~- THE DISPOSITION OF THE HORSE. The disposition of a horse largely influences its value. The education of the horse should begin when it is a colt. A noted breeder of horses, who had been successful, stated that the breed of the man was as important as the breed of the colt, as colts have varied in disposition according to the disposition of the men handling them. EARL Y LAYE RS. The breed that evinces a tendency to early maturity gives its indications | both in the male and female. The | cockerel will show the red comb and | wattles early, and he crows as soon | as he can. In selecting young cocks, | if we wish to increase the desire for early laying, we have this rule to guide us; take the pullet that lays first, and | the cock that crows the youngest and | watch them. If they both develop early and push forward rapidly they should be retained, provided they are not akin. Endeavor to do the same the succeeding year. After a few sea. sons the propensity to lay will begin early in all the progeny, and by con-| tinued selection the habit will become | permanently settled and the breed jmproved.—Poultry Keeper, THE Di AY'S WORK ON THE FARM. Ther re is no method for determining the value of a day's work on a farm. Farm laborers in some sections are paid certain sums, according to cus- tom or usage, but there much dif- ference in the amount of work by dif- ferent individuals. The supposition that anybody can work on a farm is known to be erroneous by farmers, for while there are certain duties that may be performed by strong and able. bodied men, yet skill is necessary some departments. The best farm hapds are those who know what to do and consequently r the mer of much responsi. bility. is in lieve iar of the care and FZEDING FOR EGG TION The most difficult Iv hens that | facture ths PRODUC work roduce eggs is ! me or white, of the eggs. The yolk is composed most ly of the elements of food that produce fat. being known as the elements. In wheat bonaceous materials are v ant, but the substances from the albumen is lacking. in proportion to the yolk producing ma terials. For this reason the feeding of fowls on nothing grain not conducive to egg production The food should therefore, lean meat, iinseed meal, cut bone and finely cut clover hay (scalded) to be given in addition to grain. of albu carbonaceous and corn the car. abund which TY derived is is but x wel be varied WONDERFUL RESISTENCE SEEDS TO COLD. Farmers have had va Fled ence {’ OF experi with seeds. Cer perfectly mature« seed corn there following facts mature seeds resist very ture without tures may be so low seem startling. The facts are here to show that it is quality to start with and not the relative win. ter temperatures, be they ever so un usual, that causes the trouble. I supplied seeds last winter for im-| mersion in liquid air, and therefore for subjection to extremely low tempera tures. These included corn, flax, wheat, cucumber, castor bean, Russian sunflower, mimosa, yel- | low lupine, sainfoin and pine. At first | these lots were immersed directly | [rom room temperature in the liquid | air and allowed to remain six and] twelve hours. Other lots of the same | sort were immersed twenty-four and | forty-eight hours respectively. The | seeds were then germinated, together with control lots from the original] packages. There was essentially no | difference in the proportion of the! seeds germinated from the original lots and from those treated or im mersed. ’ | The corn was not of a high grade and the starchy portion cracked badly from the extreme cold, yet the germin. tion was about all that could be ex: pected. With flax and rye the ex treme cold was rather favorable than otherwise to the prompt germination of the seeds. These facts are stated | to show that properly matured dried | seeds are practically unaffected even | at the extreme low temperature of | liquid air equivalent to 310 degrees | below zero. No fear need be enter. | tained from outdoor temperatures if seeds are what we know as airdry. By these facts we learn how admir ably seeds are by nature prepared to! withstand cold, provided they are in! a proper condition of dryness.—A. D. Seiby of the Ohio Experiment Sta tion. with im dried As properly dried, low tempera These tempera that they offered inl acrly the danger. show. is risk. indeed seed seeds rve i BEES A BRANCH OF FARMING. Beekeeping on a small scale has be. come a branch of farming, and is very much on the increase. Farmers have found that it pays well to keep a few | ples, and are receiving encouraging returns from them. Ordinarily, a few locality than where large numbers are kept, for any locality may become overstocked. A few hives on every farm is the way to get the best possi. ble returns from them, and all the honey required for home use is egsily secured. Bees are valuable on the farm besides the honey they produce, and fruit growers especially are tak- ing a great interest In bees now, hav ing become convinced dy well authen. and plenty af it, depends largely on honey bees, fertilizing the bloom. It is not only confined to the orchard, but if vou will take the trouble to look into the matter further, you will find the bees on the blossoms of wheat, rye, corn, clovers, and many other staple cereals grown. Would any one say they do not to some ex: tent fill the same mission on this as they do on fruit? Look at the cucum. ber vines, and a thousand other va. rieties of flowers, we scarcely think of, that are visited by the bees during the flowering season. Perhaps at the lowest rate of speed a bee will travel on the wing when they are swarming, which is about twenty miles an hour, but when hunting for honey and visit. ing the flowers, the speed is increased to nearly double; then think of the number of miles a bee travels during each day visiting blossoms in search for honey. The bee is surely one of our best friends, and no one should blame them for defending their hive even if they should inflict stings upon us occasionally when we are med- dling with their business, for they never do it otherwise. Farmers should not go into the bee business, but all farmers should Keep bees enough to supply their table with honey, and learn all about scientific beekeeping. —A. H. Duff, in Farm, Feld and Fireside, DAIRYING ON THE FARM, The dairy has become such tinct specialty in farming that many farmers have abandoned it practically to those who do nothing Yet farm dairying on the ordi nary farm is without question a profit. able work, that can be carried on with other lines of work. We have not yet abandoned general farming for specialties with the great majority of farmers still raise miscellancous crops, doing a little dairying, raising, cattle raising and fruit vegetable growing. The fact is the day will never when the ma- jority will not diversify the farming sufficient to raise a great variety a dis- else, corn and come of Crops The dairy fv 3} g » their place 38 is at the beef © both ary farm foundation of all crops and no man can crops of grass without dairy cow, the OW, on the orail 1d all good farming good be LOO. business all-the-year- atl conven tempted to COWS dairying part of the constant and ofits, which is a gre the farmer. raise in round pr to Then when ience pigs do so well on clover and skimmilk one cannot help feeling that dairying is essential nake success of raising hogs. And, indeed, The man who raises a few pigs and omits the cows makes a mistake in planning. With a half dozen or more good cows on the place there will be ample food for raising a pigs for market. If the cream can be sold direct to consumers there left to fat {to it is. dairy dozen will be sufficient sk nilk ten the hogs pro fitah ly Corn, 1d peas make for the prety clover ar the ideal ¥ 01 dairy good combination Crops cows, and they also prove this same ral Thus itinually feeding for pigs. Fron gets sufficient to feed of good laying hens Irns in the dairy cows and the h then look forward contente returns from the ts, cattle or hay irn profits only and it sometimes a dis ouraging walt between It is {far more satisfactory to have the side which will keep up the supply of pocket money. Then if the main crop proves a failure one is not left entirely stranded. Diversified farm- in agri: culture, and in that dairying is one of the most important of all—W. H. Manton, in American Cultivator. Crop one BOY COMNIOT with ret cot Coming from ns, one ily grain Th eT | Year, can to the crops, f latter ret bigger once long times and is isanes, An Airship “Prophecy. A correspondent of the Westmins- ter Gazette calls attention to an Eighteenth Century prophecy of the airship. It occurs in the verses of Erasmus Darwin—that distinguished grandfather of a more distinguished grandson. The passage is in “The published in 1791, when the possibilities of steam were | becoming recognized, and it seems to contain the first suggestion of a steam- driven airship. That the author con- templated warlike as well as peaceful uses for such a contrivance is evident the lines themselves: Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam afar Drag the slow rapid car; barge, or drive the bear of air. Falr crews triumphant, above, Shall wave their fluttering ‘kerchiefs as they move; Or warriogf bands alarm the gaping crowd, leaning from owy cloud. The Sort of Courage That Wins. The courage that wing is of the kind that never wavers, that holds out in gpite of the most adverse conditions. The men who have made their mark in the world have been noted for their “hanging-on” qualities, thelr “stick: ing" ability. It is a comparatively easy matter to be courageous when everything goes your way, when the sun shines, and when you have plenty of friends who believe in you, but it takes su perior character and great grit to maintain a steady polse when you feel everything slipping out from un der you.~Success, A lawyer's brief may be pretty long. winded. Ot ticated experiments that good fruit SPOTTED VELVET ROSETTES. Young girls wear neat little walking hats of dark brown, pearl gray or black felt. The hats are simple, the only trimming besides the neat hat of rosettes made These have quite a Black and white velvet Is used for brown and white, or brown and yellow being the set spotted velvet. leopard-like effect, or black and gray the rosettes, and brown and black, for the brown felt hat. The rosettes are two, three or four in number, are made of spotted velvets only. THE SPINSTER'S A bevy of girls of our the ald of an older head, planned a very enjoyable evening. The tions were headed with a clever pen and {ok sketch of a cat, the “spinster’s solace.” We invited the to come at three o'clock in the afternoon and to appear in the costume of the traditional spinster of olden time.” The majority of the girls wore cork-screw curls and all of them old- time gowns. They carried reticules and quaint bead bags containing sprigs of fennel, sweet flagroot and peppermint drops. Each told a story of "her courtship and why her lover was rejected. The guest telling the best story received as a prize fine picture of a cat. After that had a guessing match, the contestant giving the greatest number of cor- rect answers to a series of cat ques tions being awarded the prize black cat pin cushion. The questions and answers were as follows: Libra ry cat, catalog: aspiring cat, cata. mount; tree cat, catalpa; near rela tion, catkin; water cataract; dan- gerous cat, catastrophe; barber cat polecat; spicy catsup at's fav orite plant, catnip: musical it, cat gut. We had photog the conch of the served at five o'cloci long, old-fashione any, and SOLACE town, with guests “yea one a we cat, cat, 3! 18500 all the quaint glassware obtainable The menu included ol ands and cuit, cold chicken. rich gold and time varieties Was used fe } d-fashion Preserves, « GOR sliver cake, and othe Daguerr SOL Ves, brought by “spinsters.” and there inspecting them After tea Auld Lang Syne and other ballads “ye len time."—Mrs. T. C. Cun fry : 2 +s sing in Good Housekeeping was lo 3 Ol mings, LURED BY A WOMAN'S FLIES TROUT Trout consi far flies dered a there are because one mak. She nade by a woman great curiosity, practically ever attempted 80 only who has 8 of her work and all tempting feather<covered a bait to fisher men as they do to the fish Learning to make trout some and slow work though it were « work, for it requir ance and nimble fingers profession guard the rets of manu facture carefully, and after a Ne York woman resolved to compete with them it was a long time before she could induce any man to show her the yet “ms as ntially a woman's ef patience, persev Men in the Be pulling apart man-made trout flies and making a careful study of their anat- omy. Then she would put them to gether again, this was a start; ter a while her perservance was re warded. the art agreed to give her instruction, partly out of friendship and partly be. cause he admired her pluck. She had to promise, though, that she would not teach any one else. Of her work this woman chats inter- ostingly. She says: “It is pleasant work that may be done at home, and it is one which gives a liberal educa tion. bute their quota to the material which I use, and never before did | realize the great variety of their plumage and its wondrous beauty. [I am com- pelled to study the insect | manufac. ture, that I may duplicate it as near ly as possible, else it will never be able to fool the sagacious trout. “1 have grown to love my work to that extent that now | am always try- ing to see how artistic a fly I can bring me.” ———— THE STORE DETECTIVE. An advertisement in a recent paper called for the services of a “bright, in. telligent woman as detective in a de partment store.” Bceores of women, young and old, put in applications for the place. Bome of them had been employed by private detective agen- cies and had done such important work as the tracking of criminals, while a few had held places in de partment stores. From the latter ap- plicants a young woman was selected. The greater number of the candidates for the place had had no experience of the sort, and were under the im- pression that no special adaptability was necessary for the task, “A store detective,” sald the man. ager of one of the big shops, “has to be gifted with a large amount of tact and intuition, as well as a quick eye and a level head. She must not be troubled with nerves or be imaging tive or easily excited. Bhe must be ladylike as to dress and manner and appearance, a good judge of faces and of persons. In fact, the place re. quires a rare combination In the way of womanly cleverness and courage. “Many women are employed by private detective agencies, and some of them make good salaries but as a rule these private detectives do not make good store detectives. The work requiring their services Is large ly that connected with divorce cases, and this class of work is not pleasant enough to appeal to intelligent and | refined women, such as store detec tives must be, “Store detectives become adept at {| pleking out and capturing shoplifters with their booty on their persons. One or two store detectives in this city i have become very well known, and { their work is in demand. “Women have made more of a suc- cess of detective work in the shops and in connection with the Custom { House than they have in criminal | cases. In the Custom House they are | invaluable in the detection of women | smugglers, often travelling across the ocean In the big liners as regular passengers in order to watch some suspected woman. To obtaln these places they must undergo a Civil Ser- vice examination.—New York Trib- ——————— une, VISITING MILLINERS. Said the superintendent of a large millinery establishment “There has been an unusual de- mand this season for visiting millin. ers. The practice of going out by the day In private houses is a phase of the trade that our young women have newer taken much pains to work up, hence people who desire to get their hats trimmed at so much per day are at a loss to know where to pick up good allaround trimmers and model- ers who are willing to hire out on such terms, and they come to us for information. “Now that the ice has been broken, a good many capable g have de clared in favor of the house-to-house gystem, and they have made such big inroads on the tr of some of the lar establishments that those will have to take a new lease laure and identally on if they don't want It is strange that the glow to learn the worth milliners, for they really stimable value to people ilmited income For years who k that their expenses far and not an fur economizing by em- by the day to but somehow it them that get ame way would This season, how- awakened to the pos ies of the home Industry and have kept the girls prétty busy. “And it is not the families In strait. enad circumstances alone that are bid for visiting milliners. women to save a pen thelr poorer sisters, and get & woman in up half a dozen lish hats 50 or $2 they going to hire her irls ade popu inf ustomers, money. Was 80 ine new La] inch have been ing eamstiresses I thelr dresses, ! 10 their hats m * the he a good ever, they have making Well a to-do like gs well as ey Can {0 come im rate of $2 iy a day in pref. at the Bre ! natura; rence to patronizing an expensive OBO However, it behoove the anxi on in the great JR igcTret I A usiness to exXere # ss i118 A mins selection © many are si inlists can make gOome Can shape, while others can do nothing but trim. If a hat is ordered in a big store it passes through a dozen hands, but when made at home it {8 neces that the milliner employed be a | general practitioner capable of carry- ing the headgear threugh all the stages of construction. Then, too, the vigiting milliner Is often given old ma- terial to work with, and it takes an artist of the first water to fashion a becoming, pretty hat ou: of last sea. son's velvets, laces, and feathers. | That many girls can accomplish this wirla # thie © ying LES Some frames | home milliners, whom scores of wom- | en all over town have hailed as a kind | of sartorial savior."—New York | Times. A Pear! Famine Threatened, We are threatened by a which is already showing itself and | beginning its pinching work. The center of this famine is in Paris and for it, and will, ization, have to suffer its dire conse quences, Already has its presence does not mean starvation, does mean denial, matter of pearls. been growing more and more popular, | more and more rare, and, therefore, more and more expensive, Pearl necklaces that our grand mothers wore are being resurrected, and the jewellers of Paris York are being called on to supply a ornantents, Americans are keon is thelr pursuit that prices are mounting daily. A pearl necklace which sold for $2,000 twelve years ago will today cost from $6,000 to $5,000, A Shifting of Waistcoats. An actor named Wright, who was house by storm by incasing his person within a dezen or more waistcoats of all gorts of shapes and patterns. When about to commence the operation of digging the grave for the “fair Ophe lia,” Wright began to unwind by tak ing off walstcont after waistcoat which caused uproarious laughter among the audience. But as fast as he relieved himself of one waisteoat SOME RUSTIC INDUSTRIES, The Money Value of Nature's Bounty and Woman's Work, In one respect at least harvest time brings back very forcibly to the minds of the elderly in agricultural districts the fact that since their day rustic industries have undergone immense changes. The local coaditions of ra ral life as regards the agricultural and cottage laborers have doubtless been appreciably fifty vears. Wages have modified by the use of mechanical and labor-saving contrivances. It women, however, of the cottage homes who are the greatest gainers by the changes in rural conditions. Fifty years ago they took their share field work with the men, and sum- mer and winter the wife or daughter was as field hand the husband or But now it is casions that the to be met with working or on the land at her own cottage in alike much a father, only cottage upon special oe- housewife in the fields all, unless it is garden There is characteristic of Rustic Indus which has been handed Sow from long antecedent times, and which has always have been the woman's during the last few ceased to find in seemed to work, and yet, vears it, too, its wonted votaries Ruth gleaned, the reapers in the fields of Boaz. vanished ever. The reaper gelf-binder little for the gl er and as the days priced bread seem also to have ed, the the the corn eat the leaves has Gleaning in as Biter has and can of high for leave to pick up, pas «8 largely from now iv lived ground gleaning who bread own laborers brown of their white bread the baker's at their door. Thus there no incentive to pursue this old worl industry it has gone the way culture a James | made in mul cart worm dustry Im encourage species succeed! neg 10 which and MArels strenuous efforts with werd connection silkworm berry trees #1 in prodigious quantitis Or 80 Ago 101 ow the from England occupation its place a tries ir Mail. The How hink 1 had the honor of m with lord “What “Well, Bir tO state Yes, | ite a “The that letter room.” “Not at plenty of time No; you are careless. “Well, Sir Charles, a vacs occurred in— “And you are appearance “Well, only — “Nongens make yours naturally « ance. Go on’ “Well, Sir occurred Sauvity of Sir Charles. do you do, Sir Charles do you want?” Charle in have lett Four slover ny very fact §4 is, in 3 You * 8 Iegibie n 1 “ass 1 aii, Go on.” to are Charles in “And you are “Well, Sir Charles tary, | am afraid. My fat- “Not well very fat’ is heredi- as very that father w father laziness.’ I knew fat. at all He wasn't Nevertheless, he came seek.—O'Brien’s Life ford Russell of Killowen. your it's to American steppes. They carry the Hindoo pil- grims from all parts of their empire to the sacred waters of the Ganges. Three locomotive today there is not a road of import ance there on which trains are not being pulled by American engines. The American locomotive has success fully invaded France. jan Railway, which is the real begin. ning of Oriental railway building, bought all its rails and rolling stock in the United States. American bridges span rivers on every continent. American cranes are swinging over many foreign moles. Wherever there found American machinery to gather In every great market of tools can have no better in America.”—Frank A. Vanderlip, in Scribner's. The Telephone. it has not been many years since noted scientist, in an exhaustive arti cle, satisfied himself and thousands of others that the telephone could never be brought into practical use. Today it is estimated there are 2. 278.000 teiophones in use in the United No man attempts to do business now without the aid of the ‘phone. Business is transacted over the telephone although the parties are separated by thousands of miles. The home and the office are brought to gether by moans of the telephone. These instruments have now invaded the country districts, and the tele phone and the free delivery of mall are going hand in hand. Here in Ohlo thousands of farmers have the telephone in their homes, and they find it of immense advantage in a business and social way, and yet the telephone is not many years old. was getting thinner Paul grew fatter and fatter. Wright, seeing himself outdone, kept on the remainder of the waistcoats and went on with his part quite crestfallen.~—Chicago News, It is perhaps a little early to wonder whether telephone companies will have the assurance to maintain their present rates after Marconi has re duced the cost of mesgages across the Atlantic cent a word. to one Somebody has ‘started a profitless | query as to the oldest triplets living. E. Buffum of Taunton, Mass, an- | swering it, says he has three brothers, triplets, who are all well and In busi in the West, and who were fifty | years old last May. They e of New | Hampshire birth. a Ness ail Asiatic Turkey gemi-barbarlanis of $140,000 000 is to be rescned from by the worth of m construction railroads, the end, one Euph- The avao { 0s i rates which will Valley * ii Wii through to the ran from end follow CAT i il of Bib old touch towns they will the and statement is is i: be shut out of 1if« af that John thought to world, is Rocke the pleasures by the strain Thus he Cracy of manag can est roads “ANE another Is iphia have as- iiladel; »] that there are 352 Quaker city. The inquiry nade at the st of the Home ing Society e Circulating * a society 13 2 9 biting per. ro and Blind, praiseworthy objects are where blind reside, to send its | teacher to instruct them in reading at their homes, and afterward to with a regular exchange of books from its library. or the whose to find out the sun. them embossed In the matter of woman's rights Abyssinia is far ahead of Europe and | America, according to an authority, the house and all its contents belong to her, and if the husband offends | her she not only can but does turn | him out of doors till he is duly repent. | ant and makes amends by the gift {of a cow or the half of a camel; that is to say, the value of half a camel. On the other hand, it is in the privil ege and duty of the wife to abuse her husband, and she can divorce herself from him at pleasure, whereas the husband must show reason to justify such an act on his part. i The operations of the law against | lege majestic in Germany are extend. ing. It is now as unsafe to say any. thing derogatory concerning the Crown Prince as it is concerning the Kaiser. Recently a workman at Hil desheim was sent to prison for mak. ing an uncomplimentary remark about a picture of the Crown Prince, and an elderly woman at Breslau was jailed for criticising his features and the ap pearance of his hair. The oficial bears stand ready to gobble up any thought: leas person who says, “Go up, thou baldhead!” A hali-imbecile workman § two years for using offensive language about the Empress and Crown Prince. Boston was at one time considered the most distinctively American of the cities of the United States, but that distinction exists no longer. A recent published report of the Boston Board of Health, a good guide to the division of population, shows that the number of deaths for the week was 237, as against 202 for the correspond: ing week a year ago. Of the number 232 were white and 4 colored; 148 were born in the United States, $5 in foreign countries and 6 of nnknown nationality; 47 were of American par entage and 161 of foreign parentage. The increase in the foreign-born popu. Iation of Boston is mostly from Ire. land, Canada and Russia. The Ger
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