SHRI, , NOTES AND COMMENTS. | Zhe, te the eapuve women | NEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX. | and all the treasures looted from that | it was the customary thing to do, and she found that it reacted only to her popularity, Harper's Bazar FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. | oom ‘ioe’ mati iat are bearing Tow - | the fmmatured seed may be cut and Joe 3 ‘ set In a shady place, and the seed will Doctors seem to be abont the best { rich town, NOTES OF INTEREST ON AGRI- - CULTURAL TOPICS - How Moisture Is Retained Hydraulic Cement Low to Grow Seed, etc, etc How Moisture is Retained. .- {The many ways by which molsture way be kept in the soil to be used by the growing crop are judicious plough- ing and tillage, mulches, underdrain- applications of lime, salt, ete, and the ada) tion of the crop to the soil. The importance of thorough tillage, or something that can take its place, cannot be impressed upon the minds of farmers too strongly. I have read that deficiency in rainfall with intensified agriculture is preferable to abundant rains and neglect by the cultivator, New York Weekly Witness age, Hydraulic Cement for Peach Borers. - “ Professor Smith of the New Jersey experiment station was quite success- ful in combating tree borers by mix- ing hydraulic cement with skimmilk and applying to the trunk of trees, This forms a continuous coating and will remain in condition during the entire summer, The larvae cannot penetrate it and a surface of this kind will not selected by adult for the In all cases the should be up a stiff brush danger Is over, good he insects deposition of egos brok with cement it when the season Boiling Water for Lice. If you have through neglect allowed the poultry house overrun with lice, to rid it of them than to thoroughly scald the walls, and fl What Boor, few lice escape this operation may be become there is no sul er way roosts. nests xterminated by applying immediately thereafter a coat of whitewash and kerosene, waste water wash day ad mirably serves the purpose hy simply ceturning it boll. Apply it »f the buliding, using for and litter and drench gest boxes The on the and lettin part a god sized © to kettle liberally to ev ery purpose the This work shone ‘the day as ble should sun {uring h will rid themselves of dust baths, wh i avery day. dust bath mu aow is a ! (IRs then be and fowl ¢ oF ieans of mt ably tal winter thi rnished them ge barrels of dry road du Selecting the Pigs, selecting food In *ouverting the pig best several matters these should be ot, as no after lor errors of bone insures and a pig with fis points sted. A snout an his owner broad, rt and aptitu f sho up, le to fatten and 1 surest indications Ni of i 1 ¥ u hog sh biristles these been In 3 ay from nll the best be ble far Save brecds, and vill not tolerated at present on al indicate snd preponde these out expecta they fred ie } Jude sguareness of form, fineness of hair and depth and the abae vard ation which In lenszth of carcass, be be a squeal He should and aftor his appetite is lie down around the disposition of the propensities of the pig should He should not sr, nor should he be restless eat eppeased should without even travelling pen. As a pig and his propensities correspond to his form, and but rs will be made if the pig is made as directed, should be fed tll just previous to hardening the fat, and all heating food should be possible during when in pen do on vegetables, ote Vitle bran and milk daily, do its duty later in the se ved quietly rule the fow err the selection of No corn or avoided mineh summer A fat-prodiueing as ns pis well enough if en a fi’ Corn Can ason, the the will ois Kis refuse flow to Grow Seed. if one is determined to grow his own seed there are some rules that must be observed, if a reasonable of success is expected. To prevent cross ing only one variety of any should be grown the same year. By growing one variety one year, a relat. ed variety the next and =o on, there will be no crossing. if different varie ties are grown, they should be grown #s far apart ss possible. although as already stated, there will even then be danger of mixing. It is not advisable to use any seed that ix over one year old, If it ean be avolded, Rave seed ouly from the very best plants. Any vegetable that is not good enough for table use should not be selected for seed production. The early maturing plant will furnish seed that may be re. lied upon for early waturity., In sav. ing cabbage seed save it from the seed that is produced from the full head and not the stump. The seedsmen de. stroy every plant that is not up to the highest standard. Remember, too, that when the same stock is used for several years, on the same ground, It will likely deteriorate, Fresh stock should be occasionally Introduced and even If it comes from an adjoining farm, it will probably be better than your own seed, Gather the seed when it is ripened, but before the pods burst, If a large quantity of seed Is to be saved, it will he necessary. however, to gather it be Lore it Is fully ma or there will degree species ripen, - — Systematic Horse Breeding. In order to make this branch | some system about it, and breed for {one or the other of the several popular types. The market demands | for special purposes, and those which are neither one thing or another are difficult to sell. The grade of horses has been raised, and one must alm | high, but aiming high without a defi nite purpose in view is bad policy al | most as bad as raising scrub { The type of horses that is in the great est demand just now is the road, car ringe or coach horse. There is quite a wide difference in this type, for heavy coach horse Is anything but a { light carriage animal, Still there | sufficient likeness in this type or divi | sion to gulde one in his work, horses horses is road and coach horses bring handsome reason why any such animals should go begging, the cab horse, The been freely made that the would drive istence, but up to the mal TOW nN prediction of present this ani the cab horse out ex evidence In ni eal fioht considerable The horse Is comparatively heavy, is in and cities, modern ones would hardly answer the TL In fact, the day of ti horse has passed, and we are breed hilin again in the racer the tendency to enlarge prod Hmbed hat similar i the type, and nee horses that are heavy and long horse is somew 3 a Horse b He CHE the cab | > std this exoen 145 fer horse mt animal and a good traveler, ing ing 3 somewhat to the type horse excel in power ain this he The or g heavy. 3 h Gree, tock oundation Wwe § § r future bree come fie wield do not try il not a Kind good pus tlie hed himself Hust y an hose wiring renin to fowls = and expect Indigestion ao jong nx; one treats the poultry busine he get slim profits ought to Iw fo Keep his 1 As 0 wae A lazy indus of aN will {8x10 man at lenst foie enough oney out thie poultry business a lazy man. Raising poultry for profit branch of farm industry. Furnish cool a place al for thie poul try in t wHmmer For the comfort of the birds and your own ae ax is practi hie heat of the profit furnish plenty of good cool water for them with a bird that has a Lit but kill 1» not bother bad of and bury it CnRe genuine cholera, In light cases of cholera give a little alum in the water, and if the bird shows improvement fed bread and milk and table seraps. Hens that are too fat may lay blood spotted eges, Different feed chick ens differently, and the whole matter is a problem. The best thing to do i= stick to the system that has been reasonably suceessful in your own ex perience, The digestion of a chick 1s not weak, but strong, If the food suitable, Some think that brooder chicks are more liable to bowel troud {les than are ehicks with the lien: if they are given a very little or no wa ter until they are four weeks old they will likely escape this trouble, Chicks jare not all alike, and whit may prove | good feed for some may not prove good | for others. Moulting Is a serious pro {coss, for it is such a drain that the | hen is Hable to ecateh cold or contract | other diseases. The moulting hen may grow fat. because the feathers require very little earbon, and may yet be weak. Do not dispose of the early moulting hen, for she will be the ear liext layer. The Indian game is solid and has an abundance of breast meat. Agricultural Epitomist, a —— Reserved. Mrs, Croesus—They say Mrs, Chil Hingly Is the most exclusive woman in society. Mrs. Gadfly Indeed, yes, 1 believe she will hardly look at herself in the glans, New York Journal, The [tallan railways carried in 1807 nearly 12.500,000 foreign passengers, of whom 0.210818 traveled first class, on breeders fo iw patrons of the motor vehicle industry at present, A Boston girl who received a pro- other day replied by wire, *Emphati cally yes,” and paid for the message. She must in times past have careless ly permitted a chance or two to go by. The wonderful growth of Berlin { during the last twenty years | that city to be regarded as the **Chic- { ago of Lurope,' a phrase which flat { ters our Western neighbor so far as i external embellishment is concerned, CRUISES The Missouri hen is justified in eackling, The shipments of poultry { and egus from that State exceed the | value of the combined shipments of | wheat, corn, osts and hay. We ; BXpect an « arly corner in hens may It should be earefully noted by a { beginner, states a well-known teacher f languages, that Spanish-American i peoples do not prononnce as thie Cas tilians do, It is better, however, to | learn the pure Castilian, and then, if found exp dient, ma the risntions The pure Spanish is always i bo © OCHRE YR {| nnderstood even by those who know Or use only the American Spanisii. It who posed to know that satin wil | inent in is stated by those are =up- ber winter, rom feminine dress this ont fashion A notor urderer went to ths his falbirie once went Ol 1 I 10s ! for a pec itliar reason. English Wolnan in and ta bo § BORO 11 A sali dress, in con stuf! @and i sequence the was | mediately, remaines OF VEars., i bas "in which the first aw It is ture and has been occu school 1n Oone-st was taught n I Wis den giruce | pied €8 RE §H dwelling KORE Years priest, The Liteht i Be sunded by Chie the it jis by negr hool was | ! Tapping Reeve about {i Revoln War, before ION y tudents kindly to 10 accom just Engh, De mld defer to civiliz f putting fo the extent OF pioves on the DUIS ROTDs are taking A bull ring 10 0 people 83 8 been ar Paris « of the i “nj lack in the United 3H the ntiaws who oper scale Are wing Viiization s ad yano: ' ing the ast trace « romance that found its ins wood Forest in the days of Robin Hood. Robbery is the petiy thaugeery of the city'ssluma, It is jess romanie Pe rhaps, but, in ! view of the appalling records of men { like "Black Jack,” 18 ! satisfactory to the community. SOUT fief cegenerating 1uto $ amnon more i That the world is willing to reward its humorists richly is a very good sign for the world, It indieates that the world knows how much better it is to laugh than to ery, it has to buy its laughter, not having internal resources of joy. On the haud, the solemn man with a lias a sense of his own 1m- portance to uphold him which the humorist never has: for the humorist knows that all is vanity and that he is but the iridescent bubble on the top that will be gone in an instant. A man with a mission, be he never so litt'e understood, is upheld by his mission, whereas the best that the humorist can do is to langh rather ruefully at himself—and laughing at one's self is not an inspiring occupa tion, even though other mission AAR SHIA An occasional failure of the harvests in Great Britain, France and Switzer. ance of a new harvest which steady as the traditional ice crop and granite crop in Maine, and which differs from them only in its steady growth. This is the crov of Amer. jean tourists, which has again broken the record, The leading London tourist agency estimates the Earopean erop for the year at not less than 70, - 000 Americans, who have yielded an average return of 83,500 per tourist to the European harvesters, In round numbers we may call the total 8100,- 000, 000, or a little bit more than the value of Nebraska's 300,000,000 bushel corn crop at thirty cents a bushel. may not be credited to it, no hope that it may not entertain observes Harper's Weekly. An American syn- dicate is reported to have recentl paid a million dollars for two small islands, La Cruze and La Ramon, off the shores of Cuba, They are said sto be rich in iron, and--here comes in the syndieate's special rainbow are declared to be historieally unquestionably the islands to The syndicate finds basis | for the hope that this pirarie hoard | may still remain, and may be dis | covered. They say a corporation has {| no soul. but no one denies that syn- | dicates have imaginations, “America is Opportunity,” Emer- | son declared. Tuat every man had an equal chance here has been our boast. Whatever talent he had, in proportion to the industry with which he used it, this country has offered him in the past a free field and an | equal opportunity with every other | man to rise from the smallest begin nings to the largest measure of in dependence and prosperity. Because of this equality of opportunity mil- lions of peuple have come to us from the older nations of Europe, where meén born into the wage-working class remain there all then lives, and their children after them, never or very rarely rising or hoping to rise into the better conditions of the classes above them, It is to be hoped that the projected great national park Minn of COO, C00 LEeAr: vy in n soba 1. ROTTER Ho will become an accomplished fact. would not only put an devastation io that region, propagation of game, and protect) hnndreds of that ¢ sand square miles. ¥O0N Such a reserve to ancoura end tiniber exhaustion the inkes a1 : it § Tis ich Two B'g Vessels Compared. White ¢ he large toy fhe the baat ever ft beldd that dist therefore Prose pstern resting Her foot of ‘ omparison Is on the upper deck was GI hilst between perpendiculars it was 134, feet rior than 11 in regard to breadth the Great Eastern far exe oid ed the White Star boat, being X38 foet beam. and, therefore, 19 of the two The depth he Great Eastern was OS feet, but measurement from her keel r highest deck, whilst the upper deck of the White there are a promenade deck and a boat deck it the welght of the Great Eastern and her engines at the time of launching was 12.000 tons: the weight of fron In the hull was put down at S000 tons, and the capacity for and eargo was stated to 18.000 tons, If the weight of ship and engines are added to the latter figure fect: she was, there, sho we Oeeanic, fiw A of hie feet the wider of 1 that to hu was above Star ship was sald that coal be tained, which is somewhat than that of the Oceanic, greatct Very Large String Beans. Two enormons string beans were ox Commerce by Mr. Emory Kirwan, The largest measured 274 inches nm length and had 19 beans in the pod. These beans were enltivated by Mr, Kirwan fn his yard, after three years’ experi menting and grafting. He says the largest he produced measured 33 1.3 inches. The vines of these beans are no larger than the average string bean vine, and they produce as many pods as the ordinary vige. Two pods grow on a stem, the same as other beans, and Mr. Kirwen claims they are good eating. as they are brittle and tender when first cut, and can be strung with ease. Baltimore News, I SDAIN A Seng Popular in Pern song In Pern. You hear it everywhere, the bands play it in every programme, the sweet demolselles pound at it on their planos ax you pass up and down the residence quarter and the peons whistle It In the street. The words have been translated into Spanish and are familar to everybody. a A A SAE NEWS OF INTEREST ON NUMER- OUS FEMININE TOPICS. Novel Features for a Frock ~ Teach Children to Read Aloud —A Beneficent Club Ideas A Feminine Feillizg Nove! Features in a Frock. A smart black frock presents several novel features. It Is of light weight material, trimmed with plaitings of black mousseline de sole and with a deep collar of white silk, embroidered with black passementerie, The collar is square in the back, but ent in front in deep shawl points. It is edged with two rows of plaited de sole and nearly covers the bodice, The skirt 1s made with a tunic, very close, but slightly dreped on one side near vith a piait over mosseline the back. This is edged ing of white, black mousseline de sole Teach Children to Read Aloud. wr Bi andl and money thie 9 A mother should take her ceptably ent pains to children to 1 aloud ac Much ten expended jo « tench Line ultiy ating OT RiIaging, and pleasure may be who reads aloud in a need Ix we fen iis reads be away, differing from powder or gold dust, which re quires careful manipulation to remove it, after the ball is over. — New York Herald. fF 1s ness to Drashed South Africa’s First Lady. Mra. Hanbury Williams is the first lady of the land in South Africa. As sister to His Excellency Sir Alfred Mil ner, her position would credit her with this title. Kir Alfred i= a bache. lor, and devoted to the closest study of finance and statesmanship, it not for is accomplished sister, the smansion. Ag it is, there has never be. fore been such a charming hostess to ony. A beautiful woman of the most highly cultured English type. Mrs Williams simply radiates feminine popular beyond description. posed to walk in the straight and nar. caliar to the country. fams infringed on one of these laws in a way that made her the talk wherever Cher. The racial feeling in Cape Colony is Intense, and not being acquainted | with this fact, Mrs, Williams, when | giving prizes to the children of the | public schools, after kissing a little white girl, stooped down and touched i the lips of a little Kaffir girl who had | achieved equal distinction with her | white sister. A gasp of horror on the part of all the ladies present followed the move, and a clergyman leaned over and ae quainted Mrs. Willlams how she had shocked the audience, It was rather a trying woment, but Instinets of jus { tice prevailed over taste, and when the next colored girl came along, the first ma —— The Tailor Fiaished Gown. The idea In Paris seems to be wholly the tallor finish, It is not precisely the tallor finish, either; it is rather the fineness, Work on all gowns Is re. difficult and elab- of fine work and aft used are and to the average dismaying. Ble must, an artist, and must have the very best kind of help in or der to ¢ The amount the diversity of handie: simply bewildering dressmaker almost need, be Yen approxi the dresses most favors, The old well be fol require fine work that ix doubled and costunes are finish. that this season for as prices making « ti Rag nunot lowed, new dens #0 much work and such fut the cost of prod fon even trebled If the all int styles require, Dire ed nt inanner which the new sses of this kind are not confined 1 ¢ 185 of goods Is gilke § of we ven show and Coming as Did mar know il il as SET Don't 3 a i : 3 E each ind upon ¥ Well eraping will than a properly work is ry and than will iting Inbor, inliy fem who do Tonr patient aR ease fui drag an essen nine there dre women Ir you chance a one, fret all to yourself in the privacy of your chamber, provided you have any privacy. But under any in spite of themselves or worse, vour bot. over the sitting room fire.” FASHION NOTES. purses of all kinds are Chain the Detachable yokes and plastrons wade of gauzy materials and lace entre-denx are not as much in favor as the fchu Stiffening ix now put in only four or French hair cloth is used, but if linen, The mania for braiding dresses Is likely to continue, The nasturtinm shades are bosuth ribbons used in elegant, millinery, Plaid velvet in very bright shades for during the winter, with very light-col ored skirts, Shades of gray, or, again, black are preferred. One can never have too many cuff buttons or sleeve links, and now a va riety 1s almost a necessity when the colors of the shirt waist worn dear the same coloring in the studs links, With the tallor-made gowns t are smart monsseline de sole thes in all the delicate shader, The « cream-colored ones, bordered with pligues of lace, are generally con to be In better taste, : The trimming era Is not yet at If one were to describe fro »
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