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THE EYE A SPECIALTY.
Eyes tested, treated, fitted with
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SMALL FARMING PAYS.
Eiprrtencr of a City MOB With On
ion. and Some Other Thlngd.
The experience of a man who leaves
business to get back to the land and
make a living possesses a peculiar in
terest. especially if he is successful.
The following narrative of a New
Hampshire unto given in the Clare
mont Eagle is n of bringing up the
production of a mull farm to a profit
able basis:
I was a city man, but five years ago
my business was so dull I thought 1
would try farming. I had very little
money, but have been successful. 1
have paid for my farm and own all my
stock and tools and think if all farm
ers did as I have done they would not
be preaching that farming doesn't pay.
I began the first year to work out for
my farmer neighbors, but BOOH found
this would not pay. I and all the
men I worked for were no better off
than when we started. I thought: "I
have a farm as well as they. Why
can't I get a living at work for myself
it they do and can afford to hire help?"
After the first year I began to work
for myself and found better results. I
have a email farm of fifty-seven acres,
which cuts double the hay it did five
years ago. I t'.i*K a man can do better
on a small farm than he can on a big
farm, for he cannot cultivate the whole
of a big farm, and one acre of good
land is better than five acres of poor.
If farmers would work as hard for
themselves as they have to when work
ing for others, they would get rich. I
do all of my own work and hire a man
only a few days in haying. I have kept
a dairy of six cows, young stock, and
poultry and raise between 400 and 500
bushels of onions a year besides a va
riety of other vegetables. I find the
onions are the most profitable.
I think it unwise for a man when he
starts on a farm to begin fixing the
buildings. He should do it gradually
as he can afford; then he will be more
apt to hold his own.
There are a good many ways of tell
ing a good farmer from a shiftless one
—by the buildings, the bushes on the
walls and line fences, the apple trees
untrlmmed, making it impossible to
mow within fifteen or twenty feet of
them.
Would Smash the Olubs.
If members of the "Hay Fever As
sociation'' would use Dr. King's New
Discovery for Consumption, the clnb
would goto pieces, for it always cures
this malady, and Asthma, the kind that
baffles the docters it wholly drives from
the system. Thousands of once-hope
less sufferers from Consumption, Pneu
monia, Bronchitis owe their lives and
health to it. It conquers Grip, saves
little ones from Croup and Whooping
Corgh and is positively guaranteed for
all Throat and Lung troubles. 50c. fl.oo.
Trial bottles free at Paules & Co.
THE DESTRUCTIVE TEREDO.
A Carton ud Prafllr Worm That
Dtgm Tunnel* In Timber.
It was In 1781 that Holland narrow
ly escaped Inundation along its coast
because the timbers of the sea dikes
In many parts were discovered to be
quite unsound. The timely discovery
t>f the real condition of the dikes saved
the country from an awful catastrophe,
the full extent of which was com
prehended by only a few Dutchmen.
The timbers had been honeycombed
by the teredo, or ship-worm. This
creature burrows into any wood Im
mersed 111 sea water. It makes an en
trance when young and digs channels
along the grain of the wood, living
and often dying in the timber. The
worm grows In some localities to a
length of twelve Inches, its girth be
ing one and a half inches, and the
curious thing about its whiplike boidy
Is its exceeding tenderness. It cannot
bear its own weight. It will break if
subjected to any strain.
It will burrow straight along the
grain of the wood unless turned aside
by a knot or nail, and, no matter how
many of these worms may be burrow
ing In the same piece of wood, they
never run their channels into one an
other. By some marvelous instinct
they keep clear of each other's pre
serves. We have recently seen a cross
section of a log eighteen Inches In
diameter, and we counted no fewer
than 800 distinct burrows.
foolish.
Robert Lowe, afterward Lord Sher
brook. once saw a deaf memlier of par
liament trying his best to catch with
his ear trumpet the worda of an ex
trpmely dull speech. "Just look at that
foolish man," said Lowe, "throwing
away bis natural advantages."
THIBIBA FAOT.
There is no Question About it. Its a Plain
Statement of Facts. Made by a Dan
ville Citizen.
Mrs. M. Fields of No. 128 Pine street,
Danville, Pa.,ssays"l: —"I have been both
ered a good deal for some time with a
nervous indigestion and was feeling
poorly generally. I did not rest well
and had frequent nervous headaches.
I got some of Dr. A. W. ('base's Nerve
Pills at Gosh's drug store and used
them and felt that, I received a very de
cided benefit. I rested better and felt
toned np and better generally."
Dr. A. W Chase's Nerve Pills ara
sold at 50c a box at dealers or Dr A.
W. Chase Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
See that portrait and signature of A W.
Chase. M D. are on every package.
: JACK
• HENLY'S
* JOB
SHE looked more adorably pret
ty that evening than even her
adorer had ever found her—
more adorable and less acces
sible, the usual way. New Year's day
was approaching, and she had decided
that in one respect at least he should
turn over a new leaf.
As a rule, one sofa had furnished
ample accommodation for both. To
night it required a sofa and an arm
chair. He had pushed the armchair
as close as practicable to the sofa after
seeing her spread her diaphanous dra
peries with meaningful care all over
the sofa.
She looked over and beyond him to
ask a question in tones of iced sweet
ness:
"You think, then, Jack, dear, you
really could not show papa SIOO honest
money of your own earning?"
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TONIGHT IT BEQt'IRED A SOFA AND AN'
ARMCHAIR.
"I could not," Jack Henly answered,
with the solemnity of the funeral serv
ice.
"Nor SSO? Just enough, dear, to show
him that you would not be afraid of
work."
"Neither fifty nor one."
She stretched her blue eyes in dis
tress. "Not a single one, Jack?"
"Not a"— Jack breathed a paren
thetical swear word. Aloud he finish- j
ed—"single one."
She folded her smooth white hands J
composedly on her lap and looked hou- j
estly into his troubled eyes.
"Then I am afraid. Jack, it is all over
with us, and I will have to keep my
promise to papa."
"What promise?"
"Never to marry a man who could
not get a job of any sort even if my
daily bread depended on it."
"But I've never needed a job. 1 can
give you all the daily bread, and cake,
too, that you could possibly consume j
without a job."
"That has no bearing whatever on
the subject. You know, Jack, riches do ,
take wings. I have never seen the }
wings, but 1 suppose we must take I
them on faith."
"That is what your father ought to do j
to me."
"Take you on faith? He will never !
do it. Jack. You see, dear, 1 know such
a lot of things"—
"Among your accomplishments," j
Jack interrupted bitterly, "don't forget
to enumerate the fine art of pulling a ,
man around by the nose until you 1
make an idiot of him and then flinging
him over the fence."
She reduced him to pulp by a wither- j
ing inspection extending over six feet
of muscular manhood, incidentally tak- ;
lng in a pair of handsome eyes, full
just then of moody discontent.
"The idea of my throwing you over ;
a fence! Don't be inelegant, Jack, or I
shall go over to papa's side altogether."
"You are there now."
She flashed a ray of hope into his
darkened soul. "But not to stay."
"No?"
"Only until you get a job. New
Year's is coming. You must—please do
goto work and show papa what you
can do. But to return to the things I
learned, just to have them handy, you
know, in case papa's riches should take
unto themselves wings"—
"If he holds onto his riches as close
ly as he holds onto his greatest earthly
treasure —you —the bankrupt courts
won't know him soon."
"No taffy, thank you. In these utili
tarian days it is not enough for a man
to be good looking and well dressed
and to know how to lead the german
sad to have a proper sense about flow
ers and things. He must know how to
do something. You see, I am talking
to you quite like a mother or an aunt
or a sister. 1 can always be that to
you, Jack/'
"Yes; oh, yes, of course," said Jack,
with a tired smile.
"That is /he yvay papa had me
taught."
"To be a «S«ter to fellows without
JobB?"
"To know bo>w ti) do things," she an
swered loftOy. "1 learned stenography
and typewriting. Who knows," she in
terpolated meditatively, "but what I
may some day decorate a great law
yer's office'.' And I learned dressmak
lug and cooking anil bookkeeping. Oh,
I assure you. Jack. J am very learn
ed" -
-Dreadfi Oy'" JartL gasped.
"And. vo see. it would be a little un
even. and Kjpa -ays hell be 'double
Juuipei. s:r is his most violent
oath, if he'll ever give his daughter, his
only one. Jack, to any man who cannot
show a dollar earned by his own honest
toil."
Jack lifted his six feet of masculine
mseiessness from the chair by her side.
"Goodby, Edith!" There was a sad
.note of finality in his farewell.
"Are you going. Jack?"
"There doesn't seem to lie anything
islse left for me to do."
"No, I suppose not. Goodby, Jack."
Their hands met in a brief and form
i A contact. The next minute he wan
Htridlrig toward the nearest ear line.
| Nt#- was dampening her pocket hand
kerchief with salt water.
Tb<' big car strike was on. Perhaps
never before had pedestrianism been s<
extensively practiced. Edith took very
little Interest in it l>eyond praying
that the strikers would not do her fa
ther, who was president of the street
ear company, any bodily harm.
Since Jack Henly had disappeared
completely out of her life, with no
promise of turning over the new leaf
she had suggested, a good deal of color
ing had gone with him. Still a young
woman who bad learned such a dread
ful lot of things could never find her
self quite resourceless So she lived yu
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A NEW YEAR'S •
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JEANNETTE ~
H. WALWORTH q
Copyright, 1900, by
Jeannette H. Walworth
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in spill- «>(' Jack's effsiceinent until one
day life suddenly became a v»»rv vivid
affair again.
It \v:ts New Year's day—the day on
which they brought her father to her
more dead than alive, lie had osten
tatiously persisted in riding on his own
line after tlie strike had reached peril
ous proportions. Missiles had been
flung at him when he was riding In
solitary state, with only a new con
ductor and a new motorman for com
pany.
It.was many days before his interest
in life extended beyond bandages and
lotions. Then he gave Edith a descrip
tion of his adventure. She had been a
ministering angel to him all those suf
fering days.
"I tell you. child, if it had not been
for that conductor, a giant of a fellow,
you would not have been troubled witt
me much longer. lie showed the pluck
of forty devils. When those fiends be
gan throwing a variety of unpleasaul
things into the car, recognizing me as
the special objeet of their attentions
and bawling 'Scab, scab!' at the motor
man and conductor, that young fellow
just thing me bodily down on the flooi
and sat upon me, yelling to the motor
man to 'make her hum!' And he did
inake her hum until we met a body of
mounted police.l got this hole in my
head before that boy flung me. I'd like
to find him again. He'd be a made
man."
"I shouldn't think that would be dif
ficult," said Edith, applying a fresh
bandage to the hole in his head.
"It ought not to be if I had only
thought to take his number before I
was knocked out of my senses. You
see, 1 was playing a little game of bluff
that day and had been riding up and
down on every car that the new men
would run. He was only a tripper who
went to work New Year's morning,
they tell me at the offices, but he will
have to be produced at the trial of
those ringleaders. I'm going to patron
ize the line again as soon as the doc
tors will let me leave off these rags.
I'll be double jumped up if it shall ever
be said that Gwenith Dickerson is
afraid to ride on his own cars!"
"I'm going with you, papa, every
time you go in a car until this horrid
strike is over."
And she did. The strike had simmer
ed down to the proportions of a dismal
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HF. WAS STRIDING TOWARD THE NEAREST
CAB LINE.
failure aiul Ihe cars were normally
patronized before Edith felt inclined tc ]
depose herself as bodyguard. Tomor
row, she said to herself, she would let
him go alone. She managed to get
through a good deal of reading while '
riding up and down town in a rather j
aimless fashion. She was reading a j
newspaper with apparent absorption j
when her father (ducked at her sleeve i
excitedly.
"Edith, daughter, here is the very I
chap!"
With a rush of gratitude to her eyes I
ML Lid lips. Edith glaueed up. .lack Henly 1
stood composedly making change for j
the quarter of a dollar her father had I
handed him.
"Oh!" she said, with ah - late com-I
posure, and dropped her <;•s once I
more upon her paper.
"Yes. by George, it is. and i thi:you j
might have found a dece; ; word of
rhanks for the man who saved your |
father's life. I say. young fellow, I I
don't propose to lose sight of you again.
Here." lie drew a card out of his pock
et. "You be at that number sharp 2
o'clock."
The new conductor said, "Yes, sir;
thank you." and went about his busi
ness. one item of which was to stop ihe
car at the next corner for Edith to
alight, she having basely concluded to
desert her father there and then.
Father and daughter met again at
the lunch table.
"I'd rather see you married to a man
of that stripe." said the president,
"even if he does wear a conductor's
uniform, than to all the polo playing,
german leading Jack Henlys in the
world."
"Would you, papa?" Edith asked de
murely. "You see, you've only seen
Mr. Henly in evening dress."
"I woukl for a fact. Hut, no, you
could not give the poor fellow a decent
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word ot thanks for saving my life just
because he was earning his own liv
ing."
"Oh, no. papa: don't think that mean
ly of m* llut 'scab' has such an ex
ceedingly unpleasant sound."
Edith was nervous that nicht at din
ner. Of course, her father had found
out bv this time who his new conductor
was. but he gave no sign of enlighten
ment, iit least not until the waiting
man had put coffee upon the table and
disappeared in the butler's pantry.
"So yon don't like the sound of
"scab'.-' said Mr IMckerson. carefully
examining tin* walnut he was about to I
drop into liis wineglass.
"No, sir. I think it has a horrid j
sound."
"How (lot's 'president's private secre
tary' sound V"
"Better, milch better."
At which stage of the proceedings
the manservant reappeari'd with a tele
gram on his silver card tray. It was
addressed to Kdith.
"I've found a joh. 'i'iie new leaf was
turned over on New Year's day. For
particulars refer you to the president."
With a utilitarianism becoming to a
young lady who had learned so many
useful things. Edith wired hack:
"Also a wife, l-'or particulars refer
you to the president."
This duty off her hands, she turned
to her father:
"I am so glad, papa, that my dear
Jack was strong enough and big
"EDITH, DAUGHTER, HERE IS THE VERY
CHAP!"
enough to throw you and sit on you.
He says he owes his strength to polo
ami other useless accomplishments."
"'.Miits," said the president, with a
jolly iiii :,h. and on the f-.Mowing New
Year's day, one year from the day
when Jack llenly sat on his sweet
heart's father and earned his first dol
lar. the ex-conductor claimed his bride.
TRAP NESTS FOR HENS.
Coming Into Notice Valuable In
RrrpdinK; Special Strain*.
The trap nest has been in use to a
limited extent for at least thirty years,
but it is only within the last three
years that it has come into general
notice through the claims of several
inventors of devices to determine the
number of eggs laid by individual
fowls.
Some of the objects have been to
save the eggs of individuals from spe
cial mating pens, to select the best lay
ers, to detect the nonlaying fowls and
those that lay but few eggs and to as
certain the characteristics of the eggs
from certain fowls.
It is a favorite device with the man
who has a desire to build up a strain
of phenomenal layers, even if by so
doing he weakens the stock.
Experiments were undertaken at the
Rhode Island station last year with a
view to testing the numerous, and in j
some cases rather expensive, contriv
ances offered to pouitrymen in the I
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"CHEAP JOHN" TRAP NEST,
hope that some simple, effective and
yet inexpensive apparatus would be
found which any poultry man could
make or have made. Director Brigham
says that, curiously enough, some of j
the most ingenious and interesting in
ventions for outwitting the laying hen
were evolved by persons who evidently ;
had never "kept hens." The "Cheap |
John" nest, which was made by the j
college carpenter out of an orange box, j
has proved one of the best contriv- i
ances. The interested pouitryman is !
at liberty to use the same and to im- I
prove upon it to the fullest extent.
There is no danger of infringement of j
a patent or of injury to any one's
rights by so doing. The value of the j
trap nest in following a course of line j
breeding of fowls is certainly unques
tionable.
A HOTBED.
A Pew Cold Fact* About Receirt
Method* of Count ruction.
Commenting upon an article about
hotbeds which he linds not altogether I
up to recent methods used in some sec
tions, a Rural New Yorker correspond
ent says:
We use 3 by 0 sash holding three
rows of 2 by 12 inch glass, using one
sash bar less than where 8 by 10 glass
is used, and the breakage is no greater.
I supposed the old method of putty
ing in glass had been practically aban
doned. Instead, after priming the sash,
we use a mixture about half each of
wliltelead and putty and mixed with
oil thinner than putty is usually used.
A light layer of this is put along the
edge of the sash bar and the glass
pressed or bedded into it, leaving none
on the upper side except what little
may work up along the edge.
I think the glass should not lap to ex
ceed one-fourth of an inch, as it soou
causes n dark strip to shut out the
light. Indeed about half the sash we
are now using is not lapped at all, but
butted end to end. These are fully as
tight and can be set faster. When put
In in this manner, the end of each light
should bo dipped into a thin layer of
thick white paint, then placed solidly
against the light above in the sash.
The only objection to this method is
that it Is more work to repair a break
perfectly. We have sashes set in this
manner which have been in use seven
years and are tight and satisfactory.
When glass is bedded and partly
dried, then paint along the edge on the
upper side Avith rather thick white
paint and allow the sash to lie flat till
dry. Sash set in this manner will long
outlast any set with putty, and I think
no one would putty in glass after one
trial.
While I fully agree with the writer
i of the article mentioned as to the val
j ue of cloth in place of glass and use it
' n good deal, 1 would not advise any
one at present to attempt to prepare it.
The cloth already prepared can be pur
chased cheaper We use a great deal
: upon frames that are just the size of
our sash and interchangeable and of
ten used with the glass for shade. The
cloth can be procured through most
seedsmen either by the yard or bolt.
We use the medium grade, and on a
cold frame it will protect from at least
5 degrees of frost.
Ilun n Practical I'onltrynian Feed*.
A successful pouitryman who raises
young chicks under the hen in the
sprint; months takes great care to have
them protected from dampness and
feeds the following niasli, upon which
they seem to thrive:
Mash for chicks up to six days: Mash
two boiled eggs with one pound of
crackers. Feed once in three hours
and also a few rolled oats.
From one week to six weeks old give
the following mash: One-third oat
meal, one-third chops, one third wheat
bran. To a peck of this dry food add a
quart of beef scraps Mix this with
cold water and bake into a bread. Fse
the best beef scraps In the market.
The mash is fed in the morning. For
iKMiti and evening feed a mixture of
i>.jnal parts of cracked corn and wheat
llultlelielil Mortality.
Only !> per cent of the soldiers actu
ally engaged in war are killed on the
field of battle.
: jf King l|:
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Although the coronation of King Ed
ward will not occur until next June,
the coming event is the one absorbing
topic in England today, and all are
eager to witness what will be the
most gorgeous anil elaborate ceremony
of our time. Everywhere in Great
Britain preparations are being made
for it. The makers of fashionable
robes, the court costumers and the
jewelers are working overtime. A
great deal of bustle and excitement is
going on among the peers and peer
esses who will be prominent in the
spectacle, and new robes and coronets
are being purchased. The question my
lady is asking most just now is not,
"'ls my hat on straight?" but, "Is my
crown on straight?" For them it will
be the chance of a lifetime to appear
in a coronet, for only at a coronation
are they worn.
Rules and regulations governing
what is to be worn by the nobility at
the king's coronation have been issued
by the earl marshal. The peers have
been notified that their robes must be
of "crimson velvet, edged with mini
ver. the cape furred with miniver pure,
and powdered, with bars or rows of
ermine, according to their degree."
Barons will wear two rows, viscounts
two rows and a half, earls three rows,
marquises three and a half and dukes
four rows. These mantles will be worn
over "full court dress, uniforms or reg
imentals."
Only the king and queen and the
Duke and Duchess of Cornwall will
wear jeweled coronets. The earl mar
shal's order banishes counterfeit pearls
and all jewels from other coronets,
which are to be "silver gilt, the caps of
crimson velvet, turned with ermine,
with gold tassels on top. No jewels or
precious stones are to be set or used in
coronets, nor counterfeits of pearls in
stead of silver balls." The number of
the latter permitted revives a nice
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sense of distinction. A baron's coronet
bears six silver balls, a viscount's six
teen, an earl's eight, with gold straw
berry leaves between; a marquis' four
balls and four leaves alternately. A
duke's coronet has no balls and has
only eight strawberry leaves.
The robes, mantles and coronets to be
worn by the peeresses are of the same
materials as the men's, with similar
graduations in the number of bars of
ermine and balls. The length of the
trains marks the difference in rank. A
baroness is only allowed a train of
three feet, a viscountess has one and
a quarter yards, countesses have one
and a half yards, a marchioness has
one and three-quarters yards and a
duchess two yards.
No new crown will be made for the
queen. King Edward's crown is to be
slightly enlarged, but it will undergo
no other modification. It weighs thir
ty-nine ounces and was made in 1838.
{Some of the finest jewels in the pos
session of England's monarch are in
the crown. His majesty at the corona
tion will appear before his subjects in
the same elaborate robes worn by his
granduncle, George IV. This costume
consists of three parts. The most im
portant is tne "dalmatica" or imperial
xobe. It is a three cornered mantle,
forming an inverted Y, and fitted
very closely about the shoulders. All
over it are small embroidered crosses.
B«ueath it is worn the "supertunica,"
a sort of short pelerine, having sleeves
of gold elotli embroidered with gold
flowers. Above both dalmatica and
supertunica is worn the "armilla."
which is also of gold cloth, but has u
deep ermine border. It is placed on
the king's shoulders by the archbishop
of Westminster.
The royal English state coach in
I which King Edward and his queen
consort will ride to the coronation is an
extraordinary vehicle and was built in
17GL It was designed by Sir William
Chambers, and the paintings on it were
executed by the famous Cipriani. Noth
ing like it in gorgeousness was ever
constructed before or since.
The chair in which King Ed v. :trd
will be crowned is hundreds uf years
t>ld and has been employed in the coro
nation of the kind's and queens of Eng
land since the fourteenth century. It
Is made of oak, unpolished, and almost
devoid of ornamentation. In fact, it
looks like an ordinary old fashioned
chimney corner armchair, and any one
not acquainted with its history or the
purpose for which it is employed would
estimate its intrinsic value at about $5.
The only thing remarkable about it is
r piece of rough hewn stone inserted
beneath the seat. That stone was
brought from Scotland in 120R by Ed
ward I.of England. On it the kings of
Scotland were formerly crowned. It
was seized l>y the English as a trophy
of war and taken to London, where it
has since remained. It is known as the
"stone of destiny."
The ceremony of administering the
path to King Edward at the coronation
will be as follows:
The archbishop of Canterbury will
nsk. "Will you solemnly promise and
swear to govern the people of this
kingdom f.f Britain and the dominions
thereto belonging according to the
statutes in parliament agreed and the
laws and customs of the same?"
Ilis imperial majesty will then an
swer, "I solemnly promise so to d > "
The archbishop will thou ask, "Will
you to the utmost of your power cause
lav a nil justice in mercy to be exe
cuted in all your judgments?"
King Edward—l will.
The Archbishop—Will you, to the ut
most of your power, maintain the laws
of God, the true profession of the gos- :
pel and the I'rotestant reformed reli
gion established by the law and will
you preserve unto the bishops and cler- j
gy of this realm and to the churches
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committed to their charge all such
rights and privileges as by law do or
shall appertain uuto them or any of
them?
King Edward—All this I promise to j
do.
After this his imperial majesty will I
lay his hand upon the holy gospel, say- J
ing, "The things which 1 have herebfr- ;
fore promised I will perform and keep, |
so help mo God," whereupon he will :
liiss the Bible.
There will be a famous display of
jewels at the coronation, and the beau- j
t.iful peeresses will do their best to out- j
ehine one another iu the brilliancy of
their gems. If they cannot wear jew- j
els ou their heads they evidently plan
to do so on their bodies, find all Lon- j
don jewelers are now busy making over i
and resettins heirlooms. Pearls, sap
phires and emeralds are to be the fa
vorite stones. liopes of pearls are to
be worn fro:j the shoulders, as though
fastening tie velvet ruby robes, some
what the same wry iu which Queen
Alexandra wore tlieru at the opening
of parliament.
Undoubtedly the coronation of
George IV. "7 ended almost any
otbf cc viuc: .' this kind that has
ever taken . Uu~. At 4 o'clock on the
<)UE£S ALEXANDRA IN CORONATION ROBES,
moi.'.ing of his coronation ten miles of
carriages were already wending their
way toward Westminster. In public
and private expenditure the ceremo
nial cost close upon two and a half
millions. James 11. did not aspire to
6ueh colossal display.
As near as can be estimated just
now the coronation of King Edward
will lift about $7,000,000 out of the
pockets of government and peerage
and high society generally and trans
fer it to London tradesfolk.
TOMATO PLANTS.
Twice TrmiMplnnted and Hardened
HIT In Cold Frame*.
Discussing the growing of tomato
plants in hotbeds, Texas Farm and
Ranch advises: As soon as the little
nlantlets are beginning to show the
second or third leaves they are ready
for transplanting into the cold frames.
These frames are made the same as
the hotbed, except that no artificial
heat is given. Lighter lumber may also
be used. Hoards one inch thick will
answer as well as two inch plank.
Such plants as the tomato aud cab
bage are usually transplanted twice.
CNTRANSPLANTED. T!: \ NsI'I.ANTED.
The gain in the vigor of t.ie plants by
transplanting is well worth the addi
tional expense. As is shown in the il
lustration. transplanting tends to pro
duce a short, strong, vigorous plant,
with an increased root area and feed
ing capacity, one able to support itself
by its own stem without artificial sup
port.
In the tirst transplanting into the
cold frames the plants may be placed
about an inch apart each way, but this
distance must l>e increased if only one
transplanting is to be given. Too close
planting causi deficient light, and the
plant spindles i;p. weak in stem, with
m yellowish >:roen scant foliage and
poorly developed roots.
Hi the si .-ond transplanting the
plants should bo at least two and a
half or three inches apart.
As the pi:;'i!s increase in size and
strength more air may be given, and
the cloth or glass should be entirely
removed for several days before the
plants are to be set in the held, in or
dor that they may become sufficiently
"hardened off"' to prevent injury from
sudden cold snaps after planting. To
mato plants, rightly hardened off, will
not be injured by a light frost.
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BOXED APPLES.
The New Method of Marketing—ltem*
From One ot" I(h Advucntra.
The boxing of apples for market find?
numerous advocates nowadays. Fol
lowing are some items gleaned from a
lengthy communication on the subjecl
to Rural New Yorker by a successful
apple shipper. He has packed applet
as illustrated. The dimensions of thf
box are 11' i. by 12 by 22. what is called
A BOX OF BALDWIN APPLES.
the California bushel box. In packing
he graded to three sizes and packed the
sizes to fit the box, tiering the different
sizes to fit the boxes. As they were red
apples he used white paper and put it
only in the bottom of the box, letting
it come about half way up on the sides
of the box. After the box was filled the
bottom was nailed on, the box turned
over and marked for the best apples
XXX, those next smaller XX, and tlia
smallest ones X. In shipping three
boxes were counted to the barrel, and
in figuring the price per barrel three
bushels were counted per barrel.
In boxing white apples this shipper
would use some bright colored paper.
a 9 a red, blue or green. It may be well
in boxing a red apple to use a clear
white or bright yellow.
Many times people living in the
crowded city have not the room for a
barrel of apples, but they could put a
box in the corner or some out of the
way place, or if they could not afford
to buy a whole barrel they could buy a
box, and there are rnanv people thus
situated financially, enough of them to
consume many hundreds of barrels in a
season, and thus almost open up a new
market for us. It is more work, be
cause they have to be graded carefullly
In order to pack nicely, but not as much
trouble as one would suppose. After
you get used to it it can be done quite
rapidly. The cost of the box is about
the same as a barrel.
A Convenient Plow Attachment.
The device figured is a riding attach
ment for a plow, which an lowa Home
stead correspondent says he devised
and patented a number of years ago,
but has concluded to grant the public
the free use of.
Fig. 1 shows the attachment attach
ed to a walking plow and shows how
it is attached. Fig. 2 shows the at-
KIDING ATTACHMENT FOK PLOWS.
tachment detached from the plow,
and if it is to be used for a harrow or
other implement where there is no fur
row a larger wheel is substituted for
the small wheel, which would make it
run in a leaning position. This wheel
is attached by a set screw and can be
removed easily, and the shaft is long
enough so the large wheel may be put
on the extreme end and thus make i!'
less liable to tip over.
MARRIAGE IN ARABIA.
The Wedding* Proee»»ion an Elabo
rate and Affair.
A marriage procession among the
Arabs is a very elaborate affair. The
camel which bears the bride is deco
rated with bright heuna dye on his
neck and shoulders, while there are
verses from the Koran inscribed on the
hangings. His uncouth legs are often
swathed with bright cloths, his head
bedecked with plumes and small mir
rors, while his back is resplendent
with bright colored bits of tinsel,
which glisten against a patchwork of
many lined cloths. A hood or cage
conceals the bride, and no doubt adds
to the discomfort of the cramped ride
on the beast. There are attendants,
and lust <>f all the musicians, chiefly
drummers, who attract the crowds by
their incessant pounding on small but
high keyed instruments.
If the journey to the groom's home
is a short one, it is lengthened by stops
at frequent intervals, and all the while
the lover must not show any eagerness
to welcome her, no matter what his
feelings may be. The Arab may be af
fectionate, but he cannot with dignity
betray emotion. Among the lower
classes buffoons accompany the pro
cession with performing bears or other
wild animals, and when the bride is
wealthy largess is distributed along
the route in the form of clothes or coin.
When the groom's tent or fixed home
has been reached, the bride is expected
to show great reluctance about enter
ing it.and in some cases she has to bo
lifted by the husband over the blood
of a sheep he has just slain.—Woman's
Home Companion.
A Dintlnet lon.
Lady—You are about the tenth tramp
that has asked me for money.
Tramp—Well, loid.v, I'm not er tramp;
I'm er hobo.
A llahlt.
"Why don't you swear off smoking
this New Year's, Willie?"
"Sure! 1 allers does."
\o Chanife Renlred.
The Mother—My daughter has been
used to the tenderest care, to the ut
most sympathy and to unflaggi"S
guardianship. 1 trust this will be con
tinued.
The Suitor—l hope so. I'm sure.— He-
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