ffgjjggj— gggM 1 NEW YORK FASHIONS. 1 •n __ m ill |§ Designs For Costumes That Have Be- tjgj Is come Popular in the Metropolis. m NEW YORK CITY (Special).—"One is alwayo hearing of that amateur mil linery genius who takes a few notes through the shop windows, goes home, investigates the family scrapbag and K CAT.LING GOWN OP MTTLTLEUTTY CLOTH AND IIKOWN VELVET. produces therefrcm a confection be side which a Parisian novelty seems positively shabby. One hears of such ivonders on all sides, but it bas never oeen my luck to see one of these scrapbag reincarnations that was not lismally home-made in every feature," said Mary Dean, the fashion expert, THE^I9OO' sHIRT SPECIMEN MODELS." ' recently. "Now, however, with a half-yard of velvet, a buckle and a pretty ostrich plume it is a poor hand that can't contrive as smart a little revolutionary toque as need crown any head. "One I saw this afternoou deserves telling about, because the girl who wore it wore also so sweet a little call ing gown that I followed her for a half-dozen blocks in order to take in every detail. The frock was a soft satin-surfaced clotli of deep rich mul berry color that is bound sooner or later to be as popular as fluette blue ouce was. Her skirt was slit open from hem to some distance above the knees in front to show an underdress of beaver-brown velvet picked out in tiny jet-worked figures. Her shirt waist opened in front to show a flat vest and collar of the blown similarly decorated, and T can assure you that this study in mulberry brown ami black is quite the most piquant thing I've seen in two months. Her toque had a crown of mulberry velvet, a brim of one roll of grebe, a dashing plume fastened by some invisible agent di rectly in the front of her crown and a big bow of cream-colored antique vel vet adjusted a little above the brim to the left side. That hat, I'll waster, was her milliner's supreme inspira tion." The 1900 Slilrl Wulaf. Instead of giving up the shirt waist, as fashion arbiters seemed determined they should, women have decided that it is the most useful article in their wardrobes, and this season will cling to it more determined than ever. The differences in style between the new ones for the season of 1900 and those of last year are principally matters of small detail. Bayadere and bias ef fects will be ontirely out this summer, while vertical effects will be en regie. Tucks will agaiu be the height of woaue. Fftu-Bbftpad tucas are. per- Tvr :»■*. — <—•*■ haps, the newest and most novel in« novation. For backs, however, the perfectly plain French back fashionable last summer will obtain to a certain' ex tent, while a back with a cluster of tucks on either side, either parallel or forming the fan-shape, will hove wide vogne, too, being newer. in materials, percales, ginghams, madras and cheviot are favorites, and will be more worn than ever. Stripes will be largely in the ascendency iu pattern designs. White lawn will be much used for midsummer wear. The sketches presentod herewith are from the very first showing of the coming season's wash shirt waists, the first one being a particularly desir able model. It has fourteen box plaits on the front, a French back, with five box-plaits down the centre, and the new Dewey collar. The new V or fan-shaped tucking is illustrated in the second one, the front having two bias clusters of twelve each, and the back has five vertical tucks on each side of its centre. The shaping of these tucks is very becoming, giving as it does breadth across the shoulder, aud a taper to the waist. The third waist shows the use of embroidery combiued with the tucks, and, while it is more decorative, many women prefer not to use it. as they think it detracts froui tho dis tinctiveness of the shirt waist, as be ing a tailor-made garment and an ad junct to a tailor-made suit. Conse quently they prefer 110 trimming on a wash shirt waist other than tucks or machine stitching, depending for a dressy separate waist on a regular tight-fitting, trimmed-silk waist. Notice the clustered effect of the tucks on all the waists, and just on either side of the centre back and frout, as opposed to the spaced tuck ing all over the waist, back, front and. sleeves, so modish last season. Any thing for a change! Poor femininity evidently will have to change those last summer's tucked all-over fhirt waists that were the pride of her heart, but which now, oh blighting words! are last summer's mode. Lace and Fur Combination. Lace seems to be a novel fabric to combine with fur. A I'opuliir Negligee Kffeet. The shops are fnll of stunuing neg ligee gowns at this season, and there seems to be a perfect craze for or iginal effects iu garments of this de scription. One of the most striking effects seen lately is herewith illustrated. It is from the Dry Goods Economist, DAINTY NEQIiIOKT?. and is a negligee of piuk mqus.'idine de soio, with bolero of lace mounted ou satin. The bow is of piub satin. . I FARH AND GARDEN.] renin r< Tlnuse l'tnnt*. A well grown, thrifty fern makes a beautiful house plant, but delicate and lender kinds are not snited for parlor or sitting room. One great advantage of ferns as house plants is that they do not require—in fact, do not like— much direct sunshine, although they do require plenty of light. The ma jority of ferns thrive best iu a com post of turfy loam, old leaf soil and loam, and some sharp sand. Oross growing ferns are benefited by a lit tle manure. If succulent drainage is given they cau hardly be over-watered; but the most important requirement of ferns is to have them sprayed over head two or three times a week. Wlien to Subsoil. Whether or not snbsoiling will im prove the ground depends altogether upou the character of the soil and also upon the amount of rainfall during the growing season. Iu dry sections where the subsoil is very compact, snbsoiling is usually profitable. The breaking up of the impervious sub surface lnyer lessens evaporation from the surface of the soil and provides a large storage place for moisture in the upper few feet of soil thus loosened. The roots of plants are better able to go downward and secure the neces sary plaut food and moisture. If the soil is moderatoly loose, with a sandy, open subsoil, this method of treating the ground is not profitable. Then, too, if there is suflicient moisture al ways available during the growing season, it is not necessary t;> subsoil. Try the subsoil ] low in a limited way, carefully noting tha ett'ects on subse quent crops. You will theu soon be able to determine whether or not sub soiling is profitable.—New England Homestead. I>ime in tli»» Garden. Usually the garden soil is full of humus, and lime may be used on it to good advantage. Lime is one of those elements of the soil whi 'h is essential to the growth of plants and trees, aud when it is properly used a vast dift'er ereuce iu the growth of the vegetation is noticeable. All farmers aud horti culturists use it in many ways, but it is probably as often abused as used. The full and direct eft'erts of lime upon plants under all conditions have not yet been fathomed, but enough knowledge concerning its general ef fect is possessed for one to use it in telligently on many crops. In the vegetable garden lime is invaluable. It is the best preventive and check for mildew on cucumbers aud diseases of potatoes. As soon as the cucum ber \iues show sigus of the dis ease, the powdered lime should be sprinkled over every part of the plants thnt are affected, aud the operation re peated after rain so long as there are any signs of the mildew. If one watches the plants early in the spring, and applies the lime as soon as the disease manifests itself, it will never be allowed to make much progress, but sometimes in the case of plants being nearly dried up with'the disease, the lime will give them new life and growth.—Farm, Field aud Fireside. (•l*n<ler* in Horse*. Glanders in horses and mules are liable to occur at any time, and there have been recent reports of the dis ease in certain sections, jt is ordin arily a fatal disease, only a few cases in man or beast ever having recovered. It is such a dangerous disease thut treatment is too lull of risk and too uncertain to be warranted. The pro nounced symptoms are tubercles on membrane of the nasal passages aud, when these break down, there is a discharge of pus from one nostril and a swelling under the lower jaw. litis swelling is usually about the size of a walnut, is tender to the touch, and not very firmly connected. The disease iu some horses does not make rapid progress, but remains sta tionary, giving no evideuce of being dangerous. But such cases are ex ceedingly dangerous aud are often the cause of spreading the disease broad cast. Horses have been known to have glanders in a mild form for a loug tune, to keep iu good order and work right along, the real trouble never being suspected. Iu advanced stage.* of thediseasesoves may appear on the stti face of the body. These are stubborn, discharge pus and can not be hea ed. Farcy, which is caused by the same germ, is indicated by farcy buds—swellings ou the skin, usually on th® legs which break and dis charge freely. The legs swell aud be come a mass of sores. Animals that even slightly show any of these symp toms should be immediately isolated until the character of the disease is determined. If it is glanders, kill the animal at once, aud wash the stables and everything with which tlie horse has come in contact with a solution composed of one ounce of corrosive sublimate iu two gallons of water. Wash several times at intervals of two or three days. —Agricultural Epito mist. Importance of Milk Veins. An examinatiou of the stomach of an average cow that is producing milk will reveal thereon, extending from the udder along each side, a milk vein about oue-half inch in diameter. These milk veins, at the point most distant from tlie udder, pass through what aro called the milk wells in the walls of the abdomen. These orifices through which the veins pass should be of good size, thus permitting a strong flow of blood through them. As a rule, the greater the milk se creting power of the cow, the larger aud more twisted of outline will these veins be. In such a case the cow may have three large veins, the third being | a shorter one between the outer two, j and branching over the udder and on the bell} immediately in front of the former, may be found quite a number of very pronounced smaller veins. ! These veins extend in no definite di- i rection, being usually very irregular and somewhat knotted. The develop- ! uient of these blood-vessels becomes most pronounced with age, although there is a noticeable differeuce in their size and extent in young heifers. The writer has seen cows with re markably large, long, elastic veins, which extended from the udder and disappeared high in the armpit at the front leg. Such veins may measure an inch in diameter, and on compres sion with the fingers exhibit great elasticity. Writing of the milk vein, nearly tweuty-tive years ago, Hazard stated that, if large and tortuous, with a considerable opening through the muscles of the belly to admit of its passage outwards, it is frequently connected with a rich udder; but far greater reliance can be placed on the network of veins seeu beneath the skin over the forequarters of the ud der. This characteristic is little no ticed by authors, and dairymen or deal ers in cattle rarely speak of it. But both the veins and the udder itself, and those which pass upwards behind towards the tail, whan large, are surf tests of a competent milker. Scientific Farming. Scientific farming is farming in ac cordance with nature's immutable laws. That is what farmers have been trying to do since the very first be ginnings of the industry. These law? men have measurably learned by ex perience. Should each depend ou his own experience for the knowledge needed to guide him in his industry, he would not learu in his lifetime the alpnabct of farming. Ho has uncon sciously benefited from the accumu lated experience of ages. Could lie not bsuetit more, now that so much has been learned, by frequent, farmers' meetings, discussions of methods and exchange of experiences? Farmers should learn the objects and appreciate the value of the agri cultural experiment stations. The object of the station is to ascertain what crops, aud what particular variety of crop in its own state will give tlie best results, how they can best be cultivated, protecte I from damage by drouth or insects,cared for during and after harvest; how the values in the soil may be maintained at the least cost, aud what mauures, commercial fertilizers or crops will best, maintain fertility; what is the best rotation of crops; wtiat varieties of fruit to plant, when to plaut aud how to care for them by culture, manuring and pruning; how to feed livestock to obtain the most aud the beat quality of meat at the least cost and in the shortest time; how to do best all the many necessary things in the care of the dairy herd aud the making and care of dairy products. These ave only some of the matters which the stations are investigating with a scien tific and practical training and with such equipment as can only be had at such public institutions. Each inves tigation entered upon is followed up persistently until results are obtained that enable the station to say iu its bulletin thereon something that has practical value to the farmers, and the officers of these stations are al ways glad to gi\e freely the informa tion thus obtained to the farmers who will take the trouble to apply for it. The farmers themselves could extend j the value of this experimental work j by organizing local farmers' asso.-ia- j tions, undertaking certain experimen- j tal crops, methods of culture, etc., under the advice of the station offi cers, discussing the work at their meetings and reporting results to the statious.—Texas Farm Journal. THE COTTON BELT. Where Our Twenty Million Acres oi Cotton Are. The cottou belt covers 24 degrees of longitude aud 10 degrees of lati tude. Excluding from the count the greater part of Virginia, more than 100,000 square miles in western Texas and the whole of Kentucky, Kansas, Missouri, Utah, California, Arizona aud New Mexico, iu all of which cotton has been cultivated, aud where a larger demand might cause its culture to be extended, the cotton growiug region measures nearly 000,000 square miles, almost one third of the total area of settlement in 1890 of the United Stales. The 20,000,000 acres planted iu cotton occupies barely live acres in every 100 of this extensive region. Scarcely 50 per cent, of this territory is in farms 1 and not more than one-fifth lias at any j time been tilled. This section con tained in 1890 a population of over ' 8,000,000 whites aud something over ! 5,000,000 negroes, in all, 13,651,007, j every 100 of them producing s'f bales I of cotton, an average of '254 pounds of I lint per capita. "Iu 1801 South Carolina led the ' other states in the production of cot- , ton. In 1850 Alabama stood first. i Mississippi led iu 1800-80. Texas stood at the head in 1890, and still does. The centre of production was near Montgomery, Ala., in 1850; this centre had moved two miles west by 1800. Iu 1870 it was near Carthage, Miss., and in 1880 was in Noxubee couuty, Miss. In 1890 it was 00 miles northwest in Attala county. It is moving west all the time ou account of the increasing crops in Arkansas, Texas and the Indian Territory, not to mention Oklahoma."—Ainsleu's. The oldest resident of the town ol Emporium, Kan., is J. P. Mather, who is said to be a direct descendant of Cotton Mather. Though 83 year* of age he goes daily to a gymuasiutr. aud exerciaes on the bars. ' naenlfirvnl Sort !«•«■ t« ilic- Winter Itc.ort. South. ' The Xew York and Florida Limited, finest train Iti tin- "world, operated daily, except Sunday, between Xew York and St. Anifiis ilae, leaves New York at 1~'.41> i». 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