious as The hay goes into the barn, than them. i being valuable The latter rly COurse, straw, often very po little considers farmers think wel, ns as ore is put i itr, into nn stack, Sirnw is so Hine id as feed that too many it matters little if it does bed stock, if straw, would if only for variety In get fin niy as ding for stock. theéy can have « ik same i dry eat a little straw their ration. If the farmer grain, and especially If he would buy would buy linseed or cottonseed meal, be could make his straw as good as hay by cut § ting and steaming it, and then ling one or the other of these meals it. In hay, always reckoned valuable, made to go much farther, more stocl could kept. and manure plie would be many tin richer it Is All this can fs farmers gave their straw in b over this way, which could be the than wiil * shape. Most ho of the trouble in making tacks Is from ulation straw carrier. This cha richest part of the straw. barn if With the the chaff under the ff is much the it roo chaff the acon: of sho base of be stored the found for way, keeping stack well filled and pa iy built in can it. ont the contre of the ked, and even packing all sides, the stack may be ' Oo thant wh tl flown in found a Ld winter here place where the tratsd Cauliflower Culture, good | in for the co There eaunliflowers tions all right ture often reliable crop for sale ing afi growing tdi i= a ¥ market if are given f+ od ing ing the first thing to be considers I'he like some is a these luxuries crop which life, want Of ongiderad pecessaries of must find and are able to bay them are « and yon them in most large villages there is a people who sul cient number of people who want them for a few seasons, and at solne is a good sssmd 5.3 be esbi ich 15s Oo make 8 market thousand in times in the year, there 1 heads ROTH rol in growing then to ship to dealers in the oit i ies, but the most money is made by retailing them to villages, where no one is growing them, and therefore no competition, It is not best to economize foo mich in purchasing seeds The higher priced strains of canlifiowers, where the type has become established white by careful selection for several years, are more reliable in beading, and whiter the heads the better they will sell in the market The large pure white curds, with the leaves trimmed nicely around them, atiract the eve, and people buy them because they “look nice.” 1 make the first sowing of the seed in a hotbed In March: a It tle Inter 1 sow more seeds In a cold frame, and sow different in the open ground from April until June My plan i= to have only a small part of the crop mature at time, for the leaves will grow through the heads if they are not marketed at the right time. Vicek's Magazine, he ant times one ROO0nN Beet Girowing and Dairying. The beet sugar movement is hound to do some good, even in localities where hopes of securing sugar fac tories never materialize, stance, a great dairy region like Min. nesota, During the past few years beet seed has been offered gratis to all farmers who would plant. Hundreds | were shown to be satisfactory in every report. It has been fully demonstrated that good sugar beets can be grown all favorable conditiops, farmers here are as yet unwilling to give the neces sary help and encouragement, They are too deeply absorbed in an all-the year-round Industry that Is known to one. The twenty sis successful cronm- orfes in my county have proved what can be done in that Moe, The sugar making industry seems more tncer. Yet this movement which has intro duced beet culture among the dairy: mien of this country has not been lost Iabor by any means. When the trial crops had been grown and there was no market for them the only thing to do was to feed them to the stock, Thus it becmine known by experience, where otherwise it would never have been, that such root crops are of great value as winter feed for mileh cows, It Is but a step from (he growing of sugar other roots for stock, ns similar culture is required for all. Baid a prominent dalryman to me recently, “I shall grow beets and other roots just the or not, I have a score of factories at home that turn beets into butter, They pay well, too, and the market is right my own stable,” The man was This is a great grain-growing region, and our dairy we, as a rule, get an abundance of ground feed. But no cow will do her best on dry feed exclusively, however liberally fed, When a community has once got into crops, whether for feeding or other purposes, it is then more easy to get the sugar factory. The pledges, too, of experienced growers will be of the kind best ealeulated to insure the con- ¢. L. Hill, in New England Homestead, Tiling. If a farmer 8 ever justified in going into debt, he will find the Justification in buying and laying tile on credit, if he must, and has land that needs drainage. The crop losses from un- drained land In the West has amount In wet planting on wet land is some delaved beyond the time it is possible for a crop to fully mature; ROARONS times wien fH wet or dry season, wet, low land requires so much time for the thie moisture and 10 exhaust the lnnd: and, of “iii . Count y plant until the planting Late rded by subsequent drenching rains, even if growth is in neans that the erops will not be as far 3 § y ; they should be when the advanced as ner drouth comes on, Undrained dr results fron all land iy should egidlily ring amd to carry falls Mili if it needs ining, Is a menace to good & the bwginning to if not naturally the end: and be put inte a condition rid of the water in the off the hes waiter i ling of g1 gel before the The cnn winter k preves fod by jrrint » tile below 3 f 4 the af sai and undertak gittempt it, bowever, without what how is wanted and hit to be done nid a lot of moneys Just If we bury ith it, hie work a lot of tile to find that oug ie a Ww our tile is too small, be in a bad fix only we shall The whole gtihievt al his CO if o is familiar with practical til- wuld be before the begun ROTI body wi ing ean be consulted, It would be worth while ble to go to considerable tron and expense to see him, for an a borate, indeed w » subject, | vever in Yor every point to las hich for Flees down are n I ame in every the nat shonid is to be tiled irst » of the water flow an be done by ’ f the overflow of field, in the spring, level all, fhe the land is so absolntels he water does of flow at und ard wen the natural cour in fe fit fitiet Agricultural Epitomi the o HIN ¥ Bean Weevils, usually and Was The weevil plentiful * i nut season ii rovn allected The beans from some par far sala accounts the whole crop by them of the furedd bis ble is country have wen =o them that they are not becoming and of re Pealers in beans are tienlar 1} this respect si it IMT 1nIN res i yi ry snmiples of thie beans that show of signs Presency weevils are often Je ted ut it ix not only the loss sustained by this year's crop of beans that con cerns growers, but the threes tened dam- age that may follow next season. Bean weevils, like all other pestiferons in. sects, multiply more rapidly the sec than the first. That they get a fair start the first season, and by the second they are well under way to inundate The danger comes from the few old weevils which hibernate in the fields, or conceal themselves or theur larvae in the sed beans. It is possible that a nimber of the old weevils will burrow in the grouml and sleep through the winter, and when the next crop of beans are put in the ground they are re-enforced with a new brood of young ones, ‘There ix only one way to avoid this, and that is to plant the beans on another piece of land as far removed from that of last years as possible. Plow that field under and plant it with corn or grain, The weevils do not bother either of these plants, and they will be either starved out by fall or ond year in the country The next danger comes from using goedd beans that have the larvae of the Beans gathered from an infected field are sure to contain many weevils inside of them, which Put the beans in a warm rooms and the weevils will soon appear io numbers, Most of the weevils remain In the beans through winter, and appear when warm wenth- or comes. One must kill the weevils in the beans the best way possible, Put them in a wari room, spreading them appent destroy them. If Kept in a cold place neither the weevils nor beetles will appear. The beans must be sort ed over frequently, and all that show any signs of the weevils should be thrown away. It takes a good deal of time and labor to do al this, but in the end one 1s well repaid for it It in only by exterminating them the first year that one stands 1 reasonable chinnee of preventing an epidemic of weevils Professor James 8B, Doty, in American Cultivator, sme wea It usually takes about five years te tan the skin of un elephant. Longer Rule the Country, The German New Guinea Company has given up the arduous task of gov- erning the large territory confided to it and Emperor William's Government will now administer the affairs of the country Itself, The New Guinea Con- pany bad exercised such control over the region as the East Iudies Company once pussessed over a large part of India. It has had trouble with the na- tives. It is now to be relieved of she responsibility of maintaining order and will devote itself to its commercial in- Lerests, New Guinea is the largest island in the world, The western half of it, far as the meridian, 141 degrees East, belongs to the Dutch. The southern half of the remainder i= British New Guinea, and the northern balf belongs to Germany, and Is known as Kaiser Wilhelm Land, Hamburg is the bead quirters of the New Guinea Company, and the products it has been raising, paricularly New Guinea tobacco, have often been advertised in The company has to explore the and has ascended so tiie press, nlso much ranges, Const rivers for a considerable 4d the on Kaiserin Ax 531 . HOTETTS | will where Mikiuncho from in the beach, and when thre next wirauge sky They iments object had dropped 1 lel him in th jf hier nanvie 3 nearly kil to determine wl EX ey was a god, They ot and watched imprisoned him J him day and nl starved him, mi. because food They nearly require tree and shot arrows iis 1 Li vl he Two of 11 flesh end and neck, because if 1 4 Vere 8 ge should not be fright- ined, I Arrows nn wounds upon the aptive Then they aosinkt Lh soa insl ai Maclay lived SHINE amply re to ool abl nipted hi give u $¢ tO JOR ry 1 very civilized comfort the facts | gathered were needed complete his races of the ence, that edge he long studies amo the western Pacific ardor of the born devotes he was eager to make any eld him the knowl New York Sun fice would » sought Sphinx and Mae Now, for the first than of the Sphinx with om on top of it and another the front, a glance monument a photogr nan half faken, fremendonsness sfauding | up at was has been the which old} of sige showing of is oy %% thousand years Figai that poor an Wea convey anything to thw Clos your eves and try to imagine a figure sixty-five feet high, and bixdy a hundred and eighty-nine feet each ear is two yards wide, feet long. the mouth feet wide, large enough to swallow a gix-footer If it were opened, and the distatee across the face from one cheek to another is fourteen foot If a fivestory flat house were built by the side of the Sphing the top of the house would be below the crown of its bead. Yet this wonderful statue was cut out of the living rock as long ago as 4.000 years B, OC. There myst have been some great artists in that day to think of so big a work, which bas never been since equaled, Ising, it long: the nose is Live is seven The meaning of the Sphink is one nf the hardest problems of scholars, Some gay it I the statue of some old Egyp ting god, others that it is a symbol of explanation is that the Spaing is the statue of some one of the Pharaohs of old Egypt. 1ts head is thar of a man, symbol of the power of the mighty king who had it hewn. number of Sphinxes in Egypt, but this all A AU Wi He. Monkey D. wtistry in a Street Car. . ‘An itinerant musician who daily grinds out operatic alrs and popular gongs on a street piano at Bridgeport, opposite Norristown, and his monkey were a miserable pair as they sat in a trolley car on the way to this city the other morning. The monkey was squealing and holding one of {ts paws to its mouth while tears flowed copl- onsly. The master could not console The questioner asked the monkey's month, and after looking at it he pro duced a vial and allowed a few drops of Hauid to fall on the gums. The ani mal ceased squealing, ‘Then the sym pathizing man got the Italian to hold the monkey's mouth open, when he in- serted a pair of forceps he took from his pocket and drew out the trouble. some tooth . The monkey yelled once; and then showed the relief it felt, While the owner was wiping the blood from its mouth the dentist left the car and shook his head naturedly when the street musician called after him: “Comma back an’ gitta you mon” Philadelphia Record. him to city.” good ir =" THE CHINESE JEWS. Mystery of Their OriginoTheir Syssgogee in Kse-Fung-Foo. Among the most ret Jews of Chit Bing ings colonies are 10 have aroused te tue wi fined been the theme Early in the and shortly after Vv French writers, qiteenth century, Italian cone 10 EERE. £315 ¥ sions EY DAR tween length by iret he rd, blessed of His & the » of the glory Ten azoned in r ever and ever,” and were emi inclosed the the rabhi sacred Int yy div nag » Messiah, can be fxceerta ined, » heard until the aries arrival of ti red into dis earned CUSSION A488 10 wether these I wie Jews or Ixraelite vhether they fo China A SRY or the I n dispersion i Were win cap “hey themselves ay that their fore fathers iz probable way 1 hey ninth fire from th it 11 ¢ fiat 11h we Oo Khbrassan inst have been century, for of that period describe a rebel. named chon, faking As. Iv SOS Jews, Mabomets Par More than one J fung foo : {anton in and slanelifior 120.000 aud i i 7 HOR cw of fi the 0 have gains right to wear little round bution the The Taiping ent, and faithful to 11K Aare on the ton of his fan oa aenr to of 8 ( rebellion disperse iI the seottloan the ambition inaman who fhe of ald yi chile fly Poor and distresesyd remnant ren: 3 irs His meinory Humorous Geese. Of barn yard fowis the geese are the it ix related of a pah they round up which strayed from and pias wit} thew for the fun of it says the New York San. One day a dozen of a neigh bor's hen flock came visiting and the geese ottertained them. The chilickens were corcalled In a fener corner, and the geese flapped their wings and showing great joy when the chickens extiibited jear. Just then the farmer came ont and began feed his flock. Between ben-baiting and eating these geese did not know what to do. They wanted 10 eat and wonld begin to eat. Then the chickens would start away. That made the geese se Alten bit the chickens started along the mosf intelligent of that the chickens Cre usd to in the peighibors pranks hissedd, to ing this the geese stoppwsd eating and went to the stream and swam down #8 toward the spot for which the hens wore beaded, and dhcked their heads so that the chickens conldn’t see them. Arriving at the crossing place the gov alr with fapping wings and trisd to eateh ene of the the chickens went over the fence lke seared crows, If the geese had cought the chicken the fentifere would have flown, for the geese delighted in pluck: ing the feathers out of a captive, XO L AW) Treasure in Paris Sewers Le Paris sewers are being searched carefully for treasure trove, owing to the recent discovery by a workman un. der the Rue Montmartre of a bundle containing $120,000 in securities. There are 278 members of the privy council of England and Ireland. The