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