I AGRICULTURAL.
Ji
A Mood KorMRn Crop.
Dwarl Essex rape in a good forago
crop for boof cattle, but in hardly ile
nirable for milch cows, as it in Habltj
lo taiut the milk. It is primarily a
forago crop for sheep and hogs. It
would be better to plant corn for
cow or now millet or dome kind of
small grain like oats or rye, providing
me droughty season comes early in
the summer. If it comes lute in the
fall, corn planted early will give nil
the greeu food needed for tko dairy
onimals.
lloir to Maki Alls Clrxrma.
A very good axle grease is mado by
mixing 1 gallon of petroleum, 4
ounces of tallow, 1 ounces of palm oil,
d onuces of plumbago and 1 ounce of
Modu. Heat to 181) degrees Fahren
heit for an hour or more and then
cool. Auother axle grease is made by
Honing 4 gallons of wator with 4
pound of Scotch soda and a 10-pouud
mixture of palm bil and tallow in any
proportion which wiU make the grease
of the desired hardness. Heat to
boiling and then stir until the mixture
is cooled down to G.) or 70 dogreeii.
Wtl Aiming- llenn.
After beans have blossomed it is
not best to work among them, espe
cially if the weather and soil be wet,
and there should be no cultivation
while the leaves are wet with rains or
lew. Hence the eariy cultivation of
beans should be thorough, so as to
allow them to ripen before the weeds
smother them. It is not best to plant
beans on land that is very rich in
nitrogenous plant food, because such
laud is very weedy. Soil of moderate
fertility with a dressing of phosphate
and potash will make a good rain
crop, while on the richer land with
out the mineral fertilizer, there will
be only a large growth of haulm and
leaves.
An Oat-o'-Dcor Keeil Tronirh.
Where several hogs are quartered
in an orchard or other pasture they
must be fed out-of-doors. To keep
each one from crowding and fighting
bis neighbor when eating, make such
a trough us is shown in the illustra-
TATITTTIONED FEED TROUGH FOB HOOS.
tion. The bottom part of a barrel is
auwed off and two narrow strips of
board are fitted together and nailed
lirmly into the trough, as in the
drawing. A flour barrel can be made
to answer this temporary purpose,
but a trough from a stouter barrel will
prove more lasting.
V f'KK anil Early IWoltlnir.
Early molters make good winter
layers, and it is safe to say that if
poultry do not finish shedding feathers
before cold weather sets in, they will
bo likely to postpone layiug until
npring, but such oues will prove early
npring layers, and continue laying all
summer, which will bo fall compensa
tion for the winter's inactivity.
As with tho matured fowls, so with
the late hatchod pullets; thoy seldom
begin laying until spring. Pullets
hatched in March will probably molt
in November or December, just at the
time when eggs are bringing a good
pricu. Tbe April hatched pullets will
lie the oues to depend upon for eggs
during the winter. Leghorns lay per
haps the earliest of the breeds com
niouly growu. Some will lay at the
ago of live mouths, tho Asiatics and
larger kinds generally at seven to ten
mouths. Food contuiuiug oil, such
us linseed nieul, meat Bcraps, etc, with
n mixture of ground oats, wheat, is
useful to hasteu the feathering-out
process. Poultry should bo well cared
fcr during this critical process; should
be housed iu clean, dry quarters and
fed liberally. Some lose their plumage
so gradually that the change can be
scarcely noticed. Others become de
nuded in a very short period, and such
will re.juiro extra care.
The I'll: lii Agriculture.
XI o is found to produce a pound of
product from less food than either
cattle or sheep, and is therefore tho
most economical machine to manu
facture our great crop into marketa
ble meat. Our people are becoming
wiser every year, and exporting less,
proportionately, of the raw material
and more of coudeused product. If
it takes seven pounds of oorn on an
average to make a pound of pork, as
is no doubt the cuse, tho farmer be
gins to see the great economy of ex
porting one pound of pork, bacon or
ham, instead of seven pounds of corn.
The difference in cost of freight
makes a line profit in itself; bosidoi;
tho pound of meat is generally
worth more than seven pounds of
corn in the foreign market. The pro
duction of pork should be encouraged
on the fnrthur consideration that it
curries off less of the valuable con
stituents of the soil than beef. The
fat pig contains only three-fourths as
much mineral mutter per hundred
weight as the fat steer, and only two
fifths as much nitrogen per hundred
weight and therefore the production
of a ton of pork on the farm will carry
off only a little more than half the fer
tility carried off by a ton of beef. This
gives iu round numbers the compara
tive efTeot of producing pork and beef.
It is thus evident that the pig should
have a high place in our agriculture;
should be fostured in every way his
capabilities studied and pushed his
diseases carefully noted and pre
vented, for he is the most profitable
meat producing animal on the farm.
The pig is an xaellout adjunct to the
daily turning all the refuse milk whey
into cash. As he is the king of our
meat exports, so let us treat him with
creat consideration. Farm Reporter.
l'rfpnrlnjr Hi llnu llnne Vor Wlntur.
It is never too early to begin the
bnilding and preparing tho heuivery
for the winter, rnd the man who does
this work early i,- sure to havo com
fortable quarters for the Inying hens
just as soon as the cold weather
nomas. It is bolter to add a little to
the houses each summer, nnd thus
extend the business on a linn basis,
than to invest too much at the begin
ning. Wo learn better then by exper
ience what we need. Fancy farming
does not pay, and those who have
elaborate buildings are not always the
onea who havo tho best success.
Construct tho mailt buildiug on n
slight elevation, :l possible, liere
there is good drniunge, and on tho lee
side of somo hill or oilier protective
object. This will shield the house
from cold Ktorins, and make tho quar
ters far more comfortable for the
chickens. Build tho house low and
substantial. A high Louse lets in too
much cold air, and a low mm is al
ways warmer. Opening into this main
roosting buildiug there should be a
scratching shod into which tho fowl
can go on stormy days and have all
tho exercise thoy need, This shed
should bo so arranged that the root
can open in places to admit tho sun
shine on clear days. Wo have many
wintry days when it would bo very
comfortable in any place, if the wind
could be excluded aud I tin sun ad
mitted. Tlie laying hens in particulat
will appreciate such a scratching shed
in the winter.
The layiug shed should also open
out from the main building, and this
should be made long, low and very
tight. The hens should be made at
comfortable as possible while on th
nest, nud this can bo accomplished
only by bestowing special care in the
construction of such a shod. In build
ing all of the henhouses for wiutei
use it will pay to give stone or brick
foundation the whole length. Thi
will keep out rats better than any
thing else yet devised. Besides, it
makes the houses warm, dry and
durable. Then let the brick founda
tion run up a foot above and a foot
below the ground. The cost iu bricks
will bo made up for in the extra num
ber of eggs aud hens saved from the
rats. Tho roof and sides should have
tar or builders' paper tacked on be
tween the outer and inner walls, and
all knot holes and chinks will thus be
tilled in. The yard for the chic kens
to exercise in should be connected
with these buildings by a rnn way.
The yard should be large enough to
give the fowls ample room to run
about in without crowding up aguinst
others. On'pleasant days they should
be mado to stay out in the yard.
Farm, Field and Fireside.
VeTlces For Jturvestliiff Cnrn.
Not every man knows how to stand
up a shock of coru which will not
twist or lean into an unrecognizable
mass after it has had time to season,
says a writer iu the Iowa Homestead,
from which tho cuts are reproduced.
When I put up coru by hand I always
use a jack like that seen in figure 1.
Pull the jack along to the place whero
the shook is to stand, so that the
ron BnocEina and tviso.
round piu through the i!xt piecu is
directly over the place for the shook.
Set up four armloads in the four re
cesses of the jack made by the pin
rnuning through at a, b, o and d.
When the shock is half or two-thirds
made, remove the jock by withdraw
ing the pin and finish it without.
Tie the shock when done by means
of a contrivance shown in figure 2,
composed of a pole five or six foet
long, with a rope put through an
anger hole iu tho pole. This is thrust
through tho shock two-thirds of tho
way up, and tho rope drawn nronud
the shock as tight as it can be drawn
and made fast to the pole while tho
shook is being tied. A shock made
in this manner and properly tied
wilt stand a long tune aud will stand
weK. If the corn is to bo husked
out before it is to be fed to stock,
a husking bonch, shown in tho
second out. will be convenient.
This is carried up alongside of ashock
which is tipped over on the bench.
The busker seats himself on tho seat
and begius working the Btover toward
him, and when he gets a bundle of
convenient size it is bound and laid
asido, and so on until all is husked.
This prevents missing any, aud it is
far more convenient to sit than to
kneel down in the mud or snow.
Iu hauling iu the bundles I have
found it very convenient to load from
the rear part of the wagon by walking
up a running board, which hangs on
the rear of the rack and is dragged
along to the next shook all the time.
Ihe rear post of the hayrack should
be removed, and two short, stout cor
ner pieces nailed on just high enough
to not interfere with loading, but
which will prevent the corner bunches
of fodder slipping off. I have never
shredded any fodded, and kuow noth
ing of its value from apraotical stand
point, having fed all my fodder in the
old-fashioned manner. I have seen
the corn harvesters at work, whioh
seems to me to be very gbod thing
for those who make a business of us
ing much fodder annually in the feed
ing ration.
An Italian statistician has oomputed
by means of railroad returns that the
foreigners who visit Italy attend annu
ally S61.0U0.U00 in that couWry.
TUB HUHKINO BENCH.
UTILIZING BY-PRODUCTS.
fURNINC WASTE MATERIAL INTO
MARKETABLE ARTICLES.
tome Ways by Which Manufacturers Are
Knnhleil to Add to Their Wealth An.
clilentiil Discovery of n Fori of Min
eral AVool Svstum of "ItrlqiiettlnK,"
The question of disposal of wanto
naterinl is an important one for every
nanufacturer nud industrial com
nunity. Preservation of water sup
ply, availability of land for plaut nnd
itorage, to say nothing of the pollu
tion of the air and general health of
jmployes, largely depend upon the
lolutiou of this problem, and it also
means much iu dollars and conts
through the saving that incidentally
may bo accomplished.
Coal and iron men were the first to
3nd the accumulation of debris a sori
)us matter. Slack and slate could be
out to no use. Furnaces were con
trived that burned slack, but even
;hen the difficulty was not obviated,
1'or slate and dust remained. When
joke was made, a vast amount of
oraizo (fine particles) aconmnlated.
lticb.es went up in smoke until the
by-product ovens camo into use and
tmmonia, gas, tar and carbou were
taken out, little being left. Gas manu
facturers found a ruinous waste till
ihey began manufacturing tarred roof
ing paper, and oven now they aro not
satisfied with the' economy secured.
Iron mill owners from early days
havo not known until recently what
to do with fine dust nnd slag, and
werkers of wood iu saw and plauing
mills have had quantities of dust nud
shavings for which thero wTis nothing
but tho furnace or torch, with danger
of conflagration.
Pittsburg has been a centre of
activity along these manufacturing
lines, and there the solution of saving
devices has first been worked out.
Slag formerly was dumped 'out in
great hot masses to bo broken np
later with the sledge and taken by
rail to be used for tilling. One day
in Steubenville, Ohio, a workman,
playing cold water through a hose
upon redhot slag, accidentally turned
the stream against molten metal. An
explosion resulted, and when he
looked for the sing it was not there.
Instead he saw a snowy mass that
looked and felt like asbestos. That
was the beginning of the discovery of
one form of mineral wool. Soveral
iron and steel companies have im
proved upon the method, but tho
prinoiple remains the same. The
wool is better thau hair or taubark as
a non-conductor for protecting nud
filling walls and iloors of dwellings.
Recently it hail been used there in the
manufacture of safes. Packed tightly
botween the steel walls, it is iui
porvions to tho burglar's tools, It
will break any drill known.
ltailroad men find that furnace slag,
well broken, is excellent ballast. It
is also ground there and mnde into
tiles, fire bricks and Portland oement.
The kind of product depends on de
mand and local needs.
The system of "briquetling" has
provided new means of economy to
both mill and mine. "Briqnottiug"
has beon known iu Germany, Frauce
aud Wales for several years. it was
brought to the attention of Americans
through consular reports. It consists
in compressing in moulds, by simple
nud powerful machinery, any pulver
ized substance and holding it by some
amalgam or "binder," suoh as resin,
bitumen or oil. Through this system
and others similar, dust aud waste
fragments may be used. Among the
substances handled at a profit are
precious metal ores, tunnel dust, con
centrates, coal, peat, lignite, coko
braize, iron ore, flue dust, manganese
ore, iron sand, cement, sawdust, cork
dust, etc. The material is fed into
machines and comes out in cylindrical
chunks about three inches in diameter
and four inches long.
The "briquetting" machine men
complain that times are too good for
them. Manufacturing establishments
in Pittsburg, Providence, Chicago aud
Philadelphia are too busy for them to
turn out the ordersundereight weeks,
and when prices are good and profits
are easily made, iron, coal and coko
mon are not particular about saving
the little things. Time of reduced
prices and narrow margins drivo them
back to the system of caring for scraps.
Mesaba ore, which crumbles easily,
leaves a great deal of dust. Briquctted,
it can be saved for $3.00 a ton. Iu the
river valleys of Western Pennsylvania
are three million or four million tons
of coal dust, more valuable than slack
or lump coal when solidified, as it is
clean, not friable in moisture and pos
sesses higher heat units. Furnace
flue dust is ofteu sixty per cent, pure,
and the value of a method of saving
it is obvious. Briquctted coal is spec
ially adapted to naval uses. Sawdust,
compressed, beoouios excellent fuel.
Slate, since the beginning of coal
mining, has boon a source of trouble
and expense. A Mononguhela lliver
worker announces that it can be mule
into fireproof brick and moulds for
casting ingots and other manufactures
of iron and steel. Drain tile and
sower pipe of superior quality also
come fiom this despised stuff. Over
eaoh bod of bitumruous coal lies a
layer of slate. This the mouldmaker
grinds as it comes from the slope or
shaft, and, mixing' it with something
of the nature of cement, fires it to the
proper degree of hardiness.
There is no known limit to the use
of materials heretofore considered as
refuse. Manufacturers havo only be
gun to see the opportunities within
their grasp.
Sewed I'p For the Winter.
Here is an amusing inoident sug
gestive, too reported in tho columns
of the Charities Review: A Brooklyn
school teaclrer sent a little Italian girl
home "with the order to have her
mothor wash her until she was clean."
"The ohild returned shortly after
ward, accompanied by its enraged
mother, who said some things not
really polite to the teacher, finishing
with: 'She is wathed now, anyway.'
"The only visible evidence of a
bath was a clean spot aronud the lit
tle one's mouth and nose. The
toaoher told the mother that she had
meant that the ohild should be thor
oughly bathed. 'She should be put
into a tub and washed,' she explained.
" 'What!' in o tub? the woman ex
claimed. 'Why, that would kill herl
'And, besides, she's sewed up for the
winter.' " Gunton's Magazine.
THE REAL REAaON. f
Whitby Kxplnlne Why He Is An ell
Plcturieiqne Slnnclt.
"I can tell yon one thing, Whitby,'
said Whitby's friend on the train t,b
other morning, "you are about the
most picturesque Bloiioh that com
mutes on this road. Now I would bp
so uueasy if I had the top button oil
my overcoat as you have that it would
be impossible for mo to contain my.
self, and yet you simply fasten the
coat together with a safety-pin, aud
seem perfectly contented.
"I try to be conteutcd under all
circumstances and never to find fault,'
replied Whitby, with a good-natured
smile.
"It is a fino way to be constructed,"
replied Whitby's friend, "but that is
not au excuse for slouchiuess. Be
cause a man is happy it is no reason
that ho should go around with a saw
edge ou his vest-binding sticking out
like the whiskers ou a cat."
"Your remarks are not without a
certain force," ropliod Whitby, with n
broader smile thau ever, "and they
put mo in fine humor, and I am going
to loll you of a few other irregularities
that may ploaso you more (o hear o)
thau to discover. Do you know that
at the present time my suspenders
are so badly out of kilter that I am
wearing as a substitute a razor-strop
that was formerly a suspender? '
"I would never suspect it from
your gait."
"Nevertheless, it is quite true,"
ropliod Whitby; ''and I have such big
sagging-holes iu my shirt that I ofteu
wonder why it is that I don't thrust
my head through them when I dress
in the a. in.
"Aud still you are happy."
"Perfectly," said Whitby, who con
tinued: "I have also a button off my coat
tails, aud perhaps it makes irni look
lop-sided, but it doesn't make any
difference to me so long ns I kuow
that I am not lop-sided. If these
buttons coining oil' bothered me as
much as one would naturally suppose,
I would get around the difficulty by
wearing a sack-coat."
Here Whitby's friond began to
roar.
"What's the matter now?" asked
Whitby.
"Why, your thumb and forefinger
are sticking through your glove."
Of course they are; and that is
what enables mo to fish the chango
out ol my vest pooket when I am ou
the fly, instead of groping round aud
fumbling for it for five minutes. Aud
my vest pocket has such a rip in it
that I have pulled the hole up to a
point and tied a pieco of cord around
it."
"And then," said Whitby's friend,
"tho bottoms of your trousers nre
fearfully frayed."
If that annoyed me, remarked
Whitbv, "I should certainly turn
thuiu up, like a true Londoner. But,
you see, I want harmony, aud that lit .
why I like- my trousers bottom
frayed like my coat-binding. I may
be very slouchy, but I am all right on
form. I never wear a high hat with n
sack-coat or a colored shirt iu full
dress."
"I know yon don't; but if you did,
you would not have a wider reputation
thau yn;i have uow. Some people
think it is a wild affectation on your
part that yon are copying the ways
of the wild poet, whose greatness is so
great that ho can't realize ou his light
aud airy creations. I heard a stranger
the other day speak of you as looking
liko an inventor, and probably being
a man starving while trying to raise
capitul to put upon the market a gas-
stove that cau be operated without
gas. And theu you are not unlike a
musical composer iu appearance. Per
haps you are going around in this
way to make people believe you are a
millionaire."
"No, that is not tho reasou I am
going nrouud in this free-and-easy,
unmuuded fashion," said Whitby.
it is not to make people believe that
I am artistic, or wealthy, or in
different to and above the ordinary
conventionalities of hfo."
"Than there is a reason?"
"If you must kuow, yes," replied
Whitby, laughing good-naturedly,
"and 1 know you are aching to know
it."
"I am."
"And you wou't tell any one if 1
inform you."
"Not to a living soul, replied
Whitby's frieud; "it shall be invio
late."
"It is because my wife hasn't the
time to sew on my buttous aud do my
mending.
"Why not?" asked Whitby's friond,
in astonishment.
"Because all her time is completely
taken up sewing for charity." It. K.
JIuukittriok, in Harper's Bazar.
Value or Ginseng Hoot.
"The digging of ginseng root,"
says the Keuueboo (Me.) Journal,
"has become quite a business iu some
parts of Somerset aud Franklin coun
ties. For a long time it has been
known that it was in great demand,
and consequently brings a good price,
as high uow as $0 or more a pound.
This root is found most iu mixed
hardwood growth, and somewhat re
sembles garget. It has to be dried
before it is ready for the market, and
shrinks about two-thirds in weight.
Half a pound a day means big waves
to the digger, but Jthe scarcity of it
makes it impossible to nnd even that
unless, iu Western parlance, one
strikes it rich. The question is
being asked by laud owners
whether the mau who goes on an
other's land and takes value there
from is not trespassing to a great ex
tent and doiug that which he has no
legal right, any more than if he
should out a certain amount of wood
or Inuiber on the land of auother and
appropriate it to his own use."
Women Part of the Arinv.
Each detachment of the army ol
Peru is accompanied by women oalled
"rabonas." They carry the camp
equipage and cooking utensils, cook
the food and wash the garments of th
soldiers, attend tbe sick and the
wounded and are said to be remark
ably skillful in making concoctions ol
herbs for malarial fevers aud othei
diseases whioh prevail in the army.
During a battle theyplunder the deac
of the enemy as well as take charge o!
the wounded of the command to which
they belong. They receive no pay,
but rations and transportation art
furnished them by the Government.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
It is reported that a meteor whioh
fell recently in British Central Africa
on the east side of Mount Bombn ex
ploded with a noise that was heard
for at least seventy miles to tho north
and south. The fragments were scat
tered over an area of nine miles by
thiee, and somo of them weighed over
Ive pounds.
The atmospheric ocean surrounding
tho earth is frequently disturbed by
gigantio waves, which are invisible
except when they carry parts of the
air, chnrged with moisture, up into n
colder atniospherio stratum where
sudden condensation occurs. In this
manner long, parallel lines of olouds
sometimes make their appearance at a
great height, marking the crests of a
ripple of air waves, running miles
above our heads,
Notwithstanding the many traditions
concerning mysterious lights soen
hoveriug over swamps at night, aud
iu spite of the attempted explanations
of such phenomena in some popular
books on scieuce, Professor N. S.
Shaler says he is inclined to dis
believe in the existence of these
luminous appearances. He has studied
swamps for many years, but has never
seen a will-o'-the-wisp, and he sug
gests that the reports about moving
lights visible above swamps may 'bo
due to subjective improssious induced
by gazing into darkness.
Among the places visited by tho
German exploring ship Valdivia, re
cently returned from the Autarotio
Oceau, was Bouvot Island, which,
although discovered in 17.11), was only
known to have been sighted twice
since its discovery, and until the
Valdivia's visit had not been seen for
more than seventy years. Tho island
is the summit of a volcanic mountain
rising three thousand foot above tho
sea. Its crater is entirely ooverod
with ice, which caves down in a steep
wall to sea level. It is situated about
1800 miles west of south from the
Cape of Good Hope.
The operation of rhinoplasty is said
to be a very common one at Heidel
berg, Germany, where the students
have long had the ugly habit of slash
ing each other's noses iu their fre
quent duels. A flap of skin is almost
detached from the forehead and
brought dowu over the nose which has
been measurably destroyed, this skin
then being stitched down ou either
side of the nose, and in time becomes
grafted thereto. Skin grafting is also
quite common in cases of severe burns.
Small strips of skin are taken from
the untouohed parts and cut into
small pieces, theu distributed over the
raw surface. In time they take root
and grow, spreading until they com
pletely cover the place. The skiu of
frogs, recently killed for the purposo,
is frequently used where human
cuticle cannot be conveniently ob
tained. Iu Cape Colony considerable suc
cess has been attained iu exterminat
ing locusts by inoculation with the
looust disease fungus, and this prep
aration is now supplied by the di
rector of the Bacteriological Institute
to residonts of the colony at an ex
pense of about ten oents per tube. In
one instance a hundred locusts which
had been inoculated with the disease
were distributed among a swarm, and
on the next morning aud subsequent
days large numbers of dead iusects
were fouud ou the sand dunes, killed,
as was proved by a microscopical ex
amination, by the fungus. The fun
gus from the dead locusts produced a
fungus more rapid iu growth, but
smaller in size than that whioh had
been produced at the Government
station. In some other experiments
the fungus was mixed with water in
whioh the young loousts wore dipped
and then released. After three days'
rain fell, and on the afternoon of the
fourth day, heaps of the insects were
fouud in the bushes about three miles
fi'om the place where Ihey wore im
mersed. The success of this method
of extermination is shown by a com
parison of localities so treated with
places where the fungus has not beau
tried, there being a marked deorease
in the numbers of tho pest iu the
former case.
A Helpful I.lllle Girl.
"Ah, Jack I you cannot tell what
troubles -a girl has who is receiving
the attention of a gentleman."
She was twisting a buttou on his
coat, and looking very demure aud
Bhy.
"Troubles, Marie? Of what nature,
pray?" he asked, in a tone of sur
prise. "Well, one's little brothers are
always making fun of one, and one's
relatives are always saying, 'When is
it to come oil'?' as if marriage was a
prize fight. But that is not the worst.
There is the iuquisitivouess of one's
parents. They want to kuow every
thing. There's pa, now; he is con
stantly asking suoh questions as,
'Marie, what are Mr. Bobinson's in
tentions? AVhy does he call upon you
so regularly, and stay so late when he
does call?' Aud he sometimes looks so
mad wheu he asks these questions
that I actually tremble."
"And what answer do yon make to
his questions, Marie, my dear?"
"I can't make any answer at all,
for, you see, you haven't said any
thing to me, and aud of course,
I I "
Theu Mr. Robinson whispered
something iu Marie's ear, and the
next time her father questions her she
will be ready with a satisfactory
reply. Woman's Home Companion.
The Uuut for a Great Secret.
All knowledge is bidden from man
until he finds it out. It is not for
bidden to him to discover the seorets
of earth; who shall say that it is un
lawful to go further, if he can, and
pry into the mysteries that seem to lie
outside of earth? Is it trespassing to
soek for sure tokens of another life?
Who shall say so? The most that
conservative observers may say is that,
so far spiritualism has seemed trivial,
misleading aud inexpedient. That
demoralization, if not madness, has
seemed to lie that way; and that those
who have been content to go about
their business here, taking the future
life ou trust, have seemed to fare bet
ter thau those who have directed
earthly energies into a search for
proofs of unearthly faots. From "The
Point of Yiow," iu Soribuer's.
SWAY OF THE SWEATER.
TIow the Popular Ontlne; Garment Ousted
the Cardigan Jauket.
"I had a customer for oardigan
jackets the other day," suid a dry.
floods jobber to a friend with whom
he was taking luncheon, "and it
seemed like reading a chapter from au
old, forgotten book."
"It's no worse thau receiving an
order for hoopskirts," said Auother
merchant, 'aud that happened to ns
recently."
And then the merchants told stories
of the time when one of the leading
articles in the sample trunks of men
who sold fall and winter goods for
men's wear "on the road" was cardi
gan jackets. Some houses carried as
many as a hundred styles, ranging in
price from 81) to $100 a dozen, and the
bulky nature of the goods made it
necessary to devote much space to
the line. Tbe jackets were worn by
nil olasses, and the article was con
sidered one of the staples of tbe men's
furnishing goods line. But the
sweater has crowded tho cardigan
jacket out, aud according to the
opinions of those who sell tho goods
it has gono never to return, except as
on article of small demand.
"Ten years ago all the sweaters sold
by us," said a lurgo dealer in nthletio
goods, "were made by hand at n
Shaker villuge in New Hampshire.
They were worn then by oarsmen aud
by men who were in training for the
prize ring, and a mau wearing a
sweater attraoted about as much At
tention as one in kilts. But soon the
baseball and football players bogan
wearing them, and within a short
time tho sweater became a necessary
part of every gymnasium outfit. Tho
demand became so great that nearly
all the mills that had made cardigan
jnckots a specialty put machines to
work on sweaters. As the now articlo
gained in favor the old one fell away,
and tho demand is now so great that
the original manufacturers the
Shakers could not supply us for the
slowest weok in tho yoar."
Although the athletic and the out
ing trades make heavy drafts ou tho
product of the sweater manufacturers,
there aro other and larger consumers.
These are men who work in the street,
lumbermen, longshoremen, railroad
men, sailors and drivers of teams.
Tho article which is used by theso
people is not so good as the oue made
for athletes, and sells as low as seventy-five
cents, and from that price to
B1.50, while the better article brings
from $2.50 to $G.
"Tho jersey," said a manufacturer
of woven goods, "was the forerunner
of the sweater, and a curious poiut
about these two articles is this: Tho
jersey was brought on the market as
au article of womeu's wear, and it
enjoyed great popularity for several
seasons. It was not an outing gar
ment, but one of dress, but, like all
articles of women's dress that cau be
produced at a low figure, the jersey
Boon found its way into the lower
circles, and then became unknowu as
au artiolo of dress iu places where
fashions are made. But with the bi
cycle it became popular once more; it
was adopted by men, and is uow worn
by riders all over tho country. But
the women got even with the men for
taking the jersey away from them by
going iu for sweaters. There are
large quantities of sweaters made now
for womeu, who wear them at golf, iu
the mountains, in the gymnasium, and
for onting genorally. The .goods
made for tho use of women are usually
if a superior grade, although they are
mado also iu the middle and low
grades."
There aro not many factories whero
sweaters are made exclusively, but
nearly all tho mills whore uuderwear
is manufactured produoesome of these
popular garments. New York Tri
bune. WORDS OF WISDOM.
Tho meek, the disinterested, the
nnBelfish, those who think little of
themselves and! muoh of others who
think of the public good aud not of
their own who rejoice iu good done,
not by themselves, but by others, by
those whom they dislike as well as by
those whom they love these shall
lain more than they lose; they shall
"inherit tho earth" and its fulness.
Without the resolution to do good
work, so long as your right hands have
motion in them, and to do it whether
the issue bo that you die or live, no
life worthy the name will over be pos
sible to you; while, iu once forming
aud adhering to the resolution that
your work is to be well dono, life is
really won.
If there is one thing in the world
that should bo free from compulsion
of any sort it is a gift. Directly it is
associated with forceful urgency or
suggested by extranoous reasons, it
loses all its grace aud all its character.
Enjoy the blessings of this day and
the evils of it beur patieutly and
sweetly, for this day only is ours; we
are dead to yestorday, and we are not
yet born to the morrow.
All growth, all strength, all uplift
ing; all power to rise iu the world, aud
to remain unrisen, ' conies from the
hold we have taken upon higher sur
rouuding realities.
Force yourself to take an interest
in your work and the effort will soon
become a pleasure.instead of a hard
ship. Difficulties of thought, acceptances
of what is without full comprehension,
belong to every system of thiukiug.
It is the way in which we employ
odd minutes that counts for or against
ns in the end.
The motives of men are to be judged
more by their aotions than by their
words.
The heart cannot always repress or
account for the feelings whioh sway it.
An hour of careful thiukiug is worth
more than ten of careless talking.
True education never induces con
tempt of the ignorant.
Live as though life were earnest)
and life will be so.
X,lttle to Choose Between Them.
"Dorothy, women act like idiots iu
a bargaiu rush."
"Well, Biobard, don't forget how
men aot soufiling for supper on au ex
cursion steamer." Chicago Record,
A service of motor vehicles has
been started (betweon Rosas and Fig
ueras, in Spain, a distanoe of twelvo
miles. The vehicles have a seating
accommodation of nine passengers.
THE SABMTII S'J
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
tRO
SlllljRCt
rilm of lolvir, lOi
nnd cxxvl (iiilii,.,, ,f n
Ixxxv.
CIUVl.,
I.e. son
o Uoiniuentarr on fnl
1. "Thou hast bson favona itietl
liant dealt Hraeloilsly. It w:i , 1 .
ot Ood that Israel got ami l.;t f- V
of Canaan, and If Ho Ini.t n,. iblai
very favorable to tlimn tur vinlS
been ruined many times, 'i',,, i
back of tholr captivity win i y i
stance of God's favor to tlimn, ,, r f
nceoinpiinled with thn par Ion ot 1
Irpiity. "Tlin eaptlvl'.y or (ut's
naturally applied to tlin r-turn fen i
Ion; but It suits recovery ioi.n
lty. n
'2. "Coverol all their sln."-tobM'
luist fr.jely forgiven sin, Its Ad'
nnd abominable nature no l"n,,t,
Tho whole Is put out of slirlit;
are restored from our captivity ' "''
mieueos no loiter appear. a
i). "Taken away atlT.ivwn .' .
hast collected all Thy wrath u:i
away with all our inliiiiitle.a.
is
of Thine linger." Tl'.o captive,
rejoieo that the wrath of i;
limited, nud so thoy had not :
destroyed.
itl
i
a! sn
4. "Turn in." Thou hav; l 'g n
captivity, now convert our sou;,
raelttes were not restored from t nfc
tlvlty all ut once; !i1,oi)!) retu; a I,
9
the leadership ol .ornohaii !.
others, numbering about 7uini
If bo
Ezra, 11.0.43'; others with N toot!
C 415; but a ureal number sti;
In Dabylonla, Media, A-wyriu, ,eo
other parts. Tie) request ol n fs
1 to have a complete io.stor.-niu Tfl(
Israelites from all places of t.i
lou. -;
6. "Wilt Tlinu he anjtry with u-
Continuously'.' Delivered fron. - -
tho exiles hoped for rest, hurt
found luoroaslnif distress m
which to them Indicated (lo t's
nnirnr- flHiioruftnii nfler tr.oi.,
tare
sluuei ami therefor i Miilfered t
incut ot Ood. The PsnlmKt s.-o tnosl
tlon whether God will II ml it in mid'
thus continue, or can it be tlKii or
oeodltiR generation will not pr '.
example. o( others and ho m -l68
themselves severe judgments' i. '
was there of better times until .c s
came sincerely nud tanniUKtily an
C. "Wilt Thou not revive iih n:'
liavo lonn had the sentence ot .! 'ce
solves, nnd have feared an utter ter
Hliall not our iritlou yet live lv tie 1
Hhall wo not become on . inori, jOJ
pious and powerful? "May rejoi ' '
Give us Hie, that we may have j.
so moil wilt nave the Klory or
o Thou wilt have tbe Klory ol
jo the fountain of all our niKMii: TjT
b tbe centre of nil our joys. J"
be I
b
7. "Shew us Thy luerey." T Cn
moroy always recognizes that it, - '
deserved .
8. "Iwllt hear." Walt and li
expectancy. The Psalmist koimii Mot!
to consult the Lord, and haviiiL- &
request waits an answer from ti
prophecy. By declaring what h h
the I'salmist tenches al1 Israel
oiiKht to attentively hearken to isrr
ot Clod and to receive Ills gruciu'u A,
tlons nud promises In faith auil 1
tlon, and His liolv precepts nii'l "
tlous 111 obedience aud HU bnii- ''e 1
especially that thoy should wait jtln
what answer Uod would retuti'
prayers. ln
9. "Salvation Is nigh." Ilnn e V
granted ns soon ns thero Is readl ) b(
tetve. That ootnpleto salvntlou ...
orance, even the redemption ol 7
the Messiah. It was the comf ftl V
Old Testament saints that tlu ry
lived not to see that redemption
loin lor which they waited, yet :
sure It was nljrh uud would'be ti f'
nil that fear Ood. "That Klory : In (
iu our laud." That we may o: .
see glorious days In our laud; m '
our ancient glory, the tokens of t
once with us, the most euilnont hes
wo havo now utterly lost. Hod i:h) h
nud Klory. Israel when fully par .
Joyed peaco with Ood; for whero 3
He manifests His Rlorfous power. sp
10. "Mercy and truth aro met i
And therefor' appear as uultoii tj T,
vrating harmoniously In conn :
Ood's K'ory or majesty iiKalu il Wcr,
tho land when the people shoul.jr t
converted to Ills fear. .v.,
11. "Truth." Hesponslvo tod' "
mercy, there shall be man's fruit-s
works. "lllKhtooiisncsi shall lo 1
When a people return and adh -r aB
in duty He will. return to and
them ln mercy. j
l'J. "The Lord shall Rive."
Klory of the Uospel dwells In oat.
It shall yield Its Incre iae; for
parity will either brlug outward p
with It, or sweeten the want o; - '
l'sa. C7:ll. ( . ,
13. "HiKlitoousness shall go buf : '
Christ, the 8uu of lilKhtoousm
bring us to Ood and put ubIi m.
that lends to Him. UlKhcooiisuo! I
guide, both lu meeting God unci :
luff Him. Irm
I. "The Lord turned again tln-.J
of Ztou." The writer bore rociil
JolcluK which filled tho hearts in Ur
of the Isnudllos on their roiurn ff
tlvltv, iu tho midst of tho aelu
ment by Gentiles and Jews thn:'
llverance was a wonderful au V
deed ot Johovah. f
i. "Filled with iHUKhter." Alii
Joy lu Ood, not scorn ot their im1 1 '
neatbnu had observed their cul
had triumphed In It. Jur.
1!17:7. Now they eiwild ijiot bus!-'
their dellvoracn and admire tbu
a. "Wo are glad." Tno heatloi'V
spectators, but the people of Oo-l-i
It as shares lu what Ood wrought y.
4. "As the streams In the nu.l
torrents und tho brooks in tin1"'
deserts ruu olfliud dry up In tin-'
mouths', but ufter the periodical t(
return amain, nud the channel- r
for the refreshment of the tlurstv'
6. "They that sow In teurs." I-:
in captivity lor the punishment.
degeneracy. Ood seuttbxm Into f
Just ns fc'old Is put iuto tli". lire
lined. The captives In llabvlou
sowlug In tears, but at lonKth wer
forthwith joy, and theu thy n
bencllt of their suffering, uh'l
their sheaves with them to their ' 1
In their experiences of luc'goodai' '
to them. They that sow in tear'
sorrow shall reap iuthojoyo'j
pardon and a uetlle.l peace.
II. "Ooeth forth and weepo!"!,!'
precious sued," There are tears;
themselves the seed that we
tears of sorrow for sin our own u-?
tears of sympathy and tendons
number ol returned captives was:
remnant of Israel. They were '
to promote ttio true rullglou In ,
Through their prayers and t"
brethren lu Babylon must be r-H y
Induced to return to Ood uud U
laud. I
(
The Secretary lllrd.
The secretary bird of South
useful in destroying the sei-p,.;
cn which creatures It alnio.l
T . ,J 1 , I
Divcijr lucua, lb ucuvee lis
the curious feathery plumes w j j
ject from each Btao or its ni
have a fanciful resemblance
carried behind the ear by nun
rctarles. Undaunted by tin I
teeth ot the cobra, the secre'-
comes boldly to the attack, wn' j
of all tho efforts of the in fur:-
desperate reptile. Is sure to fits
victorious. In its combats
ito
serpent the wing is the most 1;
weapon, and answers equally!
purposes ot a shield and a
the serpent rises to strike, tl' 1
tary presents the front of its
buckler and almost Immediate l,u
the snake to the ground tfP
from the same member. It
with considerable force, and air,
variably concludes the comb 1
violent blow on the head if'
bf ak, which lays the skull of t!
completely open.