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
»