NEW YORK' FASHIONS. 1
ij Designs For Costumes That Have Be
$J come Popular in the Metropolis.
Nhw Your Cirr (Special). Tho
ewest head-dresses adil not height,
bat breadth to tbe wearer. In oonse
qaenoe, they are not so generally be-
Mm 0k.
SMART TIKAD llRKSKS.
coining, but a change is what fashion
in ever after, evea if it bo a change
for the worse. The upstanding sprig
of tuaideukair aul ivyiugroeu velvet,
so novel bnt a few week ago, uor
Hud themselves displaced by the regu
lation clnssio chaplet of ivy, such at
bound tba head of the victor in tho
Olympian games or the winner of the
prize in a pooni-oontest. ltosa nnd
geranium loaves also appear in this
tame chaplet fashion, and one merit
of the wreaths is that they may be
worn with the hair dressed either in
Grecian or up-to-date Parisian mode.
The first figure in the cut shows the
effect of this broad head-dress. Upon
ing. Tho first is in cream ponge silk,
with insertion and lace, and is worn
over a colored silk; the other is in
white silk trimmed with lace and ribbon.
Mitten MeeTes.
Mitten sleeves havo undergone sev
eral interesting variations since last
season. For instance, one of the new
est mitten sleeves reaohos from the
thumbs to elbows, nnd is fastened to
the shoulder by a lattice work of vel
vet ribbons. Another sluevo, that
only the girls with perfect arms should
attempt, reaches midway to the elbow.
A second sleeve half oovers tho hnud
and forearm. Upper and lower sleeves
are commuted with a lattice work of
velvet ribbon. Ou a perfect arm this
sleeva is beautiful, but unless the el
bow im dimpled and the upper and
lower arm in perfect proportion, it is
very ugly. Another pretty sloeve that
is beiug used on many of the newest
dinner gowns is lace on tho under
side, the edges strapped together with
narrow bauds of velvet ribbon, pulled
through jeweled bnckles.
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TWO WAYS OP WEARlNrt IHt OSPRKV.
the very tall girls that seem to tower
above the rest of as iu such numbers
nowadays it is especially becoming. A
ctiio, if less novel bead-dress has a
airclet of plaited ribbon in any color
to snit the costume, white preferred.
The cirolet is finished with a small
bow nnd ends and a single jeweled os
trich tip iu white. This ornament
may be worn so that the plumo rises
directly in the front or at the side. It
requires high hair, however.
The Nwl in Millinery.
Incongruity iu millinery has Ion,'
ceased to cause surprise and nothing
that the spring season davelopos may
be oxpeoted to excite any special as
tonishment, uo matter what tho mix
tures, for certainly far and tnllo at'A
as extreme as any (wo mixtures can
be. Already there are toques made of
chiubu, stripped with fancy satin
straw braids in dirTorout colors, and
(lowers are fast usurping the place of
made up feathers. A large toque of
snow white tulle trimmed with eider
weiss blossoms and a largo bow and
baud of black pauuo at one side, is one
of the novelties. Gardening are one
of the fuvorite flowers of tbe inomt it
with the always favored violets. Tne
latest huts, which, however, are nob
really the spring models, have rather
a high small round orowu enoirolod
with cords or tuoks, and perhaps cov
ered with a net work, hand made.
Plaitings of tulle ou whioh chonillo in
sewn like a cord are oue of the popu
lar hat trimmings.
Feather Fan Again.
Large feather fans are once again be
ing worn, though tbe smaller ones
predominate.
Fur Spring Millinery.
A basic fact of importance iu tin
millinery line is tbe probability, al
most amounting to certaiuty, that tho
new hats will be higher in price thau
ever, owing to the increased cost of
PARTY DRESSES FOR OIHLS.
Many beads -appear dressed for
evening with no other ornament than
single long osproy in tbe dominant
color of the costume, set at oue Hide
an 1 curving over the middle coil of
hair most gracefully. Tbe osproy
starts from a tiny rosette in bebe rib
bon the same color as tbe osprey, or
sometimes a jeweled clasp or buoklo
holds the plume iu place. This is
one of the most eft'eolive because most
simple modes of adorning coiffure.
To give that breadth to the coiffure
that tbe latest dictates decree, the
osprey is set at oue side of tbe coil
and extends out iustead of up. With
the hair parted in front this way of
dressing the head is a decided change
from the long domiuant pompadour
and its aigrette that towers straight
aloft.
Two l'ratiy Model.
Children aro keenly sensitive on
the subject of their attire and its
fashion, but, luckily for them, they
bare oue favor in common with meu:
tbeir frocks do not go out of style
quickly. Although many of tbe models
for their dresses follow closely those
of their elders, yet they never go to
the same extremes, consequently when
the peudiilum swings back it has not
so fur to go uud does not hurry mad
ly. When we wore balloons for
sleeves tbey wore large ones, of
oourse, bnt not monsters, consequent
ly, while we had to cut ours down
about once a mouth to keep puce with
Dume l'Vshiou, theirs were some time
iu becoming pusse. And tbe tight
aleeves, tliauk their happy little stars,
they can never have iu entire discom
fort, for any healthy child who took
tbe proper amount of exercise would
wear out a pair of the sleeves, whioh
. lo not allow the arm to be raised, in
about Ave .Sours,
The party dress is just as important,
if not quite bo elaborate, to Little
Hister as it is to Big Bister. The
double-column sketch shows two
pretty models, which cun readily be
utilized also iu tbe summer dresaiual:-
everythiug employed iu their making.
That flowers ure to prevail in hat
trimming seems assured. Koine Paris
models are made wholly of the smaller
blossoms. A Spauish turbau, for iu
stance, is all of violets, with thu
stems drawn over the edges to form i
facing. Tbe crown is of violet loaves
with a drapery of lace around it. T 1 1
brim is wide iu front ami narrow at
tbe brink .
OHtrich plumes aro to bo .used in
combination with flowers of the.larger
varieties. A toque of while tulle,
with crown of creamy Irish lace, ban
lace of the same design twined in thu
brim, which is caught back at the left
front by a knot of duhliu purple panne
velvet, held by a rhiuestone orna
ment. From uuder this knot a singlo
white ostrich plume sweeps over the
left side of the crown to the back.
. - A
Itenlnlinlug Abandoned Farm.
A farmor in Taxton, Worcester
County, Mass., who settled upon an
abandoned farm about two years ago,
is reported to have raised on eight
acres this year 7500 bushols of pota
toes, 25,000 cucumbers the latter
from a singlo acre 830 barrols of
cabbages, 700 bushels of tomatoes,
350 barrels of carrots, 000 bushels ot
parsnips, 1100 bushels of turnips, 400
bushels of boets nnd 1100 heads of
cauliflower, besides squashes and some
other truck ad libitum, and all the
vegetables used by the family. Of
course it is presumed that those pro
ducts wero marketed nt a profit, and,
that being tho case, it is easy to seo
why many of New England's aban
doned farms are being reclaimed.
lioston Cultivator.
Growing Tiirnlm.
Wo havo never seen a crop of 1000
bushels of turnips grown ou an acre,
though wo saw one field that came
very near it, exceeding MOO bushels,
if wo remember rightly, but at n farm
ers' institute in New Brunswick one
speaker told how he succeeded in
growing 10U0 buthels per acre, lie
took a poor piece of ground in tho
fall, and aftor be had plowed it he put
ou thirty tons of manure to tbe aero
and harrowed it in. lie wants no
manure plowed in unless it is to be
plowed up again iu the spring, harrow
lightly and furrowed two feet apart
about two inches deop. Iu the lur
rows he strewed -50 pounds of super
phosphate to tho acre. He uses two
pounds of specially selected turnip
seed to the acre. When they aro two
inches high ho thins them to eighteen
inches apart. After this he keeps
the horse cultivator running two or
three times a week botwoon tho rows.
As ho grows them principally as a
succulent winter food for his stock, ho
sows early, that they may havo timo
to grow. When we used to grow them
we gave greater distanco between the
rows and did not sow thorn until July,
and most of them grew as large as
dealers cared to have them for table
use, while the small and the very
large were saved for tho stock. When
we could sell the best at fifty couts a
bushel or more wo thought it was
more than they were worth for stock
feeding.
fUILOIl FOR SPIUNlJ WK.tl!.
Under the brim, at tne light, near tho
back, is u olnster of crushed vet vet
roses iu dahlia shade", Kailor hatJ
will be more tho ra'b than over.
Fxcil to a Flnlnli.
Never before in tho history of the
trade has there been so wide a margin
between half-fat aud prime, ripe beeves
as exists at' present. The situation
offers every inducement for feeders to
make their cattle fat, and ou the other
hand the wide range in value plainly
points to tho penalty that must he
paid by those who disregard the law
of supply and demaud and persist in
crowding half-ripo cattle ou a market
already ovor-supphoil with that class.
Many of the unlinisbed cattle marketed
during tbe past few weeks would with
sixty to ninety dayB' longer feed havo
brought sevouty-ffvo cents to $1 mora
per hundred pounds, whioh would be
almost all clear profit, as tho increase
in weight would nearly offset tho corn
and labor. Wbilo we do not antici
pate any furthor advance, except for a
few fancy holiday cattle, we do look
for a good steady demaud and satis
factory prioes for well-futtened cattle
for an indefinite period. Whore a
man is feeding a considerable number
of cattle it is an excollcut plau to keep
topping out the bunch and sending iu
a load or two of tho fattest as fast as
they are ready. This not only divides
the risk and gives the cattle left be
hind a better chaune to mature but
also avoids the dead loss ot holding
ripe cattle, as there is no profit in
feeding a steer after be is ready for
market. It is poor policy to hold a.
big drove of cattle simply because
there is a light end of one or two loads
that is not finished. Tbe feedor who
carefully watches bis drove and ships
the fattest steers as fast as ripe aud
then pushes tho others along to tbe
same condition is, other things being
equal, the successful one.
Kxhnuiteil Holli,
Professor L. II. Bailey, of Cornell
University Experiment Station; says
that impoverished soils are usually
those that have beeu neglected. Not
having been tilled they have beoome
cloddy, hard and foul. They may
lack in humus, whioh can be reme
died by stable manure or plowing
under green crops, or they may lack
some one of the three important fer
tilising elements. An average ot
thirty-four analyses of soil shows
that an acre ot laud may contain in
eight inohes of tbe surface soil 3217
pounds of nitrogen, !WU0 pounds of
phosphoric acid aud 17,597 pounds of
potash, beside what may be iu stones
and gravel which will not pass through
messes one-fifth of uu iuoh square.
This would beeuough to grow abcut
200 ordinary crops if it was all avail
able. It becomes so by action of
what he calls "film water," thai is the
water adhering to tbe smaller particles
of soil, if this water mingles with the
humus to develop humio acid. But
this water must be drained riowu
through the surface soil to the water
bed below, that the air may penetrate
the soil. If it does not, it absorbs
heat, evaporates and leaves the laud
cold. When tbe water drains off and
tbe surface is well tilled it becomes
warm, and (be water is drawn up by
capillary attraction, thus preventing
loss by drought as well as brings back
the dissolved fertilizing elements to
the surface or near it, where the plant
roots can find them, Ou many soils
these two items of drainage and till
age are more needed than fertilizers
though most eil'eotuul when the soil
is made light or porous and warm by
the .addition of humus or vegetable
mutter. ,
Kvneialie Fit I'reveuts Egg Forinntlnn
In some way exoessive fat destroys
the breeding power ot animals, as is
well known by tbe meu that put lliem
iu what is culled show condition. Fat
ill the heu secies to destroy not only
the power of elaborating eggs, but also
the power of the organs to even
produce the embryo ot the eggs. Kill
u heu that is not tut aud, though she
ut not be laying eggs at the time
UikO n ii iu bur a ot euiiiryouio eggs will
be found, tioinotimes tuese embryonic
t ggs remain undeveloped for a very
oij time, Knowing that the organs
l-ttw produce theui are busy a long
time before tho organs that develop
tbe eggs have begun work. Evidently
the latter require periods of rest be
tween every clntoh of eggs.
Bnt a very fat hen when killed shows
not tho slightest trace of these em
bryonic eggs. - The lunation to oven
produce the germs seems to have de
parted. Tho writor has killed hens
that be did not think too fat to lay
and has found them in this condition,
aud that, too, nt a season whan other
hens wero laying vigorously. At just
what stnge of fatness the hen is
rendered impotent to produce egg
science has not yet determiuod, or
whether this stage varies in the lions
of different ages. It is without doubt
trne that many hens are kept for years
at a total loss as to cost of keeping,
for certainly mauy do not lay an egjf
from one year's end to another.
Tbero may be other elements outer
ing into the question that wo do not
yet understand, and it may bo that
other things beside excessive fat pre
vent egg formal ion and dovolopment.
But with tho limited light we now
havo on the Mibject it is probable that
the best way to keep a flock culled
down to the actual layers is to keep
the fat hens killod off. This leads to
the romark that sons hsus got fat
under any system of feeding. Tbe
writer has been surprised whon food
ing a ration balanced against fat to
find here and there a heu laying on
fat and ceasing to lay eggs. Evidently
fowls show tho samo characteristics
as breeds of larger live stock the
ability with some to develop size and
fat at the oxpeuso of every other func
tion. I'lci For I lie Dairy I' arm it.
The best and most profitable way of
disposing of ttkim milk and buttermilk
s to feed them to pigs. Whore but
ter is made extensively, or even on a
small scale, there is opportunity for
keeping pigs at a very slight cost. If
the required number are not raised
upon tho farm, ttiey may be purchased
at six weeks old, or at weaning time.
For a few weeks at least after weaning
they will thrive best on sweet skim
milk. Buttermilk is nlso good, but
should not be fed undiluted, or scours
may result. With plenty of warmod
milk combined with brau, shorts or
other ground feed of which corn
should form but a small portion, if
any pasture if convenient, and pure
water at all times, pigs which have re
ceived good care through tho mother
previous to weaning them will grow to
thrifty maturity.
The practice of keeping over pigs or
shotes until a year old or more is al
most if not quite out of date. Quick
returns make the profit in raising hogs
for market. It must be an exceptional
case which would warrant keeping
them longer thau six to eight months.
As fast as tbe pigs of one lot are
fattened, and sold, othorB should be
ready to' take the places of those dis
posed of. It is far better, in the
writer's estimation, which is based
upon considerable experieuco, to feed
milk to pigs rather than to calves, ex
cept iu tbe case ot heifers or uu ex
ceptionally fine male, which it might
be desirable to raise. A pig at six
months will bring nearly as much as a
stoer at three times that age. At pres
ent prices of fat cattle, no farmer can
afford to raise them for beef, while in
six months the pig will be in prime
conditiou for sale and return a good
profit.
The hog is one of tho most profita
ble animals the farmer has. Consuming
as' it does the refuse of which
uo other disposal could well be
made upon tbe farm, looked upon
as the lowest of domestic an
imals, doomod too often to exist iu
filthy quarters and receive only the
slightest attention as to material com
forts, yet tbe pig repays his owner
tenfold profit for his keeping. While
pigs undoubtedly thrive better when
given u liberal supply of sweet skim
milk for a time after weaning, they
will do fairly well without it, if fed
upon bran aud middlings made into a
slop with water. Whey from cheese
factories while sweet is better than
water for this purpose, but is not
available iu many localities.
SUBSTITUTE FOR RUBBER
THE CUM SUPPLY CETTING SHORT,
ITS USES INCREASING.
trical insulation. According to those
who are interestod in it, it wilt answer
as a substitute for rubber in many
forms, besides having uses peculiarly
its own. No information has been
given as to its cost.- -Now York Bun.
the
Farm and flarden Note.
Skim milk and Indian meal are
very best food for pigs.
Flat stones where abundant are the
cheapest and best material for floor
ing pigpens.
Probably the best lice exterminator
for poultry is a good dust box filled
with oommon road dust.
Potash is tho chief fertilizer to bo
applied to fruit trees, particularly af
ter they come into bearing.
A pound of meat scraps to twonty-
five hens is about tho right propor
tion. Feed every other day.
Often when pullets are not laying, a
ration of meat twice a week at this
timo of year will start them at work.
Iu most cases, it is crowding that
makes hens get into the feed trough.
Make tho trough long and give them
plenty of room.
Hoots and straw are very deficient
iu albuminous material, consequently
where a little oil cake or pea meal is'
added to a diot ot this kind excellent
results are reported.
In arranging a pigpen, give spooiul
attention to the construction, so that
it can be eusily cleaned aud supplied
with fresh bedding. A pigpen should
be cloaued out every day.
There is every reason to believe
that in order to have good luyers it is
necessary to havo good laying stock.
This is the rulo applied to cows,
horses, sheep and hogs, so why should
it not apply to tbe poultry as well.
Draft horses should rarely be driven
faster than a walk iu taking exercise.
They require much less than road
sters or running horses. No draft
horses should have less than five or
six miles a day and roadsters can eus
ily go to six to ten miles.
The moulting period is one that all
poultry have to go through, aud at
this time tbey should receive a littl
more attention than is generally given.
Keep them out of draughts aud feed
oily food, such as sunflower seeds nnd
liuueod oilmeal, and you will find it a
great help to tbe birds.
Boosters in the majority of oases
are of no use to tun farmer, and
should he have any arouud that are
of uo value as breeders, the best thing
he can do is to turn them into money.
The heus will lay just us well, if not
better, without them, though theeggs
are useless for hutching purposes.
Paper Fonml to Urn a Good Euballtnta For
Home Klnnlrlo IntnUtlnc t'nrpoias
'Another New ftlnterlnl M'l ot Lin
seed or Castor Oil BuceenRfu!. "
The increasing nsos for India rnb
her and gntta percha and the fact that
the supplies of these gums do not in
crease in like proportion and oven
threaten to become smaller in a few
years unless extraordinary means aro
taken to keep them up, have led to
maDy attempts on the part ot invon
tors'to produce some substitute which
would fill their place at least tor somo
important commercial uses. The re
cent rapid extension of eleotrio instal
lation with the ottondant call for insu
lation of miles and milesof conductors
lias emphasized the demand for rub
ber and gutta percha substitutes for
insulating purposes, and the proposi
tion now bcijg actively agitated to
extend tho great sea coble telegraph
scrvico of the world by laying a sub
marine cable from the United States
to the Philippines makes the quostiou
of immediate interest,
Tho consumption of rubbor is esti
mated at fiO.OOO tons a year. The
finest quality as well ns tho largest
quantity sent from any oue region,
comes from tho Para district in Brazil
and tbe recont high prices aud great
demand for the cxtra-elastio sorts for
bicycle, wagon and automobile tires
have so stimulated the work of the
Brazilian rubber gatherers that in
181)8 tbe exports from Para reuched
about 25,000 tons, as against 22,000
tho year before. r.eports from that
district indicato a serious danger of
exhausting the rubbor trees unless a
systematic method is adopted of re
planting, and considerable interest
has been evinced in other parts of. tho
world rewarding the possibility "f
growiug rubber treos successfully,
Experiments in this direction have
recently attracted attention in Mox
ico. No substitute which has yet
appeared seems to offer success for
those purposes which put the strength,
durability aud elasticity of Para rub
ber to their most severe tests, but
considerable progress has been loado
in providing substitutes of like quail
tics for a number of other uses, and
notably for that of electrical mania-
ting. The Singapore rubber is tho
variety best fitted for work of this
sort aud the shipments of this do uot
increase, aud in lS'JS amountod to
only about 2G00 tos. The last At
lantic cable took 500 tons of Singapore
rubber to iasulate it and a Paoilio ca
ble would tako a much larger amouut,
In land purposes, such as tho many
miles of cables which aro beiug laid
for telephone, telegraph aud power
purposes and which are iuoloscd in
lead, paper has become the favorite
insulator. For telephone purposes it
is superior to all others because of its
low solf-iuduction, which makes talk
ing over a lino of paper insulated wire
as easy as whispering into an adjaoent
ear, while rubber aud gutta percha
both have a deadening effect upon the
sounds. Power cables, such as those
which tho Third avenue road is uow
layiug for its undor-trolley lines, are
insulated with paper, but in this caso
it is laid over the bundle of wires that
form the conductor in a compact form,
while tor the telephone and telegraph
wires the paper is twisted lightly
about them with air spaces loft among
tne wires running the whole Ieugth of
tho cables. With paper insulation it
is imperative that water shall be ex
eluded and all the cables in which it
is used are leadeucasod and this
waterproof covering is carried along
unbroken to the cable heads and here,
in turn, the covering is conuectc.l by
soldering to watertight connections
with the office wires. For submarine
purposes paper could not be used.
Ttio inventor who wished to find
substitute for rubber aud guttapercha
naturally turned toward other vegeta
bio products for a bano and consider
able success seems to havo been at
tained by a number of clever men in
this direction. Some timo ago, there
was described in tho Suu a process by
which linseed oil was turned into
fair substitute for rubber, made capa
ble of vulcanization and of taking the
place of rubber for many uses. Tho
unseeu on in tms process was pre
pared by oxidization, changing its
character just as it changes wheu it is
applied to surfaces as paint. The
principal point in this invention was
the method ot oxidizing the oil thor
oughly. This was accomplished by
dipping bunches of tow into tho oil
aud then exposing tbe oil thus subdi
vided on the filaments of tow to the
uotion of warm air. A large factory
was built in Eugland to manufacture
articles under tbe patents which cover
this process.
A later process, which has beeu de
scribed recently, uses linsocd oil as a
basis also, but treats it instead with
nitrio acid. Tho product is called
velvril. tt is composed of a mixture
eti nitrated oil and mtro-eollulose
Either linseed or castor oil may be
used. The nitrated oil is prepared
first and the nitro-ccllulose is added
to this, A homogeneous mass is ob
tained whose final qualities of hard
ness and elasticity may bo altered by
varying tne proportions of tho mix
ture. The proportions which yield a
product most closely resombliug Parn
rubber are two pins of nitrated oi
and ono pin mtro-oollulose. Castor
oil is said to bo superior to linseed oil
for this purpose. Advocates ot velvril
declare tbatrtbis mixture has an elus
ticity of twenty-five percent, and that
its durability exposed to tho weather
is superior to that of rubber. Sam
pies in England have beeu exposed
for three years, it is. said, aud still
show but slight sigus of disiutegra
tion.
Velvril. it is said, can be worked
and moulded under heat and pressure
or it can be turned into a vsrnish by
dissolving it in a suitable volatile sol
vent. In using it for cable proteo
tion, it may be applied in tbe form of
thick paste, each coatiug being al
lowed to dry before the application of
the next, or it may be applied direcfty
by the aid of heat and a pressure of
fifteen tons to the square inch.
may uiso ue used as rubbor is, upon
tape windings. It is asserted that
velvril is superior to vnlcauized rub
ber when used ou copper, because it
coutuins no sulphur, and henoe has no
action on the corner. The use ot vo
vril is not, however, confined to ele
BARSED WIRE I.N THE WEST.
What ttio Intrndnrtlon of Wire Fenoot
ll'is Meant to Man nnd llensl.
In tho Century magazine Mr. E.
Hough, author of "The Story of thor
Cowboy," tells of the introduction of
that "fourfold abomination" which
marked out the path of civilization iu
tho far West:
A tew years ago a vil'ager down in
Illinois bent u bit of iron about a
straud of fence wire, and noticed that
his caltlo avoided It. Out of this
idea grew a system of fencing whioh
has preservod our pino forests a few
decadei longer, but which brought to
an end many decades earlier the
glorious free days of tho open and un-
fenced West. The great cattle
ranges, over which roamed ono of the
most independent populations oyer
seen on earth, could never have been
fenced by rails, or stone walls, or
boards of pine. It was difficult
enough for the spider-like genius of
ndvaucing civilization to keep them
fencod with the ever-ronowed web of
tho fatal wire against whioh tho wild
men of the early days rebelled so
strenuously. Yet milo by mile,
thousands of miles after thousands of
miles, the cheap and easily spun web
crawled out across tho West and held
it hard and firm. You can never un
coil the deadly web, neittier can you
replace tbe victim whioh it strangled.
Little more than a dozen years ago
the writer was with a party hunting
for buff.ilo calves iu tho tipper part of
the Panhandle nt Texas, where we
knew of a little herd still remaining
of those great auimsls, even then con
sidered virtually extinct. It was a
weary and desolate loud, where be-
tweeu water-holo and water-hole lay
sixty or seventy miles of absolute
desert. Not a ireo broko the endless
monotony of the plains. Tho soil
was liko flint. Tho sky had for
months been guiltless of a drop of
rain. It was a region so utterly un
suitod for the habitation of mankind
at these last few represeutatives of
a passing raco of groat American ani
mals had chosen it as thoir final place
of refuge, thinking that perhaps there
tbey woulc never again hear the
sound of rifioshot or see airain the
face ot mau. Yet one morning, as we
faced thu sun of another waterless
day, we came upon a lino of strong
wiro fence, coming from where no
man could tell, and running iu one
unbroken line to the uttermost limits
of our vision I It was no delusion, no
miracle, no wonder of the wild
mirage. It was an accursed foot. It
bad no right there, on that free land,
whore oven the wind had swopt for
ages unfettered by so much as a leaf,
or stem of straggling tree. As we
marvelod and mutterod at this thing,
wo saw, in tho red light of the east,
a littlo moving band of great forms
which we knew to be those of tbe
buffalo. They saw ns also, and with
the instinct of a generation of perse
cution swept away at once in flight.
Across their lino lay thts fourfold
abomination, this corded barrier, this
new thing, this infamy never before
dreamed of on thesu free plains.
CI o.io bunched, tho buffalo struck it
with the force of a heavy locomotivo.
and crushed through and over it as
though they passod so many straws.
Ah, there was a thing dramatic, ad
inirablo, out there ou that faraway
desertl It was the old West roudiug
tho net of the rctiarius, casting aside
the strands set for its undoing, and
standing on unhiudored, free! See
ing tho beauty of this spoctaclo, our
ot roper, a cow-puueher born outbe
old range, rose in his stirrups aud
took off his hat to cheer tho buffalo as
they fumbored on. For twenty panels
tbo fenco lay flat, aud we rodo across
it. Along its inner sido was a path
woru inahes deep by the foet of count
less antelopo, cut off by this tunoe
from their ancient way to somo un
known water-hole. No man of our
party felt glad at this evidence of ap
proachiug civilization, this fence
thrusting out into the wild- land.
Every man was partisan for the buf
falo aud tbe antelope, uud exulted at
this prostration ot their euemy,
I hough knowing with sorrow how
brief must bo their little victory.
A Secret of l'rolltabln Travel.
"The American' is wise," writes
Edward Bok, in tho Ladies' Home
Journal, "who going to Paris this
year spends enough time iu the
French capital to seo the Exposition,
and tho beauties and spots of fragrant
memories which the city unquestion
ably possesses, but who then leave
Paris behind and goes iuto those
quaint, romautio aud gone-to-sleep old
places with whioh France abouuds
in the Balzao country, for example,
where French life is still lived iu tho
old, doligbtful way. This is tbe secret
of profitable travel anywhere: to go
about with tbe mind open uud recep
tive: to judge people from tbe cou
ditions which surround them: to get
an impression of a nation not from tlu
life whioh floats on the surface of its
great centres, but from its own people
living iu tbe heart of their own lands,
iu their homes aud in their own way.
Thus wo will see the real people of
tho country wheroiu wo travel. But
we cannot truly judge the English
from what wo seo in London or the
Freuch from tbo boulevards and oufes
of Paris, auy more than a foreignei
can judge tbe entire population of
America merely from the people he
aces in the city of Now York."
'HE SABBATH r
INTERNATIONAL LESS;'
for march!
Ho Had l-:y Like a C'ut'i.
Alonzo Bauin, fifty years of agp,
who died on Friday near Huntington,
V. Va., was known nil over that section
ns tho "cat-eyed" man. Ho could soa
clearly in tbe darkest night. Duriug
tho duy, however, tho light oppressed
him aud he could seo scarcely any
thing. Tho pupils of Uuum's eyes
were elliptical, aud had all tho other
physical characteristics ot the oyos of
tho oat. Ho did everything possible
to conceal from strangers the ourious
condition of his eyes, and hated the
notoriety it brought him.
Hometiiuilo Wooden Teetli.
Albion, Ind., lias au economical
genius in the person of James Hyde,
Ho makes his own teetli out ot hick
ory wood and holds them iu place with
a wooden handle. Ho is able to ttr.t
tho toughest uteuts,
t,irk i., ti-s-oi 'J tie
4-1Ieinnry Verm,,, ,,f,
,r on tlia laj, I.,,Jt?
Lihk.-aJ .
si! Andrew S'
i jpn' i
Bnbjoeti Jean
Mn
.14-
ary .
COSHECTIKO
nreth He wnnt I
definitely enllsil
John tho second tlinu.
nn.l f 'i I ln,.u,l
21. "iiitoCnperiinuiir j
Cnperimtim His homo,. WV
His ministry for inorn'ti,, Lr t
oallHil Ills own city (Mn-
ns n cltlzmi He imM u, h. jd'z
17:21. His motlinr nnl i,.'i. (
wllh lllm. John 11:12. "r "' '
His II rut Halihnlli In - 0 F
synagogue." This win i'mr
turlon. JLuko 7:5. h,.', j n
were often aonnn!t, wi'i-""1
Thny were the center, 0( .$.trs.
inneciuni me. unif (
innn to eun upon uuy ,
sneak In the synng i-'ii
uot unlikely Hint at t'ii, ,
what us it ml said ntNu
til. it wns truth 1 1) it ..
Whatever may Iiiivm hug -r"
22. "They were nn.
mutter, manner, sjih it i
His teaching. "1. At fi,. Wi7i
tiillactn.il gifts. 1. Tin, Cti,
trillions. 8. Ills nciunin; -man
hnart. 4. His iliv.-! f
Dlvihii law." "Anthori;
ona oomuiiiitiiM i,v
great striws ion Himo
unto you," without an.,
"lie was, 1. Dlgnlll,.,!, J
vincing. . ,0lll-t..in
MnflltMu ' 11.1 i.eil. .. 1
dual life, their ruunnur ul1 1
nn unholy ninbltlnn,tlio(. frill
unit not OoJ's glory, '.'.i-fas
slst on tlio olwerviincit ', -V
vented by men lllm ti,r "
ilovo down to eturnil lnK
born tho Impress of Mm i itlvi
a.l. "A'mm with snin,i; I cl
says he hail "a spirit of ,
and "cried out with h h.f-10'
4:13. Tnero has hpniimii.'l E
garding this "uneln.-in tn:i
Hint those who were il i, (
wero simply dlsonwc I ntv f
V'
I0
i '
I inr:
-jcotl
It t
strong paroxysms Mvr
Ices
tl
cannot ngreo with th'.ji a
Insist tltnt.difll'v.ilt i
Hand, yet real ileum T
if.v 1"
I ,,t V
i;t;r it
n nit and those d-Titm !
'Thla conntrv nh.iim,1.il, '
oauso '.hoy were tlion it-lv. faPS"
lielgUt .it impiety. Tlmr-?"
under huavon morn wl-'i :) off
2. Tlmy were ad li.'lml t-'' ,,,,
vita. i ...-ii .,,irii,. i,i. rem
'urimi out. "An nvll
its depths whsu in co
24. "Ijiit US alone.-' Inc-e
iloslros to bo let almi", k. s
want to bo (llsturbinl wu,
WiMmar tills cry tint iw. Jbes.
tako to deal with nnolm irell
sii"h as IntoinporniKe niil
" What have wo to ilnm-J'
Ing nt nil. Tliern Ik no e11
Christ and llallnl. "To ' th
rtrlvs us from our ai)0i.ii1JB,ril
place. " know Tne.'. ' I aa
nse, liko the iipoiil.-xv.
Christ! No, Christ fcfa''
now, and they know nin-p, "
oue of God." Tho M'xsh ydW
to destroy the kiug lom m
John 8:S. I
25. "Jesus rnbnkflil lib. "y
iloniro the testimony ot .1-1
Meslnhshlp. T hroiighi? V f
Christ niivnr for a moa n
anything that might h
rttruce with Satan. "II llt
ally, "He tlion murnW.
lllm." Ho speaks witu n-
sbow who He Is, by cinMt.l
2fi. "Torn h in." Or.
l.uku snvs the ilnvil HiniI
enrae out of him, ami liurary.
wnstlioro n person prw f t
spirit who did notsnnvm
nnpB n total ruin, liv It.
uos np the foundation! By
very fow of this clan liv-L
days. "Ho came ont it f "
nevus ontiy his worn oi
Is an ovIileiKieor the gnu!
mission, to destroy Mick
it is nlso a proof of lilt i- u
Tlio Piinrlsoes said tluil II M"
by Itaolsscbub I
truth was that t
With Hatau
27. "What tiling Is thW
nro morn wonderful tint ten
dors." "Jbsiis tniig!i In r
well ns bvwlinl Uo anltl." t&.l
Him," Thin Jiisus ol kg j
slou by the miracles H r
tlmy could not ilouht It.
28. "Falun spread nlirii
the prince vt-
at the vnry lli g
Would I nn f
,iP
fjci
was wrought In the iul fC
nnil thoso who suw II l1"1 f
they wont, mid th nwp'
Galilee wore soon illvu- i
worn, no niu not iicmi i
Him, nud wo do not '
with the world, the flu1-'
(Iny In order to bnuhlntimi
29. "The house of 8I j
Jesus, James and .Tabu Us I
house.
iO. "Simon's wife's mot
a married man hih! liv
It Is strange Imlnud tint!
Ho Church sbould 1.1V ' ,
..III-M.. .1.. Alnp..UTr
oil lot corner-stone, Iwnla'fTI
of a fever." J.nke cnlii i
Luke 4:31. Hhe win P'T
burning fover.'"-"Tli)f "I
Tills was really a rnquon' i
knew Hooould ronton! Mpf..
81. "Took lier by tlmlu dr
illing on this side ttioo--Qod
offset such a '"''l
should demonstrate HM j,
(alllganes of overy itins. f-
her." Christ Ims powr'T
can, anil frequently iloAT
yet wa cannot tout the 'I.
health of tho body. H"j
saints unvo siiiierea wn ' i .
nnd lisvo beeu sick. I' 7 !
fsltti" that inves tli "
offers thnt prayer will "
suits, ".ills inlnisierii'i.
feotly recovered. Hlio'
wait a long time for tr;fj-.
32. "When tho sun 'J'1 "SJi'i
snded with thu sotting .
brought tbolr sick to H':
havo boon a deseornllon
had eoms beforotlie snuff
bad lust performed a ft" I.
33. "All the city."
person, bnt a very lnrr rf,
84. "Healed many." " I
that were sink." Luke"' "
on them. Jesus liimM f
t hoy were many. "DIW'j
uiniinoiiou is inaue iw
fall to notice; dbease 'l
devils "cast ont." "rtnfi'l,,,,
vorsn28. This bad been ler
erntium. a dav ililcil r
1 1,
Hay God give us uoh J!' ,
k-
Tombstone l'h"1'
Photographing tonifc-j
Industry whirh has "f.
a colored man In this 1
one time boy-of-all-
granh gallery. 'e
brunched out for lilfif
rcudy established a
nous, which promises
wider field in the futur
various cemeteries '!
nnd when the duy I 'J
turcs of many of the H
ments. After he a'
plutcs he takes proofs
the relatives of the uf
tilly finds a ready sal''
Of course, he -has to
he works entirely '
trusting to Beutlnieo'
Still, he says it is ver!
doesn't get an onl'r
habit of haunting tll
where tombstones
striking while the If"
tl picture before even 1
atlves have seen the '
phla Record.