R THE LADIES EFFECT OF MIXED VEILS. The women whose hair is beginning to turn gray make a mistake when they wear veils of mixed black and white {3 the latest renort of New York milliners. Th.se veils: of a grayish tint are trying, even on hair that has retained all its original lustre and richness of coloring, and when they are drawn taut over locks that have a few gray streaks of their own, the effect is enough to make any woman unhappy. BROADCLOTH TRIMMING fect which of the with 50 many handsome new the idea for oth purposes, Broadcloth is especially for bands and facings on most ax terial except weight silk. Other smooth but they aren't as rich. dresses and lounging trimmed in velvet, prised to find how many will be softer and loveller with the cloth. Th $3 quality is the one to be chosen, and as a rule very little A lovely shows well light may Some robes cloths SOTVE, house may be better but you'll be sur of it is required afterncon dress in bands about the neck and shoulders fn Grecian effect; these bands are of palest blue, with a design carried out in pearls. Gold tissue applique shows up exquisitely on a white band The cl needlewoman may embroider bands herself. Floral effects are and the Egyptian figures are as s ing as they are new There are many simple effects a pretty the soft palest which may ed with rows of deep wine sili ing Even ain trimming be effective white or silver cloth er i these rose colored shades) and pink cloth this pi WOMEN AS AUCTIONEERS “Speaking men,” said who expends all of her executi ity on the management tory maid and mos strength in dusting “Why don tioneers? many for! i make a I'm the of occupations the energetic you of one tire Now that of made would sure 1 fat mount and as and the And poait who tion commanding perched up there feet, queen of all gne With a dainty little hammer in hand should able to knock gains’ to our intimate friend sales then on ons the world with w be oir enemies into the pur that, as a ms auctioneers, the envy itablencas o dign been. so Of vaniages COnrse It wi stance, to sa) (z0i as w= saw some charming and ar bibelot on which we had s heart disappear into and appreciative maw of a wretched Goth, Vandal, Philistine, or parvenue the mysteries of ‘rescrve prices’ and prices ‘not reaching the reserve’ would be an open book to us; we should be able to do battle with the machinations of ‘the ring;’ and, moreover, we could reflect that the world is full of treas. nures——all ‘bargains’ -—more or less" New York Commercial Advertiser ne. £0 the dull un THE CARE OF CLOTHES Garments should never be shut up in a clgset or wardrobe directly after being taken off. Let the bodice of a dress or any garment that has the window half an hot: or moro being put away. The oldest an be kept fresh and odorless treatefl in this way. At night stockings and all body linen should if that the air can circulate through them duiing the night. neat little rolls of clothing freely The were exceedingly hyglenic and unsa vory.~American Queen, HOW TO DRESS EFFECTIVELY. The girl with a pretty face and fig advantage of her plainer sister. This does not apply, however, in all cases, while her plainer sister at the same time was attracling much attention, This ig understood by an observing person, who can easily discern that the plainer girl, feeling the want of that very desirable {tem-—beauty-— takes great care of the detail of her appearance, and gives considerabis thought to what 18 becoming to her particular style of face and form. In. dividuality should be the aim of every girl, for not until she has acquired this much desired trait does he come intaresting. The gir! with dark chestnut hair and eyes and clear white complexion is fortunate, for she can wear almost any color; but take away her clear compiexion and she will have to be? careful in her selection of colcers and contrasts Many girls, with the aid of cosmetics, try to make their faces suit their surroundings This is a mistaken idea: the surrounding: ghould always be plannsd and arrang ed to suit the face A woman with a sallow complexion and dull brown hall and ¢ she has whatever for to ves no reason looking gly. Al to affect dull reds and browns, and n¢ matter what other she indulge in, always have a touch of dull red or and wer problem solved in the most She must give up ¢ us she needs do is color i brown somewhere, she will find aatis manner all of striking are out of the question i factory ideas contrasts, for to n=: under the bru for The majority of girls are impression that red is a color foi blue a colo taken can ascertain by putting 1 and blondes, any pase This Is a mi idea one white dress on a blond ing here and there a tou red has ennan Then if a brunette a clear skin ‘r clearness ar ac g& the aga a pale shade of blue its eves § wn, and shoul snowuia ted in a that she may the have her belt and walst trimmings point downward, and should never wear figured materials of New York News gtout and ely BABY'S LAYETTE time THE such very ago it te an in long ‘nn almo impossible garmonts for mw hot 5 iy there are many A Matchstriking Dog. feyinnel t ne ma kitchen Over fifty SRTrTe nat ticks lay knew AR 11M the carpot an nobody anything about them it looked thought a lunatic had been at work The following afternoon the man was taking a nap in his study. while his fox-terrier played about the room A sharp report awakensd him, and looking up. he saw the dog striking a match with his nails With one paw it held a matchstick firmiy on the floor, and it scratched the the other foot The little flame and explosion that fol light. It table, and went immediately brushing off a dozen of lay there, it was about to renew its tiny fireworks dis play when the man shouted ‘Get out of there! Do yon want to | get the house on fire?” Since then the dog has been kept out of doors.—~Philadelphia News to the The London Crowd. One of the things that most impress ed Generali Wood was the stolidity of the London crowds. They disap pointed him. He had heard so much of “British cheers” that he expected to see all American outbursts thrown into the shade. in the State at a baseball match, This is a comment which American visitors often make, and not without reason. The London crowd compared with an American gathering on any big occasion, a political meet. ing for instance, a civic welcome to a victorious admiral, or a ‘varsity foot ball match, it is as Aber waterfall to Niagara. On the other hand, it is claimed that the Americans do not really cheer; they yell—London | Chronicle ) A HAVE GOOD FENCES. good f:nces and not overcrowd. If any chronic or keep them in the barn FOR HOG RAISING digested) is reduced to a more avall | able condition for plants by being | passed through the bodies of the ani mals. It is claimed, however, that the fass of roots and stubble left over in | the ground are nearly equal to the | tops, and the farmer, therefore, en riches his soil from that source Green clover contains a large pro portion of water; hence there is a dif- between the green raaterial and clover hay. A ton of green clover contains about one-halY of one per the extra large overfatted hogs, that for profitable that in growth will This made at a profit. The keep, and 80 good, nor will iy. What is wanted is a thrifty pig, seven, or eight months’ average a pound of pork a day. can usually be heavier feeding OF hogs cost more to the pork is neither it now sell so well, as pork that weighs 200 pounds or less per CArcass. STERILIZING ; #oll THE I use a system of yrated with 3-8 inch laid trenches 2 SO1L in red 1 foot deep with horse boilers run 41) soil ROLE ning one O sterilize a section iegl 10ng Gn ‘ & wige The heated to 21 lege pipes“a above to a depth of 1 foot belo well the Ww. as Ww Farmer same len fg 311} Rawson Judd, RETURN THE EMPTY COMBS There Is Httd the ey extract or even for a small apl- i for but expense to give it « redit } ) are the bees, or the rease of honey that of combs, state that the foundation will double the in gained by use these There are those who comb the amount of that the use will comb honey bees store, and the use of will hat be While this an amount ained from foundation may be, and geration, it § others we think it is CXR h 80 as many that be would iink in a good honey flow much that the honey comes in slowly. the gain will t s 3 3 ¥ be less, though enou lieve short of amount, but when tims h at of foundation any repay the cost And * are not sure that worth omb is twice as much i the bees will store twice as foundation, or that as much doubt that than on little in they comb th aere if 10 will store more fort fatinn ’ foundation oubt that 4 { the fou ation rill double their Omi Pay any honey to honey in rap t will one wall ting or use entral tains vines I also have 10x15 fe i high and 8 foe fronts the window in the in one window in the boarded and shingled, and has a vard attached 40x50 feet sot with two fruit trees and vines. The walls of both houses are nid in cement on good hard pan foun- dation. They are at the back side, which takes all the waler away from them. —M. U. May nard, in New England Homestead enter gouth. and has a 1 i ia, door and West or two windows the south and east. It is side two grape FERTILIZERS ON THE FARM. Nitrate of soda is oxtensively used for its nitrogen, and, as it is very solu ble, use per of plants. It contains about 16 cent. of nitrogen, or 320 pounds per ton of 2000 pounds. The cost of the nitrogen, at 15 cents per pound, is $48 per ton of nitrate of soda our times as The composi wut much as green clover, mammoth, alsike that are well-known to farmers, but the common red kind is mostly grown. If an acre produced . three tons of clover hay, such when green and before cured, weigh 12 tons, 9 tons water, but this depends largely of growth at eral varieties—red, clover would really upon which it is being the stage of in more than con the smaller the This large the green clover quickly proportion of causes it in the will the cured hay, and the soil is to a extent vegetable and mineral acids re the walter to mass decompose soll sequently soured certain ing from the decomposition of The use of an there like lime, neutralizes assists in chemical in the soil, the alkali, the Action o« clover for acids and the curring lime also serv crops. Potash and phosphoric acid essential for crops, but the farmer can purchase those substances at one-third the cost of nitrogen, and should, produce as hh nitrogen as possible on the farm by the use of the leguminous plants- beans If there {8 a farm on which clover will lime, and then pro cure earth from a field on which clov has been successfully, in that inoculated the microbes that assist clover ing n from the atmos That such can be accomplish demonstrated by Mr, Grau dean’ Inspector General of the French Agricu and Herr They secured per snd inoculation ng 800 pounds of Im also therefore, aim to mu clover, peas, el not grow use grown order the soll may be with derly in trogen phere iral Experiment Station, Fruhweh, of Germany pounds of nitrogen acre with clover soil L M. GCraheau sowi earth on a on third ducing twice as mt the second ore yregnated 400 per acre on one plot crop plot and pro and wp three times as much the “Lau 1 need it is r i 1 second the first h as the third, pounds the none method i» in largely Germany pitz to employ a sub “nitrogen,” which ir but as quired siements of fertility, su are microbe ich added Hh ae lime and potash also by which method all kinds of were crops Al & say the cost of fer made to produce enormously ng of 50 per cent in uid clover be 2 farmers i COPS, millet and buck with pon all farms, but grow such is OW Deas Urning upaer which lime or wood ashes increase the fertility of the a small farmers ise of manure cont pr portionately neginct the fertilize while Philadel should not and materials rs growing green phia Record HELPING THE RUNTS When the litter of pigs show a very uneven condition in the size and of the individuals, iz well to watch them carefully, and gtrength different a little later to separate the smafler and less active ones from the flock and give them special attention A good deal the pig raising from the runts. They are al crowded away from the and pestered by the stronger ones in every possible way. Their de ficient growth at the start may be purely accidental, but it may further be prolonged by the bullying of those which had a better start. They will always remain undersized, and will re duce the general profits derived from the whole litter. By separating these from the flock, and giving them spe care for a few weeks or months of loss in Comes ways feed trough it i= not they require much more atten tion, but simply a pen where they can live in peace and quietness. Constant through bullying stunts thelr growth and keeps them backward. | have made three or four separations in this way, and within two months ob and varies according to the demand and supply. An litter, The small, undersized ones respond ed to special treatment, and soon a large one, and 500 pounds is even far above the average. cstimating 1000 pounds of nitrate of soda at $24. and containing 10 pounds of nitrogen, it may be considered a larze ssoen for a farmer to devote to one acre, but when the nitrogen farm the gain to the farmer may be sold in the market. A yield of 4 tons of clover hay on a farm is equivalent to 1000 pounds of nitrate of soda. in nitrogen, estimating each ton of hay as containing 40 pounds of nitrogen, Such a crop, therefore, if not harvest. od at all, and allowed to remain on the ground to be plowed in, would be equal to $25 worth of fertilizers purchased for the mitrogen contained. But farmers are correct in utilizing clover hay as food for stock, as it is then not only converted into milk or meat, but that portion not utilized (un. ters. At first they needed plenty of good nourishing food, fed to them ofr en and in small quantities, and in time | they grew so sturdy and fat that they could be turned in with the others and hold their own. A good many sows show a tendency to have litters ol i better to get rid of such creatures af ones. The choice breeding sows should be selected from the mothers which have a reputation for preducing litter of an even and uniform size and thrift ness, but if some undersized ones ap pear take them in hand at once and, give them a chance~~E. P. Smith, i» American Cul ivator, Ronald Brennan, of Brooklyn, rowe through fraud in (wo years from of fice boy to trustcompany president But let an admiring “get-rich-quick” youths remember that he has dropped from the latter position to a con viot's cell in a far shorter time. 150,000 Screws to the Pound, The minuteness of some of serews made in a watch factory maj to welg a pound. Under the micro geope they appear in thelr true charac ter—perfectly finished boits The pivot of the balance wheel is only one two-hundredths of an inch diameter, and the gauge with which pivots are classified measures the ten- thousandth part of an inch. Each jewel hole into which a pivot fits is about one fivethousandth of an incl larger than the pivot to permit sul elent play. The finest screw for & small-sized watch kas a thread of 26! to the inch and one one-hun dred and thirty thousandths of pound. Jewel slabs of sapphire, rub) cr garnet are first sawed into slabs fiftieth of an inch thick, and lacked to plates so that they may Then sawn the the to weighs Pg are individual off urfaced the or broken and a « side for ai i an through center lepreseion made cup in A pallet and fifty-thousandths of 2 a roller jewel a little two-hundred and fAftysix The largest round halr four-hundredths of in diameter and Convex jewel] weighs one or bundredth pound ; one nor than thousandthsa, gpring stud is about nine-hu an inch in length THE NEXT GENTLEMAN Street Gamin's Those Fellow Feeling for in Distress. amusing incident we \ a eogh Amusing incident wa witnegaes gar store on ( stnut street the moon having i and the counter afte newaboy ked up a cigar addressing the said “Say a match The man be looking down, said: we are not here for away matches; much are dey? “One a box. announced T! urchin pocket and deal hunt to the man natches, and butt.” Return man back of the put dis back on a gentleman comes for a match, why my box "Phila ip, walked in ind give us the counter x friend irpose of giving {1 them ‘How cent Lis after a great of i handed it ny ana hie box of lit the the “Say 1 when Neatness in Young Girls. Neatness is a good thing for a girl, and if she learn it when young she never will. It takes a great deal to make a girl wk well does to make a boy Not because a boy batter looking clothes are of does not more neatness than it look passable with, Is it his #0 Many to than a a diderent in them, and start colors etly as a A girl called a likes to look at giri seatly dressed that is not sloven, and Her face her ayes bright, 30 nay be pretty, and Sut if thers iz a of dirt on her heak, and her finger ends are black with ink, and her shoes are not laced w buttoned, and her skirt is torn, she mnnot be liked Learn neat, and when you have learned it will ad t ‘ake eare of ifselfl New York Times one har & Tacs spot to be ao Husband's Moan Trick. A Brook!ys man kad a spat with his wife and she deserted him. He offercod a reward of ten eents for mformatics regarding her whereabouts. The smal reward made her indignant, and she returned two dars later to renew the spat, and “have it out with the meac Jollow.™ American After Honors Abroad. 4. H. Jersey, is a eandiate for parliament in sane of the lLendom districts. He has lived in England for some ten yonrs and recently boomane a natural wed sublfert of King Bdward. —————————————— Fourth Wife He Bought Runs Away. James Barge a of Pittsburg has been committed to ill on complaint of Gas per Bealin. About Sept. § Bargera agreed to got Bealia a wife for $125. Shortly after ward he introduced a pretty Italian girl by the name of Banta Bonsitt! to Bealia and the two were wedded amid great festivities, The bridegroom swore at the hear ing that he had paid Bargera the $125 agreed upon. Next day, however, Bea lia alleges Bargera persuaded the bride to run away. Since that time be has not seen his wife Bealia has been unfortunate, for al} of his three former wives left him much in the same manner as the last All his wives, it is sald, were hased in the same way. pur goes straight to the seat of the pain, . no matter whether it comes from Rheumatism, 4 Neuralgia, } SWOLLEN JOINTS, “\ SPRAINS, HEADACHE, \ STRAINS, STIFFNESS : LUMBAGO OR SCIATICA. Used Externally by rubbing onty. Equally good for MAN and HORSE. ag ots. per bottle, , DODGE TOMLINSON This celebrated CATTLE POY Is carnestly recommended to the Farmer, Horseman and Dairyman as a “ " - " - ¥ MOST RELIABLE CURE for all ordinary diseases to which HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP or HOGS are subject. AS the sane time it keeps them in & naturally Hoaithy and Thrifty Condition, posi Lively making an INCREASE OF MILK and BUTTER, tha latter from ONE to TWO POUNDS PER W EF K, —or aiding the fattening process instock 20 to 25 per cent. 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